{"id":645,"date":"2007-12-09T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=645"},"modified":"2007-12-09T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T17:17:11","slug":"all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has their list of <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/news\/story?id=3086827\">top 25<\/a> all time college football players. I&#8217;m assuming Barry Sanders and Red Grange will be 1-2.<\/p>\n<p>Notice something? The list reads like a Heisman ballot. 17 (!!!!) running backs, four quarterbacks. No offensive linemen (John Hannah? Orlando Pace? Nope.). Only four defensive players, if you count Bronko Nagurski, who was also &#8212; stop me if you&#8217;re heard this &#8212; a running back. The other three are Butkus, Green an Woodson (who was also a receiver).<\/p>\n<p>What the hell? This is the best they can do? Their college football experts came up with a list a few drunken fans and google could compile. In fact, google gives me <a href=\"http:\/\/americasbestonline.net\/cfootball100.htm\">this list<\/a>, which is compiled by God knows who and includes Deion, John Hannah, Bubba Smith, LT and Dave Rimington in its top 25 (although they have Vince Young at #5, so they aren&#8217;t precisely in Earth orbit).<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, folks. What the hell is the sports media&#8217;s job. I&#8217;m just some guy with a blog and even I would have the sense to put Orlando Pace, easily one of the best college football players I&#8217;ve ever seen, in the top 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has their list of top 25 all time college football players. I&#8217;m assuming Barry Sanders and Red Grange will be 1-2. Notice something? The list reads like a Heisman ballot. 17 (!!!!) running backs, four quarterbacks. No offensive linemen (John Hannah? Orlando Pace? Nope.). Only four defensive players, if you count Bronko Nagurski, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-ap","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}