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In this stunning, full-color companion to the NFL Networks 100 Greatest Players series, readers will relive the physical feats and hard-won triumphs of those who have most memorably dominated the gridiron. An insightful narrative accompanies more than 200 spectacular photos of such inspiring players as Joe Montana, Lawrence Taylor, Dick Butkus, Peyton Manning, Joe Namath, and many others. And with the help of an introduction that explains the criteria used and the selection process, readers will not only learn who the best players are, theyll learn why they are as well.
A must-have collectors item for every football fan, The NFLs Top 100 is the definitive collection of footballs finest.
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THE NFLS
TOP 100
BY JAMES BUCKLEY JR.
THE NFLS
TOP 100
BY JAMES BUCKLEY JR.
| Thunder Bay Press |
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Buckley, James, 1963
The NFLs top 100 / James Buckley; foreword by Boomer Esiason.
p. cm.
Summary: A look at the top 100 NFL players in history as selected by a panel of experts, with brief overviews of each players career and stats Provided by publisher.
ISBN-13: 978-1-60710-303-5 (hardback)
ISBN-10: 1-60710-303-6
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THE TOP TENS:
BY BOOMER ESIASON
Starting a list like the NFLs top 100 one is easy. There are those special players who jump out at you when you see them either in person or on TV. Guys like Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, Reggie White, and Anthony Muoz. No-brainers, as I like to call them. Watching them play is something special... and playing against them as I did, you knew it was going to take all that you had to beat them.
So, starting the list? Easy. Getting past those no-brainers is where it gets hard. I probably could come up with an argument for an additional 100 players to be included. In my opinion, there were others who could bebut are noton the list: James Brooks, Larry Centers, and Jim Sweeney are just a few of my former teammates who had a profound impact on the game in my era and yet for some reason are often overlooked. (Just had to get that off of my chest. As a former quarterback, I recognize how vital team chemistry is to winning and to team greatness.)
To actually choose the top 100, you have to start by asking, What does it take to be one of the chosen? A good example is Muoz. I played with Anthony for nine years, and I could see every day when we were together what it took to be great. It took, first, a physical gift, which he certainly had. But that had to be combined with the desire to be great, a desire that Anthony had in abundance. He was easily the greatest player I had the pleasure of playing with.
But you dont have to play alongside greatness to know it when you see it. Watching Joe Montana or Johnny Unitas carve up a defense, you knew they were different. Watching Deion Sanders return a punt or interception for a TD was a feat fans came to see. (If you dont believe me, Deion will tell you that himself!) How about seeing Walter Payton or Earl Campbell run over a defender? What about the ankle-breaking moves Barry Sanders delivered each and every week?
Having played with and against some of the men on this list, I think that what ultimately separates the top 100 from everyone else is that they did it week in and week out, year after year.
From Dan Marino to Jerry Rice, the offense in the top 100 is a collection of the most dynamic group of players the NFL has ever seen. From Rod Woodson to Ray Lewis, the defense is a group of fierce and powerful people.
Either way you look at itby how the players are ranked or by whether your favorites did or did not get includedthe top 100 list is a terrific way to passionately discuss the merits of each player. For instance, there are no blond, left-handed quarterbacks on this list!
In a 14-year NFL career, Pro Bowl quarterback Boomer Esiason played for the Bengals, the Jets, and the Cardinals. He is now a broadcaster with CBS Sports and runs the Boomer Esiason Foundation dedicated to helping people with cystic fibrosis.
The first games in the National Football League were played, sort of, on October 3, 1920. Surprisingly, no one is quite sure which game actually came first, since kickoff times were not well reported in that pre-Twitter era. But we do know that four teams that were part of the American Professional Football Association played on that day. The scores were Rock Island 45, Muncie 0, and Dayton 14, Columbus 0. Two years later, of course, the APFA became the National Football League (hence the sort of).
Why do we mention this famous football first (or should we say firsts)? Because out of the couple dozen players who took part in those two gamesnone appear in this book.
However, in the ensuing 90 years of NFL play, those pioneering packs have been joined by more than an estimated 21,000 athletes. Through Depression, World War, Cold War, and Generations Greatest, Me, X, and Millennial, the men of the NFL have played on, adding each season to a legacy begun by those earliest of teams.
From among those many thousands of players, a relative handful stand out as the best of the best: The NFLs Top 100. We use 100 as the convenient total for the count, but instead of thinking of it as 100, try it as a percentage. How select is the group of players in this book? They represent the merest tiny fraction of all-time NFL players, just about 0.004 percent. Of the thousands of meals youve had in your life, how many stand out as the top 0.004 percent? Were talking very, very select company here.
The men on this list didnt just rack up gaudy numbers. (Marvin Harrison, No. 2 all-time in receptions: Not on the list.) They didnt just win the most championships. (Charles Haley, most Super Bowl rings: Not on the list.) They didnt play for endless numbers of games. (Jim Marshall, 282 straight: Not on the list.)
To make the NFLs Top 100, you need an alchemic combination of physical skills and mental power. To earn a spot in this august company, you have to stand out not just from the peers around you in your era, but against players from decades before or after you. To make the list, you had to be a winner, even if your team didnt win a lot of games.
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