Aikmin had the best O line ever to play as a group..Plus he had emitt Smith who had very little ego.He also had Irvin,speaking of ego's I do not think his was ever in check........lol..and biggest rb joke might be ron dayne....
Marino never won a super bowl thats true but he never had a running back or top end reciever..Aikman/Smith.Montana/Rice,Young/Rice and Elway never won till terrell Davis laced up his boots for the Bronco's.If ya want to say Marino sucks thats ok then you have to then say Tom Brady may be the best pro ever he did win no top help at all....Or Brett farve He took teams on his back.
Best athlete My vote goes to Jim Thorpe
Full Name: James Francis Thorpe
Nickname(s): Wa-tho-huck, Bright Path, Jim
Occupation: Football Player, Track and Field Athlete, Baseball Player
School: Haskell Indian School (Lawrence, Kansas) Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
Athletic Position: Halfback
Athletic Teams/Organizations: Cleveland Indians, Oorang Indiana, Rock Island Independents, New York Giants, Canton Bulldogs and Chicago Cardinals
Did You Know?
• Thorpe's family wanted to bury him in Oklahoma and build a memorial for him there. Unfortunately, state officials refused permission. Thorpe's widow Patricia heard about a small town in Pennsylvania called Mauch Chunk that was seeking a different name to increase town tourism. She struck a deal with the town and brought Thorpe's remains to the tactfully renamed Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. There, a monument has been erected in his honor with the sentence, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world," etched in the stone.
• The town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania holds an annual birthday celebration for Thorpe every May 21 and 22.
• Believe it or not, Thorpe once hit 3 home runs into 3 different states in the same game. During a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border, he hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma, his second homer over the rightfield wall into Arkansas and his third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield, which was in Texas!
• Thorpe is one of two men in history who played for the New York Giants in two different sports. In football, he was the New York Giants' running back and in baseball he was the New York Giants' outfielder.
• Thorpe played football professionally well past his prime, retiring in 1928 at age 41.
• Jim Thorpe played major and minor league baseball for 20 years, starting with the New York Giants in 1913 and later playing a number of other teams, including the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds.
• Thorpe was the first president of what is now the National Football League.
• Thorpe was .252 in his six seasons (1913-15, 1917-19) as an outfielder with the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves.
• Thorpe's best baseball season was his last, when he batted .327 in 60 games for Boston.
• At and auction in October 2003, an early 1900s football jersey worn by Jim Thorpe fetched a winning bid of $210,000.
• Thorpe was a twin; his brother Charlie died at age nine.
• He won the gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon during the 1912 Olympic Games.
