eromeopolk
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 4,804
- Reaction score
- 4,560
On Dallas Cowboys.com Mick Shots, he gave the following information on most interceptions in a season:
I was glad that Trevon Diggs the year we were introduced to his son on HBO's Hard Knocks did not disappoint. He lead the team in interceptions as a rookie missing 5 games. In 2021 he made his son and all Cowboy fans proud with 11 interceptions tieing Everson Walls mark.
However, what I loved and was happier with is that Mick Shots remembered my cousin Richard "Dick Night Train" Lane who invented the modern day lock down cover corner having the NFL record 14 interceptions. He was basically a literal walk on rookie with the Rams that year. He made the "clothesline tackle famous and it was outlawed by the NFL later (like Roy Williams horse collar). But he had the same baseball background that Walls and Diggs had to track the ball in the air which led to a lot of interceptions. Many of my relatives that remembered him have passed on. However, I remember some of the stories (vaguely as I am near AARP age) and I am glad that someone remembered my Cuz the Great Hall of Fame CB Dick Night Train Lane.
- Intercepting History: We're all well-aware that Trevon Diggs tied Everson Walls' Cowboys single-season interception record at 11 this past year. Also, those 11 picks the most single-season interceptions in the NFL since Walls also grabbed 11 in his 1981 rookie season. But often overlooked is this: Only three NFL players during the Super Bowl Era (1970-2021) ever had more in one season. Lester Hayes owns that distinction with 13 in 1980. And tied for second with 12 are Mike Reinfeldt (1979) and Emmitt Thomas (1974). Now then, only one player in the entire history of the NFL had more in one season than Hayes' 13, that being the memorable Dick "Night Train" Lane with 14 in 1952, his rookie season with the Rams. Amazing since Lane, from Austin, Texas, having attend segregated L.C. Anderson High School in Austin and dying at age 74, only played one season of college ball for Scottsbluff Junior College in Scottsbluff, Neb. Then Lane, who played minor league baseball in the Negro Leagues, served four years in the Army where he did play for a military team. Ever more shocking than all that on his way to NFL immortality? In 1952, Lane was working at an aircraft plant in Los Angeles after his service stint when his bus ride to work one day passed the Rams facility. Came back, walks in and asks for a tryout. The rest is history.
I was glad that Trevon Diggs the year we were introduced to his son on HBO's Hard Knocks did not disappoint. He lead the team in interceptions as a rookie missing 5 games. In 2021 he made his son and all Cowboy fans proud with 11 interceptions tieing Everson Walls mark.
However, what I loved and was happier with is that Mick Shots remembered my cousin Richard "Dick Night Train" Lane who invented the modern day lock down cover corner having the NFL record 14 interceptions. He was basically a literal walk on rookie with the Rams that year. He made the "clothesline tackle famous and it was outlawed by the NFL later (like Roy Williams horse collar). But he had the same baseball background that Walls and Diggs had to track the ball in the air which led to a lot of interceptions. Many of my relatives that remembered him have passed on. However, I remember some of the stories (vaguely as I am near AARP age) and I am glad that someone remembered my Cuz the Great Hall of Fame CB Dick Night Train Lane.
OUR HISTORY
