Is Tom Brady the greatest football player ever?

What do you think, chess.com community (notice, mods: I mentioned chess.com community)? Is this handsome man the greatest football player of all time?

Sounds like you still have your 19-0 shirt al ready to go.

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Peyton Manning is the best QB ever with Tom Brady running in as 3rd

I wouldn't even put that cheater 3rd.

Why is this not in off-topic?

Edit: No, I don't buy the reasoning being "you mentioned chess.com community".

He's not a cheater

Yeah! He's just so good that other people would have to cheat to get to his level!

I'd say 1. Tom Brady 2. Aaron Rodgers 3. Peyton Manning.

And mods... did you not see what I wrote??? This thread belongs in CHESS.COM COMMUNITY dammit!!

Sorry, I know almost nothing about the so-called American football. But allowing Tom Brady to play essentially takes law-enforcement away for that sport. The amnesty is ridiculous and will be overturned.

1. Tom Brady 2. Joe Montana 3. Troy Aikman 4. Terry Bradshaw 5. Roger Staubach 6. Steve Young 7. Dan Marino 8. John Elway 9. Jake Plummer 10. Michael Vick 11. Kurt Warner 12. Dan Fouts 13. Tony Romo 14. Donovan McNaab 15. Jim Kelly

Who's this Peyton Manning guy?

Michael Vick at #10??????????

Had he not switched from throwing pig-skins to dog-skins, he'd have made it to number 3, definitely.

no way; Deion Sanders was better; a superstar on both offense and defense; t otally versatile; could do it all; much better than Brady. Brady's a great QB on great teams. I'd take Montana over him. Put Montana on these New England teams - they'd never lose. Jim Brown - totally dominated his era (without cheating). Better than Brady. There's 3 off the top of my head. Plenty more where that came from. 

I'm sorry, but to me there is no such thing as "The Greatest Football Player Ever." With 11 different positions on the field per side, I find these discussions inane. Please narrow your discussion to the position, e.g., "The Greatest Quarterback ", "The Greatest Runningback", etc. Eliminate the offensive line and tell me what happens to these positions. This is truly a team sport.

Well, he is certainly one of the best.............I still like Montana, but there have been many great players  in the past.  It's hard to pinpoint one guy as being the best.

Well, looks like Matt Ryan just got his consolation prize. Tomorrow Tom and the New England Patriots win the big one.

If only you Americans would learn to play proper ball games, ie Rugby and Cricket, you might be able to claim some bragging rights.

Rugby involves 2 40 minute halves of continuous running tackling and passing, not 3-10 second bursts with 1-3 minute rests in between.

Cricket requires batsmen who can deal with both close to 100mph balls  and slower spin bowling, where the ball can change direction very significantly as it bounces. Look up the "ball of the century" when Shane Warne bowled Mike Gatting round his legs and be amazed. And the fieldsmen catch that very hard ball (still moving close to 100mph for the slips) with no gloves to help

Rugby does sound interesting , cricket not so much.

id have to go for the best footballer ever to grace the world Pele

to be honest your term football is wrong , internationally football is the game played by moving the ball by the feet

perhaps to avoid further international ridicule you recall title

Is Tom Brady the greatest american footballer ever

 then perhaps this would save you being mocked by the world