Milk Carton All-Star of the Week.....8/13/2009

In Part 2 of our Sportstalkbuzz-inspired Milk Carton All-Star of the Week, we went hunting for Seahawks. In case you missed last week's(or are just too lazy to scroll down), Gabe and I can now also be found on Sportstalkbuzz.com as bloggers for the Texans and Seahawks, respectively. Last week, in a dedication to Gabe, we honored former Texans running back Domanick Davis/Williams/Slaton/Whatever. This week, the canidates varied from boring to obvious. There was journeyman quarterback John Friesz. We considered the Blades brothers, Bennie and Brian. We even had a clear-cut winner in former Oklahoma washout turned Van Damme wanna-be Brian Bosworth. Instead, as usual, we had a last-minute change.







This man is former 3-time Pro Bowler Chris Warren. Sure, you might say Warren had a bit too successful of a career to be considered in a feature normally dedicated to washouts and nobodies, but ask yourself this, when was the last time you heard the name Chris Warren? When's the last time, when talking about running backs of the past or even 90's football history, the name Chris Warren came up? The answer is never. Warren was a good running back during an era of great running backs like Emmitt Smith, Marshall Faulk, Barry Sanders, and Thurman Thomas. He's like the Aaron Hall of 90's running backs, notable yet forgotten about because of the accomplishments of so many others of his ilk.


Warren played for 11 seasons in the NFL, mostly with the Seahawks, but the prime of his career was a four-year stint from 1992 to 1995 in which Warren rushed for 1,000 yards each of those seasons(This was back when that meant something) and was a Pro Bowler in '93, '94, and '95. It went all downhill after that. Warren failed to reach the 1,000 yard mark in his next 2 seasons in Seattle and inevitably was let go after the '97 season and ended up playing a couple more years in Dallas and Philadelphia. Most recently, Warren made the news for failing to pay child support during his prime years despite making close to $10 million dollars, which would have definitely made him the Jon Gosselin of his era if anyone gave a crap about Chris Warren at the time(or Jon Gosselin, for that matter).


So let's give it up for the Color Me Badd of NFL running backs, Tecmo Bowl wunderkind Chris Warren!!!

--Dave