Who was your sports heroes growing up???

[UPINTHEMGUTS]

Really? Wasn't that long ago. Late 80's and early 90's?? We're not talking recent sports heroes. We're talking about who we liked growing up. Middle school to teenage years. It's not like I mentioned Fran Tarkenton, you know?

How old is everyone here? 18-24 years old?

[bmacsys]

I was a big Nettles fan growing up.  I saw an old baseball card of him recently, his arms must have measued 13 inches.  He also was the AL HR champion one year with a monstrous 32 dingers.

Yeah, 1976. Puff could hit them in the upper deck though. He had that uppercut swing. He did hit 36 in 1977 too. Home runs meant something back then.

[CARTEL]

Primetime and Rod Woodson.

[pumpster]

Really? Wasn't that long ago. Late 80's and early 90's?? We're not talking recent sports heroes. We're talking about who we liked growing up. Middle school to teenage years. It's not like I mentioned Fran Tarkenton, you know?

Yup, i nailed it. Now you get it.

[K-1]

Here's a name no one's mentioned.


Bo Jackson. I loved watching him compete in both football and baseball in his prime. He was one of most the most gifted athletes I have ever seen. The "Bo Knows" commercials were kind of stupid but Bo was a serious bad ass in his heyday.

I did, must've overlooked a bro. lol.  ...and yes....Bo was insane.

I had a big a$$ poster of him on the wall next to barry and walter. I also had auto graphed dalton hilliard(saints),  William andrews (falcons), Hershel Walker (dallas) and marcus allen (raider) posters.

[JasonH]

Alex "hurricane" Higgins.

Then probably Arnold.

[jerseyhurricane]

ESPN started in 1979 when Michael Jack Schmidt was in his prime so what cave were you in? Also he sent you a signed card and you call him an asshole? He seems like a great guy in interviews so whats your problem with him?

I was in 3rd grade in '79 and didn't know what the frick ESPN was. I didn't realize he was an asshole until I heard some stories about him from local people. He wasn't a very nice guy at all.

[UPINTHEMGUTS]

Yup, i nailed it. Now you get it.

huh?

[pumpster]

huh?

LOL

[Dos Equis]

He is, but I never told him that. Funny how Emmit is such a media whore and Barry, who didn't get the yardage record that he could have gotten easily is totally out of the spotlight. My mom sees him and his wife at a shopping center by her house on occasion, but he basically stays away from the media. Like I said before, very shy person.

I think Barry is the best back in NFL history.  Would have kept Emmitt firmly in second place if he didn't retire early. 

[danielson]

I think Barry is the best back in NFL history.  Would have kept Emmitt firmly in second place if he didn't retire early. 

Amen to that.

[Hedgehog]

I think Barry is the best back in NFL history.  Would have kept Emmitt firmly in second place if he didn't retire early. 

Anyone on this board, even that guy who's in wheelchair, would've broken the all-time yard record with the kind of offensive line that Emmitt had.


I'm dead serious.








 

[Dos Equis]

Anyone on this board, even that guy who's in wheelchair, would've broken the all-time yard record with the kind of offensive line that Emmitt had.


I'm dead serious.








 

I agree.  Half the time all he had to do was fall down and he'd gain five yards.  It's incredible that Barry ran for so many yards with such poor teams.  Part of that time he had no fullback and/or no TE.

Emmitt was a class act on the field and an excellent RB, but he sure had a lot of help. 

[pumpster]

I think Barry is the best back in NFL history.  Would have kept Emmitt firmly in second place if he didn't retire early. 

Barry was a great back but this is a classic Bum assessment given Barry's known weaknesses. There's no way to ever put Barry ahead of Brown for example, and slim basis for putting him ahead of Walter, or OJ or Dickerson or Davis. You could put him ahead of Bo on longevity but on virtually any other basis Bo was the better back.

The concensus has never been that Sanders was the best but rather that he belongs in the top 5 or 7 purely on yardage.

[pumpster]

Anyone on this board, even that guy who's in wheelchair, would've broken the all-time yard record with the kind of offensive line that Emmitt had.


I'm dead serious.


 

He'd have had incredible yardage, but there's no proof at all that he had any degree of toughness, that he could move the chains when it counted or sustain possession given his way of running.

That's aside from the fact that he never proved that he was an outstanding playoff performer, while Smith was one of the best backs in playoff history. This can't just be dismissed as irrelevant by extrapolating regular season numbers into the playoffs: some guys just get it done when it counts while Barry didn't prove that at all. Or that he could've played part of a playoff game with a separated shoulder.

[pumpster]

I agree.  Half the time all he had to do was fall down and he'd gain five yards.  It's incredible that Barry ran for so many yards with such poor teams.  Part of that time he had no fullback and/or no TE.

Emmitt was a class act on the field and an excellent RB, but he sure had a lot of help. 

What's incredible is Bum's one-dimensional worship, which is beginning to sound familiar. FYI to those who don't understand football too well: sometimes "bad" teams are condusive to a particular player's career, while better teams allow less opportunity for guys like Sanders to dominate the whole damn team.

Precisely why some on the Lions weren't sorry to see Sanders go; Sanders success didn't necessarily help the team in overall terms and might've detracted from it.

[Dos Equis]

Barry was a great back but this is a classic Bum assessment given Barry's known weaknesses. There's no way to ever put Barry ahead of Brown for example, and slim basis for putting him ahead of Walter, or OJ or Dickerson or Davis. You could put him ahead of Bo on longevity but on virtually any other basis Bo was the better back.

The concensus has never been that Sanders was the best but rather that he belongs in the top 5 or 7 purely on yardage.

   I doubt you ever watched him play. 

[Dos Equis]

What's incredible is Bum's one-dimensional worship, which is beginning to sound familiar. FYI to those who don't understand football too well: sometimes "bad" teams are condusive to a particular player's career, while better teams allow less opportunity for guys like Sanders to dominate the whole damn team.

Precisely why some on the Lions weren't sorry to see Sanders go; Sanders success didn't necessarily help the team in overall terms and might've detracted from it.

I doubt you ever strapped on the pads.  Doubt you watch the game much.  You don't know squat.  I don't think much of your opinion.  Just fyi.  Hope this helps. 

[bmacsys]

I doubt you ever strapped on the pads.  Doubt you watch the game much.  You don't know squat.  I don't think much of your opinion.  Just fyi.  Hope this helps. 

Pumpster is your typical guy who has never watched a game in his life but reads the sports pages and quotes stuff he has no clue about verbatim.

[pumpster]

LOL what i've said has been said by others and stands as accurate. Leave it to lameasses here to get their panties in knots because i hit a nerve and they don't like the message.

Anyone who unequivally says that Sanders is the best all-time back is a data-nerd obsessed only with numbers who knows shit about football and chooses to ignore intangibles. On intangibles Sanders scores as low as Bum does in judgement.

[pumpster]

Pumpster is your typical guy who has never watched a game in his life but reads the sports pages and quotes stuff he has no clue about verbatim.

Someone with this physique on a BB site has absolutely no credibility, period.

[pumpster]

I doubt you ever strapped on the pads.  Doubt you watch the game much.  You don't know squat.  I don't think much of your opinion.  Just fyi.  Hope this helps. 

Of course you don't think much of my opinion-i owned your lame ass in the NFL last year bwhaahahahaahahahaha

I don't squat because i already have the size you idiot. The size will always be there just by doing cardio i still look like a BB unlike Bum (clearly only a fanboy not a BB) or this other guy. Keep digging yourself holes with extremely poor judgement this was the genius who said over and over again the Colts couldn't win the superbowl LOL

[body88]

Really? Wasn't that long ago. Late 80's and early 90's?? We're not talking recent sports heroes. We're talking about who we liked growing up. Middle school to teenage years. It's not like I mentioned Fran Tarkenton, you know?

How old is everyone here? 18-24 years old?

26.... How old are you guts? What about everyone else.

[K-1]

26.... How old are you guts? What about everyone else.

I'm 30.

[Dos Equis]

Pumpster is your typical guy who has never watched a game in his life but reads the sports pages and quotes stuff he has no clue about verbatim.

I agree.  I'm starting to think he is actually a woman.  That would help explain a lot.