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Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:09 am to Bench McElroy
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I find it interesting how people are still comparing Kobe to other players less than 24 hours after his untimely death.
Get off your high horse dude. You’re in a thread titled biggest sports death which is even a more bizarre comparison or ranking to make.
Kobe’s passing elicits all types of discussion, including his place all time in basketball.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:22 am to I Bleed Garnet
I think he was saying that it wasn’t surprising that a lifelong alcoholic died in his mid-60s.
Definitely didn’t use a polite wording though.
Kobe was the type of guy who was probably going to live to 90 or even older if not for something like this. Super healthy guy who had no substance abuse vices.
If Iverson died at 64, people would have the same reaction as with Mantle (while young, he may have outlived a lot of our expectations).
Definitely didn’t use a polite wording though.
Kobe was the type of guy who was probably going to live to 90 or even older if not for something like this. Super healthy guy who had no substance abuse vices.
If Iverson died at 64, people would have the same reaction as with Mantle (while young, he may have outlived a lot of our expectations).
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:23 am to Keys Open Doors
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I think he was saying that it wasn’t surprising that a lifelong alcoholic died in his mid-60s.
That's what I was saying too...
texas guy was saying that mantle's was bigger than Kobes
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:25 am to baybeefeetz
Imagine the 1970 Marshall football tragedy in today's 24/7 media. It'd be huge.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:41 am to baybeefeetz
Sean Taylor
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:46 am to GetCocky11
It just goes to show crazy the 60s were. In a 4 year stretch, Malcolm X, RFK, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Jim Morrison all died. If we make it 6 years, we’ve got the defining death of American history between Lincoln and 9/11.
But the event that would be the most insane in sports today hasn’t even been mentioned yet. In 1949 the entire Torino soccer team died in a plane crash except for an injured starter and the back-up goalkeeper. This was the dominant team in the world following World War II, with the team winning three straight titles and it’s squad forming the base of the national team.
Also had the founder of the biggest Italian newspaper that is still huge today, covering the team playing a charity game.
In recent years we’ve had the deaths of the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team as well as Chapocoense in Brazil but those weren’t as prominent in the world stage.
But the event that would be the most insane in sports today hasn’t even been mentioned yet. In 1949 the entire Torino soccer team died in a plane crash except for an injured starter and the back-up goalkeeper. This was the dominant team in the world following World War II, with the team winning three straight titles and it’s squad forming the base of the national team.
Also had the founder of the biggest Italian newspaper that is still huge today, covering the team playing a charity game.
In recent years we’ve had the deaths of the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team as well as Chapocoense in Brazil but those weren’t as prominent in the world stage.
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 7:47 am
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:13 am to baybeefeetz
Derrick Thomas
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:22 am to baybeefeetz
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Drazen Petrovic, the New Jersey Nets' 28-year-old guard and the team's leading scorer, was killed yesterday in an automobile accident in Germany, according to his father. Reached by telephone at his home in Croatia, Jole Petrovic confirmed reports of his son's death, saying, "It is true."Jun 8, 1993
for me. He was a passenger.
Car was going way over 100.
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 8:24 am
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:14 am to CelticDog
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:16 am to baybeefeetz
Marshall University and Wichita State University football team plane crashes have to be up there.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:09 am to baybeefeetz
The Chapecoense plane crash from 2016
Posted on 1/27/20 at 12:02 pm to 632627
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Kobe was a better basketball player than Bird, magic and a bunch of other dudes that are routinely rated ahead of him.
hmmm. Maybe they are routinely rated ahead of him because most people think hes not as good.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 12:35 pm to baybeefeetz
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This is up there, right? Earnhardt was huge at the time. Roberto Clemente. Who else?
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Biggest sports deaths
It's up there because it was sudden. There's no world where this is bigger for example than Ali's death. Because we expected 40 more years of Kobe doing great things with his kids and his in depth profiles he was doing for the playoffs it seems bigger
Posted on 1/27/20 at 1:35 pm to baybeefeetz
quote:While his death is sad and arguably one the greatest players ever....he was retired, which diminishes some of the "biggest" sports deaths of current players.
Biggest sports deaths
Posted on 1/27/20 at 1:41 pm to baybeefeetz
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This post was edited on 5/26/23 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 1/27/20 at 1:53 pm to CelticDog
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hmmm. Maybe they are routinely rated ahead of him because most people think hes not as good.
Magic is widely regarded as a top 7 or so all time nba player, but I think the consensus in LA (even before Kobe’s death) is that Kobe is the greatest laker of all time.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 2:14 pm to Bunk Moreland
Thurman Munson was because he was still playing at the time and the Yankees were the it team in the late 1970's
Posted on 1/27/20 at 2:59 pm to Buckeye06
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There's no world where this is bigger for example than Ali's death. Because we expected 40 more years of Kobe doing great things with his kids and his in depth profiles he was doing for the playoffs it seems bigger
I mean, we're all going to die so suddenness certainly has to be factored into the equation. Ali made it to 74 after years of poor health making it a foregone conclusion. I wouldn't call his death 'bigger', even if he was the bigger icon in American sports and pop culture history with a much wider range of influence.
Kobe was one of those things where I'm going to remember where I was when I first saw the news. To me, that's the ultimate test.
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 1/27/20 at 3:05 pm to HogX
Kobe’s is the younger generation’s John Lennon. Both had plenty more to give us. I still haven’t gotten over that. Thurman Munson was another shocker.
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 3:09 pm
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