curious on your thoughts.
my apologies if you already posted your 2 cents but who do you see as greatest athlete?
Who would you consider to be the best athlete of all time ?
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my apologies if you already posted your 2 cents but who do you see as greatest athlete?
Truthfully - I don't believe I am anywhere near qualified to say who the greatest athlete of all time is. For a few reasons:
a) In order to truly make a fair evaluation I would need to be familiar with the great athletes in every sport. Not just know their names but actually have seen them play. I cannot honestly say that I am a guy that follows every sport under the sun. I follow football, basketball, tennis. That's about it. So for that reason I cannot make a fair evaluation on this.
b) I am in my mid 30s - so clearly there are plenty of great athletes that I never saw play with my own eyes. I am not a stats guy and refuse to reduce players to numbers so I cannot judge those athletes before my time purely based on numbers.
c) I have a hard time comparing athletes from different sports. Heck, comparing athletes from different eras in the SAME sport is hard enough. At least I find it a very difficult task. But I am sure there are a people far more intelligent than myself that find this a less difficult task and can actually answer the question.
So for me this is an impossible question to answer. More accurately - I am nowhere near qualified to answer it in my opinion.
Disagree. This...
Period.
Agree.
for anyone, not just you.
Maybe the question should have been.....
Best athlete/ most dominant Athlete of their generation?
Simply because no one can say.....
Gretzky would have flourished in the 40 or 50's or even 60's.. against the likes of Horton on defence...or being pounded every night by Howe in the corners muckin for the Puck not to mention the head hunting that went on back in the day....
Could Babe Ruth competed in todays MLB? as a hitter no way...back in the day pitchers were out there for the whole game...some pitched double headers....how many Hr did Ruth hit from the 6th inning on? when the pitcher was into the 80-90 pitch range? pitching on 2 or 3 days rest? or throwing in the back end of a double header after finishing the first game
Jim Brown in todays Chuck and duck offences or west coast style...he wouldnt get the ball as many times as he would have in his Era...Plus he played against Linebackers and safeties who were ..most of the time smaller than him...Today ...fricken some Kickers are bigger than him during his playing days.....
And the list can go on and on...
Some geek could probably do a simulated season or something on a computer...ALA deadliest Warrior ..but really...no one knows....
Best athlete/ most dominant Athlete of their generation?
Simply because no one can say.....
Gretzky would have flourished in the 40 or 50's or even 60's.. against the likes of Horton on defence...or being pounded every night by Howe in the corners muckin for the Puck not to mention the head hunting that went on back in the day....
Could Babe Ruth competed in todays MLB? as a hitter no way...back in the day pitchers were out there for the whole game...some pitched double headers....how many Hr did Ruth hit from the 6th inning on? when the pitcher was into the 80-90 pitch range? pitching on 2 or 3 days rest? or throwing in the back end of a double header after finishing the first game
Jim Brown in todays Chuck and duck offences or west coast style...he wouldnt get the ball as many times as he would have in his Era...Plus he played against Linebackers and safeties who were ..most of the time smaller than him...Today ...fricken some Kickers are bigger than him during his playing days.....
And the list can go on and on...
Some geek could probably do a simulated season or something on a computer...ALA deadliest Warrior ..but really...no one knows....
Nolan Ryan is not even a top 10 pitcher of all time.
Baby Ruth was the greatest hitter of all time.
Agreed. Endurance should not be the key component to a great athlete. I need skill to be a critical attribute.
Spartacus by far, he sure didn't get paid like athletes of today, he had no choice in entreating the people of those days in the coliseum . If the legend
is true, he is by far the best athlete, even though it was ancient history.
xo amber
At 6'2 and 232LB's that is still a fair size even by today's standards Thumper.
Let's not forget in his era there was very little information available about nutrition and weight training was actually looked down upon a performance enhancer. They used to think it would make the athlete ''muscle bound'' and hinder athletic ability,lol.
He was also quite adept at catching balls out of the backfield. Just read his career stats. Simply amazing!
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowJi00.htm
Interesting. Thanks for that info!
As I said in an earlier post he was before my time and I was curious about his skills as a receiver out of the backfield & pass-pro skills. If anyone here did watch him play I wouldnt mind hearing about his pass-pro/blitz-pro skills.
Here's another talented athlete, Wilt Chamberlain. He dominated and retired at a young age, if I recall.
Jim Thorpe for sure because the many sports he played at an excellent level.
Honourable mention, Brian Budd, SuperStars kicked him off show because he won 3 in a row, he was toooo good.
Honourable mention, Brian Budd, SuperStars kicked him off show because he won 3 in a row, he was toooo good.
I was going to say Wilt since he was a two sport star. How many thousands of pussies did he fuck? Now that is a world class sexual athlete.
Put me down as Ted Williams supporter for best hitter ever.
With the Babe, Lou Gehrig and Mays for honourable mention.
The sport was in its infancy, lack of competition and the rules were to his advantage. Jordan was the better athlete and the greatest Ball player according to his accolades. I think Jordan is probably the best. Keep in mind how hard it is to make it pro in the NBA compared to other leagues.
Not a hockey fan and am not into stats so I cannot comment on Wayne but for the sake of discussion I do know that Don Hutson also was statistically dominant based on docs I have watched on NFL Network. Whether he was more/less statistically dominant than Wayne I have no idea but if we are not discriminating by era Hutson was certainly STATISTICALLY dominant.
