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(04-01-2020, 01:35 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: I always wondered if being a lefty allowed him to pull it off better than a righty.
Not really. What made it so great was that he was the first to do the "empty hand" play action. He held the ball on his hip while sticking an empty hand in the RBs belly. then he brings out the empty had for the defense to see that he has really handed the ball off.
Plus, this helped a lot. . .
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Boomer had the "it" factor and since I was born in 1980 he's really the guy I remember watching as a Kid. My favorite player was always Bo Jackson tho =). On a side note I met Munoz when he was playing and later in life because I knew the family that owned Furniture Fair, He will always be my favorite Bengal.
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I was fortunate enough to see both play. TBS, I have to vote Boomer. I vote that way because there was just an energy in the air when Boomer played. You new that more than not, the Bengals were going to win that day.
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KEN ANDERSON
Boomer was nice but he did not have the career Ken Anderson did.. you don;t hear Boomer and HOF ever mentioned.. but Ken Anderson is mentioned all the time.....
Boomer has a great play action but look at tape and see the great deep pass Anderson threw with like a 7 to 10 step drop.. amazing
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Don't want to say anything bad about Boomer, but he was not in Anderson's class. Kenny led the league in passing 4 times (only Steve Young has done it more) and he held the single season completion percentage record for over 20 years. When he retired he was 4th in career completions, 7th in passing yards, and his POSTSEASON career passer rating was #2 in history only behind Bart Starr.
It is a crime that he is not in the Hall of Fame.