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Thanks, Earl, for getting my research started....sounds like he was
not to be reckoned with!...Thanks for the input! Have a great day....
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Doug Atkins was a 6-8, 275-pound defensive end who wreaked havoc for 17 years and 205 games on National Football League quarterbacks.

For most of his long career that began with the 1953 Cleveland Browns and continued with first the Chicago Bears and then the New Orleans Saints, opposing players faced him with just one thought in mind: "Don't make him mad!"

Everyone knew that holding or tripping Doug was an absolute no-no, something akin to committing suicide. When angered, his contemporaries remember, Atkins inflicted the kind of devastation upon enemy lines and quarterbacks that seldom, if ever, has been equaled on any football field. Even when he was playing at his natural "easy-going" pace, the monstrous Tennesseean did his job so well that he is still respected today as a classic defensive end.

The Saints' head coach, Tom Fears, summed it up during Atkins' final 1969 season: "They threw away the mold when they made Doug. There'll never be any other like him."

The Pro Football Hall of Fame's Board of Selectors remembered Atkins that way, too, and elected him for membership with the 1982 class of enshrinees.

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