Wins against all 32 teams - one of the more difficult milestones to reach in the NFL!
The National Football League was founded way back in 1920, which is 104 years ago. Since then, there have been a plethora of great quarterbacks who have graced this game. Several signal callers have etched their names into the history books of the league, set various records, and given everything and more to the game.
Yet, there stands a unique record amongst all signal callers that only a handful of them have been able to accomplish throughout their illustrious careers. Throughout the history of the league, only 4 quarterbacks have beaten all 32 teams in the league. And that is what we are going to look at here.
The only four quarterbacks to have defeated all 32 teams of the NFL are Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Tom Brady. It is a very short list, and every name on it is a legendary figure who has elevated this league to high standards.
Starting with Favre, he became the first signal caller to defeat all 32 teams of the NFL on October 5, 2009, when he defeated his former team, the Green Bay Packers, while playing for their divisional rivals, the Minnesota Vikings.
The once-legendary Packer, Favre, started his career in 1991 with the Atlanta Falcons, but spent the majority of his time playing in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin from 1992-2007. He then played the 2008 season with the New York Jets, before finishing his career with the Vikings from 2009-2010.
5-time NFL MVP, Peyton Manning, became the second quarterback to win against all 32 teams, a feat he achieved on September 7, 2014. Manning started his career with the Indianapolis Colts, where he would play from 1998-2011. In 2012, after becoming a free agent, Manning signed with the Denver Broncos.
Leading the Broncos under center, Manning’s first chance to defeat his former team came on October 20, 2013, but Denver ended up losing that game, and the 2-time Super Bowl winner had to wait till the next year to get a win over his former team.
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The next QB to complete a win against all 32 NFL teams was Drew Brees, who started his career with the then-San Diego Chargers. Brees played for the Chargers from 2001 to 2005, following which he finished the remainder of his career with the New Orleans Saints.
When playing for the Chargers, Brees defeated the Saints on November 7, 2004, and then went on to defeat all other teams during his tenure with New Orleans. The Super Bowl XLIV Champion just couldn’t get past the Baltimore Ravens, the only team he needed to beat to achieve this milestone.
Finally, on October 21, 2018, in his fifth attempt, Brees overcame the final frontier as the Saints won against the Ravens 24-23, leading to his inclusion in this rare feat.
Any NFL quarterback list without Tom Brady just doesn’t seem right. Brady’s name pops up in almost every stat or record for signal callers, and this one is no exception. The 7-time Super Bowl winner also played for only two teams in his career. Leading the New England Patriots to 6 Super Bowls, Brady played for the Massachusetts-based franchise from 2000-2019.
Having beaten every other team except for the Patriots, Brady got his chance at the same after he joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020. The 15-time Pro Bowler went up against his former team on October 3, 2021, where he ended up winning a close game after the Patriots’ kicker missed the game-winning 56-yard field goal, landing Brady in this rare list as the last quarterback to achieve this feat to date.
Before 1995, the NFL consisted of only 28 teams, and the league had not expanded to a 32-team league. At the time, Fran Tarkenton became the first quarterback in the history of the game to actually win against all the teams in the NFL, even though there were only 28 back then.
Tarkenton’s career spanned from 1961 to 1978, and he played for two teams. Drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 1961, he played for them until 1966, and then returned for a second stint from 1972 to 1978. In between, he also played four seasons with the New York Giants and ended up winning games against all NFL teams.
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The second quarterback to win against all 28 teams prior to 1995 was the great Joe Montana. The 49ers legend played almost the entirety of his career with San Francisco, except for the last two seasons in 1993 and 1994 when he played for the Kansas City Chiefs. Montana defeated his former team in a week 2 matchup during the 1994 season.
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