Pat Swilling inducted into College Hall of Fame
by BayouRebel on May 1, 2009 9:22 PM CDT
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Former Georgia Tech defensive end Pat Swilling was named Thursday to the National Football Foundation’s 2009 College Football Hall of Fame induction class. The onetime Yellow Jackets star was honored along with 15 other former college standouts, including Tim Brown, Chris Spielman and Grant Wistrom.
Playing at Georgia Tech from 1982-1985, Swilling was part of the “Black Watch” defense that helped rebuild a struggling Yellow Jackets program grow into one that would claim a national title in 1990.
Selected in the third round of the 1985 NFL draft by the New Orleans Saints, Swilling made it to five Pro Bowls before being named to the Saints’ own Hall of Fame in 2000. In just his fourth professional season, he was named Defensive Player of the Year after recording 17 sacks
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Pat Swilling inducted into College Hall of Fame
Yeah Baby! That whole Saints Defensive Class was top ranking back in the 90’s…Norman Hand, Sam Mills, Pat Swilling. them Cats was bad. If our defense turn out like that and our offense play as well as they played last year….SUPERBOWL SAINTS.
crank up the wild west old man campfire and banjo sound effects because Im a gonna tell you young folk a story...
I remember going to a Saints training camp practice/scrimmage in Hammond (at good ole SLU campus) during the summer of 1985.
And all I remember was that he had a MONSTER game and the announcer kept calling out his name for making tackles and we thought, “Who the heck is this guy? Number 56…Swilling? …from Georgia Tech?”
That was the start of a beautiful relationship. And when it ended well that we traded him to Detroit and got a draft pick (I think we took Roaf with it), and Swilling never played as well as he did for us again.
Thomas Morstead is gonna make Mitch Berger look like Rick Partridge.
-- Look it up, young readers.
of course, I hardly recognized any names of any of the rookies/camp bodies whose names were announced in that game, so it's not like
I’m trying to say I was Nostredamus or anything…
Thomas Morstead is gonna make Mitch Berger look like Rick Partridge.
-- Look it up, young readers.
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