OT: Your favorite football player of all time ?

34 comments

• mikeya02

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  9 years ago

  You mean Tony, and he was awesome. Fast SOB
• Meursault

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  9 years ago

  It makes no sense whatsoever but: Ahmad Rashād. Vikings fans don't have much to hang their hats on and his Hail Mary catch against Cleveland in 1980 is one of best football memories.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwWdA-o0…
• Papi_Chulo

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  9 years ago

  Oops - that was a typo - yeah I meant Tony Dorsett
• chessmaster

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  9 years ago

  Randy moss
• shailynn

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  9 years ago

  Barry Motherfuckin' Sanders
• GoVikings

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  9 years ago

  Cris Carter
• twentyfive

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  9 years ago

  Tossup between Jim Brown and Joe Namath, in the more recent era I like Larry Taylor from the N.Y.Giants because no one in his time dominated a game like he did he was a complete monster
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  Close toss up between Peyton Manning and Kenny Stabler
• mikeya02

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  9 years ago

  LaDainian Tomlinson
• JohnSmith69

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  9 years ago

  Larry Csonka. I was a Dolphins fan as a kid.
• SuperDude

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  9 years ago

  Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns
• rl27

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  9 years ago

  To me it's Walter Payton, Jim Brown, Joe Montana, and Frank Ryan.
  
  I never saw Frank Ryan play, but heard a lot about him from many Browns fans when I grew up, for being the last Browns quarterback to win the championship. The thing that impressed me most is that while he played for the Browns, he went to graduate school and received a Ph. D in mathematics from Rice, and became an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Institute of Technology.
  
  As Red Smith said "the Browns' offense consisted of a quarterback who understood Einstein’s theory of relativity and ten teammates who didn’t know there was one"
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  My other favorite player is also how this sentence is completed:
  
  "I went to a strip club last night and had my _________"
  
  
  http://www.footballcardgallery.com/1963_…
• DandyDan

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  9 years ago

  @Meursault-
  That is my first real memory of the Vikings. I specifically remember the priest from my church came to our house that day, for reasons that I don't remember. It was the first weird day of my life that I remember.
  
  On the flip side Tony Dorsett once scored a 99 yard TD against the Vikings while Dallas had only ten men on the field.
  
  My favorite player, however, was William Perry, aka the Fridge, and a Bear.
  
  
  
• jackslash

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  9 years ago

  Franco Harris.
  
• GACA

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  9 years ago

  WR --! HOF inductee this year -- Tim Brown RAIDERS!!!! I actually got him tI autograph my hat 20 years ago, super proud to be a fan.
• tumblingdice

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  9 years ago

  Lawrence Taylor,the man literally changed the game of football. Who's this Dick Butkus guy?
  
• Bondir

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  9 years ago

  Jerry Rice
  
• Mr_O

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  9 years ago

  Larry Csonka, the heart and soul of the Dolphins during their best days.
  
  Honorable mention, Manny Fernandez.
  
  Got to meet both.
• chandler

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  9 years ago

  Garo Yepremian, from Cyprus, one of the first soccer style kickers in the NFL.
  
  From Wikipedia: In his first game his coach told him that their team had lost the coin toss, at which point Yepremian ran to midfield and dropped to his knees looking for the coin.
• chandler

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  9 years ago

  Honorable mention, Night Train Lane. A little before my time, but I grew up hearing my older brothers and my dad rave about him in the years before grabbing the face mask was a bad thing:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYdH1tuq…
  
• pensionking

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  9 years ago

  Walter Payton. Easy. Jumped over, ran around, ran through defenders. Caught and threw for TDs. Missed 1 game his entire career -- coaches decision (and was pissed about it).
  RIP Wally
• mikeya02

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  9 years ago

  ^^^ It just occured to me that Payton and Tomlinson were practically the same player
• IHearVoices

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  9 years ago

  Hmm...might be Steve Young, at least in the pros. In college and overall, it'd have to be Dale Dawkins (WR for Miami in the late 80s).
• sflguy123

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  9 years ago

  Such a hard question since football is the ultimate team sport but someone who always stood out on my fav team would be Jack Lambert.
• GoVikings

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  9 years ago

  GACAclub....the hall of fame inductions last night were great................tim brown did his thing!!!
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  I consider myself a pretty hard core football fan but Will Shields, who was inducted last night, must be the greatest player I don't remember.
  
  He played in 12 straight Pro Bowls ftom
  1995 to 2006. The 12 Pro Bowls ties the all time NFL record.
  
  He played in apparent obscurity for the Kansas City Chiefs because I can't remember him.
• magicrat

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  9 years ago

  An oldie...Bart Starr
• warhawks

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  9 years ago

  
  Mines a toss up between Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. But I'd probably go with Payton if I had to choose.
• GoVikings

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  9 years ago

  motor,
  
  he was a part of all those great offensive lines that trent green threw behind and priest holmes and larry johnson ran behind
• GACA

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  9 years ago

  @Motor. If you ever played Madden Football in your life you would remember him. He was always a player someone would try to sneak on their custome team
• dallas702

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  9 years ago

  Donny Anderson, never made in "big" with Green Bay but was great to watch. His college days at Texas Tech were phenom. I wish the Packers had an Offensive line to give him more running room.
• shadowcat

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  9 years ago

  John Abraham because his favorite seat at Follies was the same as mine. :)
• farmerart

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  9 years ago

  Ol' Spaghetti Legs.................Jackie Parker