Aggv has my Cleveland repped already, and I agree with his list, although there could be some fun options for #4 given the lack of hockey like he mentioned.
Beans mentioned SF earlier and nobody has tackled that yet so I wanted to point out how stacked their mountain would be(although they also lack pro hockey):
Football: Montana/Rice
Baseball: Mays/Bonds
Basketball: Wilt/Rick Barry(Russel went to school at USF too =p).
[quote]red04 wrote:
Beans mentioned SF earlier and nobody has tackled that yet so I wanted to point out how stacked their mountain would be(although they also lack pro hockey):
Football: Montana/Rice
Baseball: Mays/Bonds
Basketball: Wilt/Rick Barry(Russel went to school at USF too =p).
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The sharks basically qualify as an SF team. For them I’d say Roenick, although I think he has suited up for every NHL franchise.
[quote]red04 wrote:
Aggv has my Cleveland repped already, and I agree with his list, although there could be some fun options for #4 given the lack of hockey like he mentioned.
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Dennis Maruk played for the Cleveland Barons (nee California Golden Seals and later became the MN North Stars) and his mark of 76 assists and 136 points in the 1982 season remain Capitals’ records for a single-season.
San Francisco had the Oakland Seals from 1961 until 1976 (albeit with a few name changes). You could also include the San Jose Sharks as a SF team.
Dallas:
Roger Staubach (this is a tough one for me)
Dirk Nowitzki
Nolan Ryan
Mike Modano
Denver:
John Elway - Broncos
Patrick Roy - Aves
Larry Walker - Rockies
Carmelo Anthony or Alex English - Nuggets
We don’t have a lot to be proud of in some of our sports.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
Not sure I agree with Walter Payton over Brady (any pissing matches about the Pats’ cheating aside).
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Even if I agreed with you - and I’m not saying I do - I would never, ever admit it in public.
Likewise with Hull v Orr.[/quote]
lmao.
I don’t know if I’d pick Brady over Walter Payton either. It’s really hard. The homer in me screams Brady all day, but the realist see’s two players at different positions during different eras.
Jim Brown is hard to ignore, and Barry Sanders… Man if he was on good teams.
I will say Sanders > Emmitt Smith, even though Emmitt is top 5 of all time without question. If you swapped them and put Sanders on those Cowboy teams… I think he is the Babe Ruth of football, an all time legend.
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I agree. I think if Sanders was on the Cowboys instead of Emmitt, not only with the line we had, but with the players on that team with their attitudes (mainly Irvin, and Aikman) well it’s actually kind of hard to imagine the success. I am a huge fan of Emmitt.
[quote]red04 wrote:
Basketball: Wilt/Rick Barry(Russel went to school at USF too =p).
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Pardon my ignorance but which BB team is in San Fran?
[quote]mbdix wrote:
Dallas:
Roger Staubach (this is a tough one for me)[/quote]
You’ve got a decent number of options to choose from with that team too.
[quote]Nolan Ryan
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Forgot about him. And he seems to be a decent executive too.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
I agree. I think if Sanders was on the Cowboys instead of Emmitt, not only with the line we had, but with the players on that team with their attitudes (mainly Irvin, and Aikman) well it’s actually kind of hard to imagine the success. I am a huge fan of Emmitt.[/quote]
I think as it stands, Emmitt is much higher on the list than Sanders. He retired early, and no disrespect because of it, but Emmitt didn’t.
I just think Sanders was a rare, once in a lifetime talent… If had that Cowboy’s dominance around him, it would have been crazy.
The one thing I will say. If it is 4th and 1, and I have my choice between giving it to ES or BS, I’m giving it to Emmitt every single time.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
Basketball: Wilt/Rick Barry(Russel went to school at USF too =p).
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Pardon my ignorance but which BB team is in San Fran?
[quote]mbdix wrote:
Dallas:
Roger Staubach (this is a tough one for me)[/quote]
You’ve got a decent number of options to choose from with that team too.
[quote]Nolan Ryan
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Forgot about him. And he seems to be a decent executive too.
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I think the Golden State Warriors are in San Fran
[quote]mbdix wrote:
I think the Golden State Warriors are in San Fran[/quote]
I’m retarded, thanks.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]mbdix wrote:
I think the Golden State Warriors are in San Fran[/quote]
I’m retarded, thanks. [/quote]
Sure
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Pardon my ignorance but which BB team is in San Fran? [/quote]
Golden State Warriors. Technically they play in Oakland and have for a long time now but they started as the SF Warriors and are moving back to SF in 2018.
I didn’t know that SF or Oakland had hockey teams though, so thanks for that info above guys. I didn’t want to include San Jose because it doesn’t seem as linked to me as SF/Oakland are, but I can see how that would work also.
Houston…
Nolan Ryan
Hakeem Olajuwan
Earl Campbell
What’s hockey?
Pittsburgh
Roberto Clemente
Joe Greene
Mario Lemieux
Kurt Angle - Mt. Lebo grad, won PA state wrestling title his senior year, won two NCAA national chamipionships while attending Clarion University, won freestyle gold medal in both '95 World Championships and '96 Olympics, the latter was months after fracturing two cervical vertebrae and herniating two discs; one of four wrestlers to win high school state title, NCAA championship, world championship, and Olympic gold
Arnold Palmer is my first runner-up, but I like wrestling better than golf.
NY
Baseball - Derek Jeter (I’m going modern era past 25 years)
Football - Lawrence Taylor hands down
Basketball - Patrick Ewing
Hockey - Mark Messier
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Kurt Angle - Mt. Lebo grad, won PA state wrestling title his senior year, won two NCAA national chamipionships while attending Clarion University, won freestyle gold medal in both '95 World Championships and '96 Olympics, the latter was months after fracturing two cervical vertebrae and herniating two discs; one of four wrestlers to win high school state title, NCAA championship, world championship, and Olympic gold
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Don’t forget his pro career: Angle was a six-time world champion (a four-time WWF/E Champion, a one-time World Heavyweight Champion, and a one-time WCW Champion), and he also held the WCW United States Championship, Intercontinental Championship, European Championship, Hardcore Championship and WWE Tag Team Championship once each. He is the tenth Triple Crown Champion, and the fifth Grand Slam Champion.
Orange County:
Basketball: This is a tough one because I graduated from UCLA so I’m stuck between Jerry West and John Wooden
Baseball: We’ve got a few teams around these parts so I’m going with Nolan Ryan
Hockey: Scott Neidermeyer (I think that’s right) from the Ducks, although I’m not a big hockey guy myself
Football: This is a tough one because we haven’t had a football team in awhile, but I’ll go with Marcus Allen from the 1983 Raiders team.
Ehh we only have two sports here.
In order…
The top two guys died almost within a year or each other and did tons for the community which made them icons here. Not many guys did what Tony Gwynn did. He played college baseball and basketball in San Diego, got drafted by the Padres and played his whole career for the team, retired and got hired as the baseball coach at his alma mater SDSU.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
Tough choices,
Steve Yzerman
Al Kaline
Dave Bing
Barry Sanders
There are some rather distasteful names that could by all rights be up there also,
Ty Cobb
Half the Bad Boys
Gordy Howe (although I love Gordy he was a dirty player in a dirty era)
Ndamukong Suh
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How is the Georgia Peach a runner up!![/quote]
Totally personal bias. Al Kaline is an all around great guy as well as a multi time hall of famer, while Cobb is known to be a bit prickly. I don’t really follow baseball though fwiw.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
Mike Modano [/quote]
Father of a friend of mine was a major league ball player who later coached highschool baseball. He had a player who was an excellent athlete that was having conflicts with his hockey and baseball careers. The coach told the kid he had to make a decision which sport he was going to focus on and he picked hockey.
Can you guess who the kid was?