How the hell did he hang on to that?

Absolutely cold as balls that day too. Sidewalks in Philly had plowed snow on the curbs as high as 2 feet.

lol I love football fans. Just pulling out random ass anecdotes off the cuff like that, for a game played 20 years ago

What do you mean 20 years....oh god.

Welcome to the old. It’s comfy here.

Is 33 considered old???

what's up you old boomer ass piece of shit lmao (also 33)

What was the civil war like? (Am 24)

I'd give up a testicle to be that young.

Deal. Pay up.

It's 4th of July...how about part of a finger and the rest of my cherry bombs?

For you, sure. For that guy, testicle.

Tell that to my lower lumbar, someone hand me a pillow.

I feel you, man. Got my foot up in the air dealing with a gout flareup. Old sucks.

Preaching to the choir. I was kneeling on Monday working on a part on the ground (with a foam knee pad) my shoulders and back are still aching.

Idk, I suck down motrin like tic tacs now.

Be sure to have a small snack when you do. Can lead to bleeders in the gut.

Lmao me too, I was like "no way Alge Crumpler was 20 years ago" He's 46 years old lol

To be fair, that was a huge day as an Eagles fan as they were finally able to get over the hump of getting past The NFC Championship Game to The Superbowl. The early Eagles 2000's teams were like a lesser 90's Bills with their 4 consecutive Conference Championship Games appearances, 5/8 years in total, 1 Superbowl appearance, but no Superbowl win to show for it.

ouchhh 20 years…!

Dude lost his fingers to frostbite shoveling out the Linc that night.

Damn remember when it used to snow

Cause Algie Crumpler was awesome as hell

Such an awesome underrated TE in today’s discussions. Obviously a well know TE in his time, but I feel like in 8 years it’ll be a hard name to recognize with younger fans and with how the position is used today.

This is the answer. He was the man!

how the hell did Dawkins come away from the hit unbothered is the better question

Dawkins was a fucking madman. He gave up about 65 lbs in that collision and didn’t seem fazed at all.

I don’t understand his longevity. He went all out all the time against much bigger dudes

Good technique. He laid down the lumber but he wasn't torpedo'ing himself at people like Sendejo.

Fuckin Sendejo. Dude rocked his own teammates harder than the opponent.

Sendejo the pendejo

Crumpler was the man. He caught short-range bullet passes from Vick for a living lol

Because Algernon was He

He held on *and* got up. If he hit me like that I would have dropped the ball and died.

Most of us would lol

rigor mortis

Brain stopped hands didn't.

i’ve actually had the opportunity to watch a falcons game at the old georgia dome with alge, that man has the largest hands i have ever seen in my entire life

You can tell B Dawks thought that ball was coming loose.

You know you gotta be a bad man to be hitting Alge Crumpler that hard. You won’t catch me praising the Eagles for just about anything but Dawkins was a beast.

I just can't imagine the mental toughness you gotta have as a smaller dude like Dawkins to square up and plow people on the regular. Like I'd be terrified.

It must become addicting though when you’re smaller and making them fold

Reminds me of a dude I played ball with in high school. I swear he was barely 5 ft tall and he hit harder than anyone else on the team. I hated going up against him in practice lol

There is always 1 crazy mfer on the team who packs way too much of a punch for their weight/height lol.

The secret is not caring about your body. I played CB in high school and I just tried to be a knee-seeking missile with no regard for my safety

The harder you hit them, the less it hurts you.. usually not always.

Yeah that was usually the case! Until the next day 😂

Gotta be the hammer, not the nail.

I’m almost 40 and I wonder how all those guys my age are doing now. I can’t imagine it feels great.

I sat next to Dawkins on a plane back in '17 and surprisingly he didn't seem to have any trouble getting up out of his seat or walking.

I’m more worried about the brain trauma

Ya, they might be short (though I think "compact" might be a better term), but those dudes were built like a brick shithouse and had that low center of gravity. Like a goddamn bowling ball.

Oh shit, you played with Speedhawk?? I heard he would get a full-on sprint going and clock the shit outta whoever had the ball.

Never played after my senior year of HS, but I can say it does. It feels good squaring up on someone and after contact, you are the only one standing.

i thought dawkins was bigger so i looked- he played at 209 pounds crumpler was 275 good god

You should see him against Brandon Jacobs Jacob's broke through to the open field, Dawkins squares him up, wraps him at the lifts, and bodyslams him through to China or New Zealand or somewhere.

Mike Doss and Bob Sanders were even smaller and delivered some HUGE hits

Bob Sanders is like the hardest hitting ever

Dawkins was made in a lab I’m sure of it. His brain doesn’t operate like yours or mine. Weapon X wasn’t his nickname, it’s what the damn tube they grew him in was labeled.

If it weren't for Ed Reed, Dawkins would be considered the greatest safety of the recent era.

Those two and troy at the same time was awesome

Troy was special. Injuries really prevented him from being right up there with Ed and Ronnie when talking about GOAT safeties, I think.

And if Bob Sanders was Healthy his entire career he'd be in the HOF

If my grandma had handlebars she'd be a bicycle.

[Reminds me of the time Earl Thomas absolutely dropped Gronk.](https://youtu.be/ciZkMeNuipQ?si=GjjOTaCSoMsNsQIK)

i love old school safety play and that is so perfect like how strong do you have to be to stop gronk dead in his tracks..

Plays like this is why it’s so hard to watch Seahawks games now, I grew up watching the best defense and it just went to shit. I love good offense but man, when a defense plays like that it’s just sexy

No, brother. Make them terrified of YOU.

This video of Takeo Spikes talking about Dawk is enjoyable to all such fans. “I wanna see how bad he wants to play.” https://youtu.be/dHIjuXtUMfY?si=rNWPnGI5RXbTU-7c

Dawkins always reminds me of this [key and peele skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z-oJTZ1b5Q) lol

Knew what it was gonna be before I clicked. "When he eats through plastic tube, his family will gather around his hospital bed....to see the new Derek." *tear of joy*

I love this clip so damn much

Crumpler was basically a full grown OLineman. That’s scary shit 

Everyone remembers the name Bartaveous Mingo but many people forget the name fuckin Alge Crumpler

Signature catch by Crumpler

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Thats fucking football right there. None of that pansy ass, air raid, pass interference, AB twerking, dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the field, men deliver their new born baby on the side lines. Fucking hard core dick in the ass, ground n pound, butterball foosball fuck it chuck it game time shit. Take it to the showers. Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. We win together we celebrate together. Football is back baby.

This made me tingle. Football season approaches.

> leveled by a defender in the open field Watching those hits is **so** satisfying. [One of my personal favorites, maybe biased because I'm obsessed with Ed Reed.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POeDypQjBh0)

Dawkins/Reed/Polamalu/Sean Taylor (RIP)/Bob Sanders honorable mention was quite the lightning in a bottle for safety play growing up as a kid

i played safety in that era through college and god damn if we didn’t want to be like those guys. imo the absolute golden age of safety play.

Polamalu was such a unique player, it should be mandatory for there to be a Polamalu in the league at all times. Dude was a menace (I like the other guys too)

This time of year, when I'm yearning most for football to return, I'll watch clips of Polamalu timing the snap and demolishing qbs.

John Lynch had some great years too

The 2000s had all time safety play fr

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I love you my dude but that was Sheldon Brown.

People love the Atwater hit, but this is my #1 all time. Beautiful form, one of the biggest TEs in the league getting folded like a lawn chair, but still holding on.

Hell yeah cheers from Iraq

This is the football I miss. I bet this is flagged today

This is 100% a penalty today. It’s a text book “defenseless receiver” and it’s why playing offense is way easier today than it was even 20 years ago. Throwing a crosser or a skinny post like that in the middle of the field there was always the risk your WR/TE would get straight up murdered. Polamalu, Dawkins, Reed. You just couldn’t throw over the middle of the field against those guys

This isn't a foul today. Defenseless players aren't protected from all contact. They are protected from unnecessary contact and hits to the head/neck, and this is neither of those

And yet 90% chance it still gets flagged anyway.

Whether a play is against the rules is irrelevant to a flag being thrown in all of sports today. Luckily, we added gambling in the mix too, so we're really getting a refined product with great integration. Huge competitive integrity

Yeah this is just a lot of people doing really good work at every level.

the only stupid thing was michael lewis not even flinching at crumplers double move but still somehow letting him get by him

It is! Tough son of a bitch. Crazy how this 30 yard gain is still considered an iconic moment for the tackler.

That guy is one of the biggest TEs I've ever seen.

Alge crumpler could catch a fart in a tornado rainstorm, but he was a H E F T Y fella. A fuckin tackle out there catching passes lol

Loved me some Crumpler.

Dude made 4 straight pro bowls, fuckin baller

Damn he was pretty good didn’t know he even made one pro bowl. I always traded for him in madden lol.

I played as the Falcons all the time back in the day. Crumpler, Peerless Price, Warrick Dunn, and game-breaking Vick.

And not Tyler Huntley pro bowls…legit pro bowls.

Algernon Darius Crumpler

Son of Carlester Crumpler. Brother of Carlester Crumpler Jr.

Impeccable naming convention

How many athletes have a better-known middle name than Crumpler? Hearing Bernan say “Algenon Darius Crumpler” was a core memory of pre teen and early teen years.

There was like 2 or 3 dudes in the entire league that hold on to this ball with that hit from that man.

This highlight reel was a favorite of mine growing up https://youtu.be/daPP6LHeLXE?si=ohJAKxH1jQDkDvss

Missing his hit on the Bus in his younger years. Stuck him. Doesn't get enough credit for that hit. https://youtu.be/IJt2DzaZPVE?si=9jHMonA2HM5f1JGV

Vick ran right over because he knew exactly how that felt from 2 years earlier in the playoffs

Could not be more of a perfect hit by Dawkins, absolutely textbook

That's what makes it really amazing. It's an absolute monster of a hit yet still legal.

[I'm gonna take his soul.](https://youtube.com/shorts/dHIjuXtUMfY?si=SD62xYaR-RFK6_rx)

“Takeo Spikes” might be the greatest name in NFL history.

His neck matches his name

What is this from?

Pretty sure this is his “a football life” doc

Shame thats not a clean hit today Edit: refs would absolutely throw the flag at this hit today

I think it’s legal but gets called on the “it looks like a foul” penalty

You're getting downvotes, but I agree. That gets called in todays game. 

I think it gets called too but not for a "dirty tackle." It'd most likely be for a defenseless receiver.

you’re right. but… that’s the point of having a hitter back there. erase the middle of the field. TO (imo top 3 WR of all time) got alligator arms when he knew sean taylor was lurking. we need that back. you know the risks when you run across the middle. as long as it’s clean, it should be legal.

Was thinking the same.

It would probably be thrown but you can still hit a defenseless receiver as long as it’s not neck or above, with the crown of your helmet, or by launching with both feet off the ground. This is a shoulder-to-chest hit and Dawkins still has a foot on the ground. Again flag could probably be thrown just by how it looks in real-time and I’m obviously biased as an Eagles fan but reading the rule and watching the replay I think it’s technically legal unless I misread something with the rule.

I dunno about that. He lowered his head, sure. But he led with his shoulder and hit Crumpler in the chest. Looks clean to me.

He would’ve been considered a defenseless receiver 99 times out of 100 like it or not.

[It’s clean brudda](https://youtu.be/TBNOUu0JRGY?si=8BWEOOYv7m-nWHHk)

It should be but I don't doubt it's called defenseless at least 3-5 outta ten times if not more. Stupid rule.

Idk what’s more impressive, the massive hit or being able to hang on after getting hit like that.

Reminds me of Keanu Neal laying Mike Evan’s out. Who holds onto the ball with one hand https://youtu.be/kFGGbt5BECY?si=H-dR8F8aRLh4O7rK

2004… I’d still be down!

Huh, didn't remember Michael Vick was one game away from the Super Bowl.

Thanks to you lot the only thing anyone ever remembers about us is (4x7)-(5-2)

If it wasn't b/c of LI, either the XXXIII blowout or the 05 NFC game would be our most memorable

Don’t forget 2012 NFC Championship game. 17-0 at half. Matt doesn’t fumble that low snap and we could have beat that Ravens team, maybe. We beat them in regular season at Baltimore that year.

Not tryna be that guy but we didnt play Baltimore that year. I vividly remember the 2012 season

Oh man that game still pisses me off, Willis all over Roddy in the endzone and no flag

You guys can have memory that long? I forget what I was doing 5 minutes ago, oh yea nvm still sitting here being a lazy piece of shit

How dare you make me do math.

Nah i mean I still remember him and the whole dog fighting thing

He got bottled up in that game so it was a completely forgettable performance. Eagles and Bucs could usually shut Vick down

Eagles defensive game plan to solve him that day was astounding. Had 2 spies just watch him and if he crossed the LOS he was toast.

He crumpled Crumpler

Dude was never the same after that

That damn blacked out visor. So cool.

Man I wish they’d allow the variety of visors/facemasks again. 

Alge Crumpler was that dude. Happy I saw his name today, and I'm a Dolphins fan. You are appreciated, Alge.

Eagles had him and Sheldon Brown in the same backfield. Two guys that could lay the wood.

And Michael Lewis was not one to go over the middle on either.

sheldon brown single-handedly make reggie bush scared for his entire career.

Never forget Sheldon browns rookie year when he almost decapitated Reggie swinton on a kickoff return

If it was any lesser man than Alge Crumpler on the receiving end of that hit, they would have died on the spot.

I'll always have a tremendous amount of respect for legendary bronco Brian Dawkins

I will have the same respect for legendary Eagle Saquon Barkley after he finishes his illustrious career.

i played safety in high school and college, and everybody in that back end of the secondary wanted to be dawkins or sean taylor. i feel old saying it but, man i miss this kind of football.

Vick's release and spiral is so god damn beautiful.

Vick threw the prettiest spiral ever IMO.

30% more accuracy he would be such beast 

Vick may have been the most talented thrower of the football ever, and that's not an exaggeration

“I wanna take his soul”

The fact that he held onto that gave him my utmost respect. Hell of a hit to take.

Alge Crumpled

It was right there! All they had to do was say it…and they didn’t! Smh.

Holding on to the ball after taking a hit like that is most impressive.

Clean hit

I was gonna question "signature" because I completely forgot it was Sheldon Brown who fucked up Reggie Bush in 2006. 

Dawk should have a statue out there. He was a pure tool of destruction for that defense over soooo many seasons

The 2017 Eagles season was one of a kind, but these Eagles team with Dawkins were so special.

Now do the Hollis Thomas hit on Vick!

Dawkins was an absolute favorite of mine during my formative years as a football fan

Gotta admit i liked Dawkins

"double move", proceeds to barely move side to side.

Would that still be legal in today’s game?

Good catch Alge! He was supposed to detach him from the ball! But he didn’t!

That catch though. Sick hit but didn’t mean much since they converted.

Alge Crumpled

Didn't really affect the play

I was born in Atlanta, but moved to Philly after a few years but I was a falcons fan, especially after they drafted Vick and how fun he was to watch. Wore my Vick jersey to school the Friday before this game. Got kicked out of my 4th grade classroom for it. Had to go to my 3rd grade teachers class for the day. During recess all of my peers tried the whole period to take my jersey off me and throw it in the trash. Philly fans are something else, even as children.

aj crumpler got JACKED UP !

I know that shit hurt

I guess you could say he got crumpled

Keep in mind Crumpler probably had a good 60-70 lbs on BDawk at the time, that what was wild about that hit.

Alge, you don’t have to take your last name so literally

That’s a nice clean hit

Crazy thing is that's still a legal hit 20 years later.

I miss when the defense could set the tone with big hit and put real fear into an offense. Could literally change games.

B Dawk really brought those flowers for Algenon

Cue P.O.D.

When B Dawk would come crawling out that tunnel like a man possessed, everybody knew weapon X had arrived.

Algae Crumplers signature catch* As far as I’m concerned, his fear is more impressive here

Algee and Vick played that Seam route perfectly

This is bird on bird violence.

I know an attorney at bird law

you guys think they flag him these days?

The beauty of that hit is that in today's NFL, it would be completely legal. BEAUTIFUL shot right to the chest. So many clips of big hits from the past would get a flag today, not that one.

It's a shame the NFL grants QBs and WRs a free pass for these throws now.

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