poll who is the greatest football player of all time?????

Answer 1

Easy...Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Eric Dickerson.

Answer 2

Lawrence Taylor. He singlhandedly changed the way opposing coaches planned their offensive scheme. The West Coast offense was invented because of LT. Not just the greatest defensive player but THE greatest player in NFL history. He came as close to being a one man team as anyone could.

Answer 3

Brett Favre hands down, he has won a superbowl, is the NFL's Only 3 Time MVP, he has set more records that most can even count to, and he plays with class and with all of his heart, and he is out there to have fun, not to see how much money he can bring in like most players, Brett does whatever it takes to win and is hands down the greatest football player of all time.

Answer 4

Barry Sanders was without a doubt the most phenomenal athlete I've ever seen in any sport, and I don't expect to see anyone like him in my lifetime. He was also the most humble, as evidenced by the fact that not once in his career did he spike the football after a touchdown. He's probably the greatest college football player of all-time, breaking 34 records in one season, including a ridiculous 2,628 rushing yards in 1988.

He could have easily broken the NFL's all-time rushing record but retired prematurely after ten seasons. In those ten seasons, however, he became the first player ever to record 10 consecutive 1,000 yard seasons, set NFL records for most 100 yard rushing games and most consecutive 100 yard rushing games (14) in a season, career records for most games with more than 150 rushing yards (25), most 1500 yard seasons (5), and most TD runs of more than 50 yards (15), and to my knowledge he's one of 3 players in NFL history (along with OJ Simpson and Jim Brown) to record a yards per carry average over 6.0 in a season and one of five players in history to record 2,000 yards in a season. He's second in NFL history in rushing yards per carry (5.0) behind Jim Brown (5.2) and third in NFL history in all-time rushing yards despite having had 1,347 fewer carries than Emmitt Smith and 776 fewer carries than Walter Payton. And he did all this behind one of the league's worst offensive lines and with an owner who refused to surround him with any decent talent.

It's hard to argue against Jim Brown (Sanders' own father claims Jim Brown is the best football player he's ever seen), but I can't imagine he would've put up the same numbers in Sanders' era, during which the defenses were substantially bigger and faster.

Answer 5

Aw, come on, Princess. Can'tcha at least let us take this position by position?

If we can't do that, my pick would have to be Roger Staubach, with Jim Brown a close second. Even a 21-point lead in the 4th quarter wasn't safe playing against Staubach. And Jim Brown? Well, he was Jim Brown, 'nuff said.

Answer 6

Jim Brown

Answer 7

I would have to throw Gale Sayers in there. Imagine his stats if they would have played more than 12 games back then. Not to mention he truly was the start of pass catching running backs. I mean th guy had 22 touchdowns in 12 games and only touched the ball 232 times that year. He truly changed the way the position was played.

Answer 8

Jim Brown

Answer 9

Walter Payton

Answer 10

Adam Lallana