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FootballFan on 01 August 2009

Steven Gerrard.

Watch the Champions League Final 2005 and tell me how he is not a God amongst men.



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Samus Aran on 01 August 2009

Not a lot of cyclist fans here btw :(

My favorite sport xD
Especially the tour de France.



Slimebeast on 01 August 2009

Wayne Gretzky



ajaghvajagh on 01 August 2009

Maradona



 

FaRmLaNd on 01 August 2009

Sir Donald Bradman, Aussie cricketer who had a career average of 99.94 runs. Which is still by far the best in the world.

He's my pick, fantastic sportsman.



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amp316 on 01 August 2009
TheRealMafoo said:

Without question, Jim Thorp.

In collage his coach wanted him to go to the Olympics. He wanted to impress a girl, so he did. When asked what event he wanted to compete in, Thorp said sign me up for all of them. He won gold in everything he competed in.

He won events he didn't even know existed. He won the Decathlon, with a point total that stood for two decades, and he didn't know what two of the events were (Javelin and Discus) when he signed up.

With none of todays training, or nutrition information, Thorp still ran the 100 yard dash in 10 seconds, 220 in 21.8 seconds, and the 120 yard high hurdles in 15 seconds.

He was an American Indian living on a reservation. When he was 13, his parents wanted him to learn english in a white school, so they drove him 30 miles to the closest school. He didn't want to go.

They dropped him off, and when they got home, he was sitting on the front porch waiting for them.

He is also the reason there is an NFL.

Yea, he was a god among men.


I am pleasantly surprised that someone posted the correct answer before me. This guy also played several professional sports. All well.

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tombi123 on 01 August 2009

Too hard to choose one, so here are three...

Ronnie O'Sullivan. (Snooker).

Mohammed Ali. (Boxing).

Pele. (Football).



AnarchyWest on 01 August 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
Michael Jordon. Dude was freakin' god-like.


im not even a basketball fan and I completely agree



elprincipe on 01 August 2009
AnarchyWest said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Michael Jordon. Dude was freakin' god-like.


im not even a basketball fan and I completely agree

Meh, he's not even close to the best basketball player ever.

Pele is my choice as well, although Jim Thorpe is an excellent one.



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TheRealMafoo on 01 August 2009
AnarchyWest said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Michael Jordon. Dude was freakin' god-like.


im not even a basketball fan and I completely agree

MJ was great, but Dr J was better.

And the most dominating basket ball player of all time, was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar

To give you an idea of just how good he was, in 1966 he was a freshman at UCLA. Back then, Freshmen could not play on the varsity team, so he played on the freshman team. The varsity UCLA team was the #1 ranked team in the country. The freshman team played the the varsity team, and the freshmen won 75-60, and Kareem scored 51 points in that game.

Then, when he was allowed to play on the varsity team for the next three years, they went 88-2, and won the national championship all three years.

He didn't do to bad in the NBA either ;p

"Abdul-Jabbar played the center position and is regarded as one of the best players of all time. He is the all-time leading NBA scorer with 38,387 points, having collected six titles, six regular season MVP and two Finals MVP awards, fifteen NBA First or Second Teams, a record nineteen NBA All-Star call-ups and averaging 24.6 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.6 blocks per game. He is also the third all-time in registered blocks (3,189), which is even more impressive because this stat had not been recorded until the fourth year of his career (1974)."