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PLAYERS:
Jerome Brown,
Terrell Owens,
Bruce Smith,
Steve Hutchinson,
Walter Jones,
Tony Ugoh,
Alan Faneca,
Derrick Thomas,
Shawne Merriman,
Randy Moss,
Buck Buchanan,
Jason Taylor,
John Henderson,
Patrick Kerney,
Adalius Thomas,
Tommie Harris,
Julius Peppers,
John Mackey,
Marvin Harrison,
Lance Briggs,
Brian Urlacher,
Randy White,
Champ Bailey,
Devin Hester,
Paul Krause,
Ed Reed,
Brian Dawkins,
Tom Brady,
Carson Palmer,
Steve Young,
Marshall Faulk,
Brian Westbrook,
Keith Bulluck,
Ray Lewis,
Tony Richardson,
Justin Snow,
Ladell Betts,
Troy Polamalu,
Lorenzo Neal,
Mack Strong,
Jim Thorpe
I want to thank all the BARKERS in the YARD that took the time to comment on this list and add some players we overlooked in the first go around. That said, BARKERS, we bring you the NEW & IMPROVED UPDATED LIST with players brought to us from all you BARKERS.
Now we need to see if we can narrow this list down to our......"BEST EVER to WEAR the NUMBER"
What are your thoughts? You can vote on here and I will continue to update on here for all you guys.
HERE IS YOUR NEW LIST of the "BEST EVER to WEAR the NUMBER from 0 - 99"
0. Wilber "Pete" Henry
00. Jim Otto
1. Jim Thorpe (wore #'s 3 & 21) over Warren Moon could go here.
2. Charley Trippi
3. Bronko Nagurski over (if you put MOON #1, J.THORPE HERE)
4. Brett Farve
5. Paul Hornung over Donovan McNabb
6. Benny Friedman
7. George "PAPA BEAR" Halas (He started it all for us) over John Elway, if you don't agree w/"PAPA BEAR"
8. Troy Aikman over Steve Young, I went w/ the SB wins
9. Carson Palmer over Sonny Jergenson
10. Fran "THE MAN" Tarkenton
11. Norm Van Brocklin
12. Tom Brady over Terry Bradshaw & Jim Kelly
13. Dan Marino over Don Maynard (my 2nd choice @ this #)
14. Y.A. Tittle
15. Bart Starr
16. Joe Montana over George Blanda (Played 2 positions, {QB & K} & had the record for several years for most points scored in NFL history)
17. Don Meredith
18. Payton Manning over Charlie Joiner
19. Johnny Unitas
20. Barry Sanders over Brian Dawkins and Ed Reed
21. Deion " PRIMETIME" Sanders over LT2 (SD RB)
22. Emmitt Smith over Paul Krause & Roger Wehrli
23. Devin Hester over James Lofton
24. Lenny Moore over Champ Bailey
25. Fred Bilentnikoff
26. Herb Adderley over Rod Woodson
27. Ken Houston
28. Darrell Green over Marshall Faulk
29. Eric Dickerson
30. Bill Willis over Terrell "TD" Davis
31. Jim Taylor
32. Jim Brown
33. Sammy Baugh over Tony Dorsett (Sorry Dallas Fans)
34. Walter "SWEETNESS" Payton over Earl Campbell
35. Pete Pihos
36. Brian Westbrook over Jerome Bettis
37. Doak Walker
38. Mack Strong
39. Larry Csonka
40. Gale Sayers
41. Terrence Newman over Lorenzo Neal
42. ***THIS WAS {1} OF THE TOUGHEST #'s TO PICK FOR ME*** Paul Warfield, Ronnie Lott, Charlie Taylor & Sid Luckman...I'll go CHARLIE TAYLOR
43. Troy Polamalu
44. John Riggins
45. Emlen Tunnell (HOF'er) over T.J. Duckett (this is a hard # to come up with the BEST EVER to Wear #45)
46. Ladell Betts
47. Mel Blount
48. Daryl "Moose" Johnston over Justin Snow
49. Tony Richardson
50. Mike "WIDE EYED" Singletary
51. Dick Butcus
52. Mike Webster over Ray Lewis
53. Keith Bulluck over Harry Carson
54. Randy White over Brian Urlacher
55. Lance Briggs
56. LT (NYG LB) over Shawne Merriman
57. Dwight Stephenson
58. Jack Lambert over Derrick Thomas
59. Jack Ham
60. Chuck Bednarik
61. Bill George
62. Jim Langer
63. Gene Upshaw over Willie Lanier
64. Dave Wilcox
65. Tom Mack over Elvin Bethea
66. Ray Nitschke over Larry Little & Alan Faneca (Tough pick here)
67. Bob Kuechenberg over Tony Ugoh ( I can't think of any others that wore #67, little help here?)
68. Joe Delamielleure
69. John Runyan
70. Rayfield Wright over Art Donovan & Sam Huff
71. Walter Jones over Fred Dean
72. Dan Dierdorf
73. Ron Yary over John Hannah and Joe Klecko (Hard Pick here)
74. Merlin Olsen over Ron Mix
75. Deacon Jones over "Mean"Joe Green & Jonathon Ogden
76. Steve Hutchinson
77. Red Grange
78. Anthony Munoz over Jackie Slater, Art Shell, Bruce Smith & Bobby Bell
79. Bob St. Clair
80. Jerry Rice over Cris Carter
81. Dick "NIGHT TRAIN " Lane over Doug Atkins , Terrell Owens (TO) & Andre Reed
82. Ozzie Newsome
83. Ted Hendricks
84. Randy Moss (before he switched #'s) over Shannon Sharpe
85. Jack Youngblood
86. Dante Lavelli over Buck Buchanan
87. Dave Casper over Willie Davis
88. Marvin Harrison over John Mackey Alan Page & Michael Irvin
89. Gino Marchetti over Mike Ditka
90. Julius Peppers
91. Tommie Harris
92. Reggie "Minister of Defense" White
93. Dwight Freeny
94. DeMarcus Ware
95. Shawn Phillips
96. Adalius Thomas
97. Patrick Kerney
98. John Henderson over Tony Siragusa
99. Jason Taylor over Dan Hampton & Jerome Brown
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