Favourite player from the 5 major sports?

[The Answer]

Mine....

Hockey: Mats Sundin

Baseball: Carlos Delgado

Basketball: Vince Carter

NFL Football: Randy Moss

Soccer: Cristiano Ronaldo

[DaveWadding]

Basketball: Mike Finley
Baseball: Sammy Sosa
Football: Torry Holt
Hockey: Peter Forsberg
Soccer: If I HAAAAAD to pick, Claudio Reyna probably.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Hockey: Gary Roberts

Baseball: Doc Halladay

Basketball: Steve Nash

NFL Football: Teddy Bruskie

Soccer: they are all fags

Rugby: Bakkies Botha :cool:

[CNM]

Basketball: Carmelo Anthony
Baseball: Todd Helton
Football: Rod Smith
Hockey: Joe Sakic
Soccer: Landon Donovan?

[Rain Man]

Football: Brian Dawkins
Baseball: Manny Ramirez
Basketball: Allen Iverson
Hockey: Mike Modano
Soccer: No Clue? Freddy Adu?

[Nervous Ferret]

Hockey: Scott Stevens :-\

Baseball: Francisco Rodriguez (K-ROD)

Basketball: Tim Duncan

NFL: Curtis Martin

soccer: They are all fags

I tried not to be biased towards my teams, and is Scott Stevens still playing? I stopped paying attention to hockey awile ago

[Loose Cannon]

Hockey: Jagr
Baseball: Zito
Basketball: Iverson
NFL: Chrebet
Soccer: Milon Baros

[Nervous Ferret]

LC I was an inch away from picking Chrebet over Martin :heart:

[AlphaBean]

Mike Modano

David Ortiz

Nate Burleson

KG... or Lindsay Whalen :love:

[BCWWF]

NBA: Probably KG, I'm a big Marion fan too though
NHL: Marion Hossa
MLB: Joe Nathan
NFL: It's so hard to say, maybe Moss, maybe Zach Thomas or Jason Taylor, dunno
Soccer: Probably Maldini

[RP]

Basketball : Ron Artest
Football : Peyton Manning
Baseball : Its always been Ken Griffey Jr.
Hickey : Scott Stevens ( Ferret's on mah jock! )
Soccer : The people who throw flares. Also the security that totally missed multiple flares being brought into the stadium. That was great. I truelly mean that too. Great!

[road doggy dogg]

Hockey: Mario Lemieux
Baseball: KIRBY PUCKETT
Basketball: *shrug*
NFL Football: Charles Rogers
Soccer: BENNI MCCARTHY UP IN HURR

[Wengerland]

Hockey: Joe Sakic
Baseball: dunno
Basketball: errm not watched it for ages but it was Reggie Miller
American Football: dunno
Soccer: Ronaldinho
Rugby: Geordan Murphy

[The Gooch]

Hockey: Mario Lemieux

Baseball: Vladimir Guerrero (Larry Walker too)

Basketball: Steve Nash

NFL Football: Brett Favre

Soccer: David Beckham (fast becoming a Rooney fan)

Golf: Mike Weir

[The Gooch]

I tried not to be biased towards my teams, and is Scott Stevens still playing? I stopped paying attention to hockey awile ago

I believe he is still an unrestricted free agent at the moment. He will be playing this year.

[Y2Ant]

Soccer: BENNI MCCARTHY UP IN HURR
:cool: :cool: :cool:

For me I would say:

Hockey: Martin St. Louis
Baseball: i dunno
Basketball: Steve Nash
NFL: Peyton Manning
Soccer: Thierry Henry

[OssMan]

Current:
Baseball: Melvin Mora
Football: Tiki Barber
Basketball: Julius Hodge, dunno
Hockey: Saku Koivu
Soccer: Ronaldo I guess

Alltime:

Baseball: Willie Mays
Football: Lawrence Taylor
Basketball: Detlef Schrempf
Hockey: Wayne Gretzky
Soccer: Pele I dunno

[samichna]

lol Pele

[Gertner]

Hockey: Allan Bester

Baseball: Vernon Wells

Basketball: Andrei Kirlenko

NFL Football: Rodney Harrison

Soccer: Zidane

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

I picked 2 but fuck off

Baseball: Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz
Football: Rodney Harrison, Eugene Wilson
Hockey: N/A
Basketball: Dwayne Wade, LeBron James

[The Miz]

MLB: Ichiro
NBA: Vlad Rad, Gary Payton
NFL: Corey Dillon, Shaun Alexander
NHL: Markus Naslund

[toxic rooster]

Did I mention Bizarro Bogues was albino?

[Rob]

Football: Cristiano Ronaldo.

Couldn't care less about the others now.

[Yashamaga]

NHL: Forsberg and Thornton
MLB: Ortiz and Santana
NFL: Rodney Harrison and Marvin Harrison and Randy Moss
NBA: LeBron James
Soccer: The guy from the cover of FIFA '98 with the crazy hair

[The Miz]

Basketball: Detlef Schrempf

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[BCWWF]

I'm pretty sure Eddie Pope was on Fifa 98 with a shaved head :wtf:

You may be thinking of Carlos Valderama, who was probably on one of those games at some point

[AlphaBean]

Wilmer Valderrama?

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Who was the goalie that slicked his hair back? I can't rememeber his name. I think he was on the MetroStars. I know he played for Team USA for a while. That guy is my favorite soccer player

[Joey Slugs]

There are ONLY 4 major sports.....

Hockey: Tony Amonte
Baseball: Frank Thomas
Basketball: Deron Williams (played for Illinois, drafted by Utah)
NFL Football: Steve "Air" McNair

[toxic rooster]

You don't have to like soccer, but saying it isn't a major sport makes you look incredibly stupid

[YOUR Hero]

Hockey: Yzerman
Baseball: Halladay(pitcher) Vlad(player)
Football: Doug Flutie!
Basketball: Steve Nash
Soccer: Fabien Barthez (N/A)

[BCWWF]

The other thing that makes you look stupid is being a Frank Thomas fan.

I'm not sure which goalie had slicked back hair. Maybe Tony Meola? There have really only been two or three primary US goalies in the past couple years, Casey Keller, Brad Friedel, and not Howard.

Another thing, in a recent ESPN the magazine, there was a big feature on David Beckham and with it there was some other soccer stuff. One thing they had was the All-World team from right now, and they had Keller to be the top goalie in the world. I'll admit, I haven't paid real close attention to the UEFA leagues in a while, but I can't imagine that Casey Keller is the best goalie in the world right now. By the way, his cousin is a professor at my school.

[Loose Cannon]

yea, Tony Meola

[AlphaBean]

The other thing that makes you look stupid is being a Frank Thomas fan.

I'm not sure which goalie had slicked back hair. Maybe Tony Meola? There have really only been two or three primary US goalies in the past couple years, Casey Keller, Brad Friedel, and not Howard.

Another thing, in a recent ESPN the magazine, there was a big feature on David Beckham and with it there was some other soccer stuff. One thing they had was the All-World team from right now, and they had Keller to be the top goalie in the world. I'll admit, I haven't paid real close attention to the UEFA leagues in a while, but I can't imagine that Casey Keller is the best goalie in the world right now. By the way, his cousin is a professor at my school.
That makes you practically brothers!

[el fregadero]

Hockey: Is Mario Lemieux still playing?

Baseball: Greg Maddux (pitcher) Ichiro (player)

Basketball: Shaquille O'Neal (don't watch very much, but he's exciting)

NFL Football: Deion Sanders (alltime) Fred Taylor (present)

Soccer: Freddy Adu AKA I don't watch it

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

haha yea Tony Meola - that guy was the man

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Tony Meola was a fat bastard.

[Gertner]

didn't Meola try out for the New York Jets?

[FearedSanctity]

Hockey: Joe Sakic
Baseball: Todd Helton
Basketball: Kenyon Martin
NFL Football: Rod Smith/Bradlee Van Pelt at the moment
Soccer: Pfft...

[Joey Slugs]

You don't have to like soccer, but saying it isn't a major sport makes you look incredibly stupid

*EDIT*

Fuck an apology. Soccer is NOT a major sport here in the states, plain and simple. Whether or not I like it, doesn't really matter. Shit, even fucking NASCAR is bigger that that. And if NASCAR isn't a sport... soccor gets no major respect from me.

[BCWWF]

Yeah he was good at punting or something, I thought it was the Eagles though?

[Joey Slugs]

The other thing that makes you look stupid is being a Frank Thomas fan.


Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox, 15 year stats

Games: 1959
AB: 6956
R: 1327
H: 2136
2B: 447
3B: 11
HR: 447
RB!: 1456
SB: 32
AVG: .307
OBP: .427
SLG: .568

From 1990 to 2000, he only hit under .300 once and hit over .340 three times. In the same time period he hit 40 or more HR four times, and failed to hit atleast 20 only twice (once being his first year with the team). He also had atleast 100 RBI in all but 2 seasons during that stretch. Had one of the all time best SLG % of .729 (he is ranked 16th all time for career SLG % and 10th in OBP) in 1994, but the season was cut short due to the player's strike. He is also a 5 time all star, a 4 time AL silver slugger, and a 2 time MVP (he came close a 3rd time in 2000 but was beat out by Jason Giambi in his steriod years).

Oh yeah.... rooting for this guy for 15 years makes me a HUGE fucking idiot.

[Loose Cannon]

soccer is the #2 Youth Sport in the US just so you know.

[FearedSanctity]

I think that because most kids can't just go out and play hockey or drive a car around in a circle 400 times might have something to do with the LC

[Loose Cannon]

WTF? Why are you bringing up those sports when there is football, swimming, baseball, softball, lacrosse and track/field too? Makes zero sense

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Football: Roy Keane
Golf: Vijay Singh
Rugby: Paul O'Connell
Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan

[Joey Slugs]

soccer is the #2 Youth Sport in the US just so you know.

Thats great and all, I'm happy for those kids... but we are talking MAJOR sports here and last time I checked....

Nope. Soccer still isn't "major" here in the US.

[FearedSanctity]

Just using hockey and NASCAR(although I don't consider it a sport) as examples. They aren't that more popular than soccer in the US(hockey anyways), but they're aren't as easy to play as soccer.

Also, swimming, lacrosse and track and field weren't being discussed(not that I saw anyways) so I didn't include them

[Loose Cannon]

lol, some socccer player steal your lunch money or something?

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Who specified the US anyway, faggot. It'd be a decent bet that golf is more popular than all of those sports.

[Loose Cannon]

Just using hockey and NASCAR(although I don't consider it a sport) as examples. They aren't that more popular than soccer in the US(hockey anyways), but they're aren't as easy to play as soccer.

Also, swimming, lacrosse and track and field weren't being discussed(not that I saw anyways) so I didn't include them

so what's the point of using them as examples when I was talking about the "top" US Youth Sports?

[FearedSanctity]

Eh, really just meant in regards to major US sports, not youth. So just ignore any point I've tried to make. I REALLY should think before I post, sorry

Also, I don't really know who ECG's comments were direct at so....

[Joey Slugs]

Who specified the US anyway, faggot. It'd be a decent bet that golf is more popular than all of those sports.

Golf :y:

Golf is 100x the "major" sport here than soccer will ever be.

[KingofOldSchool]

Hockey: Chris Chelios (Since Roy's been retired for a couple of years. :'()
Baseball: David Ortiz
Basketball: Dirk Nowitzki
Football: Peyton Manning
Soccer: Ummmm Mia Hamm.

[FearedSanctity]

I like PLAYING soccer and all, but unless I'm playing I can't get into, no matter how hard I try.

I LOVE golf though, then again, one of those things I just can't watch

[Nervous Ferret]

LOL remember when U.S almost won the World Cup like 2 years ago. No, I don't.

[Nervous Ferret]

Yeah but 777 is being a dumbutt here, soccer is the most popular sport in the world and it is obv. a major sport in the world. motherfucker the guy that made this thread is Canadien.

[Joey Slugs]

Yeah but 777 is being a dumbutt here, soccer is the most popular sport in the world and it is obv. a major sport in the world. motherfucker the guy that made this thread is Canadien.

but then again... this thread is about our "personal" favorites.

personally i don't consider soccer a major sport. it is in other places of the world, but i don't live there. look at me as just the american idiot, but it's my opinion.

shit... chicago has one of the top amercian soccer teams going right now.

nope.. still don't give a shit

[FearedSanctity]

I'll agree with 490 here. Soccer is likely the most popular sport IN THE WORLD, there's NO arguing that, but as far as I'm concerned, I couldn't honestly care any less

[Yashamaga]

I'm pretty sure Eddie Pope was on Fifa 98 with a shaved head :wtf:

You may be thinking of Carlos Valderama, who was probably on one of those games at some point


Yeah well that bald-style is really crazy




:shifty:

[MVP]

Baseball: Derek Lowe
Football: Emmitt Smith
Hockey: Ray Bourque
Basketball: Manu Ginobli
Soccer: Tim Howard

[el fregadero]

I think that because most kids can't just go out and {...} drive a car around in a circle 400 times might have something to do with the LC
LOL

[Skippord]

Basketball: Carmelo Anthony
Baseball: Todd Helton
Football: Rod Smith
Hockey: Joe Sakic
Soccer: Landon Donovan?

[el fregadero]

Sports exist outside of Colorado, did you know?

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">Football: Steven Gerrard</font> <font face=verdana size=3 color="black">dazz</font>

[Joey Slugs]

Hockey: Ray Bourque


nice!

[DaveWadding]

Sports exist outside of Colorado, did you know?

When you're in Colorado, it's hard to get anyone to go past the state line for ANYTHING, much less sports.

[LK]

Football: Gabriel Heinze or C. Ronaldo

[The Outlaw]

I think that because most kids can't just go out and play hockey or drive a car around in a circle 400 times might have something to do with the LC

LOL are you serious?

[VonErich Lives]

It didn't specify, but I'll keep it to active players.

Hockey: Tony Amonte (but I have a feeling after this season it could be Patrice Bergeron)

Baseball: Roger Clemens

Basketball: Antione Walker i guess, maybe Tim Duncan

NFL Football: Would have been Ted Johnson, now... hmm... Richard Seymor or Ray Lewis (but still a soft spot for Drew Bledsoe)

Soccer: I dunno, who was the chick that took of her shirt when they won the cup?

[VonErich Lives]

Oh, and not to keep this off-topic but on "major sports" issue.

As well known, I'm not a big soccer fan, however it's following world wide can not be argued.

When discussing the "most popular" sports, the difficult part is what you choose to decide.

Is it money spent on the sport by fans, ie: jerseys, food at games, products to play (balls, pads, sticks, etc..).

Is it people who attend in person?

Is it people who watch on TV?

Is it people who actually play.

My opinion, it has to be "people who actually play". Since not everyone has the opportunity to spend money, attend, watch sporting events. Not everyone has the money to buy a ticket or jersey, not everyone live near a pro football (nfl) or hockey game, not everyone has a TV etc...

Now, when it comes to "people who play" you'll find a huge following, although as I've debated on here before, I still contend it has a lot to do with cost/ease of playing on a pickup level vs other sports. You will also find Basketball high on this list and in the top 10 (maybe 20) sports we never considered such as Volleyball, Table Tennis, Dragon Boat Racing, heck even Team Handball puts in a claim.

Of course, there is no easy way to track "who plays" so we turn to Dollars and in the US, while many kids play soccer (which has a lot to do with parents feeling it's a "safe sport" vs. Football or Hockey, also the costs involved) it hasn't made it to the major level, I can only speak for the local pro soccer team, but do any of the MLS teams come close to selling out their stadiums?

The only time Soccer sells out or comes closer around here is a world cup qualifier type things or a game involving teams from other countries, and the places fill up with people from thouse countries, but very few americans.

[Skippord]

Sports exist outside of Colorado, did you know?

Fine Baseball:Larry Walker

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Hockey: Zdeno Chara

Baseball: Don't know enough about it

Basketball: Don't know enough about it

NFL Football: Don't know enough about it

Soccer: Muzzy Izzet

[Kapoutman]

Hockey: Mike Ribeiro
Baseball: Used to be Larry Walker, now I don't even watch it
Basketball: ...
Football: Calvillo

[Bad Company]

Rugby: Andrew Mehrtens

[Zen v.W.o.]

Hockey: Mario Lemieux and Jagr..add Tucker.
Football: Randy Moss and Deion Sanders
Baseball: Vlad Guerrero
Basketball: Kobe and Nash
Soccer: Ronaldo..from Brazil, not that metrosexual one from Portugal.

All time:

Hockey: Mario, Jagr, Hawerchuk..add Darcy Tucker also.
Football: Thurman Thomas, Steve Young, the 2 I named deion and moss, and Barry Sanders
Baseball: Vladdy, Mark McGwire
Basketball: Kobe, Nash, Magic
Soccer: Ronaldo and Baggio

[The Gooch]

Now and of all time since everyone is doing that.

Hockey: Mario Lemieux/Guy Lafleur

Baseball: Vladimir Guerrero/Larry Walker

Basketball: Steve Nash/Isiah Thomas

Football: Brett Favre/Doug Flutie (CFL days)

Soccer: David Beckham/Baggio

Golf: Mike Weir/Greg Norman

[BCWWF]

It is kind of surprising that so many people have listed Larry Walker. Is it a Canadian thing or was he like the man before I paid much attention to baseball? I know he was real good like averagewise, but I mean like the actual man, like Anybody Thrilla.

[Skippord]

Larry is the fucking man

[CNM]

He was the NL MVP in 1997 so yes, he was the man. Check out his numbers from 1995 to 2001.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Hockey: Chris Osgood
Football: Shaun Alexander
Basketball: Michael Redd
Baseball: Aaron Boone
Soccer: Brian McBride
Golf: Phil

[Joey Slugs]

It is kind of surprising that so many people have listed Larry Walker. Is it a Canadian thing or was he like the man before I paid much attention to baseball? I know he was real good like averagewise, but I mean like the actual man, like Anybody Thrilla.
Larry Walker was a baseball god from '92 to about '04

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[BCWWF]

Oh I didn't realize that he went back that far. Like I knew he was the shit for a while, but I didn't know to what extent. I guess that kind of solves it.

[toxic rooster]

LOL good job completely missing the point, SeventyTimes7

[The Miz]

His numbers are Coors-inflated but he's still a great player

[weather vane]

Hockey: Joe Thornton
Baseball: David Ortiz
Basketball: Paul Pierce
Football: Jeremy Shockey
Golf: Davis Love III
Tennis: Jennifer Capriati

[Lotus]

Hockey: Patrick Marleau, I guess. Anyone on the Sharks.
Baseball: Andruw Jones or Rafael Furcal
Basketball: used to be Reggie Miller, but now that he retired it's Baron Davis or Jason Richardson
NFL Football: Used to be Tim Brown, but now that he's retired, I'd say Warrick Dunn or Charles Woodson
Soccer: Ronald Cerritos

[Lotus]

Oh, and Tony Stewart is my favorite NASCAR driver, because his car is orange.

[Ivan]

Hockey: Ivan Novoseltsev
Football: Drew Bledsoe
Basketball: Ivan Chiriaev
Baseball: Ivan Rodriguez
Soccer: Ronaldo
Golf: Rocco Mediate

[John la Rock]

Baseball : Manny Ramirez

Football : Tom Brady

Basketball : Allen Iverson

Hockey : Jerome Iginla

Soccer : Theirry Henry

[bigpoppapump]

Hockey: Mario Lemieux
Football: Hines Ward/James Farrior
Baseball: Mark McGwire
Basketball: Magic Johnson
Soccer: That chick who ripped her shirt off after scoring a goal.

[SammyG]

Hockey: Joe Sakic
Baseball: Eric Gagne
Basketball: Kobe Bryant
Football: Steven Jackson
Soccer: Baros, Zagorakis, Beasley