# Who's the Best Aggregate Football Team Ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 16, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498 "2014-10-16T16:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/21 "2014-10-16T22:04:22Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > Nice team. One change I’d make for sure is on that 11th offensive player. I’d figure out a way to scheme with two RB’s and add Gale Sayers. I’d probably go with Luckman at QB, but really, with a backfield featuring Payton and Sayers who cares who the QB is? That would be quite doable. Payton was an excellent blocker for when you go two back, or put Sayers in the slot on passing downs. Gotta say, though, I find the idea of “you get the player at the best he ever was” ruins it for me. It leads to me putting Art Monk and Mike Ditka on the Eagles in place of Harold Carmichael and Keith Jackson. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/22 "2014-10-16T22:29:11Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Gotta say, though, I find the idea of “you get the player at the best he ever was” ruins it for me. It leads to me putting Art Monk and Mike Ditka on the Eagles in place of Harold Carmichael and Keith Jackson. Bleah. I agree - this makes for some odd rosters. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/23 "2014-10-16T23:32:51Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > I agree - this makes for some odd rosters. I’d suggest the best he ever was for the team in question. (You can pick a season. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/24 "2014-10-17T07:28:23Z")
My team, the Houston/Tennessee Oilers/Titans. I pretty heavily discounted the accomplishments of players in the early AFL days. Players aren’t in any specific order when grouped together. QB: Warren Moon RB: Earl Campbell, Chris Johnson TE: Drew Casper\*\* WR: Randy Moss\*\*, Charlie Joiner\*\* T: Michael Roos, Bruce Matthews G: Mike Munchak, Bob Talamini\* C: Kevin Mawae DE: Elvin Bethea, Jevon Kearse DT: Ray Childress, Albert Haynesworth LB: Robert Brazile, George Webster\*, Keith Bulluck CB: Samari Rolle, Cris Dishman S: Ken Houston, Blaine Bishop - = people I hadn’t heard of before making the roster. If they shouldn’t count, substitute Brad Hopkins for Talamini, moving Matthews to guard; at linebacker, put in Al Smith. \*\* = people whose fame wasn’t with the Oilers/Titans. In variations of this game where they shouldn’t count, put Frank Wycheck at TE and Haywood Jeffires and Ernest Givins at WR. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/25 "2014-10-17T13:05:11Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > I’d suggest the best he ever was for the team in question. (You can pick a season. I’ll quote this one in response to all the others lol. Just choosing “the best player in the teams history” is boring and has been done 1000 times by 1000 people. Having the wrinkle of best he ever was no matter the team makes it more fun and requires more thought. It makes you ask yourself "I’m a Broncos fan, do I want to have an in-his-prime Elway? OR Manning? As opposed to saying “Well Manning is good now, but I’ll take John in his prime!” It also allows for “Bad” teams to get better because they had a future hall-of-famer on their team for all of two seconds. It doesn’t matter, they’re yours. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/26 "2014-10-17T13:17:00Z")
The New York Jets . . . Never mind. \ ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/27 "2014-10-17T13:27:09Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > Nice team. One change I’d make for sure is on that 11th offensive player. I’d figure out a way to scheme with two RB’s and add Gale Sayers. I’d probably go with Luckman at QB, but really, with a backfield featuring Payton and Sayers who cares who the QB is? Agreed, I love this suggestion. Gale Sayers could fill the Sproles/Reggie Bush role of a speedster change of pace guy who can also play as a slot WR. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/28 "2014-10-17T13:45:52Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > I’ll give it a shot for Da Bears If we’re going with players at their peak I’d think Orlando Pace is on the team. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/29 "2014-10-17T14:35:13Z")
Rams QB: Norm Van Brocklin RB: Eric Dickerson RB: Marshall Faulk WR: Crazy Legs Hirsch WR: Tom Fears OT: Jackie Slater G: Tom Mack DE: Deacon Jones DE: Jack Youngblood DT: Merlin Olsen CB: Aeneas Williams ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498/30 "2014-10-17T14:43:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The New York Jets . . . > > Never mind. \ Well, if we stick to their few Hall of Famers: QB: Joe Namath RB: John Riggins RB: Curtis Martin WR: Don Maynard After that, you could still have a dang good team with: C: Joe Fields or Nick Mangold OT: Marvin Powell OT: Winston Hill WR: Al Toon TE: Mickey Shuler DE: Mark Gastineau DE: Gerry Philbin DT: Joe Klecko DT: John Elliot LB: Larry Grantham CB: Darelle Revis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-aggregate-football-team-ever/701498.md?page=1)