A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : `HE COULDN'T TACKLE MY WIFE'.Chuck Bednarik Charles Philip Bednarik (born May 1, 1925) is a former professional football player, known as one of the most devastating tacklers in the history of football and the last two-way player in the National Football League. doesn't like the comparison - or Deion Sanders Deion Luwynn Sanders (born August 9, 1967 in Fort Myers, Florida) is a former National Football League cornerback, Major League Baseball outfielder, and is currently an NFL Network commentator. as a football player. ``When I played, there was contact on every play,'' Bednarik said. ``Either I hit someone or they hit me. It was a physical game. This guy Deion is a joke. He runs around all game scared stiff, ducking, trying not to get hit, and they're calling him a great football player. This guy couldn't tackle my wife Emma.'' Last Monday night, the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. broadcasting crew marveled at Sanders for playing both offense and defense for the Dallas Cowboys Throughout the night, the trio compared him to Hall of Famer Bednarik, the last man to play both ways full-time, some 36 years earlier, in the Philadelphia Eagles' 1960 championship season. The newspapers and talk shows repeated the Sanders-Bednarik theme the next few days, and Bednarik, now 71 and living in Philadelphia, started to get phone calls and couldn't contain his disdain of Sanders. ``He's more of a showboat showboat. In the early 19th cent. entertainment was brought by boat to the pioneers that settled along the western rivers (especially the Mississippi and Ohio) of the United States. At first companies only traveled by boat, performing on land. than a football player,'' Bednarik said. ``He's a defensive back who can cover people, that's all. How can anyone say a guy's a great football player when he's scared to death out there, ducking all the time? Football is still a physical game, isn't it?'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: SANDERS |
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