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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Army of One on July 13, 2011, 03:23:59 PM
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No Im not talking about Ronnie Coleman, 27 Minutes of Michael Jordans best dunks, god bless youtube.Federer\Nadal\Woods\Pele\Gretzky\Schumacher\Bonds\Bolt\Ray Robinson\Fedor can all go fight for 2nd place.Simply the GOAT of all sports.
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No one outside of USA knows who the fuck he is. everyone outside of USA knows who Jordan is, theres a reason for that.I liked him as Fireball in The Running Man though. :D
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No one outside of USA knows who the fuck he is. everyone outside of USA knows who Jordan is, theres a reason for that.I liked him as Fireball in The Running Man though. :D
That's a poor reason to call someone the "greatest athlete ever." Besides, its not even true, especially when you factor in his acting career.
How many sports did Jordan star in in high school and college?
"Fireball" and "Running Man?" Pfft...Try "100 Rifles" and "Slaughter". ;D ;)
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Top whatever failed dunks by Jordan. ::)
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Probably still no one that can top this man:
Directed by Tom Weidlinger
(2009, 86 min. U S A)
Jim Thorpe, The Worlds Greatest Athlete is a biography of the Native American athlete who became a sports icon in the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with Thorpes boyhood in Indian territory it chronicles his rise to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, winning two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics, his fall from grace in the eyes of the amateur athletic establishment, and his rebound in professional baseball and football. Thorpe retired from pro sports at age 41 just before the stock market crash of 29. He worked as a construction laborer before getting work in Hollywood as a bit part player. He became a representative for Indian extras in Hollywood, fighting for equal pay for Native Americans in the movies. In the 1940s he crisscrossed the nation as a public speaker advocating for Indian self-determination.
Jim Thorpe, The Worlds Greatest Athlete is the first feature length documentary to be made about the man. It appeals to sports buffs as well as those interested in Native American issues, especially the tension between assimilation into white society and forging a separate Indian identity in the 20th century.
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That's a poor reason to call someone the "greatest athlete ever." Besides, its not even true, especially when you factor in his acting career.
How many sports did Jordan star in in high school and college?
"Fireball" and "Running Man?" Pfft...Try "100 Rifles" and "Slaughter". ;D ;)
People know Babe Ruth around the world.If Brown was that great he would have transcended his sport worldwide, he didnt.
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lol :D ;D
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Most played sport in the world , most popular sport in the world , best player ever .
Slide tackles :o
free kicks specialist :o.
free style :o
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Now this is a real athlete
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People know Babe Ruth around the world.If Brown was that great he would have transcended his sport worldwide, he didnt.
Most famous athlete ever (Ali, Ruth, Jordan)? Greatest sports personality ever(Ali)? BEST athlete ever? hmmmmmm... ::)
"Transcending his sport" is relative to marketing and the times the athlete lived in, relative to other factors. Sorry, but you need to change the title of your thread, as the initial one fails miserably.
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Yeah, Ali could box, but could he ever pose like THIS? I thnk NOT!
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Deion Sanders played SUCCESSFULLY at the major league baseball level. Give Jordan credit pursuing his passion to play baseball, but at the MLB level, he failed.
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Bo knew sports. ;)
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"Pelé is the greatest player of all time. He reigned supreme for 20 years. All the others – Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini – rank beneath him. There's no one to compare with Pelé.”
—West Germany's 1974 FIFA World Cup-winning captain Franz Beckenbauer[60]
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Bo knew sports. ;)
Winner......too bad his career got cut short, he was amazing
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Winner......too bad his career got cut short, he was amazing
Yep...he can't be ranked ahead of Deion Sanders, and certainly not Jim Brown, because his career was so short. But at his peak he was a BEAST.
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C.B. Fry. Never heard of him? then read on. ;)
Charles Burgess (CB) Fry was born in Croydon, 25 April 1872. It was called “the greatest athlete who ever lived,” and “Superman – huge praise indeed, but he up to the nicknames
Fry
proved himself a brilliant scholar? and an athlete during his visit to Repton public school and Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship. While at Oxford, he gained 12 Blues and sporting a year he captained the football, cricket and athletics. Such dedication to the sport earned him “Almighty” and the nickname “Lord Oxford. At the same time, he was also playing rugby for his university, Blackheath and the Barbarians. And we do not really know where he finds the time but he was also a good boxer, golfer, tennis player, javelin thrower, rower and swimmer.
It has become a professional footballer when he was signed in Southampton and reached the final of the FA Cup with them in 1901-1902. He impressed the powers as in its first match against Tottenham Spurs he was selected to play for England in a match against Ireland.
He tied the world record jump with a leap long 23 inches 6.5 feet in 1893. In the absence of formal training in the long jump, he was so blasé about the event he has prepared for the jump with a cigar and smoke it again on completing the jump!
In the White City Stadium in London Fry won both the long jump and 100 meters sprint, the first event in the world of international athletics. We think it was more than capable of winning medals (gold, most likely) Olympics 1896, but he was too busy in South Africa with the England cricket team. Cricket was certainly the sport that Fry has excelled in most. He captained both Sus*** and England, and England has never lost when he was in charge. He scored 94 first class centuries and six consecutive centuries – a record that still stands today. His career batting average was 50, and in 1901 it stands at 3147 runs, averaging 78 passes per game.
It was not just in sports that Fry excels – he was director of Mercury training ship and turned boys into men of the sea, the founder and journalist of the magazine featuring Fry, a publication aimed at young men for whom Fry was a hero, an assistant and speechwriter for the Indian delegation to the League of Nations and he also was as a Liberal candidate for Parliament in Brighton. It was while working for the League of Nations that he was offered the vacant throne of Albania! He did not take the role as he would have had an income of £ 10,000 a year, and Fry was always short of money does not exactly fit the profile! He also wrote books on cricket, a bestselling novel and an autobiography!
In 1921, he reappeared for Sus*** against the Australians visiting, scoring 59 and 37 in both innings. England selectors had asked Captain Fry of the national team, but at 49, he declined the offer and retired from cricket completely. Fry died in 1956 and in our opinion certainly deserves the title of greatest athlete ever to have lived
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C.B. Fry. Never heard of him? then read on. ;)
Charles Burgess (CB) Fry was born in Croydon, 25 April 1872. It was called “the greatest athlete who ever lived,” and “Superman – huge praise indeed, but he up to the nicknames
Fry
proved himself a brilliant scholar? and an athlete during his visit to Repton public school and Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship. While at Oxford, he gained 12 Blues and sporting a year he captained the football, cricket and athletics. Such dedication to the sport earned him “Almighty” and the nickname “Lord Oxford. At the same time, he was also playing rugby for his university, Blackheath and the Barbarians. And we do not really know where he finds the time but he was also a good boxer, golfer, tennis player, javelin thrower, rower and swimmer.
It has become a professional footballer when he was signed in Southampton and reached the final of the FA Cup with them in 1901-1902. He impressed the powers as in its first match against Tottenham Spurs he was selected to play for England in a match against Ireland.
He tied the world record jump with a leap long 23 inches 6.5 feet in 1893. In the absence of formal training in the long jump, he was so blasé about the event he has prepared for the jump with a cigar and smoke it again on completing the jump!
In the White City Stadium in London Fry won both the long jump and 100 meters sprint, the first event in the world of international athletics. We think it was more than capable of winning medals (gold, most likely) Olympics 1896, but he was too busy in South Africa with the England cricket team. Cricket was certainly the sport that Fry has excelled in most. He captained both Sus*** and England, and England has never lost when he was in charge. He scored 94 first class centuries and six consecutive centuries – a record that still stands today. His career batting average was 50, and in 1901 it stands at 3147 runs, averaging 78 passes per game.
It was not just in sports that Fry excels – he was director of Mercury training ship and turned boys into men of the sea, the founder and journalist of the magazine featuring Fry, a publication aimed at young men for whom Fry was a hero, an assistant and speechwriter for the Indian delegation to the League of Nations and he also was as a Liberal candidate for Parliament in Brighton. It was while working for the League of Nations that he was offered the vacant throne of Albania! He did not take the role as he would have had an income of £ 10,000 a year, and Fry was always short of money does not exactly fit the profile! He also wrote books on cricket, a bestselling novel and an autobiography!
In 1921, he reappeared for Sus*** against the Australians visiting, scoring 59 and 37 in both innings. England selectors had asked Captain Fry of the national team, but at 49, he declined the offer and retired from cricket completely. Fry died in 1956 and in our opinion certainly deserves the title of greatest athlete ever to have lived
Meh...he sucks. Jim Thorpe was much better. ;D
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Yep...he can't be ranked ahead of Deion Sanders, and certainly not Jim Brown, because his career was so short. But at his peak he was a BEAST.
If the question is who is the best athlete of all time...he's number one. IMHO
If it was greatest career, then no
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best chinups of all time
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best chinups of all time
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If the question is who is the best athlete of all time...he's number one. IMHO
If it was greatest career, then no
Everyone has a right their opinion, and mine differs from yours.
At least we are not using the parameter of who was more famous worldwide to determine who was the greater athlete. ::)