ray lewis best linebacker ever? or is there someone better?
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I love anwsers like the joker above me wrote.. This question doesn't ask about who's the better human being....It asks about who's the best linebacker...For my money it's Lawrence Taylor!! I don't care if he did drugs, sent a hooker to a guys room or slaughtered a family during the week...On Sunday he was an animal on the field!! And you can say the same thing about Ray Lewis!! He not the best....But he's top 10 all time for sure!!
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Quickest to 100 TDs? Yes\n\nBest ever? No way.
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Always a tough question...Ronnie Lott, LT, Butkas, Lambert(or anyone of the steel curtain)....I was gonna say Lott because let's face it the guy was NUTS!! but then I thought aside from Favre no one mentioned "O"...there was a Payton reference, must give SWEETNESS his props. I would give my Iron man trophy to the great Jim Brown, C'mon he played 8 years and it took Payton 15 seasons too originally break the rushing record and I think it took E.Smith 16 or 17. Jim Brown was a Def.Lines WORST nightmare and he was NEVER hurt...Running Around and THROUGH DL's and LB's(including Butkus,Ray N. and Deacon Jones). So put that in your pipe and smoke it...you should be ashamed of not even mentioning him..THE GREATEST, my runner-up was a tie between Lott and Earl Campbell( The Bastard can't even walk now he ran so hard!!)
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probably fullback or linebacker.........
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Gotta be Ocho Cinco he is the greatest reciever of all time besides Jerry Rice
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what's wrong with u people, lewis ain't got sht on urlacher, by the way he was the defensive player of the year last year..duh..go bears
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By far yes their is like no other good linebacker
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Hands down HERMAN EDWARDS!\n\n\nFor more on the NFL.....http://factipedia.com/sportsblogs/
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Butkus was a vicious, absolutely ruthless linebacker. He was one of the most dominant players to ever play, and many argue that he was the best LB ever. Many would argue this, but personally, I would take Singletary over Butkus. He may not have had the reputation Butkus had, but I think he was much more intelligent and had better game awareness/reading ability. I've also been around Butkus a couple times in person, and he seems to have carried his arrogance off of the field. I personally had no contact with him, but he didn't seem to be the most fan-friendly type, even when he was at a fan-oriented event. I also saw him at a small family wedding, and he kind of kept his guys around him as if to keep people away; apparently he was worried about being mobbed by the 20 or so in-laws that were there. Get over yourself, Dick. You were great, but stop making your name seem so appropriate.
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Rocky Marciano, hands down the best all-time fighter. 49-0 lifetime record and 43 were KO's. If that dosen't rank you as best all-time then what will ??? And don't try to say it was a different era of boxing because getting hit in the head never changes!!! Plus he KO the Bronx Boomer in 1951 another great boxer in my books. Sure Ali was great and Tyson in his prime was great but you wanted all-time great, not 70's or 90's great ...all-time great. His record will NEVER be touched by any fighter ever!!!!
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Definatly. I use to think that Priest Holmes was the best but he was injured and has never come back. But if you can sub for Holmes without missing a beat then you are definatly one of the best. What makes him the best is that he isnt on a strong team when Alexander was on one of the 3 best teams in football last year. If your looking at this year than you choose Johnson as the better runningback. Johnson just gained a great blocker in Kyle Turley. Alexander lost his best blocker. Johnson is the best runningback in the NFL. No if, ands, or buts about it.
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The stats point to either Steve Young or Dan Marino......but the BEST ever, hands down, was the great Joe Montana!\nBest RB ever....Walter Payton or Jim Brown\nReceiver.....Easy one....Jerry Rice\nCoach....hmmm....Tom Landry or Don Shula\nKicker...Morten Anderson
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Tikki, Joseph and Jamal.  Assuming a touchdown/yardage league.  I really believe that Addi and Lewis are going to do well and Tikki is still Tikki.
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Deacon Jones would hold the all time record for sacks if they had kept that stat during his days. They have gone back and counted the sacks he had and the number was unreal. Nobody today even comes close. The guy was awesome!
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The best Dallas Cowboys players ever:\nRoger Staubach, Bob Lilly, Randy White, Ed Jones, Drew Pearson, Mel Renfro, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Tony Dorsett, Chuck Howley, Don Meredith, Don Perkins, Lee Roy Jordan
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Here's a quickie quiz for all pro football fanatics. Who was the first outside linebacker in pro football history? A - Tony Dearing B - Dick Farrell C - John Alexander D - Dale Musil. \n\nIf you answered C, you must have been conversing into the wee hours of the morning with the inimitable John Alexander, who turned 87 on July 4. Alexander resides in Metuchen, New Jersey, and played for the Giants in 1926. He is believed to be the oldest living Giant. He made pro football history on October 1, 1922, while playing the outside linebacker position for the Milwaukee Badgers against the Chicago Cardinals. The Cardinals won the fierce defensive battle, 3-0. A report on the game said Alexander played well, but the tall easterner seemed to be out of condition because of his strenuous and tiring experiment. John admits being a little tired, but not out of shape. \n\n"I did get a little tired, but I was in shape," said Alexander about the linebacker experience. "Some people don't believe I did it first, but I did and I have the proof." \n\nJohn says he decided to make the historic move to give himself a little more leeway on the field. He moved one step back and was one yard outside of the defensive end. Alexander has mountains of newspaper clippings, mostly photostatic copies of articles from many papers, including the Newark Star-Eagle, and Newark Evening News and the Staten Island Advance. \n\nAlexander, who played at 6-3, 248 (everyone was listed at 210 if they weighed more so they wouldn't intimidate the opposing team) has been featured in the magazine Legends, produced by the NFL Alumni Association, and the Professional Football Researchers Association newsletter in recent issues. \n\n"I keep everything," said John. "I enjoy going back and reading about the old days. I still get letters from some of the people that saw me play way back then." \n\nJohn played his college ball at Rutgers and his high school ball at Newark's South Side High (now Shabazz). He lettered at Rutgers in 1919 while a younger John Alexander lettered from 1973-76. The two made connections recently which pleased both men. \n\nAlexander's exploits gave former Giant coach Steve Owen an idea for his famed "umbrella defense," a long standby of the Giants and another reason to believe that Alexander was the first outside linebacker. \n\nJohn also had a hand in the Giants' debut in the NFL. John gathered 12 of his "pals" to face the tough Gothamites on September 27, 1925. The pickup players called themselves the Red Jackets. They faced the Giants at Newark's Dreamland Park (in the Weequahic section of town). The game drew more than 3,500 fans and the Jackets displayed a tough defense, but fell to the Giants, 3-0. The Red Jackets, who did nothing more than a few exercises before the game, had held their own against the Giants and earned $50 for their efforts. Alexander made many outstanding tackles which stopped some long runs by the Giants. John played for Orange that year and it beat the Giants for the Eastern pro football title. \n\nAlexander also played offensive tackle in the days of the 60-minute man. The most money he earned as a pro for each game was $100 because the team was allotted $1,800. While with the Milwaukee club, Alexander played with two black legends in Rutgers -- grad Paul Robeson and Brown University All-American Fritz Pollard. "Those two guys were so good, but they had to take so much grief. Robeson asked for $200 and threatened not to play if he didn't get it. He got it because people wanted to see him play. He helped a lot of us get more money." \n\nAlexander talked about how Robeson and Pollard had to stay in separate facilities after games. "Despite all the trouble they went through, they played great in every game. They were fantastic." \n\nThe players supplied their own uniforms, food and lodging and everything else except their
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Wow, what a question.\n\nPatty Roy is a good answer at goal (Ken Dryden was probably better though); At forward, God, Maurice Richard is probably the guy to go with - the scoring trophy is named after him after all.  Defense, Big Bird Larry Robinson or Doug Harvey.  But the list of outstanding players just goes on and on.\n\nOverall, soup to nuts, it's probably Maurice Richard.