I'd rank the following as the most feared defensive players of all-time, at their prime, when they played (in no particular order):

Butkus
Dick Nighttrain Lane
Ronnie Lott
Ray Lewis
Joe Greene
Willie Brown
LT
Reggie White and that crazy head slap
Deion Sanders (not because he could hit you, but because he was a ball hawk)
Ed Reed (same as with Sanders - total ball hawk who embarassed quarterbacks and offensive coordinators for a decade)

And Anthony Munoz. No one ever shows love to the hogs. So even though an OL, he makes my list because no one was ever greater.

He may have played some OLB in some packages, but he's far better known as an outstanding ILB and his performance at that position is what will land him in the HOF.

Urlacher isn't even the Bear's best ever middle LB.

Butkus was better. So too was Mike Singletary. Both exceed Urlacher.

And then there are better middle linebackers in history too (including Butkus and Singletary).

Lambert
Ray Lewis
Nitschke
Sam Huff
Seau
Willie Lanier


But Urlacher is certainly one of the top 20 middle linebackers of all time.

Would read and likely LOL. BigCyp is a man I would buy a beer for in the pub and then laugh as he shames me with verbal assaults.

Kevin Costner and Mark Messier flanking an in-shape Mike Francois there. Nice.

From Branson's personal vintage, no doubt. I would expect nothing less from such a discerning gentleman. Tip 'o the cap to you, good sir.

I would prefer if getbig were just threads and posted started by, and written only by, Tapeworm.

Solid posting worthy of applause.

Nothing will bring that poor little girl back. But justice has been done. At least the liberal limp-wristed justice system will never have the chance to let this animal out so he can do that to another innocent child again.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Mosaic tile backsplash and granite countertops complete the before & after.

Shitty kitchen to great kitchen!

Relevant bump is relevant.

LOL! I embrace my inner nerd.

Well I'd geek out and go see it.

I'm more a DC than Marvel fan, though.

The DC Universe Online trailer makes me geek out. Although, there's no way the flash gets killed the way he does, but whatever...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nf-m6WGl4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nf-m6WGl4</a>

But they'd need a killer villain to do battle against. Doomsday would seem most appropriate, under the control of Brainiac! But I think they're saving Doomsday for one of the next installments of the Man of Steel series, similar to how the ended the Batman/Knight trilogy.

Not a fan of soccer. But, all of my best friends are italian or croatian. So I don't have a choice when I go over to their house.

It's smoked ham, cheese, grappa, and UEFA

Strong work. Tell me you wrote this.

Sorry man. I lol'd at this. The de-facto way to humiliate a getbigger has now become to get a photo of the target, and shop pics of tbombz into said photo. I can't explain, but I'm just laughing.

Get the car detailed. Those scratches should buff right out.

LOL'd.

A bold fashion statement!

That's not Delarocha.

I don't like ceramic tile, so no.

If that had been travertine tumbled marble, then it'd be another matter altogether.

Remember, good friend: you're not buying tonight's sex. Your buying your sex for the next year (or at least the implied promise and permission thereof).

You do realize that everyone on getbig dates models and drives a ferrari, right?

You're right big guy. No more slumming it for me.

But I'll still be clicking on apacheclips.

I know. Just like you. I thought you would appreciate the allegory.

Too much to grasp, perhaps?

I've got it noted to dumb it down for you next time.

^^^^x10000.

I only wish it was just 25 points. You're being kind.

You know, I must have read that post a half dozen times when you first put it up here. It's one of the few things I've read here that stuck with me long after I read it. I still think back to it once in a while. Honestly.

Your post was one of the most honest answers a manager is ever going to get. Not that anyone wants to hear it.

And the wisdom of it, is that at some point, ever manager will get promoted to a level where he/she will read that, and say "yep". It's inevitable. So very few are actually cut out to run a team in any company, let alone the company itself -- be it successful or failing, public or private. And let me tell you, being good at one doesn't make you good at the other, that's for sure.

But in true Dunning-Kruger style, the more idiotic ones on the street feel they're plainly qualified (but that the game is somehow "rigged" against them), whilst the qualified ones undervalue their own situability for the role and consciously admit an incompetence that isn't even there. 

So it goes, and always will, for all managers. Tu fui ego eris.