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what running back do you consider the best ever in the NFL?
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:38 am
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:38 am
As noted in another thread, I'm not a NFL fan anymore and actually watched Brian's Song on another channel last night, and it made me curious about the best rb. I've seen Gale Sayers mentioned sometimes as the best. More often I have seen Jim Brown. I know a lot of folks would vote for Walter Payton, and some probably for Emmitt Smith.
Who do you think are the best 3 in NFL history?
Who do you think are the best 3 in NFL history?
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Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:39 am to BLG
Timmy Smith
Ran for 204 yards in Super Bowl XXII
Ran for 204 yards in Super Bowl XXII
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:40 am to BLG
Barry Sanders
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:40 am to BLG
Barry Sanders
Earl Campbell
Walter Payton
Earl Campbell
Walter Payton
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:42 am to Glorious
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Timmy Smith
Ran for 204 yards in Super Bowl XXII
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:42 am to BLG
payton, jim brown my favorite barry sanders.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:45 am to BLG
Barry Sanders
Earl Campbell
Jim Brown
Earl Campbell
Jim Brown
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:48 am to BLG
Walter Payton, Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders or Jim Brown
There have been a lot of good ones worthy of a ton of recognition. It is hard to say one is exclusively the best.
There have been a lot of good ones worthy of a ton of recognition. It is hard to say one is exclusively the best.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:49 am to Tridentds
Jim Brown (career)
Gayle Sayers, Barry Sanders (pure electric)
OJ Simpson (first to 2000 yards in a season playing only 14 regular-season games) No other human has accomplished that feat to this day.
Gayle Sayers, Barry Sanders (pure electric)
OJ Simpson (first to 2000 yards in a season playing only 14 regular-season games) No other human has accomplished that feat to this day.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:49 am to mdw1969
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Barry Sanders
Earl Campbell
Walter Payton
Add Jim Brown and it's /thread.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:53 am to BLG
Does make you wonder, though, how any of these guys would do outside of their era.
If you teleported nearly any of the current top NFL RBs back 50 or 60 years, would they similarly dominate?
If you teleported nearly any of the current top NFL RBs back 50 or 60 years, would they similarly dominate?
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:53 am to bamameister
Honestly I thought about OJ in place of Jim Brown. OJ was incredible.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:56 am to Lonnie Utah
Barry Sanders.... In 9 seasons at Detroit he had no offensive line and still had almost 16000 yds rushing...retired at 29 as one of the classiest players ever.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 9:57 am to Tridentds
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Honestly I thought about OJ in place of Jim Brown. OJ was incredible.
Unfortunately, he's not politically correct these days, just physically superior. People, don't you just love them?
Posted on 2/8/21 at 10:00 am to BLG
Didn't realize Frank Gore is 3rd all-time in NFL career rushing yards, would never have guessed that (fwiw)
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Posted on 2/8/21 at 10:03 am to Hback
quote:Well he was pretty good and will have played like forty years in the league, so there's that.
Didn't realize Frank Gore is 3rd all-time in NFL career rushing yards, would never have guessed that (fwiw)
Posted on 2/8/21 at 10:06 am to BLG
this one is easy. it's bo. if his career doesn't get cut short, who knows how many records he'd have broken.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 10:08 am to tigerdup07
Emmitt Smith
Posted on 2/8/21 at 10:08 am to BLG
Barry Sanders by a fairly wide margin IMO.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 10:09 am to bamameister
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Honestly I thought about OJ in place of Jim Brown. OJ was incredible.
Unfortunately, he's not politically correct these days, just physically superior. People, don't you just love them?
I didn't fail to mention him in the OP because of that. I just didn't think of it, same as Barry Sanders, because even though I'm not a NFL fan, I know both of those guys were among the best.
One guy that has surprised me being mentioned so much in this thread is Campbell
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