With TE Jason Witten (the greatest TE of all time btw) retiring, I got an inkling to ask…
- who is your favorite NFL player of all time?
- who is your favorite NFL player of all time on your teams rival team?
I like Dallas Cowboy’s TE Jason Witten and I like the Washington Redskin’s Darrell Green. I attended Darrell Green’s last game. It was against the Cowboys. We stayed all the way till the end of Darrell’s farewell speech at midfield. The only Redskin’s player worth a damn.
Walter Payton – hands down. The guy hit as hard as the guys trying to tackle him. Amazing stamina through the years. 170 consecutive starts. Over 16,000 yards rushing, close to 80 100yard rushing games. Played many different positions at times from quarterback to punter. Just an exceptional athlete and all around great football player.
For a rival, I’d have to say Brett Favre. That gunslinger was fun to watch, even when beating the Bears.
Favorite: Joe Montana
Favorite Rival: Roger Staubach – great leader
BTW: there are plenty of worthy Redskins besides the great Darrell Green – Russ Grimm, Jeff Bostic, Ken Houston, Larry Brown, Joe Jacoby and Art Monk are among them.
In sports, I don’t have good things to say about the enemy.
Fran Tarkenton, QB.
I liked his style.
#1 – Walter Payton
#2 – Larry Allen
Watch number 73 prevent the pick 6. Please tell me of another LT that could bench 700 pounds and make that tackle?
Yep, that is one of the greatest plays in all of sports. L.A. was a beast.
1. Sean Taylor – Washington Redskins (murdered 11/7/2007).
2. None–all rivals are enemy.
1) Lawrence Taylor, perhaps greatest player ever at any position
2) Terry Bradshaw
Witten clearly second best tight end, but really cannot be argued he is best ever. Best tight end ever, and it is not close, is Tony Gonzales.,
I thought you were smart. Tony couldn’t block my newborn granddaughter.
Any list of TEs starts with TonyG. And I am a lifelong Cowboys fan. But TG was the best ever.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat, you and I have something in common?
I remember every time Emmitt scored a TD, I would yell…”The Emmitt zoooooone”. No, my friends didn’t like it.
Ummm TE Bow? Not aware of any other TE’s.
Favorite NFL player of all time: Barry Sanders (there were some that were close in terms of RB skills: Walter Payton; Gale Sayers; Jim Brown, not Emmitt Smith). But he was the best and he never made a scene in the end zone, hence my favorite.
Odell Beckham is a freak of nature at WR, but he is punk.
This new kid that the Giants drafted from Penn State looks like a freak of nature too however so we will see.
Favorite player on favorite (Giants) team’s rival (New England): Wes Welker: one of the best undrafted players ever.
Who Gives A Sh!t. Grow Up, fanboy faggots.
What a gay comment.
Hello McFly, sports are an exercise and celebration of strength, speed and agility. It’s been this way since time immemorial. In fact, if you have any kind of testosterone, you were racing your friends as early as 5-6 years old.
Now, spending thousands of dollars to go to games and purchase another man’s Jersey to wear is faggoty, yes.
Chuck Bednarik combat air crewman WWII. Last player in NFL who played offense and defense.
1) Favorite players all time – tie
Jack Lambert / Hines Ward
Both guys were undersized-underestimated players that brought intensity and toughness on every play. It was a war for these guys on the field and they poured everything they had into it. They took above-average pro talent and elevated it to Hall of Fame (or should be HOF for Ward) levels, based on their attitudes. Anyone who ever played the game in any era would LOVE to go to battle with either of these guys on their side.
2) Favorite NFL players on rival team(s) – tie
Earl Campbell / Ken Stabler
These guys brought different things to the table …
Campbell was an absolute freak of nature for his time with his size, toughness and even remarkable speed for a big man.
The Snake was the prototypical “Never Say Die”player. No lead was ever safe when going against him.
Both of these guys were warriors, but had a bit of a different take than Lambert/Ward. Yeah, they were competitive as hell and wanted to win, but down deep, they gave the air that they were nuthin but Good Ole Country Boys, at heart. Plus, I enjoy the testimonials by the coaches and players that were in their corner. No prima donna bullshit. These guys set the tone and their lesser-lite teammates continue to speak glowingly about them many years after their prolific careers.
Hard not to admire their talents and their attitudes. And years after the smoke cleared from the legendary rivalry games against the Steel Curtain, harder not to actually rank them within my personal top 10 favorite players of All Time, which says a lot based on all of the Steeler greats that I have been fortunate enough to follow for over 40 years.
I certainly would have never dreamed of committing such heresy (as a 9 – 14 year old back in the glorious NFL era that was the 70’s) by putting them in my personal Top 10, but these guys were special.
* – Favorite rival coach – Bum Phillips
Go out on YouTube and there is some great stuff about him. Competitive, successful coach. But the man did it in a different way.
Players and coaches hanging out, drinking beer, playing cards and listening to country music. I’m not even a huge fan of the last two, but if it took playing cards and listening to country music to hang with Bum and his crew, sign me up!
Favorite (doesn’t mean the best): Dan Fouts
Nothing like scoring 45 points and losing the game. Exciting to watch.
Best game: Chargers/Dolphins OT epic.
The NFL is a waste of time and no petal pusher, bat swinger, ball putter, pumpkin bouncer etc should be paid a million dollars.
I’d rather the money go into the talent’s pockets than the owners’ and/or corporate sponsors’. Obviously, you vote with your feet and you are certainly entitled to do so … but as long as there is mass appeal to watch and pay for this stuff, the talent should get the $$$.
That being said, public financial support for stadiums is an absolute abomination. No city or metro area should EVER pony-up public funds for unnecessary palaces to promote the circuses.
Yep, that pisses me off also. Stadiums are a form welfare for the rich it seems.