Oh please... wrote:
Curry, of course. Steve Young is 55 and Mays is 85, no chance in hell.
Winner
Even Willie Mays Hayes is 54 years old now.
Oh please... wrote:
Curry, of course. Steve Young is 55 and Mays is 85, no chance in hell.
Winner
Even Willie Mays Hayes is 54 years old now.
Sports expert wrote:
cvzxcvzx wrote:The OP likely means that Willie Mays was the best 100m runner for a baseball player (highly doubtful), Steve Young the best 100m runner for a football player (absolutely not--Renaldo Nehemiah, Darrell Green, Deion Sanders, and of course Bullet Bob Hayes would be the contenders), and Steph Curry (absolutely not but I don't know who would be the top contenders, maybe Allen Iverson, Kevin Johnson?, Isaiah Thomas--they were some of the quickest players in my lifetime).
No. I mean the GOATs of any position in their respective sport, pitting against one another in a 100 m dash.
Word is that Steve Young ran 4.35 in the 40m dash, in pads.
Maybe I should ask his younger (no pun intended?) brother about this since I see him occasionally @ my work ...;)
Obvious troll saying Steve young is GOAT
Sports expert wrote:
cvzxcvzx wrote:The OP likely means that Willie Mays was the best 100m runner for a baseball player (highly doubtful), Steve Young the best 100m runner for a football player (absolutely not--Renaldo Nehemiah, Darrell Green, Deion Sanders, and of course Bullet Bob Hayes would be the contenders), and Steph Curry (absolutely not but I don't know who would be the top contenders, maybe Allen Iverson, Kevin Johnson?, Isaiah Thomas--they were some of the quickest players in my lifetime).
No. I mean the GOATs of any position in their respective sport, pitting against one another in a 100 m dash.
Word is that Steve Young ran 4.35 in the 40m dash, in pads.
Steve Young never ran a 4.35. His 40 time was 4.50 which is pretty fast for a quarterback. Young would choke every time the Niners faced Green Bay in the playoffs, so he isn't the GOAT at quarterback and isn't even in a herd of quarterback GOATs. The year Young won the Super Bowl, the team he had around him was the strongest team in NFL history. He was carried to the Super Bowl by that team. Great O line and D line. Deon Sanders, Ronnie Lott and otherwise strong secondary. Richard Dent was third string and could have started on any other team. William Floyd, Ricky Watters, Jerry Rice, Brent Jones, John Taylor. That team was STACKED.
Buts what the most popular sport in the world football, where you play with your feet, so the goat is probably Messi or Pele. Ronaldo can jump higher than the average NBA player, so 'soccer' would win.
Possible wrote:
Buts what the most popular sport in the world football, where you play with your feet, so the goat is probably Messi or Pele. Ronaldo can jump higher than the average NBA player, so 'soccer' would win.
Ronaldo could probably run an 11 second 100 at least in his prime for sure, he covered a soccer field dribbling a ball in in right around 10 seconds once, which is 100 yards and he probably ran 95 of them or so.
Smart one here wrote:
Possible wrote:Buts what the most popular sport in the world football, where you play with your feet, so the goat is probably Messi or Pele. Ronaldo can jump higher than the average NBA player, so 'soccer' would win.
Ronaldo could probably run an 11 second 100 at least in his prime for sure, he covered a soccer field dribbling a ball in in right around 10 seconds once, which is 100 yards and he probably ran 95 of them or so.
Fat Ronaldo or Metrosexual Ronaldo?
Ronald doin' ho's wrote:
Fat Ronaldo or Metrosexual Ronaldo?
I'm thinking in this instance they were referring to Metrosexual Ronaldo..Would be interesting to see what a "in his prime" Fat Ronaldo could run for a 100m time. What about Ronaldinho in his prime?
No GOAT, just cheese. wrote:
Young would choke every time the Niners faced Green Bay in the playoffs
As a Packer fan, I wish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iUDTAejSzwPossible wrote:
Buts what the most popular sport in the world football, where you play with your feet, so the goat is probably Messi or Pele. Ronaldo can jump higher than the average NBA player, so 'soccer' would win.
You knew "that guy" would show up.
I thought we decided that the GOAT in the NBA is Larry Bird.
I'm a big fan of Willie Mays, but the best I ever saw play was Roberto Clemente. Hit for average, hit for power, steal bases at will and better in the field than Mays. He could throw runners out at the plate from the wall regularly.
I like this GOAT list.
Then this makes no sense. Willie Mays has a claim to the spot, but Babe Ruth won twice as many games as he lost as a pitcher in addition to being by far the greatest offensive player in history--setting aside a number of steroidal Bonds seasons. Steph Curry couldn't hold all the jocks of superior players. Steve Young, another player I was a big fan of, was multi-talented, a fine runner, accurate, and won a lot of games for SF, but he is not anywhere near the conversation concerning the greatest qb or football player of all time. He would have won a bunch more Super Bowls, though, if not for Montana's presence on the roster.
Mantle had more pure physical talent that was derailed by his drinking and partying lifestyle. As a result Mays had the much better career and was the better player.
In what Bizzaro baseball universe is Roberto Clemente a better baseball player than Willie Mays? LoL.
If you want to discuss real GOATs, I'd go -
1. Saanen
2. Boer
3. Toggenburg
Durant
Da Pack is Back wrote:
No GOAT, just cheese. wrote:Young would choke every time the Niners faced Green Bay in the playoffs
As a Packer fan, I wish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iUDTAejSzw
Now show the several playoff games against the Packers where Young threw multiple interceptions and the Niners lost.
40yardsperdash wrote:
cvzxcvzx wrote:The OP likely means that Willie Mays was the best 100m runner for a baseball player (highly doubtful), Steve Young the best 100m runner for a football player (absolutely not--Renaldo Nehemiah, Darrell Green, Deion Sanders, and of course Bullet Bob Hayes would be the contenders), and Steph Curry (absolutely not but I don't know who would be the top contenders, maybe Allen Iverson, Kevin Johnson?, Isaiah Thomas--they were some of the quickest players in my lifetime).
Don't forget about Bo Jackson. Dude was very fast despite being huge.
James Worthy is your basketball representative in this.