Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Sammy Baugh died on Wednesday at the age of 94 in Lubbock, Texas...some consider Baugh the greatest quarterback who ever played the game...Baugh starred for TCU and later went on to quarterback the Washington Redskins...
Frank Luksa, a former sports columnist for The Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News, writes how Baugh was the last link to old-time football... "He belonged to a world that vanished. A faster, more complex and less personal world replaced the one he knew. It left him linked to a time so distant that his deeds appear carved on a cave wall alongside pictures of prehistoric bison." ...
Joe Holley and Bart Barnes of the Washington Post write how Sammy Baugh was the NFL's first true gunslinger... "More than a half-century later, sportswriter Dan Jenkins called him "the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro." Jenkins, a Fort Worth native, saw Baugh play at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and as the Redskins quarterback." ...
Kevin Sherrington of the Dallas Morning News writes about Baugh... "He was such a good athlete that, in 1943, he led the NFL in passing, punting and interceptions. He also briefly played professional baseball, his first love." ...
Below is a 44 second clip about Sammy Baugh...
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