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  • YardRat
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    • Dec 2004
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    Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Only those from the SB era qualify, so no Jim Brown, Otto Graham, etc.

    My vote goes to WR Steve Largent, the all-time leader in receptions, yards, and receiving TD's when he retired but never a shot at a ring.
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  • ServoBillieves
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    • Jul 2007
    • 6106

    #2
    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Largent's a good choice.
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    • fluteflakes
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      • Jan 2013
      • 466

      #3
      Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

      Barry Sanders is the obvious choice.

      But there's a case to be made for a lot of guys.

      Dan Fouts was prolific and was the key to an offense that revolutionized the NFL, and he never made it to a SB. Earl Cambell was an amazing back but could never break past the Steelers. Eric Dickerson never had QB help. Randall Cunningham, Cris Carter, Ladainian Tomlinson.

      The list could go on for a while.

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      • cookie G
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        • Mar 2003
        • 7561

        #4
        Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

        Dick Butkus
        Deacon Jones
        Merlin Olsen
        Bo Jackson
        Chris Carter
        Derrick Thomas
        Willie Roaf
        Demarcus Ware
        Michael Jordan

        I'm sure there are many others.

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        • IlluminatusUIUC
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          • Sep 2012
          • 8966

          #5
          Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

          Tony Gonzalez
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          • Crisis
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            • Aug 2004
            • 12738

            #6
            Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

            Barry Sanders
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            • Bert102176
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              • Aug 2002
              • 3742

              #7
              Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

              Barry Sanders no doubt
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              • Night Train
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                • Jul 2005
                • 33117

                #8
                Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                How about O.J. ?

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                • Gibby
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                  • Jun 2006
                  • 18211

                  #9
                  Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                  Derrick Thomas, LB KC Chiefs --lousy father, but good community service guy and HOF LB
                  Jack Kemp, QB he's border line but if we had beaten the Chiefs in the 66 AFL title game he would have been in the first superbowl and that team was a match in so many ways for the Packers

                  Randall Cunningham
                  Warren Moon
                  Heywood Jeffries
                  Ernest Givens
                  Cortez Kennedy DE Seahawks
                  Chris Spielman, LB Lions, Bills, Browns
                  Pat Williams DT, Bills Vikings
                  Will Shields
                  Willie Roaf
                  Jerry Ball
                  Sterling Sharpe, TE Green Bay if he didn't get injured he would have had even better stats than Shannon

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                  • Oaf
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                    • Jun 2007
                    • 6151

                    #10
                    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                    What abt no playoffs? Spikes?

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                    • Syderick
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                      • Apr 2006
                      • 1466

                      #11
                      Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                      Barry Sanders
                      Warren Moon
                      Dick Butkus
                      Tony Gonzalez
                      Dan Fouts
                      LaDainian Tomlinson,
                      Earl Campbell,
                      Ozzie Newsome
                      Kellen Winslow Sr
                      Deacon Jones
                      John Randle

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                      • Thief
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                        • Sep 2009
                        • 820

                        #12
                        Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                        I am saying Sanders. Followed by Gonzalez.

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                        • pmoon6
                          Legendary Zoner
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 21476

                          #13
                          Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                          Originally posted by Suetonius View Post
                          Derrick Thomas, LB KC Chiefs --lousy father, but good community service guy and HOF LB
                          Jack Kemp, QB he's border line but if we had beaten the Chiefs in the 66 AFL title game he would have been in the first superbowl and that team was a match in so many ways for the Packers

                          Randall Cunningham
                          Warren Moon
                          Heywood Jeffries
                          Ernest Givens
                          Cortez Kennedy DE Seahawks
                          Chris Spielman, LB Lions, Bills, Browns
                          Pat Williams DT, Bills Vikings
                          Will Shields
                          Willie Roaf
                          Jerry Ball
                          Sterling Sharpe, TE Green Bay if he didn't get injured he would have had even better stats than Shannon
                          LMAO at Jefferies and Givens. They were products of the system and Warren Moon.

                          Oh, and Sterling Sharpe was a great WR, not TE.

                          I also don't know about the '66 Bills. They lost 35-7 at home to the Chiefs who had a great defense in their own right. We were falling off. I do think the '64 team would have matched up well with the Browns and the '65 team with the Packers.
                          Last edited by pmoon6; 02-10-2013, 01:52 PM.

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                          • YardRat
                            Well, lookie here...
                            • Dec 2004
                            • 86146

                            #14
                            Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                            Hard to argue against Barry Sanders.
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                            • pmoon6
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                              • Dec 2002
                              • 21476

                              #15
                              Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

                              Barry Sanders is head and shoulders on top. O.J., Butkus, Sayers, Spielman, Fouts, Largent, Thomas are others.

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