As part of the discussion surrounding the Best Sports Game Tournament, some members of Operation Sports began to wonder "who's the best player in sports video game history?"

Well, its time for the staff of Operation Sports to answer that very question with one rule - you can't say Bo Jackson from either of the first two Tecmo Bowls. There are videos all over YouTube showing his cyber prowess.

But who else was almost as dominant as Bo?

Jeremy Hartman (Jhartman): Keep in mind I'm as biased Eagles fan. QB Eagles from Tecmo Super Bowl was the single most dominate video game athlete outside of Bo Jackson. We all know that QB Eagles was really Randall Cunningham, who SI once put on the cover and labeled him the "Ultimate Weapon." He truly was the ultimate weapon in Tecmo Super Bowl. He could scramble away from pressure and run the length of the field for a score. Or, he could beat you with his arm and throw bullets all over the gridiron.

As long as QB Eagles was on the field you had a chance to win no matter how far you were behind. I remember playing a friend of mine and I was losing by two touchdowns. I went for it on fourth and long and was on the verge of picking up a safety. QB Eagles broke through a sack (after several seconds of button mashing) and ran 90+ yards for a score.

The only downside to QB Eagles was that he was injury prone. The reset button was pushed one too many times after scrambling for big yardage and then finding out that he wasn't getting back up.

Matt Blumenthal (TheLetterZ): Cunningham was certainly dominant in Tecmo Super Bowl, but I'm going with another scrambling quarterback here. QB#10 (Vince Young) in NCAA Football 06 was as unstoppable a player as we've seen in the last few years of sports video games. It's like they took Michael Vick from Madden 2004 and gave him the ability to run over people.

People talk about how the Playmaker feature in Madden that year was so slanted towards Vick (and it was), but when QB#10 got "in the zone", he could break five tackles in one play with ease. Combine his superior passing ability with the other weapons in an explosive Longhorns offense, and you had a player who at worst you could only hope to contain. And when he got in the zone ... forget about it!

Patrick Williams (BigWill33): For me personally when you take Bo out of the mix it falls to Larry Fitzgerald of the Pitt Panthers circa NCAA 2004. The only player I have ever convinced to stick around long enough to win 3 consecutive Heisman Trophy's, he broke every record possible in his tenure with my digital Panthers.

I remember just dumping off a little 5 yard in route and watching him go the next 87 yards all by himself! The man was a beast, and I had never put that kind of stats up with a single player until he came along. By the end of his career with me I had him returning punts and kicks, and even taking a few hand-offs a game. I had a formation just for him so he could go under center and run an option, and he even threw for about 4 td's. Finally it all came to a head when I had him kick an extra point in the National Championship game, which was a blowout in my favor. The man truly did it all.

Honorable mention goes to what my friend and I turned Sidney Crosby into on NHL '07. Other noteworthy players for me were Antwaan Randle El (IU) and Daunte Culpepper (UCF) back on PS1 in NCAA '98.

Chris Sanner (ChrisS): I guess I am just in the baseball mood these days. But give me Ken Griffey Jr. any day of the week in the game that bears his name. I HATED playing the Mariners, and as a Ranger fan in those days, it happened quite often.

I would sometimes, even as a kid, intentionally walk Griffey just out of fear of him hitting a huge 500 foot bomb off of me. One time, my boy Alamo tried to challenge him with his 100 mph fastball. Needless to say, joint efforts with NASA still haven't figured out if the ball ever landed. Officially the ball sailed 550 feet, unofficially ... I honestly believe the ball is around Jupiter right now and still heading outwards.

TJ Cutini (TJdaSportsGuy): We had a rule in my Tecmo Super Bowl III days in college. That rule was if your team had Rod Woodson on it, you weren't allowed to control him. If you did control him, you could literally get him to any intended receiver on the screen as soon as the ball was released - even if you happened to be slow on the controls - get him to the ball carrier before anyone else, often times causing a fumble.

So because of UNC-Wilmington's Hewlett Hall Rod Woodson rule, I'm going to have to go with Rod Woodson from Tecmo Super Bowl III on the SNES.

Erik Westfall (Ralnakor): I know this was probably just a thing for me, but by far, the single best player on any team I played with was the pre-marijuana Ricky Williams in Madden. When playing him on my team he was the total package of speed and power. Any time I'd play against someone online or otherwise, he was a one man wrecking crew.

The other one who was my most recent was in All-Pro Football 2k8. That was easily Earl Campbell. He was equally the most beloved and yet most hated player I can think of in recent memory. No other running back in that game ... or any other for that matter ... could break as many tackles as Earl. Usually you'd get nothing less than a groan when using him in any online game.

Sure, there were greats before them, but nobody defines "broken" like those two (not counting Bo Jackson of course).

Dave Branda (BlyGilmore): Erik, even when he was playing Pop Warner football, I'm not sure if there's such thing as a pre-marijuana Ricky Williams.

Matt eluded to one of my choices - Mike Vick in Madden 2004. Vick had been a pest in year's past, but the folks at EA decided to make him ridiculously good in 2004 since he was on the cover and all. The folks who develop FIFA have refered to "the Barcelona problem" - basically large groups of online players using the same team because it is so good. To my knowledge, Mike Vick is the only player in the modern online era so good he created the same phenomenon despite being on a pretty mediocre team. If you tried to play Madden 2004 online chances are you were going against Vick and the Falcons.

The reason was apparent - Vick was unstoppable. If you were playing the Falcons you expected heavy doses of Vick running rampant in your secondary. He was so overpowered there are guys who ran two or three plays and won a majority of their games.

A new player to add to this list of great cyber athletes is Jose Reyes in MLB 2k8. He is just disgusting. In my franchise I actually started over because the combination of Wright and Reyes on the Mets made winning too easy. First, it is damn near impossible to throw him out stealing second base. I still have not seen it done. Stealing third is also likely to be successful (i'm stealing third at about an 80 percent success clip).

Add to that blazing speed the ability to hit over .300 (I was hitting .359 with him), with around 20 home runs a season and you have a force to be reckon with. (In the year 2009 in my Giants franchise Reyes won the MVP award hitting .330, with 134 SB, 25 HR and 125 runs scored. He also won the silver slugger award and gold glove).