All 32 NFL Franchises Statistically Ranked In Order Of All-Time Greatness

http://nflspinzone.com ^ | Daniel D. Zillmer

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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 sport’s 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 isn’t 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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True, because the NFL was the only "real" football league until the AFL merger in the '60s.

Baseball has no equivalent. Sure, the AL is "younger" than the NL, but not by much. And they've made up the Major Leagues for over a century.

So there are memories that stretch back way before our lifetimes.

In football, it pretty much is our lifetimes, that is for some of us. (I'm not old enough to remember pre-AFL days).

Plus football was never even close to being as popular as baseball until the late '60s.

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The list is subjective. He gave specific criteria on how he rated teams. A lot more criteria goes into his list than winning Super Bowls. Brown are rated at #10. But how many SBs have they won lately? I’m also a big Pats fan, and would have ranked them in the top 5, but it’s not my list.