So, if you could be any professional football player, would you like to be?

[wiffleball 4,631]

I think this is kind of a cool exercise. I also think it'll probably reveal each generation. But I'm really curious to see how it ends up.

[wiffleball 4,631]

Adding,: anytime in history.

[WhiteWonder 2,171]

Justin Tucker

I make millions to kick the ball, no CTE or insane wear on my body. I'm a super bowl champion and I'll be in the hall of fame and likely known as the best kicker in NFL history.....I can stay in the league longer than most and if all else fails I can sing opera. 

[TimHauck 1,795]

Tony Romo when he was dating Carrie Underwood

[Vikings4ever 496]

15 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Tony Romo when he was dating Carrie Underwood

Hard to argue, but Romo when he was banging Jessica Simpson is also tempting.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,589]

The only correct answer is the GOAT and the guy with the most rings. 

[frank 2,144]

They want to be me.

[Bert 1,087]

Gary Kubiak.  Barley played, didn't get hit, made bank for caring a clip board for 8 or 9 years.

[Big Guy 1,400]

QB ~ Roger Staubach 

[WhiteWonder 2,171]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The only correct answer is the GOAT and the guy with the most rings. 

So Joe Montana and Tom Brady?

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,566]

style wise, I mirrored my game after Ronnie Harmon, the guy who pretty much perfected the 3rd down back, loved him in Buffalo and SD.  Hes the reason why the Bills became my team when the Chargers left SD

I'd prob choose Gronk, dude lives the life, has fun, is loaded and funny

 

[craftsman 1,045]

I was going to ask a similar question. 

Would you rather have the longest backup career at QB or have the career of the best kicker ever in the NFL. (Justin Tucker)

Here is one example of a career backup QB:

Todd Steven Collins (born November 5, 1971) is a former^[1] American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan.

Collins also played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins. After beginning his career as the heir apparent to Jim Kelly and largely failing in that position, he spent the rest of his NFL career as a backup quarterback, spending several years serving behind Elvis Grbac and Trent Green of the Chiefs. He holds the NFL record for longest gap between starts in post-merger history, ten years and two days. Collins is now the offensive coordinator for the Walpole High School varsity football team.^[2]

 

Or even better, Chase Daniel. 

Los Angeles Chargers veteran QB Chase Daniel, 36, will this season reach $41million in career earnings. The former Missouri play-caller has started just FIVE games in the last thirteen seasons. It means that Daniel has earned a whopping $8.2m for every NFL game he's started since 2009

[wiffleball 4,631]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

Gary Kubiak.  Barley played, didn't get hit, made bank for caring a clip board for 8 or 9 years.

He had at least one super bowl ring too right?

[TBayXXXVII 2,107]

23 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

He had at least one super bowl ring too right?

He has 3, all with Denver.  He was the OC when they won back to back with Elway, and was the HC with Manning.

[Voltaire 4,554]

Lawrence Phillips

I get to be a world class athlete, a #6 overall pick, and Spiderman

[wiffleball 4,631]

Seems to me like Joe M is doing well...

 

[WhiteWonder 2,171]

6 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

 

I'd prob choose Gronk, dude lives the life, has fun, is loaded and funny

 

As much as I like my polish bro, he’s really not very funny. But still a solid choice if you’re going to pick someone who has been beat to shiit 

[WhiteWonder 2,171]

6 hours ago, craftsman said:

I was going to ask a similar question. 

Would you rather have the longest backup career at QB or have the career of the best kicker ever in the NFL. (Justin Tucker)

 

Or even better, Chase Daniel. 

Los Angeles Chargers veteran QB Chase Daniel, 36, will this season reach $41million in career earnings. The former Missouri play-caller has started just FIVE games in the last thirteen seasons. It means that Daniel has earned a whopping $8.2m for every NFL game he's started since 2009

I would hands down stick with my original answer of Justin Tucker. 
 

he’s already made over 40 million, is 33/34 ish so can likely play another 10 seasons if he wants. Is a lock for the HoF, has a super bowl already and doesn’t even have to worry about getting hit/wear and tear as much as a backup QB who might get crunched in garbage time or a spot start. 

[Pimpadeaux 2,245]

Your mom.

[BunnysBastatrds 1,911]

Ronnie Lott. Most feared safety of his time. 
 

 

[Cruzer 1,992]

8 hours ago, Big Guy said:

QB ~ Roger Staubach 

Naval Academy grad, Naval Officer, Heisman Winner, SB Champ................ this is the correct answer. 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,589]

Just now, Cruzer said:

Naval Academy grad, Naval Officer, Heisman Winner, SB Champ................ this is the correct answer. 

It’s not what man you would want to be, it’s him of course, but what football player. He had a short  career and took a beating.  There are better choices. 

[Cruzer 1,992]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

It’s not what man you would want to be, it’s him of course, but what football player. He had a short  career and took a beating.  There are better choices. 

Na, I'd still take him. 

Star QB of America's Team, a man who did it right and had the admiration and respect of even his foes and division rival fans - give me Roger. 

[Big Guy 1,400]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

It’s not what man you would want to be, it’s him of course, but what football player. He had a short  career and took a beating.  There are better choices. 

true......but he's Cowboy #1

the badass in me wanted to go with Bob Lilly or Randy White

[edjr 5,547]

Joe Mixon - I want to know what it is like to beat the sh1t out of a girl and not lose my job. 

[Engorgeous George 1,155]

Christian Ponder, because Sam Ponder.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,589]

Not Earl Campbell. 

[Mike Honcho 4,010]

20 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The only correct answer is the GOAT and the guy with the most rings. 

And Brady is still adding rings to his collection, since Giselle just gave her's back.

[GobbleDog 815]

Henry Ruggs III

[edjr 5,547]

OJ cause I would like to get away with murder. I have no one in mind at the moment. Wouldn't that be scary to know? 

[MedStudent 56]

Staubach is a good choice. Staubach was also extremely successful in business and is far and away the richest current or former NFL player. I would have liked to have been him if I didn't have to act like him. He was too strait laced. I would have wanted to bang the hottest chicks I could have gotten. Staubach literally married his high school sweetheart before he became a star.  

[MedStudent 56]

22 hours ago, craftsman said:

I was going to ask a similar question. 

Would you rather have the longest backup career at QB or have the career of the best kicker ever in the NFL. (Justin Tucker)

Here is one example of a career backup QB:

Todd Steven Collins (born November 5, 1971) is a former^[1] American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan.

Collins also played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins. After beginning his career as the heir apparent to Jim Kelly and largely failing in that position, he spent the rest of his NFL career as a backup quarterback, spending several years serving behind Elvis Grbac and Trent Green of the Chiefs. He holds the NFL record for longest gap between starts in post-merger history, ten years and two days. Collins is now the offensive coordinator for the Walpole High School varsity football team.^[2]

 

Or even better, Chase Daniel. 

Los Angeles Chargers veteran QB Chase Daniel, 36, will this season reach $41million in career earnings. The former Missouri play-caller has started just FIVE games in the last thirteen seasons. It means that Daniel has earned a whopping $8.2m for every NFL game he's started since 2009

Yeah, I'd love to be the OFFENSIVE COORDINATER for Walpole High School. The guy isn't even the head coach of a high school team in some shithole of a town in Massachusetts. Todd Collins would trade lives with me if he had the chance. 

[BiPolarBear 476]

Gronk. He is in good shape and still has all his NFL money. 

[craftsman 1,045]

55 minutes ago, MedStudent said:

Yeah, I'd love to be the OFFENSIVE COORDINATER for Walpole High School. The guy isn't even the head coach of a high school team in some shithole of a town in Massachusetts. Todd Collins would trade lives with me if he had the chance. 

You think so? You think he's working with high school kids because he needs to or because it's a nice life for him personally. Works a few hours a day with his neighbor's kid's on the football team. Doesn't have a ton pressing in life. Probably has no need to work in the least and just is settled living amongst his friends and neighbors and being in touch with the community and enjoying it.

I'm not sure what you do for a living or if he would enjoy it whatever it is, but I'm guessing he's doing fine in life.

Actually, I just looked up Todd Collins and what he's doing today. Sounds like he is just going back to where he came from and simply enjoying things. The guy is 51 years old, worth about $10 million and having a good time going back to his roots. 

And you think he would give that up to be you for some reason? I'm not sure why anyone would want to change lives with someone who feels the need to go out onto random websites and gloat that his life is better than others.  Doesn't sound very appealing to me anyway.

It’s said by some that you can’t go home again; unless of course you starred at a storied high school football program and come back to coach.

Such is the situation for former quarterback Todd Collins, who now brings his 11 years of experience as an NFL quarterback to teach that position at Walpole High School, where he led the team to a Massachusetts state championship in 1989, one of eight for the legendary Rebels.

In a town fittingly located next door to Foxborough and the New England Patriots, Collins grew up on the gridiron, recalling, “Those guys were my idols, and I still remember all of their names,” not surprising since his brother played on the school’s 1981 title team.

A team that began building their tradition in the 1970s, and the former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears now works to help keep going.

“I was first asked by a friend to help coach his team at neighboring Medfield High School, which I enjoyed, and then in 2011 Walpole coach Barry Greener asked me to coach the quarterbacks, and I already knew a lot of the staff, so it was a great chance to help out my alma mater.” 

His help has proven to be as satisfying for him as it has for the Walpole players themselves. 

“I see the high school kids grow, develop and mature, and since I knew some of them from around town, I am happy to help them in both athletics and life,” Collins said. “It’s also gratifying to work with the Walpole coaching staff, most of whom I played with 25 or 30 years ago, so we have shared memories.”

But back in his playing days, Collins began planning for life after football by taking the NFL Player Engagement’s Harvard MBA course since he did not see coaching in his future. 

“As I neared the end of my NFL career, I attended the great Harvard program, and had never thought about coaching since I saw the demands and hours that they put in, but the high school level is different and those same pressures are not there,” said the 6’4” 225 pounder, who still looks like he could lace ‘em up today. 

Yet those very coaches made a lasting impression on Collins, ranging from the late Bo Schembechler, head coach of the University of Michigan to former Chiefs’ head coach Vermeil, with whom he is still in touch today, as he also is with former teammates like quarterbacks Trent Green and Damon Huard. 

“I was fortunate to have the football experience that I did, playing with a few different teams where I built relationships with coaches and fellow quarterbacks, all of whom are great guys,” said Collins, who played for Michigan during the early 1990s.

“Cam Cameron (currently LSU’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach) was the Michigan quarterbacks coach and recruited me there, and you could see then that he and fellow coach Les Miles were both on an upward trajectory, as they ended up showing at LSU,” Collins recalled. “So they, and the great coaching staff, combined with the blend of academics and athletics made that the place for me, plus it seemed like I watched them every week on TV growing up.”

And that childhood not only included football, but also meeting in fourth grade his eventual wife, with whom he now has three sons that they raise in their Walpole home.

But before their boys came along, he and his wife lived a few towns down the road in a coastal community so he could pursue his other passion of fly fishing.

“I always wanted to live where I could just wake up in the morning and walk to my boat, so during much of my playing career we lived beside a marina, where in the offseason and any other time I could, I was right at the water,” Collins said. “But we always knew we would end up back in Walpole, where both our parents still live, but I still own two boats, including the first small aluminum one I ever bought.” 

So fishing remains a hobby, but football is front and center. 

“I coach at the school typically six days a week in the afternoons, where I work closely with the offensive coordinator putting in the game plan, practicing it, and then of course playing the game on the weekends,” he said.

Time well spent since Collins recognizes the importance of the game to his hometown’s identity.

“Most people know the town of Walpole because of football, so it’s great to be part of it again.”

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Boobie Clark

[Mike Honcho 4,010]

Billy "The Gun" Van Goff

 

[taco breath 419]

don bb for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGNTUQSuPM

 

[shorepatrol 1,735]

On 11/17/2022 at 12:47 PM, TimHauck said:

Tony Romo when he was dating Carrie Underwood

Can't argue with this 

[KSB2424 3,082]

On 11/17/2022 at 2:44 PM, WhiteWonder said:

Justin Tucker

I make millions to kick the ball, no CTE or insane wear on my body. I'm a super bowl champion and I'll be in the hall of fame and likely known as the best kicker in NFL history.....I can stay in the league longer than most and if all else fails I can sing opera. 

I opened the thread to say:  whomever is the coolest, smartest, best looking kicker.