Stick with eharmony wrote:
You Fam badgers are hilarious. Fam is one of the greatest runners in American history. Please stop ripping him apart
Hippo wrote:
Stick with eharmony wrote:
You Fam badgers are hilarious. Fam is one of the greatest runners in American history. Please stop ripping him apart
Solid troll post. This will ruffle everyone's feathers for sure: stat-nerds, historians and anti-Fam fans alike.
I watched it too and now there's a mess in my pants
Dretch wrote:
Actually you only listed seven because you have Lincoln on there twice.
asdfasf wrote:
Rabbit Jillian wrote:
Anthony Famighlietti. The second best American steepler of all time.
Probably doesn't make the top 10
Marsh
Diemer
Lincoln
Jager
Lincoln
George young
Ashenfeller
Croghan
are clearly better. And you can make arguements that guys like Cabral, Marc Davis, Tim Broe are either better or equal.
Of course I am assuming we are just looking at running ability not ability to be attention whore. Fam was definitely top 10 in that.
I list him as 4rd behind Dan Lincoln and ahead of Zach Ornelas.
Did anyone listen to his 18 min interview afterwards, where he pretty much says that Rupp and Solinsky were doping in '09.
In reality Fam was a 5000/10000m runner but he wanted to be a steeper. He had solid wheels and had a 13:11 5000m pr and a 27:3x debut (these are both from memory so please correct me) at a time when a 13:11 was a slammin time for an American. When he ran his 5000m pr he had never really even trained for a 5000m. He never really ran smart and didn't do much mileage either. He def had a lot of potential and Rupp and Solinsky more than likely doped. I hate Rupp and love Solinsky but that injury of his is a classic steroid injury.
Stick with eharmony wrote:
Hippo wrote:
Stick with eharmony wrote:
You Fam badgers are hilarious. Fam is one of the greatest runners in American history. Please stop ripping him apart
Solid troll post. This will ruffle everyone's feathers for sure: stat-nerds, historians and anti-Fam fans alike.
Not trolling. I did a run with him in 2013. I picked him up from the airport in chattanooga and dropped him off at his hotel. He wanted to go on a run and I had on jeans. He lent spare shorts. He's a class act
SomeCoach wrote:
asdfasf wrote:
Rabbit Jillian wrote:
Anthony Famighlietti. The second best American steepler of all time.
Probably doesn't make the top 10
Marsh
Diemer
Lincoln
Jager
Lincoln
George young
Ashenfeller
Croghan
are clearly better. And you can make arguements that guys like Cabral, Marc Davis, Tim Broe are either better or equal.
Of course I am assuming we are just looking at running ability not ability to be attention whore. Fam was definitely top 10 in that.
I assume you're breaking Malmo's balls on purpose ..... or you know nothing about the history of the event.
malmo wrote:
SomeCoach wrote:
asdfasf wrote:
Rabbit Jillian wrote:
Anthony Famighlietti. The second best American steepler of all time.
Probably doesn't make the top 10
Marsh
Diemer
Lincoln
Jager
Lincoln
George young
Ashenfeller
Croghan
are clearly better. And you can make arguements that guys like Cabral, Marc Davis, Tim Broe are either better or equal.
Of course I am assuming we are just looking at running ability not ability to be attention whore. Fam was definitely top 10 in that.
I assume you're breaking Malmo's balls on purpose ..... or you know nothing about the history of the event.
Being one of the only four Americans to ever beat Henry Marsh I think I'm qualified to weigh in here. His list is good but not in the right order. Jager, "The Natural", is far above everyone else. He was far above from day one. Fam could have been top ten but isn't because of his marching to a different drummer shtick.
Putting Doug Brown in the top ten is automatic. A top ten world ranking, TWICE American record holder (the first under 8:20) and 3 time Olympian. The only other contender for the top ten would be John Gregorek. A top ten world ranking and Olympic Team to nowhere (Jimmy Carter)
Criteria:
1. World records
2. World or Olympic championships
3. World rankings
4. National records
5. Olympic teams
6. Natonal championships
7. National rankings
I would also throw dan huling into the mix. 5th in the world during the Kenyan era is no joke, plus he has solid PRs too.
Give it a rest wrote:
Good lord, sometimes you people make it nearly impossible to enjoy discussing the sport of running. If you don't think Fam is in the top 10 all time American steeplers then you are either 1) very uninformed or 2) an enormous hater of him. He is obviously top 10, no questions asked. Idk if I'd put him at #2 behind jäger, but I don't think that was OPs point. Fam has had a long, great career. Yesterday was his last steeple ever. Can we just appreciate his contribution to the sport of track and field rather than calling him an "attention whore"?
Honestly sometimes I wish I didn't like running as much as I do because this place just depresses me with its negativity.
TrackCoach wrote:
Give it a rest wrote:
Good lord, sometimes you people make it nearly impossible to enjoy discussing the sport of running. If you don't think Fam is in the top 10 all time American steeplers then you are either 1) very uninformed or 2) an enormous hater of him. He is obviously top 10, no questions asked. Idk if I'd put him at #2 behind jäger, but I don't think that was OPs point. Fam has had a long, great career. Yesterday was his last steeple ever. Can we just appreciate his contribution to the sport of track and field rather than calling him an "attention whore"?
Honestly sometimes I wish I didn't like running as much as I do because this place just depresses me with its negativity.
I appreciate Fam and would say he is in the top-10, albeit in the back half. You can't fault his for his lack of success in international competitions because very few athletes any where in the world were able do dispose the Kenyans. I also think Fam got the most out of talent.
Fam was slightly better than Malmo. George would agree that he couldn't have beat Fam.
usnspecialist wrote:
I would also throw dan huling into the mix. 5th in the world during the Kenyan era is no joke, plus he has solid PRs too.
I'd add John Gregorek to that list
Rabbit Jillian wrote:
Anthony Famighlietti. The second best American steepler of all time.
Daniel Lincoln was a better steepler and a massive overachiever. Look at his high school pr's and what he did in college and as a pro.... Viva John McDonnell
