Doug Atkins Documentary!

[Bleeding.Orange]

Thank you for sharing!

No problem! Everyone should know who the great Doug Atkins was!

 

[Backwards K]

Met Doug when I was 12-13 years old. I could put two fingers—and I have larger hands and fingers—into his size 19 championship ring with ease. He was a massive individual and one helluva football player.

Doug Atkins had the largest ring size of any NFL Championship ring until Refrigerator Perry. I believe those are still the two largest NFL Championship rings made.

 

[LegionnaireOfTheMiserable]

I never really understand why Doug doesn’t get more love. I mean the guy was so big and athletic I really feel like he could dominate in todays league

Played a long time ago before games were commonly televised and before sacks were officially tracked. Guy was inducted into every Hall of Fame imaginable and named to every All Time team he has been eligible for, so he got tons of respect in his era.

 

[Bleeding.Orange]

Doug Atkins had the largest ring size of any NFL Championship ring until Refrigerator Perry. I believe those are still the two largest NFL Championship rings made.

That is so wild and awesome!

 

[OHvol40]

When I was a child in Tennessee, the Knoxville News Sentinel posted a picture of Bobby Bringle doing chin-ups on Doug's extended arm during a football practice. I was also in the weight room art Tennessee in the 1957 when Doug and Jack Stroud walked into the room. The weight room was very small compared to todays weight rooms, and those to players almost took up half of the room. I met him in Atlanta when he lived there, but he was pretty much a loner and didn't want much publicity at that time. The football field was where he made his impressions.

This story reminds me a lot of Jack Lambert. Former steeler, retired into obscurity as a volunteer game warden, HATED media attention (still does).

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

This is awesome but part of me wishes it was about the "nite your post or don't post" incident.

 

[Bleeding.Orange]

This story reminds me a lot of Jack Lambert. Former steeler, retired into obscurity as a volunteer game warden, HATED media attention (still does).

Some of these old school fellas were built different that is forsure!