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Why in hell is this called the Dick Butkus award anyway?..

It it was truely for the best of the best it should be the Tommy Nobis award. By any way to measure. Nobis was a far superior Line backer than Butkus. I agree that Butkus was special, but he was not even in Nobis' class. Butkus did so well that he had 374 tackles at Illinois and was a second round draft pick.....so what? Nobis was the number one draft choice in 1966. That is unheard of for a line backer. I can not find a number of tackles for Nobis, but I have seen where he averaged over 20 tackles a game for his college career. That ought to put him around 600 tackles.

Nobis was rookie of the year in the NFL and had 294 combined tackles his rookie year.Nobis had to toil away for the Falcons(that happens to Number )ne draft choices) and that obscurity kept him from press and recognition.

I say change the award name!

Nobis should be in the NFL HOF

 

John Heisman wasn't much of a player.  Yet here we are.

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