14. Hillbilly
“Elway said when he was a rookie Jack Lambert hit him so hard he wanted to quit football altogether,” Nottoodrunk wrote on Reddit. As one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history, John Elway was a winner. So this is a really eye-catching statement but it proves how tough and intimidating Lambert was. He was fearsome and relentless because he pulled no punches.

“He looks like those farmers that will shoot anything and anyone if they enter their property. One of those West Virginia hillbilly weed-growers,” broccolibush42 observed. There is no doubt that Lambert was a product of a different era. It’s impossible to imagine him tolerating TikTok videos and Instagram. But he was a tremendous and distinctive NFL star.