Emmitt was blessed with an amazing line, Barry was cursed with a terrible line. Barry retired early, and if he would've kept playing (IMHO) would have picked up 20,000 yards career. The year before he retired Barry ran for 2,053. In his ten years in the league he never had a season where he ran for under 1,000 yards. And never once was his rushing average under 4.3 yards per carry. If he ran for 5 more years like Emmitt did, there is no way anyone would have ever caught him. I mean it took Emmitt 12 years to break Sweetness' record, it would've taken Barry 11 and he had no signs of slowing down. He just lost the fire to play.
I would really like to be able to say thank you to Barry for putting in all those hard years in Detroit, and giving me the pleasure of seeing the most exciting and to me #1 back ever play the game of football.
PS. I think it's funny how there's only 1 position in all of football where there is no argument who is the best player to play that position, WR.
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