Regarding world history significance
Muhammad Ali is my 1st choice. Thank you Dad for allowing me to be the only white kid in the Delta to be a fan of the Greatest of all time .
Babe 17ing Ruth
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Regarding world history significance
Muhammad Ali is my 1st choice. Thank you Dad for allowing me to be the only white kid in the Delta to be a fan of the Greatest of all time .
Babe 17ing Ruth
Tiger woods and Michael Jordan get 2nd tier reps
Jim Thorpe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
Bo Jackson
Dang - beat me to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdwhite
I'll add Carl Lewis to the list too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis
Jim Thorpe. Only correct answer.
Since it's 2018 and we let men in the women's bathroom, maybe it should be Bruce Jenner.
Jesse Owens.
Won 4 golds in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in front of Hitler. Must have taken amazing courage to accomplish such a feat.
Brock Lesnar
How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?Quote:
Originally Posted by louisvilledawg
Easily Bo Jackson.
Exactly what came into my mind when I read the thread title.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdwhite
Bo knows
Ask anyone that had the chance to play baseball with him.
Pre injury Bo Jackson is probably the right answer. I’d throw in Carl Lewis and Deon Sanders.
And Bully, Babe Ruth is nowhere near the best athlete all-time. He’s arguably the worst athlete that was great at his sport. If we’re throwing out guys who dominated their sport Usain Bolt would be a good pick.
This guy for giving Hitler the big middle figure. The look on Hitlers face is priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCmvDwDocrw
False. U.S. AthleteQuote:
Originally Posted by BeastMan
Bolt is Jamaican I believe. He's not a U.S. athlete.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeastMan
edited to say that sleepy dawg beat me to it.
To me, greatest U.S. Athlete means they'd have a chance to compete at a high level across a multitude of sports. So two sport professional athletes like Bo and Deion should be high on the list. Obviously Michael Jordan and Lebron are high up there.
But I think Michael Jordan has to be in the pole position. He was the best basketball player, was an ok minor league baseball player after not playing since high school, and I find it hard to believe he wouldn't have been a serviceable NFL WR right out of the gate. The only other question is how he would do at sports of pure athleticism. Looking at track and field, he'd presumably be a good long jumper and high jumper and while I assume not a professional sprinter or long distance runner, I suspect he'd be ok at both.