That wasn’t a huge help, however, when picking my three quarterbacks on my “Team For The Ages," since Dan Fouts, Rich Gannon and Dan Marino are the only three of our 14 without rings, and Marino and Fouts have gold jackets.
Marino may be the greatest pure passer of all time, and along with Brett Favre — who may be the greatest competitor of all time and the toughest and most durable player in NFL history —they required long and hard thinking before being omitted from my top three.
My first two choices were slam dunks, but when it came to my third choice, after anguishing over Marino and Favre, I could not ignore Joe Montana’s four Super Bowl rings.