Adrian Peterson believes that he can beat Usain Bolt

Just another example wrote:

Petersen's remarks are just another example of how our sport of track & field stinks. If any legitimate sprinter came out and said I am going to rush for over 2000 yards in the NFL, the football talking heads would laugh him out of the park. But because of our lack of respect for the sport every Tom, Dick, and Harry think they can run faster than the worlds best. This is how low we have sunk in the cc/track worlds. At some point everyone associated with the sport will wake up and realize we have a lot of work to do to make the sports respectable again.

This ^ is nonsense. Sprinters often say they could make it as a WR in the NFL. Some of them actually go and do it (Willie Gault, James Lofton...). Even Bolt said he wants to play for Manchester United. Do you think the world is laughing at professional soccer or at Usain Bolt?

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

kjlwklrewer wrote:

I think they're doing away with the Pro Bowl in a few years anyways. A track meet instead would be awesome. They used to have a 100 meter dash between a few of the fastest NFL players at the Pro Bowl. I recall seeing Darrell Green run, I think they may have gone in the 10.3 - 10.4 range.

They could have all kickers run the mile!

An NFL track meet would hurt the sport of track and field by displaying to the world that track athletes are b level talents who couldn't make it in real sports like football.

What a dumb comment.

Sprinters are specialists, who train to WIN over 100m, 200m, and 400m. It's the details that are honed over years, and result in a .5 or more difference on the track. You can be a once in a lifetime talent, and will still get your a$$ kicked by the less talented guys that have really put in the work.

Peterson has no chance at winning and should just shut his mouth.

ted ginn doesn't belong in that race IMO (unless it's a 400), would rather see cj spiller, darren mcfadden,reggie bush, jamaal charles etc. before ginn. also would rather see mike trout over bourn. and if Bolt runs 9.6, do you really think someone else could possibly run 9.8 with little to no specific 100m training??? i think these guys would have trouble breaking 10 flat in a serious exhibition race (not saying they couldn't if they trained for it for year-round several years).

JMartin wrote:

8 athletes.

Usain versus....

Chris Johnson - NFL

Adrian Peterson - NFL

Michael Bourn - MLB

Ted Ginn - NFL

Jacoby Ford - NFL

Brian Habana - Rugby

Marvell Wynne - Soccer (10.39 in high school)

Bolt wins by .2, at least. Everyone stays with him through 40. Ford, Ginn, and maybe Johnson and Wynne hold on through 60-70 m.

Pay them all 100k for an exhibition. ESPN could make 10 times that if they air it and promote properly as a prime time, 30 minute special.

Based on what I know about myself relative to AP in HS, and about sprinters and footballers in general, AP could have been a clean low 10.3x 100m guy at his peak, had he specialized in sprints (although it is very hard to say, because it is unknown what his body mass would be if optimized for sprinting--he may well have been a clean 10.2x 100m sprinter).

On the PED that is now in vogue, he could possibly have gone low 10.0x or maybe even high 9.9x. That is my sincere appraisal of his ability, should he have cared to specialize, and to use.

He's a damn fine athlete--obviously. Right now, he would be lucky to run 10.9--too banged-up, WAY too heavy, and force is applied for too long to have required turnover to go any faster.

He is an NFL RB, not a sprinter--but he could have been a damn fine sprinter, even national-class, IMO. I have seen some NFL guys his size with excellent sprint talent, who went around 10.90 FAT during serious football activity. They do too many weights and not enough top-speed running to do the 100m any faster. They are carrying around too much body mass (his Wiki page lists him at 6'1", 217 lbs), and especially RB's and FB's learn to apply force to the ground for too long--great for football, not great for sprinting.

These guys can have pretty good 60m times, though, even around 6.8x or 6.9x

kjlwklrewer wrote:

They could have all kickers run the mile!

I would love to see Janikowski run a mile. He might be competitive for a beer mile, but he'd be lucky to break 9:00. Dude has a massive gut. Hell of a kicker but definitely not a runner

Bolt ran on the 4x400 and got a 43.x split and that's not his race? That is about as phenominal as all of his performances.

Peterson Please wrote:

He thinks he can beat Bolt, who split 43.X in a 4x400 in 2010 (a "bad" year by Bolt's standards). Good one. Bolt is probably more talented in the 400 than he is in the 100, and yet he thinks he can stand a chance. Peterson's got some very impressive times and there is a chance he could be one of the top Americans, but unless he's willing to dedicate himself 100% to track and field, he won't even sniff making the Olympic Team. Ryan Bailey will be our #1 guy going into 2016; he's only 23 and he's done amazingly this year.

There was never a time Peterson would have been more than just a good NCAA sprinter at Oklahoma, a 10.18ish not out the realm of a possibility, no national teams, no pro contract.

In vs other NFL RB's is actually where he belongs

lane

1.Herschel Walker 10.23

2.Bo Jackson 10.39

3.Jamaal Charles 10.18

4.Curtis Dickey 10.10....actually world ranked at Texas A&M

5.Adrian Peterson 10.2ish

6.Michael Bennett 10.18

7.Rayeem Mostert 10.26ish

8.O.J.Sompson 9.4 yards

Posters are being a unfair on this thread to sub-10.4 100m N.F.L. players.

* Since 1980's, the voluntary (actually mandatory) weight training N.C.A.A. D-1 Am. football players do is weight training for football not T&F. Since 1980's, both D-1 and N.F.L. guys are massive.

* Hall of Famer Jim Brown said, "Football is a series of 5 and 10 yard sprints." Football players do not train for 100m dash. N.F.L. players, unless also college T&F guys deeacelerate significantly over the last 40 metres. All football players who did NOT participate in both h.s. and college T&F would be faster if they had participated in BOTH h.s. and college T&F. The decay suffered by N.F.L.ers who race 100m over final 40 metres could have been addressed if they were 100m dash guys solely from age 15.

* Nearly all N.F.L. players are heavier than they would be if they were full time T&F athletes. I was at 1981 Drake Relays. If I recall Mel Lattany won 100m. Herschel Walker was in 100m also. If Walker were not a football player, no way would have chosen to carry 75 or so more pounds than Lattany.

Yes yes and yes, totally agree with that.

A fast "just" a footballer can hang with a track sprinter for about 40 then there goes the sprinter with that far superior speed endurance kicking in, which is something "just" a footballers knows nothing about.

Obviously we have a third gang of guys, those who played football and ran track like Bob Hayes, Darrell Green, Willie Gault, here are footballers who can run a 100m, who had the training the event demands.

I’d like to see a real boxing match with him and Jake Paul.