Found November 27, 2011 on Out of Bounds:
Ndamukong Suh was born about 40 years too late.Suh, the Lions' defensive tackle with a fuse shorter than Verne Troyer, would have been right at home playing in the NFL of the 1960s and '70s.Suh would have been just one of many players back then who had the disposition of a bear awoken during hibernation.The league some 40-plus years ago was filled with defenders who bent the rules like a double-jointed thumb.None of them got suspended.Dick Butkus made no bones about his intentions. The Bears' middle linebacker didn't try to sidestep anything. He didn't try to vex the media with double talk and sugarcoat his motives. Butkus tried to hurt his opponents—physically and mentally. Usually the fear of the former led to the latter.Butkus was interviewed by NFL Films early in his career and expressed his fascination with the film "Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte."Butkus described a scene from the movie, and as he did, his youthful, cherubic face started to display an...
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