Best Ever Packer · PACKERSHOME

Smokey
Veteran Member Topic Starter

6 years ago

Many of us have our all time favorite Green Bay Packer player. He could be a current player or someone from the past. This thread is for members to post their selection for "Best Packer Ever".

My "Best Packer Ever" is Bart Starr. His accomplishments speak for him better than I can.

Career highlights and awards

2× Super Bowl champion (I, II)
2× Super Bowl MVP (I, II)
5× NFL champion (1961, 1962, 1965–1967)
4× Pro Bowl (1960–1962, 1966)
First-team All-Pro (1966)
2× Second-team All-Pro (1962, 1964)
NFL Most Valuable Player (1966)
5× NFL passer rating leader (1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969)
NFL 1960s All-Decade Team
Packers Hall of Fame
Green Bay Packers No. 15 retired

Who is your all time favorite Packer Player?

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Cheesey
Preferred Member

6 years ago

Mine is Ray Nitschke. I watched him play on TV, and just loved the guy.
Then I was fortunate enough to meet him back around 1990, and sat and talked with him for about an hour. He made me feel like he knew me forever.
He also let me try on his SB 1 ring.

Next would be Barr Starr. Another class act!

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

6 years ago

Donald Montgomery Hutson

packerfanoutwest
Member

6 years ago

I have 2 Packer jerseys, one has #5 on it, the other one has #66 on. I would have to vote for #5 being the best Packer. If anyone mentions #4, they should be banned.

nerdmann
Premier Member

6 years ago

Starr, Hornung, Nitzsche, Hutson. Go from there.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

wpr
Preferred Member

6 years ago

Donald Montgomery Hutson

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

There a go. What Hutson did is astonishing. He was a true all around player. Receiver, Safety, Kicker he even tossed a few passes and rushed a few times every year.

If he played a 16 game schedule with the softer passing rules now in place his records would still be standing.

PackerTraxx
Senior Member

6 years ago

Considering the era - Hutson. What he did at that time was amazing and revolutionary. The numbers, especially scoring, were even more amazing than Rice, again considering the times.

Why is Jerry Kramer not in the Hall of Fame?

KRK
Veteran Member

6 years ago

Starr, Hutson, White - best players which had significant history-changing impact on the franchise
All-time favorite Bart Starr....all class...clutch player...great teammate

In Luce tua Videmus Lucem KRK

TheKanataThrilla
Veteran Member

6 years ago

I wouldn't be a Packer fan if it wasn't for Favre. I was mostly a CFL guy who would watch the NFL playoffs and the Super Bowl. My ex was a NFL fan and when we got together she thought I should pick a NFL team (she was a 49ers fan). Me being true to Canadian form was in awe of this gunslinger chucking balls in a Green Bay snowy game who looked like they played for the Edmonton Eskimos (flashbacks to Warren Moon my first childhood football idol). This was my guy and this was my team.

I know that Brett has done some stuff to disappoint, but if it wasn't for him I could have ended up cheering for some other cold weather team. That would suck ass.

Over the years since I became a fan it is been hard to narrow it down since I like so many guys. Reggie White, Donald Driver, Charles Woodson, and Nick Collins. However, I still say at the end of the day I owe my being a fan to Brett and I am at peace with all the later crap that happened.

Smokey
Veteran Member Topic Starter

6 years ago

#10

Originally Posted by: TheKanataThrilla

I don't wish for this thread to turn into a debate over Brett Favre, but IMO too many only recall the unpleasant departure. It is now fully understood that GB was eager to replace Favre with Rodgers. Favre was unsure about retirement and GB's Management should bare their fair share of blame for forcing the issue.

Let us not forget that it was Favre that helped lead the Packers back to elite football status. That his iron man record served to inspire many. He earned a place in the HOF and Q-Backed GB to Two SBs (winning one).

My all time favorite Packer, Bart Starr, was so respected that he was hired to be GB's Head Coach for a few years. Let us hope that Aaron Rodgers adds more SB rings to his trophy case before he is done. May his replacement and their transition go a lot smoother. [cool]

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