LESTER HAYES 1980's HOF ALL DECADE TEAM - LAST NFL PLAYER TO INTERCEPT 13 PASSES IN A SEASON (1980)

[@DeepH2Ov1]

What I find funny is that people always mention *stickum* when talking about Lester Hayes, but if you watch those highlights, Lester was always in *perfect* position to make a play on the ball. Stickum has nothing to do with coverage skills which many overlook. Hayes was a master at getting between the receiver and the ball. No one has ever done it better, maybe as good, but not better! Footnote: Jerry Rice got drafted in 85' and admitted to using stickum when it had already been banned 4 years, but no one faults him for that.

[@Nhamp2000]

Exactly. If it was stickum, everyone would have used it. The facts were simple; Lester was a bad ass cover corner, people stopped challenging him (for good reason), and he was the last of the true Jedis, back when the Raiders were a football team, and not a marketing gimmick. He should've been in the HOF long ago.

[@bassplayer8815]

I think he didn't even use it by this point as well

[@NEWYORKSTATEOFMIND-e1s]

Blietnikoff introduced it to him but that's different huh?🤔

[@barronvonpitbull4544]

Lester Hayes is a true OAKLAND RAIDER! Played with Jack Tatum as well! One of my favorite players ever! Belongs in the Hall of Fame YESTERDAY! 37 BABY!

[@jeremiahrose4681]

So true

[@roosevelt1933]

One of the very best cornerbacks all time!

[@ronbennett6104]

MR. LESTER HAYES SHOULD BE NOMINATED TO BE 100% PLACED IN THE NFL HALL OF FAME !! STARTING TODAY !!! PUT HIM IN NOW !!!

[@daviddorsey8754]

Starting Yesterday!

[@mjn3544]

Lester the Molester and Mike Haynes, the best cornerback tandem in NFL history. They both belong in the HOF.

[@charlesrazo7246]

I remember when the Raiders drafted him that’s when the Raiders were the Raiders🏆🏆🏆 them days are long gone

[@itsallinmyhead365]

I'm a 50+ yr Raider. My fav Lester feat was after his post 80SB interview , which he had a bad stutter, he tackled that too and was glorious in SB83 interviews.

[@Raider352]

I remembered that as well

[@howardrussell3919]

That youngsters is how you play bump and run. Forget cover two and 2 deep zone coverages, bump and run/man to man is the real deal!! I noticed that Hayes never did any hand fighting after he made his initial bump. This left his hands in prime position to make the interception. A great player who should be in the Hall Of Fame.

[@samuelsimmons105]

Lester Hayes The Cornerback Guru ,who Prime patterns his game around!!!💯😎

[@JL-ec1by]

Browns fan, but my favorite team was the 1983 Raiders. They got Haynes that year. Stickem or not, "The Judge" was a beast.

[@carlsweeklyhulupicks]

Haynes, Hayes and McElroy in the middle @ safety great secondary! Maybe the best ever?

[@JAWrightonline]

​@@carlsweeklyhulupicksDon't forget Mike Davis, RIP. He completed the Mistake by the Lake in the 1980 Cleveland playoff game.

[@dirtyjersey4672]

@@carlsweeklyhulupicksJack Tatum the “assassin” was no joke! That whole team was stacked!

[@reefb4364]

@@dirtyjersey4672sad part Tatum got traded for Kenny King and he didn’t get a chance at that second ring with the Raiders in the 1980 season.

[@raidadave7840]

Put him in the HOF

[@anadvocate7310]

The Judge should be Hall of Fame. I enjoy his CB style & his charisma despite having speaking issue at times. He played the game of cornerbacks at the top. Notice they made it seem like Hayes wasn All pros level CB after the stick em banned

[@aulebb1968]

Get this man in the HOF already!!

[@broncobilly4029]

I'm a Broncos fan, but I'll give credit where it's due. Lester deserves to be in the HOF. He was awesome. You had to know where he was on the field when he played.

[@earlbanister5514]

I played CB in HS in 1981 and 1982 and played man to man coverage 80% of the time. When I lined up on a WR I squatted down real low trying to imitate Lester Hayes. You couldn't tell me I wasn't Lester Hayes.

[@kevinfisher7715]

I have been a chiefs fan for years, I love watching great football players no matter what team they play on, he was the best in the NFL, should of been a first ballot hall of famer, put him in the hall !!!!!!!!

[@mikem591]

True HOFer!!!

[@panama8009]

Lester in College actually was originally a linebacker at Texas A&M before being a cornerback.

[@joveesmallwood9693]

Hayes's brothers corner backs made that defensive good. So the defensive line do there job on the run, good defensive team, that destroyed Eagles and Redskins in Super Bowl, that actually won that victory.

[@hassanabdur-rahman1559]

One thing I don't understand is that I have never heard Deoin Sanders give credit to Lester Hayes. Lester is the original shutdown cornerback.

[@DeepH2Ov1]

@hassanabdur-rahman. Actually Deoin was asked once who he patterened his game after and he said "Lester Hayes". I think he was on NFL network at the time just starting out, but I do remember him saying that.

[@hassanabdur-rahman1559]

@@DeepH2Ov1 thanks for the information. I have always wondered if he admired him.

[@kendrickjones3115]

Remember, Deion wore #37 with the Baltimore Ravens, "NUFF SAID"!!!

[@jarvisharris7187]

Deion is another version of Lester

[@mjn3544]

Yeah, but you guys forget that as much as I love Lester, (been a fan since 1960 and that's not a typo), the real shut down cornerback and the best ever was Willie Brown. He invented the bump and run and was so feared by teams that they rarely tested him. One year opposing QBs only tested Willie a total of 5 times that entire year and he intercepted 3 of the passes.

[@NikolaLukaj]

Mr. Stickmmm!!😎Legend

[@AWhite-uv4yf]

This was Deion Sanders idol. I don't need to ask him. I KNOW HE WAS, YOU ASK HIM. FACTS!

[@williampenn3766]

Watching these old highlights of Lester Hayes, just adds to my list of Heroes

[@raidera4life]

I took a picture with heyes when I was little and he helps out with my cousins team in modesto called the modest broncos it's really cool because I'm a big raider fan.

[@EdwardArmstrong-y3f]

Great player and even Better Human being .!!!

[@danieloswald844]

HOF please!

[@zachwwwwwwwosofkd12949]

Lester Hayes really picked off 18 passes in 1980 if you include the postseason

[@Moose46316]

Lester Hayes should be in the H of F

[@bossanova80]

The Football HOF will never have any credibility until Lester the Molester is inducted...

[@hassanabdur-rahman1559]

They also need to induct Roger Craig as well.

[@1983jblack]

This question is me being legitimately serious....I wonder how many of those 13 picks in 1980 were because he was using stickum (Banned in 1981)?

[@actionA06]

You answered your own question, it wasn't banned until 81 , thus anyone could use it in the league.

[@JL-ec1by]

It's probably a lot. But he had 13 picks that year and another 5 in the playoffs. QBs didn't challenge him much afterward.

[@edwardbarnhart1698]

I got the feeling, bubble gum cards, the living room, stripling.

[@samuelsimmons105]

It's a DAM SHAME this man is not in the HOF, make me wanna say F THOF!!!💯😎

[@Topjake1492]

Put "The Judge" in the HOF, ALREADY!

[@Raider352]

Put this man in the HOF since they were cheated in the NE game. LH created the stickem the NFL created gloves same results different.

[@elbowgang9715]

Decade

[@anthonyrobinson-ew7hi]

There's not one hall of fame cornerback that Hayes can't match

[@MaryLimon-u9b]

The RAIDERS are always being overlooked for the HOF The aholes that leave the RAIDERS out

[@quotemenot7520]

Very poor editing and hardy a tribute to one of the very best

[@nflxfiles]

Very poor comment and you misspelled "hardly".

[@quotemenot7520]

@@nflxfiles Very poor reply and that would be "misspelt"

[@nflxfiles]

@@quotemenot7520 Go back to bed

[@quotemenot7520]

@@nflxfiles Eejit

[@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238]

Total Epitome of Thug Criminal Behavior learned from Jack Tatum. Mel Blount was rough for the Steelers....and the Pass defense shift is credited to his roughness, but he never decapitated or ended a Players season or Career. Raider fans......any of you remember Darryl Stingley? Raiders were ABSOLUTE THUGS in that Era. Old Man Willie Brown did it right, Lester should have gone to JAIL!

[@elizabethdavila8833]

You're just mad because RAIDERS started doing what had been done to them for years. WA WA WA

[@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238]

@@elizabethdavila8833 Nope.....name another defensive Back who ended someone's career And Paralyzed him? By the way.....if Jack Tatum had done a legal move and just Tackled Frenchy Fuqua, instead of streaking in to blow him up.. the Steelers Immaculate Reception Never Happens.....How Many Super Bowls for Raiders in the 70's? How many for the Steelers? Played in the same Conference. Suck it!

[@DeepH2Ov1]

@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238, Jack Tatum hit Stingley in that preseason game in Oakland where he was paralyzed. Lester wasn't even in the league in 74', he didn't get drafted until 77'! Lester was not known as a fierce hitter, he was a dayum good tackler and physical though. Like him or not, his coverage skills were bar none. And by the way, the Raiders were no more rougher than anyone else in the 70's. That era was just hard nosed football and trust me, the Steelers were no choir boys, don't fool yourself. They use to work Cliff Branch over which is how the whole Lynn Swann thing started. And let's be clear, it was George Atkinson that knocked Swann out of games 2 times, not Tatum. Get it right!!!!!

[@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238]

@@DeepH2Ov1 oK you accurately defined the " Criminal Element" that HOF Coach Chuck Noll first notified the NFL. The Steeler were heavily penalized......Motion, Offsides, illegal procedure, and some holding, or illegal Man downfield.

[@richardmontgomery1749]

Lester Hayes wasn't a dirty player. Minus the stick-um which ALOT OF PLAYERS then were using, he was never the type who was out for blood or to start a fight. You just hate him because of what team he played for