re: Muhammed Ali Dead at 74

That's a pretty good compilation post of how my dad felt. He's a US Army ret Col airborne ranger with a CIB from NELA. He hated Ali as a younger man but respected what a great champ he was.

Max Kellerman put it really well the other night: Ali would have been way less of an icon but for his ability to repeatedly pull off the impossible through heart. Impossible to beat Liston in that first fight; impossible to get up in the 15th after Frazier crushed him in the with that famous left hook, but he did; impossible to beat the unbeatable George Foreman. He constantly did what most people thought at the time he did it, was impossible.

Then he beat Frazier twice and he became one of the great philanthropists of our time, secured the freedom of American hostages, and couldn't even barely speak for the last 25 years after being one of the loudest mouths of all time. Frick the haters of that dude. He's undoubtedly tGOAT