RIP Paul Hornung

[Bama fan]

Notre Dame football great, NFL mvp, and Green Bay Packer star dies at 84.

 

[oldude]

Sigh.....

Yet another star from my youth passes away. The only football player in history to win the Heisman Trophy while playing for a losing team (2-8).

 

[Ozimoto]

 

[Scud49]

So many from my youth are passing, it's almost like every other day now. A good Air Force friend last week, Tommy Heinsohn a few days ago. One of the challenges of getting older is upon me...and us. RIP Paul Hornung, you were indeed a great one.

 

[Skeets]

I'd hit the "like" button, but that just doesn't feel right. Not a criticism for those who did. I understand.

 

[j66kicker]

“Money won is always better than money earned.”

R.I.P. Paul

 

[JellyBean]

Good Lord!! 2020 sucks!! RIP, Paul

 

[Bama fan]

“Money won is always better than money earned.”

R.I.P. Paul

Fast Eddie Felson agreed with Paul on that.

 

[Sonny44]

One of the great ones!

 

[msf22b]

What an amazing, talented halfback...and personality

 

[Centerstream]

Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor and Bart Starr - what a backfield (even though I was a Browns fan in the 60s)!!!!!

 

[Steelerone]

Ah man, it just keeps coming and coming. I followed the Packers very closely in the sixties after Vince Lombardi took over. Not sure how many players from his Packers teams made the Hall Of Fame but I think they had to add some space. I know a lot of younger fans probably have to ask who Paul Hornug was but to anyone who was a fan of either college or pro football in that era he was truly the "Golden Boy". Maybe there has at some time been a better running backs tandem than Hornung and Taylor but it escapes me right now. He as also one of the very few players in the history of the game who was a full fledged starter and full time kicker. RIP Paul Hornung.

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[oldude]

Ah man, it just keeps coming and coming. I followed the Packers very closely in the sixties after Vince Lombardi took over. Not sure how many players from his Packers teams made the Hall Of Fame but I think they had to add some space. I know a lot of younger fans probably have to ask who Paul Hornug was but to anyone who was a fan of either college or pro football in that era he was truly the "Golden Boy". Maybe there has at some time been a better running backs tandem than Hornung and Taylor but it escapes me right now. He as also one of the very few players in the history of the game who was a full fledged starter and full time kicker. RIP Paul Hornung.

In answer to your question, there are 11 Green Bay Packers from that era in The Pro Football HOF, plus HC Vince Lombardi. The players are as follows:

Paul Hornung - HB
Jim Taylor - FB
Bart Starr - QB
Jim Ringo - C
Jerry Kramer - OG
Forrest Gregg - OT
Willie Davis - DE
Henry Jordan - DT
Ray Nitschke - LB
Willie Wood - CB
Herb Adderly - S

 

[FanHam]

I got his autograph in 1963 in the New Orleans airport. I was just a kid. It was suffocatingly hot and he was loading golf clubs and some bags into a car trunk. My family was appalled at my audacity, but he immediately stopped what he was doing, signed, and could not have been more pleasant.

He was a great football player. His broadcast career proved he was charming, witty and insightful.

Always one of my faves, though I was neither an Irish fan nor a Packer fan.

R.I.P., Mr. Hornung.

 

[husky8273]

always wonder if Lombardi would have had the same success if the Giants had named him HC.....the Giants missed the playoffs from '64-'81.

 

[MilfordHusky]

I wasn’t a N.D. fan and had mixed feelings on the Packers (because I was a Giants fan at the time), but I have to recognize that the Golden Boy was one of the most versatile players ever. He could run with the ball, catch the ball, and kick PATs and FGs. No one else has done that.