Elway, Marino, Montana, Brady, etc. all had better "stats"...but they'd have $hat their pants in a VC rocket attack.
Me..
Montana played before the salary cap and the 49ers were basically the NY Yankees of football.
Plus Eddie D, owner of the 49ers is a crook and likely greased a lot of refs back in the day.
If he tried to bribe the sitting Governor of Louisiana with $400,000 in CASH for a Riverboat Gambling license, you think he never bribed any refs?
The 49ers also had to forfeit draft picks for violating the salary cap with under the table payments to players once the cap was put into place, and haven’t won a SB in the salary cap era.
Not to mention all the stuff that isn’t talked about outside of the SF Bay Area which is where I live.
Carmen Policy, Eddie D and that entire organization were crooked back in the 80’s and 90’s.
Brady didn’t have Jerry Rice to throw to for much of his career either.
Montana was a dink and dunk QB and a product of the West Coast Offense.
Brady is on a team that cheats.
Off topic, but I sometimes get annoyed at people talking about Michael Jordan being the greatest basketball player of all time. Pffffttt.... Wilt changed the game.
Elway, Marino, Montana, Brady, etc. all had better "stats"...but they'd have $hat their pants in a VC rocket attack.
Can you really compare players in sports in different eras?
Is Brady the best now? Yes. Is he one of the best to play the game? Absolutely.
I think that is the only way you can talk about sports.
Compare Wilt to Michael.
Compare Cy Young to Roger Clemons.
Compare Gretzky to Richard, or Orr.
I think its silly to engage in that type of discussion. There are too many variables.
But, I think we call agree that the final play for the Seahawks was THE most boneheaded call in any game, on most any field, for any sport.
Ask us in two years after Brady and Team can no longer use deflated balls.
Pretty sure their record is not going to be as good by then.
Brady
Drafted in the sixth round after seven other Quarterbacks
Gee I only can pick from those two?
Someone makes up public school tests I see. :)
Tony Romo
Last I checked, football was a team sport. Therefore, the question is stupid.
Rodger Dodger.
And a small community in that State re-named their town "Joe".
Tom Brady can't say either of those things...though perhaps some rural post office somewhere can rename itself "Brady" or Bradyville.
It wouldn't matter, nothing beats Joe Montana (other the Dallas Cowboys did, a time or two).
Could either one of them win a game after drinking a pint of whiskey. Ken Stabler could.
Joe. No Picks, No losses, 4 wins. No question.
Marino
Staubach. Great quarterback. Great American.
George Blanda