Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

I was looking at the 75th Anniversary team:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... -Time_Team
http://www.nfl.com/history/legends/75th

and was thinking that the 100th Anniversary is only a few years away... meaning there is a 100th Anniversary team about to be selected.

Assuming the extra 2.5 decades allows for the addition of a single player to each of the positions and using the 75th Anniversary team as your starting point who would you choose for your 100th Anniversary QBs?
(You don;t have to stick with all the 75th team's players).

75th Anniversary Team QBs, Unitas, Baugh, Graham and Montana
+1: I would add Tom Brady

But someone else may want to add Brady and Manning... then who would you drop from the original four?

Have fun...

Brady or Manning are really the only choices.

I think they'll find a place for both Brady and Manning.

BD Sullivan wrote:Brady or Manning are really the only choices.

As of this date, probably. However, there are a few more years to go.

Aaron Rodgers might get a spot on the 100th anniversary team. This is a case where RINGZ and QB WINS may really matter. If Rodgers gets another Super Bowl title or two in the next four seasons, he would be in the mix.

It will be interesting to see how the team is constructed. Will it simply be a facsimile of the 75th anniversary team with maybe one or two extra players chosen at each position or will a whole new team be constructed from scratch with maybe the same number of players at each spot as the 75th anniversary team?

Rodgers is great but his career, as it currently stands, is not at the level of Brady and Manning. You're right in saying that he would need to win another championship or two. I rank him at the next level with Favre, Marino, Staubach, Tarkenton, Young, Luckman and several others.

The 75th anniversary selection committee had it right with Baugh, Graham, Unitas and Montana. Brady and Manning belong with those four.

JohnH19 wrote: The 75th anniversary selection committee had it right with Baugh, Graham, Unitas and Montana. Brady and Manning belong with those four.

Just for arguments sake if they went with only five spaces would you drop one of the original four to make room for Manning?

Maybe they'll cop out and name the 100 greatest players. That's what the NBA did with their 50th Anniversary.

That's a tough one. If I did, it would be Baugh, but I wouldn't be totally comfortable with it.

I'm pretty surprised Marino wasn't on the 75th. Any chance he gets in the 100th? Or (fair or not) his no-Rings will do him in.

Factoid - Marino had 11 seasons under his belt ('83 thru '93) when the 75th was selected; Aaron Rodgers barring any career-ending injury will have had 10 as a starter ('09 thru '18) going into Year 100; at the very least, his career so-far not being a quite as long as Peyton/Brady is what'll box him out. But that then will bring us to Drew Brees (who very well may be retired by then - en route to easy 1st Ballot); and he seems to come up just short to #18/#12 as well.

74_75_78_79_ wrote:I'm pretty surprised Marino wasn't on the 75th. Any chance he gets in the 100th? Or (fair or not) his no-Rings will do him in.

Factoid - Marino had 11 seasons under his belt ('83 thru '93) when the 75th was selected; Aaron Rodgers barring any career-ending injury will have had 10 as a starter ('09 thru '18) going into Year 100; at the very least, his career so-far not being a quite as long as Peyton/Brady is what'll box him out. But that then will bring us to Drew Brees (who very well may be retired by then - en route to easy 1st Ballot); and he seems to come up just short to #18/#12 as well.

The problem for Brees is that the Saints have been up and down during his time there. Obviously, not much of the bad was his fault, but consistent winning (regular season and otherwise) is presumably one of the sticking points.