Number, please
The folks at SI.com have come up with a dandy pictorial feature showing the best players to wear numbers 00-99 in NFL history.
And, the Seahawks – mostly past, but one present – even got some love:
No. 1 – Warren Moon
No. 45 – Kenny Easley
No. 93 – John Randle
No. 96 – Cortez Kennedy
No. 98 – Julian Peterson
They also had a couple of runners-up:
No. 71 – Walter Jones (behind Alex Karras)
No. 80 – Steve Largent (behind Jerry Rice)
There were even more in the “worthy of consideration” categories:
No. 4 – John Kasay (Brett Favre the top choice)
No. 10 – Jim Zorn (Fran Tarkenton)
No. 17 – Dave Krieg (Harold Carmichael)
No. 22 – Dave Brown (Emmitt Smith)
No. 28 – Curt Warner (Marshall Faulk)
No. 37 – Shaun Alexander (Doak Walker)
No. 41 – Eugene Robinson (Keith Byars)
No. 42 – Chris Warren (Ronnie Lott)
No. 32 – John L. Williams (Jim Brown)
No. 36 – Lawyer Milloy (Jerome Bettis)
No. 68 – Kevin Mawae (L.C. Greenwood)
No. 72 – Joe Nash (Dan Dierdorf)
No. 76 – Steve Hutchinson (Lou Groza)
No. 79 – Jacob Green (Rosey Brown)
No. 90 – Chad Eaton (Neil Smith)
No. 94 – Chad Brown (Charles Haley)
No. 99 – Levon Kirkland (Warren Sapp)