WDR Bait

by BeerRun on Aug 26, 2010 9:32 PM EDT

A project "of epic proportion" is coming from NFL Films: "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players." It will be presented as a series of 10 one-hour shows starting next Friday. So, who will be deciding just who the 100 best-ever NFL players are going to be?

To lend the list a heft you would expect from NFL Films, a panel of 85 football experts was used to winnow a list of 250 players from the modern and pre-modern era, including current National Football League players.

A spokeswoman for the NFL Network declined to disclose all the names of the voting panel, but there is at least one voter connected to the Green Bay Packers. Former Packers general manager Ron Wolf, who has a sturdy understanding of the history of pro football, is on the panel.

Others in the group include former New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, NBC Sports analyst Cris Collinsworth, Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown, former NFL sportscaster Pat Summerall, former NFL coach Dick Vermeil and NFL writer Peter King.

I'm not sure who surprises me more, Mike or Peter King. But in either event, I'm hearing that old Sesame Street tune, which of these things does not belong?

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a panel of 85 football experts

If Mike Brown is a part of this so called EXPERT panel then this is a complete joke and nobody should even care about anything this panel comes up with

by Diesel2405 on Aug 26, 2010 9:54 PM EDT reply actions

I disagree

Mikey Boy has seen some of the greatest football players ever during his tenure in the NFL – some were even on the Bengals when his dad was running the shop. Mike Brown’s “football expertise,” however, is better suited for 1960s and 70s football vice modern football. In sum, his ineptitude in the 1990s and 2000s should not exclude him from being on this panel. Hes got to give Jeff Query at least one vote.

"Ryan, Things in here don't react too well to bullets." - Marko Ramius

by TarZander on Aug 26, 2010 10:13 PM EDT reply actions

Seriously?

I guess why all that EXPERTISE has gotten him what like 3 super bowl rings! I have been around chicks all my life and I would never say I’m an expert on them. Mike Brown is a clueless fool when its comes to football, let alone judging talent.

by Diesel2405 on Aug 27, 2010 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions

MB certainly belongs

Let’s not forget that he’s spent more time around the NFL – his entire life – than most anyone else in the game. And he’s been ahead of the curve on the trends of the league like hiring young head coaches and voting against the last CBA that just got thrown out. He may have questionable management style, but no one has spent more time around the NFL than him…

by whodeyla on Aug 26, 2010 10:22 PM EDT reply actions

Mb

just as Mlewis is one of the longest tenured coaches in the league. not easy to hang around for a long time. not that he has excelled w his “experience”

by quickslant on Aug 26, 2010 11:05 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

He's so good at judging talent...

Mike will fight for the likes of Dan Wilkinson, David Klinger, Akili Smith, Peter Warrick and Ki-Jana Carter to be somewhere among the top 100 players..

by JamesShively on Aug 27, 2010 2:55 PM EDT reply actions