Seven Post Merger AP All Pro Club

[Sonny9]

I took a look at the Associated Press All pro selections for each season since the merger.

The following 20 teams each had seven players named first or second team all-pro by the Associated Press in their respective seasons.

All 20 of these teams made at least the conference championship game or were within a year of having done so, and I’m pretty sure you could say they did so with the group of players listed.

One team that deserves a shoutout is the 1973 Dolphins who might very well have also had seven all pro selections, but for reasons that I don’t know, the AP didn’t pick a second team of players in 1973.

1973 Steelers may have done it too. Three 1st team AP All Pros. Two others made 1st team in UPI and another four made 2nd team in UPI

[SeahawkFever]

I took a look at the Associated Press All pro selections for each season since the merger.

The following 20 teams each had seven players named first or second team all-pro by the Associated Press in their respective seasons.

All 20 of these teams made at least the conference championship game or were within a year of having done so, and I’m pretty sure you could say they did so with the group of players listed.

One team that deserves a shoutout is the 1973 Dolphins who might very well have also had seven all pro selections, but for reasons that I don’t know, the AP didn’t pick a second team of players in 1973.

1973 Steelers may have done it too. Three 1st team AP All Pros. Two others made 1st team in UPI and another four made 2nd team in UPI

If you combine all the publications that give out all-pro designations then there are certainly others beyond the 20 I named, but if we are only looking at the AP (which is the one most often quoted from what I can tell), then those are the only 20 post-merger teams with seven players recognized by that publication.

If we went pre-merger, we’d find more in part because the selections were out of fewer players.

Generally I’m not one to try and separate things off at the merger, but for accolades like all-pro it can be pretty apples to oranges to straight up compare teams from the range of 1946-1969 to those from 1970 onward.