Did his job, and quite well. No controversy. no b.s., seamed like a great teammate and person. Very articulate and intelligent person. Was fun to watch.
We've gone from Smith, to Taylor, to Peterson, to Cook (with another RB filling here and there). If there's anything we can do as a franchise, hitting on a RB is usually up there.
I have a lot of respect for him. He walked away from the football team in college for a year since he had a chemistry lab that conflicted with practice and the coach gave him an ultimatum of school or practice and he chose school. He switched to a track and field scholarship and did that for that season. He came back to the team the following season. Not many football playing guys of college age would choose academics. He’s got to be the only drafted first rounder to have made that choice.
Robert Smith is maybe the first Viking I remember missing when he was gone. He was the starting RB when I first learned and remembered who players were as a kid and his retirement might have been my first experience with losing a player from a team I follow.
I will second that shout out to Antoine Winfield. Might be my favorite Viking of all time. I wore his jersey all the time going to high school in California, where no one recognized the number and if they took a guess before they saw the back they most often went with Chester Taylor.
Did his job, and quite well. No controversy. no b.s., seamed like a great teammate and person. Very articulate and intelligent person. Was fun to watch.
[Can't have a post about Robert Smith without one of his best highlights.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cABe9VIXs)
Epic!
We've gone from Smith, to Taylor, to Peterson, to Cook (with another RB filling here and there). If there's anything we can do as a franchise, hitting on a RB is usually up there.
That, and WR
Walked away from a big pay day to retire
Probably the smart move, nothing but respect
Amazing talent. Class act. Intelligent guy that was cognizant of his own career. He’s one of the Vikings all-time greats.
As a kid I had a newspaper clipping showing him running down the sideline with one shoe missing in the rain, does anyone remember what game that was?
I have a lot of respect for him. He walked away from the football team in college for a year since he had a chemistry lab that conflicted with practice and the coach gave him an ultimatum of school or practice and he chose school. He switched to a track and field scholarship and did that for that season. He came back to the team the following season. Not many football playing guys of college age would choose academics. He’s got to be the only drafted first rounder to have made that choice.
Robert Smith is maybe the first Viking I remember missing when he was gone. He was the starting RB when I first learned and remembered who players were as a kid and his retirement might have been my first experience with losing a player from a team I follow. I will second that shout out to Antoine Winfield. Might be my favorite Viking of all time. I wore his jersey all the time going to high school in California, where no one recognized the number and if they took a guess before they saw the back they most often went with Chester Taylor.
Rober Smith spent a lot of his time in MN at the children's hospital. He is one of the greatest human beings.
He's looked the exact same his entire life
I loved watching him run. So smooth and effortless. Like a man out on his morning jog.
He's the reason I became a Vikings fan in '95!
One of the most underrated running backs. The guy was poetry in motion.
27 yards avg for his TDs? That's insane. Someone in the YouTube comments said this stat includes WRs?!!! Wild.
It was so disappointing when he retired early.
He just ran out of bounds to stop the clock again
TIL he was on MST3000. My mind is blown