Shane

Who is it????

SECTION 11

Tommie Frazier!

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AZCB34

Why isn't Jake listed?

I said Joe Montana.

I knocked out Marino and Fouts due to no Super Bowl wins. IMO, that has to factor into the equation somehow.

Young was very good but I think Favre is better. But Joe simply put has the hardware.

Old school guy Unitas...he was my favorite player when I was just a young lad.

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Krangthebrain

Hey! Where's Otto Graham? Or Y.A. Tittle?

I'd have to (begrudingly) pick Montana. I don't actually think he was the best, but the proof is in the pudding.

From a tools and efficiency stand point, I'd pick Young over any other, but Montana has more rings.

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arthurracoon

What about Jim Kelly?



ok

never mind

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FischerKing

My number one choice has always been Otto Graham...but since you didn't have him listed I voted for Favre.

But for my money - Otto Graham was unstoppable when he played.

Shawn

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whatchamacallit

Johnny U

From his Hall of Fame page:

Few, if any, sports stories are more dramatic or more complete than the story of Johnny Unitas. A ninth-round draft choice of the1955 Pittsburgh Steelers, Unitas was cut before he even threw one pass in a game. Still determined, he played semi-pro football for $6 a game.

After the season, the Baltimore Colts coach Weeb Ewbank learned of the "outstanding prospect" on the Pittsburgh sandlots. Ewbank signed Johnny for $17,000 on a make the team basis. Programmed strictly as a backup, Unitas got his chance in the fourth game when the Colts’ starter was injured.

Unitas’ first pass was intercepted for a touchdown but from that moment on, he never looked back. For the next 18 seasons, "Johnny U'' ran up a ledger of game winning exploits seldom matched in NFL history.

Without a doubt, it was his last-second heroics in the 1958 NFL title game, often called "the greatest game ever played," that turned Unitas into a household name. The New York Giants, with two minutes to play, were leading, 17-14, when the Colts started a last-gasp drive at their own 14. “Mr. Clutch” went coolly to work with seven straight passes that set up a game-tying field goal with seven seconds left. Unitas then engineered a textbook perfect 80-yard march to win the game in overtime. The game, played before a national television audience, gave Unitas his chance to demonstrate all of his marvelous attributes – confidence, courage, leadership, play calling genius, and passing skill.

Unitas’ career statistics include 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns passing. His record of at least one touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games may stand forever. A genuine team player, Unitas was a first- or second-team All-NFL choice eight years, selected NFL Player of the Year three times, and named to 10 Pro Bowls.

HIX

Where's Elway? If you have Dan Fouts then you better at least have Elway up there!

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CardLogic

Unitas is the definition of football! ( Read the previous post by whatchamacallit.) Eighteen years, nearly every one of those years at or near the top of the league in terms of stats and/or winning! Eighteen years! - and there were not any of the darn "can't lay a lick on the QB" rules that they have in today's game. Johnny U. was one tough son of a gun!

Oh yeah, and he called his own plays too!

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Shane

I hate John Elway!

So since it was my poll I felt the need to leave him off!

wierwolf

Where's Troy Aikman? LOL. Just kidding. But if you're Eliminating Marino for no rings then Aikman has a couple. Trent Dilfer has a ring. Does that make him better than Marino too?

Krangthebrain

Elway was extremely overrated...

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NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates

On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett

Krangthebrain

I can't believe that people have totally forgotten Otto.

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“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do—his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn’t care ‘how hard it is’; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn’t go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the ‘Cause.’ Now, who wants to quit?”

NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates

On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett

whatchamacallit

47 games without throwing an interception. 47 games during Johnny U's career was 4 seasons.

Shane

Agreed!