[quote]tmoney1 wrote:
How about Patrick Willis, the newly drafted linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, out of Ole Miss.
At age 4, his parents split.
At age 8, he was cooking meals for his family.
At age 10, he worked in a cotton field occassionally to provide financial support for his family.
At age 16, he turned his father into DHS because his father neglected his children and physically abused Patrick’s younger siblings. His high school basketball coach became his legal guardian.
At age 21, his youngest brother, Detris, drowned while swimming with friends.
At age 22, he played most of his senior season with a broken hand, and still won the Butkus Award.
Although he might be young, he has endured a lot of hardship to be successful, and I think that makes him a great T-Man.[/quote]
[quote]dragonmamma wrote:
Enough is enough! I think we need to add one more requirement for being a T-Man: sex appeal. As admirable as Abraham Lincoln may be, I’ve never had any desire to get it on with him; yaknowwhutImean?[/quote]
Nay from me on that motion. If you’re too superficial to recognize a great man from his actions, his attitude and his words, that’s not our problem.
What you’re looking for is People’s Magazine list of sexiest men, most of which have done precious little except parade their looks around.
[quote]pookie wrote:
dragonmamma wrote:
Enough is enough! I think we need to add one more requirement for being a T-Man: sex appeal. As admirable as Abraham Lincoln may be, I’ve never had any desire to get it on with him; yaknowwhutImean?
Nay from me on that motion. If you’re too superficial to recognize a great man from his actions, his attitude and his words, that’s not our problem.
What you’re looking for is People’s Magazine list of sexiest men, most of which have done precious little except parade their looks around.
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And it didn’t used to be quite that way. Guys like Lee Marvin…A T-man. Sorry had to throw that in there. (And Captain Kangaroo)
[quote]pookie wrote:
dragonmamma wrote:
Enough is enough! I think we need to add one more requirement for being a T-Man: sex appeal. As admirable as Abraham Lincoln may be, I’ve never had any desire to get it on with him; yaknowwhutImean?
Nay from me on that motion. If you’re too superficial to recognize a great man from his actions, his attitude and his words, that’s not our problem.
What you’re looking for is People’s Magazine list of sexiest men, most of which have done precious little except parade their looks around.
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I already admitted that these men are admirable.
Question: Why doesn’t your avatar look more like Lincoln?
Another Question: Under Powerful Images, how come we get all these “superficial” images of guys and gals with hot bodies? Whey aren’t we seeing Mother Theresa feeding the poor?
Jim Thorpe accomplished arguably what no other athlete in history has. The Sac and Fox Indian won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympic games in Sweden and played both professional football and professional baseball. His feats on the football field put him on the 1911 and 1912 All-American football teams. In 1920 he became the first president of the American Professional Football Association (later to become the NFL).
In 1950 Jim Thorpe was named by the Associated Press the greatest football player and greatest all-round athlete for the first 50 years of this century.
[quote]pookie wrote:
dragonmamma wrote:
Question: Why doesn’t your avatar look more like Lincoln?
Because I chose my avatar to offset the incredible wussyness of the alias “pookie.” Ol’ Abe is just not buff enough.
Another Question: Under Powerful Images, how come we get all these “superficial” images of guys and gals with hot bodies? Whey aren’t we seeing Mother Theresa feeding the poor?
This is a bodybuilding site, superficiality is our specialty.
That doesn’t mean it should permeate every aspect of our lives.
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[quote]GreenTerror79 wrote:
I don’t even see how this is an arguement.
Hand’s down its Pat Tillman at #1.
A distant second is King Leonidas.
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Not to downplay what Tillman did, but there are many professionals who fought in the Army, as most baseball players did in WWII.
I don’t think it’s “hands down” at all.
And King Leonidas? Fuck man, stop watching so many movies. If you want to go for great warriors, Achilles, Beowulf, or Cuchulainn were just as badass as Leonidas.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Not to downplay what Tillman did, but there are many professionals who fought in the Army, as most baseball players did in WWII.
I don’t think it’s “hands down” at all.[/quote]
It’s pretty far from hands down.
What’s to downplay? A guy who had a promising football career - something that has no impact whatsoever on the lives of anyone, except for its entertainment value - decided he wanted to serve his country. He got killed in service.
Thousands of others have suffered the same fate.
Certainly, he thought there was more to life than football and money; that’s commendable, even admirable. But greatest T-Man of all time? Not even close.
