Speaker 1: Chased Lions running back Alti Taylor into the stands. Taylor
Speaker 1: told a reporter he thought Buckets was overrated. After Taylor
Speaker 1: stepped out of bounds to avoid a hit in the game,
Speaker 1: Buckets kept chasing him all the way to the stands
Speaker 1: of soldier field.
Speaker 2: Dick Buckus dig Buckets, buck As, that was the first
Speaker 2: thing you think of? Right there, Jules, there you are
Speaker 2: is Rambo. Oh look at you, man, I love that
Speaker 2: amo around. Man. You can't prepare, no, bro.
Speaker 1: The blackface now blackface remember in what he put his
Speaker 1: ship on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just that's kind of like I black boy
Speaker 2: on your whole face, so you can blind in the
Speaker 2: woods better.
Speaker 1: First thing I think of about Dick Buckets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the first thing you think of besides an
Speaker 2: inappropriate first name? Well, that's what I know you're thinking of.
Speaker 1: Nah, yeah, I am.
Speaker 2: That's the thing I think of, Like, wow, he must
Speaker 2: have had a huge piece if that's your name. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think his name was Richard and they call people
Speaker 1: Richard Dick. But first thing I think of just old
Speaker 1: school football. Oh he was Richard. Yeah, all right, so
Speaker 1: all Richard's are Dick, You know that, right.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that if you're a Richard, I thought
Speaker 2: Richard's you are Dick. But you can also just be
Speaker 2: named Dick, but not Richard.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think anyone's just named Dick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dick's sporting goods.
Speaker 1: That is that is correct. That is correct.
Speaker 2: But rich Richard sporting goods are yeah. Uh yeah, all
Speaker 2: Richards are Dicks.
Speaker 1: That is correct if you use the nickname.
Speaker 2: I have a good one. I just went I just
Speaker 2: had a monster appearance and my security guy name was
Speaker 2: Richard and he goes, yeah, everyone knows me as a
Speaker 2: monster Dick security monster Dick, and like that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I thought that was cool.
Speaker 1: Sorry, but it goes to the point anyone named Richard
Speaker 1: is Dick.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, my security guard has a
Speaker 2: monster Dick. That's what I was thinking. I'm protective, I'm productive.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you're Richard, yeah you're Dick. Okay back
Speaker 2: to Dick buckets. Look at he's got butt in his
Speaker 2: last name too. I mean, this guy is very scary.
Speaker 2: That is scary. He's tore the offense, fucking the offensive
Speaker 2: lines as he shredded them, Like that's why, that's why.
Speaker 2: Butting his name toiler ass is apart on that football field.
Speaker 1: I mean that is is that a Mount Rushmore or
Speaker 1: football name?
Speaker 2: It might be Zick Buckets. It's top. I mean it's
Speaker 2: one of the top names.
Speaker 1: What are some other big names?
Speaker 2: I mean he also had other nicknames as well. The Animal,
Speaker 2: the Enforcer, the Maystro Maystro of Mayhem. That was me
Speaker 2: as a kid, by the way, Like, well, how we
Speaker 2: were just talking about me dressing up as that was
Speaker 2: the Maystrow of Mayhem. Oh and the Robot of Destruction.
Speaker 2: Oh that was also me too, walking into rooms and
Speaker 2: just me being on the field as a kid. Me
Speaker 2: and Dick are very similar.
Speaker 1: Do you ever meet him?
Speaker 2: Have I ever met him?
Speaker 1: He's not alive anymore, is he? He died recently the
Speaker 1: last like five years.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever got to meet him.
Speaker 2: I never got to meet him either, But I was
Speaker 2: just watching some highlight films with him man, and I
Speaker 2: just love the way that he plays and he has
Speaker 2: to be one of those first true linebackers where it's
Speaker 2: like he's huge, yeah, like being that size and huge exactly.
Speaker 2: He looked bigger than offensive linemen. He looked bigger than
Speaker 2: defensive lineman. I love the way that he wore his
Speaker 2: shoulder pads. It made him just look even bigger than
Speaker 2: everyone else because they were like stocky. He was like
Speaker 2: he was. He wore those full back shoulder pads a
Speaker 2: little bit, but at the linebacker position. But what I
Speaker 2: really loved about his game is that he ran after
Speaker 2: the ball carrier like there was no one else in
Speaker 2: his way, Like he would just run. A lineman would
Speaker 2: come and block him, but it's like he could see
Speaker 2: through the lineman. He could run right through the lineman.
Speaker 2: He can avoid that lineman that's coming out, and he
Speaker 2: would get to the ball carrier. Every single time someone
Speaker 2: falls on the ground in front of him. Somehow, even
Speaker 2: though he's staring at the ball carreer, he would leap
Speaker 2: over the guy that's on the ground instead of tripping
Speaker 2: over him. It's like nothing was stopping him from getting
Speaker 2: to that ball carrier. And that's what defines a great
Speaker 2: legendary linebacker is a see ball carrier, get the ball carrier.
Speaker 1: Tackle ball carrier.
Speaker 2: And that was Dick Buckus. And that's why he was
Speaker 2: one of the scariest guys to block, because it's so
Speaker 2: hard the block a guy that their motive is just
Speaker 2: to get the tackle, because they can just swoop right
Speaker 2: around you, run through you. They just don't see you.
Speaker 2: Jules No.
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen some highlights of him where he
Speaker 1: just literally four like doesn't I've seen him close arm
Speaker 1: people like that was The game back then was basically
Speaker 1: just like murder on a field. It was like these
Speaker 1: guys were poking each other's eyeballs, freaking. It was just
Speaker 1: a completely different game. And whenever you talk to anyone
Speaker 1: of like who's his storian of this game, they always
Speaker 1: talk about Dick Buckets. And we even said it, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about him sixty years later. His impact on the
Speaker 1: game was clearly insane. They say he had a four
Speaker 1: to five forty back then at two forty five. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just crazy. He's hard nosed, had speed and range,
Speaker 1: was able to cover sideline to sideline. The sideline to
Speaker 1: sideline that was because of Dick Buckets, you know, that's
Speaker 1: where they got the term sideline to sideline. And it
Speaker 1: was pretty cool that he played his whole football career
Speaker 1: in the state of Illinois. You know, he went to
Speaker 1: University Illinois, played for the Bears, and he's a legend.
Speaker 1: He's just an absolute legend. He played with the ferocity
Speaker 1: of an angered animal. Hall of Fame coach George Allen
Speaker 1: on Buckus. The first time I saw Buckus, I started
Speaker 1: packing my gear. There was no way that guy wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be great. Bill George Buckus's predecessor at linebacker
Speaker 1: for the Bears.
Speaker 2: This is one of my favorite quotes right here by
Speaker 2: Bears center Mike Pile. Yes, yes, and just trying to
Speaker 2: get Buckets to go easier in practice, because I kind
Speaker 2: of did this sometimes like brother in law, that brother
Speaker 2: in law in practice, and I did it plenty of times,
Speaker 2: especially with Ninko. I gotta give credit to Ninkovic. I mean,
Speaker 2: he wasn't a great cover guy. You know, he's he's
Speaker 2: kind of mind boggled every single day as well. But
Speaker 2: this guy has slow center of gravity, Ninkovic, and it
Speaker 2: was so hard to block him. He had so much power.
Speaker 2: So I always tried to become buddies with him, because Buddy,
Speaker 2: I wanted to, you know, be one hundred percent for
Speaker 2: games on Sunday, and I just can't pole my head
Speaker 2: against Nikovic every day. I already knew that, but so
Speaker 2: this is a trick I liked by Mike Pile because
Speaker 2: I try to butter up Ninkovic. Is that I spent
Speaker 2: all this money buying him dinner and beer and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, so he wouldn't take it out on me
Speaker 2: in the scrimmages like that just explains how good Dick
Speaker 2: Bucket was and how hard he played.
Speaker 1: But do not put Ninkovich in the same sentence. But
Speaker 1: absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I was just putting him in the same sentence. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're both from Illinois, and how I just buttered up
Speaker 2: Ninkos just because that's the only skill he had, was
Speaker 2: coming off the line and trying to hit me. No,
Speaker 2: I just no, what do you mean that? No, I
Speaker 2: just give him credit. He rags on us twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't get all little Nico too bad.
Speaker 2: He might, Yeah he might cry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might get all sad.
Speaker 2: I'll hang out with him next week. He did. He
Speaker 2: had more skills than just coming off the line. He
Speaker 2: actually had over fifty sacks in his career.
Speaker 1: He did. We hear about it every time. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: We do the most forced fumble or the most fumble
Speaker 1: recoveries or something.
Speaker 2: I've and the most underpaid white line defensive ever ever play.
Speaker 1: But no, who wasn't under Well, Dick Buckets was probably
Speaker 1: underpaid too.
Speaker 2: Back three hundred dollars a game, he really did, Yeah,
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1: Did he have a job out of the season. Probably,
Speaker 1: That's how That's how it was back then. Remember we
Speaker 1: did the Remember we did the day? Were you there
Speaker 1: with Coach Belichick? Where we did the day where we
Speaker 1: were supposed to be from like the thirties or something
Speaker 1: or the forties where they took out like all the
Speaker 1: breakfast and they just gave you coffee and like cereal
Speaker 1: and like people were smoking cigarettes in practice and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Do you see that You
Speaker 1: remember that day?
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I wonder what year that was. We did like a
Speaker 1: time lapse thing. It was like a time lapse team
Speaker 1: building day where we were going to see how it
Speaker 1: was back in the day when.
Speaker 2: I think you were a rookie when this happened and
Speaker 2: I wasn't on the team yet.
Speaker 1: No, maybe it was the year you left or you retired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wasn't there for it.
Speaker 1: You weren't that one. It was. It was pretty crazy
Speaker 1: that they lived like that.
Speaker 2: Well, let's get back to Dick Buckets. Okay. He made
Speaker 2: a media impact his rookie season. Five interceptions, seven fumble recoveries,
Speaker 2: and I just love the way when he picked up
Speaker 2: the ball he would just go full speed as well
Speaker 2: full speed and become a ball carrier. He was just
Speaker 2: so great to watch. He was entertaining. He had an
Speaker 2: incredible career at Illinois's All American play center and linebacker.
Speaker 2: I mean he had the size, Like I said, he
Speaker 2: was bigger than these offensive line at the time.
Speaker 1: He looks like a football player. He does he is.
Speaker 2: He's the definition of all football player.
Speaker 1: One of the first guys to wear a bull ring,
Speaker 1: I think too, was he one of that that was
Speaker 1: like that's he made the bull ring for middle linebacker.
Speaker 1: That was like a if you were a badass middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: you had the bull ring. And I think it was
Speaker 1: because of Dick Buckis.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy. Nineteen seventy were talking a year after
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine. I don't know why I just brought
Speaker 2: that up. I just just kind of felt like I
Speaker 2: should have just popped up on your number. He signed
Speaker 2: a multi year contract extension that remained in Chicago and
Speaker 2: the contract. The contract raised a salary from fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars per year to around eighty thousand to one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars per year, or we're talking a complete football player,
Speaker 2: and he was just making one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: But one hundred thousand dollars back in nineteen seventy yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: It was probably like two million now.
Speaker 1: Maybe something like that. We don't rob probably did the math.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was about two million. Now that it's about
Speaker 2: two million right there. He's so huge, all right, he
Speaker 2: was fine. He had money.
Speaker 1: They didn't even keep probably have to pay for.
Speaker 2: A single thing though, in the state of Illinois. No,
Speaker 2: this guy, even his center was buying him beer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy didn't have to pay for a thing. Hey,
Speaker 2: do you think he could have covered you jewels? No? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know I was watching him cover guys he got.
Speaker 2: Back in those days, they didn't really have the athletics.
Speaker 1: Say if he got his hands on me, yeah, he
Speaker 1: could have.
Speaker 2: Kind of liked you.
Speaker 1: They probably with his he would have like probably like
Speaker 1: just tackled.
Speaker 2: Me, yeah, exactly, and that would have been allowed. But
Speaker 2: because he would have only had to tackle you in
Speaker 2: order to cover you. But we smoked him back in
Speaker 2: the day. I saw him in coverage. But I love
Speaker 2: But why wouldn't say we would smoke him in the
Speaker 2: In the run game, I think, no run right through us.
Speaker 2: But man, in the past game, I'd give it to us.
Speaker 1: Chased Lions running back ALTI Taylor into the stands. That's
Speaker 1: how scary this joker is. Taylor told a reporter he
Speaker 1: thought Buckets was overrated. After Taylor stepped out of bounds
Speaker 1: to avoid a hit in the game, Buckets kept chasing
Speaker 1: him all the way to the stands of Soldier Field.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it time Dick buckus airy player.
Speaker 1: And rest in peace to Dick. He he passed away
Speaker 1: a few years ago and we're talking about him to
Speaker 1: this day. One of the founding followers of this league.
Speaker 2: And thank you to Dick Buckets for, you know, setting
Speaker 2: the standard of what it is to be a football player,
Speaker 2: not an athlete out there and be a freak of nature,
Speaker 2: a football player just going out there and dominating on
Speaker 2: the football field. Thank you, Dick.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could probably be a bunch of these things.
Speaker 1: He was such a huge dude, ran four or five.
Speaker 1: Obviously has dog tendencies, but I think it's one thing
Speaker 1: when you look at him, it.
Speaker 2: Just just stands out. And like, what I really like
Speaker 2: about him as well, is that stash that he has.
Speaker 2: That stash just stands out to me and just made
Speaker 2: him that much more scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all kind of duties on three one two three.
Speaker 2: Stud Yeah, he's got his center buying him beers. Uh,
Speaker 2: he got that stash that I just brought up. I
Speaker 2: got to bring it up again because we didn't talk
Speaker 2: about it at all. I mean, just the way he
Speaker 2: can go from sideline to sideline.
Speaker 1: And he's been he's been the role model for every
Speaker 1: middle linebacker since. Like everyone talks about dick buckets, ray
Speaker 1: Lewis talks about dick buckets like Fred Warner probably talks
Speaker 1: about dick buckets. I don't know if he does, but
Speaker 1: probably probably probably because that's how studily he was