these were my heros when I was a kid:...In no special order!
1.Ali
2.Dr J
3.Frank Shorter
4.Jim Ryun
5.Terry Bradshaw
My all time Favorite Athlete.....without a doubt...
Larry Bird!
these were my heros when I was a kid:...In no special order!
1.Ali
2.Dr J
3.Frank Shorter
4.Jim Ryun
5.Terry Bradshaw
My all time Favorite Athlete.....without a doubt...
Larry Bird!
filbert bayi, john walker, frank shorter, steve prefontaine, eamon coghlan, ben jipcho, kip keino, lasse viren, rod dixon, bill rodgers, henry rono, john smith, rick wolhouter, dave wottle, jim ryun
can you narrow it down to FIVE...Please
US top 5 track in the 70s- Ryun, Liquori, Wolhuter, Shorter, Prefontaine
World - Rono, Juantorena, Walker, Bayi, Puttemans
70s
1. Tom Seaver
2. Roger Staubach
3. Dr. J
4. Fran Tarkenton
5. Earl Monroe
All time....
Michael Jordan
1) Terry Bradshaw
2) Mean Joe Green
3) Franco Harris
4) Rocky Bleier
5) Dwight White
You can guess where I grew up. That was at least my fav 5 during the seventies as a kid.
Favorite athlete of all time: Jim Thorpe.
prefontaine
I was born in 1988. What do u expect?
Pre, Ryun (but more in the 60s), John Walker, Henry Rono, Rick Wolhuter.
What in the world kind of question is that?
fara fawcett
not me wrote:
1) Terry Bradshaw
2) Mean Joe Green
3) Franco Harris
4) Rocky Bleier
5) Dwight White
You can guess where I grew up. That was at least my fav 5 during the seventies as a kid.
Favorite athlete of all time: Jim Thorpe.
I'm somewhat suprised you didn't mention one of my top 5: Roberto Clemente.
I will add:
2)Frank Shorter
3)Jerry West
4)Bart Starr
5)Gordie Howe
Joe Morgan
Pete Rose
Wilt Chamberlain
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Kyle Rote Jr.
Walter Payton
Tonya Harding
Mark Fidrych
Yvonne Goolagong
Bill Walton
As hard as it is to say, O.J. Simpson was the greatest athelete of the 1970's. My God, he was (and this is no cliche) poetry in motion. He made you feel lighter than air just watching him run. It was like watching Jim Brown on fast-forward. What a talent, what a shame.
The glove didn't fit!
BIG ROD DIXON... How can you beat the quote "All I want to do is drink beer and train like an anmimal!" It's the best quote possibly of all time. All you ex-college studs should love it!
I had a copy of the first "Book of Lists" for a long time. One thing in it was a poll that had been conducted in 1974 or 1975 asking people to name their favorite American - overall, in any category. Both among men and women, the winner was O.J. Simpson.
I had an OJ Simpson poster on my wall as a kid.
Other favorites:
Dr.J
Pete Rose
Johnny Bench
Ken Stabler
Pele
pele
lasse viren
eddy merckx
sugar ray leonard
john havlecik