Fun Mention of Larry Csonka

[cto]

"Mustachioed guy who looked like a plumber"

The NFL’s Unlikeliest Millionaire: He Went to Harvard and Plays Fullback

Fullbacks are going extinct. But Kyle Juszczyk makes more than anyone in the NFL relative to players at the same position. He also explains the unusual way the 49ers play.

www.wsj.com

 

[SU68]

It's a paywall site.

 

[CuseTroop]

I'm still waiting for him to walk into the Red Fox so I can get a picture with him under the Cuse banner.

 

[billorange44]

Best college fullback I ever saw.

 

[cuseguy]

 

[GoSU96]

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So when Tom C goes in, will that be the only college back field with three guys in the PFHOF?

 

[Killdozer]

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Did floyd pee himself

 

[GreekFreak]

I once sat next to Csonka on a flight to Denver; he was headed to Alaska. I recall two things:
1. The guy had the thickest fingers that I ever saw. He let me look at his Super Bowl ring and any two of my fingers would have fit inside that ring.
2. Despite our common SU connection, he mostly just wanted to talk about hunting and fishing. He talked extensively about fishing in the Adirondacks while attending SU.
He was a really nice guy and I am honored to have met him.

 

[WickedOrange]

 

[RF2044]

Six Million Dollar Man = awesome!

 

[kcsu]

He was the most dominant player i ever saw play for SU.

 

[bevosu]

 

[knicks07]

I met Csonka at Twin Trees in 1970 when I was 8 years old. Not only did he spend time talking to me, they took a cardboard pizza round that they cut and decorated into the shape of a football and Larry signed it for me. Good or bad it made me a Dolphins fan for life!

 

[kcsu]

My Father was at Upstate Medical and when i was little would take me with him to work. We would go and watch the team practice when Ben was the coach who my Dad knew. Suffice to say i was hooked for life.

 

[WoadBlue]

Did floyd pee himself

That's what I woindered.

 

[WoadBlue]

I once sat next to Csonka on a flight to Denver; he was headed to Alaska. I recall two things:
1. The guy had the thickest fingers that I ever saw. He let me look at his Super Bowl ring and any two of my fingers would have fit inside that ring.
2. Despite our common SU connection, he mostly just wanted to talk about hunting and fishing. He talked extensively about fishing in the Adirondacks while attending SU.
He was a really nice guy and I am honored to have met him.

I have a friend who got to know Csonka when he played for the Memphis Southmen/Grizzlies of the WFL. He said the same thing, that Csonka wanted to avoid football talk because it would lead to him being praised and that instead he liked to talk about hunting, fishing, growing up,, etc.

 

[Toga]

 

[Briancuse]

I don't know what was better his playing career or that stache?

 

[Dcuse]

Arm wrestled him.

lost.

 

[SU68]

He knocked me on my ass playing touch football in Thorndon Park across from our dorm (Booth) in 1964.

 

[stuckinbig11]

My freshman year, when Zonk was a senior, he was hit at the line and went five more yards. When he stopped, only three of the opponents were not on the pile. Too bad that running backs like that no longer exist.