Gotta love the Montana homers. I wonder how many translated into Favre homers.
Note:
At this point in his career, Montana didn't lose a perfect season by a last minute miracle play in the SB. He was coming off a major back injury and had a "Young" dude threatening his job. You might want to review pre 1988.
If TB wins 5 SB's, that's better than 4 SB's. Why anyone would ever think being 4-0 in SB would be better than 5-1 is beyond dumb.
Montana never played in the "parity" era. People forget that the SB winners 1980-1995:
49er's 5
Cowboys 3
Redskins 3
Giants 2
Raiders 2
Bears 1
Hardly a parity league. If anything it proves that Montana was a (West Coast) "system" QB who got lucky with a coach.
Whoa there, fella. Giving Joe Montana his due doesn't translate into being a homer for any other team and certainly doesn't translate into being a Favre-ite, or whatever.
And, I don't like being called "beyond dumb" and I suspect I know a boatload more about the NFL pre 1988 than you do.
Yes, I do think there's something to be said for QB's who went undefeated in all four SB's in which they appeared and I also happen to think that going 4--1 or 5--1 would be beyond great as well. But the facts are that two guys are still undefeated at 4--0 in SB's and no one's gone 4--1 or 5--1 yet, as much as I'd like TB to do so.
And, if you're tossing around stats about parity, the SB era began in 1966/67 and the Cap/FA era actually started in 92/93, not 1995.
So the four Montana SB's were pre parity, three with Walsh and one with Seifert, but the Young/Seifert SB came after it.
The Noll/Bradshaw Steelers won all four SB's in which they appear pre-Cap/FA.
The Cowboys won three SB's pre-Cap/FA, appearing in six (four wins and and seven appearances if you count the transition season of 1993/94 with essentially the same team as 1992/93 with Johnson and Aikman, but not the 1995/96 Switzer/Aikman team).
The Dolphins appeared in five pre-Cap/FA SB's winning only two.
The Redskins actually appeared in five pre-Cap/FA SB's, winning three (all with Gibbs, who won them with three different QB's) and losing two (one with Allen and one with Gibbs).
The Raiders appeared in four pre-Cap/FA SB's, winning three of them, one with Madden/Stabler and two with Flores/Plunkett. The loss was with Rauch/Lamonica.
The Vikings appeared in four pre-Cap/FA SB's, losing all of them. The Bills appeared in three or four, depending on how you view the 93/94 season, losing all as well.
Rounding it out, the Pack, Colts, Chiefs and Giants all appeared in two pre-Cap/FA SB's.
The most interesting stat comparing the pre and post "parity" eras is the one that shows that teams that went to the SB pre-Cap/FA went an average of 2.84 times each and the teams that have gone since the Cap/FA era began have gone an average of only 1.3 times each.
Since the Cap/FA era began, only one team has gone to fives SB's and only one team has won three, the Patriots. Only five other teams have gone to more than one SB since the Cap/FA era began (all went twice): the Cowboys (if you include 93/94 as a post Cap/FA season), the Steelers, the Pack, the Rams and the Giants.
Only one QB has gone to four SB's since the Cap/FA era began, Tom Brady.
Only Aikman (once again, if you consider 93/94 as post-Cap/FA), Elway, Favre and Warner have gone to more than one in that same time (two each).
Only Aikman (2), Brady (3), and Elway (2) have won more than one post-Cap/FA SB.
So, my point is that one can give full credit to what Joe Montana (and, BTW, Terry Bradshaw) accomplished without (a) dissing Tom Brady, (b) elevating Brett Favre beyond where he belongs, (c) being "beyond dumb" and (d) being unaware of the NFL "before 1988" (if you want to discuss the AAFC and the AFL sometime, let me know--and I don't mean the AFL that started in 1960, but the original AFL).
Just be careful whom you call out on this board, that's all.
