Danny Ferry is the only guy clutch enough to throw a big oagarish punch at Michael Jordan's face.
Danny Ferry is the only guy clutch enough to throw a big oagarish punch at Michael Jordan's face.
"2)As good as Jordan was he is overrrated by so many people because of how well marketed he was."
That is probably the single most ignorant statement I have ever seen written about sports. That says a lot because I've read quite a few statements on this board. We are talking about clutch performances on this thread. All the marketing in the world doesn't matter if you don't hit the winning shot in the NBA finals or score 20 points in the fourth quarter when your team is down by 10. Go ahead and watch some tapes of Jordan playing in the fourth quarter of games in the playoffs. You will see him deliver clutch performances on a consistant basis. In fact, just watch the last two NBA finals series that he played in. You will see him hit the winning shot in game 1 of the '97 finals, score 38 points and hit the winning shot in game 5 of the '97 finals when he was sick with the flu, dish off the winning assist to Steve Kerr in game 6 of the '97 finals, and score the last two baskets of game 6 of the '98 finals to bring the Bulls from three points down with 40 seconds to go to a one point win. That's just in the last two NBA finals that he played in. There are many overrated athletes, but Jordan is not one of them.
Dale Eanrhardt, Jr.
Mr. October, Reggie Jackson.
but what about Zatopek
his '52 5k still stands out in my mind
Herman Maier
The Bills had some great comebacks. Kelly and Reich were both outstanding clutch quarterbacks. They never gave up, and pulled off some fantastic comebacks.
Stop. Now.
Someone mentioned Magic before... in his rookie season, in the NBA finals, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pours in 40 against the 76ers to give the Lakers a 3-2 lead. The bad news is that Jabbar severely sprains his ankle in the contest. What happens? The rube, Magic Johnson, all 6'8" of him lines up at CENTER in the place of Kareem, even jumping the opening tap against Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins. Magic's line:
42 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals.
The Lakers won the first of 5 titles with Johnson at the helm. Too bad he couldn't wrap it up once in awhile... which might be enough to drop him from the list.
Oerter- This dued must have had steel overies, to go into not 1 but 4 olimpic races the underdog each time getting older and ''slower'' And to pay no mind to what people where saying of your chances and then kick butt is something wild.
Halie Geb- Twice this little guy went into the olimpics with a nation on his back. I am sure that the times we see from this point on will not be much better then what he ran. Most impressive was that kick, people say it was from training. But if you look at his face and tergets face last time they ran a 10k. It is clear he just dug a little deeper then most.
Dr-Nash To go from billiant man to madman, and live in a state where what you know might just be a bad intrepitation of what is really going on is wild. But using you mind to will your shelf out of that state, and he did so without the aid of drugs. In his book he talked about gaining the mondane but loosing what made hem what to like. His love of phys. Nobel is nuff said.
PELE- This guy was the king. Group up poor on the streets of San-P. Kicking balls down allyways with no foot protection, and within 10 years was the greatest socker player the wold has known.
Verien- Blood doping or none, still was huge. I would also like to know how all these people who say he blood doped know. Where you in there sharing hypos?
Blood doping is not something that really has much effect anywy. If you dont have an a good system to trasport the 02 and Wast products then you can be breathing pure o2 and much is not going to happen.
Fell in an olimpic final got back up, and then kicked down the kickers who where among some of the top milers in the world.
Two Guys eveyone seems to forget
Bob S, won an olimpic 5k final in pooring rain on a cinder trac. Was running with some real studs Mikeal JZ for one.
Bill Mills, went into a race 40 or so odd seconds, behind the best. Who happed to be RON CLARK. Something that would brake most runners befor the gun. Went on to PR in the frist Five K, hold on over the second, and then kick eveyone down!
If you could take Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Adam Vinatieri, give them each a week to practice shooting, putting, and kicking field goals, and then give them each 10 three-pointers from the top of the key, 10 10-foot putts, and 10 45-yard field goals (indoors) (I'm trying to find things of approximately equal difficulty within each profession), with the person with the most total "makes" to collect $2 million from each of the others, I'd place a large side bet on Tiger Woods.
And, by the way, if there were just a three-point shooting contest between Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, with a $10 million wager between them, I'd bet the ranch on Larry Bird (even at his advance age).
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If you could take Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Adam Vinatieri, give them each a week to practice shooting, putting, and kicking field goals, and then give them each 10 three-pointers from the top of the key, 10 10-foot putts, and 10 45-yard field goals (indoors) (I'm trying to find things of approximately equal difficulty within each profession), with the person with the most total "makes" to collect $2 million from each of the others, I'd place a large side bet on Tiger Woods.
And, by the way, if there were just a three-point shooting contest between Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, with a $10 million wager between them, I'd bet the ranch on Larry Bird (even at his advance age).
You're making it an individual sport this way, which is easier for Jordan and Bird. Forget the hypotheticals, Jordan's accomplishments when it mattered most answers the question easily enough.