[Alberta's Child]

This may sound bizarre to NFL fans, but I watched the Giants almost every weekend for LT's entire career, and there were times when he wasn't even the best linebacker on his own team -- let alone in NFL history.

He was a remarkable athlete and revolutionized the way the game is played, but he was not really a linebacker in the true sense of the position at all -- he was basically a fast, undersized defensive end.

[kabar]

I am an old Giant fan as well. I grew up with Gifford, Rote, Webster, Robustelli, Livingston, Wietecha, Rosie Brown, Connerly, Huff, Tittle, Tunnell, Patton, Summerall, Katcavage, Landry, etc. with Chris Schenkel doing the play by play.

but he was not really a linebacker in the true sense of the position at all -- he was basically a fast, undersized defensive end.

See my post #264. He was a linebacker who changed the way the position was played. He was the prototype of today's linebackers. He broke the mold. Great players do that. Magic Johnson was a 6'9'' point guard cum small forward. He even played center in the playoffs when Karim went down.