<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kcgsc)</div><div class='quotemain'> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BearsFan1)</div><div class='quotemain'>There is no way you can say he would have broke record. He was a tiny man, and one big hit from not playing ever again. Plus, with as much as he got caught for a loss, he might have lost a step, and ended up with a negative rushing total. FYI he was on bad team, but it was usually a bad DEFENSE holding back lions, and not the offense. He got his carries, danced like a girl, and hurt the lions chances every time he started.</div></p> <font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4" color="#ffff00" style="background-color: #ff0000">The problem with that statement is that it was not easy to hit him. I read before that Peyton was B. Sanders' hero. There was speculation that one of the reasons he walked away was to not take Walter's record.</font></p> </div></p> I agree. On short yardage plays, tho, he would have been easy to hit. They were clearly scared of breaking him.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane)</div><div class='quotemain'> That joke was originally about Payton and Franco Harris.</p> Jim Brown was quite vocal about not wanting Harris to beat his record (or first). </p> </div> That was two fold. Not only did Brown not like Franco's running style, he also didn't want a Steeler breaking his record.</p> </p> </p>
Seeing Csonka mentioned, we should do another thread on most underrated RB's. *cough* Rocky Bleier *cough*
um, i think that LT is one of the best RB there have ever been and his career isnt even over. But Barry Sanders would probably be my number 1, then i am not sure who i would put as 2 but LT i has like already established himself as a top 5 RB in history. hopefully Adrian Peterson will become the best RB ever. </p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I will add this in reference to Jim Brown. He played a shorter schedule, against fewer teams, with smaller defensive players. Give me Bo Jackson. If he'd have played from 59 to 64 none of you would know who the hell Jim Brown is !</font>
Gotta give some props to Marshall Faulk as well. Over 10,000 yards rushing and nearly 7000 yards receiving over the course of his career. Quite impressive.
1. Walter Payton- Sweetness nothing less</p> 2. Emitt Smith- Grew up seeing him play</p> 3. Jim Brown- Emitt gets the nod for number 2 in my book just because of the Huge time gap.</p> 4. Barry Sanders- One of the most elusive backs in history</p> 5. Marshall Faulk- One of the most versatile threats in NFL history</p> 6. Toney Dorsett- TD is legendary in my household(my dad's a Cowboys/Bengals fan)</p> 7. Bo Jackson- Bo knew Football</p> 8. Curtis Martin- One of my favorite back ever, Did everything right.</p> 9. Earl Campbell- Just a Monster, thrived on contact</p> 10. Thurman Thomas- Another one of those awesome multi threat backs.</p>
I think Jim Brown was well ahead of his time. He was as big and as fast as any back in the NFL today and he retired much sooner as well. I think I heard Tom Jackson say he ran a 4.4. That was unheard of back then for a guy his size. </p> PA Marshal Faulk would be my most versatile back to ever play the game and probably the most underrated to ever play the game. Those Rams would've been nothing without him in my opinion. </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid Chocolate)</div><div class='quotemain'>To say Barry Sanders wouldn't be top 100 is absolutely absurd.</div></p> </p> I dont agree with BF1 that Barry Sanders should be excluded from the top 100 or even the top 10, but he does have a point that Barry Sanders running style wasnt condusive to winning because it does not consistently move the chains and it does not consistently put you in the 2nd and short to medium situations that you need as an offense to dictateto a defense....Barry Sanders did lose more yard from scrimmage than any other RB in history and he did lose yards on more occasions than any other back....which means he was far more likely to put you into 2nd and 13 than he was to break a breathaking run....no one turned nothing into something more spectacularly, and no one turned something into nothing with more flair....</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid Chocolate)</div><div class='quotemain'>To say Barry Sanders wouldn't be top 100 is absolutely absurd.</div>To say barry sanders was anything other then a coward to afraid to fight for even one tough yard is absurd, My 2 year old neice is tougher.
I came into this thead thinking that even though I'm a Bears fan, I'd have to give the nod to Brown, but Bo Jackson changes my mind.</p> On a purely game by game basis, a healthy Bo Jackson was the most freakishly dominant RB I've ever seen. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but the guy was like Shaq in that he was just one of those guys who is naturally an order of magnitude better as a physical specimen than anyone he played against. Brown was like that too, but playing against guys who didn't train or anything like they do now. So I tend to think Bo could have done pretty much anything Brown could have done.</p> Of course, Jackson doesn't even have enough NFL time to qualify his 5.4 ypc as the best ever. So it's kind of hard for me to add him to a best ever list. </p> </p> Anyway, my point is sort of this: I think Bo (on the field) was probably a modern day Jim Brown. And I'd still take a healthy, in-his-prime Payton over Jackson any day of the week.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BearsFan1)</div><div class='quotemain'> NOT IN TOP 100 all time - Barry Sanders. Led the lead in carries for loss every year with his girly dancing style that hurt the team</p> </div></p> Bears fan, are you just upset that it took like 12 Bears to run him out of bounds with that "Girly Dancing style" he had? For every 5-10 yard loss I knew he had a 80 yard TD run in him.</p>