Since it is Halloween I came up with a list of players that have or are still in the NFL that would scare the hell out of me in a dark alley. Some of these players are ghosts from the grave yard coming back on Halloween night like a Freddie or Jason for another sequel. Some of these guys were before my time, but I have read about them and it was a different game back then. More violent. Nobody had concussions back then. All these guys for sure were bat shit crazy during their time playing on the gridiron with an edge of being fearless. I have ten guys. I ranked them counting down from ten with number 1 being the scariest. All of them would do a solid job scaring the life out of you and me, especially if trapped in a dead end alley. These guys are why we have horror movies.

#10. CHARLES MARTIN DE/NT

Charles Martin during the 1980’s played six seasons in the NFL as he tallied up 11 total sacks playing defensive line mostly for the Packers. Martin was nicknamed “Too Mean.” When he played for the Green Bay Packers, he had a towel that he made his personal hit list on with players’ numbers on them. One hit off that list was Jim McMahon when the Packers played their rival Bears. Martin body-slammed the punky QB to the turf like it was a WWF wrestling ring. After that McMahon was never the same quarterback. Martin did not care about the team as this happened after the play was over as he had his own agenda and accomplished it. Now imagine a big guy like Martin that elevated his game using marker over crayons, having a hit list, and him finding you in a dark alley.

#9.JACK YOUNGBLOOD DE

Jack Youngblood may go on multiple lists as he played 14 seasons with the LA Rams in the 70’s and 80’s and was one of the toughest SOB’S of all-time. Youngblood tallied up 151.5 sacks in his career and opposing offenses feared him – especially the quarterbacks around the league. During the 1979 NFC Championship and when the Rams went on to play in Superbowl XIV, Youngblood played with a broken leg. In all those Halloween movies or Friday the 13th movies, the football mask of Youngblood is the hockey mask of those horror movies. You think you killed the serial killer, but he keeps coming after you. That is Youngblood chasing you down an alley maimed with a broken leg, but he eventually will get you. His last name has blood in it… so what do expect?

#8.MYLES GARRETT DE

Myles Garrett is still active in the NFL playing 7 seasons with the Cleveland Browns. Garrett has racked up 83 sacks so far in his promising career. There was the time Garrett snapped on the field ripping the helmet off Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolf. Then Garrett using the same helmet as a weapon to whack the Steelers quarterback. Luckily he was being held back by other players on both sides, or Rudolf could have been brain dead. This may be Garrett’s only incident like that, but he still gives anyone he faces the jeebie weebies because you don’t know when his short wick will ignite. In a dark alley, Garrett would use anything for a weapon and beat your head with it like Rodney King with nightsticks from the LAPD.

#7.JACK LAMBERT LB

Jack Lambert’s teeth looks like something you carved in your pumpkin to scare the neighbors’ cat away. Lambert was a big part of the Original Steel Curtain for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 1970’s. Lambert was nicknamed Dracula in spikes and Jack Splat as he destroyed opposing players playing linebacker. It did not matter the size of the players as the bigger they were, the harder they would fall with Lambert knocking you into tomorrow-land. Lambert had 28 interceptions during his time in the NFL. Imagine him chasing you down in a dark alley with a grin like the Joker or rotten teeth like Penny Wise, the clown. You’d be dragged into the sewers and never be heard from again.

#6. RICHIE INCOGNITO OL

Richie Incognito played with multiple teams in the NFL for 13 seasons. Incognito was a 4x pro-bowler playing in the trenches protecting the quarterback. Incognito had a evil streak in him as he was the Gooch of the Miami Dolphins when he played in Florida. Incognito was the guy demanding your lunch money as he bullied his former teammate, Jonathan Martin. Incognito would be suspended for his actions of hazing Martin. A guy who pretty much could not take the everyday abuse, left the team, and not long after retired from the game. When Incognito’s own father died, he walked into the funeral parlor and wanted to cut his own father’s head off. Imagine Incognito catching up with you in an alley to remove your head from your body to use it like the Governor on Walking Dead for his own personal fish tank ornament.

#5. RAY LEWIS LB

Ray Lewis played 17 seasons in the NFL, all for the Baltimore Ravens. Lewis was a mad man playing the line backer position with anger as he racked 1.568 solo tackles in the NFL along with 41.5 sacks. Lewis was part of two Superbowl winning teams in Baltimore. The linebacker will be remembered mostly for the double murder he did after a Superbowl party he went to in Atlanta in 2000. Lewis did some jail time as he was never convicted of the double murder where two people were stabbed in a bar/restaurant which he witnessed. Or did he? The charges were dropped. Lewis was only charged with obstruction of justice. You can say Lewis was covering for one of his guys. Maybe someone took the fall for him. Maybe in the alley someone else would take the fall for this mad man named Ray Ray taking you out.

#4.DICK BUTKUS LB

Dick Butkus played his entire career with the Bears for nine seasons during the 60’s and early 70’s. Out of those 9 seasons, Butkus made the pro-bowl in 8 of them. The last two seasons of Butkus’ career, he still strived on the field with two bad knees. The playing career of Butkus is like the legendary tales of a Vampire. The legend, the myths, the stories… what’s true & what’s false in folk tales still being told about this man’s legacy. The things Butkus did no way in hell you could get away with in today’s NFL. Butkus would clothesline opposing players as they crashed to the ground being roped with his forearm under the helmet. In the piles, Butkus may have bitten and scratched opposing players drawing blood while getting some rabbit punches in. Butkus would launch his body like a missile, not like present days of players doing that as he would make the tackle and drive them into the ground. Opposing offenses had to plan how to work around Butkus as they knew they couldn’t contain him. In a dark alley, even knowing where Butkus is, at some point he was going to get you.

#3. VONTAZE BURFICT LB

Vontaze Burfict was a middle linebacker most of his career with the Cincinnati Bengals. Burfict was a head hunter and he did not care. Burfict has been suspended by the NFL 4 times and has been fined by the league 9 different times in 7 total seasons. Burfict has paid about 5 million dollars out of his pocket roughly for his head hunting ways on the field. He obviously did not care as he liked to launch his body and knock opposing wide receivers out of the game. His hits have cost his team games. Even a playoff game against the arch rival Steelers when he knocked out Antonio Brown with a vicious hit to his helmet. That may explain why Brown is crazy. Burfict would not care about ending you in a dark alley as his wallet may not be as full as it once was. Seeing you on the ground would be the extra gravy he needs to get his fix.

#2. AARON HERNANDEZ TE

Aaron Hernandez was a part of the Patriots dynasty and made it to one of the losing Superbowls of the Evil Empire. Hernandez only played three seasons and at the tight end position he had star written all over him along with all the disturbing tattoos he was covered in. Hernandez in three seasons caught 175 passes for 1,956 yards and 18 touchdowns. Hernandez outside football acts like a gang banger as he shot one of his friends for finding out something about him. Hernandez was always around trouble as it followed him. In 2007 in the state of Florida, he knocked out a bouncer at a bar hitting the man right on the ear drum. Hernandez was acquitted for a double murder they proved he did not do while in jail. Hernandez eventually took his own life in jail. Hernandez would have no problem putting a bullet in someone’s head in a dark alley.

#1.JACK TATUM (THE ASSASSIN) DB

Jack Tatum, nicknamed The Assassin, is my number one villain I would not want to meet in an alley in the dark in the light. Tatum played in the 1970’s with the Raiders for nine seasons as he ended his career in Houston in 1980. Tatum had 37 interceptions in his entire career. It was not the interceptions that earned Tatum the nickname. It was Tatum’s wicked hits where he earned that name. During the 1970’s, you could mug someone and not get penalized as Tatum would deliver an assassin-style blow to any opposing player going over the middle to catch a ball. In a pre-season game in 1978, Tatum seemed to be in mid-season form and laid out Patriots wide receiver, Darryl Stingley. It ended his career as he was paralyzed for the rest of his life. Tatum never showed any compassion for the hit on Stingley and never apologized for it. In an alley, Tatum a guy with a nick name assassin with no conscious, would easily take out his target.