Deacon Jones
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Deacon Jones may not get the true credit he deserves for being one of the greatest pass rushers of all time, because many of his sacks came at a time when “quarterback sacks” wasn’t an officially recorded statistic. But the bottom line is that Jones took a sadistic joy out of demoralizing offensive linemen and destroying quarterbacks. Jones was infamous for placing a metal disk in the palms of his hand and taping up his hands over the disk, then smacking those disks on earholes of offensive linemen to stun them and get past them. When offensive linemen started sharpening the edges of their helmet to prevent Jones from using this move, Jones would still use his pierced and bloodied hands anyway.
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