Those people who were fortunate enough to make it down to "Lombardi Gras," as it was known, witnessed a celebration unlike any other. A classic "one-hit wonder," Steve Beuerlein was one of the league's best players in 1999, when he led the NFL with over 4,400 passing yards, setting many single-season franchise records with the Carolina Panthers. As spokes-player, TB12 just keeps getting better, with slick, leading-man looks and a veteran gunslinger aura. Finally, the Buttfumble Award for absolute worst commercial, in this reviewer's opinion, belongs to Joe Flacco, quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens and MVP of Super Bowl XLVII (I also nominate him as the worst pitchman). Published November 23, 2012 Advertiser NFL Advertiser Profiles Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest Tagline "Get Active. Still, despite not being the guy on the field for the record-breaking year, Green had a long and largely successful career in the league, though he ended up with the Kansas City Chiefs during his Pro Bowl seasons. line in this cutdown.) Jim Kelly, 1986-96. He also has a photographic memory, so when we'd show him an entirely new script on set, he'd look at it for a second, say 'Got it' and know every word." Yet another tells viewers they "may qualify" to get $144 added back to their Social Security benefits. The major issue I have with Elway is what I call the "label change." Which got me thinking: Who are the best NFL players-slash-actors? By transferring more costs to seniors, the government saves taxpayers money. Alex Augustinos, Creative Directior, Mcgarrybowen. Jaworski was the centerpiece of the Eagles team that went to Super Bowl XV, where Philly was defeated by the Oakland Raiders. Oh, one more thing. He has this wry sense of humor lurking beneath his quiet, low-key demeanor. "Peyton has incredible comedic timing, a natural improviser. Nevertheless, it isn't like Simms was handed both rings: following the 1986 season, Simms played one of the best games of his career against the Denver Broncos, completing 22 of 25 passes. Brian Culp, creative director, DDB Chicago. 12 might be surprising since he's everywhere on Sundays, but at least it matches his uniform number. and "Moooooovers" are unforgettable. The World's Most Entertaining Car Website. Blanda holds the record for most extra points kicked in NFL history, and might have been a better kicker than he was a quarterback. To his credit, Griffin III appears to be great at doing both jobs. 7) George Blanda, Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders. It might not be much consolation for losing the Super Bowl, but Esiason's final NFL play was a 70 yard winning TD pass to Darnay Scott against the Baltimore Ravens. These NFL Quarterbacks recently decided to call it a day and quickly found themselves in other interesting roles. The canned crowd noise and creepy fan cutouts are bizarre new twists. Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger are in the same 2004 NFL Draft class. Allegedly, that is what Joe Montana said as he stepped onto the field in Super Bowl XXIII before the famous "Montana drive" that culminated with a Joe Montana touchdown pass to receiver John Taylor when the 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals. Marino has everything else as far as numbers, including the all-time single season yardage record (5,084), most games with at least 300 yards passing (63), most games with 400 yards passing (13), and most 4th quarter comebacks including both regular and postseason (51). Bart Starr was one of the first quarterbacks in NFL history to truly reach legendary status. Plunkett is also one of only four players (with Roger Staubach, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard) to win both the Heisman Trophy and the Super Bowl MVP award. McNair played most of his career with the Tennessee Titans, though he played his final two seasons with the Baltimore Ravens after Texas QB Vince Young was drafted to be McNair's replacement in Tennessee. The quarterback played 19 years in professional football and had memorable seasons with the Chicago Bears, New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles, among other teams. Gannon had a successful career but was never able to actually win a Super Bowl championship. Matt Hasselbeck, as many NFL fans know, is the Seattle Seahawks starting quarterback, and the guy is in the twilight of his career. There are too many other Peyton classics to list, but Mastercard gems like "Cut that meat!" My favorite shoot was with them together. With McNair at the helm, the Tennessee Titans were usually one of the NFL's better teams. Tittle has everything he could possibly want on his resume as far as numbers, but his legacy is hurt somewhat by the lack of an NFL championship, despite the fact that the Giants appeared in three straight NFL title games from 1961-3 with Tittle at quarterback. Of course, going by purely numbers was never something that Cunningham did. Just shows you exactly how young I am. By his own admission, Kosar isn't over the events of those two plays even today, and even after winning a Super Bowl ring as Troy Aikman's backup in Dallas. However, the guy can flat out play. This made him an immediate fan favorite. On January 13, 2022, Subway released a commercial featuring NFL star Marshawn Lynch as their spokesperson. He was never a show stopper at the position, evidenced by the fact that he constantly switched teams; however, you could win with this guy- and the Bucs did just that, along with a great Derrick Brooks-led defense. The former Pro Bowl quarterback not only works as an analyst but as a commentator. But he's simply a better actor than Rodgers and many others, bringing deadpan, self-mocking, faux-expert humor that's always extra funny coming from such a Goliath. Arian was always just smooooooth, cerebral, imposing when needed, and a little off-kilter-playful. He can also carry the bulk of a performance like in this Tempur-Breeze (get it?) Here's more Rudd geniushis opening line delivery of "I don't know" is gold. But the slew of branding work starring NFL playersskillfully (or not-so-skillfully) hocking everything from insurance to tech to tortilla chips to even more insuranceis quite familiar. Professional sports franchises, including the Packers, retire uniform numbers to recognize . It makes sense, as it's arguably the most important position in the game, and has had multiple legends at the position over the years. I'm still trying to figure out how this guy didn't stick anywhere. The least known player on this list, Alex Tanney, was an NFL player for nearly a decade. The last time I checked, Aikman has three Super Bowl rings. Luckman played 12 seasons for the Chicago Bears from 1939-1950, and in that span led the Bears to four NFL championships. The canned crowd noise and creepy fan cutouts are bizarre new twists. He's Marlon Brando meets Will Ferrell meets De Niro meets Meryl Streep meets Morgan Freeman meets (literally) Ron Burgundy. Van Brocklin was a two-time NFL champion, once with each franchise, and is the holder of the NFL's single-game passing yardage record (554 yards). Morrall is something of an unusual case in that he has more Super Bowl rings than Pro Bowl appearances. The Manning family has signed a multiyear partnership with Caesars Sportsbook to become ambassadors for the company's growing sports gambling business. Full credit to Romo for fully inhabiting the character and totally capturing that weird wonder we were going for." To go along with that, he has his own television show Eli's Places, on ESPN. 40. After beating beaten down as a member of the San Francisco 49ers, he turned his career around with the help of Jim Harbaugh and Andy Reid. Plummer was drafted in the second round, 42nd overall, by the Arizona Cardinals, and he played there from 1997 until 2002. In 2021, Smith decided to retire, just months after winning Comeback Player of the Year. Here are five legendary quarterbacks that remained with just one NFL team for their entire careers. Subtle but spot-on. While he's probably best known for State Farm, to me Matthews is at his purposely overacted peak for Fathead and even funnier Fathead and with Sasquatch. (Had to get that in there somehow, or I'd be a bad Ravens fan.). Although he never officially retired, McCown last played in 2020 and has been focused on coaching ever since. Griese was the quarterback at the helm during the height of the Miami Dolphins' dynasty in the early 1970s, and he experienced a career revival when he started wearing glasses during the 1977 season, revealing that he had very subpar vision in his right eye. The former Heisman Trophy winner at USC has been a mainstay at QB for the Bengals since he was drafted. Obviously, the major knock on Tarkenton is that he never won a Super Bowl despite having multiple attempts with a great supporting cast around him. Even without his CFL career numbers added on, Moon's statistics are still impressive; until Brett Favre broke Moon's major passing records in 2007, Moon held the NFL record for passing touchdowns and passing completions. While he didn't produce like Marino, O'Brien was pretty good in his own right, quarterbacking the Jets for the next ten seasons. Norm Van Brocklin played the first nine years of his twelve year career with the Los Angeles Rams and then finished his career with the Philadelphia Eagles. Finally, he finished his playing career with the Washington Redskins. He demanded more of himself than we did. He's an NFL icon, and his popularity (or infamy, if you'd rather) transcends the NFL. Dawson then ended up in Cleveland, which eventually went with Frank Ryan, who never ended up as good as Ryan. He played for five other teams during the course of his career and backed up Troy Aikman during one of the Cowboys' Super Bowl years. Of course, Morton's legacy is somewhat diminished by the fact that he lost both of his Super Bowl appearances- to the Unitas-led Baltimore Colts in 1970 and to the Staubach-led Dallas Cowboys in 1977. "The Immobile One" was the No. Blanda retired after the 1958 season because of Bears coach George Halas insistence that he be the field goal kicker for the Bears. Good enough to crack the top 30, Phil Simms won two Super Bowls as a member of the New York Giants, first in Super Bowl XXI and then again in Super Bowl XXV. Bert Jones was selected second overall in the 1973 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts to be the eventual successor to all-everything QB Johnny Unitas, and he played at Memorial Stadium for eight seasons. Alex Smith, the first overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, stepped away from pro football in April. Couldn't have been nicer or more collaborative. It's hard not to make the list when you're throwing to a guy as talented as Lance Alworth the first AFL player to make the Hall of Fame, and to his credit, Hadl led the AFL in passing in both 1965 and 1968. It's a damn good thing that I did my diligence; I'd never heard of Jurgensen a week ago. Having said that, look at the numbers. His gregarious, endearing, fun-loving attitude always shineslike going HAM against Pee Wees for director Erich Joiner, Leo Burnett Detroit and Buickbut underneath is a seriously dedicated, competitive, natural on-camera talent. He is actually tied for fourth with Randall Cunningham and Robin Tote for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback. Manning even does commentary for Monday Football with his brother, nicknamed ManningCast. "There's an old advertising axiom: Avoid working with kids or animals. The former Boston College Eagle and Heisman Trophy winner might be best known for his famous Hail Mary against Miami in 1984, and he was part of a major quarterback controversy with Rob Johnson in Buffalo. But when we started rolling, there was immediate relief. He stepped into his role perfectly and helped focus their energy, those 10-year-old Pee Wee kids really wanted to impress him." Check his brilliantly underplayed performance in this NFL Shop spot. Cam Miller, creative director, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and Mike Cicale, freelance creative director. But what makes him great in adspartnering with his brotheralso hurts him because it's hard to shine in Peyton's shadow. It wasn't in the Super Bowl, but "The Catch" is as good a moment as any to beat the Dallas Cowboys at the height of their power. 5. Grogan ran for over 500 yards and had five rushing TDs himself during that season, and he wasn't afraid to take off and run. Unitas was the winning quarterback in the so-called "Greatest Game Ever Played," the 1958 NFL championship against the New York Giants, quarterbacked a successful title defense in 1959, then defeated the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V. Most of Unitas's records have now been broken with the advent of rule changes that favor offensive production, but Unitas pioneered such mainstays as the so-called "two-minute drill" that are still used today. Johnson went over 3,000 yards passing in one season five times during his career, including a 4,000 yard season with the Washington Redskins, and he also won one Super Bowl as quarterback of the Bucs. Maybe it's a stretch to put Rodgers this high, especially given that he's only in his third full season as an NFL starter. Neil O'Donnell's major claim to fame, statistically, is that he retired with the lowest interception rate of any quarterback in NFL history, though he has now relinquished that title. "Making a commercial is nothing like playing QB, but seeing Patrick work gives strong insight into what makes him so great on the field. 78.4% NFL career winning percentage, 2nd all time for QBs, 90% AFL career winning percentage, 1st all time for QBs. In two successive AFC championships, Kosar's Browns lost to the Denver Broncos, first thanks to The Drive, when John Elway drove the Broncos 98 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter, and then thanks to The Fumble, when Earnest Byner lost the ball on Denver's three-yard line. Brees has thrown for 4,300 yards in four consecutive seasons, and is on pace to exceed that number yet again this year. Eli is basically a "one hit wonder" as well, defeating the Patriots in arguably the greatest upset in NFL history, and he's largely failed in clutch situations since. However, at a certain point you just have to look around and realize, "hey who else can we justify putting ahead of this guy?". I had to do some digging to find out who Steve Bartkowski was, but I was impressed by what I saw. 1 overall pick in the draft out of UC Berkeley. The former seventh-round pick out of Harvard somehow stayed in the league for 17 seasons and played for nine teams in that time. In case you were curious, the 50th year since Layne's departure was the season when the Lions had the only 0-16 season in NFL history. List of retired professional football players View source This is a list of individuals who formerly played professional American football in the NFL, AFL, AAFC and other major leagues. To be fair, Marino's only appearance in the Super Bowl came against Joe Montana's 49ers, and the 49ers probably had a better supporting cast around Montana. Roughly two hours after informing his former team, Tom Brady then told the public that . James King, associate creative director, Square, "Ray had an energy that made people on set love him. Earlier this year, the gunslinger finally retired from the sport. Thanks for reading! Dan Fouts played all 15 seasons of his Hall of Fame career for the San Diego Chargers. Alex Smith's career in the NFL can, and likely will be made into a movie one day. If Roethlisberger retires, he would be one of the elite few who remained with just one team from start to finish. Quarterback: Peyton Manning. Or canoeing. List of all Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterbacks The number of games they started during the season is listed to the right: These quarterbacks have the most starts for the Steelers in regular season games . Still, it's hard to argue with the results. The fact that his career has gone continually downhill since the early 2000s has made some people forget the few seasons where Culpepper was among the best passers in the NFL. He is one of the only quarterbacks in NFL history to win two consecutive Super Bowls. Bears owner George Halas traded Layne to the New York Bulldogs, where Layne developed quickly even though he only played there for one season before joining the team with which he spent most of his career- the Detroit Lions. Aaron Brooks played his college ball at the University of Virginia, and when he entered the league as a fourth-round draft pick, he was initially backing up Brett Favre and Matt Hasselbeck. The dated commercial is drenched in an ironic take on 1970s masculinity, but it captures the essence of why we still talk about Namath over 50 years after he first began playing in the NFL. McNair's best statistical season was 2003, when he was co-MVP of the league with Peyton Manning. Hell, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to put Rivers ahead of Namath right now but it's hard to bump Joe down too far, even if I would bump him out of the Hall of Fame left to my own devices. Brees's QB rating during the Saints' Super season a whopping 109.6. One of his most appealing traits: He never seems to be, you know, acting! I'm not averse to putting "young guns" on the list, but I won't jump Joe Flacco to No. Ferguson wore the No. Rodgers is in great position to move up; he's almost a lock to move into the top 40 some day, barring injury. After deciding to retire as a player, Rivers made the decision to help train the next generation. He was replaced by Marc Bulger, who had enjoyed success in Warner's absence. The bottom line is that he is a winner, and the reason why he is a winner is that, when the chips are down, he's going to make it all go. Danny White . He's a super-focused, serious entrepreneurhis Beast Mode Productions and director Diaunte Thompson shot the hell out of thisand above all, he was such a nice guy to just sit around and talk to." Eric asked Terry if there was anything else unusual he could do and impromptu, Terry did the iconic 'pec muscle flexing.' On one level, it's hard to believe that the quarterback in charge of the great Miami Dolphins dynasty of the 1970s isn't the greatest in franchise history. The best in creativity delivered to your inbox every morning. Culpepper has never been the same since leaving Minnesota, but he had more than just one really good season. Dan Fouts, 1973-87. He could move up the list with several more good seasons. TV commercials featuring both have been airing for 18 months, targeting older consumers. While he's only coached at a high school level, he was a finalist for the Houston Texans head coaching position earlier this year. The first quarterback to start in Super Bowls with two different teams was Craig Morton, who appeared in the 1970 big game with the Dallas Cowboys and did the same in 1977 with the Denver Broncos. most interceptions and fumbles). Krieg ranks very highly in many career passing categories, but his teams rarely went deep into the playoffs, and indeed his postseason statistics are generally worse than those in the regular season. Ben Roethlisbergers NFL career was wild. Moon never won an NFL championship- five Grey Cups in the CFL will have to do- but his numbers alone warrant such a high place on the list. Eli Manning, 2004-19. He was that good." Your login session has expired. Even after suffering a brutal injury in 2018 that could've ended his career, Smith fought on. Published on February . This group of gridiron greats also dominated the endorsement game. He's done for the year, but Tony Romo has put up pretty decent numbers during his time in the NFL. Staubach led 23 game-winning drives in his career, including the famous "Hail Mary" pass in the 1975 game against the Minnesota Vikings. Dan Berenson, associate creative director, CP+B. Perhaps the most unbreakable record in professional football is Unitas's record of 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass. Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. I can appreciate a guy who lights up the stat sheet, but as a general rule, I tend to say, "So, if he was really that good, why didn't he win?". Jacksonville Jaguars rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence is one of the new faces of the NFL. If luck works in favor of the Lions now that the curse has expired, Stafford very well might be the guy to break the Bobby Layne jinx. Keep in mind that the only active players who rank highly on the countdown have enjoyed long and accomplished careers. Flutie might be the best player in the history of the Canadian Football League, and I'd love to rank him higher because this guy is the man. An especially notable aspect of Gabriel's play is his 3.3 percent interception percentage (the percentage of his passes that were intercepted). Along with Rookie of the Year, seven Pro Bowl nods and a Lombardi Trophy, he also performs off the field. A lack of postseason success keeps Fouts from entering the top 10. Artists Pushing the Limits of Creativity and Generative Tech, 2 Minutes With (Top Creatives & Marketers). Doesn't seem very likely coming out of the NFC West this year. Going just by the numbers, Namath really wasn't much of a player outside of a few good seasons, and some people would want to rank him higher. RELATED: 10 NFL Quarterbacks Who Failed At Being Locker Room Leaders. I'm about to get hammered no matter where I place Starr. In any event, following the 1989 game in which Everett pretty much got killed by the 49ers defensive front for the entire game, Everett was perceived by many as someone who shied away from contact. An all-time Pittsburgh Steelers great and 2020 Hall of Fame inductee, strong safety Polamalu is one of only four defensive players on this list. Hostetler technically won a Super Bowl as a starting quarterback, but he lost the starting job to Phil Simms the next season and had trouble staying healthy, which eventually landed him with the Oakland Raiders and eventually the Washington Redskins. 8. RELATED: 10 NFL Quarterbacks Who Always Lost The Big Game. Russell Wilson was one of the best.
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