Ferrall-A-Vent Wednesday July 28, 2010
Ferrall Shares His Memories of Jack Tatum!!
Jack Tatum passed away at 61 yesterday. Think about this guy for a minute would you? How would you like to have the nickname of “The Assassin” basically from college football through the pros. He played at Ohio State and for the Raiders, of course he was traded to the Oilers later in his career, but he won a Super Bowl with the Raiders. You know you’re a bad ass when you get a nickname like “The Assassin”. I mean is there any nickname that can even come close to that when people just know that you’re a head hunter and your one of the most vicious hitters the league’s ever known? I mean he’s taken guys heads off in the Super Bowl, in the regular season games and even preseason games. Everybody already knows the legendary story about what he did to Darryl Stingley of the Patriots on a pass from Steve Grogan. He leveled him so bad he paralyzed him for life, and the strange part of the story was he never talked to him again to the day he died. He never apologized, never wrote him, never called him, never visited him, never said he was in the wrong. He just flat out laid him out and paralyzed him and Tatum just walked away from it like he was just getting done eating a bagel. I mean that’s how vicious this guy was. I remember seeing Gary Fencik and Doug Plank play for the Bears in the eighties, and they were vicious. I mean they played the game the same way where they were just head hunters, knocking guys from here to eternity with every hit. Their goal was to literally fucking kill you as they speared you and did everything else imaginable. They were going to make sure if you came over the middle that you remembered it and never came back over the middle the rest of the game, or if you played them twice in a season, you knew when you strapped in against those two that you were dead meat. I think that when people played against Jack Tatum, they feared him. They knew that they were in store for a whooping and ass kicking and some serious banging and thumping when they played the Raiders. The Raiders were dirty but Tatum was the dirtiest. You know how dirty he was? When guys die usually people come out of the woodwork and say all kinds of nice things about you. When Jack Tatum died yesterday, there were a lot of people that wouldn’t even give a quote about him because they didn’t want to be tied in to being nice to him because he was never nice to anybody, although a lot of people knew him off the field and said he was a great guy and he was awesome and cool and charitable. He did a lot for diabetes and everything else, but this guy was so feared that when he died, no one really said anything except his teammates, and not many Raiders were really talking about it either. I still thought it was a huge passing though because he had a huge influence on the league.
When I was a kid in the seventies watching this guy play you hated his guts because he was so vicious. Nobody played tougher than Jack Tatum, so it was a huge loss and you’ve got to give him respect, but then at the same time it was an asshole move to never reach out to Darryl Stingley, I just thought it was bullshit.
We’ll do it again tonight at 8PM East (5PM West) on Sirius XM’s Howard 101. I’ve got another one of those huge business dinners going to Del Frisco’s tonight in the building for a nice thick steak. Shake It Up!!
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