POLL - Which NFL Franchise has the greatest all-time team?

‘85 Bears

1978 Steelers have 12 Hall of Famers:  Art Rooney Sr, Dan Rooney, Chuck Noll, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, John Stallworth, Lynn Swann, Mike Webster, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Jack Lambert, and Mel Blount.

So Hall of Famers in ownership, management, coaching, quarterback, offensive skill positions, offensive line, defensive line, linebackers, and secondary.  Plus Myron Cope is in the announcers wing of the Hall of Fame.

And that's with the egregious omissions of LC Greenwood and Donnie Shell. 

The 2017 Browns. 😂

I’m going Steelers. It could be just familiarity but if we’re splitting hairs go with what you know.

I think some people overlook the Packers because they don’t have a lot of players from the modern era that would qualify as an all time great. Not a fan so I don’t follow them closely but apart from Favre, Rodgers, Matthews, and the few years they had Reggie White, I’m struggling to come up with names. Yeah, the Lombardi years were legendary, but that’s ancient history in the NFL.

The Packers are kind of a forgotten dynasty in football, much like the Cleveland Browns, because most of their championships came before the merger. People only count Super Bowls because that's what the championship of the NFL is called now. The Packers have a total of 13 league championships, but people only talk about their Super Bowls. The Browns won four titles in the AAFC in the 1940s, joined the NFL and won four more titles in the 1950s. But nobody ever talks about any great players from those teams. Browns QB Otto Graham is an all time great that almost never comes up in casual conversations about the best QBs of all time.



I feel like NFL history is skewed due to the merger and the creation of the 'Super Bowl.' The Bears have won nine NFL titles, but only one was called a Super Bowl. Likewise, the Giants have won 8 NFL titles, only (only!) four of which were Super Bowls. I'm not sure why we only count Super Bowls. The Yankees sure as hell count their championships from the 1920s, why don't NFL fans count pre-Super Bowl titles? You were the best team in the best professional league, a title is a title no matter what they called the game back then. On a related note, it's both sad and comical that Laker fans in LA take credit for all of their championships even though the first five were in Minneapolis and one of them wasn't even in the NBA.)  


Anyway, it's odd that we act like the Steelers (6), Patriots, Cowboys and 49ers (5 each) have the most championships, when in reality they only have the most Super Bowl titles.  There's a difference.   

It definitely counts, but I personally can name 10 Cowboys, Steelers, and 49ers for every 1 Packer. Hell, I barely know of any Eagles before the Ron Jaworski / Dick Vermeil years. Only in an abstract way - Tommy McDonald, Norm Van Brocklin, Chuck Bednarik, Pete Pihos, and that last one only because I used to work with a relative of his. I know more about the 27 Yankees than I do about the 60 Eagles. A total failing on my part, but I’ve spent so much more time learning about older baseball players compared to football players.