re: Favorite athletes who never played on any of your teams?

Larry Bird

Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Ken Griffey Jr, & Hakeem Olauwon

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Michael Bishop should've won the Heisman and probably would've

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What? Ricky Williams won in a walk. It’s the eighth most lopsided vote in Heisman history. Williams had 673 more first place votes. Bishop wasn’t making up that difference even if KST wins on the Hail Mary.

Marino

Barry Sanders

Damn Curley Hallman for recruiting Marshall Faulk as a DB. Any old timers remember Pete Finney from the Times Picayune/ States Item basically making a pitch for Warren Moon? 1984 I think. Great topic discussion

Mookie Betts. Amazing player and seems like a genuinely awesome dude, too.

MJ first and foremost.

I wanted Fitz on the Saints so bad. Of course M. Faulk was another. I also wanted Marino for the Saints way back when.

ETA: forgot my favorite RB of all-time Barry Sanders.

Robert Horry. Used to talk SEC Football with him when he was with the Spurs. I always had my reporter's notebook and my digital recorder on a clear plastic clipboard, with a little LSU decal on the back. He asked me about it one day. After I told him I went to four or five football games a year, we talked about SEC football and basketball a lot. It was cool to know Big Shot Rob was a regular guy with similar interests. I should have expected it, but was surprised at how nearly all of the former SEC basketball guys were big SEC football fans.

Bo Jackson. The first time I watched him on TV I knew he was special. In my mind, he was the best college player since Herschel Walker. How crazy is it that both of them played in the SEC in 1982? When I read about him playing baseball well too, I kept up with everything he did. I saw Bo's last game with Auburn in the Cotton Bowl. Also worked a Royals @ Rangers series the year he came to MLB. He hit a HR and 2B in the 1st game of that series, off of then Rangers ace, knuckle-baller Charlie Hough. A couple of years later I was there when he broke Jose Canseco's record for the longest home run at Arlington stadium with a 461 ft line drive. I hate his career ended as early as it did, but, in my mind, he was the most special athlete in the world for a little while.

I never liked the Giants or Mets, but Willie Mays was my favorite athlete as a kid. I wore #24, like Willie, from Little League to work C League softball. I got to tell him about that when I met him before an old timer's game the Rangers hosted in the 80's. I got his autograph and when I mentioned I wish I'd brought my softball jersey to get him to sign it, he said he would have had to charge me for that because of a contract he had. That made me laugh. I thanked him & quit bothering him after he said that.

Warren Moon shoulda been a Saint in 1984. Mecom was too cheap and Bum was the coach/GM who insisted Stabler and Earl Campbell had gas left in the tank.