SI's Best Football Players by Jersey Number

[Captain Ned]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multim ... ent.1.html

Interesting, and there's a proper contingent of old-school players as well.

[computron9000]

i hate slide shows, but, interesting.

[RickyTick]

#12 Tom Brady over Terry Bradshaw or Roger Staubach? That could cause a lot of debate.

#34 Walter Payton. OK, he has more rushing yards than anyone, but the greatest running back with the number 34 (or any other number) was clearly Bo Jackson.

[JustAnEngineer]

There were several cases where they picked a current or recently-retired star instead of the best that ever played.

They named Ben Roethlisberger the second-best #7 ever. He of the 22.6 quarterback rating.
Accepting that John Elway was the best #7, Ron Jaworski was a better QB than Roethlisberger, for one example.