Unitas Wins NFL.COM poll Greatest Of All Time

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Yea, but Peyton losing shouldn't hurt his record, because football is a team sport. Russell hardly did anything in the Superbowl. His defense and even ST's did most of the work, and even the Broncos helped his case with the safety on the 1st snap. All Russell had to do was play mistake-free football and feed it to the run game. Peyton brought the Colts to the Superbowl with Jim Caldwell. The same Jim Caldwell who almost doomed us to a 0-16 season. What kills me though is Russell still hasn't defined his legacy. He's too young. What business does he have toppling arguably the greatest QB of all time?

Folks put a lot of stock in championships and given how recent the SB was you can see how Wilson beat out Manning in this type of fan poll. Does not mean Wilson is the better QB by any means but like you said his legacy is still being defined.

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I could not have said it better. Your perspective is very accurate and well put, particularly that '04 Pats mugging where the NFL watched the tape and said 14 more defensive holding calls should have been made.But that was basically an exagerrated version of the '60s and '70s "bump and run" DB defense, which was very legal then. And the other analogies show that you have actually been there and have seen the game in it's different eras.

Still blaming the refs. Sigh ....