Phil Niekro?***

https://atlallday.com/2019/01/30/first-take-stephen-smith-gives-perfect-top-five-atlanta-athletes/

It’s hard to argue with the top 2. This mentions Chipper getting dissed, but what about Maddox, Glavine, or
Smoltz? And Vick at 5? GTFO.

How I rank them:

1. Hammerin Hank.
2. Bobby Jones: 7 Majors plus 5 U.S. Amateurs and 1 British Amateurs
3. Deion: 8 times All-Pro First Team and defensive player of the year in 1994. Plus, good baseball player.
4. Greg Maddux: 4 Cy Young’s. 18 Gold Gloves.
5. Evander Holyfield: World Champ in two weight classes.
6. John Smotz: Over Glavine because of career as starter as well as closer.
7. Tom Glavine.
8. Chipper Jones
9. Dominque Wilkins: all NBA first team only once.
10. Pete Maravich
11. Julio Jones: 2 times all pro
12. Matt Ryan 1 time all pro
13.:Tommy Nobis: 1 time all pro
McGriff and Justice and a few other baseball players over Vick.

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if anybody remember "The Superstars" from the 70's-80's

Feb 5, 2019, 4:16 PM

it was a competition between stars of all different sports. Plus they had team competitions.

The track and field guys were outstanding, along with football players.
Baseball teams held their own in the team thing vs football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstars_(U.S._TV_program)

List of American National Superstars champions
Year Athlete Sport State
1973 Bob Seagren Pole Vault
1974 Kyle Rote, Jr. Soccer
1975 O. J. Simpson Football
1976 Kyle Rote, Jr. Soccer
1977 Kyle Rote, Jr. Soccer
1978 Wayne Grimditch Water Skiing
1979 Greg Pruitt Football
1980 Charles White Football
1981 Renaldo Nehemiah Track and field
1982 Renaldo Nehemiah Track and field
1983 Renaldo Nehemiah Football
1984 Tom Petranoff Javelin
1985 Mark Gastineau Football
1986 Renaldo Nehemiah Football
1987 Herschel Walker Football
1988 Herschel Walker Football
1989 Willie Gault Football
1990 Willie Gault Football
1991 Kelly Gruber Baseball
1992 Mike Powell Long Jump
1993 Dave Johnson Decathlon
1994 Dave Johnson Decathlon
1995 - 1997: Competition Not Held
1998 Jason Sehorn Football
1999 Jason Sehorn Football
2000 Jason Sehorn Football
2001 Hermann Maier Alpine Skiing
2002 Bode Miller Alpine Skiing
2003 Jeremy Bloom Freestyle Skiing

SuperTeams
A companion competition, this event would pit the two World Series teams and the two Super Bowl teams in a playoff-type match using all the Superstars events, with some team events added such as Hawaiian rowing and the Tug-of-War. The running, swimming, and cycling events were relays, with the cycling done on tandem bikes; the obstacle course (which had its blocking sleds replaced by monkey bars similar to those used in the women's competition, as it was felt that the football teams would have too much of an advantage over the baseball teams) was decided by best combined time. The team that won the most events in each semi-final advanced to the SuperTeams finals where an ultimate champions would be crowned.[1] The New York Yankees advanced to the World Series in 1977, 1978, and 1981, and was eligible to participate in these events held the early in the following year, however Yankees owner George Steinbrenner refused to allow his players to compete, as he had several of his top players under lucrative long term guaranteed contracts that required players to get ownership permission to participate in outside athletic activities, which in this case Steinbrenner refused to grant. In those years, loser of the ALCS in those years took the Yankees place, and in all three years that team ultimately won the competition.

In the 1978 final, the Dallas Cowboys and Kansas City Royals split the first six events, so the tug-of-war would decide the winner. However, while there was a time limit in the preliminary rounds, there was none in the final, and after 75 minutes in which neither team came particularly close to winning, the organizers declared the event (and, as a result, the competition) a tie.

SuperTeams Winners
1975 - Los Angeles Dodgers
1976 - Pittsburgh Steelers
1977 - Cincinnati Reds
1978 - (tie) Dallas Cowboys & Kansas City Royals
1979 - Kansas City Royals
1980 - Los Angeles Rams
1981 - Philadelphia Eagles
1982 - Oakland Athletics
1983 - Washington Redskins

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Stephen A. Smith’s top 5 ATL Athletes of All-Time.

Vick may have been a better athlete than all of them.

Yea, just like Dominique could be a

This mostly bugs me when talking about Tom Brady, who

Henry Louis Aaron, obviously.

Should have put Niekro at the end of that Braves list.***

If you really want so narrowly focus on Atlanta...

what's the criteria here?

It looks like it's talking about playing

I have Bobby Jones #2. Good pull

it's just too nebulous

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Tiger Woods. He won the Tour Championship at East Lake.***

And Brady just won the SB at MB.***

14. beefsteak***

Steve Bartkowski. Leeman Bennett.

Uhhh, Billy Joe Tolliver? Chris Miller?***

Blauser????***

That's like saying outer space is cold.***

What about KUUUUUUUCCCCCHHHHHH...

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But coming in first all time is a man who played them all.

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No Bo? wth?***

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Unless you play outfield, SS, 3B, or 2B.***

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Very false

if anybody remember "The Superstars" from the 70's-80's

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