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Re: Athlete you are a fan of
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:13 PM
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Tim Tebow... I just saw a commercial with him and it just reminded me of better days in college football
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Re: Athlete you are a fan of
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Tessa Miller
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Those "better days" included
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Jan 16, 2025, 2:48 PM
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Aaron Hernandez and 24 others with around 30 front arrests during the Urban Meyer era at UF.
Tebow was an angel on a team of thugs.
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:21 PM
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Peyton Manning
I’ve always thought that he was all class
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That Saturday Night Live skit Peyton did cemented it for me. Utter hilarity!***
Jan 16, 2025, 1:27 PM
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Re: Athlete you are a fan of
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:21 PM
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First photo is fun. In the day there was little pedestrian control at Boston.
The bars were overflow out side as no one was inside.
Beacon Street fans allowed just a small path for runners. The cheers were deafening!
Make it to Beacon and the fans would get you home if you could find a path through them.
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Michael Jordan
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:32 PM
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Not just for his God given ability to make playing basketball look easy, but his will to win, and ability to elevate his teammates level of play to win championships was incredible and legendary.
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Re: Michael Jordan
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Jan 12, 2025, 11:19 PM
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The Michael Jordan type of athletes only come around once in more than one lifetime!!!
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Re: Michael Jordan
Jan 16, 2025, 1:58 PM
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The GOAT and it ain’t even close!
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Re: Michael Jordan***
Jan 16, 2025, 2:01 PM
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Re: Athlete you are a fan of
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:48 PM
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Katie Ladecki and Ian Schiefflein. Got to meet Shief back in Oct
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Larry Csonka/Hank Aaron
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I was a huge Dolphins fan when I was a kid. Csonk was the definition of a blue collar, hard-nosed, leave it all on to a field type of guy. When football was football.
I was also a big Braves fan and Hammerin’ Hank was by childhood hero. Loved to watch Chief Noc A Homa dance around that teepee when he hit home runs.
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Re: Larry Csonka/Hank Aaron
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:57 PM
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coach howard used to say we missed out on getting Larry to Clemson because of the cost of a stamp. We got his transcript
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Re: Larry Csonka/Hank Aaron
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I was a Miami fan through most of Dan Marino's career. I quit on the NFL when they thought it was a good idea to allow the players go on strike and making NLF fans sick on their stomachs with the so called replacement players. That right there ended my NFL fan ship as a follower of the NFL...
IMPO, when a professional sport management and the athletes would rather go on strike without making a truly honest effort to reach an agreement just to make a point against each other by walking out on each other with one side joining a picket line and the other side locking everybody out until they have enough time to gather up a bunch of scrubs that couldn't make in the NFL prior to them running them out on the field and asking the fans to support their intentional strike and to enjoy their scrub sports so they could prove a point to their players...
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:49 PM
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Secretariat
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:53 PM
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LSU gymnast...
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Amen bruh
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Jan 13, 2025, 1:41 AM
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😝😝😝😝🍻
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:53 PM
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Cade Klubnick right now.
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Jan 12, 2025, 8:56 PM
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LT. Always been a chargers fan and loved him on the field but off the field he is humble and speaks very well. Listen to his HOF speak and you will become a fan.
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Jan 12, 2025, 9:21 PM
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Walter Payton outworked everyone else in the NFL during his era. He made running the football look like art.
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Clemson's own, Brian Dawkins.
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Jan 12, 2025, 9:27 PM
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Unbelievable athlete, family man and a man's man.
Definitely a Clemson Man.
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Jan 12, 2025, 9:27 PM
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Muggsy Bogues/Spud Webb
They went against the grain of a normal sized basketball player and gave it their all. They were important to their teams being undersized.
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Billy Mills
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Each year a group of us put on one of the largest high schools XC runs in the Southeast. We usually had a speaker come in on Friday night before the Saturday race. We’ve been fortunate to be able to get several Olympians to come in and speak and start the races. Joan Benoit was one of them, Frank Shorter was another along with Bill Roger’s and #### Beardsley.
>But my favorite had to be Bill Mills the Kansas All American who won the 1964 10,000 meters in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His win was considered to be one of the greatest Olympic achievements. His win was the first and only American to win the 10,000. He’s a Lakota Indian and told the story that when he made All American at they ask him if he would step aside while they took the picture of the All Americans. Billy said, h e l l , I was the only natural American in the bunch! If you ever get to hear him speak, by all means go.. inspirational and motivational.
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Re: Billy Mills
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Jan 12, 2025, 9:40 PM
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I ran in a race with Billy Mills in Charlotte at McAlpine Park..
He was there as a spokesman and ran at the rear with a huge crowd of fans as he was fat and happy by then.
Clemson great Steve Seaborn won the race, I was 3rd and 1st over 40.
My Bride's photo from that race was on the cover of the first issue of 'Running Journal'.
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Re: Billy Mills
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Jan 12, 2025, 10:49 PM
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That's awesome.
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Jan 12, 2025, 9:46 PM
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Bobby Boucher
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Jan 14, 2025, 6:50 PM
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HA
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Derek Jeter*
Jan 12, 2025, 10:40 PM
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Jan 12, 2025, 11:17 PM
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Trevor Lawrence, Travis Etienne Jr. Deshaun Watson, Hunter Renfrow, I mean I'm a fan to a lot of athletes but all of them played some sport at Clemson University. Well not all of them played a sport at Clemson, let's say like Canelo Alvarez, and I have been a huge fan of his since the first short clip that I saw him when he was only 15 years old and in that short clip I saw him in, he was a 15 year old kid that had just knocked a full grown man that was around I guess 27, 28 or 29 years old that was also a professional Mexican boxer. But I have been a huge fan of Canelo Alvarez since that one short clip of Canelo's left hook knocking out his opponent, and I'm pretty sure he holds the championship belts in 4 different weight classes, now that's a full blooded athlete wouldn't you say, and I think he is about 33-35 years old now!!!
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Re: Athlete you are a fan of 2 guys from Texas come to mind:
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WHEN WE LIVED IN HOUSTON, I never missed a U of H game and later a Rockets game when Hakeem Olajuwon played. He came to town raw, having been a soccer player in Nigeria, and became an All American and later All Pro because of his phenomenal athletic ability. His coordination and reaction times for a man his size were God given and still unmatched to this day. On top of that he was as nice a man as you would ever want to meet and always had a gentle, beaming smile for everyone. He was a class act both on the court and off. Those Houston Phi Slamma Jamma teams with Clyde 'The Glyde" Drexler, Michael Young, and Hakeem will always go down as some of the greatest college basketball teams of all time, even though they never won their final game in any year, they were so much fun to watch. Hakeem was always a fan favorite.
However, my favorite athlete of all time was Nolan Ryan. Some say the greatest pitcher of all time, who played for some really bad teams in his career, yet still posted Hall of Fame numbers, some records which will never be broken.If he had just pitched his 7th No-Hitter or he was working cattle on his ranch, his demeanor was always the same. Total understated class. The epitome of what every Texas Mom & Dad wanted their son to become. He was so loved in Texas, it would be difficult for anyone in other regions to understand, but it was real. Nolan Ryan was, and is, a Texas Treasure and my favorite athlete of all time.
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Jan 14, 2025, 6:19 PM
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Don’t think that Robin Ventura would agree with you on Nolan Ryan. 😉
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Then the rookie shouldn't have charged the mound. That was such a hilarious situation. I think Robin realized about halfway out that he had made a big mistake. He was either going to slug the 40+ yo HOF'er or he was going to get calf-roped and humiliated. No win in that one
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Caitlin Clark
Since being at Clemson, I haven't watched 10 mins of women's basketball. Watched multiple entire Iowa games with her draining shots from everywhere. Electric.
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Shaq. Been a fan since his Orlando Magic days.***
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Riley Gaines for defending female athletes' rights.***
Jan 16, 2025, 1:25 PM
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Re: Athlete you are a fan of
Jan 16, 2025, 1:54 PM
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too tough to choose one - so many goats and so many sports as well as too many Tigers
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Jan 16, 2025, 2:04 PM
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Tiger woods. To me he is the goat of all goats but that’s just me. IMHO he was more dominate than Micheal Jordan at his craft. Flame away but that’s my opinion. I would give a lot to be able to watch the 2005 masters and many more again during the moment. Witnesses some live and some on tv.
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Jan 16, 2025, 2:12 PM
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I'll take Roger Staubach. 1963 Heisman. Graduated from Naval Academy and could have requested an assignment in the US but volunteered for a 1 year tour in South Vietnam. In 1969, joins cowboys as 27-year-old rookie.
When he was your team's QB, you never gave up because he would give everything he could until the last second. He led those teams to some amazing comebacks.
I grew up in Dallas and as a kid, it was amazing to have a hero to look up to on the field and off of the field.(A lot like having Dabo as a hero for kids today) Like so many of the men that played on those great cowboy teams, he went on to be very successful after retirement.
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