Post your top 5 NFL all-time players NOT on your favorite team

[albionmoonlight]

A companion to this Post your top 5 all-time players on your favorite NFL team - Front Office Football Central (http://operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=77115) thread.

Favorite 5 all-time non-Saints:

Kurt Warner
Walter Payton
Dan Marino
Larry Csonka
Jerry Rice

[Kodos]

Peyton Manning
Terrell Davis
Jerry Rice
Barry Sanders
Steve Bartkowski

[JediKooter]

Joe Montana
Walter Payton
Barry Sanders
Earl Campbell
Dan Marino

[TroyF]

Non Broncos:

Peyton Manning
Jerry Rice
Joe Montana
Kurt Warner
Pat Swilling (I played a defensive fantasy league for a few years. Always picked him late and he always starred. Just loved the guy)

[Big Fo]

Barry Sanders
Peyton Manning
Chris Warren
Tim Brown
Chad Ochocinco

[Honolulu_Blue]

Steve Largent
Bernie Kosar
Clay Matthews
Charles Woodson
Tom Brady

[spleen1015]

Barry Sanders
Joe Montana
Shannon Sharpe
Rod Woodson
Tim Brown

[PurdueBrad]

Drew Brees
Randy Moss
Barry Sanders
Ed Reed
Dan Marino

[Kodos]

Non Broncos:

Jerry Rice


Hey! Rice was a Bronco! ;)

[tarcone]

Walter Payton
Bert Jones
Roger Carr
Dallas Clark
Bo Jackson

[Pumpy Tudors]

Randall Cunningham
Ernest Givins
Eric Metcalf
Mark Kelso
Comedy Shane Lechler response

[Vince, Pt. II]

Barry Sanders
Bo Jackson
Peyton Manning
Walter Payton
Mike Singletary

[Sun Tzu]

Peyton Manning
Barry Sanders
Steve Largent
Dan Marino
Dick Butkus

[Pumpy Tudors]

Can't believe no one (Eagles fans excluded) has mentioned Pumpy Tudors yet.

Including myself. :(

[DeToxRox]

Non Lions

Ray Lewis
Charles Woodson
Ronnie Lott
Lawrence Taylor
Chad Ochocinco

[gstelmack]

Non-Patriots:

Derrick Brooks
Steve Tasker
Philip Rivers (sorry, watched him play at NC State, loved his competitiveness)
Chad Ochocinco, because the NFL needs more guys who entertain
Howard Griffith, because the guys that do a good job blocking for runners need recognition, too

Before his recent legal issues / prima donna act I might have had Marvin Harrison on this list as a quiet guy who just performed.

[Dutch]

Just to post, this list might actually change if I gave myself time to think about it, but off the top of my head...

As a Bucs fans I would say...


Jerry Rice (above all, loved his work ethic)
Brett Favre (despite ESPN's attempts to destroy his rep, toughest competative QB ever)
Barry Sanders (for sustained amazingness)
Hines Ward (for bravery going across the middle--younger days)
Randall Cunningham....totally forgot about how much I loved watching him play...he's gotta be on the list.Top 5 Buc players?

1. Warren Sapp
2. Derrick Brooks
3. James Wilder
4. Lawrence Dawsey
5. Trent Dilfer

[molson]

Donovan McNabb
Boomer Esiason
Bo Jackson
Chad Ochocinco
Phil Simms

[Dutch]

Randall Cunningham

No doubt.

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[Dutch]

Phil Simms

How the hell did that happen???? :)

[TCY Junkie]

Walter Payton
Joe Montana
Bo Jackson
Steve Largent
Randy Moss

[molson]

How the hell did that happen???? :)

No idea....I tried to think about my childhood, what I remember about football from then, and I remember liking Phil Simms. I didn't know yet, at that innocent age, that I was supposed to hate New York teams and everyone associated with them.

[Warhammer]

Non-Rams:
Sweetness
Wilbur Montgomery
Freeman McNeil
Kenny Easley
Steve Largent

[Mustang]

None.

I have no favorite players on any other team. Just different levels of hate and apathy.

[Sgran]

White Shoes Johnson
Earl Campbell
Ron Jaworski
Joe Montana
Troy Palumalu

[jbergey22]

Favorite Non Vikings
Tom Brady
Peyton Manning
Barry Sanders
Gary Clark
Larry Fitzgerald

Moss and Cunningham would be on that list but they played on the Vikings and I am not sure how specific we are getting.

[Danny]

Joe Montana
Jim Harbaugh
Terrell Davis
Peyton Manning
Drew Bledsoe

Yes I have a QB bias

[EagleFan]

Non-Eagles:

Barry Sanders
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Steve Largent
Curt Warner

[pbot]

Steve Largent
Walter Payton
Wes Chandler
Boomer Esiason
Anthony Carter

limiting it to people I saw play...thus eliminating guys like Johnny U and Ray Berry and the rest of the great old Baltimore Colts.

[MIJB#19]

No favorite NFL team, so I simply listed my favorite player and then the next four that came to mind.

Kurt Warner
Devin Hester
Ray Lewis
Warren Sapp
Steve Smith (the Panthers' WR)

[rjolley]

Offense:
Jerry Rice
Bo Jackson
Marcus Allen
Payton Manning
Drew Brees

Defense:
Lawrence Taylor
Ray Lewis
Deion Sanders
Darrell Green
Warren Sapp

Man, that's a tough list. I can name at least 40 other players over the years that I've enjoyed watching play.

[ColtCrazy]

Non-Colts


1. Dan Marino
2, Dan Fouts
3. Drew Brees
4. Derrick Brooks
5. Joe Klecko

[Izulde]

Limited to guys I saw play:

1. Donovan McNabb
2. Terrell Owens
3. Troy Pomalalu
4. Drew Brees
5. Peyton Manning

Players that would've been included had it not been for the teams they played for:
Thurman Thomas (Bills)
Randy Moss (Vikings, Patriots)

[Senator]

Gale Sayers
Barry Sanders
Lance Alworth
Earl Campbell
Jim Kelly

[Abe Sargent]

1. Jeff Hostetler
2. Marc Bulger
3. Amos Zeroue
4. Anthony Becht
5. Mike Vanderjagt

[Abe Sargent]

Limited to guys I saw play:

1. Donovan McNabb
2. Terrell Owens
3. Troy Pomalalu
4. Drew Brees
5. Peyton Manning

Players that would've been included had it not been for the teams they played for:
Thurman Thomas (Bills)
Randy Moss (Vikings, Patriots)



If this question were Players not on your favorite NFL NOR from your Alma Mater, D McNabb would be at the top of mine.

[Sublime 2]

Non-Patriots

1. Barry Sanders
2. Jerry Rice
3. Warren Sapp
4. Charles Woodson
5. Rod Woodson

[Tigercat]

Ed Reed
Sanders/Sayers
Rice
Unitas
Night Train Lane

Went to HS with Reed, so that is a bit of a cheat. Sanders and Sayers were just unbelievable shows at RB. Rice is the greatest player of all time regardless of position. Unitas was the mold for the franchise QB. Night Train was the mold for the game changing DB, decades before any others existed.

[BYU 14]

Walter Payton
Mike Singletary
Barry Sanders
Earl Campbell
Dan Fouts

[Noop]

Deion Sanders
Champ Baily
Steve Young
Jerry Rice
Barry Sanders

[Subby]

Non-Redskins

1. Randy Moss
2. Ray Lewis
3. Dan Fouts
4. Steve Largent
5. Vikings Brett Favre

[JediKooter]

Non-Patriots:
Philip Rivers (sorry, watched him play at NC State, loved his competitiveness)


Not sure why an apology is needed for picking him. He's a great NFL quarterback and still just as competitive.

[Julio Riddols]

Thomas Jones
Peyton Manning
Darrell Green
Barry Sanders
Randy Moss