re: Lets Rank the Top LSU Tiger NFL Football Careers

how ya'll like the top 10 list in no order?

Honorable mentions
Eric Martin
Dalton Hillard
Eddie Kennison
Booger
Stan Humphries
Leonard Marshall
Todd McClure
Johnny Robinson
Roy Winston

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Stan Humphries

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Lolz, didn't play at LSU. Went to NLU

Carlos Carson?

*played 10 years in the NFL
*1983 season he caught 80 receptions for 1,351 yards and 7 touchdowns
*career: 353 catches, 6,372 yards, 33 TDs

Most of you guys are too young to remember. Here is Roy Moonie Winstons resume! No I am not related. Winston played 15 seasons in the National Football League, all with the Minnesota Vikings.

He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1962 NFL Draft by the Vikings, for whom he played until he retired after the 1976 season. During that time, he was one of 10 players to play in all four of the Vikings Super Bowl appearances (Super Bowl IV, Super Bowl VIII, Super Bowl IX, Super Bowl XI).

Winston delivered one of the most devastating tackles ever filmed. In a game against the Miami Dolphins in 1972, fullback Larry Csonka circled out into the flat to catch a pass. Just as he caught the pass, Winston hit him from behind with such force that the 240-pound Csonka was nearly cut in half. The tackle was so grotesque it was shown on The Tonight Show. Csonka dropped the ball and rolled on the field in agony. He thought his back was broken and literally crawled off the field (he was not seriously injured, however). After their respective retirements from the NFL, Winston and Csonka remained close friends. Csonka invited Winston to be his guest when Csonka was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In 1976, Winston was inducted into the LSU Hall of Fame.

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Most of you guys are too young to remember. Here is Roy Moonie Winstons resume! No I am not related. Winston played 15 seasons in the National Football League, all with the Minnesota Vikings.

He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1962 NFL Draft by the Vikings, for whom he played until he retired after the 1976 season. During that time, he was one of 10 players to play in all four of the Vikings Super Bowl appearances (Super Bowl IV, Super Bowl VIII, Super Bowl IX, Super Bowl XI).

Winston delivered one of the most devastating tackles ever filmed. In a game against the Miami Dolphins in 1972, fullback Larry Csonka circled out into the flat to catch a pass. Just as he caught the pass, Winston hit him from behind with such force that the 240-pound Csonka was nearly cut in half. The tackle was so grotesque it was shown on The Tonight Show. Csonka dropped the ball and rolled on the field in agony. He thought his back was broken and literally crawled off the field (he was not seriously injured, however). After their respective retirements from the NFL, Winston and Csonka remained close friends. Csonka invited Winston to be his guest when Csonka was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In 1976, Winston was inducted into the LSU Hall of Fame.

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so much good information, yet i still don't know what position he played. lol

Kevin Faulk has to be in the Top 10. He has 3 super bowl rings and played 11 season?

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You praising faulk for being a limited role player but then knocking landry's "limited" skill set.

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I'd rather have what Faulk brought to his team, which he showed over a longer perior of time than what Landry brings to his team, and hasn't done over a very long period of time (yet).

Moonie Wilson - LA Sports Hall of Fame

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A Baton Rouge native, Roy "Moonie" Winston was a prep (Istrouma) and college (LSU) All-American who played 15 seasons (1962-76) with the Minnesota Vikings as a standout linebacker. He played in four Super Bowls (IV, VII, IX and XI), was the Vikings' Most Valuable Defensive Player in 1972, and was named to the Vikings' Silver Anniversary Team in 1985. He had 835 career tackles and 649 career solo stops. Team captain of LSU's 1961 SEC Champions, Winston was an All-SEC and All-America offensive guard as a senior. He played left field for the LSU baseball team that won the 1961 SEC baseball title.


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Roy Winston turned down a professional baseball offer to accept a football scholarship to Louisiana State University. But after his rookie season in the National Football League, he was second-guessing that decision.

Coach Norm Van Brocklin of the Minnesota Vikings called the fourth round draft choice into his office. “When we got you,” Van Brocklin said, “the scouts said you were a short offensive guard or possibly a linebacker. Well, you can't play either one.”

Winston, a 6-0, 217-pound All-American guard at LSU, who played both offense and defense in his collegiate career, told the coach the Vikings hadn't played him at the position they told him he was best suited for – outside linebacker.

For “Moonie” Winston (who got his nickname from the comic strip character “Moon Mullins” because of his full, round face), outside linebacker would be his last stop before the bus stop.

He was in the starting lineups in following year, and stayed there for 13 seasons as a member of the “Purple People Eaters.”

“The thing I've always said about Roy is, ‘Here's a guy who is 6 feet tall and 220 pounds…he's not supposed to be playing in the NFL.' But you can forget that,” said former Vikings teammate Lonnie Warwick. “The things I remember about Roy are that he had a tremendous quickness and a great knowledge of the game. He looked at so much film, he knew what the other team was going to do. That gave him a great advantage. He always had the best grades when the coaches looked at the films.”

Winston, who was the Vikings' defensive Most Valuable Player in 1972, has only one regret about a National Football League career that ended in 1976. His Vikings were 0 for 4 in Super Bowls.

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Moonie Wilson

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Who is this? Didn't he play for the Mets in the 80's??