Random question. As someone who never saw Elway (too young/didn’t watch NFL then), why is he rated so highly and in the HOF? His stats are not great, obviously has the Bowls though. Just interested
Stats were different for QBs in those days, unless you were Dan Marino or on a Bill Walsh super-team. From the start he was a great athlete; both he and Marino were drafted by the MLB. Still the highest rated QB in the draft ever for some and was the 1st taken out of the best QB draft ever, so that reputation sticks.
Dragged some poor teams to 3 SBs with clutch play - including one of the most famous game-winning drives ever - before getting stomped by a stronger team from the NFC, which was in the middle of winning 13 straight SBs (until that streak was stopped by Elway). Then won 2, being the MVP in the second.
I was too young to really watch him in his prime, but somebody on twitter posted some clips the other day and I was like ‘Holy shit that looks just like Josh Allen!’, so that would be his modern day comp for me.