Favre has had some pretty good receivers but I'm talking more about no defense than anything else. No other Super Bowl winning quarterback has ever had to score more points on fewer possessions then what was required of Manning this past season. The litany of great QBs had nowhere near that pressure on their backs as they had competent defenses giving them plenty of opportunities to work their magic.

Unitas is at the top of my list for defining what it means to be a quarterback in a way that transcends eras.

Football reference trips up GOP hopeful......

I'm a bit dubious of the idea that the '50s and '60's were a halcyon era for semi-skilled laborers. It's true that there was a highly paid manufacturing sector but that was limited to a handful of major cities. Otherwise, the service economy has surely provided more decent jobs for the masses.

We're certainly living in bigger houses, driving nicer cars, and otherwise consuming luxury items at a rater that would astonish our 1950s forebears.

Not only are those days long gone but even a collage degree is not any kind of guarantee of a decent paying job and as we go forward it will be lass and lass so. I wonder what Brownback's solution is?

What is amusing to me is that his football gaff drew more criticism then his phony pandering platitudes about focusing on families.

Pretty pathetic that Wisconsin Republicans would get all worked up about an analogy.

These people need to lighten up. This is an example of "political correctness" at its worse.

Part of it is a lack of respect. Second, we Wisconsinites love and are obsessed about our Packers. It's like an entire state of Cubs fans. It would be like going to Edmonton and claiming Mario Lemuix was the greatest hockey player ever. It's not that big a deal, but it showed Brownback failed to understand his audience.

Noone ... won a championship with less surrounding talent than Peyton had.

That's only true in the sense that Manning is playing in an era with no great teams. That's just the nature of expansion, free agency, and the salary cap. Probably none of them ever won a Super Bowl against a team as bad as the 2006-7 Bears, either.

He’s got a ways to go, however, to move ahead of the likes of Starr, Favre, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, and Troy Aikman on the accomplishments scale.

Noone, not Starr, not Favre, not Bradshaw, not Staubach, not Montana and not Aikman have won a championship with less surrounding talent than Peyton had.

When it's all said and done, Peyton goes down as the second greatest QB (behind Unitas) to ever live.

Pretty amusing.

Pretty pathetic that Wisconsin Republicans would get all worked up about an analogy.

These people need to lighten up. This is an example of "political correctness" at its worse.