How did Bart Starr Otto Graham miss cut on Cleveland MilwaukeeGreen Bay GOAT Mountains

Otto Graham won four AAFC championships and three NFL championships for the Cleveland Browns. Bart Starr won five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls for the Green Bay Packers.Yet these quarterbacks were not included on Cleveland and Kira Lewis Jr. Jersey Milwaukee-Green Bay in Sporting News' GOAT Mountain series which honored four icons from each pro sports city.TheLandOnDemand.com's Tony Gro si who has covered the Browns since 1982 had a candid response when told Graham did not make the cut.GOAT MOUNTAIN OF SPORTS: | "It's a younger panel, huh?" Gro si asked Sporting News.Gro si and Cheesehead-TV co-founder Aaron Nagler used the same argument for Graham and Starr one that goes straight to the top."Bart Starr was Brady before Brady existed," Nagler told SN. "Especially when it came to the clutch. There wasn't a moment too big. There wasn't anything. The word pre sure didn't exist. "MORE: "Otto Graham is the greatest winner in quarterback history," Gro si said. "He was Brady before Brady." Getty Images That is Tom Brady, of course, the seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback whose next stop will be induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Graham and Starr are among the 27 modern-era quarterbacks in Canton. Sporting News . Graham is at No. 7, and Starr is at No. 13.The quarterbacks share those ties with Brady. Graham and Starr were paired with innovative Hall of Fame coaches. All Graham and Starr did was win and generations later that succe s is still being questioned Derrick Favors Jersey .Graham . Teamed with legendary coach Paul Brown, Graham led the Browns to four straight AAFC championships and had a 5-0 postseason record in those first four seasons before the franchise moved to the NFL in 1950. From there, Cleveland reached six straight NFL championship games winning titles in 1950, 1954 and 1955.Graham had a 57-13-1 regular-season record as a starter and a 4-3 postseason record in the NFL. Between both leagues, he had a winning percentage of .837."I Zion Williamson Jersey think Otto Graham is one of the most overlooked NFL stars in our lifetime in the last 70 years," AP sports writer Tom Withers told SN. "To consider that he wasn't viewed as a pro-ready quarterback when he came out of Northwestern and there was talk of him even pursuing a basketball career. Obviously he hooked up with Paul Brown. ... But any time you are the leader of a team and you can take them to 10 straight championship games, that just speaks volumes."Graham also played in a different era. He ranks 67th in career TD pa ses with 174 and 92nd in pa sing yards with 23,584."None of that matters," Gro si said. "It was a different game. He was the first great quarterback leader in profe sional football. ... I've always contended that's the No. 1 job of the quarterback not to throw touchdown pa ses but to win the game. Analytics says otherwise. I think wins are definitely a reflection of the quarterback. That's my argument for him."Starr would have a similar argument as the quarterback for the Packers dynasty under Vince Lombardi. The Packers won five NFL championships from 1961-67, and Starr led Green Bay to victories in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II. If you count the 1965 NFL championship, the Packers are the last team to three-peat.Starr had a 9-1 record in the postseason, a run that included the legendary quarterback sneak in the Ice Bowl against the Cowboys in the 1967 NFL championship game."He had the most-incredible run in the postseason we'll ever see, including any of the modern greats as far as efficiency," Nagler said. "He was so much better than all of his peers, and the fact that he called his own plays. You add that all up, and you can't take anything away Sindarius Thornwell Jersey from him. I understand why again and because of context and maybe some recency bias why Favre and Rodgers would be up there over him."Packers quarterbacks Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers made our cut for the Milwaukee-Green Bay list. Favre was ranked No. 6 on our list of modern-era Hall of Fame quarterbacks, and Rodgers will be in the top 10 on that list when he retires. Is that stat-driven? Starr is 82nd in pa sing yards with 24,718 and tied for 93rd in TD pa ses with 152.Starr, unlike Favre and Rodgers, however, spent his entire career with Green Bay. Ike Anigbogu Jersey The special attachment to those fan-bases with Graham and Starr are the championships. That might have faded some with the new generation, but Nagler maintains it is a basele s claim."Usually it's a kid on Twitter saying, 'They can't measure up physically. These modern athletes would kill them,'" Nagler said. "You don't think that if you gave Otto Graham or Bart Starr the opportunities that the modern athlete has been given, you don't think they would take advantage of that? Get out of here."
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