We are lucky football fans!!!

Here's the forever and ever list and some breakouts pre-1977: http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/7_2281_Career_passer_rating_leaders.html

All of it is just on the modern passer rating formula, not yards or TDs or anything distinct like that.

If you watched Griese or Staubach live, or even Unitas and Namath (mostly old games and highlights for me), I think you'd be hard pressed to find 1 out of 10 people that would actually argue that Jake Delhomme or Trent Green were head and shoulders above those 4. And would you say Lomax is 20 spots better than Namath or even Aikman? So the rating doesn't tell the whole story. I still think the biggest difference is that there are a number of times 20+ teams had very good to great QBs, and that simply isn't the case this year.

BTW, my all time favorite spot on the list is Rick Mirer sandwiched right between Namath and Layne, yeah, that fits he should be in the HoF :)