Fullback (gridiron football) Fullback (gridiron football) A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Typically, fullbacks are larger than halfbacks and in most offensive schemes their duties are split between power running, pass catching, and blocking for both the quarterback and the other running back. Many great runners in the history of American football have been fullbacks, including Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Jim Taylor, Franco Harris, Larry Csonka, John Riggins, Christian Okoye, and Levi Jackson. However, many of these runners would retroactively be
Jim Brown of Jacqueline Bisset. More typical was "El Condor" (1970), a Western shot in Spain by John Guillermin, also for National General. The release of "Shaft" (1971) led the rise of blaxploitation movies. Brown starred in several of the genre: "Slaughter" (1972), a huge hit for AIP; "Black Gunn" (1972) for Columbia; "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off" (1973); "The Slams" (1973), back at MGM; "I Escaped from Devil's Island" (1973); and "Three the Hard Way" (1974) with Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. He did a spaghetti Western with Williamson, "Take a Hard Ride" (1975). The popularity of blaxploitation ebbed in the mid 70s