Name the greatest team of all time

I'm biased so I say the 78 Steelers.

 

The 1976 Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hands down my favorite and one of greatest teams all time. Noll got so PO'd with the 1-4 start. Really looked like 2 SB's in a row hangover. Talk about rallying the troops! Your Pittsburgh Steelers gave up 9 points in 5 games. 9 POINTS IN 5 GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And to top that they had 5 shutouts that season. Frigging 3 straight!!!! You will never again see that in the NFL. Fantastic game against Raiders to start season. We lost but what a game.

Yes, the Raiders beat us to keep 3 straight out of the equation but injuries do matter and some of our big guns missed that game.

The 85 Bears and the 2023 Eagles two of the easiest runs to SB I ever saw. Both those teams had very little competition in the NFC and the Bears had an easy SB. I do not consider the 85 Bears great. Just the right time for NFL to suck a bit.

 

1978 steelers deserve to be mentionned but for me the 1989 49ers were in a another league in 1989 especially in the playoffs.Great regular season(14-2) and they outplayed their opponent by 100 points in their 3 playoffs game(126-26)!

 

1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 steelers.

 

Giving it some thought it really is just opinions on the greatest teams. Different era's mean different rules. Just because the Dolphins had an undefeated season does not mean they were greatest of all time. Hell, they just got by a young developing Steeler team. I bet some of those Pat teams would have smoked them. Hell, that Giant guy doesn't make that ridiculous catch the Patriots would be GOAT.

 

with so many questionable calls and cheating swept under the rug, there is no way the patriots are the greatest at anything. ever. the fish were legit for that season. nobody had an answer for them. the steelers were contenders every season for many years as were the niners. those two teams were probably the greatest for the longest period.

 

I hate everything Boston because of the Pats. My point was they win that SB it would be their name on top of that list and the Dolphins would have been second.

 

Agree, 1976 Steelers best all time even though they didn't make it to the super bowl due to injuries. Giving up 9 points in 5 games and the 5 shutouts is a record that will never be broken.

 

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2023 Steelers!

 

A bit shocked that some of those Packers Teams of the 1960s are not mentioned within the Top 5. I get that era was so much different compared to the eras that would succeed it but man oh man... the level of talent that even the 1966 Packers had was nuts... and that is not even the best Packers Team that Lombardi even coached!



As for my own All Time team?! Hard to argue with the 1972 Dolphins; Opponents strength of schedule being the weakest in Modern NFL History or not. Don Shula didn't make the schedule but he did coach that team to a fully undefeated season. Until a team can complete a season undefeated, the 72 Dolphins are still the gold standard for best ever teams. Perhaps not talent wise but definitely record and NFL Accomplishment wise as well.

 

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Strongly disagree with the 1985 Bears Playoff Run. The "Big Blue Wrecking Crew" that was the New York Giants along with arguably the greatest Running Back of the 1980s in Eric Dickerson was anything but a cakewalk. If merely accounting for Regular Season I agree sans the 1985 Dolphins as Marino was simply ahead of his time by quantum leaps and bounds as far as his talent was concerned. However, shutting out two perennial Playoff Teams of the 1980s; one of which features a Defensive Player who is widely reputed to be the greatest in LT?! Not something I would call an easy road to the Super Bowl... even if that Super Bowl was in Chicago's favor.


Hell, the 1985 Bears are not even the greatest Defense ever for the Bears if accounting for statistics. That would be the 1986 Bears. Only reason they are never discussed among best ever is the same reason why teams like just about any team from the 1960s Detroit Lions, 1970 Minnesota Vikings, 1991 Philly Eagles and even the 2010 Steelers are not; no Championship/Super Bowl victory to show for such a legendary season.


Now.. regarding the Philly Eagles of 2022?!.. I agree. The 2022 New York Giants are as about far from those mid 1980s Giants teams as the gap their is between Heaven and Earth. San Francisco could have given the Eagles a run for their money... but we will now never know as Brock Purdy was knocked out early and that NFC Championship Game became easily the most embarrassing moment for not just San Francisco but the NFL has ever seen since the 2003 Championship Game between the Eagles and the Panthers. Thing about that game though?!... Donovan McNabb ended up playing the entire game!

 

I lived in Chicago in 1985 and it was fun to be there

The defense was very good but the 76 Steelers was better

The 76 Steelers offense not so much

Talk about a mass of mayhem there were more people in downtown Chicago after that game then the entire population of Pittsburgh

On a side note I met one of my buddies downtown to watch the game and he parked in a garage that took your keys then letter that night the police knocked on his door it turned out one of the lot attendants borrowed his car and robbed a gas station

 

The 1985 Bears defense would have been a dumpster fire against an elite offense like the 1989 49ers

 

1977 Steelers?

 

I'll vote for the 1978 Steelers. The Cowboys team that they beat in 2 Superbowls wasn't the Falcons or Chargers who after the dust cleared found themselves in the Superbowl. No those Cowboy teams were loaded with HOF players. Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson and others on offense. They had the Doomsday defense with legendary names like Too Tall Jones, Randy White and Harvey Martin plus HOF Cliff Harris in the secondary. On top of all of that they had one of the great coaching minds of all time with Tom Landry. Still the Steelers beat them not once but twice in the Superbowl. That puts the Steelers team #1 in my book.

 

It was a down year for the steelers in 1977.Only a 9-5 record

 

yea, still good even with all the crap they had going on that year with lawsuits and holdouts. still won the division and made the playoffs.

 

I’m not sure about greatest team, but that 76 defense was the greatest defense in history and accomplished what no defense before it ever had or after it ever will. With Mike Kruczek at QB for the better part of the season after Turkey Jones about killed Terry Bradshaw by slamming him on his head, they knew they had to step up to the plate and they rose to the occasion. It was ironic that their best defensive team of the 70s was one of their non-Super Bowl defenses.

 

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I wouldn't put them up there with any of the greatest teams, they didn't even make it to the AFCCG IIRC.

 

Maybe not great results that season but the same names were on that team.

 

78 Steelers are the greatest to me. 2 losses were very close.

I think the 84 Niners should be in the list. Their only loss was to the Steelers

 

85 Bears but greatest team over a sustained period with the same players has to be the Steelers of the 70’s.