Top 10 football players of all time

Now that we're a few years removed from the NFL's 100th Anniversary and the 50. Terrell Owens Position: WR Years active: 1996-2010 Teams: San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals Notable accolades: Hall of Fame (2018); 5x First-Team All-Pro; 6x Pro Bowl Hot takes only on this list. Despite the heavy controversy surrounding his career, Terrell Owens was the greatest wide receiver of his day outside of Randy Moss. He was unfortunately stuck on some heartbreakingly good teams: his Niners were on the verge of glory before they ran into a historical anomaly in the early 2000's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and later was a part of the Eagles team that fell victim to Tom Brady. Despite that, his NFL stats and influence are both undeniable. 49. Steve Young Position: QB Years active: 1985-1999 Teams: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers Notable accolades: Hall of Fame (2005); 3x Super Bowl Champion; 1x Super Bowl MVP; 2x MVP; 1x OPoY; 3x First-Team All-Pro; 3x Second-Team All-Pro; 7x Pro Bowl; 2x NFC OPoY; 2x Bert Bell Award The heir to Joe Montana's throne in San Francisco, Steve Young was a proper successor to the heritage of the Niners. One of the first great mobile quarterbacks, Young was extremely efficient, and has the second-most career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback, with 43. 48. Forrest Gregg Position: T Years active: 1956-1971 Teams: Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys Notable accolades: Hall of Fame (1977); 3x Super Bowl...

155 🧙‍♂️ Maradona Magic 💫🗓 With Lionel Messi winning a record-breaking seventh Ballon d'Or award on Monday, it's time to revisit a familiar question: who is the greatest footballer of all time? While some stars such as Ronaldinho burned brightly but briefly, others like Lev Yashin were only truly appreciated after their retirement from the game. Honourable mentions: Paolo Maldini (Italy), Ferenc Puskas (Hungary), Garrincha (Brazil), Bobby Charlton (England), Gerd Muller (Germany) Without further ado, here are our ten greatest footballers of all time. #10 Michel Platini (France) - three-time Ballon d'Or winner French football legend Michel Platini (#10) led his country to their first international tournament win in 1984. Michel Platini has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent years, in what has been a sad downfall for France's Player of the Century. For all his reported off-field wrongs with 38 9 – Michel Platini holds the record for the most goals scored in a UEFA EURO finals competition, helping France to the 1984 title with nine goals. King. The two-time French Player of the Year's club career was just as successful as his stint with Les Bleus. Platini's scoring record of 104 goals in 223 appearances with Juventus put many strikers of his era to shame. He remarkably won three straight Capocannoniere awards with Zinedine Zidane, who finished just behind Michel Platini in the voting for France's Player of the Century, had "When I was a kid and played with m...

In the long and distinguished annals of football history, only a select few players can claim to have left a truly indelible mark on the game with their sheer ability on the field. While some have flirted with the highest levels for a brief period, and others have had decades at the top without ever quite breaking into that elite group, every now and again an extra-special talent comes along that can couple exceptional quality with remarkable longevity. The very best players can marry those two components with unforgettable moments and huge success too, and only then can they be regarded among football's true greats. Ranking a top 10 list of those greats is a fool's errand, with some legends bound to miss out - no doubt inexplicably to some. The honourable mentions in this particular countdown include luminaries such as Eusebio, Gerd Muller, Garrincha, George Best, Ronaldinho and Lev Yashin, and there are countless others who deserve acknowledgement too. Nonetheless, Sports Mole has taken on the impossible task of whittling the history of the beautiful game down to its 10 greatest exponents, so sit back, enjoy and no doubt disagree with our top 10 footballers of all time. 10. Ferenc Puskas ( Hungary) Known as the 'Galloping Major', Ferenc Puskas remains one of the greatest goalscorers to have ever graced the sport, boasting a phenomenal record of 806 goals in just 793 official games for club and country. No fewer than 84 of those came in just 85 outings for Hungary, who be...

facebook twitter reddit link By RJ Young FOX Sports College Football Writer The Heisman Trophy isn’t great at this. In fact, it is downright untrustworthy when used as a tool to identify the greatest college football players of all time. Sometimes it gets it right, but not nearly as much as it should. For example, there's this player: He holds the third-best winning percentage by a starting quarterback with at least 30 career starts since Division I split in 1978. He’s second only to He left his school as the winningest starting quarterback in its history. He completed 66.6 percent of his passes for more than 10,000 yards with 90 touchdowns and 17 interceptions for a pass efficiency rating of 164.3. This means he also broke his conference’s record — once held by a Heisman winner — for passing efficiency and is the first starting quarterback in his league’s history to win three consecutive He ended his career undefeated as a starter in the regular season across both high school and college. He made five career College Football Playoff starts, setting the record for the most at one school. He became the first true freshman quarterback to lead his team to a national title in 30 years. His The player who did all that and didn't win the Heisman? And I can just stick with Clemson here and tell you about the first 4,000-yard passer and 1,000-yard rusher in the 152-year history of the sport. He also whooped Nick Saban's Alabama in the national championship. He threw for 405 yards ...