Originally posted by IWASATTHECATCH:
The responses in this thread are hilarious. Steve would be fortunate to crack some Top 5 lists of just 9ers, and you people are crying that he's not all-time top 10 or 20 in NFL history...
I agree, the bias in this thread is just too funny. I LOVE Steve Young. Hes one of the best QBs I've ever seen. But he wasn't a regular starter until the age of 31! It certainly wasn't his fault but you can't put a player(who in some ways), only played half a career, too much higher than that. He was only a full-time starter from age 31-37. Outside of maybe Gale Sayers, you won't see too many other guys higher who played in a shorter window than that. SO many people are forgetting this.
Then I love the hypocrisy of the Joe Montana/Terry Bradshaw/Troy Aikman conversations here. People rip Aikman/Bradshaw in this thread because hes just listed for "winning super bowls." LOL Hello! The same group will turn around and praise Montana and say hes a winner and won of the best every BECAUSE of his rings! Montana was great, but take away 3 super bowl wins and hes way down on this list. Statistically he doesn't blow anyone away with his career totals or peak seasons. Moon, Favre, Marino, Tarkenton and Manning all have more TD passes. Guys like Testaverde and Bledsoe have more passing yards. As for his peak totals, he threw for more than 28 TDs in a season once. And the day he hit 30, he became pretty fragile and missed a lot of time with various injuries.
Still an all-time great, but its funny when people knock Aikman/Bradshaw for the very thing that they prop Montana up for.