Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#164,026
rikberry31 said:
My first response is Billy Sims was otherworldly and he played on some lousy teams.
My pick for the greatest football player is Lawrence Taylor Johnny Unitas. *my freakin spell check is killing me* I typed Johnny Unitas but it kept changing it to Lawrence Taylor who couldn't be my choice because he's not white. I really hate computers.
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Yep....Us white folks have to stick together.



* I still can't believe my android let me post a positive message gif about a black football player earlier. My phone knows I'm racist.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
The automated phvckers that call me everyday never say hello. They just want to make sure I have enough dental benefits. Extremely rude if you ask me.
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I yelled at Bo-Linda (the new AI order taker) at the Bojangles drive thru earlier. "She" wouldn't stop yapping about adding additional items to my order.
 
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#164,029
Enki_Amenra said:
People didn't say "hello" as a greeting before the phone. . . and we could be saying "ahoy" instead of hello if Bell had his way.

"Hello" was a hot new slang at one point, no cap.
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The origins of "Good Bye" are also interesting. It comes from a Gaelic tradition. When a young male suitor was leaving the home of his betrothed, the girls father would send him off with a Gaelic phrase roughly translated GTFO. It was later shortened to the parting phrase we use today.
 
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rikberry31 said:
Do you really think Larry Bird is going to say anything different? Larry Bird's like,"Yeah, I'm the greatest." MJ is better athlete, but even as a Dr J fan I have to say that Bird was fundamentally the best in an era when everyone played fundamentally. Jordan started winning when the rules were changed. Dr J, Kareem, Bird, Dominique Wilkins, and Magic under the same rules would have averaged 50 a night.
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MJ was an MVP candidate his rookie season. Try again.

And yes, I would expect someone who they were the GOAT not to say someone else in the GOAT.

MJ knows he is the GOAT. Gretzky knows he is the GOAT. They may not publicly say that, but they also don't claim anyone else was better than them.


And again literally everyone that played against MJ calls him the GOAT. There are players who played in multiple eras and played against MJ, Kobe, and LeBron, like Kevin Garnett. They say MJ was the best. That's good enough for me.
 
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Carp said:
MJ was an MVP candidate his rookie season. Try again.

And yes, I would expect someone who they were the GOAT not to say someone else in the GOAT.

MJ knows he is the GOAT. Gretzky knows he is the GOAT. They may not publicly say that, but they also don't claim anyone else was better than them.


And again literally everyone that played against MJ calls him the GOAT. There are players who played in multiple eras and played against MJ, Kobe, and LeBron, like Kevin Garnett. They say MJ was the best. That's good enough for me.
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When did Jordan start winning with the Bulls? I save the search. It was after the rules for fouls were changed and things like traveling and palming the ball were tolerated. The fans wanted dunks and the NBA was going to give them dunks. Your probably too young to remember when dunking didn't happen in fact it was illegal for about 30 years. Thanks to Dr J and Darryl Dawkins it became an artform.
MJ was decent at dunking only problem was that ornery men at the low post frowned on it and would rip an arm of if you tried it. Ala open the lane to dunks by changing fouls. The birth of Air Jordan.
 
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rikberry31 said:
When did Jordan start winning with the Bulls? I save the search. It was after the rules for fouls were changed and things like traveling and palming the ball were tolerated. The fans wanted dunks and the NBA was going to give them dunks. Your probably too young to remember when dunking didn't happen in fact it was illegal for about 30 years. Thanks to Dr J and Darryl Dawkins it became an artform.
MJ was decent at dunking only problem was that ornery men at the low post frowned on it and would rip an arm of if you tried it. Ala open the lane to dunks by changing fouls. The birth of Air Jordan.
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Are you under the impression MJ scored most of his points in the paint or something? What an ignorant statement to make.

MJ won his first MVP BEFORE the rules change? But somehow a rules change made all the difference. GTFOH.

The Bulls with MJ made the Eastern Conference finals for 2 straight seasons before his first title. The only thing that held Jordan back from a 5 peat (or maybe even a 6 peat since they lost to the Pistons in 88 as well) was a HOF Detroit Pistons unit that was one of the best of all time.
 
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screenthis said:
Give some of that credit to Joe Montana.
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Yep.... you can't be a record setting wide receiver without someone throwing you the ball.



*Barry Sanders was a 1 man show. I've been a Green Bay fan since high school but I loved watching Barry Sanders run. He's the best football player I've seen in my lifetime.
 
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