By Dave Roloff Published Apr 30, 2005 at 5:17 AM

{image1}Over a few adult beverages a conversation/argument broke out over who the greatest No. 33 was of all time. A few said Larry Bird and others demanded that it had to be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. This conversation morphed into a Mac, Jurko and Harry-like style of naming the greatest players that wore each particular number.

Feel free to chime in with your list -- it isn't as easy as you might think.

00 - Robert Parrish
0 - Walter McCarty
1 - Oscar Robertson
2 - Secretariat (Belmont)
3 - Babe Ruth, Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
4 - Brett Favre, Bobby Orr
5 - Joe DiMaggio
6 - Bill Russell
7 - Mickey Mantle
8 - Cal Ripken Jr.
9 - Ted Williams, Gordie Howe
10 - Pele
11 - Mark Messier, Mike Welch
12 - Terry Bradshaw
13 - Wilt Chamberlain
14 - Pete Rose
15 - Bart Starr
16 - Joe Montana
17 - John Havlicek
18 - Darryl Strawberry
19 - Johnny Unitas, Robin Yount
20 - Barry Sanders, Frank Robinson
21 - Deion Sanders, Warren Spahn
22 - Emmitt Smith
23 - Michael Jordan
24 - Willie Mays
25 - Barry Bonds
26 - Herb Adderley
27 - Carlton Fisk
28 - Darrell Green
29 - Satchel Paige
30 - Nolan Ryan
31 - Greg Maddux
32 - Jim Brown, Magic Johnson
33 - Lew Alcindor, Larry Bird
34 - Walter Payton, Shaquille O'Neal
35 - Rickey Henderson
36 - Meadowlark Lemon
37 - Casey Stengel
38 - Curt Schilling
39 - Dominik Hasek
40 - Gale Sayers
41 - Eddie Mathews
42 - Jackie Robinson
43 - Richard Petty
44 - Henry Aaron
45 - Bob Gibson, Michael Jordan
46 - Lee Smith
47 - Tom Glavine
48 - Cubby Schmidt
49 - Ron Guidry
50 - Mike Singletary
51 - Dick Butkus
52 - Mike Webster
53 - Don Drysdale, Darryl Dawkins
54 - Goose Gossage
55 - Orel Hershiser
56 - Lawrence Taylor
57 - Darryl Kile
58 - Jack Lambert
59 - Wilbur Marshall
60 - Otto Graham
61 - Nate Newton
62 - John Jurkovich
63 - Willie Lanier
64 - Jerry Kramer
65 - Gary Zimmerman
66 - Mario Lemieux
67 - Reggie McKenzie
68 - Jaromir Jagr
69 - Tim Krumrie
70 - Art Donovan
71 - Alex Karras
72 - Carlton Fisk
73 - John Hannah
74 - Merlin Olsen
75 - Mean Joe Greene
76 - Lou Groza
77 - Ray Bourque, Red Grange
78 - Bruce Smith
79 - Harvey Martin
80 - Jerry Rice
81 - Art Monk
82 - Raymond Berry
83 - Ted Hendricks
84 - Sterling Sharpe
85 - Jack Youngblood
86 - Buck Buchanan
87 - Willie Davis
88 - Lynn Swan
89 - Mike Ditka
90 - Neil Smith
91 - Dennis Rodman
92 - Reggie White
93 - Doug Gilmour
94 - Charles Haley
95 - Richard Dent
96 - Pavel Bure
97 - Jeremy Roenick
98 - Tony Siragusa
99 - Wayne Gretzky

Dave Roloff
Dave was born and raised on the south side of Milwaukee. He is a graduate of UW-Oshkosh where he graduated in Business while playing four years of football. He is a sports junkie who, instead of therapy, just watches the Bucks and the Brewers. Dave is a season ticket holder for the Brewers, Bucks and Packers, as well as a football coach at Greendale High School. Dave still likes to think he still can play baseball but has moved on to the more pedestrian sports of bowling and golf. Dave is a Pisces and it depends on whom he is walking with to determine whether he likes long walks on the beach. Dave writes with an encyclopedic knowledge and a sarcastic flare. Mainly to insure his sanity.