Drop the top 5 athletes from the locale where you grew up...

[Mantle Drunk]

Carl Yastrzemski
Jim Brown
Julius Erving
Craig Biggio
Vinny Testaverde

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I got Calzaghe, DeGale & Groves

other than that its all actors and musicans

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

Michael Johnson(Bengals) and Ben Obamanu(think he still plays for Seattle)
Mia Hamm from my town too

my list lookin compared to yalls

 

[Non Sequitur]

From my hometown?


Kenneth Davis - Highlight of his career was subbing in for Thurman Thomas in that SB where he lost his helmet

Brian Skinner - Stiff for the Clippers back in the 90's

Ramonce Taylor - Scored a TD in the '06 Nat'l Champ. game for UT...later got caught with pounds of weed in some little bumfukk town and got kicked off the team

Lache Seastrunk - Highly recruited RB... signed to Oregon...couldn't get any pt behind Lamichael James and nem...transferred to Baylor. IDK, he might do something

And Robert Griffin and LaDainian Tomlinson are from nearby towns


Edit: Just looked it up...gotta add Mean Joe Greene and Sammy Baugh

 

[Ohms Law]

Alex Rodriguez, Lou Gehrig, Melo, Sandy Koufax and Jordan

Growing up though, prob Telfair, Danny Green, Dellin Betances, Stephenson, and Edgar Sosa. If im not forgetting anyonne.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Peyton Manning
Marshall Faulk
Will Clark
Eli Manning
Aeneas Williams

HM: Neil Smith, Reggie Wayne, and Ed Reed (just outside of N.O.). We could claimed RG3 also.

 

[NSSVO]

carl nicks
orlando johnson
kassim osgood
some other nikka who played for the packers, his momma security lady at the school
ronnie drummer

 

[the white hiphop thief]

Ron Ron
Kenny Anderson
Lamar Odom
Frank Viola
Ronnie Harmon

 

[ecks12]

Wilt da GOAT
Joe Frazier
Kobe
Bernard Hopkins
Marvin Harrison

 

[DallasTxRep]

Larry Johnson
Michael Johnson
Chris Bosh
Deron Williams
Lamarcus Aldridge

Dallas nikkas help me out shyt

Crabtree
Kurt Thomas
Grant Hill was born here right?
Fred Jackson
Screw a top 5 lol

 

[fscballin]

Andre Drummond
Marcus Camby
Dwight Freeny
Michael Adams
Allen Iverson (idgaf he was born in Hartford)

 

[kingofnyc]

He doesn't claim you tho.

ya'll NY nikkas kill me tryin to claim

that nikka from NC.

 

[MustafaSTL]

Yogi Berra
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (East Side, but still)
Sonny Liston
Spinks Boxing Family
Kellen Winslow (East Side, but still)

Honorable Mention: Larry Hughes, Jahidi White (my cousin so I had to throw him in there ), Jo Jo White (played for Celtics in the 70s), Bob Petit (well maybe he should be in top 5), David Lee, Ryan Howard.

 

[Wacky D]

my 5 would be the same as the guy ahead of me. that would probably be the unanimous top 5 but im sure theres some old-timers that we're forgetting about.

wilt chamberlain
joe frazier
bernard hopkins
marvin harrison
kobe bryant

kobe really isnt from philly. so we gotta shout out somebody else. better yet, scratch that. heres another 5:

rasheed wallace
dawn staley
eddie george
aaron mckie
rip hamilton - if kobe counts.

raheem brock????
like 3 or 4 players currently on the sacramento kings

i could go on.

 

[Da Rhythm Rebel]

Carl Yastrzemski
Jim Brown
Julius Erving
Craig Biggio
Vinny Testaverde

was reading thru the thread checkin' to see if anyone from Strong Island checked in or not so i could drop Jim Brown and Dr. J

did not know Biggio was from out here


I refuse to add Jay Fielder or Wally Sczerbiack