Ranking the top 5 Tobin Rote performances

#1 Tobin Rote is the champion of the world

Tobin Rides off into The Sunset with His Smokeshow Wife

NFL Championship, 1957

Stats: 12-19, 280 passing yards, 4 passing TD, 1 rushing TD, 146.4 passer rating

Averaging 15 yards per attempt, Tobin Rote led a reckoning of biblical proportions onto the poor, unsuspecting Cleveland Browns defense. Rote would total 5 touchdowns in the 59-14 murder, including 1 rushing touchdown, just to show opposing Jim Brown the impact that a god can make on the football field.

The victory sent shockwaves throughout the football world. It impacted the champion Detroit Lions so much that they would never go on to appear in another championship, vowing not to potentially upset their graceful overlord, Tobin Rote.

I hope now that you can see the kind of player that Tobin Rote was, and maybe understand his case for being a potential Hall-of-Famer. Rote would go on to ride off into the sunset only 9 years following his one and only championship victory.

Following an illustrious career, Rote would slip into the shadows, never to be seen again, with his legacy being the only grain of hope remaining deep in the annals of NFL history.