Gone too soon...
Here is Larry Allen bench pressing 700 pounds. It’s a moment that is still talked about in the halls of the Dallas Cowboys.#DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/nuTidXD0TY
— Nick Harris (@NickHarrisDC) June 3, 2024
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Larry Allen still has one of the most impressive plays in NFL History
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) June 3, 2024
RIP pic.twitter.com/n831e22Z4t
Hated him because he was a cowboy, but he was one of the finest offensive lineman to ever play the game.
Wow....way too young.
RIP sir.
Like everybody else I hated him because of the Cowboys. He had the perfect skill set for the offense he played in. Not a great passblocker but after punishing his opponent for eight or nine plays running plays they often didn't want to get hit by him.
Wasn't he the one who said something about we got us a little whore house down there where we run some hookers in and out?
I don't want to say anything too bad about the guy, but I will say I watched a 1-armed, 1-legged Reggie White lift him OFF HIS FEET on a pass rush!
For me, to this day, it remains the most amazing play I've ever seen in football.
1st play in this clip, and wait for the slowmo replay!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uYNUOA7LU4A
That bench press is even more impressive given the length of his arms, a narrower grip, and he isn't arching his back 3 feet off the bench when he does it.
@Timmy! posted:I don't want to say anything too bad about the guy, but I will say I watched a 1-armed, 1-legged Reggie White lift him OFF HIS FEET on a pass rush!
For me, to this day, it remains the most amazing play I've ever seen in football.
1st play in this clip, and wait for the slowmo replay!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uYNUOA7LU4A
He had an incredible instinct for identifying that moment when an OL had one of his feet off the ground - that's when he'd launch him. He would set them up with an outside move or fake to get the OL to have to move his feet to the side and in the process of the OL lifting the one foot to adjust to Reggie's angle, he'd get tossed.
Way too young to go. When this popped up on my phone yesterday they had him in his 40's. I was wondering how that was possible. Then later I saw he was 52.
Dallas sure could find some freakishly athletic big men back in the Jimmy Johnson days.