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Old 02-24-2017, 09:07 PM   #1
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Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

across all sports, across all time, who do you love most


mine:
Charles Woodson
Donald Driver
Aaron Rodgers
Brett Favre
Prince Fielder
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    Re: Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

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    across all sports, across all time, who do you love most


    mine:
    Charles Woodson
    Donald Driver
    Aaron Rodgers
    Brett Favre
    Prince Fielder
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    Old 02-24-2017, 09:21 PM   #3
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    Tiger and Kareem would be honorable mentions
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    Re: Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

    Wayne Gretzky - the greatest Canadian ever
    Michael Jordan - grew up in chicagos in the early/mid nineties and he's the goat
    Steve prefontaine (70's distance runner, Nike has only ever made one statue and it's for him

    Those top 3 have been my favourites for 20-30 years.

    Honorable mention: Lionel Messi, ken Griffey jr, Steve Kerr, George bell (87 al mvp for the blue jays), Wendell Clark (80s maple leafs player) and maybe Joe carter.

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    Old 02-24-2017, 09:53 PM   #5
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    Re: Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

    1 - Jeff Gordon
    2 - Bernie Williams
    3 - Peyton Manning
    4 - Nolan Arenado
    5 - Mariano Rivera

    HMs (6-10) - Derek Jeter, Terrell Davis, Cal Ripken Jr, Tino Martinez, and Tiger
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    1. ME
    2. Jay Cutler
    3. Stephon Marbury
    4. Bobby Jenks
    5. Hope Solo
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    Old 02-24-2017, 10:03 PM   #7
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    Ken Griffey jr is my favorite baseball player for sure
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    1. Mario Lemieux
    2. Troy Polamalu
    3. Sidney Crosby
    4. Ben Roethlisberger
    5. Jerome Bettis
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    Old 02-24-2017, 10:06 PM   #9
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    Re: Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

    Larry Bird
    Peter Forsberg
    Tony Gwynn
    Patrick Roy
    Barry Sanders

    I know there are other athletes from their eras or previous ones that were better, but those are the ones whose careers I got to watch in real time and not read about in a book or watch in archived YouTube clips.

    Edit: Spoot388 on point with Ripken. He'd be in my top 10 for sure.

    Edit: I've always rooted for Sharapova to whomp ass, too.

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    Old 02-24-2017, 10:09 PM   #10
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    Larry Bird
    Peter Forsberg
    Tony Gwynn
    Patrick Roy
    Barry Sanders

    I know there are other athletes from their eras or previous ones that were better, but those are the ones whose careers I got to watch in real time and not read about in a book or watch in archived YouTube clips.

    Edit: Spoot388 on point with Ripken. He'd be in my top 10 for sure.
    yeah that's why I made this thread, we argue about who's the best all the time but I wanted to see who people loved regardless of where they rank in GOAT lists
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    Re: Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

    Unbelievably hard to just name five.

    Guess I'd go:

    Steve Smith
    Luke Kuechly
    Chipper Jones
    Tom Glavine
    Cam Newton

    Those are from "my" teams.

    Athletes in general:

    Ken Griffey Jr
    Alex Rodriguez
    Derek Jeter
    Jerry Rice
    Tim Duncan

    Something like that
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    Old 02-24-2017, 10:18 PM   #12
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    The Undertaker
    Kobe Bryant
    Kurt Warner
    Kris Bryant
    Magic Johnson
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    Old 02-24-2017, 10:32 PM   #13
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    yeah that's why I made this thread, we argue about who's the best all the time but I wanted to see who people loved regardless of where they rank in GOAT lists
    It was hard because there are athletes who I have just plain loved to watch — Jordan, Gretzky, Rousey, Griffey, Tiger, Federer, Shaq, Curry and more — but I dunno that I would call them my favorites.
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    Old 02-24-2017, 10:36 PM   #14
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    It was hard because there are athletes who I have just plain loved to watch — Jordan, Gretzky, Rousey, Griffey, Tiger, Federer, Shaq, Curry and more — but I dunno that I would call them my favorites.
    yeah I think it's def natural for the all-time greats to also be favorites so there's a lot of overlap but I like to see some players get love for personality or other reasons too
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    Old 02-24-2017, 11:10 PM   #15
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    Re: Who are your all-time top 5 favorite athletes

    Steven Gerrard
    Nolan Ryan
    Mike Modano
    Ozzie Smith
    Ryne Sandberg

    EDIT: Saw the Cubs thread and took off Will Clark and replaced it with Ryne Sandberg. So HM to Will Clark and Ripken.
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    Old 02-25-2017, 05:21 AM   #16
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    just going with ones I grew up with, nobody like Mantle who I only read about

    Griffey
    Dawkins
    Iverson
    Utley
    ChipperJones
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    Been trying to keep this to five and I just can't. So I'm just going to make a list

    Here:

    Wayne Rooney
    Mark Messier
    Big Papi
    Brian Leetch
    Mike Richter
    Henrik Lundqvist
    Tony Stewart
    Jeff Gordon
    Phil Mickelson
    Tiger Woods
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    Magic Johnson
    Troy Smith
    Jim Thome
    Bernie Kosar
    Jim Jackson
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    Tom Brady
    Ryan Hall
    Dustin Johnson
    Pedro Martinez
    David Ortiz
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    Wayne Gretzky - the greatest Canadian ever
    Michael Jordan - grew up in chicagos in the early/mid nineties and he's the goat
    Steve prefontaine (70's distance runner, Nike has only ever made one statue and it's for him

    Those top 3 have been my favourites for 20-30 years.

    Pre is a legend made out of Nike, in my opinion the most overrated runner of all time, I get he has a lot of fans though
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    Peter Bondra
    Olie Kolzig
    Nick Backstrom
    Calle Johansson
    John Druce


    Guess you can tell who I root for
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    Peter Bondra
    Olie Kolzig
    Nick Backstrom
    Calle Johansson
    John Druce


    Guess you can tell who I root for
    Most people won't be able to. Half those guys sound like used car salesmen
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    Steve Yzerman
    Aaron Rodgers
    Peyton Manning
    Pavel Datsyuk
    Niklas Lidstrom

    HM: Barry Sanders
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    Most people won't be able to. Half those guys sound like used car salesmen
    Maybe like one of them

    Also it's not my fault everyone can't have sweet hockey names like OMGCG
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    I don't follow hockey at all so some of these are to me haha
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    Peyton Manning
    Troy Aikman
    Ken Griffey Jr
    Josh Beckett
    Manny Ramirez
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    Eric Lindros
    David Ortiz
    Brian Dawkins
    Allen Iverson
    Scott Rolen
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    Jordan
    Kurt Warner
    Dan Henderson (MMA, Boxing, Wrestling)
    Chipper Jones
    Jeff Gordon

    and a sixth, for people who don't consider NASCAR a sport,

    Mauriuz Pudzianowski (Former Multi-Time World's Strongest Man, MMA Fighter)
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    Derek Jeter
    LeBron James
    Peyton Manning
    Mariano Rivera
    Tiger Woods
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    Michael Jordan

    Everyone else is honorable mention.
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