I believe the term GOAT (Greatest of All-Time) is greatly overused in modern sports. Well before Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and Johnny Unitas, there was the original GOAT, Otto Graham.
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I believe the term GOAT (Greatest of All-Time) is greatly overused in modern sports. Well before Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and Johnny Unitas, there was the original GOAT, Otto Graham.
People talk about who the GOAT is. They mention Brady, Montana, Peyton Manning, etc. They seem to forget about Otto Graham. The only fair way to compare players across eras is to compare them to the men they actually played against. Graham played against Hall of Fame QBs. He played in championship games every single season of his career. He won seven championships in ten years. He retired with the highest winning percentage in football history. No QB before him or after him has matched that level of domination over his own era. People talk about longevity, passing yards, touchdowns, and records accumulated over twenty years. That’s fine, but accumulation is not greatness. Longevity is not greatness. Playing longer does not make someone better. Greatness is measured by separation from your peers. Babe Ruth is not considered great because he played a long time. He’s considered great because he lapped the field. Jim Brown isn’t considered great because he accumulated statistics for nine or ten years that he played. He’s considered great because he dominated his contemporaries. Otto Graham did the same thing to professional football.
Which quarterback dominated his own era more completely than Otto Graham?
No one.
That is why Otto Graham is the GOAT!!!!!!
First so very well written and I could not agree more. Otto Graham was a man amongst boys!