Consider all the facts before you deem something "GOAT" ..

I get really tired of sportswriters and car writers over-using the acronym "GOAT"- Greatest of all time."  There are very few people or things-( cars, motorcycles, etc)  that can be truly labeled the greatest in their own time, but all time?  No. The loudest coming from New England Patriots fans. On one hand I agree-Bill Bellicheck has done a spectacular job in his tenure there. Six Super bowl wins and ten appearances in 19 years-that's awesome. And he's done it with a revolving door of players in the free agent era. And certainly Tom Brady deserves a ton of credit. However-think of this-when Peyton Manning was in his prime with the Colts-and got hurt-the Colts went 4-12 that year. The year Brady blew his knee out-the Patriots went 11-5. That's coaching. However-People forget that Tom Landry took the Cowboys to the playoffs 16 out of 17 years from 1966-83, and played in 10 NFC Championship Games, and 5 super bowls, with two wins. Vince Lombardi's Packers won 5 NFL championships in 8 years, including the first two Super Bowls. Lombardi's Packers also won the 1965 NFL Championship-making them the only team to ever "Threepeat". Win-3 consecutive championships. Should Lombardi's accomplishment be discounted-simply because the game wasn't always called "Super Bowl?" Chuck Noll won 4 Super Bowls in 6 years with the Steelers and took them to the playoffs almost every year from 1972-1989. Don Shula won NFL Championships with the Colts,then took the Dolphins-and expansion team-and had them in the Super Bowl in just 3 years. They went 3 years in a row-"71,72, and '73-winning the last two. You think Bellicheck is good for going 11-5 without Brady?  In 1972-the unequaled, unbeaten season-The Dolphins star QB-Bob Griese broke his leg in the first game of the regular season. So the Dolphins went 17-0 with their backup QB-Earl Morrall. The Dolphins went to a couple more Super Bowls in the '80's losing to the Redskins and 49ers, and made the playoffs almost every year until Shula's retirement in 1995. As for Brady-yes he definitely is the best in the modern era. But if you look at the QB nowadays you get a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty. I'd like to see Brady take some of the hits that Terry Bradshaw took-Super Bowl 10-the winning TD pass to Swann?  The Hate Crime with Jerry Shirk that still makes people cringe today?? Or the hits that Roger Staubach, Joe Namath, Ken Stabler, Len Dawson and Jim Plunkett took on a daily basis with no flags thrown. Ditto for Randy Moss and Chad Johnson and Jerry Rice and all these Diva Recievers. I'd like to see what these candy-asses could do when you could hit them all the way down the field, not just the first five yards!  And conversely-How awesome would Lance Alworth, Bob Hayes,Paul Warfield, Drew Pearson and Lynn Swann have been if you couldn't touch them without a flag after 5 yards?  Now Patriot fans are going to sneer "6 Super Rings" No Debate."  If Super Bowl rings are the only measurement were using then yes there's no argument. But what about level of competition? Who they beat in the playoffs to get there? And who they beat once there? Let's compare the '70's Steelers to the modern Pats.  Are you going to say with a straight face, that this years Chargers were better than the 1978 Houston Oilers that had an awesome defense that rivaled Pittsburgh's Steel Curtain, the leading rusher and arguably one of the greatest running backs ever-Earl Campbell, and Dan Pastorini at QB and Mike Renfro and Kenny Burroghs as recievers?  Can you say that with a straight face?  Your going to say that this years Chiefs are better than the 1974 Oakland Raiders that had Ken Stabler, Cliff Branch, Fred Biletikoff, Mike Siani, Clarence Davis, Gene Upshaw and Art Shell, and a stingy defense that had killers like Jack Tatum and Willie Brown and Phil Villipiano?  The team that ruined the Dolphins run to four straight Super Bowl appearances in the "Sea of hands" divisional game?  Are you going to say that last year's Eagles were better than the 1978 Cowboys that had Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson, Tony Hill,Preston Pearson, and the "Doomsday Defense?"  This year's game with the Rams was a defensive struggle? How about Super Bowl IX?  It was 2-0 at halftime. The Steelers eventually won 16-6, beating a tough Vikings team that had Carl Eller, Jim Marshall and Alan Page on the defensive line, Fran Tarkenton at QB, Chuck Foreman and Ed Marinaro for running backs and John Gilliam at Reciver. You think this year's Ram's were tougher than the 1974 Vikings? The '74 Vikings didn't have losing games that went 54-51 or 43-40!!  The same for Boxers. Yes Floyd Mayweather is great. But could he have beaten Sugar Ray Leonard in his prime? Or Roberto Duran, or Thomas Hearns, or Alexis Arguello, or Aaron Pryor or Hector "Macho" Camacho?  On any given sunday-maybe one of them. But two or more?  Uh-Uh. Tyson Fury, the Klitschko brothers, even Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson, non of the modern heavyweights would have even been contenders if they fought in the same era as Ali, George Foreman ( Foreman gave Holyfield hell and damn near took his title at age 42; at 27 he'd have destroyed him like he did everyone else ) Ken Norton, Joe Frazier, Earnie Shavers, Larry Holmes, Ron Lyle, Floyd Patterson, Oscar Bonavena, Bob Foster. And just like the rules changed in football-they didn't stop fights back then like they do now. You hung in there till you were down or your trainer threw in the towel. Travis Pastrano is going to break Evel Knieval's records? I'd like to see him do it on heavy Harley XR-750 instead of his 250 lb Motorcross bike!!  What does all this have to do with Musclecars?  I was talking to a guy the other day and I said if I ever built another project it was going to be a corner-carving '70's T/A with a snarling, aluminum headed 434 inch Pontiac and a Tremec 5-speed. He asked why I wanted such an "Antiquated" car. I explained that I had owned them before, and added that Car&Driver's road test of a new Camaro SS and a new SRT8 Challenger said the Challenger pulled .85g on the skidpad, and the Camaro .88. I pointed out that C/D's 1979 Trans-Am test car pulled .82g on 225/70R15 Goodyear Polysteel Radials. If the old T/A had been shod with the modern cars 245/45ZR17, and 275/40ZR17 rubber, it would have easily surpassed those numbers. Doesn't take a mathmetician to figure that out. Ditto for drag tests. I'd like to see what a for-real '60's L88 427 Corvette would do in the 1/4 with the 335/35ZR20 tires that a modern Z06 has!!  Lets' run an LS6 Chevelle on something fatter and stickier than F70-14 Coker tire Wide Oval repros shall we?  Or a Hemi 'Cuda on something other than repro Polyglas GTs!!  Anyhow I just had to vent that-sick of hearing the "Greatest Ever" label put on some person or thing that is really just "cool now" not the "greatest ever".