The GOAT

voodoo

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MiketheSnow

@MiketheSnow

Ah, right.

So Volleyball's Karch Kiraly would rank way, way above MJ as twice as many people play volleyball as Basketball?

It's one of the factors, not the only factor in my opinion.

Karch was excellent.

MiketheSnow

@MN5 said in The GOAT:

@Victor-Meldrew said in The GOAT:

@MiketheSnow

Ah, right.

So Volleyball's Karch Kiraly would rank way, way above MJ as twice as many people play volleyball as Basketball?

Much as it pains me to say based on that logic the GOAT would have to be a Footballer then.

See my last reply

Victor Meldrew

@MiketheSnow said in The GOAT:

Karch was excellent.

Someone just reminded me of Squash's Jahanger Khan

"Jahangir Khan ( Urdu: جهانگير خان‎; born 10 December 1963) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open six times, and the British Open ten times. Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

Catogrande

@Victor-Meldrew said in The GOAT:

@MiketheSnow said in The GOAT:

Karch was excellent.

Someone just reminded me of Squash's Jahanger Khan

"Jahangir Khan ( Urdu: جهانگير خان‎; born 10 December 1963) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open six times, and the British Open ten times. Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

This from Wiki: "Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

This also from Wiki: "Jansher Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

I wish they'd make their bloody minds up.

Victor Meldrew

@Catogrande said in The GOAT:

@Victor-Meldrew said in The GOAT:

@MiketheSnow said in The GOAT:

Karch was excellent.

Someone just reminded me of Squash's Jahanger Khan

"Jahangir Khan ( Urdu: جهانگير خان‎; born 10 December 1963) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open six times, and the British Open ten times. Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

This from Wiki: "Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

This also from Wiki: "Jansher Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time"

I wish they'd make their bloody minds up.

Imagine if he had a daughter named Jemima...

dogmeat

@shark said in The GOAT:

Anyway, this just in from the US: The top 10 GOATs.

1 Tom Brady
2 Michael Jordan
3 Michael Phelps
4 Tiger Woods
5 Muhammad Ali
6 LeBron James
7 Wilt Chamberlain
8 Babe Ruth
9 Willie Mays
10 Joe Montana

Mentions to Chris Chelios, Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, Joe Namath, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Chang, John Cena, Jeremy Lin and a medicine cabinet on two wheels.

Get outta here. WTF?

sparky

The GOAT from American Football isn't Tom Brady, it isn't Joe Montana, it's Lawrence Taylor...

Dice

@voodoo said in The GOAT:

@shark said in The GOAT:

Anyway, this just in from the US: The top 10 GOATs.

1 Tom Brady
2 Michael Jordan
3 Michael Phelps
4 Tiger Woods
5 Muhammad Ali
6 LeBron James
7 Wilt Chamberlain
8 Babe Ruth
9 Willie Mays
10 Joe Montana

Mentions to Chris Chelios, Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, Joe Namath, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Chang, John Cena, Jeremy Lin and a medicine cabinet on two wheels.

Also, get the fuck out with Wilt, I've debunked that myth already, he's not even top 5 in the NBA GOAT conversation

Wilt was the GOAT off the court.

Bones

At the risk of a booboo

ACT Crusader

If anyone else follows Table Tennis, Ma Long is probably the GOAT

MN5

@Bones said in The GOAT:

At the risk of a booboo

.....and it's common knowledge the hitman wasn't even the greatest wrestler of his era.

Fuck off Tom Brady you pretender.

shark

Jeremy Lin didn't tip you fluffybunnies off that my list was a piss take, but instead you take exception to John Cena and Michael Chang???

Rancid Schnitzel

@MN5 said in The GOAT:

@Bones said in The GOAT:

At the risk of a booboo

.....and it's common knowledge the hitman wasn't even the greatest wrestler of his era.

Fuck off Tom Brady you pretender.

He wasn’t even the best wrestler in his family. RIP Owen

Chris B.

@shark Look at the patience and tactical awareness of Bradbury. He risked losing to win!

MajorRage

@Chris-B The thing I hated most about that Bradbury was that it just had to be a fucking Australian!!! 2002 was right in the epicentre of their sporting purple patch. Rugby cricket netball swimming and even the socceroos were doing pretty well. And man did they not shut up about it.

And then lo and behold they were god damn handed a medal at the winter olympics!!!

booboo

@Dice said in The GOAT:

@voodoo said in The GOAT:

@shark said in The GOAT:

Anyway, this just in from the US: The top 10 GOATs.

1 Tom Brady
2 Michael Jordan
3 Michael Phelps
4 Tiger Woods
5 Muhammad Ali
6 LeBron James
7 Wilt Chamberlain
8 Babe Ruth
9 Willie Mays
10 Joe Montana

Mentions to Chris Chelios, Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, Joe Namath, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Chang, John Cena, Jeremy Lin and a medicine cabinet on two wheels.

Also, get the fuck out with Wilt, I've debunked that myth already, he's not even top 5 in the NBA GOAT conversation

Wilt was the GOAT off the court.

That may have been mentioned

TeWaio

@nzzp said in The GOAT:

@ACT-Crusader said in The GOAT:

@voodoo the talent around Russell was very good as well - Havlicek, Cousy, Sam and KC Jones, Heinsohn, Sharman.

the talent around Brady has been pretty impressive as well - not least Bill Belichek.

This is a great thread, by the way.

I'm also voting against Usain Bolt (and any track/field, or cycling to be fair), as PED are just too likely.

https://medium.com/@tomnew/usain-bolt-lance-armstrong-and-the-duck-test-303b7b891e7e

I came here to post basically this to earlier suggestions of Bolt, but you beat me to it. Absolutely spot on unfortunately (and I am a huge athletics fan).

The golden era of Jamaican sprinting 2008-2017 coincided perfectly with them having a basically non functional national anti doping body.

mofitzy_

Unproven doping (even if highly likely) shouldn't rule out anyone. I assume the Americans leagues have higher levels of doping than international sports, so for Jordan, Brady etc. I would be more surprised if they were completely clean.

The Silver Fern

The GOAT