In this episode we discuss the greatest players that wore the jersey number 66 in the NFL's history with NFL historian and author Joe Ziemba, host of the When Football was Football podcast. We will give you a top ten best of all time.
Best of Jersey 66
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Best of Jersey
On this edition of the Football by Numbers series will be coming up with the top ten best NFL players to wear the number 66! Once again our friend Joe Ziemba author and host of the When Football was Football Podcast brings his expertise and great story telling to this jersey number!
For a complete list of our top picks, click the "Help the Show" button at the top and a donation of any size and an email gets you a list of where we are so far in the numbers series!
The Hall of Fame gives us our starting point.
- Alan Faneca
- Larry Little
- Gene Hickerson
- Bulldog Turner
- Nick Buonaconti
- Billy Shaw
- Ray Nitschke
The Substantial Players wearing 66 not yet in the HOF are:
- Bill Bergey
- Tom Nalen
- Joe Jacoby
- Randy Rasmussen
- Kevin Gogan
- Conrad Dobler
- Harley Sewell
- Jack Stroud
- Pete Kendall
- David Diehl
- George Andrie
- David DeCastro
- Tom Newberry
- Bob Kowalkowski
- Myron Pottios
- Don Shinnick
- Billy Shields
- William Roberts
- Ben Grubbs
- Elmer Collett
- Tony Jones
- Jeromey Clary
- Derrick Dockery
- Eric Heitmann
- Brian Young
- Bruce Van Dyke
- Ron Solt
- Donald Evans
- Sonny Bishop
- Gabe Jackson
- Warren Bryant
- Rick Redman
- Cooper Carlisle
- Ryan Jensen
- Terry Tausch
- Stephen Peterman
- Brad Budde
- Carl Kammerer
- Doug Dawson
- Chris Chester
- Matt Campbell
- Nick Martin
- Lonie Paxton
- Steve Sylvester
A special thanks to the Pro Football Reference website for information they share on these great players. Check them out at Pro-Football-Reference.com
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