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Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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and play against The Tigers through the years? I'll start with Boomer Esiason (Maryland) and Deion Sanders (FSU)
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Lawrence Taylor
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Matty Ice
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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H walker
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Hershel Walker
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:05 PM
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George Rogers and Charlie Ward a couple other Heisman winners. No recall if Weinke visited. Julius Peppers one of most dominant (Clowney and Gilmore obviously got into Tahj’s head - flip them to us we probably win all those games)
Calvin Johnson, Herman Moore, Peter Warrick, Dunn, Peter Boulware, NCSU receiver who starred w great Rams teams (Horn?) - probably a lot more Seminoles too, all studs
Add Alston Jeffries, Sterling Sharpe and Ryan Bethea as impressive gamecocks
Lots of greats, but thankfully more on our side most games
Ask same of basketball and the list is nearly endless
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:08 PM
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Lamar Jackson another Heisman winner we got the best of
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:19 PM
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Lamar won the Heisman that night. Man amongst boys.
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:34 PM
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Don’t forget all the NFL’s during the Panthers inaugural season
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 20, 2023, 5:24 AM
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I remember Holt lighting us up in the valley as a kid
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Crab legs
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Tyrod Taylor and Lawrence Taylor***
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Lawrence "Let's just go out there like a bunch of rabid DOGS" Taylor.
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:30 PM
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He was disruptive in college, but nothing compared to the monster he became in the NFL. He was about as unstoppable for a few years there as any defensive player I have ever seen. He could just single handedly disrupt an entire team's offense.
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Boomer
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 5:54 PM
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Hard to believe that Maryland had Boomer Esiason, Frank Reich, and Stand Gelbaugh on the roster at the same time.
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 5:56 PM
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Boomer was tough and that year they screwed us out the ACC championship
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Lamar Jackson. i'm not old enough to have seen the others
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Lamar is the most athletic player i have ever seen play the game
Calvin Johnson is up there too
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Bruce Smith (VA TECH)
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 20, 2023, 6:09 AM
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Roman Gabriel - qb NC State, played nfl Rams
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Hunter Renfrow!!!!
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 5:58 PM
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Ronde and Tiki Barber
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:00 PM
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Kenny "The Snake" Stabler. R/TLM
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Ken Stabler
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:01 PM
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Bruce Smith
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Dylan Thompson***
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A Legend in his Own Mind, maybe.
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:31 PM
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He had a shining moment for the Coots against us, can't take it away from him. That was about the extent of his fame, though.
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:03 PM
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Phillip Rivers (NCSU)
Russell Wilson (NCSU)
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:06 PM
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Doug Flutie
Bruce Smith
Lawrence Taylor
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:33 PM
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Doug Flutie was a complete unknown when he came to Death Valley but after tying us at home and whipping us in Boston in 1983 he hail Maryd Miami in the Orange Bowl in 1984 to win the Heisman. I was sitting on the Hill wondering why we couldn’t tackle that little Johnny try hard in 1982.
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Luke Kuechly
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:08 PM
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No Fridge love?
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:14 PM
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I’m taking it as opponents coming in. Otherwise I have a very long list lol!
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:12 PM
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Not Death Valley, but got to mention John Heisman.
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Jerry Rice, Steve Young, Jerome Bettis and other NFLers in 1995
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:17 PM
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I know you meant the most famous to come into Death Valley and played against Clemson, but let's not forget the inaugural season of the Carolina Panthers was in Death Valley for all their home games.
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Re: Jerry Rice, Steve Young, Jerome Bettis and other NFLers in 1995
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:18 PM
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The sad part about that is they’ve never drafted a Clemson player.
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Herschel Walker and George Rogers were probably the most famous
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:21 PM
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running backs. And of course, we never let either one of them into our end zone.
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Spencer Rattler
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:21 PM
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Said no one ever. Lol
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Desean Watson, Trevor Lawrence, William Perry, Brian Dawkins, Prime
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Notre Dame’s Ross Browner.
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Doug of the Flutie, he of the Hail Mary.
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Oct 19, 2023, 6:27 PM
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It was 1982, and not many people had yet heard of him. They would. BC tied us, and people were laughing at us because of it. He made a believer out of a whole lot of other teams, not just us.
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and he caught a pass.
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Past Sullivan, Randy White, and Andy Dalton
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GENO'S MOM
Oct 19, 2023, 8:07 PM
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She got it going on with all the boyz...
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Randy White-Maryland
Pat Sullivan-Auburn
Danny Ford-Alabama
Joe Montana-ND (Maybe)
Lawrence Taylor-NC
Bill Stanfield-Georgia
Jake Scott-Georgia
To name a few besides the obvious ones
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Pat Sullivan, Auburn
Some great concert “players”
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Clowney
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Famous to Clemson folks was no less than Danny Ford
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Oct 20, 2023, 4:40 AM
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on Bear Bryant's team in the late 60's.
Of course, I knew nothing about him then, but I was on the sidelines and saw Howard and Bryant chatting on our side. A famous exchange between the two arose afterwards: Howard said, "Bear, if I had your team, we woulda won this game." Bryant retorted, "Frank, if I had your team, we'd be national champions!" lol
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Re: Famous to Clemson folks was no less than Danny Ford
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1967 Bama won 13-10 and we missed 3 field goals
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Mick Jagger
Elton John
Bono
Billy Joel
(Okay, they didn’t play against the Tigers. But, they played in Death Valley.) 😛
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Re: Who were some of the most famous players to come into Death Valley
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Montana
Deion
Hershel
LT
In that order
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