About the All-Time 11

Cold, Hard Football Facts for Oct 09, 2006

(See the entire Cold, Hard Football Facts All-Time 11 here)

By the Cold, Hard Football Facts staff

The Cold, Hard Football Facts crew started kicking around the idea of the All-Time 11 back in the summer. We intended it as an offseason feature. But, after some initial agreement on a handful of performers, it quickly became apparent that nobody would agree on every player on our team. A few heated debates followed, and so it has taken a little longer than we expected for us to finalize the team.

We think it was worth the wait. The All-Time 11 is truly the most magnificent collection of football talent ever assembled in one place.

We had a few basic criteria for the All-Time 11:

ONE: The members of our team had to be proven performers on both sides of the ball. Or, so as not to pad the roster with players from the one-platoon era, they had to be proven all-around athletes or players who were so athletic we believe they easily could have become two-way players had it been asked of them.

TWO: They had to be winners. Every player on our team won at least one NFL championship. Most won multiple titles.

THREE: We wanted to be fair to the entire history of the NFL and represent the full spectrum of league history. As you'll see in the timeline at the very bottom of our main All-Time 11 story, the members of the team span virtually the entire history of the NFL, from 1927 to 2005.

Our team is truly awesome when you consider that the All-Time 11 features:

Four charter members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
One of just three players to win a rare NFL "Triple Crown"
The only guy to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series
The most dominant ballcarrier in NFL history
The most dominant wide receiver in NFL history
Winners of 33 pro football championships
A guy who flew 30 bombing missions over Germany in World War II
The No. 2 punter in NFL history
Two members of the greatest dynasty in NFL history
The best player on the first team to win three straight NFL championships
A five-time All-Pro linebacker who began his college career at quarterback and then won the Outland Trophy as college ball's best lineman
A quarterback who led the league in INTs as a defensive back
The NFL's last two two-way players
An offensive lineman who retired as the NFL's all-time leading scorer
Two of three linemen in history who finished in the Top 3 in Heisman voting
Players with some of the coolest nicknames in football history

THE ALL-TIME 11

(read all the biographies here)

Offense	Player	Defense
QB	Sammy Baugh	FS
RB	Jim Brown	SS
RB	Bronko Nagurski	OLB
TE	Lawrence Taylor	OLB
WR	Don Hutson	CB
WR	Deion Sanders	CB
RT	Lou Groza	DE
LT	Cal Hubbard	DT
LG	Joe Greene	DT
RG	Bobby Bell	DE/LB
C	Chuck Bednarik	MLB

By Kerry Byrne

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