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]
Imagine how frustrating that must have been to play for the Lions.
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? [/quote]
Cool. I’m glad he chose hockey, brought us a Stanley Cup. I don’t like hockey though. I just like trophies coming to Dallas
Walter Payton
Jerry Rice (the fact we have these two lets us exclude Hockey)
Rafael Palmeiro
Maybe Spencer Haywood in basketball, we are pretty weak there. You have either him, Purvis Short, Antonio Mcdyess, or someone like Monta Ellis.
Football we are leaving out Brett Farve, Archie Manning, LC Greenwood, Jackie Slater, Ray Guy, Lance Alworth, and a host of others.
Baseball we have Dizzy Dean, Will Clarke, Boo Ferris, and I am sure I forgetting some.
Baseball: Koufax
Basketball: Magic
Football: Bo Knows
Hockey: Gretzky
I know Marcus Allen had a better career than Bo Jackson, but i love Bo Jackson and firmly believe he would have been a hall of fame player in both bsaeball, and his “hobby” football had his hip not been ripped out against the bungals.
Walter Payton
Jerry Rice (the fact we have these two lets us exclude Hockey)
Rafael Palmeiro
Maybe Spencer Haywood in basketball, we are pretty weak there. You have either him, Purvis Short, Antonio Mcdyess, or someone like Monta Ellis.
Football we are leaving out Brett Farve, Archie Manning, LC Greenwood, Jackie Slater, Ray Guy, Lance Alworth, and a host of others.
Baseball we have Dizzy Dean, Will Clarke, Boo Ferris, and I am sure I forgetting some.
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I was real confused at first until I realized that you were including guys that grew up in Mississippi, not played in MS. Interesting twist.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I was laughing mostly because Palmeiro will always have the steroid stigma associated with him like McGuire or Bonds. [/quote]
We are pretty short in the baseball department. And he didn’t grow up here, but he played his college ball here. Rice and Peyton were born and played here, Palameiro played at MSU with Will Clarke, and basketball kind of sucks here ha. Finally, no one really plays here in the professional realm, because, its Mississippi. Although Sports Illustrated did declare us the most athletic state in the country per capita like 15 years ago. I almost threw up Papelbon or Oswalt because I was running out of ideas.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I was laughing mostly because Palmeiro will always have the steroid stigma associated with him like McGuire or Bonds. [/quote]
I don’t know that PED’s will have the same stigma in 40 years they do now.
A lot of the writers who harp on the shit are needle dick wanna-be’s that could never hack it on the field and like to pretend the “golden era” they grew up in didn’t have rampant drug use and other shit going on… On top of the fact the players they were killing it against were on gear too, lol.
I may be wrong.
Either way, Palmero isn’t in the same room as Bonds IMO. But I hear you.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Also, I would say that if we did a football Rushmore from your state, no one holds a candle to Mississippi. It wouldn’t even be close.
Jerry Rice
Walter Payton
Brett Farve
LC Greenwood
That makes a hard list to top when you have two of the top 3 players of all time. [/quote]
Johnny Unitas
Joe Namath
Joe Montana
Dan Marino
Jim Kelly
Darrelle Revis
Mike Ditka
Tony Dorsett
Randy White
Jack Ham
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I was laughing mostly because Palmeiro will always have the steroid stigma associated with him like McGuire or Bonds. [/quote]
I don’t know that PED’s will have the same stigma in 40 years they do now.
A lot of the writers who harp on the shit are needle dick wanna-be’s that could never hack it on the field and like to pretend the “golden era” they grew up in didn’t have rampant drug use and other shit going on… On top of the fact the players they were killing it against were on gear too, lol.
I may be wrong.
Either way, Palmero isn’t in the same room as Bonds IMO. But I hear you. [/quote]
Ya, I agree with you on the stigma surrounding steroids. 40 years from now Palmeiro will be a distant memory though. Bonds, not sure. His HR record might last that long; although, I doubt it.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Also, I would say that if we did a football Rushmore from your state, no one holds a candle to Mississippi. It wouldn’t even be close.
Jerry Rice
Walter Payton
Brett Farve
LC Greenwood
That makes a hard list to top when you have two of the top 3 players of all time. [/quote]
Johnny Unitas
Joe Namath
Joe Montana
Dan Marino
Jim Kelly
Darrelle Revis
Mike Ditka
Tony Dorsett
Randy White
Jack Ham
…and that’s just from the Pittsburgh area.[/quote]
NFLs top 100 players (as put together by NFL network after fairly intense voting procedure)
Rice-1
Payton-5
Favre-20
Alworth-38
Average place of our Rushmore- 16
Joe Montana-4
Johnny Unitas-6
Dan Marino-25
Chuck Bednarik-35
Avg place of your Rushmore- 18
We still win although, not hold a candle to was probably a little strong.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Also, I would say that if we did a football Rushmore from your state, no one holds a candle to Mississippi. It wouldn’t even be close.
Jerry Rice
Walter Payton
Brett Farve
LC Greenwood
That makes a hard list to top when you have two of the top 3 players of all time. [/quote]
Johnny Unitas
Joe Namath
Joe Montana
Dan Marino
Jim Kelly
Darrelle Revis
Mike Ditka
Tony Dorsett
Randy White
Jack Ham
…and that’s just from the Pittsburgh area.[/quote]
NFLs top 100 players (as put together by NFL network after fairly intense voting procedure)
Rice-1
Payton-5
Favre-20
Alworth-38
Average place of our Rushmore- 16
Joe Montana-4
Johnny Unitas-6
Dan Marino-25
Chuck Bednarik-35
Avg place of your Rushmore- 18
We still win although, not hold a candle to was probably a little strong.
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I’m not claiming Bednarik because he’s from fucking Philadelphia.
Orr led the league in scoring multiple times as a DEFENSEMAN!!! Scored 46 goals on one knee.
Name a defenseman in the NHL who has 50 points.
By the way as great as Frank Thomas was, he’s not Ted Williams. Plus he couldn’t catch a cold at first base. What about Mr. Cub?
Da Bears are a long way from winning anything. God what a mess. Tom Brady left the two Super Bowls he lost with the lead. Not that he played great in them, but the defense let him down. Putting a dwarf like Ellis Hobbs on Plaxico Burress.
Love Jordan, but he didn’t make the players around him better. Russell played in 21 winner take all games. He was 21-0. And it could have been 12 out of 13 except he was injured in 57-58. a Gold medal, two NCAA championships and 11 titles. The purpose of basketball is to win games. He was the greatest winner ever.
What about Aliquippa PA? Ditka, Revis, Ty Law, Tony Dorsett, Sean Gilbert…One town.