Who was your favorite childhood athlete?

[Chopper]

heres something that may/may not take off. i dont know. but, i got into a pissing match with my brother awhile back trying to name the most obscure Cardinals we could think of. names like Mike Laga, Tito Landrum came out and cracked us up.

but, in reality, we all know of some GREAT players that have lost their luster, too.

maybe
Vince Coleman
or
Richard Dent
or
William "the FRIDGE" Perry
or
my all-time favorite running back.....BARRY SANDERS #20
and his close 2nd..............................TONY DORSETT #33

pitchers.....NOLAN RYAN and GREG MADDUX (not that he's retired, hes just my favorite)

jump in. lets see who we cant remember.

[kmind]

Michael Jordan but that's too standard

[cardsman1992]

Favorites:

Joe Montana
Michael Jordan.

My first "favorite" baseball player was Jack Clark...LOL....

Here's some "Wow, they did play for the Cards" names....

Bob Tewksbury
Pedro Guerrero
Gregg Jeffries

[a500lbgorilla]

Mario Lemeiux. Skates like a horse, too big to be knocked down, too smooth with the puck to be stopped, too injured throughout his career to ever hate him. He made everyone around him play at nigh-hall of fame levels.

[Warpe]

[zook]

1. Mike Schmidt
2. Steve Carlton
3. Randall Cunningham
4. Reggie White

Some Philly "randoms" that I really liked... Garry Maddox, Von Hayes, Tug McGraw, Clyde Simmons, Mike Quick, Seth Joyner, Andre Waters.

[WildBobAA]

BARRY FUCKING SANDERS


I also liked watching Cecil Fielder haha

[Jack Sawyer]

MJ
Tony Gwinn
Lennox?
Steve Young & Jerry Rice

[drmcboy]

MJ obv. my randoms:

David Fulcher

Ickey Woods

James Brooks

Kenny Anderson (my first bengals game we chanted for him after boomer through a pick )

Eric Davis

Dave Parker

Chris Sabo

The Nasty Boys

Ed Neely (sp? enforcer for the Bulls)

Jay Burson

Chris Jent

Walter Payton was awesome and no one ever brings him up anymore.

Loved to hate

Bill Walsh

Montana/Rice

Tom Landry

Bernie Kosar

Bo

LOL

Don 'Magic Man' Majekowski

Bill Fillmaff

[givememyleg]

[blackatom]

Mario Lemeiux. Skates like a horse, too big to be knocked down, too smooth with the puck to be stopped, too injured throughout his career to ever hate him. He made everyone around him play at nigh-hall of fame levels.

I'm so pumped about the Pens this year... I've got 11 games in C27

[UG]

that's awesome GMML, absolutely awesome


mine:


Will "The Thrill" Clark





George Brett

[Alexos]

MJ by far
Patrick Roy
Pavel Bure lol

[bode]

MJ
Pete Rose
montana/jerry rice
icky woods/boomer
ken griffy Jr.
Frank Thomas
Eric Davis
Chris Sabo
Shaq
Charles barkley

[Numbr2intheWorld]

Chris Webber.

[IowaSkinsFan]

Chris Webber.

[a500lbgorilla]

I can still consider 2 years ago my child-hood.

[gabe]

gmml, HELLO razor hated shawn !!

i gotta go with sting though for wcw, undertaker for wwf

[BankItDrew]

Patrick Roy
Denis Savard
Mario Lemiux
Felix Potvin

Kelly Gruber
Roberto Alomar
Joe Carter
John Olerud
Devon White.. basically everyone from the 92-93 team

Joe Montana
Jerry Rice

Michael Jordan
Scottie Pippin

Kirby Puckett (jk)

[givememyleg]

gmml, HELLO razor hated shawn !!

i gotta go with sting though for wcw, undertaker for wwf

i loved the feuds! i think razor was my fav back in the day. i also forgot one other guy too:

[Alexos]

Sean Michaels
Undertaker

Pedro Martinez was the only reason i would watch baseball from time to time

[a500lbgorilla]

Mario Lemeiux. Skates like a horse, too big to be knocked down, too smooth with the puck to be stopped, too injured throughout his career to ever hate him. He made everyone around him play at nigh-hall of fame levels.

I'm so pumped about the Pens this year... I've got 11 games in C27

Yah, I'm down at Virginia Tech so I will only be able to see games that air on Saturdays on nbc.

[Jack Sawyer]

Oh, and by MJ I actually meant both MJs

Micheal & Magic

[Galapogos]

No love for The Ultimate Warrior guys?

[swiggidy]

Bernie Kosar
Mark Price

[BankItDrew]

No love for The Ultimate Warrior guys?

He was my favorite.

Before: "With the command of my voice I raise them to a level to which they cannot be reproduced!" http://youtube.com/watch?v=68JsdHEfHXM

After: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eSdTyah3p...elated&search=

[ensign_lee]

Hakeem Olajuwon
Sam Cassell
Robert Horry

...the entire championship Rockets team.

[PapalRage]

Penny Hardaway

works cited: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK88MQWsYj8&NR=1

[chardrian]

Ryne Sandberg

[andy-akb]

Kirby Puckett.

I have no idea why, just think it was his name actually.

[Chopper]

wow. i went out to mow some grass and thought i'd make a comment or two. i cant keep up with all this.....so much fun.

some of the names are KILLING me.

-Ultimate Warrior? how bout.....WOOOOOOOOOO! nature boy? or my personal favs......junkyard dog and hacksaw jim duggan. long shot for wrestling...king kong bundy and the bushwackers. YYYEEEEAAAAAHHHHH, m8!!

-chris sabo? looks like we got some big red machine wannabes. i like the nasty boys a lot!! good reference. how bout.....obv, johnny bench. or the pariah...pete rose (the original mr hustle)

-pavel bure? if you like sega hockey. dude could NOT be stopped. or felix "the cat" potvin? wow. what about cliff ronning? or mike modano? for you east coast philly boys....how bout roenick or lindros? maybe Rod Brindamour.

-basketball? mj, either one of them ought to be super obv. if you dont/didnt like jordan, i think you were a jazz fan...meaning you liked stockton, could be that youre racist if you dont like jordan. or if you dont like magic, you must be a bird guy. the penny reference was great. no Horace Grant fans? my crowd pleaser......Dominique Wilkins. only thing atlanta ever did right....well, him and SPUD, baby!!

-randall cunningham? i counter that with another short-lived, overrated QB....rodney peete (his wife is hot, btw, holly robinson? of 21 jump street where johnny depp got his big break.). but, if i'm correct, mine won the heisman. any DC boys out there that would be fans of Doug Williams or Theisman? remember the clips of his injury? still the sickest thing ive seen. i cant eat for an hour after i watch that. maybe John Riggins, Art Monk? i cant remember the chant they did in the endzone for the life of me, though. any helpers? another favorite of mine...

BO JACKSON. i saw him throw out a runner on a sac fly from the track in left w/o taking a step towards home. simply amazing. but, Brett was another perfect reference. although i also liked Greg Nettles and Rod Carew. well, carew counters Gwynn. but back to the one the Cincy boys will remember, of the 2 sport atheletes.....Neon Deion. and, now we've come full circle. so, i'll bow out for the moment.

you guys keep 'em coming. this is great fun.

[Renton]

surprising no one mentioned Dan Marino

[mcatdog]

MJ

ban

[bode]

Bernie Kosar
Mark Price

no craig ehlo or that really tall skinny black dude thats a nascar analyst now?

[mcatdog]

Reggie Miller
Rik Smits
Derrick McKey
Dale Davis
Haywoode Workman

Also Jim Harbaugh and Marshall Faulk but I was a much bigger Pacers fans than Colts fan back then, and still am really.

[Chopper]

lolcraigehloaments. talk about your stooooopid glasses reference. perfect counter to sabo.

forgot about Kosar. dude was as plain as can be. but could there be a direct link to Marty Schottenheimer there? since i brought up martyball........hey george, how bout cristian okoye? or barry word?

renton, as for marino...thats a great one. how bout Czonka?

[Chopper]

sorry for the b2b post, but i forgot to ask this...

'rilla, is that you in the VaTech uni? did you play? how's the subject of Vick treatin' ya? if you've only been out 2 years, did you overlap with him at all? or was that his little bro?

[mcatdog]

if you dont/didnt like jordan, i think you were a jazz fan...meaning you liked stockton, could be that youre racist if you dont like jordan.

or it could be that you're just sick of him getting shoved down our throats for the last 15 years and the constant comparisons of every good young player to Jordan, or it could be that you hate superstar calls and your team is on the long list of teams that got jobbed by the Jordan Rules in the playoffs, which the Jazz are at the top of but they're not the only team on it. he's been retired for years already, just GO AWAY AND LET ME WATCH A GAME WITHOUT HAVING TO HEAR YOUR NAME GET MENTIONED ALREADY, baseball and football don't have one player that gets anointed as the best player of all time, why does basketball have to have one hatehatehatehatehate

[Hawk]

#1 Nolan Ryan - I still have several hundred Ryan baseball cards

#2 Ken Griffey Jr. - Before he started getting hurt, the 2nd best baseball player ever (behind Ruth). Also clearly never took steroids/HGH/whatever.

#3 Steve Largent - Best WR ever when he retired (and did it without size or speed)

[biondino]

Didier Pironi
Elio De Angelis
Michele Alboreto

[biondino]

They're all dead Dave

[WillburForce]

you Amercians with your weird sports.....only ones i've heard of are MJ and Dan Marino(Quaterback for Miami Dolphins????).....

But have any of you heard of Sir Trevor Brooking? or Paulo DiCanio? or the legend that is Julian Dicks?

[biondino]

Hmm, you must be a fan of Lazio, or Liverpool, or, uh, the FA...

Paolo Di Canio, fo those yanks who may not be aware:

[WillburForce]

I'll forgive him his right-wing tendancies for the joy he brought me knocking Man Utd out of the FA Cup....infact Bartez made a similar pose when DiCanio scored against him!

ps how do i add pics?

[biondino]

Find the url for the pic in questions then type [ img ] (leaving out the spaces) before the url and [ /img ] after the url. Hey presto, a pic!

[Chopper]

you Amercians with your weird sports.....only ones i've heard of are MJ and Dan Marino(Quaterback for Miami Dolphins????).....

But have any of you heard of Sir Trevor Brooking? or Paulo DiCanio? or the legend that is Julian Dicks?

no. do tell. thats what this thread is for. please enlighten me/us.

and as for the MJ comment about no other sport having the best ever constantly mentioned....

hmmmmmm.

this year. Tiger Woods v Jack Nicklaus. Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron v Barry Bonds v Arod. i would say those are/were fairly big stories.

hockey? can you ever hear anyone mentioned w/o comparing them to Gretzky? or Gordie Howe? NO.

soccer/futbol...Pele, at least here in the states. we are apparently (sarcastic) so educated over here when it comes to futbol.

boxing....Ali.

dont be so bitter, mcat, there's one in every sport. not just the one you got jobbed in the most.

btw, since you seem bitter, heres a pill for you. i think you owe us St Louisans your super bowl trophy. we didnt set up fancy equipment on the sidelines/stands to steal any signals/formations. if your Pats cheated now, they were cheating then. Bellichek is a farce.

j/k....just thought i'd stir the pot a bit. some people here in STL actually think that. oh, and they still want their '85 world series back from the Royals. they think the ump cost them the series with that blown call. they conveniently forget they still had game 7. or the rest of game 6, for that matter. same thing with the super bowls. its not like the filming gave NE an insurmountable advantage.

keep up the fun....good times.

[WillburForce]

Sir Trevor Brooking: West Ham player his whole career. now works for the FA. Most gracefull English player i ever saw....
Paulo DiCanio: Mad Italian(bit of Nazi, but meh, all Lazio are). Scored the greatest volley ever. i was behind the goal. Gives me goose bumps just thinking about it.
Julian Dicks: West Ham legend. played left back. Nickname the Terminator. Just watching him tackle someone was painful.
Theres a famous picture of him making "Hardman" Vinnie Jones cower in fear.....

as you can see i'm a bit West Ham biased.......

[biondino]

Hank Aaron v Barry Bonds v Arod.

MATT HOLLIDAY FTW! GO ROCKIES!!!

[Chopper]

Hank Aaron v Barry Bonds v Arod.

MATT HOLLIDAY FTW! GO ROCKIES!!!

get the humidor fired up!! i want cigars and baseballs for halloween! WHHEEEEEEEEEEE.

[mcatdog]

btw, since you seem bitter, heres a pill for you. i think you owe us St Louisans your super bowl trophy. we didnt set up fancy equipment on the sidelines/stands to steal any signals/formations. if your Pats cheated now, they were cheating then. Bellichek is a farce.

LOL

[Chopper]

btw, since you seem bitter, heres a pill for you. i think you owe us St Louisans your super bowl trophy. we didnt set up fancy equipment on the sidelines/stands to steal any signals/formations. if your Pats cheated now, they were cheating then. Bellichek is a farce.

LOL

[Bmxicle]

[Tiresman]

I'm older than younz. My favorites growing up in the "Burg" were Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, and Rocky Bleir (the only Vietnam Veteran in the NFL). Was and is the greatest sports town, bar none. Haven't missed watching a Steelers game in 20+ years I've been away, and whenever they come here to Miami to play the Dolphins, I'm there.

[Miffed22001]

Marco Van basten
Ruud Gullit
Michael Johnson

[DetroitHusling101]

Charles Barkley... i dont know why
Royce Gracie from ufc.

[Miffed22001]

Julian Dicks: ...

WATAFAG

[Chopper]

I'm older than younz. My favorites growing up in the "Burg" were Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, and Rocky Bleir (the only Vietnam Veteran in the NFL). Was and is the greatest sports town, bar none. Haven't missed watching a Steelers game in 20+ years I've been away, and whenever they come here to Miami to play the Dolphins, I'm there.

i must be a tweener here. too young for stargell, too old for rothlesberger (sp?).

hey Burgh Boy? how bout Bradshaw, Harris, Mean Joe, Swann? i'm still bitter over the trade that sent you Van Slyke for Tony "i spin in circles when i swing and WTF is with my catching sit....errr stance" Pena.

i'll bet you are the only silent Kordell "slash" Stewart fan left...right?

and one of the best coaches ever.....CHUCK KNOLL.

hows that for ass kissing?

[Silly String]

JERRY RICE
Nuff said.

[kevster]

Marco Van basten
Ruud Gullit
Michael Johnson

Van Basten - what a player.

Ok, here's mine......... Warning! it's soccer..... Matt Le Tissier

My guess is that most in the US won't have heard of him but he's better than anyone you've ever seen.

[Galapogos]

Marco Van basten
Ruud Gullit
Michael Johnson

Van Basten - what a player.
Ok, here's mine......... Warning! it's soccer..... Matt Le Tissier
My guess is that most in the US won't have heard of him but he's better than anyone you've ever seen.

What is this soccer you speak of? And athletes can participate in it?

[Miffed22001]

Marco Van basten
Ruud Gullit
Michael Johnson

Van Basten - what a player.

Ok, here's mine......... Warning! it's soccer..... Matt Le Tissier

My guess is that most in the US won't have heard of him but he's better than anyone you've ever seen.

matt le tissier was god, and he drank beeeeer!

[Chopper]

soccer = athletes? lol.

j/k

but yeah, most US people havent heard of anyone other than Beckham.......so that means he was the best, right? lol.

[Chopper]

i'm somewhat surprised that no one said, "hugh hefner."

you cant tell me that doesnt take some athletic ability.

[mcatdog]

What is with Pacers fans rooting for Michael Jordan and Chiefs fans rooting for Jerry Rice.

It's garbage, and the people who do it are garbage. Makes me wanna puke.

(just kidding) (kind of)

[Trikflow77]

Rick Smits-pacers

Pete O'brian-texas rangers

[Miffed22001]

soccer = athletes? lol.

j/k

but yeah, most US people havent heard of anyone other than Beckham.......so that means he was the best, right? lol.

he takes performance enhancing substances...

[Chopper]

he's in the states, right? HGH should go w/o saying over here.

[cardsman1992]

Here are some tasty Pacers throwbacks (and no, Jalen Rose doesn't count, you young punks):

Haywoode Workman
Vern FLEM-ing
Ricky Pierce
Eddie Johnson

That was early 90s version, let's go back further!

George McCloud (he sucked)
Detlef SCHREMPF! (remember Dan Patrick calling his highlights?)
Steve Stipanovich
Clark Kellogg (You gotta squeeze the orange!)

And before my time:

George McGinnis (a legend!)
Freddie Brown

[Chopper]

lol shrempf and kellogg. no votes for ron artest? imagine that.

very nice hand, sir. thats what i started the thread for.

[cardsman1992]

more Cards highlights:

Tom Herr
Tom Brunansky
Bob Forsch
John Tudor....

[Chopper]

more Cards highlights:

Tom Herr
Tom Brunansky
Bob Forsch
John Tudor....

yeah, buddy. all mentioned between my brother and myself in our little "debate." good ones.

how bout...

dane iorg
dave lapoint
lonnie smith
juaquin andujar
dan quisenberry/darrell porter (KC transplants)


luis alicea

i could go on, as i'm sure you could, too. lol.

[mixchange]

randal cunningham is not overrated

[Jack Sawyer]

Taffarel, Dunga, Romario, Bebeto, Cafu, Branco
Cocu, Ruud Gullit, Ronald Koeman, Ronald DeBoer

Magic Johnson(again)

[Chopper]

are the "one-namers" all brazilian soccer players? i'm pretty sure Romario is.

and if you pay attention to south american soccer, i'm surprised i havent seen Diego Maradona. dont remember how his reputation panned out, though?