Garry Don "Donny" Anderson (born May 16, 1943) is a former professional football player, a halfback and punter for nine seasons with the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League.
He was a punter besides.
Directed by Roger Duchowny. The Packers won that game 42-27 under foggy conditions, as Hornung scored five touchdowns in the contest.“I met with Vince Lombardi for the first time then,” Anderson said. Steve falls for Danny's engaged sister Kitty. Texas Tech Red Raiders College Football Dallas Cowboys Packers Trek Conference Nfl Guns Sports. He was a fine all-around athlete. We knew that we had to execute and we were determined to get the job done.”Anderson had a number of key plays on that 12-play drive, which included catching three passes for 28 yards.
“Paul didn’t play much in ’66, as Elijah [Pitts] was the starter then. On top of being drafted in the first round a year before he was eligible to turn pro, Anderson signed what at the time was the richest contract in NFL history.
In terms of negotiating with the Packers, Pat Peppler was the main source of contact for Anderson initially. Anderson was classified as a future, a draft-eligible junior who according to the rules of the day couldn't sign a contract until he finished playing college football a year later.Anderson was only the second future ever selected in the first round of an NFL Draft and the first since the Los Angeles Rams chose Dick Bass six years earlier. “He had a big huge desk and a black couch. Turn the lights on, Red [Cochran].’ Then he looks at me and says, ‘You were God-awful. Additionally, Anderson was named to the Pro Bowl in 1968.Plus, Anderson became a prolific punter due to his exceptional hang-time, which kept returns to a minimum.In 1983, Anderson was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame.Looking back on his time in Green Bay, Anderson said it all comes back to playing for Lombardi.“Coach Lombardi loved his players,” Anderson said. Anderson scored a touchdown in that game, but was also accidentally kicked in the head by linebacker Dick Butkus on the play and knocked a bit woozy. IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Then he says, ‘I want you to grab a piece of paper and a pencil and when I say something, I want you to write it down!’ And again I said, yes sir.“So I was writing stuff down during the rest of the film session. “I said we could wedge Pugh if we had to. If you look at those receptions on film, you see some pretty nifty footwork by Anderson. I can tell that you don’t want to be a football player. But Donny played nine years in the league and I don't think he missed a game."
He had unbelievably good hands. In this episode, Don and Daniel explore AWS Orchestration services, which includes CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWork. "The Packers chose Anderson in the first round, with the seventh overall pick, in the 1965 NFL Draft, held on Nov. 28, 1964. In reality, what coach Vince Lombardi asked of him in those unforgiving conditions â the temperature was minus-13 degrees; the wind chill, minus-46 â bordered on the extreme.Anderson handled the ball 30 times, including punts, and stood out on the final, do-or-die, 68-yard drive when he caught three passes for 27 yards and picked up two critical first downs.
That would be his father Jack.Jack Anderson worked at Phillips Petroleum and while Donny was playing football his senior year at Texas Tech, Adams would fly Jack to all of Donny’s games.In terms of negotiating with the Packers, Pat Peppler was the main source of contact for Anderson initially. While the Packers toyed with the idea of moving Anderson to flanker over the course of his career, they never did.In addition, he was the team's punter from 1967 to 1971 and, here again, his 39.6 average was misleading. Donny Anderson, Texas Tech.