Who was your favorite athlete growing up?

[Bumpus]

I'm here cause I heard there'd be girls.

 

[Hippasus]

Brett Hull, Glenn Anderson, Pavel Bure, Frank Thomas, Barry Sanders, Sergei Fedorov, Patrick Roy, Grant Fuhr. Trying to do this in order.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

John Elway, Bill Romanowski, Terrell Davis, Rod Smith, John Lynch, Troy Polamalu.

Yea I was a Broncos fan as a kid lol.

 

[Mike C]

Mine was Dave Cowens. I used to argue with a buddy that he was better than Kareem

Then when I started working in the media, I met Cowens and he was a dick's dick. I walked away muttering to myself. "F you ahole. Jabbar is SO much better than you"

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Tom Seaver

 

[izzy]

kiprusoff

 

[Hammettf2b]

I’ve always been a huge fan of dick, personally.

RIP to the legend

 

[CasusBelli]

Early Marian Hossa and Miro Klose as a teenager.

Pavel Bure and David Beckham as a kid.

 

[deleted user]

Justine Henin. Iginla. Dave Dickinson. Hayley Wickenheiser.

 

[JMCx4]

Former STL Cardinals 2nd baseman Julián Javier, because he wore glasses (like I did) AND because he had cool flip-up sun shades (which I convinced my parents to buy for me). But I sucked at middle infield, so my hero worship faded over time.

 

[Mike C]

Tom Seaver

Another tool when the cameras weren't on

 

[TheGreenTBer]

@Hammettf2b I gotta tell you, I did a lot of research on Rusty Kuntz after first seeing this thread and I did NOT regret it.

 

[John Price]

datsyuk
lidstrom

grew up a red wings fan !

 

[Indrid Cold]

Barry Sanders, Steve Yzerman, Joe Dumars.

 

[saska sault]

Sergei Fedorov and the white Nike skates. Iconic.

 

[crobro]

Jan Michael Vincent in the movie the worlds greatest athlete

 

[Terrier]

Ray Bourque

 

[Ulf5]

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

As a kid it was Mario Lemieux and then Sidney Crosby

 

[Mrfenn92]

Ted Washington for me

 

[BB79]

Mine was none other than Rusty Kuntz. He had a short career but it made an impression on me as a kid.

I have a bunch of his cards over my work bench. A few of them autographed by the man himself

My hog

Mike Ogg?