How About Some Love for Johnny Robinson?

[gblowfish]

KC will most likely have TWO guys go into the Pro Football HOF this year. Gonzo is a lock. The veterans committee have narrowed in on Chiefs Great Johnny Robinson, our free safety who played for 11 years in a great secondary. He covered Alworth, and Biletnikoff, and Don Maynard, and Warren Wells and a host of other great AFL receivers. He was the Texans first round draft pick out of LSU in 1960. Chose the Chiefs over the Detroit Lions who picked him in the NFL Draft. His first season he played offense as a flanker, then was moved to defense and played free safety. He was one of the greatest defensive backs in the history of pro football, but has been overlooked up to this year. Look at these accomplishments:
Super Bowl champion (SB IV)
Pro Bowl (1970)
First-team All-Pro (1970)
NFL interceptions leader (1970)
3× AFL champion (1962, 1966, 1969)
6× AFL All-Star (1963–1968)
5× First-team All-AFL (1965–1969)
2× Second-team All-AFL (1963, 1964)
AFL interceptions leader (1966)
AFL All-Time Team
Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Honor
First-team All-SEC (1958) LSU (his team) won the National Championship.

He was also one of only 20 players who played every season the AFL existed. He played in Super Bowl IV with broken ribs. His last game as a Chief was the Miami Double OT Playoff game in 1971. He got hurt and retired after that game. This one really impresses me: He intercepted in all three AFL championship games and Super Bowl IV for Chiefs victories. The winningest player in American Football League history, his team never lost to the Raiders, Chargers, Oilers, Broncos, Patriots, Jets or Dolphins when Robinson made an interception.

If he gets picked, he'll join Culp, Buchanan, Lanier, Bell and Thomas to be the sixth guy off that defense to make the Pro Football HOF. You can put that defense up against the 85 Bears or Steel Curtain. It was amazing. Here's a picture from Robinson's rookie season as a flanker (#42) with Cotton Davidson #19 the Chiefs first QB. This is against the Buffalo Bills in Dallas. Buffalo wore silver and blue then, because Ralph Wilson, their owner, was a part owner of the Detroit Lions before he got the Bills, and patterned their uniforms after the Lions. Paul Brown did the same thing with the Cincinnati Bengals. He came from the Cleveland Browns, and copied Cleveland's uniforms for the Bengals.

[Rain Man]

I've never seen those Buffalo uniforms before.

[Hydrae]

Very cool, thanks for sharing this!

[KChiefs1]

One of my all-time favorites.

[big nasty kcnut]

Yeah i think the defense johnny robinson came from need a few more players in the hall.

[gblowfish]

Guy was bad ass. He was my Grandma Cookie's favorite player because she loved the LSU Tigers, and he played on the 1958 Championship team. He played Superbowl IV with three broken ribs. Imagine that in today's NFL. He would have never been allowed to suit up. And, he's served Louisiana with a Boy's Home for the last 38 years, doing good for his home folks. Just a sterling guy. Shame he's had to wait so long to be honored. Story from the KC Star is here:

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/sp...216900215.html

[scho63]

I used to pretend to be him when I intercepted a pass playing football in the neighborhood back in the early 70's.

Also pretended to be Ed Podolak when rushing.

[Al Czervik]

Loved Johnny R.......
Wore 42 for many of my football years growing up!!!!

[ChiTown]

I won't rest until Otis Taylor's bust rests in Canton.

[MatriculatingHank]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I won't rest until Otis Taylor's bust rests in Canton.

It will probably take his death and them feeling remorseful.
Sad but true...

[oldman]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I won't rest until Otis Taylor's bust rests in Canton.

Agreed. It's a travesty that OT isn't in the Hall.
But that is great news about Johnny. He should have been there long ago.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Guy was bad ass. He was my Grandma Cookie's favorite player because she loved the LSU Tigers, and he played on the 1958 Championship team. He played Superbowl IV with three broken ribs. Imagine that in today's NFL. He would have never been allowed to suit up. And, he's served Louisiana with a Boy's Home for the last 38 years, doing good for his home folks. Just a sterling guy. Shame he's had to wait so long to be honored. Story from the KC Star is here:

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/sp...216900215.html

This is why we love you George. Your grandma's name was "Cookie".

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

This is why we love you George. Your grandma's name was "Cookie".

My dad's mom's nickname was Cookie. She was born in a shack with no electricity or running water near Rock Port, MO. She was a school teacher, then married my Grandpa Jim who was a right handed pitcher and played for the Kansas City Streetcar Company (now the KC ATA). She became a home maker had four kids (my dad was second oldest) and she helped my Aunt Margaret study and graduate from CMSU (now Univ of Central MO). Margaret was the first in the family to graduate college in the late 1960s. Grandma Cookie used to babysit my sister and me when we were little in Raytown. She used to like to listen to WHB and we'd get the Top 40 countdown at Katz Drug every week. She loved Pepsi Cola, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, the Royals and Chiefs. And Johnny Robinson was her favorite player.

[R Clark]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

My dad's mom's nickname was Cookie. She was born in a shack with no electricity or running water near Rock Port, MO. She was a school teacher, then married my Grandpa Jim who was a right handed pitcher and played for the Kansas City Streetcar Company (now the KC ATA). She became a home maker had four kids (my dad was second oldest) and she helped my Aunt Margaret study and graduate from CMSU (now Univ of Central MO). Margaret was the first in the family to graduate college in the late 1960s. Grandma Cookie used to babysit my sister and me when we were little in Raytown. She used to like to listen to WHB and we'd get the Top 40 countdown at Katz Drug every week. She loved Pepsi Cola, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, the Royals and Chiefs. And Johnny Robinson was her favorite player.

Sounds like a fine woman with good taste.and pretty cool gma

[Al Czervik]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I won't rest until Otis Taylor's bust rests in Canton.

THIS......Absolutely