Without Thomas, Runyan, it's anchors away for Eagles

Without Thomas, Runyan, it's anchors away for Eagles
March 11
Philadelphia Daily News columnist Rich Hofmann

"A LONG, LONG time ago, the Eagles had bookend tackles named Stan Walters and Jerry Sisemore. It was so long ago, such a different time, that Walters would sometimes sneak a smoke in his locker after practice. It seemed like they played together forever, establishing themselves before the arrival in Philadelphia of a quarterback named Ron Jaworski and then guarding his flanks as the franchise built to a trip to Super Bowl XV. Walters and Sisemore. They were so different. Sisemore was much more of a physical guy, more of a mauler on the right side, a truly great player. Walters was more about technique and guts and guile, and humor. You could go months as a reporter without talking to Sisemore, which is pretty much how he preferred it. You could not walk past Walters' locker without him holding up your picture in the newspaper and wondering aloud, "All right, when did they take this, First Holy Communion or eighth-grade graduation?"When you thought of bookend tackles, you thought of this odd couple. When you saw the boxes of steaks that Jaworski used to buy the linemen after games in which he wasn't sacked, you forgot about the revolving guards they played around and thought of Walters and Sisemore, always. They started 95 games together from 1975 to '83, and then there were 28 other games along the way when Sisemore slid over to right guard. But all through the great run of playoff teams under Dick Vermeil, those two were the tackles. The line had other issues along the way, but Walters and Sisemore were the guys who went to the Pro Bowls. They were the pillars. It seemed like they were forever."
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