Mr. Tatum, a free safety is a relatively small size belied his ferocity on the field, was three-time All Pro player with the Raiders during his 10-year career. Documentaries NFL place him sixth-hardest in professional bitter history of football.
Its decisions Minnesota Vikings receiver Sammy White in 1977 Super Bowl has become famous in video of the most devastating football gear. White had just caught a pass in midfield, when Mr. Tatum collided with him, hitting his head to head. White helmet flew off and rolled up 5 meters on the ground.
“I play hard-hitting game,” Mr. Tatum said in the documentary NFL Films. “I just wanted to have the receivers to think about me a little while as they try to catch the ball.”
Mr. Tatum most notorious decision was in preseason game in 1978, when he made a wide receiver Darryl Stingley in the New England Patriots. Stingley leapt to catch a pass when Mr. Tatum drilled him, breaking two vertebrae in the back Stingley. Stingley was paralyzed until his death in 2007.
Mr. Tatum never apologized for his crushing a solution that was lawful in accordance with the rules of NFL, football, and some historians believe his lack of remorse kept him out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“It was one of those things that happens that everyone regrets” Gene Upshaw, Raiders lineman: In this game, which became the executive director of the NFL Players Association, said afterwards. “I know many people in New England, thinking differently, but Jack had no intention of hurting him. I saw him hit that people like a lot of time. It was like he was playing.”
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