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Posted: 10/16/2011 7:09:15 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:

Bears fan here...where is Nitzkie?

never heard of him

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:09:22 PM EDT

[#2]

I vote Lambert, just because of smoking cigarettes and drinking Budweiser on the sidelines.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:17:34 PM EDT

[#3]

Having a poll with AJ Hawk is bad. Not even the top on his team. Oh yea another vote for Ray Nitschke. Guy was a beast and mean as a 2 headed rattle snake.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:19:51 PM EDT

[#4]

singletary was way more of a badass than butkus

and butkus was a badass

so

take that for what it is worth

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:21:03 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Waren Sapp ?

Not sure if he was a linebacker, but he did hurt a few people's feelings once or twice.

Sapp was a Defensive Tackle.

Best hit I ever saw in person at a football game was the hit he laid on Kurt Warner after Kurt Warner threw an interception. It was a Monday Night Football Game in Tampa. Warner tried to tackle the DB returning the interception and Warner never saw Sapp coming. Sapp hit him like a train and Warner hit the turf like a sack of wet potatoes.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:21:49 PM EDT

[#6]

I am of the age where I got to see him play quite a bit. Ray was a badass.

Quoted:
Poll Fail

Ray Nitschke

http://miamibeachmurals.com/images/grid/G_rayN.jpg

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:23:34 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

I am of the age where I got to see him play quite a bit. Ray was a badass.

Quoted:

Poll Fail

Ray Nitschke

http://miamibeachmurals.com/images/grid/G_rayN.jpg

Same here.

I remember hm well.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:31:06 PM EDT

[#8]

Like him or not, Ray Lewis will be the best linebacker of all time. The numbers will back it up.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:32:14 PM EDT

[#9]

In my part of the world the meanest Linebacker is Matt Siaosi

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:44:38 PM EDT

[#10]

I have a Jack Lambert story for you.

A classmate of mine played college football in the Mid-America Conference. My buddy's coach was Myron Pottios who once played linebacker for the Steelers and the Redskins.

Pottios was friendly with Jack Lambert and Coach Pottios invited Lambert to talk to the team. Well one of the players wasn't listening properly and Lambert slugged the guy knocking him unconscious.

Then Lambert started screaming and he got angrier and angrier to the extent that his eyes rolled back in his head and he started slobbering and drooling.

Jack Lambert was and is insane. He was beyond mean.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:46:15 PM EDT

[#11]

Silver Back

just ask the stains WR's

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:46:45 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Poll Fail

Ray Nitschke

http://miamibeachmurals.com/images/grid/G_rayN.jpg

+1

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:50:57 PM EDT

[#13]

Butkus just wanted you to die, now.

Posted: 10/16/2011 7:58:46 PM EDT

[#14]

HaHa

''I always say, to play professional football, you have to have a neanderthal gene,'' longtime Bears linebacker Doug Buffone once told ESPN. ''Dick had two.''

Posted: 10/16/2011 8:03:10 PM EDT

[#15]

poll fail
Ted Hendricks
Ray Nitchski
Mike Curtis
Chuck Bednarik
Should also be in that list

Posted: 10/16/2011 8:13:12 PM EDT

[#16]

lyle alzado was a scary sob too.

Posted: 10/16/2011 8:32:04 PM EDT

[#17]

Randy White was a failure at LB. He was however an excellent tackle.

While not quite in the company of those listed Lee Roy Jordan had his moments.

Posted: 10/16/2011 8:35:18 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

The meanest, or the best? Woody Hayes once said that Randy Gradishar was the best football player he ever coached, period. Gradishar did yeoman service for the Broncos back in the day... he belongs in the hall of fame.

I played high school football against Gradishar. IIRC, it was the same year I saw Butkus play in a preseason game at the Cleveland stadium. I'm pretty sure I saw Butkus play in 1969, but it may have been 1968.

Anyway, I know that I played Gradishar in 1969. My brother covered him man-to-man that game.

I remember one play where Gradishar picked up a fumble on a dead run. My brother, one other guy, and I all hit him hard while he was off balance and still leaning over. Three of us hit him at the same time and he still gained about 5 yards! Gradishar was an awesome player.

I always felt sorry for Butkus because he was so good but played on loser teams. I was in awe just to attend a game in which he played.

One of the guys on my high school team played for Ohio State with Jack Tatum. He told me some stories about how hard Jack hit even in practice.

Of course, Jack Lambert played at Kent State in the early 1970's. He was born in the same town where I lived as a young lad.

There is a lot of good football played in Ohio.

Posted: 10/16/2011 8:58:08 PM EDT

[#19]

I did not even look at your poll, but it sucks. There has been more mean linebackers than you have posted, and some were even good.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:00:40 PM EDT

[#20]

I met a guy who worked with Butkus as some kid of medical personnel on the Bears back in the 70's. So of course I asked him what it was like. The first thing that came out of his mouth was "I didn't look at him. Nobody did." and he was dead serious lol. It wasn't just an act. He really was a nasty SOB.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:02:09 PM EDT

[#21]

LT - You couldn't stop him you could only contain him.

But Dick Butkus was a mean sob.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:03:42 PM EDT

[#22]

I will say Bill Romanowski.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:10:25 PM EDT

[#23]

Ray Nitschke.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:23:33 PM EDT

[#24]

I would have put Derrick Thomas in before I put AJ Hawk in and I love the Ex Buckeye Hawk

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:38:50 PM EDT

[#25]

this monster.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:40:44 PM EDT

[#26]

I dare say that, as a team the Pittsburgh Steelers have had more talent at linebacker than any team...by a margin:

Jack Lambert (1974-84)
Andy Russell (1963-76)
Greg Lloyd (1987-97)
Jack Ham (1971-82)
Joey Porter (1999-06)
James Farrior (2002-PRESENT)
Levon Kirkland (1992-00)
Jason Gildon (1994-03)
James Harrison (2002-PRESENT)
Kevin Greene (1993-96)
Chad Brown (1993-96, 2006)
Earl Holmes (1996-01)

What team can boast a list of talent at linebacker that can compare to that?

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:40:57 PM EDT

[#27]

or the assassin.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:41:36 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

or the assassin.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01687/jack-tatum_1687125c.jpg

again, not a linebacker

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:42:22 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Butkus was the meanest a-hole to ever play LB!
Ronny Lott was the hardest hitter as DB ever.

The end.

Jim

BS Night train Lane and Jack Tatum, they wouldn't just hit people, they tried to kill and cripple people. Tatum was partially successful in paralying someone for life.

Daryl Stingley. I'm not saying it was a great or glorious thing, but the Assassin was named such for a reason.

well he certainly didn't try to paralyze him

You never read the book "they call me assassin" have you? He goes into quite a lot of detail that he indeed tried to hurt people as bad as he could each time he hit them. He may not have wanted to paralyze him per se, but he sure as hell would hit people like he was trying to. He was successful in ending that guys career, and even after that he didn't change.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:43:35 PM EDT

[#30]

Wow...no Ray Lewis or Ray Nitschke but you include AJ Hawk?! Stupid poll without them

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:44:18 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
or the assassin.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01687/jack-tatum_1687125c.jpg

again, not a linebacker

It's still one of the most ignorant polls on AR15.Come EVAR. Shit. Really? Fuck somebody.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:50:34 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Silver Back

just ask the stains WR's

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:50:41 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
I dare say that, as a team the Pittsburgh Steelers have had more talent at linebacker than any team...by a margin:

Jack Lambert (1974-84)
Andy Russell (1963-76)
Greg Lloyd (1987-97)
Jack Ham (1971-82)
Joey Porter (1999-06)
James Farrior (2002-PRESENT)
Levon Kirkland (1992-00)
Jason Gildon (1994-03)
James Harrison (2002-PRESENT)
Kevin Greene (1993-96)
Chad Brown (1993-96, 2006)
Earl Holmes (1996-01)

What team can boast a list of talent at linebacker that can compare to that?

Good list but the Bears have had some greats as well:

Dick Butkus
Bill George
George Connor
Doug Buffone
Mike Singletary
Otis Wilson
Wilbur Marshall
Lance Briggs
Brian Urlacher

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:55:48 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
or the assassin.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01687/jack-tatum_1687125c.jpg

again, not a linebacker

True. But still one of the meanest motherfuckers to ever step on the field.

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:56:49 PM EDT

[#35]

that polish guy from the raiders

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:57:21 PM EDT

[#36]

Posted: 10/16/2011 9:58:05 PM EDT

[#37]

Jack Lambert

Posted: 10/16/2011 10:00:10 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Ray Nitschke.

I'd say Dick was meaner than Ray but I would have voted for Ray if there was an option given I have his autograph.

Posted: 10/16/2011 10:21:39 PM EDT

[#39]

No Chuck Bednarik?

Posted: 10/16/2011 11:00:03 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
No Chuck Bednarik?

I was equally as confused.

Posted: 10/17/2011 1:18:39 AM EDT

[#41]

Derrick Brooks wasn't the meanest, but certainly one of the best.

Posted: 10/17/2011 2:11:39 AM EDT

[#42]

Dick Butkus hands down...and the QB's helmet knocked off with the head still in it...

Jack Lambert = Honorable Mention with a concussion.

Posted: 10/17/2011 2:16:37 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
No Ray Lewis?

Felons need not apply...

Posted: 10/17/2011 3:09:39 AM EDT

[#44]

Posted: 10/17/2011 3:15:56 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
No Chuck Bednarik?

This

No Concrete Charlie, yet you have Zach & AJ on there? WTF?

Brooks was a great LB, but doesn't show up anywhere on the mean charts IMO.

It's close between a few, but Butkus FTMFW!!!!!

Posted: 10/17/2011 3:21:12 AM EDT

[#46]

Butkus.

He used to curse at his defensive linemen for making tackles.

He expected them just to stop the runner's forward motion and keep them propped up until he could come flying in and try to knock their heads off.