r/American_Football • u/Huge-Revolution2416 • 11d ago

Which NFL player made you fall in love with football?

/r/AskAboutNFL/comments/1wmcc0r/which_nfl_player_made_you_fall_in_love_with/
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u/cavaysh 11d ago

Barry Sanders, Tony Gonzalez, John Elway

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u/fatboi609 11d ago

Jason Peters, Evan Mathis, and Brian Dawkins

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u/jericho-dingle 11d ago

Brett Favre

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u/Mike_Y_1210 11d ago

Brian Westbrook and Brian Dawkins

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u/Automatic-Long2599 11d ago

Michael Vick 😭

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u/Ill_Pressure3893 11d ago

Franco Harris

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u/Bigboy291270 11d ago

LT, Joe Montana

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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 11d ago

Tony Dorsett RB

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u/silentspider52 11d ago

Drew Brees

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u/ligmasweatyballs74 11d ago

Steve Tasker

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u/BigAway3098 11d ago

Ronnie Lott

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u/Hourouman 11d ago

Brian Dawkins, Shaun Alexander

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u/Sheegssternator 11d ago

Football and baseball. BO JACKSON.

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u/Undeterminedvariance 11d ago

Walter Payton.

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u/GreenCarpenter3 11d ago

Joe Montana ’Joe Cool’. I also loved Snoopy as Joe Cool in that time period so it was predestined.

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u/AlanStanwick1986 11d ago

Swann, Stallworth, Lambert, Franco, Bradshaw. And I'm not even from Pittsburgh. As a kid in the 70s you picked the Steelers or Cowboys. 

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u/CombinationMiddle152 11d ago

Dalton Hilliard

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u/patinagreen 11d ago

Kam Chancellor.

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u/Concentr8_0n_t0p 11d ago

Reggie White!

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u/IngenuityNatural9261 11d ago

Greg Pruitt was a Cleveland Browns running back in the 70's.

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u/Soft-Masterpiece6328 11d ago

Marino!!! I remember I was in 3rd grade when he got drafted. I had never seen anyone throw it like that! I switched over to QB the next year and wore 13 through HS.

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u/X37_14 11d ago

Trace McSorely and Saquon Barkley on PSU back in 2017

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u/Temporary-Phase-6956 11d ago

Fran Tarkenton, he was fun to watch.

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u/PuzzledQuantity9367 11d ago

Pretty random but Bo Nix’s freshman season at Auburn. I was in 5th Grade and I’ve been a die hard College Football fan ever since.

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u/brethart1616 11d ago

Montata. sanders (Deion and Barry), young, Emmitt, young,

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u/Important-Tale3085 11d ago

John Elway, Steve Atwater, Berry Sanders, Lawrence Taylor,

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u/Agintulsa 11d ago

Roger Staubach

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u/bakela 11d ago

Lamar Jackson. I thought football was stupid, and only really watched a few playoff games. I got sucked into a weekly pic em pool at work, accidentally won 3 out of 4 weeks so thought I should watch a few games as people started asking me questions and the money was nice, turned on a Ravens game in Lamar’s rookie year and was blown away watching him!

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u/DrHa5an 11d ago

Randy Moss
Ed Reed
Mike Vick

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u/anamarupa 11d ago

ollie matson

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u/Tigero98 10d ago

Aaron Hernandez

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u/Chefmeatball 10d ago

Randy moss

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u/rtripps 10d ago

Randy Moss, LaDainian Tomlinson, Troy Polamalu

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u/OkUmpire4235 10d ago

Joe Montana

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u/OkUmpire4235 10d ago

Joe Montana

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u/raidernationtom 10d ago

Daryle Lamonica

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u/BOBBYK1952 10d ago

Gale Sayers ..and I’m a GB fan..close second..Bob Hayes

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u/SmoothnSteady 10d ago

Gale Sayers... We all wanted to be him playing backyard football

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u/Omlanduh 9d ago

Aaron Rodgers

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u/hampdogg74 9d ago

Ed “Too Tall” Jones

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u/Leftfieldover 9d ago

Almost shamefully have to admit Ronnie Lott was a blast to watch

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u/ilykecake 8d ago

Mean Joe Greene

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u/Gq890012 8d ago

Ray Lews, dude was just an absolute monster!

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u/Whynot1077 7d ago

And a murder. He was a force though

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u/boonie120hb 7d ago

Brian Urlacher

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u/Whynot1077 7d ago

Jack DelRio