re: is phelps in your top 5 male athletes in history???

Posted by boosiebadazz

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:25 pm to NHS Tiger

15, nevermind, your list is about as complete as it can be

Posted by NHS Tiger

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:27 pm to boosiebadazz

haha yea my dad was like your to young to say your top 5

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:29 pm to NHS Tiger

well i guess those are the top 5 that you've seen... cant hate on that

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:29 pm to boosiebadazz

He's so good I wish I could buy stock in him. You know anything he puts his name on after this will sell like ice in hell ( for all the atheist, like meth in the trailer park).

Posted by NHS Tiger

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:29 pm to boosiebadazz

yea whats yours

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:31 pm to NHS Tiger

shite... lemme think a little bit and get back to you

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:33 pm to NHS Tiger

1. jordan
2. ali
3. michael johnson
4. tiger
5. barry bonds

thats just a off my head list... its hard to compare individual vs team sports

Posted by NHS Tiger

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:33 pm to boosiebadazz

alright...

Posted by LSUDrinka

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:34 pm to NHS Tiger

absolutely not

all of the list above me:

1. jordan
2. ali
3. michael johnson
4. tiger
5. barry bonds

plus I'd add Cael Sanderson (4 time D1 national champ, and olympic medalist)

Alexandre Karelin (went 13 years wrestling globally without losing, multi time olympic gold medalist)

I'd probably put Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Joe Montana up there also

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:35 pm to LSUDrinka

he's 15 drinka cut him some slack

Posted by LSUDrinka

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:38 pm to boosiebadazz

Tyson would also probably be above phelps in my book.

world champ at 19. frickin vicious

Posted by boosiebadazz

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:39 pm to LSUDrinka

in hypothetical land, i would give a limb to see tyson vs. ali

Posted by LSUDrinka

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:40 pm to boosiebadazz

Pre-Jail, Tyson mighta taken him

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:40 pm to NHS Tiger

quote:
is phelps in your top 5 male athletes in history???

I think probably every member of the 92' US Men's Basketball Team was probably more "athletic" than Phelps...

He's dominating swimming like no one ever has, he's definitely one of the greatest Olympians and swimmers ever, I don't know that he beats out guys like Michael Jordan, LaDainian Tomlinson, Derek Jeter, Pete Sampras, etc., etc. though.

I think more than half (and that's probably being quite generous) of the NBA, NFL, and MLB are more "athletic"... but as a dominating athlete in his sport, he's up there with Tiger and Jordan for sure... IMO of course.

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:41 pm to LSUDrinka

and to think tyson spent some of his prime in jail for the rape charge... i dunno tyson was a pitbull but ali was an artist

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:43 pm to ChewyDante

well put... dominating and best are two different things

Posted by LSUDrinka

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Posted on 8/14/08 at 10:43 pm to boosiebadazz

Ali would probably win if he got out of the 4th-5th round, but get caught up in the 1st or 2nd with tyson charging viciously at him, and connecting. . . the record books might have been a little different

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