Top 5 Running Backs of All Time

[The Actuary]

1)Payton
2)Brown
3)Sayers
4)Sanders
5)Simpson


sorry JDog, no EMoney on my list it may have something to do with being born and raised in Philly [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img].

TA

[World Runner]

I'd have to say....

1) Emmitt Smith
2) Errict Rhett
3) Neal Anderson
4) Fred Taylor
5) Earnest Graham

[jdog]

1. smith
2. payton
3. campbell
4. brown
5. sanders

thats all right act, the big e has gotten enough respect since day 1, and to this day he still doesnt.

[shoebox]

Although it was a short career, Bo Jackson has to be on that list.

[SBR.COM]

TA I like your list.

The "best" running back is not necessarily the top 5 of all time.

Example: If your life depended on you picking up two yards who would you hand the ball to?
Earl Campell
Gale Sayers

same question
Barry Sanders
Eric Dickerson

I really think Earl belongs on the list because he had Brown like power and speed. But I like your 5 choices in the same order as you got them.

[Railbird]

1. Faulk
2. Sayers
3. Sanders
4. Tomlinson
5. Brown

[gradysfalcon]

i would say
1. sayers
2. sanders
3. dickerson
4. e smith
5.t dorsett

[biff's almanac]

For an entire season? Based on their best season ever..1.Dickerson
2.Orenthal
3.Faulk
4.Brown
5.Bo/Earl tie

[DrunkenGoon]

Example: If your life depended on you picking up two yards who would you hand the ball to?

The Nigerian Nightmare!

[HG]

1 guy to get 2 yards for me- without a doubt, dante culpepper.
1 guy to get 2 yards for me, while maintaining possession of the ball, jim brown.

[nostaw1952]

1)Brown
2)Sayers
3)Simpson
4)Campbell
5)Sanders

[Mr Memory]

Always interesting, because there are so many different types
of backs. What's your priority? My top 3:

(1) Payton. Since he's the greatest football player ever, can't
place him anywhere else.
(2) Brown. The greatest -- if you HAVE to gain two yards on
one play . . . or if you need some woman beaten up, thrown out of a window, etc. Otherwise (block? catch passes? throw the option?),
see #1.
(3) Sayers. Not for longevity, obviously, but the greatest
RB supernova the game's ever seen. Indisputably the greatest
open-field, breakaway runner, ever . . . as well as one of the
top mudders of all time. The Kansas Comet, indeed . . . a shooting star.

[Fishhead]

1. Walter Payton
2. Ahman Green
3. Marshall Faulk
4. Emmitt Smith
5. John Brockington

[Paradigm]

1Brown
2Sanders
3Payton
4Sims
5Sayers

[timmy]

1. grange
2. nagurski
3. sayers
4. payton
5. a rookie from miami that the bears WILL have in their backfield next year... willis mcgahee

[timmy]

oh yea,

if you had a gun to my head for a #6 it would be... john brokington

[Mr Memory]

Timmy: good to see you have your priorities straight, in terms
of team loyalty.

[Alan]

Brown
Payton
Sayers
Sanders
unfortunately the juice

Interesting to note that Brown might not be great today because the defensive players are so much bigger and faster.

[Mr Memory]

Jim Brown: too much of an egomaniac to block . . . not a great
receiver (to say the least) . . . and, uh, not real likely to throw
the option pass. Payton was the whole package. As noted,
it's contingent on what's most important to you at the time . . .
two yards and a cloud of dust, or the whole magillah. If it's
the whole magillah you're looking for, Payton retired that
trophy, and the case is locked. Otherwise, Alan . . .
Merry Christmas!

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with your T-formation . . ."

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