kippy2 wrote:
you are delusional if you think that lebron would be a great baseball, hockey, tennis or soccer player. i'm sure he could be a great football player (if he can take getting hit, which is a big unknown). he's a great athlete but you clearly don't know what it takes to be elite in most other sports.
eaton could be a great football player (assuming he can take getting hit). he is faster and can jump higher than nearly every guy in the nfl. he probably isn't as strong as your average nfl player but that would come if he spent more time bulking up. i doubt he would be elite in the other sports but that is a big unknown.
football is the one team sport where a great athlete can show up with next to no background and do well. look at all of the guys, like gate,s who played other sports in college but who are great. i can't think of anyone in the nba or mlb who switched to that sport with no background and who is good (clearly, this doesn't apply to certain positions like QB but a lot of kickers cross over from other sports). there are guys who started late, like akeem, but he still played in college (and was a first team AA).
OK, I am just going to assume that you are joking. If Eaton could have made it in the NFL he would have. There is vastly more money and fame there than in an obscure event within an obscure sport (sorry if this reality hurts anyone's feelings here).
The fact that you go to flat out speed and high jumping as proof of his capability just shows that you have no understanding of real sports. Coordination, quickness (and no, I am not talking 40 yard dash times), and especially the ability to think a quarter second faster than others are vastly more important than speed and leaping ability. Don't think so? Just ask Larry Bird or Wayne Gretzky. On the flip side, if you think raw speed is so important go talk to Renaldo Nehemiah.