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Mini Mack Herron...
Anyone that rembers him remembers he was the shiftiest little s.o.b. on the field...what a player!
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Great artucle..always wondered what happened...after the drugs..WOW..58...sad..sad..he could have been really something special..and not a quick footnote to the early 70s Patriot teams.
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Incredible. Only 35 games. He was ELECTRIC and it seemed like he was with the Pats for much more than that. I was 9 in '74 and there was no one like him. The only RB with that electricity and shiftability would be Barry Sanders.
It's very hard to describe to adequately him on the field to someone who didn't actually see him play. But those were the days before the Pats were "important" and NFL Films was a much smaller outfit centering on the Dolphins, Cowboys, Steelers, etc. If not for the drugs...what could have been. |
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Great but sad article. Thanks for posting it. I always wondered what happened to Mack Herron. He was an electrifying player when the Pats needed one.
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A good player from a different era, I know someone who used to party with him, the standards of the NFL and our society were much different then.
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I was a 10 year-old rabid Pats fan in 74. When we played at the park (every day, it seemed), whoever was tailback called themselves "Mini-Mack" because we could imagine ourselves the smallest guy on the field and slipping through the low holes like he did. He and Sam Bam were everybody's favorites.
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Such a fan favorite. The sky was the limit for him, but he wasted it, just like Jonathan Sullivan IMO.
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Gawd, I loved to watch the guy play. The Pats were a serious running force back then. The press at the time told us little about his departure. Sports reporting was very different back then, like political reporting in JFK's day when the news of bimbo after bimbo was held from the public by a sympathetic press.
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It would be interesting to compare his stas to Steve Owens to see if he deserved the Heisman..... |
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Mini Mac running behind Hannah, Gray, Cunningham, Francis...Awesome sweep play. It very sad to see how he let it get away. I hope he has been able to find peace and deal with his demons. Amazing considering his size.
Reminds me in an odd way of Marvin Barnes another athlete with great skills who threw his talent away. |
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