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Posted on 6/18/16 at 8:37 pm to wfallstiger
SB ring. There are tons of Olympic sports I've never heard of, plus half of them are women's sports. So that makes them even less special.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 8:43 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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About even.
The NFL supplies 150 rings every year and teams are able to order more. Ignoring any additional rings teams have ordered, that's 7500 rings, compared to the 5768 gold medals, in less than half the time.
This post was edited on 6/18/16 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 6/18/16 at 8:46 pm to brmark70816
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plus half of them are women's sports. So that makes them even less special.
Damn, that's a great point.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 8:51 pm to SEClint
Super Bowl ring. Gold metal just shows you are the best at exercising.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 8:54 pm to SEClint
Olympic medal, by a long shot.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:00 pm to WG_Dawg
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Unless you're an idiot the answer is gold medal.
For me it depends on if it is an individual or team sport, how widespread the sport is, if pros are allowed to compete and if it is a sport that one country plays way more than anyone else. For example a SB ring is much more impressive to me than a woman's curling good medal. Another example would be the gold medal the OG Dream Team won, I would be more impressed with a SB ring or NBA Championship ring than their gold medals because they had no competition. I mean if football was entered into the next Olympics would you be more impressed with the players who won Gold against countries who have never played than the players who won the SB against the best players in the world?
This post was edited on 6/18/16 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:08 pm to northshorebamaman
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compared to the 5768 gold medals
Are you counting a team win as one gold medal?
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:13 pm to SEClint
Do you even zika?
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:18 pm to lsu480
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Are you counting a team win as one gold medal?
According to the wiki page it's total awarded, period. But it doesn't count forfeited medals and many of the early medals aren't counted due to various disagreements on what was considered "Olympic". It's wiki though and I haven't taken time to parse through sources and shite, so take it with a grain of salt.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:27 pm to Sparkplug#1
Super bowl ring for the winning QB is as good as it gets. Gold medal for just about everybody else.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:31 pm to Napoleon
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so a guy with a gold in Curling or synchronized swimming impresses you more than a SB ring?
I think if the players who got rings, ONLY got them if they saw action in a game regular and post season(then you could argue about garbage time)..it would be much more impressive.
Giving everyone in the organisation a ring, in a way lessens it. I'm much more impressed with Drew Brees' ring over a 3rd string backup who never saw action. Because he's Brees' and we know the work he put in.
So yeah, it's a little tricky. A gold says you are the best in the world. Yet a SB ring also says this because no other players in the world could compete with the NFL at what they do..yet, an irrelevant who sat out all season with a broken leg, can sport the same ring as the SB mvp.
So it comes down to some factors.
This post was edited on 6/18/16 at 9:33 pm
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:34 pm to northshorebamaman
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According to the wiki page it's total awarded, period. But it doesn't count forfeited medals and many of the early medals aren't counted due to various disagreements on what was considered "Olympic". It's wiki though and I haven't taken time to parse through sources and shite, so take it with a grain of salt.
I looked it up and found this article which says there have been about 10,000 gold medals awarded just for events in the modern area, that isn't even counting the gold medals given to each member of the team.
LINK
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:34 pm to SEClint
Olympic Gold Medal
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:39 pm to lsu480
That looks like a decent site. I'm on my phone so I can't really go through it but I did see where the first two didn't actually award gold medals, so that's probably some of the discrepancy (though obviously not all).
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:40 pm to SEClint
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:43 pm to tduecen
Super Bowl winning starter makes more in short career than engineer does in life tme. Is this a real question?
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:49 pm to nc14
Bob Hayes would have thought this is a stupid thread
Posted on 6/18/16 at 9:50 pm to SEClint
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A gold says you are the best in the world.
In most sports yes it does but not all. I know boxing is FINALLY letting pros compete this year but even then it isn't going to mean the winner is the best in the world because the best boxers aren't going to fight for free. I don't know if any other sports still ban pros but I do know a lot of the best pros don't go every 4 years.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 10:02 pm to lsu480
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even then it isn't going to mean the winner is the best in the world
I bet Holyfield could speak on that.
There has to be a level of personal prestige with being able to have Olympic gold backing up your abilities. Early on in their careers the Olympics were important to a lot of fighters. Met tyson once and in conversation he even said he wished that he would have went in 84, like it was a legit regret.
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