"Contrary To Popular Belief".....thread

[cosmiccoffee9]

Combination of all 3. Strength speed and size. Football players at multiple positions can be 80% the speed of sprinters while being 220+ and still strong. I just don’t think we can find combinations like that in sports other than Rugby.

not that I disagree based on the point you made, but athletics is more than speed, strength, and power.

there's also stuff like vision, which is why the greatest hockey player of all time is a slow skating 5 foot 10 dude who might have weighed 185 pounds in full gear.

there's timing and precision...maybe 5 percent of the NFL and no one in this thread can hit a major league curveball. Jordan sure couldn't, he was a fair athlete.

there's endurance, which NFL players lose standing on due to not playing the full game. throw that in and soccer players rise up the ranks fast.

lots of objective factors in determining the best athletes.

Used to love football until this type of **** started becoming so blatant

this is the day the dab truly died, I will always remember.




contrary to popular belief, Oreo is a knockoff of Hydrox, not the other way around.

 

[aNYone]

Footballs boring man. 4hr game with 11min of actual game play.

Better than Baseball

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Why latinos in the Caribbean islands prefer beisbol to soccer

Soccer is life in Mexico + Most of South America

Actually an interesting story.

Baseball came to the carribean via rich Cubans who could afford to send their kids to america to go school.

then it became a way of bucking back against spanish colonial rule. Basically let's play this American sport, instead of the hated Europeans sport. the sport caught on.


Then Cubans brought it to the Dominican. rest is history.

 

[ahat]

Better than Baseball

Nah

 

[lamekilla]

 

[aNYone]

not that I disagree based on the point you made, but athletics is more than speed, strength, and power.

there's also stuff like vision, which is why the greatest hockey player of all time is a slow skating 5 foot 10 dude who might have weighed 185 pounds in full gear.

there's timing and precision...maybe 5 percent of the NFL and no one in this thread can hit a major league curveball. Jordan sure couldn't, he was a fair athlete.

there's endurance, which NFL players lose standing on due to not playing the full game. throw that in and soccer players rise up the ranks fast.

lots of objective factors in determining the best athletes.

Bruh football players in skilled positions hand eye coordination prolly second only to baseball/tennis players.

And then there’s spatial awareness and determining/predicting angles and trajectory and such.

 

[ahat]

Hockey players hand eye is crazy too.

Spatial awareness same way. Goalies have to cut down angles on shots that are coming at 90+ mph.

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

Bruh football players in skilled positions hand eye coordination prolly second only to baseball/tennis players.

And then there’s spatial awareness and determining/predicting angles and trajectory and such.

we just saw Cam Newton back juke away from a loose football on the last page.

Spoiler

seriously, that depends...I think they play a sport that makes very specialized demands, but I'm not sure you can say they're definitely and always the best athletes.

Hockey players hand eye is crazy too.

Spatial awareness same way. Goalies have to cut down angles on shots that are coming at 90+ mph.

people do not understand or appreciate the work of a goaltender.

not only do they stop 100+ mph shots at point blank range and establish physical control of their crease from opposing players, they play under constant pressure.

imagine a whole stadium full of people chanting your last name because you out here ******* up.

also, goalies have to see and stop these shots while opposing players are actively working to obstruct their vision and obscure shooting angles.

a good goalie even plays a bit of the point guard role to handle drifting pucks that come into the defensive zone and start the team's transition to offense.

there's a reason you can't just stick a really fat guy in between the pipes.







contrary to popular belief, humility can be a handicap.

 

[aNYone]

Hockey players hand eye is crazy too.

Spatial awareness same way. Goalies have to cut down angles on shots that are coming at 90+ mph.

Your right when it comes to **** like that though I feel like it’s half skill half luck. You can’t tell me a batter sees a ball coming at him 100+ mph the whole way through. Can our brains even process something like that optimally?

 

[kickvicisous]

I always thought the best athletes in world were gymnast

 

[aNYone]

I always thought the best athletes in world were gymnast

Male or female?

 

[ahat]

Your right when it comes to **** like that though I feel like it’s half skill half luck. You can’t tell me a batter sees a ball coming at him 100+ mph the whole way through. Can our brains even process something like that optimally?

I think so man, at least major leaguers. They always tell you "keep your eye on the ball", theyve done god knows how many reps over their lifetime its like second nature for them.

 

[kickvicisous]

Male or female?

Dudes, although I understand both genders participate

 

[aNYone]

Dudes, although I understand both genders participate

Oh yea. The ones that do the rings are bad mofos.

 

[lamekilla]

I always thought the best athletes in world were gymnast

I say hockey players

 

[green rhino123]

Can our brains even process something like that optimally?

An anesthesiologist I saw talk has a theory.

His theory is that each moment in time as we process it is like a flipbook more than a continual experience.
That is - what he defines as a moment (in milliseconds or fractions thereof i believe) in time is comprised of snapshots.
He goes on to theorize that the brains of those who make it as pro athetes take more snapshots per moment than most of us.
In effect - it slows down time for them thus making it possible to "see the seams on the baseball as it was pitched to him" like Ted Williams claimed.

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

Your right when it comes to **** like that though I feel like it’s half skill half luck. You can’t tell me a batter sees a ball coming at him 100+ mph the whole way through. Can our brains even process something like that optimally?

ours can't. theirs can. it's why some people can fly fighter jets and some can barely walk without tripping.

I say hockey players

it's anyone's call, but I think I'll go with hockey players too.

they have the size and strength of football players with more endurance and longevity as well as documented toughness.

they change shifts during game action, must play offensively and defensively, and the sport itself is non-intuitive, using a stick instead of the hands or feet.

also, they are ******* ice skating while doing all of this.

 

[doublemesh96]

 

[ahat]

cosmiccoffee9

I agree with you about it being too specialized to say one group of athletes are better than another. Sure a lot of these guys played multiple sports coming up and theres a few that could probably succeed at another sport, but by a certain age they start to focus solely on one sport,and they each require emphasis on different aspects, with some crossover.

 

[aNYone]

Bruh these mofos ride bikes. I think it’s fair to say that if you make it professionally in any sport you’re different

 

[ninjahood]

juking defenders 1 on 1 then kicking the ball precisely past a goal keeper is just as impressive as a home run to me.

slow swag trot, subtle gold chain bouncing, & bat flip alone while you smoked a ball to da stands >>>>*

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

cosmiccoffee9

I agree with you about it being too specialized to say one group of athletes are better than another. Sure a lot of these guys played multiple sports coming up and theres a few that could probably succeed at another sport, but by a certain age they start to focus solely on one sport,and they each require emphasis on different aspects, with some crossover.

yeah, imo that's why you can say stuff like "Bo Jackson/Deion Sanders/Jim Thorpe is the best athlete," but not "soccer players are the best athletes."

Bruh these mofos ride bikes. I think it’s fair to say that if you make it professionally in any sport you’re different

I jumped back from my screen in real life.





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[green rhino123]

that pic is so big - when i only scrolled halfway down and was like "i don't get it "

 

[aNYone]

Sinking a hole in one is the single most difficult thing to do in sports.

 

[tr1ll]

Man y'all still talking about some got damned soccer???