Posted on 09/22/2014 8:10:32 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Attention NFL purists, this piece is for you.
The 2014 NFL season is right around the corner. That sentence alone is enough to get the blood pumping of the millions of Americans that live for the NFL the most popular sport in the country by a landslide. I share that enthusiasm, not only for the NFL, but for its history. And in this instance, for quantifying that history. I believe it to be a shame that MLB has preserved its history so well that its ancient heroes are fondly remembered and its legendary teams revered, while NFL history sits in relative obscurity. This history remains there, even when one of the more discussed topics in NFL circles is debated: Which franchise is truly the greatest in NFL history? Mind you, professional football has no New York Yankees. To answer this, the entirety of the sports history must be accounted for.
With that in mind, I set out to definitively answer the elusive greatest NFL franchise debate. My goal was to shed some light on NFL history, and subsequently on every NFL franchise. This list isnt the byproduct of arguments between fans or some run of the mill ranking of franchises based almost entirely on how many Super Bowl trophies each franchise has collected. Anyone can look up those numbers and anyone can form a baseless opinion. I dug much deeper, because that is what the NFL, and its history, deserves.
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Dolphins ranked one place ahead of Pats. Just enough to drive Pats fans crazy. I love it.
Quit being anal ansel
Ok, now let’s rank them in order of felons.
Yeah, that didn’t really work out like it did in your head.
Isn't that pretty much what "all-time" means?
Isn't that pretty much what "all-time" means?
The Steelers were 4-0 in super bowls during that run, meaning they did not make it to the big game twice.
In the eight year period from 1960 to 67, the Packers were 5-1 in NFL championship games. They also did not make it twice.
This 49'er fan votes for the Packers as the all time best.
As a 12 year season ticket holder I will also say this: The Cheeseheads are the best visiting fans in the league (Saints a close second).
He was good but the Buffalo Bills had a guy named Cookie Gilchrist that made Bronko Nagurski look like a girl scout in comparison. He only played 3 years in the early 60's and gained over 3,000 yards in the pass-happy era of the AFL.
Earl Campbell.
As another big Seahawks fan, I agree with you. I’d possibly add Jacob Green to some of the greats. Hall of Famer Steve Largent is one of my all-time favorite players.
I was thinking about some of Seattle’s former QBs and was remembering that Dave Kreig was pretty good. I did a search on bing and found this Wikipedia page. Given you’re a Hawks fan, you might be interested in it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Seattle_Seahawks_starting_quarterbacks
3 former coaches and 4 former players from the Seahawks have been nominated for the 2015 Hall of Fame:
Mike Holmgren (with Seahawks from 1999-2008)
Chuck Knox (1983-91)
Tom Flores (1992-94)
Shaun Alexander (2000-07)
Ricky Watters (1998-2001)
Kevin Mawae (1994-97)
Shawn Springs (1997-2003)
http://12thmanrising.com/2014/09/17/seven-former-seahawks-among-2015-hall-fame-nominees/
Ping
List lost all credibility ranking Patriots at #17. Lol. Total garbage. Top 2-3 coach all time. Top 2-3 QB all time. Most appearances in Super Bowl all time. Best winning % in all of NFL since 1994 - that’d be 20 years. Team of decade of 2000s.
Not saying #1 or even top 5. But 17 is total joke.
Thanks.
Their early years, with Hank Stram and Len Dawson, keep them out of the basement in this poll.
Lately they're performing a different role in the NFL - when they run clips of outstanding plays in the league, it's the Chiefs they're scoring against.
Yep.
It’s like being a Cubs fan.
Yes, of course... I meant in the Superbowl era.
Interesting idea, to go through football history like this.
Author is right that football doesn’t celebrate and connect with the history in the same way that baseball does.
People talk about Babe Ruth and the old days of the Brooklyn Dodgers all the time. How many football fans talk about the Detroit Lions of the ‘50s and their championships? How many talk about the days of the leather helmets?
When people talk about football history, they tend to talk about it from the ‘60s onward, as if the old days of the NFL never happened. Just my observation.
Well said. Otto G. and the Browns had one heck of a ‘Championship Run’ late ‘40s and into the 1950’s also huh?
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