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View Poll Results: Who is the best QB in NFL history????
Joe Montana 21 55.26%
Dan Marino 2 5.26%
Brett Favre 4 10.53%
Dan Fouts 3 7.89%
Steve Young 1 2.63%
Johnny Unitas 7 18.42%
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Old August 14th, 2003, 03:52 PM   #1
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Best QB of all time?


Who is it????
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Old August 14th, 2003, 04:03 PM   #2
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Tommie Frazier!
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Old August 14th, 2003, 04:06 PM   #3
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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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Old August 14th, 2003, 04:55 PM   #4
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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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Old August 14th, 2003, 04:57 PM   #5
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What about Jim Kelly?



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Old August 14th, 2003, 06:16 PM   #6
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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.

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Old August 15th, 2003, 04:28 AM   #7
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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.
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Old August 15th, 2003, 07:32 AM   #8
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Where's Elway? If you have Dan Fouts then you better at least have Elway up there!
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Old August 15th, 2003, 07:44 AM   #9
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Johnny U. is the man!


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

So since it was my poll I felt the need to leave him off!
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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?
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Where's Elway? If you have Dan Fouts then you better at least have Elway up there!
Elway was extremely overrated...
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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.

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I can't believe that people have totally forgotten Otto.
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Re: Johnny U. is the man!


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