Coy Bacon

With people trying to talk the Commanders into signing Von Miller, it called to mind the great Coy Bacon.

People complain Miller is 36.

Coy Bacon was 37 in 1979. The 79 Skins were a good team. That was the year Riggo went 66 yards for a TD in Dallas. And Staubach knocked them out of the Playoffs.

Joey T and Joe Walton were vibing on offense. As Joey T has contended, they would have been a real threat in the playoffs. And history might have gone differently had they made it.

Bacon at 37 was credited with 13.5 sacks that year.

People say that was then. This is now. It is tougher today.

In the age of cut blocks and knee targets Bacon had 13.5 sacks. The Historians give him 21.5 sacks for 1976 when he was with the Bengals. He was just a baby then as Stevie Nicks might say. A spry 34 years old.

No it was tougher then. 

Here's some highlights. As a Bengals terror.

Check out NFL X-Files treatment of Coy Bacon.

Coy Bacon is in the HBCU Hall of Fame. 

Hey Man. Old Dudes can get it on the Edge. 

And it was NOT George Allen who brought Coy Bacon to D.C.

It was Bobby you know who.