I don't know, Houston had lame jerseys. But that's the part of what made Campbell different. He always destroyed his uniforms, not just his jersey. Alot of times his pants.

@@courylanders4142 I kinda liked Houston's jerseys.

@@slimbrady6691 I don't mean how they looked. I said lame because Earl Campbell made them look like tear away jerseys. Tear aways were always in college.Never in the pros.For real, it was just Campbell that did it. None of his teammates destroyed their jerseys.

Can't forget him and Jack Tatum knocking each other out

@@ericsigersmith2831 Nah, Tatum knocked Campbell out. Legendary collision 4 sure.

Well strength is mass X speed

Yep that’s what makes an NFL rb

The rare breeds AD, and Sweetnees and etc.... them guys

I think a lot of it’s about the attitude you come at the game with.

Henry speed is dangerous. You don't want to be in front of him when he's at full speed.

But they don't last as long

Barry Sanders disagrees.

I personally would prefer to run around people than through them. Taking all those hits your career won’t be very long…

Love me some power backs, but I'll take Barry Sanders any day

@@natevart4156 that's why I said Barry Sanders disagrees that power backs are the best. It's like you did literally no reading or thinking after I wrote that.

We didn't even have electricity back then!

Life was better in every single way..glad i grew up in the 80s

@@Augfordpdoggie no internet

@@mikedrop4421 HEY! THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!😁

It was awesome. So glad I grew up before internet and cell phones...and yes- so many great games and legendary players making legendary plays.

Iron head heyward was a beast!!

war eagle 🦅

Might as well add Derrick Henry to that list

Ladanian Tomlinson as well

@@keithadams6030 The comment doesn’t say anything about power backs....his comment says “3 tailbacks who have great stiff arms” LT is included in the tailback category.

@@keithadams6030 -You are zero for two in reading comprehension. First you failed to realize people were just talking about legendary stiff arms, then you seem to think by adding LT's name, they are saying he belongs in the top 3. Sit down, take a breath and try reading the comments again. Tomlinson was fantastic with the stiff arm. That is it. That simple. Move on.

@@keithadams6030 You don’t remember LT’s vicious stiff arms do you? Defenders flying Helmets flying Choke slams to the ground How do you rank stiff arms anyway?

Also that stiff arm he threw wasn't a stiff arm it was a full blown haymaker lol. That guy was insane.

I loved that play lol

CrushingRock I got one for you.Joe Kapp and Steve Mcnair knocked out DB's. THEY WERE QB'S!!!! Michael Irvin got a unnecessary roughness penalty..... Irvin was a WIDE RECEIVER!!!!

@@courylanders4142 Wait till you study up on the steelers wide receivers...

I love the videos where he would punch the defenders or wait for them to catch up just to level em

You cant play like that and last forever....the body is gonna break on you. But Alstott was amazing,

Literally thinking the same thing He definitely was a power runner but his size keeps people from thinking he was that

MJD was a beast dawg he was smaller than ideal but powerful and low to the ground

@@fredleeland2464 it helps that he was smaller

@@moalston4203 you're right. His center of gravity was very low, especially with his legs being so huge. That made him very stable and because of that people had to wrap him up since arm tackling didn't work. That gave him the advantage because they basically had to commit to a spot and dive towards him. He would then just keep running until you were on the ground and he'd drag dudes to the flag. It was something to watch. I was at the game where he combined with Fred Taylor for 500yrds. Helluva game

Pocket Hercules

Facts

I dont even want to know what Barry would be like with Walter's power

@@siphonzyno7378 what?if berry had payton power then he would be just like payton but worse at blocking kick returns catching passing and the like. berry is only slightly more elusive then payton yet payton had way more power and was better all around. if you really want to see payton look for his prime years 1976-1980 ish,the mid 80's payton was still great but past his prime. if you want to talk about bad teams and bad o-lines then look at payton sanders had way better teams and oline in his prime then payton did. make sure you pay attention to the real game speed clips! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNOThLN-1J6wY3k.html just think how many yards payton would have if the nfl was not 14 game seasons until 1978! two strike years in 1982 and 1987!

@@mmeatheaddd im saying if he had his power with his o line he would be better then Payton and its not even close

@@siphonzyno7378 i know what your saying but your wrong. what if.. payton had berry elusiveness?its not that much difference to begin with. paytons oline?your a dumb ass!berry had better teams and and o-line early in their careers. payton never had a pro bowl olinemen for the first ten years of his career. berry had many and a hof LT = L. brown.

That run he had his rookie year against the Packers was unforgettable

You should’ve seen him on the Bucs! His cartwheel touchdown against the panthers was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. A man that big shouldn’t be able to hurdle defenders at will

He was great but he wasn't one of the greatest 😂

@@Aldinonexilus Brandon Jacobs was on here… I think Blount deserves a spot

@@Aldinonexilus it's best power back highlights not best power backs. Need help reading ??

One of the best that ever did it Jim Brown and Marion motley of the Cleveland Brown

Faulk and tomlinson deserve their own separate highlight clips

As long as I get to see plenty of Barry, I'm happy. Not a Lions fan but I am a huge Barry Sanders fan.

@@callmelyn73 Barry has his own legends highlight

That would be amazing as long as it still has a little space for Saquon Barkley but it likely won't and I'm ok with that.

@@chrisuncleahmad you mean barry sanders and shady mccoy

And now he's gone. RIP.

No argument there ✍🏿🥃

Hell No!!!!!! Lol you living in your time period. The 90s had Barry Sanders, Emmit Smith, Terrell Davis, thurman thomas, Curtis Martin, and Marshall Faulk. Four MVPs in their prime

@@jamal4717 couldn't had said it better myself. 90's were IT !!!

@@jamal4717 Also prime Jerome Bettis, Eddie George, Ricky Waters, Jamal Anderson, Robert Smith, Chris Warren, Garrison Hearst. But to be honest, the 00s were pretty darn close as well.

Don't forget Jamal Lewis

I had forgotten about him.

He had the bad luck of being on a lot of lousy St. Louis teams.

Best NYG RB

Dude was a....GIANT!

@@fredleeland2464 tiki barber?

@@siphonzyno7378 most rushing yards sure, but Jacobs was about that SB life

At auburn in 03 they had Brandon Jacob's behind Ronnie brown and Cadillac Williams, almost as wild as the Miami rb rooms in 2001 through 2003 with Clinton Portis Willis McGahee and frank gore and najei davenport for those who remember him with the packers

Yea and it's really not even close. I've never seen anyone as ferocious as Campbell. That run where he has his jersey ripped off and headbutts that dude in the chest is the most savage shit ever.

show more 80s and 90s thats why

Wish they didn’t ruin that team by having separate rules for Wilson. He wasn’t held accountable and now look at what they made him into. Miss lynch and the Boom.

Same bro!! Hawks are my team and I miss Them everyday!

The League is changing. No RB will get 30 carries a game, anymore. Some sadness. This list is an historical record.

He retired due to that I mean he was safety and had to hit bigger players or try and tackle them

I cringed when I heard that name

But he has one of the best interceptions ever!... Laying out, superman style against the 49ers

As a Bears fan it seemed that stiff arm was permanently attached to Chris Conte 😂

smashmouth

Jamal Lewis Larry Johnson

Walter

Im an oldhead so - czonza, The Nigerian nightmare, Riggins, maron motley, Craig heyward, Jim brown, Campbell and a couple more are my top.

@@chrismas9448 I have to take the nigerian nightmare off because of the Atwater hit 😂😂

@@keithadams6030 yes sir broncos country

alstott was other way around and he even had lorenzo neal block for him

@Zachias Noble Franco Harris was teased for running out of bounds. In those days running backs tried to get extra yardage. Franco started the running out of bounds trend. In hindsight it prolonged his career.

@@someperson8151 at the time, I remember a great deal of discussion about that. I think his final 3 years tarnished his legacy, and people forget his best, most productive years.

Jerome Bettis is a bus he got a nickname for any reason and run down defense.

That run vs pats to avoid safety in 2007 was insane

This is a good comment! Haha

@@NFLVault war eagle with bo Jackson, Stephen Davis, rudi Johnson, Ronnie brown and Cadillac Williams and Tony Richardson and had Brandon Jacob's briefly we should be power back university!

@@NFLVault i look forward to 80s\90s content

Spot on. Thanks for the comment. There is not one man, anywhere on the face of the earth, who watched HW and did not know about his superpower strength and conditioning. He is Legend.

Oklahoma

I grew up near Pittsburgh so I always rooted for the home team, but those Vikings teams back in the late 60s/early 70s were totally tough as nails. Very underrated and a shame they couldn't get a ring or two. I can remember seeing Bill Brown, Joe Kapp, Carl Eller, Page, Paul Krause, Fran the Man....and a lot of those memories were from before the games were played in the domes. The mud and ice/snow games were so common back then. I can remember when except for the local sports news on the 3 or 4 TV stationswe had, the ONLY......I'll repeat that.....the ONLY NFL coverage back then was "This Week in the NFL". One hour a week! That was it! And that show was so different from the zillions of shows on TV and online we have now.....and so much more awesome. Nothing but gritty highlights backed with world class theatrical narration, stirring classical music, slow motion close-ups, and fantastic cinematography. Some great memories...and so much great film on the Vikings back then.

When he was at ND The Bus and Ricky Waters were a great one two punch. They were on TV every week of course. I'll never forget a TD run he had where when he got near the goal line and took a head shot that knocked him out while falling into the end zone. It might be somewhere on KZfaq.

@@Bodhi594 and there is also the fumble at the one yard line

@@DragRacer221x Maybe that's the play I'm thinking of? 🤔

@@Bodhi594 i thought you were talking about a hit he took in notre dame my bad

Will admit, during his playing days I did not pay attention and did not rank him. My loss. (idk. Pittsburg was not on my radar. Drugs? Alcohol? GF problems???) NFL "a Football Life" and other outlets have shown me the error or my ways. The Bus could be on the Mt. Rushmore of Backs, and def chiseled into the mountain for, "power backs".

Nigerian nightmare love the footage

That's exactly how I feel about Diesel Riggins and Earl Campbell. Just a little older than you, that's all.

That's one of the reasons that one of my favorite backs to watch was Trent Richardson even tho he didn't do well at the next level. That dude would go out of his way to initiate contact lol he was so much fun to watch at Alabama.

Otis Anderson. Cost the Cards a playoff spot in the mid-eighties because he wanted to run over a DB instead of step out of bounds. I was angry and full of admiration.

​@@blueharlandAnderson was an absolute beast with the Cards and the Giants

ya 2003 game

Yeah marshawn lynch needs too definitely

Recency bias!! Both great backs! If you think they could carry the load of 30 carries a game, AND score TDs like Walter or Jim Brown? You are just a fan. Sorry. Modern backs are not allowed to carry a team (not their fault). RB's will become few and far between in the HOF, going forward.

They missed amad Bradshaw too

TITAN UP

Agree I don't know about the others you mentioned but I do know that when the Jim Brown played the opponent's almost exclusive goal was to stop him-he was beaten up in in the pileups after being tackled-the Giants feared him so much that they assigned MLB Sam Huff to follow him on every play, whether or not he had the ball, out of fear he might get it

@@jerrygoldfarb7739 the game was definitely rougher but the players were so much smaller. Not Huff or Butkus of course...but generally speaking even D-linemen were only 250 lbs

Kind of like a boxer who gets KO’d for the 1st time

Such an interesting part of NFL history. Great comment!

Okoye ran through that Denver defense more times than most can count. That tackle Atwater made was ONE of many great hits. Like any power back Okoye had been stopped before. That hit took place on Monday night when the world was watching. The constant hits to his knees ended his career NOT the Atwater hit.

@@raidersacdc4892 Exactly..

as a packers and auburn fan I've seen plenty of Jacob's and much respect lol when he trucked woodson to start 2007 nfc championship it gave the giants huge momentum vs my packers

Absolutely !!!

surprised no bam Morris but glad to see ironhead Hayward

It’s a mystery!

Derrick Henry??

@@EmilioSotomayor69 I know he is a great example of that but we need more running backs like him

Like bam Morris

Keep an eye out for Green Bay runningback AJ Dillon. He's gonna be splitting carries with Jones this season. He's built like a brick shit house. I think he's gonna be another great power back.

no they didnr

bo Jackson i would rather have

war eagle 🦅

Agreed. Imagine if the Skins would have used him like they should have when he first went to Washington.

#HAILYEAH #HTTR

I don’t think you can be underrated in the HOF, ha. The underrated guys don’t make the hall. Everyone knows Riggins was great. If they don’t, they don’t know football.

Was about to post this until I saw your comment. I don’t remember Lewis getting owned like that

Why not call him King Henry? You know, since there actually are King Henries?

@@jacksonconstantine5740 I messed up I know.We do call him King Henry though

3 words & a cloud of dust