Brad Freeman's All-Time NFL Football Legends Team

With this year being the 100^th anniversary of the NFL, and 150^th anniversary of college football, as a student of the game, here is my list of the legends of the game if I was to create a team.

I was born July 1984, and will create a separate list for the players I grew up watching. Therefore, as the historian I am, I feel it only right to do a list for the players before my lifetime, and then during my lifetime.

Legends Team

Offense:

QB1: Otto Graham (Cleveland Browns)

QB2: Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers)

RB1: Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns)

RB2: Walter Payton (Chicago Bears)

RB3: Eric Dickerson (Los Angeles Rams)

RB4: Gayle Sayers (Chicago Bears)

WR1: Fred Biletnikoff (Oakland Raiders)

WR2: Lance “Bambi” Alworth (San Diego Chargers)

WR3: Paul Warfield (Cleveland Browns/Miami Dolphins)

WR4: Steve Largent (Seattle Seahawks)

WR5: Raymond Berry (Baltimore Colts)

WR6: Don Hutson (Green Bay Packers)

WR7: Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch (Los Angeles Rams)

                                                                                                                                   

TE1: John Mackey (Baltimore Colts)

TE2: Mike Ditka (Chicago Bears)

TE3: Kellen Winslow, Sr. (San Diego Chargers)

LT1: Roosevelt Brown (New York Giants)

LT2: Art Shell (Oakland Raiders)

LG1: Jim Parker (Baltimore Colts)

LG2: Gene Upshaw (Oakland Raiders)

OC1: Mel Hein (New York Giants)

RG1: John Hannah (New England Patriots)

RG2: Dan Fortmann (Chicago Bears)

RT1: Forrest Gregg (Green Bay Packers)

RT2: Cal Hubbard (Green Bay Packers)

Special Teams:

K1: Jan Stenerud (Kansas City Chiefs)

P1: Ray Guy (Oakland Raiders)

KR1: Gayle Sayers (Chicago Bears)

PR1: Gayle Sayers (Chicago Bears)

                

Defense:

DE1: David "Deacon" Jones (Los Angeles Rams)

DE2: Gino Marchetti (Baltimore Colts)

DE3: Doug Atkins (Chicago Bears)

DE4: Bill Hewitt (Chicago Bears)

DE5: Lee Roy Selmon (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

DT1:”Mean” Joe Greene (Pittsburgh Steelers)

DT2: Alan Page (Minnesota Vikings)

DT3: Merlin Olsen (Los Angeles Rams)

DT4: Junious "Buck" Buchanan (Kansas City Chiefs)

DT5: Bob Lilly (Dallas Cowboys)

MLB1: Joe Schmidt (Detroit Lions)

MLB2: Dick Butkus (Chicago Bears)

MLB3: Jack Lambert (Pittsburgh Steelers)

MLB4: Willie Lainer (Kansas City Chiefs)

OLB1: Chuck Bednarik (Philadelphia Eagles) *Doubles as your backup Center on offense

OLB2: Bobby Bell (Kansas City Chiefs)

OLB3: Jack Ham (Pittsburgh Steelers)

OLB4: Ted Hendricks (Oakland Raiders)

CB1: Mel Blount (Pittsburgh Steelers)

CB2: Dick "Night Train" Lane (Detroit Lions)

CB3: Willie Brown (Oakland Raiders)

CB4: Michael Haynes (New England Patriots/Los Angeles Raiders)

FS1: Emlen Tunnell (New York Giants)

FS2: Paul Krause (Minnesota Vikings)

SS1: Ken Houston (Houston Oilers/Washington Redskins)

SS2: Larry Wilson (St. Louis football Cardinals)