re: In light of last night's brawl, who's the most bada$$ QB to ever play in the NFL?

Bobby Layne and it ain't close.

Saints great Bobby Douglass was a big bad man and would have kicked Garretts arse.

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I wanna see some QB's who are the ones who dish out the punishment. Have there been any QB's like that?

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Joe Kapp is the answer.

Here he is, knocking out a LB with a knee to the head:



This article is filled with anecdotes of him getting in fights, including with a linebacker teammate:

https://www.si.com/vault/1970/07/20/611157/a-man-of-machismo

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I'm aware of my own reputation, and I enjoy it. I've been called "one half of a collision looking for the other." The adjectives you usually read about me are "unstylish," "brutal," "unrelenting" and sometimes "dumb." (That's when we lose; when we win, I'm a "great genius.") People take one look at the scars on my face and they assume that I spend most of my off-hours prowling around looking for fights, when the truth is that the fights are prowling around looking for me, and sometimes they find me. I think of myself as a gentle, fun-loving, peaceful person, but you can be all these things and still get in fights—especially if you don't back down, and I try not to. You won't see me running out of bounds to avoid a little physical contact with a linebacker, and you won't see me ducking out the window when somebody wants to tangle. So I've been known to get in an occasional tête-à-tête.

Maybe this goes back to my Chicano childhood, and machismo. Machismo means manliness, a willingness to act like a man, and if a kid didn't have machismo in the polyglot neighborhoods of the San Fernando and Salinas valleys in California, where I grew up, he had it tough. When I was little I saw guys lying in their own blood at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Hollister Street in San Fernando.

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And of course, at age 73 he still wasn't taking crap from nobody: