LT's most memorable play?

posts about Tomlinson, they need to forget their login to this site and never come back.

For all the great plats Taylor had and there were plenty it's the immediate thing I think of when I think of him. Unfortunate but I can't help it. It was just so shocking a thing that it will probably always be the first thing that pops in my head.

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Fumble recovery vs 49ers http://youtu.be/oolJWBuv7bo?t=2m37s at 2:37 in it

same game where he flushed Montana back into Marshall for the kill. If LT didnt make Montana stop his drift out he would of probally won another superbowl that year.

he knock Okoye with a full head of steam flat on his back?

against the Lions.

against the saints in 88, was better than those 2.

Fumble recovery vs 49ers

against the Chiefs back in '06

great. He pretty much single handedly won that game.

Definitely the Theismann play if only b/c I've seen it way more often than any other play LT ever made.

as much as the Theismann injury is the "Pack of crazed dogs" quote.

would be my choice as most memorable game because I think he played that game with one arm and was great! Incredible will to win and ability to play through pain.

For single play I still go with that fumble recovery.

Gruesome injury, MNF, division rival, SB winning QB's career ended instantly... I get it...

For me personally, it was watching him catch the Saints RB (Ruben Mayes?) from behind in the backfield on a sweep to the opposite direction... I was at the game and believe it was early in the 1986 season in which he won the NFL MVP and the team obiously won the Super Bowl... I was only 9 and even though I had been told by my father and older brothers how spectacular he was, it was the first time that I was able to grasp just how special he really was...

The way that he got up and smoked Mayes with his imaginary pistol after the tackle... The play is forever etched in my memory...

I was also at that game and I agree was one of the greatest plays I ever saw LT make..

That gun move would be such a huge fine these days. Like the throat slash.

seeing as how every play in that game was so memorable, name all of them. The Saints probably had around 50 snaps that game.

Aaaand go ...

but in 1990 he held out all summer, reported a few days before the opener, and then sacked Cunningham 3 times.

in LT's final year, Madden saying during the game that the only team he'd never had a sack against was the Bears. Eventually in that game LT sacks Harbaugh.

post number 2 is the only post that would have even mentioned tomlinson.


you lose, sir.

With Tomlinson retiring so recently I wanted to avoid confusion. A few people were calling Tomlinson, LT instead of LT2 in that thread.

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I like the tip of the Troy Aikmen pass for
a short TD return .
Him running down Billy Simms ..
He had a couple of Kill shots in his rookie
year playing kickoff coverage as well .

and he had a blocker in front of him. He sorta like jumped over the blocker and grab the QB with one hand and threw him to the ground. That was dominance. His greatest game had to be against the Saints (with a dislocated shoulder).

in the following video.


Link - ( New Window )

The other that comes to mind is when they were playing the Saints (might have been the dislocated shoulder game). The RB takes the hand off and runs away from LT's side. He chases him down and tackles him before the RB got out of the backfield.

rampaging around the house

I believe that you are mixing up your Saints games... The play which i had reference above (tackling the RB frome behind) was a home game in 1986... The Superman Game where he played with a separated should was a Monday night game in New Orleans in 1988...

sometimes LT got so inside a QB's head that you would see how scared they were. I can remember QB's ducking the rush when it wasn't even coming. The first time I remember seeing this was against the Rams Jim Everett.

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LT vs Saints - 1986 - ( New Window )

That Saints video is unreal! LT at CB??? I love it.

check out robnyg at 10:10 pm. 92 yard run against the Chiefs in 06? I think YOU lose sir.

I am wrong. I don't remember what game it was. I just have that play in my mind.

He was on fire. He caught the RB running the other way on 3-4 plays. The one I remember clearly was the last one when he tackled him, jumped up, and gave him the six gun salute.

He still inspires awe 25 years later.

for pure "memorableness".

NFL history but I agree with posters above that his one arm game vs NO in 1988 was unbelievable. After each series he would come back to the bench in terrible pain & the trainer would pop his shoulder back in.Not sure what his stats were for that night but I vaguely remember something like 3 sacks/13 tackles (someone will correct me on this I'm sure). Ali was The Greatest in Boxing but LT was The Greatest in Football!

names involved, but for me it was his rookie year.....he chased someone down from behind, and with his famous tomahawk chop, made the tackle and created a fumble.....and was called for a penalty(unnecessary roughness?).....that play was just so exciting, you knew we had someone special.....

Clearly the Saints began the game with the strategy of running away from him... Then they started trying to double him and run right at him... Neither strategy had much success...

I probably don't remember his 1981-1983 seasons as well as some, but from what I saw (and remember) LT was at the height of his powers in 1986... Strength, speed and instincts were all just unparalleled...


Lawrence Taylor Dominates The Eagles in Week 6 of the 1986 Season - ( New Window )

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Lawrence Taylor Plays Injured Against Redskins In Week 8 of the 1986 Season - ( New Window )

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Lawrence Taylor Dominates Eagles in Philly (Week 10 of the 1986 Season) - ( New Window )

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Lawrence Taylor Dominates The Redskins In Week 14 of the 1986 Season - ( New Window )

but LT had injured himself - it was later in his career - his shoulder and arm were strapped together so he could play - and he went into the next game all taped up and strapped together, and absolutely disrupted the offense of the opposing team in that condition - that was the most amazing and emotional game I ever saw him play

That was against the Saints in a Monday (or Sunday?) Night game in New Orleans in 1988...

Mentioned the pick against Montana in the 86' playoff game on the same play where Jim Burt knocked joe from east Rutherford to Clifton!! That play clinched the game and sent us to the title game.

Outside of that one, the fumble recovery in the 90 title game was huge and incredibly memorable.

But the INT and TD was almost an afterthought, IMHO... I was in the corner of the end zone that the play was made and all I saw and heard was Montana taking a massive shot from Burt with what sounded like a baseball bat...

Not much different than Marshall's hit on Montana in the 1990 NFC Championship when so many forgot that Mark Collins failed to recover an easy fumble inside SF territory... The announcers, the cameraman, the fans and even the players were all focused on the obliteration of Montana...

Just found these...
LT Rookie Year Highlights - ( New Window )

has top 10 best of all time potential. LT was amazing. To this very day, no player can take over a game and wreak havoc on every play the way Lawrence Taylor did in the mid-80's. In the wk 14 video against the Skins, at the 2:55 min mark, Taylor shows his strength.

the most memorable play was the 97 yd. INT return. The most memorable game was the Saints game with his arm strapped down.

as some are making it sound. Teams repeat every decade. Giants won 2 in a 5 year span. Pitt won 2 in a 4 year span. The Pats won 3 in 4 years.

The Giants are a pretty grounded and humble group and they have the prime QB in place. Why the hell not? Just get to mid-late deccember 2 games over 500 and healthy.

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he has the skills to be the top DE in the league. It'd be awesome if he could be a force for the defense like LT was.

I will say that when you watched the Giants defense in the 1980s, you became conditioned to simply follow #56... It was inevitable that he would have a significant impact on the play in one way or another...

Last year was that first time since around the 1988 or 1989 season that for the most part I was just watching one guy...

Qb's were looking for him instead of looking downfield....they knew he was coming....

We're talking about the most dominating defensive player ever to stalk an NFL field.

is etched in my mind but the Saints game was an unbelievable effort. Crazed dogs!

Can be a point of reference in case any modern list maker gets confused when it comes to ranking players.

Thanks for the links. Seeing LT spy Cunningham and pound Jaws brings back some memories. It's interesting how LT sack highlight videos could be used to train officials on the definition of roughing the QB.

Haven't seen him play since he retired and haven't seen the videos (Thanks Matt G) in a long time. At the mention of his name I always associate greatness to describe his game but, I almost forgot how truly dominating he was was. He was in a classification/league of his own. Imagine if he didn't party on Saturday night? Some of the games he was in he was hung over. Superman title for sure - if anyone deserved it.

But, I can't imagine any defensive player having a better season than LT had in '86. One for the record books.

did what LT used to do often. A defensive player who could will his team to a victory. It's really still hard to comprehend how great LT was

He was a bad man.

the Saints didn't take LT with the #1 pick. According to Wiki, before the draft LT hoped to go to the Cowboys. Noooo!

You are on point there... It would be very difficult for a defensive player to match LT's 1986 season... Just re-watching the play against the Redskins in week 14, which was in DC and basically for the division and to see three OLshift toward LT and then a jailbreak created from Marshall etc... Just amazing...

but watching those links I'm again thrilled an amazed at how he comes in like a bullet. Just incredible. Those of us who saw him regularly must realize how lucky we've been.

and ran down Randle Cunningham from behind....

and seeing QBs take the same 7-step drop into the same target zone with the same crushing result time after time. What's that definition of insanity?

It's a testament to the game-changing nature of LT that such a thing even stands out twenty years later.

and i still cant decide what saint play LT made was better than the 2 offered up in the topic.

i realize when you think of LT, you think of interceptions and the luck of the draw of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and breaking an overrated qbs leg with Harry, but i just dont.

im sorry, thats not LT to me. i dont remember him that way.

to pick 1.....the backside run down, pop up, gunslinger shoot em up.

thats LT to me.

so thats the most memorable.

but recovering Roger Craig's fumble, caused by Howard...has to be the biggest.

But for me, it's probably a stop he made in SB 21 on an Elway scramble near the Giants' goal line. It wasn't as obviously spectacular as any number of LT's greatest plays, but I recall swearing at the moment on the 1st instant replay of it that LT broke to where he knew he needed to be to tackle Elway before Elway started his scramble/run and he had to sift through all sorts of garbage to get there because it was across the field from him.

LT's "sixth sense" of how to play the game was on a par with Sayers', Sanders', Rice's, Unitas' and other great offensive players. I can't think of another defender who had that 6th sense of how a play will unfold. Maybe Ed Reed or Polamalu at their best? Ronnie Lott?

Although changing his rush tactic against the Cowboys to block their last second FG was pretty close to thinkng like LT's sixth sense.

it evolved into a thread comparing LT and Julius Peppers when some guy came in to basically say Peppers beats LT and it isn't even close.

In my mind LT is the 2nd greatest NFL player ever, only topped by Jerry Rice.