Machinehead
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There's a lot wrong with this list, but 22nd isn't a bad spot at all for Crosby.
There's nobody ahead of him that I'm moving.
There's nobody ahead of him that I'm moving.
Yeah, but everyone ahead of him also did that.Crosby has won essentially everything there is to win in hockey, and more than once for most of it, while also being the greatest NHL player of the salary cap era.
22 is not high enough.
Do you think people just woke up one day and started watching Caitlin Clark?Grow the sport? Brother majority of people didn’t even care until this season
He didn’t lose to Reyes, the judges gave Jones the win. He is undefeated and has held a belt in the UFC for over 13 years. GSP lost - simple as that.Yeah by that logic you could have Ngannou, Aspinall, or Emilianenko higher.
His accomplishment are impressive but he lost to Reyes, has one fight in almost 5 years, and popped multiple times. Give me GSP over him any day.
He isn't undefeated, he lost to Matt Hamill.He didn’t lose to Reyes, the judges gave Jones the win. He is undefeated and has held a belt in the UFC for over 13 years. GSP lost - simple as that.
Jon Jones is the single greatest martial artist ever. Both in accomplishment and tenure. He should absolutely be in the top 50.
Back to hockey, McDavid is too low, by 10ish spots
Let me adjust to - he has never been defeated. He has a DQ to Matt Hamill, which to your point is a loss on the books. However, Jones has never been defeated via an opponent in his career.He isn't undefeated, he lost to Matt Hamill.
List isn’t that terrible, it’s not good but not terrible
And Jon Jones being 66? I'll just say one thing: Lock all 100 of those athletes in a room, where only 1 of them leave alive, and Jon Jones is leaving that room.
Connor McDavid is #98 on the list, but I’m sure Lidstrom is being slighted not because he’s a hockey player, but because he’s white.Shaq is more of a celebrity and Lidstrom is too white.
Of course he would. Jones would drop Donald to his knees with a leg kick and choke him out in a matter of seconds. Size only matters so much and it's not going to matter at all when you're up against a 6ft 4", 260lbs Gaidojutsu blackbelt.Jon Jones is not taking down Aaron Donald.
He would do it blindfolded.Jon Jones is not taking down Aaron Donald.
Simone biles… completely overrated.There's a lot wrong with this list, but 22nd isn't a bad spot at all for Crosby.
There's nobody ahead of him that I'm moving.
The thing with Simone Biles is, yes, she had that very disappointing Tokyo 2020 with all of the factors you mentioned, but with these "Olympic" sports, there tends to be a hyper-foucs on the Olympics. The Olympics are only one event, and only every four years.Simone biles… completely overrated.
She flopped and quit at tokyo. A top 10 athlete does not havr that type of disaster.
You didnt see michael phelps all of of a sudden start drowning bc he forgot how to swim.
She forgot how to land her routines, then used the mental wellness bs excuse.
Great athletes rise to the occasion and dont cop put and quit. They dont start crying and give up and claim mental wellness.
She is so god damn overrated its not even funny.
She shouldnt even be in the top 100.
And this list is just purely a joke with the ratings.
And how the hell did the WNBa get like 15 players on this list. And no female hockey players.
And no apollo anton ohno. And where is katie Morgan.
Well at least the purple headed idiot didnt make the list.
And we need some Bode Miller!
I googled NFL nationality and I'm reading that "in 2017 roughly 3% of active players were born outside of the United States", and there are around 1,700 players in it. Does that paint a picture of a globally popular sport?Yet it still generates almost 3x as much revenue as the Premiere League, the most popular soccer league in the world.
I googled NFL nationality and I'm reading that "in 2017 roughly 3% of active players were born outside of the United States", and there are around 1,700 players in it. Does that paint a picture of a globally popular sport?
Meanwhile FIFA estimate there are over 120,000 active professional soccer players and over 4,400 professional teams globally. The English Premier League has twenty of those teams, and each year three teams will be relegated from the Premier League and be replaced three teams from the tier below. England alone has 92 professional soccer teams.
You're comparing a sport that's almost entirely within its home nation and where all the talent and money is condensed into a 32 team closed league to a truly global sport. Regardless of which you prefer it's really not the same thing.
I don't follow your first sentence. Are you referring to the NFL sucking up lots of the US's athletic talent because surely the same could be said of any popular sport, such as soccer?You can also look at this and say other global sports, track and field for example, are losing a lot of talent to the NFL.
Also, American football has its own competitive culture thats hard to replicate in other countries.
Your argument that its less valid because of a lack of participation from other countries, is very possibly more likely an issue of an extremely high barrier to entry.
I don't follow your first sentence. Are you referring to the NFL sucking up lots of the US's athletic talent because surely the same could be said of any popular sport, such as soccer?
I'm not suggesting football is any less valid than anything else here but I will argue that the NFL's revenue is a poor metric to use to assume the sport's popularity worldwide. On the topic of the thread/article the soccer talent pool is inarguably larger than that of American football and that is relevant here. It's a US network focused on US sports, and that's fine, but let's not pretend that leaning isn't skewing the whole thing massively.