Eric Dickerson: A Football Life.....maybe not such a bad guy?

Dickerson has always came off as a likable bad guy to me.

I always just let my reaction be, "what an arrogant dickhead!"... Every time I ever heard him speak on the game over the past few decades. But he actually seems to be loved by his teammates and coaches. And the Rams were just a frick all, stupid organization in LA during that time with tales of having several players checks bounce when they tried to cash them. Just seems like he could have just as easily been Walter Payton if he was a little older and drafted by a better organization just a few years earlier. Maybe the Steelers or something.

yeah that was awesome!

He wanted to be paid like the superstar he was and the amount they offered was low.

He is the best RB other than Jim Brown to play in NFL. He had size, speed, could catch the ball when asked.

No I spelled Eric the Great correctly.

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He wanted to be paid like the superstar he was and the amount they offered was low. He is the best RB other than Jim Brown to play in NFL. He had size, speed, could catch the ball when asked.

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And could throw it. He literally was the best QB on the Rams one year.

I got ED to sign a program for me at the Saints vs Rams game in the dome in 2002 (I think that was the year).

We were sitting right behind the Saints bench for the MNF game and ED was their sideline reporter.

I walked up to him, leaned over the rail, and asked him to sign my program. He was stunned, which surprised me.

He asked me twice: "you sure you want my autograph"?.

I remember like it was yesterday, answering him the second time he asked: "yes, I want the signature of one of the best RBs to play the game". He must have thanked me a dozen times...

THEN he offered to take my program on the sidelines to some Saints players and have them sign it too. I declined. I put that program in shrink wrap and have it in my LSU room with some other collectibles.

I'm still surprised, to this day, how nice and HUMBLE he came off. Anecdotal, I know...

I grew up a cowboys fan and I never hated Dickerson. I didn't like the rams though. Dickerson was an elite talent. He still rocked the jerry curl and rec specs later than most too.

Yeah, while watching this I was also thinking how Indy is one of the luckiest cities ever. They've always been blessed with a top notch talent within every 5 years or so since the Colts moved from Bmore.

The best Dickerson story is the Gold Firebird. Bought for and delivered by aTm and that man goes to SMU. Then the Aggies aren't even man enough to ask for it back.

First time I saw him play vs Arkansas I thought this guy is good.


I was lucky as a kid growing up in Fayettenam got to see Campbell (first ever college game I went to), Eric, Walter Abercrombie, Gary Anderson, Napoleon McCallum, and many others. Then when in college our bye week was usually the aTm game so got to see most of their great backs of the 90's live.