10 Things You Should Know - Cornelius Bennet

[The King]

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Cornelius Bennett played halfback for the Ensely High School Yellow Jackets.
Bennett committed to the University of Alabama where he started as a freshman.
Bennett was a 3x First Team All-American and a 2x Bowl Game MVP
During his senior year Cornelius was named SEC Player of the Year & won the Lombardi Award. He finished his career with 287 Tackles, 23 TFL, 15 Sacks, 6 FF, and 3 FR.
He was also named the Alabama Player of the decade for the 1980’s. Later he was inducted in the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame.
Bennett was select 2nd in the 1987 NFL Draft. The highest selection ever for an Alabama defender (Marcel Dareus 3rd in 2011).
After contract negotiations failed, the Bills, Colts and Rams completed the “trade of the decade”. Bills sent RB Greg Bell to the Rams, the Rams sent RB Eric Dickerson to the Colts and the Bills got the rights to Cornelius Bennett.
In his rookie season, Bennett racked up 8.5 sacks and 5 forced fumbles in only 8 games.
For the 1990 season Bennett changed from 55 to 97 his college number. Which was previously being worn by Scott Radecic.
Cornelius finished his NFL career with 71.5 sacks, 31 FF, 27 FR, 7 INT, and 3 TD’s. He appeared in 5 Super Bowls.

[k-oneputt]

11. Liked to party at the Stuffed Mushroom with Thurman and Bruce.
12. Was one of the best move's of the Polian era that pushed that team to the Super Bowl era.

[Night Train]

13. Overshadowed Talley, who was a better overall LB.

[k-oneputt]

As much as I loved Talley, CB was the better player.

CB was dominate in his prime.

[trapezeus]

bennett is one of the quieter members from those 90's teams. i wonder why that is.

[Albany,n.y.]

14-Just keeping it real:

He was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Buffalo hotel room in 1997. Bennett pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of sex abuse and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He served 36. In addition to the jail sentence, Bennett was fined $1,000 and was ordered to pay $617.26 of the woman's hospital bills, perform 100 hours of community service and undergo anger-management and substance-abuse counseling.

[Fletch]

14-Just keeping it real:

He was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Buffalo hotel room in 1997. Bennett pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of sex abuse and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He served 36. In addition to the jail sentence, Bennett was fined $1,000 and was ordered to pay $617.26 of the woman's hospital bills, perform 100 hours of community service and undergo anger-management and substance-abuse counseling.

Who knows what really happened, the way that these women chase these guys and go after their money. Not making a judgement either way, but unless he drugged here and carried here up the stairs to his room, or with her otherwise kicking and screaming, I mean what did she think was going to happen up there, that they were going to play Crazy-8's 'til 5 a.m.

Anyone remember that LB, Brian Banks. And what happened to that lying skank? I don't think anything.

[Topas]

well, sad that he managed to loose one more Super Bowl with the Falcons, if I remember correctly.

@King: where is this quote from in your sig?

[Fletch]

13. Overshadowed Talley, who was a better overall LB.

Agreed. Both were great however, any such difference is modest and debatable. Talley seemed to play faster despite the fewer sacks. He seemed to be better in coverage though. If I could pick only one to be on the team today I'd take Talley. Love to have 'em both though. They put anyone on our LB roster not named Kiko to shame.

Be fun to see Bruce again too, the angles that he took in getting to the QB, and I mean his body angled against the ground, were ridiculous.

That was when the FO had a brain. Now it's run by 14 clowns in a VW Bug.

[The King]

well, sad that he managed to loose one more Super Bowl with the Falcons, if I remember correctly.

@King: where is this quote from in your sig?

Yes it was the Falcons. The quote is from Jack Handy.