If you could meet just one...

[sh4dowf4lcon]

Sports figure (player or coach) from any era on any team in any sport, dead or alive who would you pick?

For me?

Tom Landry

 

[powerslave]

Johnny Bench or Willie Stargell.

I briefly met Bench as a little kid at an autograph thing. Both were my favorite baseball players growing up.

 

[bran987]

Sports figure (player or coach) from any era on any team in any sport, dead or alive who would you pick?

For me?

Tom Landry

I was happy to see the Freeway be named after him

For me hands down Uwe Blab

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

Sorry for being ignorant. Uwe Blab? What did he do orbly?

 

[bran987]

Sorry for being ignorant. Uwe Blab? What did he do orbly?

oh, basically nothing. you aren't ignorant, that's just me being retarded. he was a goofy 7 footer that played for the mavs about 5 years in the late 80's

my real answer:

Jack Dempsey, "The Manassa Mauler", because he was tough as nails, a great champion, one of the first american sports superstars. 60-6-8 record with 50 knockouts and defended the heavyweight title in 6 out of 7 years in a row. he was known for ending fights within seconds.

my grandfather used to spar with him. They were friends & business partners. He died when my mom was 3 so I never got to meet him, just pictures and videos with no sound. I'd like to meet Jack and ask him about my grandaddy and what it was like to be heavyweight champ.

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

werd, I know Dempsey's story, a real slugger

 

[jstrick2]

Barry Sanders, hands down. Guy never talked trash, acted cocky, or danced around the endzone. No signing footballs for him. Just handed the ball to the ref and ran to sidelines....he knew he would be back soon enough

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

werd on Barry, wish he hadn't quit when he did.

 

[resonator]

Cassius Clay before he changed his name.

 

[bran987]

werd on Barry, wish he hadn't quit when he did.

I dunno, kinda better than seeing him try to struggle as an old man like Emmitt