You think what Brandon Spikes did was bad last week? Think about this legend: Jack Lambert. My dad always told me the story of how nasty Jack Lambert was. The story goes that the Kent State Golden Flashes of 1972, a great team coached by Don James with teammates like Nick Saban and Gary Pinkel that went to the Tangerine Bowl, had to practice in a gravel parking lot due to inclement weather. At said practice were pro scouts and it was their only time seeing Lambert in person. Unfortunately, for Lambert it was just a walkthru, but he wasn't going to be derailed in his efforts to impress scouts, so he impressed them with his intensity and insanity and he decided to take down a teammate in the gravel, and he destroyed the guy. But the moral of the story is that the scouts were impressed. Jack was later taken with the 46th pick in the draft.... he was the 9th linebacker taken... and the only one of that bunch in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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