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What a fricking fool. Ever hear of Babe Ruth? Shakespeare? Greatness always lives on. Barry Sanders is much more likely to be forgotten or he will be like a Stan Musial. Someone fans who know history will remember, but others will not.

As for Citizen Kane, as long as there are film schools, they will study Citizen Kane. To discuss the movies importance would probably be a waste of my time on you, so go back and watch Transformers 2.

Babe Ruth is no where close to the greatest Baseball player, Citizen Kane is hardly the greatest film ever, And it is common knowledge that Shakespeare has been given credit for plays that he didn't even write himself. Just like these two, Brown and Sanders were some of the greatest players of football. When the generation of today have grown into tomorrows sports writers Tom Brady, Payton Manning, Brett Favre, Adrien Peterson, Drew Brees, Ladanian Tomlinson, etc will be heralded as some of the greatest players ever. Sanders and Brown will be a distant memory. I don't like it,but it is the nature of the beast

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Posted by Bench McElroy

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Posted on 7/9/10 at 6:05 pm to Tactical1

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Babe Ruth is no where close to the greatest Baseball player

Oops. There goes your credibility.

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Posted by Jamohn

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Posted on 7/9/10 at 6:09 pm to Tactical1

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Just like these two, Brown and Sanders were some of the greatest players of football. When the generation of today have grown into tomorrows sports writers Tom Brady, Payton Manning, Brett Favre, Adrien Peterson, Drew Brees, Ladanian Tomlinson, etc will be heralded as some of the greatest players ever. Sanders and Brown will be a distant memory. I don't like it,but it is the nature of the beast

I'm not sure what you're saying here. All the guys you mentioned are, in fact, some of the greatest players ever. Fact is, however, that we're not just one generation removed from Jim Brown's time. We're 2, 3, or even 4 generations removed from Jim Brown's era and, guess what, it's still the general consensus that he's the greatest running back and it is the majority view that he is the greatest football player that ever put on shoulder pads.

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Posted by Bullethead88

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Posted on 7/9/10 at 6:32 pm to Tactical1

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Babe Ruth is no where close to the greatest Baseball player,

Can't let you slide on that one, even if you said it without thinking.

Ruth hit 714 HRs and had a .342 career batting average.

And he had 2.27 career era -- 17th best era of all time. (Did you forget he was an all-star pitcher before he became the Sultan of Swat?)

Yea maybe he didn't have to play against the international players of today, but he was so dominant in his era (he hit 59 homers in 1921 which was more than all but 2 TEAMS hit that year).

If he's not one of the best of all time, then who is?

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