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00:00Playing against the Packer franchise, I think it was the best franchise in the history of football.
00:05When Taylor was there, when Horning was there, when Starr was there, when Dollar was there, when McGee was there,
00:09Forrest Gregg, Fuzzy, Jerry Kramer.
00:12So to say, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, I don't know. I really have no clue.
00:23Today, we're counting down the top 10 greatest Packers players of all time.
00:28You're talking so many great Packers that I'm not sure a number really defines it.
00:35The Green Bay Packers, the finest football team in the world.
00:38We've got to pick 10. We could take a hopper and make like 60 to try and force our way
00:43into 10.
00:44What are we doing? No sign of this at home.
00:46They've had three real distinct periods of true greatness.
00:51The Lambeau years.
00:52The Green Bay Packers are the world's champions.
00:54The Lombardi years.
00:55The NBOW champions are the third great year.
00:58And then the Favre, Holmgren, Reggie White years.
01:01It means more to us.
01:03With 90 seasons in the NFL and 21 Hall of Famers, it's no easy task sorting through these resumes.
01:11I mean, that's a lot to choose from.
01:13Come on, Reggie!
01:15Number one!
01:16I don't know, man.
01:17These guys were all good guys.
01:19I mean, you're going to say one's better than the other.
01:21In our business, there is no second place.
01:23Either your first or your last.
01:24The Packers' history is so rich and diverse.
01:27There shouldn't be one criteria where you say you have to be a Hall of Famer or you have to
01:31win a championship.
01:32Was this person ever the best at what he did?
01:37As the only publicly owned franchise, being a Packer comes with a unique responsibility.
01:43There has to be a certain amount of class and dignity that goes into being an all-time great Packer.
01:50We've set a very high standard.
01:51In Green Bay, there is really this belief that they're all in it together.
01:57We've got the Green Bay Packers here!
01:59The Packers are a reminder of what sports used to be and maybe should be.
02:04There wouldn't be any professional football without the Packers in their tradition.
02:08You only know Green Bay because of the Packers.
02:12Number 10, Green Bay Packers for all time.
02:16Number 10.
02:17Number 10.
02:18Yeah.
02:19You know, I think that whoever did this rating is in the media.
02:23Right?
02:24So, therefore, you understand that they never played the game.
02:27So, they don't understand who Jim Taylor was or how he played the game.
02:31What the hell's going on out here?
02:33They're charged with 21 Hall of Famers.
02:3610.
02:36Jim Taylor is a travesty.
02:38He's one of the three or four all-time greatest Packers.
02:40He was the guy carrying the boat for that team.
02:44And he piled drives his way in for the Packer touchdown.
02:47I don't know that you can put Jim Taylor high enough.
02:49Just from the production standpoint, it really what drove that Packer offense back then.
02:53The number one play in our offensive category is the power sweep.
02:59Lombardi's Packers were the power sweep offense.
03:03And Jim Taylor was the guy who ran it.
03:05Jim Taylor on a power sweep.
03:07People knew what we were going to do.
03:08And we defied them to stop us.
03:10And we, it was just a matter of may the better man win.
03:14When I was growing up, I was a Jimmy Taylor freak.
03:17I love that guy.
03:22For fullback Jim Taylor, number 31, each step is above a demanding test for his courage,
03:29skill, and character.
03:31The physicality that Jim Taylor brought to the table is right at the forefront of what
03:36made him great.
03:36He wouldn't back down from any contact at all.
03:39The guy was a tough physical player.
03:41I'm going to make the tackler split me.
03:43I'm going to punish him.
03:45I'm going to hit the tackler hard and then he's going to hit me.
03:47He was one of those guys that would set the tempo.
03:49He just brought a certain toughness to the running backs by.
03:55So why is Jim Taylor only number 10 on our list?
03:59His accomplishments were overshadowed by a different Jim.
04:04Jim Brown and Jim Taylor didn't play in the same era.
04:07We would be thinking about Jim Taylor as probably the greatest fullback from that era.
04:11From 1960 to 1964, there were only 13 1,000-yard seasons.
04:16Five of those seasons were Jim Taylor.
04:18Taylor gallops through the gap for a Green Bay score.
04:221962, we scored 19 touchdowns in one year.
04:25Nobody at that time had ever scored 19 touchdowns in a season.
04:28Jim Brown never even scored 19 touchdowns rushing the football.
04:32All right.
04:34Our number 10 packer was named MVP in 1962,
04:37and his 19 touchdowns remains a single-season team record.
04:43But it was his...
04:44From 1960 to 1964,
04:48Jim Brown finished sec...
04:49Jim Taylor finished second, second, first, second, second.
04:54Jim Brown didn't exist.
04:55He got five rushing titles in a row.
04:58Roll on four championship teams that earned him a spot on our list.
05:03If you want to think of the prototypical Green Bay performance,
05:08you think of Jimmy Taylor in the 62 championship game.
05:12In single-degree temperatures,
05:14Taylor battled a brutal Giants defense led by Hall of Famer Sam Huff.
05:19Taylor is taking his lumps today.
05:21This could get personal.
05:22Taylor carried the ball a career-high 31 times
05:26and scored the game's only touchdown.
05:29The Green Bay Packers are the National Football League champion.
05:31Jim Taylor is the classic Lombardi Packer.
05:35Coming up, find out which offensive lineman is...
05:39The number nine Green Bay Packer of all time,
05:43Jerry Kramer.
05:45So how does Forrest Gregg not make the list?
05:48Jerry Kramer was a terrific pulling guard.
05:51He's a smart guy.
05:52I am Jerry Kramer.
05:54I play right guard.
05:54I've been with Green Bay for the past 10 years.
05:57He was a key player on the team of that decade,
06:02which some people would say may be the greatest team of all time,
06:05the Lombardi Packers.
06:06When you think of the Packers of the 60s
06:08and you think of the Lombardi Packers,
06:11remember Lombardi at the blackboard.
06:14This is our play.
06:15We're trying to get us a seal here and a seal here
06:18and try to run this play in the alley.
06:21Getting the seal was the guards.
06:24Our off guard pulls hard,
06:26and he finds the first opening.
06:29And Jerry Kramer was the best at that particular skill.
06:33Number 64, all-pro guard Jerry Kramer leads Elijah Pitts around him.
06:38What made him truly great was Kramer was a good enough athlete
06:42that he could get out there and he could make that block.
06:45He had really good feet,
06:46and he could pull, and he could get outside,
06:48and he could get in front of either Taylor or Horning
06:50and lead that player on the edge.
06:52Look at that.
06:52He's in pretty much all of Jim Taylor
06:55and Paul Horning's most talked about and seen plays.
07:00Block in space.
07:02Watch that number 64.
07:03That's Jerry Kramer.
07:09Kramer wasn't just a key component of the Packers sweep.
07:14Our number 9 Packer was more than a lineman.
07:18He was a great football player.
07:21He could run with anybody.
07:23He could block on the perimeter,
07:24and then, oh, by the way,
07:25he could kick an extra point if he needed him to.
07:27When they plugged Jerry in a couple of times,
07:28he kicked three field goals in the 1962 championship game.
07:31Jerry Kramer kicks, and the ball finds it.
07:34The score, Green Bay 16, New York 7.
07:41Kramer is the reason the most famous Packer play in history
07:44is remembered more for the block than for the score.
07:48Cue the Kramer clip.
07:51Star begins the count.
07:53Takes the stab.
07:54And the quarterbacks.
07:58It's probably the most famous tackle-to-tackle block
08:03in the history of pro football.
08:05See how he opens up a hole with that block?
08:07It's pride that did that.
08:09He's determined that every fan that sees him
08:11will believe that they saw the best right guard in football doing his job.
08:15In so many ways, it defines the Packers,
08:18but it also defines Kramer
08:20as a guy who, in that situation,
08:23up against a great defensive tackle,
08:26makes the play that scores the touchdown
08:29that wins the championship.
08:38Love Jerry Kramer, but he wasn't even the best offensive lineman
08:40on those teams.
08:42They were Hall of Famers on each side of him.
08:43And this was a seven-time All-Pro.
08:47When they picked the team of the NFL's first 50 years,
08:52Jerry Kramer was the guard.
08:53I think Jerry Kramer's known more for what he did after football.
08:56Jerry Kramer, the author of a book,
08:59best-seller, hits the replay of a few years ago.
09:01It's fine.
09:03I mean, an offensive lineman that didn't make the Hall of Fame,
09:05top ten for the Packers.
09:07Eh, I'm not going to quibble.
09:09The number eight green day Packer of all time,
09:12James Fluffy.
09:14Yep.
09:15In 1978, Lofton burst of...
09:17Only Packer on this list without a championship, guaranteed.
09:20...the NFL with a combination of concentration and speed
09:24that gave him a season total of 46 catches for 818 yards.
09:32Great deep threat, awesome beard, bad teams.
09:37Really bad teams.
09:43Packers receivers have always defined themselves in championship games.
09:55Except James Lofton.
09:57Between 1978 and 1986, he never even sniffed a Super Bowl.
10:02Lofton makes our list because despite playing on just one playoff team,
10:07number 80 was the iconic receiver of his era.
10:11And Lofton was a great receiver, and he played at a time when the Packers were not necessarily
10:18winning and getting to championship games.
10:21So for a lot of people, he might be lost in translation.
10:29Downfield, deep threat, year in and year out.
10:32And Lofton is a 9-3 spreader.
10:36He had two seasons when he averaged over 22 yards per catch.
10:40He might be the best athlete in the entire league.
10:43One thing about James Lofton you could always count on was at least one time in a game,
10:47he'd catch a ball, and you'd see his long stride,
10:51and you'd see this defensive back coming behind him.
10:57He still is probably one of the fastest humans in the world right now.
11:02I mean, he's going to be fast going to his grave.
11:07James Lofton has left no doubt that he is one of the finest receivers in football today.
11:15Lofton might be the most gifted athlete on our list,
11:18but he gets stuck at number 8 as a victim of circumstance.
11:23At the 45, it might be gone.
11:2640, 35, 30, 35, 20, 15, 10, 5, and a touchdown.
11:32You know, Lofton's a tough case because his numbers are very impressive,
11:36but I'm not sure he ever occupied people's minds nationwide.
11:41James Lofton definitely deserves to be on this list.
11:44Is he one of the 10 best stackers of all time?
11:46I don't think so.
11:47I think when you get guys like Forrest Gregg not on the list, Jim Ringo not on the list.
11:51I believe he's a Hall of Famer.
11:53James Lofton caught 532 passes with Packers in his career and averaged 18.2 yards per catch over his entire
12:01Packers career.
12:02I'm not sure a lot of people thought of him in the way that he should be thought of.
12:07He was a big-time elite NFL wide receiver.
12:10Eight receptions, 131 yards, and a touchdown for James Lofton.
12:15Lombardi's Packers should just be 1 through 9 on this, and then Lofton at 10.
12:20That should be this list.
12:22Up next, what happened to me?
12:25Let's find out.
12:27The number 7 Green Bay Packer of all time, Herb Adderley.
12:33He was simply one of the finest single-cover people in the history of this league.
12:40The ultimate cover corner.
12:42Herb Adderley was that guy that other teams just avoided totally.
12:46He should be even higher than where he is on this list.
12:48Beautiful save by Adderley.
12:50Quiet defensive backs.
12:52They don't get higher than 7.
12:54If Herb Adderley had been a Deion Sanders personality...
12:58Another classic by Deion!
13:00Herb would be a 1 or 2 on this list.
13:05Herb is on his man like a wet shirt.
13:07When the pass is underthrown, he's there to intercept.
13:10And it's destination goal line.
13:12The thing about Herb Adderley is, at one point, they had no idea he was going to be a corner.
13:16He didn't come into the league as a corner.
13:18The Packers drafted Adderley as a running back, but already featured a Hall of Fame backfield.
13:23The Green Bay backfield with Horning and Taylor, that was really one of the best running back combinations we've seen
13:28in the league.
13:29It didn't bode well for another running back coming into the Green Bay Packer organization.
13:33After an injury in the defensive backfield, Lombardi moved Adderley to cornerback,
13:38where he intercepted 48 passes and returned 7 for touchdowns in his career.
13:45He was so dangerous, you know, with the football.
13:48And I think that comes from his background in college of being a great running back and a receiver.
13:53I could run because I was a running back, so I used to want to get my hands on the
13:58football and take off and go the other way with it.
14:00Picked off by Herb Adderley all the way for a Green Bay touchdown.
14:04Lombardi often said after that, I mean, can you imagine if I hadn't had that injury come up
14:08and if I just kept this guy on offense his entire career, when you see how much he means to
14:13this defense.
14:17Adderley made a name for himself by stealing the spotlight on the grandest of stages.
14:23We're just watching here in the second Super Bowl game.
14:26We had the first pick six in Super Bowl history.
14:28They had been told not to throw to the right side, not to throw passes all the way at all.
14:33And in quicksive attack, might as well take a shot.
14:36And he threw it over there and hurried, picked, and ran it back.
14:38A 79 interception attack.
14:41It was the first defensive touchdown in Super Bowl history.
14:44Let him go, hurry, put him up over.
14:45Let him go, hurry.
14:46Let him go, hurry.
14:48Adderley won five titles with Green Bay, but finished his career with the Cowboys.
14:53We're the champions, number one, Dallas Cowboys.
14:57Where he played in two more Super Bowls, winning one.
15:00He played in four of the first six Super Bowls.
15:03Herb Adderley, if you ask me, is kind of the Bill Russell of the NFL.
15:06This guy won six championships.
15:11Our number seven Packer got bumped up on our list.
15:14He won five.
15:15He played in six.
15:17Staying true to the Green Gold, he's legendary for basically saying he doesn't wear his Cowboys ring.
15:24When he retired, he was very clear that he's a Packer and doesn't want to be remembered as a Cowboy.
15:30I love this.
15:32For all of us Cowboy haters all across America,
15:34Never mind, I was wrong.
15:36He won six championships.
15:37If we would do the same thing,
15:38Oh, I don't want a ring with the Cowboys.
15:41Stick that in the basement, Ma.
15:45The number six Green Bay Packer of all time.
15:49Paul Harding.
15:52Paul Harding was one of the most versatile football players that never played pro football.
15:56That's the way I would like to be remembered.
15:58He could do everything.
15:59He could run the football.
16:01Beautiful run by Paul Harding.
16:02He could throw the football because he'd been a college quarterback at Notre Dame.
16:07He's a little high on this list.
16:09He wasn't better than Jim Payne.
16:10All things have been the mankind in the middle.
16:13Harding scored 176 points in 12 games in 1960.
16:19He averaged almost 15 points a game.
16:22He's got the five catch to the man's door for the touchdown.
16:24The Hornick scoring record stood for 46 years until Damian Tomlinson eclipsed the mark in a 16-game season in
16:322006.
16:34Parker Bats are witnesses to history.
16:37He just did everything.
16:38You don't see a ball player like that today.
16:40You don't see one that has the opportunity to even try all those things.
16:47The Golden Boy was the Packers' first overall pick in 1957.
16:52But it took two years and a new head coach to discover his value.
16:57It wasn't that anybody doubted his skills.
17:00People were wondering, what is he going to do in the pros?
17:01So long came Vince Lombardi.
17:02He said, you're on my back.
17:06Lombardi created Frank Gifford in New York.
17:08A sort of a halfback who could catch, run, and throw.
17:11And he said, there's my Gifford.
17:12He saw it on film before they ever played a game.
17:15I am truly amazed by the performance of Paul Harding.
17:18He was Lombardi's pet.
17:19Harding was Lombardi's favorite player.
17:22Mr. Crick, there were things going on.
17:24And Lombardi used to, you know, bark and yell at him a little bit.
17:27But I think Vince really loved him.
17:32I'll bet Paul Harding was a big reason why a lot of women started to like the National Football League.
17:38Paul was an impact player on the Green Bay Packers.
17:41He also was an impact player on half the females of the United States.
17:45He certainly had very strong leadership qualities off the football field.
17:49Come on, quit laughing.
17:52Good laughing.
17:53The boards that he brought in.
17:54If you're bad on the field, then you'd be bad off the field with the chicks.
17:57But Coach Lombardi, in his heart of hearts, wished that he could be like that.
18:06Hornig higher on our list?
18:08You can bet his year-long suspension in 1963 for gambling on football had something to do with it.
18:15He was the first one to admit that he knew he shouldn't be doing it.
18:18And he took it like a man.
18:20He took the one-year suspension and came back and played far beyond that.
18:25I have a lot of problems to face this year.
18:27A lot of mental problems which will arise.
18:29And it is a big problem.
18:31I think the number one problem in which we will have to just bear up under.
18:39Our number six Packer was a two-time league MVP, but might not have been the best runner in that
18:45backfield.
18:46Hornig was definitely a better player than Taylor off the field.
18:50Whether he was a better player than Taylor on the field, I absolutely don't think so.
18:53His numbers do not even compare.
18:55Jim Taylor ran for 83 touchdowns.
18:57Paul Hornig ran for 50.
18:58Hornig running through the play.
18:59Paul Hornig to me might have been one of the more-
19:03Jim Taylor ran for over 8,000 yards.
19:06Paul Hornig ran for 3,700.
19:09That's less than half.
19:11More overrated players in the NFL, and I think that even might be a little high on that list.
19:15No, give me a break, man.
19:16Taylor is a thousand-yard rusher because Hornig-
19:19Hornig was that knee blocker.
19:21And the teamwork of him and Taylor that's made it all possible.
19:24Golden Boy gets what Golden Boy wants, and that's higher on this list than Jim Taylor.
19:28Although Jim Taylor is absolutely upset about that.
19:30Totally ticked off.
19:32Coming up, who will be our highest defensive player?
19:35He epitomized Green Bay Packer football.
19:38We're talking about the best defensive tackle, defensive end ever.
19:45I have Green Bay Packer of all time.
19:48Ray Nitschke.
19:51My name is Ray Nitschke.
19:53I'm the middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
19:56If you think of Green Bay Packers, I would bet that most people,
19:59one of the first names that comes to mind is Ray Nitschke.
20:02But if there is a player other teams love to hate,
20:06it's Ray Nitschke, number 66, Green Bay's all-pro middle linebacker.
20:15He epitomized Green Bay Packer football.
20:18The party era, baby!
20:21The pictures of him are legendary with his teeth missing,
20:24and he's just the epitome of 60s-era tough guy football.
20:28His threatening appearance and nasty temperament once caused Los Angeles columnist Jim Murray to write,
20:35the Green Bay Packers came here by jet.
20:37But Ray Nitschke just rode his broomstick.
20:40He came out of Chicago.
20:40He was a tough guy from a tough neighborhood.
20:42He got in trouble off the field.
20:44My parents died when I was very young,
20:46and I think I took it out on the neighborhood kids,
20:48and I was always fighting and getting in the tangments with the other kids from the neighborhood.
20:52He would snarl at you if you got too close.
20:55Come on, let's do it!
20:57All right, all right, all right.
21:01He wasn't just a crazy guy.
21:04He was very agile, had a great nose for the ball,
21:06and once he got to you, he just leveled you.
21:08Ray Nitschke's menacing stare was intimidating.
21:11He's number five on our list because he became the face of Lombardi's defense.
21:17They wound up building the defense around him.
21:19In 15 seasons in Green Bay, Nitschke was a seven-time All-Pro,
21:24and at number five, he's the highest Lombardi defender on our list.
21:29Ray Nitschke, the fine linebacker for the Packers.
21:33Hey, Willie Davidson...
21:35No better player overall.
21:36He epitomizes the Packers.
21:38I would argue he should be number one.
21:40And what a privilege it was to go on the athletic field
21:43and play middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
21:47You know, some people think Ray Nitschke was overrated,
21:49and they think because of the persona and the teeth and everything else
21:53and the nastiness that he wasn't as good as he was.
21:55But I look at him and I saw a guy, for that era,
21:59he hit people in the hole as hard as anybody.
22:02If I had to start an all-time team,
22:04my middle linebacker would probably be Ray Nitschke,
22:06ahead of Dick Buckus or Sam Huff or anybody like that.
22:09Look, Nitschke is great.
22:10Nitschke deserves on this list.
22:12But Nitschke shouldn't be higher than five.
22:14Come on, man!
22:19I'm just not going to be the guy to tell him that.
22:21Sorry.
22:22You go tell Ray he's not higher on the list.
22:27He passed in 1998.
22:30The number four Green Bay Packer of all time.
22:38I don't think I've ever seen a defensive lineman like Reggie White.
22:43And what did Reggie?
22:44The number 92 Reggie White has been relentless.
22:47Physically, he was the most talented big guy I've ever seen in my life.
22:51He was consistently the guy that brought the Packers back to prominence again.
22:56The Vince Lombardi trophy is coming home!
22:59We're talking about the best defensive tackle, defensive end,
23:03whatever you want to call him, ever.
23:05He just throws Max Lane to the side.
23:07He was that anchor left end.
23:09He was the pass rusher that made everybody else better.
23:12Linebackers are better.
23:13Defensive backs are better.
23:15Other defensive linemen are better because of his presence.
23:17We want a defensive!
23:19Yeah!
23:20We got it!
23:25Reggie White made it cool to play in Green Bay.
23:32When NFL titles were flowing freely during the 60s,
23:36Green Bay became known as Titletown.
23:38But when the championships dried up in the 70s and 80s,
23:43Titletown became an NFL purgatory.
23:47Nobody want to go to Green Bay and freeze.
23:49Hands are frozen.
23:50Your hands are frozen.
23:52Are you going to freeze to death?
23:55Packers' fortunes would be saved forever
23:57thanks to an inspired decision by the Minister of Defense.
24:03I'm bringing the sack to the pack.
24:05The highest profile free agent in the first free agent class
24:09chose Green Bay, Wisconsin.
24:13That's a pretty big deal.
24:14Reggie said God told him to go to Green Bay.
24:16God left the voicemail.
24:19So, that's pretty important.
24:20On a whim, I just phoned him up.
24:23And said, Reggie, this is God.
24:26I want you to go to Green Bay.
24:28And then I hung up the phone.
24:30Oh, that was Holmgren faking God.
24:33Still, pretty important.
24:37You can trace the rise of the Green Bay Packers
24:40into Super Bowl champions and perennial playoff teams
24:43to the free agent signing of Reggie White.
24:46Despite playing only six seasons in Green Bay,
24:49Reggie White may have made the biggest impact
24:52of any player on our list.
24:54There's a chant of Reggie throughout Lambeau Field.
24:57Gave them real leadership.
24:59We need everybody today.
25:01Never see the person on this team.
25:02And gave them a defensive force
25:04that they had had in many years.
25:08Reggie White's going to take over this game right now.
25:12Our number four Packer led the team to six playoff appearances,
25:16two Super Bowls, and a world championship.
25:19World champion, Green Bay Packers.
25:26Was he a Packer or was he an Eagle?
25:28And I think, I don't know if people remember him as a Packer
25:32as much as they maybe remember him as a great player with the Eagles.
25:35But I think White deserves to be high on the list of top ten Packers.
25:39He helped bring a Super Bowl here.
25:41Absolutely, Reggie White deserves to be on this list.
25:43And again, if he was alive today,
25:45I wasn't going to be the one to tell him that he wasn't higher.
25:47Still to come, what quarterback will be revealed on our list?
25:52The number three Green Bay Packer of all time,
25:55Bart Starr.
25:58The 60s will be described as a decade
26:02in which the Packers were the number one team.
26:05And Bart Starr was proudly the number one Packer.
26:10A lot of people pick Bart Starr apart.
26:12They say, look at all the talent around them.
26:14But Bart Starr knew exactly what Lombardi wanted.
26:18Every player must go all out on every play.
26:21He knew how to call the game.
26:23He knew how to be a leader.
26:25The final star hitting beautifully.
26:27It was, what does the coach need me to do?
26:29What's the precision this offense is going to operate under?
26:32And how are we going to win games?
26:34That's the object of football.
26:36It's win the game.
26:37The difference this afternoon was the passing of Bart Starr.
26:44I'm Bart Starr.
26:45I was the 17th round draft choice of the Green Bay Packers.
26:48My first year to Bart Starr was an unknown quantity.
26:53To me, he was like methane gas.
26:55Colorless, odorless, tasteless, virtually invisible.
26:59Starr was not worth knowing before Lombardi got there.
27:01He had won just three games in 20 starts.
27:04He had twice as many interceptions as touchdowns.
27:08It took Lombardi a couple months to figure out, this guy, I can put him on the field, he's
27:12going to run my offense perfectly.
27:14Ampy circle, it'll be right open to the wing, see?
27:16It was a perfect combination of coach and quarterback.
27:20Defensively, they don't seem to be coming off the ball.
27:22Maybe 53 and 52, see?
27:24Yes, sir.
27:24Okay?
27:24Yes, sir.
27:27Bart Starr, statistically, he wasn't the greatest quarterback of all time.
27:32He was good.
27:32So why isn't our number three Packer higher on the list?
27:37Even though he led the NFL in passing three times, something Brett Favre failed to do once.
27:42Starr never threw for more than 2,500 yards or 20 touchdowns in a single season.
27:48You may not put him in the same category as some of the dynamic players we've seen because
27:55he didn't wow you with those big statistics.
27:59Starr hitting perfectly and what a quick car.
28:01When he was quarterback, the job was different.
28:04The job wasn't to throw the ball 40 times a game.
28:07It wasn't to put up these numbers.
28:09That's not how you did it.
28:10Certainly not how you did it under Lombardi.
28:12Do you know how many one-yard touchdown passes Bart Starr threw in his career?
28:15One.
28:16Do you know how many two-yard touchdown passes Bart Starr threw in his career?
28:20One.
28:20By contrast, Peyton Manning has thrown 37 one- or two-yard touchdown passes.
28:25How does that happen?
28:26That's not how the Packers offense worked.
28:28They didn't want to throw the ball at the goal line.
28:29They didn't have to throw the ball at the goal line.
28:31There are other quarterbacks even in that era who just had these dazzling numbers and everything,
28:37but they didn't win like he did.
28:43On number three, Packer earned his spot on the list by winning five NFL championships and MVP honors in the
28:50first two Super Bowls.
28:51He was just terrific in the postseason, 15 touchdowns, only three interceptions.
28:56He completed 61% of his passes.
28:59He had the highest passing reign in the playoffs forever, and he's second right now.
29:07He only lost one playoff game in his career.
29:09Never lost the playoff game at home.
29:11All he did was win championships.
29:12What we keep forgetting is he called his own plays.
29:1541 quick, on three.
29:16Break.
29:17He ran that system.
29:19Even though Lombardi, you know, put it out there, Bart ran the game.
29:22While Jerry Kramer delivered the most famous block in the ice bowl, it was still...
29:27It all happened.
29:28The NFL championship's at stake.
29:30This guy just runs his own thing.
29:3216 seconds remaining, 17 to 14.
29:35I said, Coach, I can shuffle and lunge my way into the end zone.
29:38All he said in a crisis time like that was, then run it, and let's get the hell out of
29:43here.
29:43Thank you, sir.
29:44He is the first team.
29:46That's what we've been doing.
29:48And the great best Packers are going to be.
29:50Where are you going to be?
29:51If you miss all those things, you look like an idiot.
29:54But we were looking up on that when it worked hard for us.
29:56Bart Starr, to me, the best big game quarterback of all time.
30:00And to me, the definitive Packer.
30:02Coming up, we address the El Lerone.
30:04Brett Favre.
30:05Brett Favre.
30:06Brett Favre.
30:07Is Favre number one or...
30:09The number two Green Bay Packer of all time.
30:13Brett Favre.
30:14Two.
30:15If Brett Favre was number two, who is number one?
30:18Brett Favre could be number one.
30:20He had almost two decades of pretty much dominance in Green Bay and kept that small market afloat.
30:26Brett Favre just throws a perfect ball.
30:28Everyone knew Brett Favre.
30:29Everyone knew Green Bay.
30:31What Green Bay was because of Brett Favre.
30:33Gotta love it.
30:34Can you wait and pay us for it?
30:35Brett Favre to modern era football is the Green Bay Packers.
30:39Brett Favre should be number one.
30:41No.
30:42No, no, no, no, no.
30:44Look, there's an entire roster of players that won five championships under Vince Lombardi.
30:50Brett Favre was not as good a quarterback as Bart Starr.
30:53Just period.
30:55End of sentence.
30:55That is an unbelievable turn of events.
30:59Bart Starr.
30:59What?
31:00That's...
31:01Are you serious?
31:03Brett Favre and that Packers team would have been undefeated.
31:06Starr is, was, and will remain the iconic Packers quarterback.
31:12They had spent 20 years after Bart Starr trying to find a quarterback.
31:16Favre gave them hope.
31:18MVP!
31:19MVP!
31:20This is the best thing that's happened in Green Bay in a long time.
31:23If you look at his entire body work, his numbers, how he had to carry those teams, how his teams
31:28weren't nearly as talented, I think you have to put Favre ahead of Starr.
31:35In 1992, an injury to Don Mikowski gave Favre the starting job, a position he held for 253 straight games
31:43in Green Bay.
31:45Luke Garrick is a remarkable streak.
31:47I think Brett Favre's is more remarkable because Luke Garrick didn't get hit.
31:50Wow, did he take a hit?
31:51Hey, that's all you got?
31:52It's the most amazing streak in sports.
31:54When you look at the hits he endured, Brett Favre, game in and game out, it's astounding.
31:59You know, we're coming out of your ass.
32:02Not only did you do it from a health standpoint, but you did it from a production standpoint.
32:08That's the amazing part of it to me.
32:10Our number two Packer was a three-time MVP and holds the NFL record for career wins, passing touchdowns, and
32:18yards.
32:18A monumental milestone in a legendary career!
32:22Woo!
32:23Favre was astounding.
32:25His records are just unbelievable.
32:27I don't know if he had like a Steve Austin, you know, bionic compartment with him.
32:31And a great Brett Favre thrown!
32:36Brett Favre was a gunslinger.
32:38He wasn't a real deep thinker.
32:39If he liked it, he threw it.
32:41Touchdown!
32:42No more rocket balls, please?
32:43When I was playing touch football growing up, there'd be ten guys wide open, but I'd always
32:47throw the guy who was covered, because that was the hard one to do.
32:50We're watching for those did-you-see-that moments, and he gave you so many of those, whether he's
32:55throwing the ball backwards or shot-putting it.
32:57Favre is the creative quarterback.
32:59Or singing it in a place that you say, who else gets it there?
33:03That was one magnificent trope.
33:05I gotta see this!
33:07This Favre out here!
33:08Brett Favre!
33:09The way he handled himself, people could relate with Brett Favre.
33:13You know the capital of Thailand?
33:15Thank God.
33:17I like him in his Wrangler jeans and his baseball hat and his truck and all that.
33:21I'm a good guy.
33:25Favre won the Packers their first Super Bowl in three decades, but failed to crack our top
33:31spot for one reason.
33:32He's Green Bay's Benedict Arnold.
33:35I think we all know why I'm here.
33:36Is he gonna retire?
33:38It's over.
33:38Is he gonna un-retire?
33:40I've always wanted to be a Packer.
33:41I think I always will be a Packer.
33:43Is he gonna retire?
33:44Un-retire.
33:44To walk across the state border and then go play for the Vikings is the ultimate act
33:50of treason.
33:51We need to remember this when talking about his legacy.
33:53If Brett Favre had retired when he could have, when he left Green Bay, I don't think
33:58there's any doubt he'd be considered the greatest Packer in the history of the franchise.
34:02Are we done?
34:03Are we done?
34:03We're not done!
34:06One Green Bay Packer of all time, Don Hudson.
34:12Interesting to pick Don Hudson as the number one Green Bay Packer of all time.
34:17It's gonna be hard for some people to accept, but it's true.
34:21Here's Green Bay Packer great Don Hudson taking an Arnie Herber pass for a long game.
34:26I got a hard time putting anybody that caught passes in the 1930s number one of any list that
34:33includes current guys.
34:34He was a great Packer, he was a great Packer, a great football player, and I'll tell you, that's a
34:40lot of guts to pick Don Hudson number one.
34:45Here's Don Hudson, once the pride of Alabama, one of the fastest men in pro football.
34:50I recognized the name, I didn't know who he was, but when I saw footage, I said, oh, that's Don
34:56Hudson.
34:57In the 30s and 40s, Don Hudson was the NFL.
35:01His dominance was so complete, he has to be at the top of our list.
35:06Don Hudson's numbers for his time as a receiver were so much better than everybody else.
35:14It's mind-boggling.
35:15Don Hudson, 1942.
35:181942.
35:1972 catches, 1,400 yards, 17 touchdowns.
35:23Don Hudson had as much production that year as the next three receivers combined.
35:29Exactly.
35:29Love Don Hudson, a lot of respect, but he's playing where there's like guys that are covering him,
35:35they're working at a factory, then coming, putting on a helmet and trying to defend Don Hudson.
35:39As impressive as he was on offense, our number one Packer was equally effective on defense.
35:46He led the league with six interceptions in 1940.
35:50And oh, by the way, he was also the team's best kicker.
35:53Kicker.
35:53Yes, sir.
35:5530 intercepts, 99 touchdowns, which is still impressive today.
36:01Don Hudson is considered by most the first modern receiver,
36:06though he wasn't playing in what you would call the modern era.
36:09Don Hudson's legacy has stood the test of time.
36:13Our top Packer modernized the role of the receiver.
36:18He was the first guy that actually ran what looked like modern-day pass patterns.
36:24He was the first guy that kind of ran under the ball.
36:28Didn't just catch it with his feet, plant it, and then try and run like a fullback.
36:32Hudson stretched the field and had the speed and the grace that no one else had at that time.
36:38Don's blazing speed made him hard to cover.
36:46As the first great receiver in pro football, I would have a hard time arguing with him as the top
36:52Packer of all time.
36:53Oftentimes, the guys who played in the 40s and the 50s get overlooked because the tape isn't as good.
36:58People say it was a slower game when, you know, I'm not sure you can buy into that.
37:02It'd be interesting to see how fast he really is nowadays.
37:05I mean, back then it was the 100-yard dash.
37:08I don't think anybody was ever timed in the 40s.
37:10With his opponents now far behind, Hudson puts on more speed and reaches out for a 50-yard pass.
37:16Yow! 50 yards if it's an inch.
37:18He set records that lasted an awful long time.
37:21His touchdown record, 99 touchdowns, lasted until Steve Larson broke it.
37:25And that long pursuit of Don Hudson's career, touchdown reception, is over.
37:30When we talk about Don Hudson being number one, I personally think Don Hudson may have been one of the
37:35greatest,
37:35if not the greatest, player ever to play in the National Football League because he dominated his position so much.
37:43Now that our list of Green Bay's finest is complete, is it another title for Titletown or just cheesy choke
37:50job?
37:51It's a puzzle for me.
37:52I did say that all the Lombardi Packers should be one through nine and then get blocked in it.
37:56Now I have to rethink that stance.
37:58Why don't we always take ten?
37:59There's 11 on offense.
38:00There's 11 on defense.
38:01Why don't we make it the top 11?
38:02We got 11.
38:03Because I say that the Packer fans and the people that own stock of the Packers,
38:06I think they should be on that list of top tens.
38:08No.
38:09In addition to Marty Smith.
38:12What?
38:12Rugged fullback, Barty Smith.
38:15Yeah.
38:15Why not?
38:16Woo!
38:17Can we keep Brett Favre off?
38:18I can't do that.
38:19I know he's got his own list.
38:21He's on every other list.
38:22Today on top ten, all four, all the time.
38:26Let's keep Brett Favre off and put both Lofton and Sharp on this list.
38:29Guess who?
38:30Sterling Sharp.
38:31Barty Smith.
38:32Look it up on the internet.
38:33You'll find it.
38:34Ha ha.