Basketball Players?

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[quote]De sleeplijn wrote:
ZEB wrote:
De sleeplijn wrote:
jjoseph_x wrote:
ZEB wrote:
Michael Jordan, certainly one of the greatest to ever play the game. But he couldn’t hit baseball…At least not with any consistency.

Hand eye coordination goes to Baseball players?

Yet, Bo Jackson played both pro Football and major league Baseball.

Now that was a rare man.

And he was a record-setting decathlete in highschool and he considered joining the US 100-meter team.

Bo Jackson was purely awesome.

And the best bit about the guy was that he never picked up a weight until his career was over.

Pure natural ability. Nobody was better.

You’re telling me Bo Jackson never lifted weights?

Come on…Really?

How do you know this?

Bo Knows Bo. It’s his autobiography. He hated practice with a passion. He did anything to get out of it. Extra’s like weights weren’t even considered.

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I don’t think that is true. A friend of mine went to Auburn when Bo Jackson was there.

My buddy was a real gym rat/power lifter at the time and he claims Jackson lifted weights.

Bo may have done only the minimum weight training required but he did it.

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The best athlete ever was Bo Jackson, and no one else is even close.

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
I don’t think that is true. A friend of mine went to Auburn when Bo Jackson was there.

My buddy was a real gym rat/power lifter at the time and he claims Jackson lifted weights.

Bo may have done only the minimum weight training required but he did it.[/quote]

You wonder why the guy would say that he didn’t do weights when he would have had to.

Still, anyone who knows that doing the minimum would hardly get you a physique like that if you weren’t genetically gifted.

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[quote]AlphaJules wrote:
The best athlete ever was Bo Jackson, and no one else is even close.[/quote]

What about Bruce Lee? :stuck_out_tongue:

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[quote]ZEB wrote:
Michael Jordan, certainly one of the greatest to ever play the game. But he couldn’t hit baseball…At least not with any consistency.

Hand eye coordination goes to Baseball players?

Yet, Bo Jackson played both pro Football and major league Baseball.

Now that was a rare man.[/quote]

Even though baseball players do have great hand eye coordination id say cricket players beat baseball playes IMO

best athlete’s would have to Oly Wrestlers.Look at kurt angle.He would destroy most of the pride/UFC guys.At his size he destroyed men almost twice his size to win 2 NCAA championships and a Olymipic medal,all with a broken neck mind u.

Another one would be brock lesner.Not quite the athlete Angle is but much bigger and stronger.Even tried out for NFL,he failed at that but to make the train on side would be pretty repectable i think?

Props to lance Armstrong as well.here is a man who had had cancer of multiple bodyparts and he carved them up on the tour da france for years.

Rugby players are also good athletes,but my pick from rugby would be jonah lomu.The man was between 120-125 kgs could run the 100 metres under 10 seconds and had amazing speed off the mark.Only kidney disease stopped this man from becoming one of the greatest players EVER.

Peace

K of K

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[quote]G.O.A.T wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
I don’t think that is true. A friend of mine went to Auburn when Bo Jackson was there.

My buddy was a real gym rat/power lifter at the time and he claims Jackson lifted weights.

Bo may have done only the minimum weight training required but he did it.

You wonder why the guy would say that he didn’t do weights when he would have had to.

Still, anyone who knows that doing the minimum would hardly get you a physique like that if you weren’t genetically gifted. [/quote]

He is just probably exaggerating.

He says “I never lifted weights.”

He probably means “I didn’t take weight lifting seriously.”

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[quote]AlphaJules wrote:
The best athlete ever was Bo Jackson, and no one else is even close.[/quote]

There is no denying Bo was a world-class athlete, but there needs to be some sort of benchmark. As good as Bo was, his career was unfortunately a “what if” question, much along the same lines as Junior Griffey.

The reason I believe Jim Brown is the best of all-time is in the numbers. By general consensus, he has been voted both the greatest football player and lacrosse player of all time. Football is obviously going to generate much more argument than lax, but if you look at the numbers, Jim Brown is still the best football player.

From Cold, Hard Football Facts:
Forty years after he last played, Brown continues to hold numerous rushing records. His average of 104.3 yards per game remains the best of all time. Barry Sanders is second with 99.8 rush yards per game.

Brown also averaged 5.2 yards each time he ran the ball, a per-carry clip unmatched in NFL history (among running backs with 750 or more career attempts). Given an equal number of games, only two of the seven leading ballcarriers of all time are within 1,300 yards of Brown?s rushing output.

Brown was also a pretty fair pass catcher. He caught 262 passes for 2,499 yards and 20 touchdowns. Over the course of their careers, none of the other top-eight ballcarriers caught as many touchdown passes or posted such a lofty receiving average (9.5 yards per reception).

Among the eight leading rushers of all time, Brown is also the only player who averaged better than one touchdown per game over the course of his career (or within a 118-game period). He scored 126 touchdowns in his career.

How many other athletes (short of Jim Thorpe) can say that they were unequivocally the best at not one, but two sports?

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
G.O.A.T wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
I don’t think that is true. A friend of mine went to Auburn when Bo Jackson was there.

My buddy was a real gym rat/power lifter at the time and he claims Jackson lifted weights.

Bo may have done only the minimum weight training required but he did it.

You wonder why the guy would say that he didn’t do weights when he would have had to.

Still, anyone who knows that doing the minimum would hardly get you a physique like that if you weren’t genetically gifted.

He is just probably exaggerating.

He says “I never lifted weights.”

He probably means “I didn’t take weight lifting seriously.”
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I agree with that. I’m sure most guys were training like bodybuilders and he went in there did a couple sets of squats and maybe some powercleans and went home.

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[quote]AlphaJules wrote:
The best athlete ever was Bo Jackson, and no one else is even close.[/quote]

Wrong! I love the guy but NO! Go read about Jim Thorpe. Bo is definitly #2 or #3 though.

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:

He is just probably exaggerating.

He says “I never lifted weights.”

He probably means “I didn’t take weight lifting seriously.”
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It adds to the legend of him being the best athlete in the world if he says he got like that without weights.

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[quote]blitz78 wrote:
How many other athletes (short of Jim Thorpe) can say that they were unequivocally the best at not one, but two sports? [/quote]

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[quote]Enraged wrote:
Off topic but has anyone ever seen a marathon runner try to explode out of the blocks or perform a broad jump. I couldnt help laugh when a runner in my class today scored 1ft’3" on the broad jump.[/quote]

As in he jumped 15 inches?

That’s the most terrible thing I’ve heard today.

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[quote]King of Kings wrote:
Rugby players are also good athletes,but my pick from rugby would be jonah lomu.The man was between 120-125 kgs could run the 100 metres under 10 seconds and had amazing speed off the mark.Only kidney disease stopped this man from becoming one of the greatest players EVER.

Peace

K of K[/quote]

A man weighing somewhere between 264# and 275#'s running a sub-10 second 100?

Not yesterday,
not today,
not tomorrow,
not ever.

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[quote]King of Kings wrote:
ZEB wrote:
Michael Jordan, certainly one of the greatest to ever play the game. But he couldn’t hit baseball…At least not with any consistency.

Hand eye coordination goes to Baseball players?

Yet, Bo Jackson played both pro Football and major league Baseball.

Now that was a rare man.

Even though baseball players do have great hand eye coordination id say cricket players beat baseball playes IMO

best athlete’s would have to Oly Wrestlers.Look at kurt angle.He would destroy most of the pride/UFC guys.At his size he destroyed men almost twice his size to win 2 NCAA championships and a Olymipic medal,all with a broken neck mind u.

Another one would be brock lesner.Not quite the athlete Angle is but much bigger and stronger.Even tried out for NFL,he failed at that but to make the train on side would be pretty repectable i think?

Props to lance Armstrong as well.here is a man who had had cancer of multiple bodyparts and he carved them up on the tour da france for years.

Rugby players are also good athletes,but my pick from rugby would be jonah lomu.The man was between 120-125 kgs could run the 100 metres under 10 seconds and had amazing speed off the mark.Only kidney disease stopped this man from becoming one of the greatest players EVER.

Peace

K of K[/quote]

Kurt Angle would destroy most Pride/UFC guys hmmm? I think not my friend, not without a lot of submission and striking training, but difference between being able to take someone down and winning a fight…unless you’re Rashad Evans that is.

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[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
A man weighing somewhere between 264# and 275#'s running a sub-10 second 100?

Not yesterday,
not today,
not tomorrow,
not ever.[/quote]

You’re obviously American. Jonah could fly. Just because you never heard of him doesn’t mean shit.

By the way, we tend to close our eyes and ears whenever anyone is superior to us.

That fucker would have made the best running back in history had he been a gutless pussy and chucked on the pads, helmet and etc to play NFL.

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[quote]conorh wrote:
Enraged wrote:
Off topic but has anyone ever seen a marathon runner try to explode out of the blocks or perform a broad jump. I couldnt help laugh when a runner in my class today scored 1ft’3" on the broad jump.

As in he jumped 15 inches?

That’s the most terrible thing I’ve heard today.[/quote]

LOL, no way!

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[quote]De sleeplijn wrote:
You’re obviously American. Jonah could fly. Just because you never heard of him doesn’t mean shit.

By the way, we tend to close our eyes and ears whenever anyone is superior to us.

That fucker would have made the best running back in history had he been a gutless pussy and chucked on the pads, helmet and etc to play NFL.

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You’re right, I haven’t heard of him. That’s why I didn’t comment on whether he was a superior athlete, or how good a NFL RB he might’ve been. Because frankly, I don’t care.

But a sub-10 second 100 meter dash is world class for a sprinter.

That means a man who was built for speed, trains for speed, lives for speed, and specializes for speed would be an elite competitor worldwide in the 100 meter dash if he could break 10 seconds.

You really expect anybody to believe that a 270# rugby player can do it?

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[quote]De sleeplijn wrote:
tGunslinger wrote:
A man weighing somewhere between 264# and 275#'s running a sub-10 second 100?

Not yesterday,
not today,
not tomorrow,
not ever.

You’re obviously American. Jonah could fly. Just because you never heard of him doesn’t mean shit.

By the way, we tend to close our eyes and ears whenever anyone is superior to us.

That fucker would have made the best running back in history had he been a gutless pussy and chucked on the pads, helmet and etc to play NFL.

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gunslinger does have a point tho, he had a 10.8sec 100m if im not mistaken, which is still fuckin kick ass, specially given his size, and the fact that he had severe kidney disease all his life, the mans incredible

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[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
De sleeplijn wrote:
You’re obviously American. Jonah could fly. Just because you never heard of him doesn’t mean shit.

By the way, we tend to close our eyes and ears whenever anyone is superior to us.

That fucker would have made the best running back in history had he been a gutless pussy and chucked on the pads, helmet and etc to play NFL.

You’re right, I haven’t heard of him. That’s why I didn’t comment on whether he was a superior athlete, or how good a NFL RB he might’ve been. Because frankly, I don’t care.

But a sub-10 second 100 meter dash is world class for a sprinter.

That means a man who was built for speed, trains for speed, lives for speed, and specializes for speed would be an elite competitor worldwide in the 100 meter dash if he could break 10 seconds.

You really expect anybody to believe that a 270# rugby player can do it? [/quote]

You were right. I don’t think it was sub 10 but they clocked him running at a pace around 10-11 for 100.

He was a freak.

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[quote]rhinobolt10 wrote:
Male Gymnasts

Those guys wear weird shorts, but overall, I’ve always felt they were the best athletes.

strength - parallel rings? iron cross… pretty much impossible. Pretty much everything they do takes a retarded amount of strength.
Flexibility- they’ve got it covered.
Endurance - the floor routines they do have got to suck the life out of you.
Skill - I’m not sure of all the events they have to learn, but there’s a few.

The only thing I don’t think they have a lot of is agility.

What do u boys think?

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Yeah amazing athletes id put these second in my list after decathletes.