re: comparing Cannon's & OBJ's 89-yard returns

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s incredibly hard to believe that Cannon was easily faster than Usain Bolt.

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You people are stupid or really young. Bolt runs 100 m. That is 100 yd. still about a 10.3 on bad tracks with bad shoes. He likely runs close to a 10.1 with better equipment and training not much slower than trindon. And yes he was that fast according to eye witnesses that I know personally. Him beefing up slowed him a little, but made him a lot stronger.

That wasn't a real ref

Can we be honest and say that the quality of tacklers before integration was considerably less?

Also, I agree that with better nutrition, training, and equipment, cannon would post even faster numbers.

And he was tired. But still, if there were more athletes around, him and his tacklers wouldn't have been so tired.

Either way, cannon's punt return looks like it is in slow motion.

I was the ref, and I could outrun both BC and OB and UB. There. No not really. Both are, were great atheletes, and OB gonna give us more as his career continues. BC was a hoss back in the day, and that's all we need to remember.

Chad Jones return, while not in Tiger Stadium, also worth comparing, waving arm and both returners wore No. 3

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And 4 irate post later, still no one gives a frick about the cool story about your mom or that you once had a friend who saw Billy Cannon run and made a scientific conclusion that he ran pretty fast. That's neat.

I acknowledge that I thought the other poster was talking about the 100 yard dash. The fact still remains, the same source also says Cannon ran a 4.12 forty. Pardon me if I don't believe bullshite when I see it.

In any case, you looked at a 2-D DIAGRAM and came to the Nobel prize winning conclusion that it...

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Proved Cannon was and is still a bigger, as fast and stronger player.

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That's what you got from a diagram huh? Get over your Billy Cannon mancrush. It makes you look incredibly stupid and emotionally attached. Anyone can see that the two eras and players are apples and oranges, yet you are using it as "proof" that Cannon is a demi-god.

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I acknowledge that I thought the other poster was talking about the 100 yard dash. The fact still remains, the same source also says Cannon ran a 4.12 forty. Pardon me if I don't believe bull shite when I see it.

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Hand timed? I believe it. He ran nearly as fast as trindon. Understand he was a freak of nature.
As one poster acknowledged it was on a wet field.
He had a 10.3 100 meters equivalent. In old arse shoes on those slow as track. Training track and field athletes is something I do know something about co spidering I was a runner and go to as many events as I can every year.
All pro. NCAA hof. Played nearly every down of every game.

I agree it was a different time, but there is one thing about track is it is an individual sport in sprints. You use strategy, but you challenge yourself.

The comment that "before intergration, the quality of tackling was not very good" just goes to show how stupid you are, or incredibly young. Teams' rosters were smaller so the quality of players was not near as deluted as today's are. It was like the old NBA, fewer teams, smaller rosters, made it a lot harder to make the team. Plus players played both ways, there was no individual subbbing like today, so once a player was in the game, he stayed in till the team was substituted for, enmasse. For his size..check out the sizes of DE & DT's back then...his speed & pure athleticism was off the charts. His track times as noted here were legit & he was all SEC in track as well. As much as I am a fan of #3, there is NO comparision as to the quality of athlete between he & #20. And in addition to the wet field, the humidity that nite was almost suffocating, and that is a factor that Coac Dietzel has mentioned every time that nite comes up. That nite, that weather, playing both ways in one of the most intense games ever at TS, game into the 4th quarter, what was at stake, there is no comparision between the 2 runs, either. But #3's was great, too ! ! Just enjoy the fact that LSU won & beat O.Miss both games.

Famous Amos is an Idiot . Comparing OBJ with Cannon is just plain stupid! There is no man love, he was just that good. How old are u 15? :rimshot: