headshuck Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 9 minutes ago, headshuck said: So maybe NBA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNRodent Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 11 hours ago, nhs67 said: Neal was 6'4" and was all of 130 KG (~285lbs) for his wrestling days. He also played with a wingspan of a 6'8" Tackle, metaphorically speaking. He was the only wrestler to out-athlete Brock, IIRC during his days, but a lot of it had to do with just having a longer/larger frame. This was a year or two ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhs67 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 11 minutes ago, MNRodent said: This was a year or two ago. Can't see anything there, bud. "I know actually nothing. It isn't even conjecture at this point." - me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headshuck Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 So maybe NBA? It’s 2024, WNBA? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNRodent Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 3 minutes ago, nhs67 said: Can't see anything there, bud. Sorry, It's Neal and Steveson posing together in the Gopher room. I can see it on my laptop but not my phone for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragit Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 People, Gable Steveson is not going to play in the NFL. He knows it and if he doesn't then the NFL does. Hopefully he will wrestle again. I expect he will. It's the thing he can make the most money doing. It's also a noble pursuit with respect to which he is the best in the world, whereas he will not be particularly good, let alone great, at anything else he does. That is not an insult; instead it is a commentary on how good he is at wrestling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offthemat Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Bettis gave up bowling to play football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragit Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 I think the best athletes in the world (top tier at their sport plus athleticism) are probably Carlos Alcaraz, Jalen Ramsay, and Mookie Betts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 6 hours ago, dragit said: I think the best athletes in the world (top tier at their sport plus athleticism) are probably Carlos Alcaraz, Jalen Ramsay, and Mookie Betts. Mookie Betts= phenomenal bowler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhs67 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 57 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said: Mookie Betts= phenomenal bowler Randy Johnson Hall of Fame MLB Career Hall of Fame Bird Butcher Career Hall of Fame PBA Career Hall of Fame NFL Photographer Career Who else is touching him? 1 "I know actually nothing. It isn't even conjecture at this point." - me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 14 hours ago, headshuck said: I mean, I was a middling D2 5'10" 150 lber and I could grab rim with both hands. Our 158 could dunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim L Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Mondo Duplantis is my vote for the current world's great athlete. Current World Record holder for pole vault. Not sure if it is 100% accurate, but their was a claim that he was faster running with a pole vault than any NFLer was measured during any game. The athleticism of pole vaulters is amazing and he is the best of all time. Speed power and agility Also for those who get worked up by Americans competing for other countries. he was born and raised in the US and still trains here, but has an American father and Swedish mother and has chosen to represent Sweden 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyYe2024 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 If Gable doesn't make the NFL he could cut to 197 at OKST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 (edited) 1 minute ago, CowboyYe2024 said: If Gable doesn't make the NFL he could cut to 197 at OKST 197? Why would he wrestle that heavy? Looks like a 174 at most, under the previous regime. Edited May 23 by Interviewed_at_Weehawken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyYe2024 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 2 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said: 197? Why would he wrestle that heavy? Looks like a 174 at most, under the previous regime. 165 screw Amine and TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanGuy Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 (edited) On 5/21/2024 at 7:23 PM, ionel said: If only we had video of Wkn out running a chettah in a speedo. How can you go wrong with Jan Michael Vincent, Tim Conway and John Amos. He really isn't all that athletic. He is for his sport but not in the big picture of sports. There is no place for him in football. Edited May 23 by JeanGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwrite Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Many years ago, I spent an afternoon with Grace Thorpe, Jim's daugther, in Yale, OK. She told me that her father loved to wrestle a "backyard style" and never was defeated. Pretty interesting. Also, Bob Mathias belongs in any conversation about the greatest athlete ever. He won the Olympic decathlon gold medal in London in 1948 at AGE 17 -- and won again four years later. He told me that he wanted to go again in 1956 but he was ruled ineligible by the AAU for starriing in a movie about his own life. He was also a star running back at Stanford and played in the Rose Bowl. Glen Brand, 1948 Olympic wrestling champion, told me he was in awe of Mathias when he won the decathlon in 1948 and Glen considered Mathias the best athlete he ever saw. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Given info above, shirely we can all agree it isn't Jordan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPhillips Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 28 minutes ago, ionel said: shirely we can all agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyYe2024 Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Do we think Gable will get into coaching? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 23 hours ago, JeanGuy said: How can you go wrong with Jan Michael Vincent, Tim Conway and John Amos. He really isn't all that athletic. He is for his sport but not in the big picture of sports. There is no place for him in football. I am old enough to remember when Adam Coon was destined to be the next All-Pro Offensive Tackle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 You are old!! mspart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 43 minutes ago, mspart said: You are old!! mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scourge165 Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 On 5/20/2024 at 7:33 AM, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said: Unathletic Tom Brady was drafted by the Expos as a high school catcher. His movement skills do not seem very good, but his hand eye coordination, mechanics, agility within a phone booth sized area, arm strength, and ability to generate power, etc. are other-worldly. This doesn't even take his mental skills into account. Yeah, he ain't beating anyone in running or jumping, he's just maxed out in other harder to define physical characteristics. Yeah...he was. He was also a guy who played mostly 1B and struggled to hit .300 in HS. I think his Baseball prowess has perhaps been exaggerated. A guy like Elway had a legit shot to be a star Baseball player. Steve Young would be on the other end of that spectrum. 6'2 245...they talked about moving him to safety. There's a story he ran a 4.38 40 in camp that Rice and Walsh swear by(which is clearly BS, but probably meant he could run a 4.5-something). But that's the point. Brady had the ability...like Peyton did, to process and play manipulate the pocket, but he never had the big arm(most of his backups probably had stronger arms). But 7 Super Bowls is 7 Super Bowls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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