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Decade of super athletes. #2156357
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Which decade, do you believe, had the most super athletes? I was thinking about Lebron vs. MJ, Brady vs. Montana, and others. Looking at both pro sports and college sports I am partial to the 80's. What say you?


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Ped's or not?


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For conversation and debates sake....ill say 90s is a good starting point.......every five years someone just about does something or sets a record of some sort with it being speed or a number to chase of some sort......steroids have changed every game no matter how naive we might be.

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Originally Posted By: dave260rem!
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I'd have to say for overall sports - football to tennis, golf to baseball, hoops to soccer and everything else considered a real, competitive mainstream sport - we're probably amid the best period for top-quality super athletes.

There's more knowledge about strength and flexibility training, rest and recovery, diet, and equipment. Arguments can be made about PEDS or enhancers and things such as super golf clubs and balls or tennis racquets, but just overall across the board we're in a great era.


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I think clem got the nail on the head. Not to say there where not super athletes in the past but with out a doubt there are more super athletes these days.


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As a collective group, today's athlete is much better than yesterday's. For the reasons listed above by Clem.

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Originally Posted By: Booger
Originally Posted By: dave260rem!
Ped's or not?


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Performance Enhancing Drugs

It's got to be the 80's. Both football and baseball were loaded. I never have cared much for basketball, but the 80's saw a lot of good bball players as well.

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In MLB it's now , MLB is full of 20 something super players. Just turn on Braves / Astros game now. Houston's young studs are pounding the Braves. But heck, everyone's young studs pound the Braves. laugh

Yankee's super rookie Aaron Judge is putting up triple crown numbers right now.

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Thanks IDOT. I didn't even think about PED's changing some athletes abilities.


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If you narrowed it down to just running backs, it is hard to fathom Bo Jackson and Hershel Walker on the same field at the same time and I can say that I was there and they were the best two I've ever seen. Bo was for his explosiveness that was going to happen at some point in the game and Hershel because even when the defense hemmed him up, he still managed to fall forward for at least a five yard gain. If hard pressed to pick between the two, I'd probably have to give the slightest of edges to Hershel. For you youngsters that never got to see these two in person, you'll just have to trust us old folks when we say, there are good RBs out there now, but nothing like either of those two.


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Have to agree with Jawbone. Bo was the best athlete I ever saw in person. Always heard that Hershel was equally impressive. Bo hit a HR against us in the Diamond Club classic my freshman year. There are huge live oaks about 50-75 ft behind the CF wall at Stanky and it left the bat and less than half a second later it was knocking limbs out of the top of the oak tree behind the CF wall and still rising. Our centerfielder never even moved.
Hardest I've ever seen a ball hit. Nothing else ever came close. And let me tell you, I'd hate to see Bo in pads. He was absolutely huge in a baseball uniform.

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If you narrowed it down to just running backs, it is hard to fathom Bo Jackson and Hershel Walker on the same field at the same time and I can say that I was there and they were the best two I've ever seen. Bo was for his explosiveness that was going to happen at some point in the game and Hershel because even when the defense hemmed him up, he still managed to fall forward for at least a five yard gain. If hard pressed to pick between the two, I'd probably have to give the slightest of edges to Hershel. For you youngsters that never got to see these two in person, you'll just have to trust us old folks when we say, there are good RBs out there now, but nothing like either of those two.


I absolutely agree. I will have to say that Barry Sanders was pretty dang good too. I'm still partial to Bo and Herschel.


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Bo Jackson, is the best athlete to this day that's ever graced the field of play.


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If you narrowed it down to just running backs, it is hard to fathom Bo Jackson and Hershel Walker on the same field at the same time and I can say that I was there and they were the best two I've ever seen. Bo was for his explosiveness that was going to happen at some point in the game and Hershel because even when the defense hemmed him up, he still managed to fall forward for at least a five yard gain. If hard pressed to pick between the two, I'd probably have to give the slightest of edges to Hershel. For you youngsters that never got to see these two in person, you'll just have to trust us old folks when we say, there are good RBs out there now, but nothing like either of those two.


I absolutely agree. I will have to say that Barry Sanders was pretty dang good too. I'm still partial to Bo and Herschel.


No disrespect to Sanders but he got a whole career to prove his worth. Sadly, neither Bo or Hershel did. Bo because of the tragic injury and Hershel because he chose the cash from the USFL instead of the NFL in what would have been his formative NFL years. I think that just kept him from being the NFL back he could have been, even though he wasn't bad when he joined the Cowboys. Speaking of Hershel and the USFL, wasn't it Trump's team, the New Jersey Generals he played for?


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This decade.

And next decade will be better, and the next will be better than that

They're bigger, faster and stronger every year

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If you narrowed it down to just running backs, it is hard to fathom Bo Jackson and Hershel Walker on the same field at the same time and I can say that I was there and they were the best two I've ever seen. Bo was for his explosiveness that was going to happen at some point in the game and Hershel because even when the defense hemmed him up, he still managed to fall forward for at least a five yard gain. If hard pressed to pick between the two, I'd probably have to give the slightest of edges to Hershel. For you youngsters that never got to see these two in person, you'll just have to trust us old folks when we say, there are good RBs out there now, but nothing like either of those two.


I absolutely agree. I will have to say that Barry Sanders was pretty dang good too. I'm still partial to Bo and Herschel.


No disrespect to Sanders but he got a whole career to prove his worth.


10 pro bowls in 10 seasons and went out in prime of his career in his own terms. I don't think he left much to prove

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Yes, Herschel played for the Generals and that was Trump's team. They played the B'ham Stallions at Legion Field in 1983, I think, to open the season. Hell of a crowd and we were there enjoying every minute.

Bo's explosiveness was unreal. He truly had an extra turbojet and could just pull away, along with being so talented at anything. The Auburn track/field coach, Mel Rosen, was a U.S. Olympic Team coach in 1976 and I think a consultant for them in 1980 (when the U.S. boycotted). Coach Rosen begged Jackson to come run track more than just for funsies and said he could be one of the best, or a possible decathlon champion. Jackson loved baseball foremost and then football, though.

Walker was just a beast. An explosive, good-vision, bulldozing beast. It truly is difficult to imagine him and Jackson on the same field along with the rest of the talent on both teams.

I'm not sure how or if you could honestly say one was better than the other. They're so damned close that it's scary.

All of today's white noise web bullchit about someone today being the best ever or this or that? Eh. I don't want to be the old man yelling at the kids on the lawn, but unless you saw Jackson and Walker then you really can't know to compare. I'd put Sanders right behind them. I'm glad he walked away when he did, too.


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Originally Posted By: Clem


All of today's white noise web bullchit about someone today being the best ever or this or that? Eh. I don't want to be the old man yelling at the kids on the lawn, but unless.


Aaron Judge tied Dimaggios rookie home run record today. (Half way through year). Take a look at him, 6'7" 285lbs, they didn't make them like him years ago.

Same with the other sports.

Julio Jones would be a left tackle 70 years ago.

Lebron James would be a center, not a point guard

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I don't think I could say Barry Sanders is a better "athlete " than neon Deon Sanders. Bo was and is over rated! If he played today he would be a good ball player but he wouldn't stand out like he did. Just watch some of those games in the 80's. It's in slow motion. To me the legion of bo is similar to chuck Norris.

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