Back in 2000, the name Troy Aikman was still widely known by almost every NFL fan in the world. The legendary quarterback was one of the most successful QB of his time. He played for twelve seasons with the Cowboys and helped them win three Super Bowl championships and six Pro Bowls from 1991 to 1996. It’s no surprise that Aikman went on to be inducted into both the College Football and NFL Hall of Fame.
Aikman had secured over 32,942 passing yards in his short time with the NFL and managed to reach a respectable 61.5 percent pass completion percentage. He had been quite successful from a very young age and even won the Oklahoma high school state championship in Typing at the young age of seventeen.
Phil Simms
Widely considered one of the most underrated NFL quarterbacks of all time, Phillip Martin Simms is currently a TV sportscaster for the CBS network after an incredible 15-year career with the New York Giants. He was drafted to the team and was promptly chosen as the XXI Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player after helping his team reach a crushing 39-20 victory over the Denver Broncos.
Phil Simms holds the record for the highest completion percentage in a Super Bowl, with 22 out of 25 successfully landing passes. He went on to help his team win two Super Bowls and two Pro Bowls but was never inducted into the NFL's Hall of Fame. The quarterback finished his successful career with 33,462 passing yards and is now considered one of the better sportscasters in the business, continuing his spell of talented work.
Randall Cunningham
Randall Cunningham is known for setting the record for most points in a regular season in 1998 and was a strong quarterback throughout his entire sixteen-year career. He played with The Philadelphia Eagles, The Minnesota Vikings, The Dallas Cowboys, and The Baltimore Ravens. Cunningham managed to score 35 rushing touchdowns over his career, an incredible stat for a quarterback.
The QB broke almost every rushing record there is and had an average of 30.6 rushing yards per game, the second-best record of all time. In 2016, Randall received a much-deserved induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. He has since been regarded as the 23rd greatest quarterback of the NFL's post-merger era, according to Football Nation.
Sid Luckman
Sid Luckman began his NFL career in 1939 with the Chicago Bears and proceeded to help them win four NFL Championships before retiring in 1950. Luckman then proceeded to coach the Chicago Bears between 1954 to 1969 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. The talented passer was considered the NFL's first great T-formation quarterback and is now regarded as the greatest long-range passer of his time.
During his twelve seasons with the Bears, Luckman managed to set the yards per pass attempt record and still holds the second place on it to this day. He was also the first player to ever throw for 400 yards in a game. He was also a distinguished U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II, which only further shows why Luckman is a true American hero.
Ken Anderson
Ken Anderson was the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1971 to 1986 and helped the team win four Pro Bowls in 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982. Anderson led one of the most distinguished NFL careers at the time and was known for having incredible passing accuracy, leading him to reach numerous records, sometimes for multiple years at a time.
It's no wonder that Anderson also became the Sportsman of the Year in 1975 after such a record-breaking decade in the '70s. Despite his incredible achievements, the talented passer was never inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, although he has been a finalist for the prestigious honor twice. He officially retired back in 2010, after coaching the Cincinnati Bengals from 1993 almost year after year.