Freak athlete appreciation thread

[DaPresident]

Sean Taylor...R.I.P



Would've been the GOAT safety if he stayed alive...6'3, 4.3 40, 236 lbs...ungodly mean streak (I mean my man went hard in the damn Pro Bowl) ferioucous hitter, a net in coverage

 

[DalMem]

 

[AlphaOne]

Larry Fitzgerald
Vernon Davis
Cristiano Ronaldo
LaVar Arrington
Patrick Willis

to add on..

 

[Goodnews]

Ali
Reggie Bush

 

[Still Benefited]

Wilt had more stamina and more bounce so why exactly would AI be ahead of him on that list?

He made it to the nba and wuz a football prospect with fundamentals that you could basically chalk up to him playin outside all day with his friends....I wouldn't put em ahead of Wilt though....not enuff Shawn Kemp mentions in here...and that Marcus Dupree cat too.

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

i just started getting into soccer and it amazes me how much more coordinated and graceful these athletes are than basketball plaeyrs and american football players. there is no american football player or basketball player alive that can move anything like ronaldo for example. his highlight reel >>>> any and every highlight reel posted in this thread

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Allen Iverson should be the first name on the list

 

[seemorecizzy]

tyson should be number 1
he was beating up grown men before he even hit puberty

 

[Trip]

Jim Brown is the original

 

[MoneyTron]

Shaq and Wilt are probably as rare as its going to get IMO.

No person their size should be able to do the things they did. Shaq was doing 360s and dunking from the dotted line off two feet at 7'1" 330. Most dudes that height can't even run without tripping over their feet. Shaq was out there breakdancing in his mid 30s. Wilt was a world class track athlete at 7"+. I doubt he had a problem getting his head at rim level.

Scaling coordination and athleticism at their size is insane. It's different when you're my height (5'8").

Not to mention that neither of them really had any knee problems at any weight until the end of their careers. Shaq was playing in the high 300's at one point. WTF.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Wilt didn't have any kids? LBJ, Nixon 'nem shouldve forced him to reproduce on some communist china shyt...those genes shouldn't have ended with wilt.. But then again the kids of great athletes rarely amount to anything...I blame these jersey chasing ass hoes they end up breeding up, diluting the greatness and shyt

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

 

[Marvel]

Larry Fitzgerald
Vernon Davis
Cristiano Ronaldo
LaVar Arrington
Patrick Willis

to add on..

So much truth in this list. nikkas forget what a beast LaVar Arrington was at Penn State. It was scary.

Cristiano Ronaldo's goal vs LA Galaxy

 

[boskey]

Larry Fitzgerald
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Are you saying his ridiculous hands make him an athletic freak? Cuz even in college Fitz was considered a step slow...

 

[Marvel]

i just started getting into soccer and it amazes me how much more coordinated and graceful these athletes are than basketball plaeyrs and american football players. there is no american football player or basketball player alive that can move anything like ronaldo for example. his highlight reel >>>> any and every highlight reel posted in this thread

Well, to be fair...bball players do not need to develop the level of footwork of soccer players. I played soccer until I was 11/12 regularly and my footwork even until today at 30 is way more superior on the bball court because of it.

Barry Sanders had crazy footwork. Reggie Bush's footwork was godly at USC too. Remember these guys are not spending years kicking a ball which naturally improves footwork, but that it a whole other thread.