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Originally Posted by Skip Towne
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.
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(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.