Jim Taylor, hard-running Hall of Fame fullback for Green Bay Packers, dies at 83

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Jim Taylor, the ferocious Hall of Fame fullback who embodied the Green Bay Packers’ unstoppable ground game during the Vince Lombardi era and helped the team win four NFL titles and the first Super Bowl, died Oct. 13 at a hospital in his hometown of Baton Rouge. He was 83.

The team confirmed the death. The cause was not immediately known.

Mr. Taylor played during the great Packer dynasty and was the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1962. He scored the first rushing touchdown in Super Bowl history.

“He was a gritty, classic player on the Lombardi teams and a key figure of those great championship runs,” Packers President Mark Murphy said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-taylor-hard-running-hall-of-fame-fullback-for-green-bay-packers-dies-at-83/2018/10/13/5064a40a-cf24-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html

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He was one tough football player.

[Roy Rolling]

1. Was a New Orleans Saint Later On

He lived across the street from me and would always buy my raffle tickets and stuff a kid sells. He was generous and had thighs as big as tree trunks.

[malthaussen]

2. Aw, shucks.

The guy could play football a little.

-- Mal

[turbinetree]

3. Rest #31 .......................you were great....................

https://www.profootballhof.com/players/jim-taylor/

[dembotoz]

4. Favorite player growing up

He was special

[elocs]

5. I was surprised to hear this because I hadn't heard anything about him in so long

that I thought he was already dead.
I was a Packer fan in those years when I was just a young kid here in Wisconsin with Bart Starr, Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung. But there were so many great players on the Packer teams in those years.