Posted on 02/01/2015 7:29:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Both quarterbacks have won four super bowls with their teams. Who's the greatest quarterback of all time? Joe Montana or Tom Brady?
Heck, Bobby Layne could run rings around them even after downing a bottle of Jack.
Otto Graham could be considered the greatest QB ever. He took his team to the championship game EVERY YEAR HE PLAYED. Still holds the record for the highest winning percentage of all time.
Obviously not.... lol
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.
Montana gave us some good times.
Elway, Marino, Montana, Brady, etc. all had better "stats"...but they'd have $hat their pants in a VC rocket attack.
Right. You have to ask two questions: Would Brady have a better “fit” in 1959, or Unitas,a “fit today? A modern engine would not fit in a car of that time, nor an old one in today’s cars. What matters is which makes the car you have run well?
Do you know what that rule is?
Ray Neitscke, yeah, a mean pinche cabron, these old school players stayed up drinking the night before the game, played with broken bones—if both legs were broken, they were dragged off the field.
Once their limbs were splinted they showed up for work at their real jobs. And they loved football.
Guys like these thought Ty Cobb was maybe a little too rough, but only because he would sharpen his baseball spikes with a bastard file while leering at the ‘enemy’.
Then he would slide into bases-— spikes-high.
YOu are absolutely right and Tom also had to come back after having his knee repaired after sitting out a season. Yeah, medicine and ligament surgery has come a long way but it is still surgery and no know knows how one will heal. And of course, he is a MEEEECHIGAN MAN! GO BLUE!
Players are individually stronger, faster now than in the old days. But really, could the 2014 Yankees have beaten the 1954 Yankees?
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.
I can not argue !!
However, shouldn’t Sammy Baugh be included somewhere in the conversation ? After all, Baugh led the league in passing, punting, and interceptions in the same year !! I’ve love to today’s wussies even attempt to plat defensive back or punt !!
Or even, Sid Luckman ?
Ditto.
Bradshaw played in an era before so many rule changes made pass defense nearly impossible.
Bradshaw also called the plays, something that neither Brady nor Montana have ever done.
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