[blueandwhite]

How about this? those athletes you are supposed to love because everyone tells you so. Talks them up because they are legendary/amazing/god, whatever. Enough.
I'll confess: I never liked Ali back in his sting like a butterfly days. big mouth, narcissistic - I was supposed to like him, they told me, but I never did.
You know who else? lemieux. I never found him exciting. Blah.
I like these guys now they're retired, mature, quiet. Back when they were kings? naw.

[ThePundit]

Mike Piazza is supposed to be this great guy. But he was always selfish. No matter how he hurt his team as catcher,he refused to go to 1st base for the longest time. For Piazza, it was always about breaking that HR record as a catcher. Nothing else.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by blueandwhite

How about this? those athletes you are supposed to love because everyone tells you so. Talks them up because they are legendary/amazing/god, whatever. Enough.
I'll confess: I never liked Ali back in his sting like a butterfly days. big mouth, narcissistic - I was supposed to like him, they told me, but I never did.
You know who else? lemieux. I never found him exciting. Blah.
I like these guys now they're retired, mature, quiet. Back when they were kings? naw.

Wayne Gretzky...he was kinda bland...and darn it, be started breaking Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito records...Lemieux I like only by contrast to Gretzky...

Ali was great...I liked him taunting Frazier all the time...great show...where was your sense of humor back then blueandwhite girl...

[blueandwhite]

re ali, i don't like showboats. i like those who are calm about their greatness.
Which means I should like lemieux but he just never did it for me. And the hair...
And Gretzky vs. lemieux? are you kidding? At least gretzky did some interesting stuff beyond the hockey prizes - he split from Edmonton and broke their hearts to play in LA. Lemieux was vanilla pudding in comparison.

[CityofBrotherlyShove]

I always prefered Mario over Gretzky. I was too young to see Gretzky in his prime, and my memory of him is whining about the clutch and grab and being forced too easily off the puck. Lemieux, on the other hand, come back from cancer and saved a franchise.

[Who Dey]

Brett Farve and Ken Griffey Jr....
Everyone loves these two guys and I just never bought in.
I grew up watching John Elway and Joe Montana.. To me, those two guys just had something about them that Brett Farve didn't have. In addition to the feeling Farve gives me that he just doesn't respect anyone. A drunk, pain pill junkie, and practice sleeper througher (yeah, I'm talkin' bout' practice).
Griffey Jr. is like the Fat Girl that wears "Daisy Dukes", low cut jeans, and mid-drift showing shirts. She thinks she is worth 20 million a year, but really you would be better off getting a bag of balls.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by blueandwhite

re ali, i don't like showboats. i like those who are calm about their greatness.
Which means I should like lemieux but he just never did it for me. And the hair...
And Gretzky vs. lemieux? are you kidding? At least gretzky did some interesting stuff beyond the hockey prizes - he split from Edmonton and broke their hearts to play in LA. Lemieux was vanilla pudding in comparison.

Ahhh now blueandwhite girl, showboats add color to the game...It wasn't about ego...it was about selling tickets at the gate...it was a show...I mean before Ali, where was boxing?...in the hands of a thug named Sonny Liston?...It was all hype...and ya know, it ain't bragging if you can go out there and back it up... next thing you know you will tell me that you would pick Borg over Johnny Mac...ooops...yep, you already did that...sorry...

But I will give you the hair...you can use that against Mario...and yeah, Gretzky bolting for LA was a plus, sort of...I guess...but the only real reason to like "the great one" is cause he once owned a T-206 baseball card of Honus Wagner...I mean on that alone, maybe, maybe I can forgive him for breaking Orr's assist in a season record...maybe...

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Who Dey

Brett Farve and Ken Griffey Jr....
Everyone loves these two guys and I just never bought in.
I grew up watching John Elway and Joe Montana.. To me, those two guys just had something about them that Brett Farve didn't have. In addition to the feeling Farve gives me that he just doesn't respect anyone. A drunk, pain pill junkie, and practice sleeper througher (yeah, I'm talkin' bout' practice).
Griffey Jr. is like the Fat Girl that wears "Daisy Dukes", low cut jeans, and mid-drift showing shirts. She thinks she is worth 20 million a year, but really you would be better off getting a bag of balls.

Who Dey...buddy...pal...you have been humming that tune for a week now...come on....you gotta have more in your bag of tricks than Kenny and Brett...for me man...hum a different tune...

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by CityofBrotherlyShove

I always prefered Mario over Gretzky. I was too young to see Gretzky in his prime, and my memory of him is whining about the clutch and grab and being forced too easily off the puck. Lemieux, on the other hand, come back from cancer and saved a franchise.

Yeah...you tell them Brotherlyshove...though, you know...the hair...blueandwhite girl had a point about Mario's hair...can't respect the hair....

[blueandwhite]

Originally Posted by CityofBrotherlyShove

I always prefered Mario over Gretzky. I was too young to see Gretzky in his prime, and my memory of him is whining about the clutch and grab and being forced too easily off the puck. Lemieux, on the other hand, come back from cancer and saved a franchise.

I can't fight the cancer thing, if it gets thrown in there. Yeah, he's a hero, really, and in hindsight, or looking at him now, I think, He rocks. But during the game? i couldn't dig him. And he was huge for the gold medal the Olympics in salt lake.

[Smoke842]

I'm probably going to irritate some of you when I say this, but Michael Jordan. I used to be a huge NBA fan and when the Bulls won all those championships I was soooo sick of him. MJ this, MJ that. Give it a rest. Now I'm a Nascar fan.

[cjg11582]

Reggie Miller- but in an adverse way. He was the type of player you enjoyed disliking. I still remember him hitting buzzer beating three's in MSG then taking bows at half-court. What a Baller.

Roger Clemens- Good God does this man agitate the hell out of me. He is indecisive as hell and we seem to congratulate him for it. I hope he retires, good riddance.

Peyton Manning- Probably the least clutch great quarterback of all time. Whats more annoying is all of the apologists for him. After The Steelers game last year: "It wasn't him it was his offensive line" (though he did catch a little flack for proclaiming that himself). After every single loss to The Patriots: "If they didn't play in cold weather the Colts would win those games". Well I have some discouraging news, it is and will always be cold in New England in January. If nothing else at least Manning's teammates seem to have a lot of antipathy for him. If Indy ever wins a Superbowl with him there I wil be surprised.

[CityofBrotherlyShove]

Yeah...you tell them Brotherlyshove...though, you know...the hair...blueandwhite girl had a point about Mario's hair...can't respect the hair....

Dude, it's hockey. AKA Mullet Central. If anyone is in it for the hair, they're wasting their time.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by CityofBrotherlyShove

Dude, it's hockey. AKA Mullet Central. If anyone is in it for the hair, they're wasting their time.

You mean 199 points in a season, and the guy can wear his hair however he wants?.... ....Sure okay, but there out to be a limit like you need at least a 20 goal or 50 point season before you can get away with a mullet...you gotta have a standard...

[legend]

Almost all the taunting and mouthing off in sports today traces back to one man-Ali.Watch his old fights and you will see what I mean. He has been glorified by the press and media all these years, a draft dodger who was involved in some of the crookedest fights of all time! I can specifically remember reading about how he made an appearance at a catholic school early in the 70's and made fun of the idea of the Immaculate Conception to the grade school kids. The things he did to denegrate Joe Frazier were uncalled for.