60 Days Until Kickoff — Who’s Your Favorite No. 60?

[Blake Munroe]

60 days is all that’s left before the Longhorns square off against the Buckeyes for the season opener in Columbus. Who is your favorite Horn to wear No. 60?

A ton of options today, but you have to start with…..

Tommy Nobis

 

Others include….

Brian Jones

Britt Hager

 

Robin Sendlein

 

Jeff Leiding

[THookem]

There’s only one # 60.   

[Hookem1012]

No need to list anyone other than Nobis and that’s no disrespect to any of the other guys.

[.45s]

NOBIS.  Even my father, who was not a big college football fan, thought Nobis was fantastic.  I remember him from the NFL and barely from his time at UT.

[Modern Day Warrior]

Brian Jones

My all time favorite memory as a Longhorn fan  1990 I’m 11 years old

I will never forget how incredibly nice he was. During a fan meet day, after getting his autograph, he took me and my cousin around the facilities and spent a couple hours showing us around and let us hang around some of the players. He was the coolest guy. 

[MarkInAustin]

Nobis was also the best offensive guard in the SWC by far.  A few years earlier I had seen the only other SWC lineman who was the best at his position on defense and offense.  Like Nobis, Holub was a unanimous All American LB.  And he was an astonishingly good offensive Center.

I believe that if Nobis had played OG in the NFL he would have been as good as Fuzzy Thurston of the Packers.  Holub did get to play OLB at an all AFC level with KC until his knees got banged up and then he became an All AFC Center.

Three linemen/LBs I saw live 1960-1965 were outstanding [when I was at Rice and then UT Law]..  Nobis, Holub, and Lilly - in that order. Lilly was only best on D, at least against a good Rice team that went to the Sugar Bowl in 1960.