What sport has the WORST athletes

Crew.

Maybe not the 'least athletic' but definitely the worst athletes.

XC - because they were kicked out of band. XC is the only "sport" that will take them. Sorry, it is the truth!

Golf...have you seen John Daly? After that, bowling.

Alan

I would go with bowling first then golf. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule such as Tiger.

XC is probably the only sport where a 5'3" 102 lbs. guy would be called a stud.

alpha wrote:

Baseball, golf, curling, croquet...for starters.

Has to be golf or bowling. As bad as some baseball players may look, many of them are or were two sport athletes. Lots of baseball guys played football and basketball as well.

Generally you can't say too many distance runners have much of an athletic background in anything except distance running.

Golf and Bowling are games, not sports.

Baseball.

You weed out the non-athletes from XC after high-school. Well, maybe not, but most of them.

Road racing, particularly Marathoning. What other sport can there be 30,000 participants in one competition, who are supposedly training specifically for it, yet less than maybe 150 who can run even one six minute mile all out (something both my little sister and girlfriend could do off of playing fieldhockey and softball). NYC, Chicago, London, and the like are some of the worst displays of athleticism in the entire world, including the Special Olympics.

Those people are technicians, not really athletes per se.

I always wondered why Sports Illustrated even bothered with them, along with sports such as poker, bridge and NASCAR.

Sumo Wrestlers

snowboarding

why snowboarding? its pretty tough...

my vote is bowling. fatasses can be good at it.

Darts

if ur gonna mention baseball and linemen, please mention HOCKEY. Most defensive linemen have more speed , jumping ability, power, and strength than Gretzky can ever dream.

Band Camp Rejects wrote:

XC - because they were kicked out of band. XC is the only "sport" that will take them. Sorry, it is the truth!

you must be reffering to BEKELE, right?

God you are stupid- plain and simple.

In general, golf. Tiger looks pretty fit. And I'm sure they all have great hand/eye coordination. But, did you see Mickelson at the Open? Man boobs shakin' all over the place as he walked up the fairway. Phil should sign an endorsement with Kramer for the "bro".

Also, that Kenneth Ferrie guy from England looked like Clark Griswold's Cousin Eddie. There are some people that just should not wear tight clothes, especially tight polyester golf clothes.

I guess if the topic is "what sport has the LEAST FIT athletes" then you can include fat linemen, man boob sporting golfers, or tubby pitchers in the debate, but I think the topic is athletic skill. Too many runners think that you have to be anorexic looking to be an effective athlete. Newsflash: you can also be a great athlete and not break 6 minutes for the mile. Shocking, I know. i'd like to hear what some of you define as athletic.

It takes a huge amount of athletic skill and strength to pitch a fastball 100 mph and have it go exactly where you want it. And it takes even more skill to hit one of those fastballs to the outfield. And believe it or not, it takes skill to catch the ball on the fly and then rifle it back to homeplate to throw out a runner.

So I guess the debate should be which sport requires the least amount of athletic skill. And that's very hard to tell without having played a lot of the sports we watch on the teevee. Being a lineman looks easy, until you're on the line of scrimmage. And if you haven't practiced, I guarantee you'd even fail at something like curling.

And don't knock auto racing. Until you've raced a car, you'd never believe it was so challenging. I raced vintage sports cars with my dad back in high school (mostly British jobs like MGs and Sprites). We were entered in one of the lower compeition classes (think the unseeded heat at a track meet), but it still took immense hand-eye coordination, endurance, and nerve. Driving for even 100 miles in a regular car is tough...now try doing it on a closed circuit at 100 miles an hour (a speed most drivers will only see once or twice in their lives) with twenty other cars mere inches from you.

HEY I DID BOTH!

Band Camp Rejects wrote:

XC - because they were kicked out of band. XC is the only "sport" that will take them. Sorry, it is the truth!

Running is usually the LAST resort. If gatlin had ability I'm sure he'd rather be an NFL receiver or RB. All of us distance guys are what we are because in most sports being small of stature is a big disadvantage, where in running it helps.

I don't think marathoners, even world class marathoners have much athletic skill. They are blessed with work ethic, and natural ability to maintain a fast past for a long time, but I wonder if they could throw a baseball from the pitchers mound across home plate. We are just not a highly skilled bunch.