Your Top 5, Toughest Cowboy Player of All Time?

[jem88]

Can only go by the players I've watched. For me it's:

Randy White, Erik Williams, Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, Isaaic Holt (double value as he's also the coolest I've ever seen.)

 

[JakeCamp12]

My top 5 Cowboy tough guys...

1. Randy White - is nick name is Manster...enough said...
2. Erik Williams - made his reputation punking Reggie White
3. Cliff Harris - Captain Crash
4. Chuck Howley
5. Mark Tuinei

 

[bbgun]

Walt Garrison played with a broken leg, a broken leg, his leg.

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1) Emmitt (shoulder)
2) Norton (torn bicep)
3) Meredith & Aikman (took hellacious beatings but kept getting up)

 

[KingintheNorth]

1. Alonzo Spellman - once had SWAT come to arrest him.
2. Dwayne Goodrich - Serving time.
3. Nate Newton - Served time.
4. Adam Jones - Should be serving time.
5. Martin Grammatica - You have to be "tough" to celebrate so hard you hurt yourself.

 

[Biggems]

It depends on how you define tough.

Ability to play through pain.

1. Walt Garrison
2. Emmitt Smith
3. Jason Witten
4. Roger Staubach

Hardest hitters

1. Cliff Harris
2. Randy White
3. Bob Lilly
4. Ken Norton
5. Darren Woodson
6. Roy Williams (pre-Kelly Rowland)

Guy you would least like to fight.

1. Randy White
2. Larry Allen
3. Erik Williams
4. Charles Haley - PSYCHO
5. Mark Tuinei

I added some names to your list....

 

[RoadRunner]

1. Emmitt Smith - Giants game with separated shoulder - enough said.

2. Randy White - one of the meanest and toughest ever.

3. Moose - sacrificed his neck for a huge chunk of the NFL's all time rushing record.

4. Larry Allen - from running DBs down from behind to benching 700 lbs the guy is super human.

5. Bill Bates - a different kind of toughness. The Rudy of the Cowboys. They always wanted to cut him but his hustle, effort, and mental discipline wouldn't allow them to.

 

[DWhite Fan]

i was having one of those discussions in the Garage with a few neighbors, and of course we had our differences, generally due to Generational differences, and time.

So who are your Top 5 Toughest Cowboys of all time?

Mine:

1. Bob Lilly
2. Walt Garrison
3. Daryl Johnston
4. Ed "Too Tall" Jones
5. Randy White

discuss.....

I agree with your pick of Bob Lilly as #1

Maybe he wasn't in the top 5 toughest, but I would list Don Meredith in the top 10. I know he retired at 31, but he took some terrible beatings and played through the hurt. Don will always have my respect

 

[jjktkk]

Bob Lilly said no one on the team could lick Roger in a fight.

All of these guys mentioned were/are some tough **'s. I would have to add Roger as well. I rember one of my 1st games watching the Cowboys, when Roger punched Jack Youngblood(another mean mofo) right thru his facemask in the mouth. My top 5:

1.) Randy White
2.) Erik Williams
3.) Roger Staubach
4.) Bob Lilly
5.) Walt Garrison

 

[fanfromvirginia]

Okay, I see where you're going with this. Say we walk into a bar with a room full of disgusting, low-down, dirty, stinking, trash-talking, beer belching Commander fans and their men and they had the nerve to try and start trouble who would you want with you? And it's just you, me and five old cowboys?

Well then I would like to have
1. Erik Williams
2. Randy White
3. Leon Lett
4. Bob Lilly
5. Harvey Martin

Pull Harvey Martin and add Colombo.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

I imagine Kevin Gogan belongs here in some form.

 

[DTK]

1. Randy White - Manster, 'nuff said
2. Erik Williams- anyone that owns Reggie White is tuff
3. Roger - Capt. Comeback
4. Bill Bates - wish we had just a few with his heart
5. Emmitt - played through numerous injuries willing us to victory

 

[ndanger]

Bob Lilly said no one on the team could lick Roger in a fight.

Didn't Clint Longley give it a shot in the locker room one time? I remember some incident of a back-up sucker punching him or something along those lines.

 

[burmafrd]

Roger was changing out of uniform and was just taking off his shoulder pads- his arms were pinned-and was thus completely defenseless when Longley took his cheap shot.

 

[ndanger]

Roger was changing out of uniform and was just taking off his shoulder pads- his arms were pinned-and was thus completely defenseless when Longley took his cheap shot.

Well it was the only shot he ever got at making this list.
I think the poster who offered up Bill Bates to the discussion makes a valid point. He too, played through some injuries over the years. I guess a guy who can go to a bar drinking, win a bet that he can lay on his back and spit and hit the ceiling with a dip in his cheek on a Saturday night, then go out Sunday and run through the line with a broken leg gets my vote. Riding bulls in the off season doesn't hurt either. He's not gonna make a top five intellectual list, but he certainly had some great quotes and stories.

 

[Sarge]

In no particular order of toughness - here is my top "5"

Bill Bates
Randy White
Bob Lilly
Charles Haley
Erik Williams
Larry Allen
Harvey Martin
Marion Barber
Roger Staubach

 

[HighTechDave]

speaking of Randy White, I ran into him last night at a Sports Bar in Frisco/Little Elm, watching UFC. I didn't wip his *** asking for an autograph, but did manage to BS with him a little about fishin. The dude can bass fish like no others...

Yup, I'd stand behind him and talk trash, while he stands there with his arms folded. lol

 

[JJB500]

1. Randy White
2. Erik Williams
3. Mark Tuinei
4. Walt Garrison
5. Don Meredith

 

[CF74]

1) Witten-played with broken jaw, ribs, no helmet.
2) Walt Garrison-played with broken leg.
3) Emmitt Smith-played with shoulder injury.
4) Roger Staubach-played with broken pinkie.
5) Bob Lilly/Randy Manster White (These guys are men, we need a new one.)

 

[SDogo]

That is a good list but I would drop off Too Tall and add either Cliff Harris, Bill Bates, or Emmitt Smith. When Ed went off to try professional Boxing I kind of soured on him a little.

Cliff Harris no doubt. My all time favorite Cowboy

 

[TNCowboy]

1. Randy White
2. Cliff Harris
3. Emmitt Smith
4. Walt Garrison
5. Bill Bates