Ultimate Draft III - D..U..N spells DUN

[Rondo2287]

Eight of 14 Olympic Gold, 13 Pan Am Gold, 26 World Championship Gold ... no comparison.

Phelps busts 'em all.

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I was wondering when Dewey would show up ... great pick, Slam.

Did he do it while showing up Adolf Freakin' Hitler on his home turf?  No?  Next!

Hmmmm this Jesse Owens sounds impressive, luckily he can also be on my team.




You just got Mystiqued..

[indeedproceed]

Eight of 14 Olympic Gold, 13 Pan Am Gold, 26 World Championship Gold ... no comparison.

Phelps busts 'em all.

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I was wondering when Dewey would show up ... great pick, Slam.

Look at that guy. Aquaman wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Thorpe won a poll conducted by ESPN and ABC Sports for 'Athlete Of The Century', beating Ali, Jim Brown, Jeese Owens, Jordan, Gretzky, and other all-time athletes.

Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete of all time.

[Bahku]

Eight of 14 Olympic Gold, 13 Pan Am Gold, 26 World Championship Gold ... no comparison.

Phelps busts 'em all.

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I was wondering when Dewey would show up ... great pick, Slam.

Did he do it while showing up Adolf Freakin' Hitler on his home turf?  No?  Next!

So what was Hitler in that year, the javelin throw?

Pretty easy guy to show up when it came to sports.

Next.

[Roy H.]

Eight of 14 Olympic Gold, 13 Pan Am Gold, 26 World Championship Gold ... no comparison.

Phelps busts 'em all.

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I was wondering when Dewey would show up ... great pick, Slam.

Did he do it while showing up Adolf Freakin' Hitler on his home turf?  No?  Next!

So what was Hitler in that year, the javelin throw?

Pretty easy guy to show up when it came to sports.

Next.

Hmm...

Phelps:  World class training, perfected diet, advanced technology that improves performance, coddled everywhere he goes, multi-million dollar endorsements and sponsorships

Owens:  Son of a sharecropper, grandson of a slave.  Outcast in his own country, where none of the major sports had integrated yet; no advanced sports science; challenging a prominent world leader's notions of racial superiority under tremendous pressure

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

[indeedproceed]

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

Hands down mans down?

[Yoki_IsTheName]

Hey guys. Sorry, was stuck in double shift doing extra orders.

Anyway, I'll pick now. For my rapper I choose a Filipino icon, who influenced the early 90's youth in a big way. All of you might have no idea who he is, but he was big when I was growing up.

Master Rapper, patriot, Francis "Kiko" Magalona (RIP)

I still have two FMCC t-shirts given to me by my pinay gf at the time, (genuine, I was told - hope so) ... I was bothered by how the Red Cross was taken advantage of and used by the concert promoters of his post-demise planned "tribute concerts" and that whole mess, (which were not authorized by his family), as I was working for an extension of that organization in and around Manila at the time. Extremely talented guy, and a sad end to an amazing career. Great pick, Yoki.

i know you were active in the PH but did not knew that you heard about Francis M.

The FMCC t-shirt scams was sad. Got one after he passed but turns out it was a fake. I was mad as hell.

[Roy H.]

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

Hands down mans down?

Momma there goes that man.

(That's what Thorpe would be saying.)

[indeedproceed]

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

Hands down mans down?

Momma there goes that man.

(That's what Thorpe would be saying.)

Thorpe reportedly began his athletic career at Carlisle in 1907 when he walked past the track and beat the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump while still wearing street clothes. His earliest recorded track and field results are from 1907. He also competed in football, baseball, lacrosse and even ballroom dancing, winning the 1912 inter-collegiate ballroom dancing championship.

Reportedly, Pop Warner was hesitant to allow Thorpe, his best track and field athlete, to compete in a physical game such as football. Thorpe, however, convinced Warner to let him participate in some plays against the school team's defense; Warner assumed he would be tackled easily and give up the idea. Thorpe "ran around past and through them not once, but twice." He then walked over to Warner and said, "Nobody is going to tackle Jim," while flipping him the ball.

[Rondo2287]

Who's up now?

[Roy H.]

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

Hands down mans down?

Momma there goes that man.

(That's what Thorpe would be saying.)

Thorpe reportedly began his athletic career at Carlisle in 1907 when he walked past the track and beat the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump while still wearing street clothes. His earliest recorded track and field results are from 1907. He also competed in football, baseball, lacrosse and even ballroom dancing, winning the 1912 inter-collegiate ballroom dancing championship.

Reportedly, Pop Warner was hesitant to allow Thorpe, his best track and field athlete, to compete in a physical game such as football. Thorpe, however, convinced Warner to let him participate in some plays against the school team's defense; Warner assumed he would be tackled easily and give up the idea. Thorpe "ran around past and through them not once, but twice." He then walked over to Warner and said, "Nobody is going to tackle Jim," while flipping him the ball.

Riddle me this...  Were those football and baseball teams that Thorpe was playing against integrated?

[Bahku]

Eight of 14 Olympic Gold, 13 Pan Am Gold, 26 World Championship Gold ... no comparison.

Phelps busts 'em all.

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I was wondering when Dewey would show up ... great pick, Slam.

Did he do it while showing up Adolf Freakin' Hitler on his home turf?  No?  Next!

So what was Hitler in that year, the javelin throw?

Pretty easy guy to show up when it came to sports.

Next.

Hmm...

Phelps:  World class training, perfected diet, advanced technology that improves performance, coddled everywhere he goes, multi-million dollar endorsements and sponsorships

Owens:  Son of a sharecropper, grandson of a slave.  Outcast in his own country, where none of the major sports had integrated yet; no advanced sports science; challenging a prominent world leader's notions of racial superiority under tremendous pressure

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

Oh don't get me wrong, Jessie was the man, and had to overcome more than most athletes ever did, (or ever will), in the games, but ultimately it comes down to wins, and no one has won more than Phelps.

And while he gets the endorsements, etc., that is quite simply the times and society he was born into ... I'm sure Jessie would be getting the same had he been part of the same era.

Michael is a guy with tremendous character, and as humble as any athlete in his age group. Great young man, and the winningest Olympic athlete in history.

 

[sofutomygaha]

and even ballroom dancing, winning the 1912 inter-collegiate ballroom dancing championship.

disqualified.

[indeedproceed]

I'm taking Owens, hands down.

Hands down mans down?

Momma there goes that man.

(That's what Thorpe would be saying.)

Thorpe reportedly began his athletic career at Carlisle in 1907 when he walked past the track and beat the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump while still wearing street clothes. His earliest recorded track and field results are from 1907. He also competed in football, baseball, lacrosse and even ballroom dancing, winning the 1912 inter-collegiate ballroom dancing championship.

Reportedly, Pop Warner was hesitant to allow Thorpe, his best track and field athlete, to compete in a physical game such as football. Thorpe, however, convinced Warner to let him participate in some plays against the school team's defense; Warner assumed he would be tackled easily and give up the idea. Thorpe "ran around past and through them not once, but twice." He then walked over to Warner and said, "Nobody is going to tackle Jim," while flipping him the ball.

Riddle me this...  Were those football and baseball teams that Thorpe was playing against integrated?

Well, Thorpe was half-native, and he was playing, so I suppose yes they were. Its only logical.

[indeedproceed]

and even ballroom dancing, winning the 1912 inter-collegiate ballroom dancing championship.

disqualified.

It takes a bigger man to waltz than it does to cha-cha, sofa. Don't you ever forget that.

[StartOrien]

and even ballroom dancing, winning the 1912 inter-collegiate ballroom dancing championship.

disqualified.

It takes a bigger man to waltz than it does to cha-cha, sofa. Don't you ever forget that.

I hate to agree with IP, but it's hard to dispute that.