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re: Best 2 sport athlete of all time? LSU

Posted on 1/9/17 at 1:51 pm to
Posted by El Campo Tiger
El Campo, TX
Member since Mar 2015
10118 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 1:51 pm to
Chad Jones has my vote.


I have a soft spot for Jeremy Witten as well for his heroics in the 2000 National Championship Game against Stanford.


He hit that homer just a few rows below me at Rosenblatt.

Posted by Coonass1015
Member since Sep 2015
187 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 2:05 pm to
Lyle Mouton definitely worth mentioning. He hit one of the longest HR at the box. It landed on top of the married student housing beyond left field
Posted by N.O. via West-Cal
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2004
7877 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 2:07 pm to
Joe Adcock. Power hitting Milwaukee Brave was also all SEC in hoops as a Tiger.
Posted by N.O. via West-Cal
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2004
7877 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 2:09 pm to
"bench-press 270 pounds, which at the time was just 10 pounds off the Olympic record."

Was the bench press ever an Olympic lift?
Posted by hawaiiantiger
KANEOHE, HI
Member since Jan 2010
365 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 2:19 pm to
Mo Issum
This post was edited on 1/9/17 at 2:20 pm
Posted by OldSarge38
VacherieBay City
Member since Nov 2009
477 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 4:13 pm to
Billy Cannon in football and Track & Field.

Posted by larry289
Holiday Island, AR
Member since Nov 2009
3858 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 5:01 pm to
quote:

I don't think it was kg because that would be 595 lbs.

I hadn't done the conversion, so that would be hard to believe! That said, Paul Anderson was doing around 615 lbs bench presses at that time...so who knows.
Posted by larry289
Holiday Island, AR
Member since Nov 2009
3858 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 5:14 pm to
quote:

Was the bench press ever an Olympic lift?

The information I quoted was from Times Picayune in NO. I searched and I believe the potential that should have been 270Kg is a possibility. I was unable to find a bench press event in Olympics, so something is askew here.

What I did find was that in Olympic and SEC competition, shot put contestants are heavily biased as the strongest "bench pressers". Cannon was an animal with the 16# shot put.
Posted by Freddy238
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2016
1447 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 5:20 pm to
Trindon Holliday no doubt
Posted by larry289
Holiday Island, AR
Member since Nov 2009
3858 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 5:24 pm to
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Trindon Holliday no doubt

a favorite Tiger of mine, fun as hell to watch...but not even close.
Posted by old man tiger
Member since Feb 2009
2383 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 5:27 pm to
Has to be jones with the 2 nattys
Posted by ElderTiger
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2010
7790 posts
Posted on 1/9/17 at 5:35 pm to
In the first ten posts Xavier Carter was mentioned and a 100+ posts later, still no pic of his " take a knee at the one" play against Georgia. The Rant is slipping.
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