From Wikipedia:
Lambert played with maniacal intensity. He flew into tackles running at one hundred percent full speed. With no regard for his own safety, he took grim pleasure in inflicting maximum punishment on the opposition. A snarling Lambert intimidated the Dallas Cowboys in Superbowl X by slamming star safety Cliff Harris to the ground. By the time of his retirement, he was universally feared and recognized as one of the greatest linebackers in the history of the game. He was the Steelers starting middle linebacker, for eleven seasons; and according to Steelers media guides averaged 146 tackles per season through his 10th year. He recorded only 19 in his 11th and final season because of the injury suffered to his toe.
Lambert amassed 28 career interceptions, 1,479 career tackles (1,045 solo), and (officially) 23½ sacks, although the unofficial sack total is greater since sacks did not become an official NFL statistic until 1982, Lambert's ninth year in the league. One of his official sacks, however, came in the 1983 season opener against the Denver Broncos, handing rookie quarterback & fellow Hall of Famer John Elway his first of what would be an NFL-record 559 career sacks Elway would absorb in his 16-year career.
Lambert's four front upper teeth were missing as a result of taking an elbow in basketball during high school. Although he had a removable partial denture he wore in public, he didn't wear it during games, and pictures of Lambert's toothless snarl became a signature of the famous Steeler defense and led to his being referred to as "Count Dracula in Cleats."
Do you remember Lambert? I certainly do. When he was made, the mold was broken.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 
