Zero 21st Century Running Backs Made NFL 100's All-Time Team and That's a Complete Joke

The NFL is celebrating its 100th season this year, and in order to commemorate some of the finest to ever step foot on the gridiron, the league released an All-Time team.

Well, somehow, among the 12 running backs who qualified for the 100-man roster, none were from the 21st century. That means superstar backs such as LaDainian Tomlinson, Marshall Faulk and Adrian Peterson were all snubbed from the list.

The 12 running backs who made the cut -- Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, Dutch Clark, Eric Dickerson, Lenny Moore, Marion Motley, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers, O.J. Simpson, Emmitt Smith and Steve Van Buren -- all certainly deserve to be on the list. They each strung together remarkable careers in their respective eras, and had lasting impacts on the sport.

But to exclude the modern running backs that transformed the game and grabbed the attention of young fans across the nation is simply outrageous.

While Smith played in the early 2000s, he was in his prime in the 1990s.

To make matters worse, LT was actually one of the hosts of the award show, and had to awkwardly get snubbed while on television.

Tomlinson finished his career with 145 rushing touchdowns, a category which he led the league in three separate seasons. Faulk tallied 100 trips to the end zone in his career, and Adrian Peterson, still active today, already has 107. These three running backs had influential careers, yet were snubbed of the honor of making the All-Time team.

We're in no way trying to discredit the old school running backs of the league, but to exclude all three of the aforementioned game-changing running backs is truly a joke.