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We are living through the golden generations of sports and we don’t even know it
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tarheelhockey
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You’re covering like 40 years of sports in that list. You may as well just say you’ve enjoyed sports during your lifetime.
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It’s 30 max and that’s the definition of a generation.
pi314
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Don’t forget this guy who had 4 TDs in one game.
Or the biggest should'a, could'a would'a in modern sports.
But in all seriousness, the last 30 years has seen some incredible athletes. Obviously, this discussion can venture down the road of equipment, training, nutrition discussion and what role those have played to produce that number of exceptional athletes.
Or we can just enjoy the shows they put on. I vote for #2.
I think it's less about the players/GOATs, and more about the sports still being "pure", to some degree, even if there's been a lot of evolution.
Give it another 30 years and I wonder if we'll still recognize the same sports as they are now.
Old man yelling at clouds, I know...
Give it another 30 years and I wonder if we'll still recognize the same sports as they are now.
Old man yelling at clouds, I know...
tarheelhockey
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I’m seeing Wayne Gretzky on that list, and he was in GOAT mode in the mid 80s.
Gretzky started his NHL career 45 years ago. He may have retired in 1999 but you're spanning multiple generations of players here.
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We still got to watch him play in the last 30 years.
If you want to nitpick then we can take him off the list. It’s still an incredible list.
I would say the golden age was probably 1979-2000 or so to be honest (arrival of Gretzky in the NHL, Magic/Bird in the NBA, 85 and 86 brings us Michael Jordan and Mario Lemieux) but this era ain't bad.
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Weird list. 1979 is a decent starting point given the topic but there are some hamfisted omissions.
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Don’t think we are living through the “golden generations”, we are just witnessing natural evolution in sports
I have literally never heard the names of Bonds, Trout and Mahomes until this moment, and have no clue who they might be. I guess I could google them, but... I suppose they're "golden", too.
(The names Brady, Manning, and Ohtami are extremely vague for me – I can barely guess which sport they might be playing in, and I can guarantee you that most Europeans have never head these names, and hearing them would draw a blank stare out of them. Hell, my own mother shocked me recently when she said she had no idea who Usain Bolt is...)
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Move another 50 years forward and we'll have all sorts of star athletes that make today's great athletes look like bozos
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Golden generation... maybe
You could bring back folks from the 30s-70s who passed away and they would say their generation was the best for sports and athletes (Howe, Morenez, Shore, Mikita, plante, Sawerchuk , Bobby Hull, etc)
30-50 years from now when a lot of us will be old as dirt or buried beneath the dirt, the next generation will be seeing their era as the golden age
Its all subjective. Enjoy life and sports as.you live, be happy you got to watch who you did, and respect those who came and paved the way for game to get to this point and respect those working to get the game to next level
You could bring back folks from the 30s-70s who passed away and they would say their generation was the best for sports and athletes (Howe, Morenez, Shore, Mikita, plante, Sawerchuk , Bobby Hull, etc)
30-50 years from now when a lot of us will be old as dirt or buried beneath the dirt, the next generation will be seeing their era as the golden age
Its all subjective. Enjoy life and sports as.you live, be happy you got to watch who you did, and respect those who came and paved the way for game to get to this point and respect those working to get the game to next level
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I’m willing to bet you that Tom Brady is much more known in every European non-traditional hockey country than any hockey player.I have literally never heard the names of Bonds, Trout and Mahomes until this moment, and have no clue who they might be. I guess I could google them, but... I suppose they're "golden", too.
(The names Brady, Manning, and Ohtami are extremely vague for me – I can barely guess which sport they might be playing in, and I can guarantee you that most Europeans have never head these names, and hearing them would draw a blank stare out of them. Hell, my own mother shocked me recently when she said she had no idea who Usain Bolt is...)
Bubbles
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Not a fan of female athletes, eh?
Serena Williams
Simone Biles
Katie Ledecky
Also:
Snooker:
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Stephen Hendry
MMA:
GSP
Anderson Silva
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This feel like your range to judge this on is more than half of some of their televised years. Is this really a golden generation, or just a long generation of watching sports? Jordan hasn't played in over 20 years, and his last in the NBA final was what in 97?
and in America where majority of NHL teams are located.
I wonder if anyone still writes what so many sportswriters wrote when I was growing up in the 1960s…that the 1920s were the Golden Age of Sports: Babe Ruth (baseball), Jack Dempsey (boxing), Red Grange (football), Bill Tilden (tennis), Bobby Jones (golf)
Is this the ultimate best Golden Age so far? Possibly yes. But I ain’t getting hung up about it one way or another.
Is this the ultimate best Golden Age so far? Possibly yes. But I ain’t getting hung up about it one way or another.
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I’m pretty sure everyone thinks they’ve witnessed the golden age in their lifetime when it comes to sports.
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First, driving a car isnt a sport.
Second, there are like 10 better baseball players (that didnt use drugs) than the three you listed from prior generations.
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