Well if we are talking comedy gold Morris Stroud damn well better make the list.

KC used to line him up under the goal posts to block FG before they made a rule against it (The Morris Stroud rule???). Great fried chicken though.

Well, thank you Jim. I think Alt is a fraud. He was decent but injured all the time with back problems. Can't sniff a bunch of other Chiefs O Linemen.

I remember it well, and if people think Snoop Minnis had a ridiculous neck and was a stick they should have seen Stroud.

Not saying they didn't but I don't remember them making any rule against it. It just didn't work with Stroud. He never batted down a single kick.

Darnell Alford, Taje Allen, William Bartee, Jason Baker, and Jason Belser

No he didn't. But he put the fear in them so they had to make a rule.

(Strangling noises.) Alt? John Alt? The anchor of our line for a decade?

I know that he missed most of his first few seasons with the back problems, but I don't remember him missing much (or any) time after he finally got onto the field. Am I remembering wrong?

I do remember that he came to us in the first round, via a pick that we received by trading all-pro CB Gary Green. (Green and Barbaro were the nucleus of a pretty good secondary, by the way.) Then Alt got hurt and missed his first couple of seasons. I was disgusted and put him down as a bust right next to Brian Jozwiak. Then all of a sudden Alt reappeared, and didn't relinquish the LT spot for ten years.

I wonder how many kicks were ever blocked in that manner. I know that it happened at least once. I think it was R.C. Owens, but I could be wrong. I don't know if it happened more than once, though.

No Okoye or Thomas, no vote! :cuss:

I would've included them if their names were Bokoye and Bhomas. Their turn will come, though.

He's not through with college yet. I think some of his coursework next semester (in his 10th year of college) includes alphebetical order.

OK, I admit I had to google RC Owens. Cool story. But RC blocked his field goal in 1962. It wasn't until
Morris "Too Tall" Stroud appeard on the scene that the NFL banned the goal tending in the NFL in the 1970s

Professional football player R.C. Owens nicknamed Alley Oop was considered one of the greatest leapers in NFL history. His jumping skills were so considerable that in addition to football he was also an accomplished athlete in both basketball and the high jump. In the high jump, in fact, he recorded a jump of nearly seven feet.

With this in mind, Owens and some of his teammates came up with the idea that Owens might be a formidable field goal blocker, only not in the traditional sense. They reasoned that longer field goals, if they make it at all, usually just miss the crossbar. So Owens decided to try blocking the attempt, not at the line of scrimmage, but in the end zone at the crossbar.

In 1962, Owens, playing for the Baltimore Colts, stood in the end zone and blocked a 40-plus yard field goal attempt by Bob Khayat of the Washington Redskins by leaping in the air and flipping the ball away as it was about to eke over the crossbar.

His victory was short-lived, because not long after, the NFL changed the rule and made this kind of block illegal. It's a good thing, too, otherwise modern fans might be putting up with high-flying basketball player, Dennis Rodman, through two sports seasons.

I must admit that I went a slightly different route. To me, Bell, Alt, and Barbaro were obvious choices, and then I went with Arbanas as well.

However, I picked Anders over Marcus Allen. One cannot underestimate Allen's value in short yardage situations, but he only made one pro bowl as a Chief, compared to three for Anders. Anders also gained more yards as a Chief (though that happened over more seasons). I must admit that I also still harbor a bit of a grudge against Marcus for keeping Greg Hill on the bench, even though that was completely Marty's fault, and for retiring with no notice, leaving KC in a lurch.

Anders was class all the way. It was painful seeing him go down in his first game as a feature back, after destroying Denver. I saw him go down on the snap with no one near him, and knew it was going to be bad.

Yeah. Anders is the man. I couldn't bring myself to vote for Allen's limited role in KC. That doesn't outweigh Ander's decade of committment. Not even close for me.