Packers' 1968 first-round pick and ten-year LB dies at 71. Poor guy had the great bad luck to be signed by the Packers immediately after the glory years.
Either I'm getting older, or they're dying younger. 
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Fred was one of my favorites. We used the same number. 53 ruled.
Fred was all over the field, made lots of plays in the dark years....RIP
Fred Carr, Dave Robinson and Jim Carter as a LB corps anchored the NFC's #1 defense in '72, and the NFL's #2 defense that year behind only the Super Bowl Champion Dolphins. Closest I felt we ever came to having another Fred Carr was Wayne Simmons. Loved Fred Carr. 71 is too young to go.
Fred Carr...the only car that hits like a truck
Never missed a game while in Titletown !!! Nick, you are not worthy to wear that number.
RatPack posted:Fred was one of my favorites. We used the same number. 53 ruled.
Curling teams assign numbers?
If Carr were a curling player, the floor would be swept, mopped, waxed, and shined as those stones were pushed down the floor. And he would have done all that in half the time it took the other team to think about sweeping the stone once.
RIP Fred.
I always marveled at how athletic Carr was , a Bobby Wagner type player, in todays game Carr would need two armored cars to take home the money he would make with those skills!
I only have a vague memory of Fred Carr and it is mostly from the old coke bottle caps in the 70's that had pictures of Packers players on the inside of the cap.
What I do remember about him was how physical he was.
Correct me if I am mistaken, but, back in the day, wasn't Fred Carr the LB who was really good at busting up screen plays? If memory serves me, he was always beating the lead blockers and getting to the ball carrier. I know he was a playmaker for the Packers, all over the field, but when I saw this thread, pictures of him knifing through screen play blockers came to mind.
What a blast from the past. Yeah, he was a good one.
Rest in peace, Mr Carr.
I started watching the Packers in 1978 so I missed getting to see Carr by 1 season. I did have a football card of his though that I am sure is either long lost or buried in a box somewhere.
Sadly, the Packers' LB that was mentioned the most by the kids my age on the playgrounds at that time in the late '70s was Mike Hunt. Fred Carr barely got a mention.
Really good player on some teams that weren't.
RIP
Great take by Cliff: http://www.packers.com/news-an...4f-b53a-7aac6e25b6fc
Late to the comments...was vacationing.
RIP Fred. His cards came very late in my collection . "Intercepted an aerial" still has an air of old school card back comments.
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RIP Mr. Carr. Met and hung out with him and Marv Fleming at a Left Guard somewhere near Madtown back in early 1970, maybe 1969 (hey, I was in 4th or 5th grade). I was ivory, my BFF, ebony. His mom was smoking hot. I always thought she was friends with those guys. No one else was there to shake their hands that day, felt pretty special. She arranged it I'm sure, clearly I thought she was Mother of the Year. And even if that's not how it went down, that's how it went down. Developed an addiction to Shirley Temples that day, too. Somewhere my plain old t-shirt, autographed by those two greats that day, beckons me.