OT: Who would you put on your sports Mt. Rushmore. This is harder than it sounds...

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Did you ever hear of a guy named Brady?

lol brady is a great player, on many great teams with probably the best or top 3 best coach ever. Manning put up numbers on some bad teams overall, the guy I think is the best QB ever - its too bad he didn't have a better team around him. And im a giant fan

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

lol brady is a great player, on many great teams with probably the best or top 3 best coach ever. Manning put up numbers on some bad teams overall, the guy I think is the best QB ever - its too bad he didn't have a better team around him. And im a giant fan

Coach!? I don't think you've heard of Brady...


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[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

lol brady is a great player, on many great teams with probably the best or top 3 best coach ever. Manning put up numbers on some bad teams overall, the guy I think is the best QB ever - its too bad he didn't have a better team around him. And im a giant fan

Nine one and dones. There is really nothing to discuss.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2013...ne-dones-fault

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Nine one and dones. There is really nothing to discuss.



http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2013...ne-dones-fault

Ummmm, yeah there is. Didn't win as many rings as he would have liked clearly, but you simply cannot just ignore his regular season numbers because of what happened in the playoffs. That is ridiculous.


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[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

Ummmm, yeah there is. Didn't win as many rings as he would have liked clearly, but you simply cannot just ignore his regular season numbers because of what happened in the playoffs. That is ridiculous.


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Sure I can. With his abysmal playoff record he cannot plausibly be considered the best QB ever. And wherever you rank Brady, he cannot plausibly be considered better than Brady with 4 wins and something like 21-8 overall.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Sure I can. With his abysmal playoff record he cannot plausibly be considered the best QB ever. And wherever you rank Brady, he cannot plausibly be considered better than Brady with 4 wins and something like 21-8 overall.

Sure he absolutely can. You going to put Bumgarner in the HOF or call in the greatest pitcher of all time cause he was good in the postseason. Or any player for that matter who has a good postseason track record but did nothing in the regular season.


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[Laxcat]

Cobb -baseball
Jim Brown- football but takes care of lacrosse as well
Jordan- 2nd place Pistol Pete
Richard- for hockey. Don't like Gretzky and Howe is too obvious

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Laxcat

Cobb -baseball
Jim Brown- football but takes care of lacrosse as well
Jordan- 2nd place Pistol Pete
Richard- for hockey. Don't like Gretzky and Howe is too obvious

Pistol Pete over Chamberlain, Jabbar, Russell, Magic, LeBron, Oscar, Bird? Yeah he had some amazing moves but come on.

[oldphil]

Rumor has it that Mt. Rushmore ain't all it's cracked up to be.

[Rookiemonster]

Originally Posted by oldphil

Rumor has it that Mt. Rushmore ain't all it's cracked up to be.

You should look In to getting that signed lol

[UKCardGuy]

Great thread.

My choices are: Wagner, Thorpe, Staubach, Pele

All represent excellence and were great ambassadors for sport.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Babe Ruth
Babe Didrickson
Babe Parilli
Babe Dye

Am I doing this wrong?

[oldeboo]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Babe Ruth
Babe Didrickson
Babe Parilli
Babe Dye

Am I doing this wrong?

You could go with four different babes...
Fatima Diame
Allison Stokke
Anna Kournikova
Alex Morgan

[oldjudge]

I don’t remember commenting before (forgive me if I did) but my choices would be:

Babe Ruth—Saved baseball after the black Sox scandal and was the biggest celebrity in America in his day.
Jesse Owen’s—Great runner who embarrassed Hitler in the 1936 Olympics
Jim Brown—Greatest football player ever who did and still does some amazing work with the gangs in Los Angeles
Larry Bird/Magic Johnson together—Two all time greats whose rivalry saved the NBA.

[mrreality68]

Jackie Robinson
Ali
Jordan
Woods

[Pat R]

Arnold Palmer
Lou Gehrig
Richard Petty
Walter Payton

[FrankWakefield]

Michael Jordan

Honus Wagner

Muhammad Ali

Wayne Gretzky



(although I like Palmer, Petty, and Gehrig)

[ClementeFanOh]

I'll go with players, not coaches or inventors. In no particular order:

1) Babe Ruth

2) Jesse Owens

3) Wilt Chamberlain

4) Muhammad Ali

I'll never get all the Jordan love. Bird/Magic did more to renew interest in
the NBA- and I can't wait until fans find out why Jordan magically
disappeared from the sport for, what, a season and a half? Then there won't
even be an argument Trent King

[Mark17]

Ruth - greatest baseball player and loved worldwide
Ali - greatest boxer and loved worldwide
Pele - greatest soccer player and loved worldwide
Gretzky - greatest hockey player and very popular among hockey playing parts of the world

[ClementeFanOh]

Mark- hard to argue with your 4 as well. This is a tough ask! Trent King

[Mozzie22]

I'm not a huge hockey fan but this list should start and end with Wayne Gretzky. He is the single most dominate player in major sports history and there simply isn't a close second. Opinions vary but statistics do not lie.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Mozzie22

I'm not a huge hockey fan but this list should start and end with Wayne Gretzky. He is the single most dominate player in major sports history and there simply isn't a close second. Opinions vary but statistics do not lie.

I believe it's still the case that he has more assists than anyone else has points. Jagr I think came close to ending that but fell short.

[obcbobd]

Ruth
Orr
Ali
Brady


If I liked Basketball I'd swap out Jordon for Ali - but I don't :-)

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ClementeFanOh

I'll go with players, not coaches or inventors. In no particular order:

1) Babe Ruth

2) Jesse Owens

3) Wilt Chamberlain

4) Muhammad Ali

I'll never get all the Jordan love. Bird/Magic did more to renew interest in
the NBA- and I can't wait until fans find out why Jordan magically
disappeared from the sport for, what, a season and a half? Then there won't
even be an argument Trent King

Never been a big basketball guy. So why did Jordan miss that season and a half?

[Natedog]

Brady
Jordan
Gretzky
Ruth

[quinnsryche]

Originally Posted by Natedog

Brady
Jordan
Gretzky
Ruth

My list exactly

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Never been a big basketball guy. So why did Jordan miss that season and a half?

The rumor is that Jordan was actually suspended for that season and a half as a result of his gambling.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Tabe

The rumor is that Jordan was actually suspended for that season and a half as a result of his gambling.

I have also heard that rumor. Even if that was confirmed I doubt many would care.

[Leon]

Ruth, Jordan, Ali, Gretzky
.ps...
I honestly didn't read the choices right above.

[Yoda]

In trying to keep with the theme of the OP, here are my elections: Branch Rickey, Joe Louis, Lou Gehrig, Moses Walker and Candy Cummings.

Honorable Mention: Bobby Moore and George Mikan.

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Gordie Howe-Howe could chisel his own with those meat hooks he had!
Babe Ruth
Johnny Unitas
Wilt Chamberlain

[vansaad]

Babe
Tiger
Bo
Mike

[mightymickof56]

1-Brady- greatest football player of all time
2-Ruth-greatest baseball player
3-Gretzky-greatest hockey player all time
4-pele- gretest soccer player of all time. Dominated a sport that boasts more participants and fans of any sport in the world

Greatest basketball player of all time? Up for debate. Bill Russell is the greatest winner of all time. I will say pick one Jordan or Wilt. I would say if any athlete is debateable they don’t go on the mountain.

[obcbobd]

Originally Posted by mightymickof56

1-Brady- greatest football player of all time
2-Ruth-greatest baseball player
3-Gretzky-greatest hockey player all time
4-pele- gretest soccer player of all time. Dominated a sport that boasts more participants and fans of any sport in the world

Greatest basketball player of all time? Up for debate. Bill Russell is the greatest winner of all time. I will say pick one Jordan or Wilt. I would say if any athlete is debateable they don’t go on the mountain.

I think any selection will be debatable. I would take Orr over Gretsky. :-)

[bnorth]

Ted Williams
Serena Williams
Emmitt Smith
Žydrūnas Savickas