Roy Green to be inducted into Cards Ring of Honor

[Snakester]

Loved watching Roy Green. Best receiver we ever had not named Fitzgerald. My top four of all time would be Fitz, Green, Boldin and
Mel Gray.

 

[Reddog]

How has that not happened way before now?

 

[Cardsfanstl]

Loved watching Roy Green. Best receiver we ever had not named Fitzgerald. My top four of all time would be Fitz, Green, Boldin and
Mel Gray.

Expand that list to include Pat Tilley. If you needed a first down Tilley was the man. Great possession receiver.

 

[Reign Blood]

Expand that list to include Pat Tilley. If you needed a first down Tilley was the man. Great possession receiver.

I met Pat Tilley. He dated my fifth grade teacher. He would bring us stuff from the other players. Knee Pads, elbow pads...etc. cool stuff. They would be autographed too. I got a note from Jim Hart and a wristband. From then on I've been hooked.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1SwtxskfTE

That was an exciting football weekend at SDS.

Was at the ASU vs. Oregon State game on Saturday. QB Paul Justin got knocked out of the game in the first half and Danny Ford replaced him. We trailed 24-7 going into the 4th quarter and scored 23 unanswered to win the game. Fans went crazy and were tossing their souvenir cups in the air. Looked like it was snowing. Crazy scene.

Then on Sunday, was at the Cardinals vs. Niners. Again, home team trailing going into the 4th quarter - this time 23-7. Cardinals scored 17 unanswered - with an Al Del Greco FG, a TD to Ernie Jones, and the Roy Green TD to seal it - and gave the Niners one of their two losses that season. At the end of the game, fans threw their souvenir cups in the air...just as the fans had done the night before. Pure emotion.

One of the many times that SDS was electric with the energy from the crowd on a combined ASU/Cards weekend, but the only time I ever saw the display include cups flying in the air all over the stadium. Was crazy to witness and a great sports weekend.

 

[vince56]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1SwtxskfTE

Look at how full SDS was in that vid and how jacked the crowd was when Green scored. It's incredibly sad to think we went 20 more years after that before being a consistently viable team.

 

[Jetstream Green]

Expand that list to include Pat Tilley. If you needed a first down Tilley was the man. Great possession receiver.

Pat Tilley was great and a poor man's Steve Largent but one guy who is severely underestimated is JT Smith who the Cards acquired after his tenure with the Chiefs... JT Smith was better than Tilley and Tilley was good, I heart number 84 too

 

[Jetstream Green]

Look at how full SDS was in that vid and how jacked the crowd was when Green scored. It's incredibly sad to think we went 20 more years after that before being a consistently viable team.

The numbers do not matter because it is about our own short stay on this place called Earth and people like you and I dug Roy Green making that catch and now we have the privilege of seeing Floyd, Brown. Fitzgerald or Nelson making a catch that means something even more... I think of Duckjake and realize how blessed as a fan I am to see something, to see the Cardinals being a an elite

 

[82CardsGrad]

Congrats to one of my all-time favorite players!

 

[Buckybird]

What an awesome 35 min interview live on Cards TV! Wow
Great stories shared by "THE" #81

 

[NJCardFan]

Jake Plummer???

Yes. Without Jake we have no 1998. He was a good and exciting QB. Not his fault they dismantled the playoff team.

 

[cardncubfan]

The numbers do not matter because it is about our own short stay on this place called Earth and people like you and I dug Roy Green making that catch and now we have the privilege of seeing Floyd, Brown. Fitzgerald or Nelson making a catch that means something even more... I think of Duckjake and realize how blessed as a fan I am to see something, to see the Cardinals being a an elite

Excellent post JG.

 

[Seandonic]

I still remember vividly telling all my football friends in elementary and middle school how my favorite player Roy Green was the best WR /player in the league.

I still believe for a few years there he was the best. So glad he's being honored like this!

 

[Covert Rain]

Congrats!

 

[football karma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1SwtxskfTE

Thanks for that-- took my then girlfriend ( now wife of 25 years) to that game

Top 10 Cardinal experience. People forget how good Lomax was in his prime, amd how dangerous a WR Roy Green was.

 

[Buckybird]

People forget how good Lomax was in his prime, amd how dangerous a WR Roy Green was.

For peeps who weren't Big Red fans in '84, they really have no idea how great #81 was. He was basically unstoppable with his speed & ability to outrun M2M or zone defense...nobody had an answer for him. Not Everson Walls or the great Darrell Green, he repeatedly torched them that year. Injuries to his foot limited his big play threat until that inaugural 1988 season in the desert win him & Lomax were reborn until Lomax's career ended against the Gmen.

That 1984 team had that talent to win the Super Bowl until that final fateful day in RFK in December. Damn you Neil O'Shankohue lol. Roy even talked about that game today & how much that loss hurts to this day

What might have been

 

[Cardsfanstl]

For peeps who weren't Big Red fans in '84, they really have no idea how great #81 was. He was basically unstoppable with his speed & ability to outrun M2M or zone defense...nobody had an answer for him. Not Everson Walls or the great Darrell Green, he repeatedly torched them that year. Injuries to his foot limited his big play threat until that inaugural 1988 season in the desert win him & Lomax were reborn until Lomax's career ended against the Gmen.

That 1984 team had that talent to win the Super Bowl until that final fateful day in RFK in December. Damn you Neil O'Shankohue lol. Roy even talked about that game today & how much that loss hurts to this day

What might have been

Mike,

1983-87 were one of the few seasons I missed following the Big Red religiously. A little thing called the Air Force overseas assignments were in the way. But I was able to see highlights on Armed forces TV when available so saw some of Roy Greens highlights. One of the few games I was able to see on TV was the 1984 game at RFK. Big Red could have won the division that year.

 

[Bert]

Long overdue, great news to hear. I'll be there wearing my Roy Green jersey!

Congrats Jetstream.

 

[Snakester]

Expand that list to include Pat Tilley. If you needed a first down Tilley was the man. Great possession receiver.

Yes he was. I still wonder what those teams could have done with a great defense to go with the years we had Hart and then Lomax.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

For peeps who weren't Big Red fans in '84, they really have no idea how great #81 was.

That would be me....which is why I'm loving this thread.

Keep the stories coming, Birdgang!