favorite NFL players of all time
by Watching football has gotten me in the mood to talk football.
My faves...
1. Barry Sanders
2. Rodney Hampton
3. Michael Strahan
4. Phil Simms
5. Lawrence Taylor
uh 5b. Michael Vick
Awesome player. Met him at Virginia Tech too.
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1) Greatest QB ever- Steve Young
2) Greatest WR ever- Jerry Rice
3) Second Best QB- Brett Farve
4) Immaculate Reception- Franco Harris
5) Biggest Hothead- Deion Sanders
3 are from the 49'ers 95 superbowl team. i was gonna ad ed mccaffery to make it 4 but i just had to have franco in there.
I agreee with #1 and #5
why has no one voted for Todd Marinovich? lol
my favs:
Jerry Rice
Tiki Barber
Jeremy Shockey
Michael Strahan
Deion Sanders
Brett Favre
Lawrence Taylor
Phil Simms
Dave Meggett
Barry Sanders
almost all giants, but none of them are crappy players. Matt, I'm afraid you've become biased. Every football player deserves a chance to become one of your favorites. Tsk tsk.
lol
bo jackson
howie long
(some old favs.) I don't know enough about actual football players to make an intelligent comment. But I was always impressed with Bo Jackson, since he played 2 pro sports.
I looked at the stats and only the first couple years of his career Brown played 12 game seasons. Then later they expanded to 14. The 1863 season was in a 14 game season. But still amazing because over 16 games he could have had 2100.
barry vs. emmitt smith vs. walter payton vs. jim brown
brown
12,312 yds, 5.2 career avg. 106 rush tds. 5/9 seasons 5.0 rush avg or higher.
best season 1863 yds 6.4 avg 12 tds
payton
16,726 yds, 4.4 career avg, 110 rush tds, 1/15 seasons 5.0 or higher.
best season 1852 yds 5.5 avg 14 td
smith
17,536 yds, 4.2 career avg, 157 rush tds. 1/15 seasons 5.0 or higher.
best season 1773 yds 4.7 avg 25 tds
sanders
15,269 yds 5.0 avg 99 rush tds. 5/10 seasons 5.0 or higher.
best season 2053 yds 6.1 avg 11 tds.
so really the only discussion here is sanders vs. brown. and remeber barry had no line. he did it all. so its a tough call. brown and sanders should really be tied for best back ever.
If thats the case JP then Brown is definately the best, remember he only had 14 games per year. So 1800 and 12 would have been like 2000 and 14. The thing is that stats dont tell the whole story. Jamal had 2000 yards last year. Emmitt has more td's than any of those guys. And yards per carry is not everything either, cause if you have a lot of carries your yards per carry goes down. How many times was emmitt handed the ball late in the game when the boys had a big lead and his avg went down. Or how about Barry getting less carries cause his team was usually behind.
All I know is I didnt see Jim Brown, but I saw Payton and he was unstoppable, Barry who I LOVE and is awesome too, would have a great Highlight Film play for 50 yards and then lost 10 on the next play when he tried to make something out of nothing. There is nothing wrong with being second best, but Sweetness is the man.
Another Key Stat
payton had almost 900 more carries than Sanders, more carries means less per carry.
amazing barry video. and this is just from ONE SEASON!
uhh what happened to chris simms?
see theres me/chris. except for me its sans female companion.
The juice...
adrock youre kidding. sanders is incredible. and aviator, portis is quickly moving up my list too I love him.
I've been told I bear a resemblance to Phil's son Chris Simms, but I like Phil because of his awesome Giants days, not because of his offspring looking like me.
portis is okay. i'm beginning to believe he was inflated by the denver broncos running system
it's a short list b/c i don't watch football
1. Art Monk (don't bring down the monk)
i miss steve young!!
Barry Sanders is weak. Walter Payton is so much better.
My Top Five
1. John Elway
2. Randy Moss
3. Chad Pennington (So Far)
4. Al Toon
5. Joe Namath
we were watching some barry highlight reels here at work. amazing what he did with absolutely no blocking. his legs were machines
Now check out some of Paytons Highlights, or Jim Brown, tell me what you think
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1) Curtis Martin
2) Clinton Portis
3) Chad Pennington
4) Wayne Chrebet
5) Barry Sanders
phil simms is so cute. my dad used to watch his sons high school games on the telly. how did his game ever turn out? will we be seeing him anywhere?