Children of the corn....

[RavennaAl]

Everyone knows all about Eli and Peyton Manning and their father, Archie. I was just thinking, how many other sons of famous athletes are there? I know of Kellen Winslow Jr., Lawerence McCutcheons son played for Cleveland I think, Brian Grease and a couple of others that I can't remember. Except for Eli and Peyton, none of the others has come close to having the same career as their father. Eli and Peyton have both surpassed their dads accomplishments. This also got me to wondering, with all the great players over the years, why hasn't there been more?? Think about some of the greatest players in history. Unitas, Star, Nitskie, Butkis, Payton, Sanders, Brown, Lambert, Olsen, Jones, Lily, Harris, Czonka, Greene, Singeltary... the list goes on. Surely some of these guys must have had kids. Where are they? You would think that their genes would have passed down and that their kids would've matched or exceeded what they were able to do.

[Coach Rip]

Terry Metcalf, and his son Eric or do I have their names switched

And tony dorsett and his son, ......................Ron Springs and his son,.......... fathers played for the cowboys and sons played for the titans and ???? Seahawks?

Nick Bonicotti's (sp)son was a promising LB and suffered a paralyzing spinal injury, ................which is why I yell at my pony football players when they try to hit with the top of their head, .....................nothing scares me more than a kid getting a neck injury

I understand elway's kid is a good recruit, ...........and how can I forget about Phil Simms, and his son, ................I know there are others just can't think of them right away.

Walter Payton's kid Jarrett played running back at University of Miami. I know he made the Tennessee Titans, but i dont think he is still on the team.
I also saw a special on ESPN about Joe Montana's kids. His oldest son is the starting QB on his high school team and is getting some division 1 scholarships, and apparently the younger son is supposed to be even better when he finally gets his chance.

Doc Blanchard, Mr. Inside of Army, often called the greatest fullback of all time by coaches that saw him play...(He and Bronko Nagurski are considered the top)...His Dad, Doc Sr, was supposedly also incredible, in the late teens with Tulane.

Everyone has seen a ton of my stuff on Doc. Well, here is some stuff on Bronk:

In the days when football was played largely on the ground, everyone was in awe of another Chicago ballcarrier.

Of the All-Pro football players who stirred America in the twentieth century, Bronko Nagurski joined Red Grange and Sammy Baugh in the first wave. And to sports fans, each symbolized something different.

Baugh was a precision passer, Grange a matchless open-field runner, Nagurski the ultimate power symbol.

Nagurski had super-human strength. Everybody who played in that era said so. He was the NFL’s first big winner, and he was the one they talked about the most whenever old-timers got together, as they did one summer in Canton, Ohio, home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "I saw Nagurski for the first time when I was an NFL rookie," remembered Don Hutson, who has ranked as one of football’s top two or three receivers, all-time, since his All-Pro days at Green Bay. "At Alabama, I’d been known as a good defensive end, so I played Nagurski the way I’d play a Georgia fullback. On first down they gave him the ball, and he ran straight over me. I mean he ran me down and kept going without breaking stride."

Arch-rival Green Bay fullback-linebacker Clark Hinkle recalled: "He was the most bruising runner ever. The first time I tackled Nagurski, I had to have five stitches in my face. My biggest thrill in football was the day he announced his retirement."