FOR A LONG TIME PEOPLE SEEMED TO FORGET ABOUT ERIC IN THE GREATEST RUNNING BACK OF ALL TIME DISCUSSION...NOT ME.

These video clips show Dickerson to be a Heismann level tailback, but they also show the absolute brilliance of QB Lance McIlhaney in running the option. He is as underrated as any college QB ever.

Whats ironic is Eric has always been a hooved animal running wild from College as a Mustang, to LA as a Ram and then a Colt. Nothing could be more fitting for one of the greatest backs of all time.

Dickerson was the most elegant runner Ive ever seen. He was like a gazelle in the open field. Dorsett was a close second.

He always got accused and of not playing hard, not running full speed. What people who said that failed to realized is that he was 6’3”, and that height fooled a lot of people about his speed and quickness. Watch all the DBs who are chasing him in these highlights. They are running full speed, wide open; if Dickerson was loafing, he would have been exposed. He was truly amazing.

My favorite tailback ever

He was the most complete running back I've ever seen.

Best running back I ever saw live. Saw him a bunch as a kid . My uncle would take me to games to watch SMU. Robbed in 1982 of the national championship after beating Pitt in the cotton bowl .

Eric Dickerson smooth smooth smooth silky smooth.

Lance McIlheny was straight up 100% badass. Watch him block on these plays. Fearless. Loved that dude.

I'v said it 1000 times....He's the best player to touch a football I ever saw. Too big, too fast, and too strong for everybody around him, and it was like that in the pros too. He was just a phenom.........Great Highlights

Good memories...Eric Dickerson & Craig James "Pony Express" as they were known...those old SMU games in Texas stadium were epic!

Eric had one of the prettiest running styles ever

I miss the the old option shown in these clips

He was the best running back I've ever seen I'm a Rams fan I've never seen anything like it that big that adds it's incredible and I've never seen that footage from college thanks a lot I appreciate it

man those were the good ol' days.

One of my favorite running backs of all time.

Dickerson was flat out awesome in college. If you were old enough to watch those games, you know it was the quarterback that made those runs possible. McIlhenny was the maestro of option of football. He would pitch the ball at precisely the right moment, usually at the last second before getting throttled. People that say all he did was hand the ball off to DIckerson have no idea how difficult that was. He took a lot of pounding too. He fooled cameramen on numerous occasions. Wasn't the greatest passer or runner and never put up big numbers, but man he made that team go. He wasn't Pat White, Crouch, Harris, Frazier or any of those dudes, but for what his job was, no one did it better. I saw a poll ranking the greatest option quarterbacks ever and Tim Tebow was number one. Guys like Pat White, and Darien Hagan were also there. They weren't option quarterbacks. They were dual threat quarterbacks. I don't think any one of them could run it like McIhenny.

This dude had some serious speed! And 6'3 220lbs. Wow.

Lance was a beast with that blind option....

Shout out for how durable he was. He took a ton of hits. And kept going strong. Rare.

Thats some of the best blocking i have ever seen.

saw dickerson the 1st time in 1978 as a 5th grader , my school played sealy in regional playoffs in pasadena . at the time our school bus had juinor high grades on the bus with the high schoolers and would drop us off at the juinor high , then the high schoolers would go to school 5 miles up the road . the star players on our team were cousins kenneth desohotel who was a dynamic tailback and his cousin charles deshotel a dual threat qb all they kept saying is that if we stop him they would win !! our school had just shocked the 2a world beating the number 1 team in state that year the newton eagles 31-15 , we lost our all district fullback robert sanders got hurt vs newton and didnt play in the sealy game and the districts best defensive lineman of the year todd shellhammer hurt his knee in the 1st quarter of the sealy game. and wouldnt return . we would loose too them 21-7 . but you saw the dominance of dickerson whos team would go on too win state . in high school , college and pro dickerson was the smoothest running back i ever saw . if if you just lined him up in the I formation and run him 25 to 28 times a game its no match . if he had stayed with the rams his whole career no telling how many yards he would have gotten . he is my all time favorite rb of all time .

Eric Dickerson. The only athlete to ever take a pay cut going from college to the pros.

The best college team that $$$ could buy.

The Pony Express!

Finally Dickerson SMU Highlights!

The sweetest running style...…...EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Roger Craig for the 9ers with his high knee action was dope too!!

Wow!!!!!!!!!! Log time rams fan and ran into this. Huge Dickerson fan. I am ever so grateful and thankful for you posting this great footage. This was so amazing to watch. Damn Eric made it look sooooo easy! WOW

love to see a highlight tape like this for sure definitely preferred

Excellent job man...great footage, don't know how you get it all but God bless you...Brings back good memories when football was football.

Eric Dickerson was too smooth for his own good!!!!!

A truly great player. The Pony Express!

Think "Tailback" and you immediately get image of Dickerson 7+ yds deep...neck roll and all. What a talent!

Best football player I ever saw. Cam is a close second, but Dickerson was really something to see...

I love your work on these films so good to see all these backs in real time!! I miss these days

Going to a game right now. I look up to this man.

Some players are just on another level…

My Favorite all time also. Long stride, top speed as good as any Tail Back ever!

living in Dallas TX watching#19 get the hand-offs man OHH Man....

one of the best college RBs money could buy

Eric Dickerson played with my Uncle back in day my uncle jackie being the one of the WRs. 🏈👍

oh yea they should have won the national championship in 1982 after beating pitt , they didnt loose a game that year had a tie but still no losses at all they got robbed that year just to give jo pa his 1st national championship , it should have went to SMU . the irony of it all is they would give SMU the death penalty about 4 yrs later , penn state and joe pa have that scandal 30 plus years later a slap on the wrist like nothing happened , SMU still has never recovered from the death penalty !!

Many young people (maybe correctly 🤔) think Adrian Peterson Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith are the goats of the game. They dont know about, the Metcalf family, not just D.K. and a long list of backs they don't know about, but there are some great ones that weren't busts in the NFL. There was a very good back in the backfield with Eric, Craig James a white bro who was as good at SMU as Dickerson, but Dickerson outshined him in the pros, but still a great back.

Besides the neck roll, everything about E.D. was way ahead of his time! Being one of the first players to regularly rock a robot is something epic all alone on itself. But that Roadrunner” like long stride and dominate stay high and upright balanced running back style can also be seen in the likes of Tony Dorsett, Marcus Allen, Roger Craig, Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker, Ricky Watters, Robert Smith, Eddie George, Corey Dillon, Anthony Thomas, Larry Johnson, Willis Mcgahee, Brandon Jacobs, Cadillac Williams, Matt Forte, Arian Foster, Jamaal Charles, LaSean McCoy, Demarco Murray, Lamar Murray, Alfred Blue, T.J. Yeldon, Todd Gurley, Tevin Coleman, Melvin Gordon, Kenyon Drake, Brandon Wilds, Ty Isaac, Chris Carson, Damien Williams, Phillip Lindsay, Derrick Henry, Leonard Fournette, Saquon Barkley, Sony Michel, David Montgomery, Myles Sanders, CJ Dillon, Deandre Swift, Cam Akers.

Dickerson was definitely one of my favorite all time backs, but shotout to his teammates blocking. Everyone blocked!!! Some beautiful schemes

No doubt #1...He ran so beautiful and powerful !!

Sure was fun watching Eric run. No one ran as nice as Eric Dickerson .

eric Dickerson is the greatest of all time and it's really not even that close!!!

Man that dude was smooth.. you could put a coke can on top of his helmet and he would never spill a drop

Unreal to watch on Saturdays in 1982

Probably my 2nd favorite all time college runner after Curt Warner Penn State, then Eric, then tied for third Ki-Jana Carter and Larry Johnson PSU. Especially Larry because I was there when he broke 2,000 yards.

BO, Herschel, Dickerson, Dupree, etc were indeed great, but they were men among boys. They were the same size or bigger than opposing linebackers and defensive ends. Even some defensive tackles. Defensive Backs didn't stand a chance. All that has changed and now your tailbacks are facing people like Clowney , Watt, Boda, and other freaks on the other side of the line. The game has evolved, and you could argue in favor of the defense.

Eric, really came into his own, in the N.F.L. ...he looks much better as a pro ...receiver, and running back

He was special. What he did with the Rams without an o-line is something.

Had no idea that SMU used to play at Texas Stadium. I always thought they were at the Cotton Bowl. UH was playing in the Astrodome around this time too, I believe.

Love watchin these vid, can you do one on Husker Running Backs?

Eric Dickerson was part of a tandem at SMU. Craig James as a part of the Pony Express.

he went to the perfect coach John robinson, Student body right student body left

He was a way more violent runner in college than he ever was in the NFL..

My fave RB wott turn of speed and he makes look so easy

Dickerson was great at SMU, but he'd have won the Heisman if he went to USC.

That music and Keith Jackson's commentary on those amazing tailbacks, like ED, takes you to a Fall Saturday afternoon that is decidedly melancholy and wonderfully sacred. Btw, what is that classical piece called?

Runs soo smooth

Just imagine if he was the primary runner while at SMU

The Pony Express. The best team money could buy. Went to many of their games back then

i hope i dont sound picky cuz i am lovin" ALL these !!!!! just a request (since i see some others ones here) maybe a Ricky Watters one if you get a chance. but whatever ones you do , keep em coming if you can !! !better than ANYTHING on TV !!!!

Goat

I get a kick out of all the idiots posting about how this team got caught for being paid, like this was the only team that ever got paid in college football or sports in general. and like somehow that diminishes eric Dickerson's greatness.

Before the tragedy And the USFL #22 OU he still corrected his story NFL made. MARCUS DUPREE.

Marcus dupree and Dickerson similar in play?

My favorite back

Lance Mclhenny’s famous blind pitch. Those were great teams.

u gotta do a Frank Gore homie

I've noticed that Dickerson has long arms.

There's only 1 other tailback that had a style like him, and that was JOHNNY JOHNSON...which reminds me to ask, when is his highlight video gonna get done???!! It's been a long time coming Poc!!!

Besides Johnny Johnson.. Iv never seen a big back have the combo of speed and balance like ERIC.

The qb was the lead blocker

When he got to the NFL HE WAS THE TRUTH! TO BAD THEY DID NOT HAVE NIL BACK THEN BECAUSE SMU WAS A FORERUNNER OF IT!

The most underrated tailback ever is LENNY MOORE. This guy Dickerson gets close.

Give McIlhenny credit…. He was the best option pitcher in college football history. Very slight of hand and quick with the pitch.

What's with Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 at the start?

best ever rb...thoroughbred with power

E.D. Had sick talent. The best.

The most fluent running back o.a.t

Greatest RB I ever saw. However, is no one going to say it? Okay, I will. He is the reason SMU got the death penalty.

You can’t really tell how fast he is until he slows down …

What’s the song at the first few seconds in the intro?

He was very fast.

Thanks for posting, but where are the highlights of Dickerson torching the Longhorns?

OH shit! I can't believe it!!

Pocky Candy can you find highlights of Walter Payton as a colleigian he attended Jackson St in the early 70s graduated in '75

Can you do Eric Bienemy?

ED -----------------Eat Dust/ Texas Style

SMU - Dallas' second pro franchise

Don’t forget Lance McIlhenney, the QB, who fed Dickerson and James the football. Greatness.

Saw him today

Bunk PI call at the end of the Arkansas game lead to a tie and cost them a national championship in 1982!

That good with all that gear on

What i noticed is that when the athlete is of another strata like ED he always beats the edge coverage.