Who were your favorite athletes when you were growing up?

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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I'm guessing you're the same age as a twenty year old nephew of mine - who had all the little WWF figures, and that blue wrestling ring - and when you were about four, you spent hours chucking these figures at each other, and shouting "Let's Get Ready To Ruuuuuuuuuuuuumbleeeeeee!" :D

    Spot on, right down to the blue wrestling ring.:D I must have had 150 of those damn figures.:p
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    Patrick Roy
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  • macci
    macci Posts: 1,057
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man Randy Savage.... :D

    I'll go with choice C........OOOOOOHHHHH YEEEAAAAAH!!!
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  • Pearls&Stones
    Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
    Simple...


    Charles Barkley and Mario Lemieux
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    citizen_drew wrote:
    Kenny Stabler
    Julius Erving
    Pete Rose
    Almost added the "Snake" to my list...get to hear his voice every Saturday during college football season now as the radio color guy on the University of Alabama football broadcasts.


    ....and you can't go wrong with the Doctor!!!!
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Cosmo wrote:
    In baseball... it was Willie Mays (even though I was/am a Dodgers fan). I remember being at Dodgers Stadium and watching the pre-game batting practice and number 24's bat made the loudest sound hit a ton of baseballs into the bleachers.
    In football... Gale Sayers. No one ran like before... and no one has run like him since. Sayers played on a horrible... HORRIBLE Bears team. Look up Rudy Buckich, Larry Rakestraw... those were his QBs. Sayers and Butkus... that was the Bears Offense and Defense.
    Sure, other rushers have records.. but, no one... NO ONE has the moves.
    Damn....you're old. :p

    Sayers is like Mickey Mantle, oh for a good knee, imagine what they could have done.
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  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Larry Bird, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and Will Clark.
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    for me, it was a tie: Dan Marino and Scottie Pippen. I used to fucking love these guys. Wasn't life so great when you young? I used to go to bed thinking "Awesome, Pippen had a triple-double tonight" and now I go to bed thinking "fuck, my rent's due in three days."


    Larry Bird, Joe Montanna, Jerry Rice, Nolan Ryan
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  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    nowayimfaithfull wrote:
    Larry Bird, Joe Montanna, Jerry Rice, Nolan Ryan

    Back to back a minute apart? That's some freaky shit!
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    Bobby Orr, Gerry Cheevers, Tony Esposito and his brother Phil.

    Dr. J, Larry Bird abd "The Chief"

    Russ Francis, John "Hog" Hannah and

    Luis Tiant, Carl Yaz, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemete, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguian, Dave Parker to say the least the Pirates were my second team I liked.

    Mohammad Ali, young Mike Tyson

    Bruno Sanmartino, Chief J Strongbow, George "the Animal" Steele, The Fabulous Moulah, Rick Flair

    Eric Hieden and Bruce Lee

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  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,472
    Don Mattingly, Patrick Ewing
    Reading 2004
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  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    john starks


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  • SVRDhand13
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    MJ, Ken Griffey when he was on Seattle, and Howard Johnson from the Mets.
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Steve Young!

    always liked how he accepted his role as a back up and able to shine when it was his time. Many athletes would have bitch and complained.

    But he did get a pair of rings as a back up so maybe that's why he kept his mouth shut. Glad to see his patience paid off in 1995's SuperBowl.

    Then there was Dikembe Mutombo, mainly for being such a great human being! :)
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  • Schoki
    Schoki Posts: 5,072
    Boris Becker and John McEnroe
    Joe Montana and Jerry Rice
    Air Jordan
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Montana and Rice then also grew to love Steve Young especially because he wasn't afraid to run the ball and take a hit in the process.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    LongRd. wrote:
    Steve Young!

    always liked how he accepted his role as a back up and able to shine when it was his time. Many athletes would have bitch and complained.

    But he did get a pair of rings as a back up so maybe that's why he kept his mouth shut. Glad to see his patience paid off in 1995's SuperBowl.


    I know! I was so happy for him! It's good to see all the 9er love in this thread. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • given2fly10
    given2fly10 Posts: 485
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I know! I was so happy for him! It's good to see all the 9er love in this thread. :)
    niners suck :)



    emmitt smith
    todd hundley
    mike piazza
    ziggy palffy
    griffey jr when he was on the m's
    brett hart
    And he still gives his love, he just gives it away, The love he receives is the love that is saved, And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky, A human being that was given to fly

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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    given2fly10 wrote:
    niners suck :)


    bite me :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • given2fly10
    given2fly10 Posts: 485
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    bite me :)
    ok fine with me :)
    And he still gives his love, he just gives it away, The love he receives is the love that is saved, And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky, A human being that was given to fly

    no bed=no brian

    coke sucks

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