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I'm going with the NFL.� This post had me reminiscing about Curry and Peppers on the basketball court.
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Originally Posted by K8be wan Kenobi
i think you are looking at it in the wrong way.
we're talking about guys who are just athletically gifted, guys who are freaks of nature that do things others could never do. hitting a hockey puck with a stick, or learning how to ride ice skates are skills. those are something that anyone can become good at with enough practice.
having a 40 inch vertical is athleticism. not everybody can have a 40-inch vert, no matter how hard they practice and for how long. there are some people that are naturally built for it, and some that just aren't.
hockey and baseball are skill-oriented sports, not athleticism oriented sports.
but I think hand-eye coordination is something that you can't teach.
Ok I will agree that hand eye coordination can fall in with speed and vert. But by you bringing that up about other sports well lets just giveanother reason why NFL has the most atheltic players if you want to stay with that same logic. They run around with the athletic ability AND have the abilityto throw balls with precision accuracy catch balls that are coming at them at 50 and 60 MPH and evade tacklers like greased chickens.
So like I was saying anyway you slice it Track and Field > NFL > other sports.
to even BE in professional sprinting or long-jumping you have to be at least in the top 1% of the world athletically.
It's very specialized though.. i'm much more impressed by the best basketball players than i am the best track guys, because basketballplayers have to do a lot of different athletic things and do them well... while if you're a 100 meter sprinter, that's all you need to be good at.. Youdon't need a jump shot, handles, knowledge of the game, etc.. you run 100 meters and that's what you do.
Most of it is god given talent as well - not that they don't work hard to fine tune it, but i could practice just as long and hard as the fastest men inthe world and never touch their times.. or even smell them. The best are destined to be the best... in less specialized sports, you've got a combinationof great athletes and hard workers.
I don't know - track athletes always kinda bothered me in that sense. I think what they do is impressive, but i'm still more impressed by"sport" athletes since they have to combine other things with their athletic ability.
DoubleJs07 wrote:
Baseball:
Jody Gathright, Grady Sizemore, Mike Hampton (no joke)
�Joey Gathright got a brother?
what about Alfonso Soriano? and almost all middle-infielder are stupid athletic.
Originally Posted by K8be wan Kenobi
Y'all can laugh but hockey has requires a lot of athletic skill as well...hockey players may not run 4.5's....but the eye hand coordination, speed of the game, and fact that you're on skates requires a lot of athleticism. I'd say best athletes:
1) Football
2) Hockey
3) Soccer
4) Bball
5) Baseball
Of the major sports of course.
IMO, MLB is the worst, you got dudes with beer belly chewing gums.
uh oh... here comes 274thehood, Narum, and the other baseball fanboys who will post Bo Jackson and maybe 10 guys in the MLB who used to play football, and then will try to argue that they prove the MLB has the best athletes.
Soccer > Basketball IMO
You ever seen Martins (from New Castle F.C.) run? Dude runs an approx. 10 second 100 m
Soccer players, midfielders especially, spend a lot of the game sprinting backwards and forwards across the field AND 8 out of 11 players usually play 90minutes.
Originally Posted by 21 World B Free 21
Depends on how you define athleticism..pure athleticism (speed, quickness, jumping etc) I would say nfl
I'd rather define the question as who would be the best at the most sports... In that case my list would be
- basketball
- football
- baseball
- soccer
- hockey
Originally Posted by DeadsetAce
For me, it'd be:
1) hockey
2) baseball
3) football
4) soccer (never played)
5) bball (never played)
Originally Posted by Chester McFloppy
DeadsetAce wrote:
For me, it'd be:
1) hockey
2) baseball
3) football
4) soccer (never played)
5) bball (never played)
Originally Posted by DeadsetAce
Originally Posted by Chester McFloppy
DeadsetAce wrote:
For me, it'd be:
1) hockey
2) baseball
3) football
4) soccer (never played)
5) bball (never played)
Baseball ahead of football and soccer?
hardest working? how about hockey? before you can do ANYTHING, you have to be able to skate.Originally Posted by K8be wan Kenobi
if the question was "which sport has the most hard-working players", i'd definitely say NBA. you would be hard-pressed to find any NBA player that doesn't have thousands and thousands of hours in the gym under their belts, just working on skills like dribbling, jumpshooting, defense, etc. except maybe a guy like Kwame Brown, who obviously doesn't know the meaning of hard work and it's a mistake that he's in the league.
Originally Posted by here 4 tha kickz
hardest working? how about hockey? before you can do ANYTHING, you have to be able to skate.Originally Posted by K8be wan Kenobi
if the question was "which sport has the most hard-working players", i'd definitely say NBA. you would be hard-pressed to find any NBA player that doesn't have thousands and thousands of hours in the gym under their belts, just working on skills like dribbling, jumpshooting, defense, etc. except maybe a guy like Kwame Brown, who obviously doesn't know the meaning of hard work and it's a mistake that he's in the league.
Originally Posted by K8be wan Kenobi
It's very specialized though.. i'm much more impressed by the best basketball players than i am the best track guys, because basketball players have to do a lot of different athletic things and do them well... while if you're a 100 meter sprinter, that's all you need to be good at.. You don't need a jump shot, handles, knowledge of the game, etc.. you run 100 meters and that's what you do.
Most of it is god given talent as well - not that they don't work hard to fine tune it, but i could practice just as long and hard as the fastest men in the world and never touch their times.. or even smell them. The best are destined to be the best... in less specialized sports, you've got a combination of great athletes and hard workers.
I don't know - track athletes always kinda bothered me in that sense. I think what they do is impressive, but i'm still more impressed by "sport" athletes since they have to combine other things with their athletic ability.
You ever seen Martins (from New Castle F.C.) run? Dude runs an approx. 10 second 100 m image
Obafemi Martins? yeah, actually a family who we're friends with is related to him. they named their son after himbut yeah, he is crazy fast. there are a lot of great natural athletes in Nigeria who end up not getting anywhere because of the corruption in the system, so i was glad to see him make it.
Lies. Soccer takes a lot more "learned" skill than Basketball, period. Hand eye coordination is developed naturally by humans as we grow sobasketball is a sport where a kid can pick up his first bball at 10 and still make it to the pros. Soccer is all foot-eye coordination, try juggling a ballwith your hands, then try and do the same thing with your feet. Let me know what the numbers were.