Bo Jackson voted greatest athlete of all time by ESPN

[rum151man]

#1 athlete of all time, no argument here

Greatest Athlete Of All Time - sportsnation Topics - ESPN

 

[nosterbor]

Awesome!

 

[notjomommasclint]

Some of the people on that list didn't belong mentioned with the others.. But they got the outcome correct!


I'm old Greg

 

[HPC]

Hard to argue with Bo, really. Great choice.

 

[RStadlerASU22]

If anyone has viewed to Bo 30 for 30 or was around sports in that era knows he was a bad man. Bad luck on a simple tackle was what kept him from being even bigger. Ryan

 

[cubfanbudman]

Sad to see his careers end before they ever really peaked. He was truly a once in a generation athlete

 

[nappyd]

Overhyped back who won thanks to Barners padding the votes. Deion was better.

 

[rum151man]

Overhyped back who won thanks to Barners padding the votes. Deion was better.

:lol:

 

[gt2590]

The man played MAJOR league baseball with an Artificial hip!

End of argument for best athlete of last 50 years IMO...

 

[Junior Griffey]

Oh hell yeah!

 

[George_Calfas]

All-time and the list failed to include Jim Thorpe?

 

[Hendersonfan]

I agree George. Thorpe was insane! (Based on history and stuff I've read/seen since obviously I never saw him play).

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[Hendersonfan]

I also think Bo and Jim would be as close equals as you could get.

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[homerun28aa]

Jackie Robinson beat out Willie Mays...then Pele...

 

[George_Calfas]

In 1950, the nation's press selected Jim Thorpe as the most outstanding athlete of the first half of the 20th Century and in 1996-2001, he was awarded ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century.
At the tender age of 24, Thorpe sailed with the American Olympic team to Stockholm, Sweden for the 1912 Olympic Games. Remarkably, he trained aboard the ship on the journey across sea. He blew away the competition in both the pentathlon and the decathlon and set records that would stand for decades.

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[notjomommasclint]

Jackie Robinson beat out Willie Mays...then Pele...

He was an amazing athlete too! He was the one guy I thought could beat bo.


I'm old Greg

 

[homerun28aa]

He was an amazing athlete too! He was the one guy I thought could beat bo.


I'm old Greg

He's a great athlete everyone on that list is an amazing athlete, but I'm not sure how he beat Jackie. I guess purely on the fact he broke the color barrier but I'm not sure how that makes him better. Not knocking Jackie just surprised when it came down to a baseball player vs another baseball player Jackie beat out Willie. Some consider Willie the greatest of all-time

 

[Benson]

I think you could argue that Jim Brown was a better athlete than Bo. Hell, he's considered the best player in two different sports. They had to change the rules of lacrosse because he was so dominant.

 

[jbmm161]

I didn't see it but Michael Jordan has to be hands down the #1 athlete of his lifetime.

 

[rum151man]

I didn't see it but Michael Jordan has to be hands down the #1 athlete of his lifetime.

bo took jordan down, lets be honest Jordan #1 in basketball but he was terrible baseball player. bo was all star in both sports he played and just all around freak of nature to be that big and that fast.