Greatest GOAT of all sports

[Invictus]

Not in the same league as Terry Fox.

Your right, Terry Fox doesn't come close.

[Daydream Nation]

Jordan

He was the best player in the league for a decade. He should have been the league MVP 8-9 times but they rewarded other players. 6-0 in the finals with 6 MVPs. Missed 2 prime seasons due to his 1st retirement.

[rataylor22]

Greatest GOAT? IDK.

Brady isn't even the best QB in his own sport. He's obviously not the GOAT of all sports lmao.

[rataylor22]

It's probably Serena. The only real contenders are Bolt, Phelps, and Tiger.

[chuckcouples]

might have an argument for greatest individual athletic performance... but 5 strike-outs in a row, a GOAT it does not make.

How about leading your softball team to 9743 victories including a winning streak of over 8000 games, while amassing over 140,000 strikeouts, 930 no-hitters and 238 perfect games? And his team only used four players against teams of 9. They only needed a catcher, a pitcher, a 1st baseman and a shortstop.

[rataylor22]

Jordan

He was the best player in the league for a decade. He should have been the league MVP 8-9 times but they rewarded other players. 6-0 in the finals with 6 MVPs. Missed 2 prime seasons due to his 1st retirement.

Congratulations on Jordan for only going to the finals when he won them. It's cute/fun that we get to pretend like losing earlier in the playoffs all those other times doesn't matter. 4-6 is more impressive than 6-0.

[Stifler]

the problem with articles like these are that these are oblivious to sports outside North America.

Outside of North America, guys like Brady and Gretzky don't exactly exists.

Where's the Pele (soccer), McCaw (rugby), Bradman (cricket) and many others alike in this list?


NFL's best viewed match has 114 million. To illustrate, cricket's highest match has 274 million viewers.

These articles are garbage.

[Invictus]

How about leading your softball team to 9743 victories including a winning streak of over 8000 games, while amassing over 140,000 strikeouts, 930 no-hitters and 238 perfect games? And his team only used four players against teams of 9. They only needed a catcher, a pitcher, a 1st baseman and a shortstop.

That would be pretty comical. I would love to watch footage of that! Makes sense if your pitcher is that good.

[Invictus]

Congratulations on Jordan for only going to the finals when he won them. It's cute/fun that we get to pretend like losing earlier in the playoffs all those other times doesn't matter. 4-6 is more impressive than 6-0.

You mean 6-4 ya?

[lucafen4]

Congratulations on Jordan for only going to the finals when he won them. It's cute/fun that we get to pretend like losing earlier in the playoffs all those other times doesn't matter. 4-6 is more impressive than 6-0.

Well... are we counting the Conf. finals Brady lost too?

In those 6.. There's two sets or repeats. There's the what-if he didn't retire. But we all kinda know he would have won at least one other.

That sentence is horrible by the way.

"Congratulations on Jordan for winning the finals every time he got there."

It's not like he played for 5 years, missed the finals then got back to them. He just never left.

[Invictus]

Wilt the Stilt Chamblerlain

Nothing says G.O.A.T. of all sports like being inducted in not one, but two different Hall of Fames! Basketball and Volleyball

[senryu]

My out of left field pick for greatest athletic achievement is speed skater Eric Heiden at the 1980 Winter Olympics. 5 golds in the distances from 500m to 10,000m. That's comparable to someone winning the 100m dash and the marathon and three distances in between in about a week and a half. It is unimaginable.

That being said, the GOAT is Serena.

[rataylor22]

You mean 6-4 ya?

No. Brady's SB record doesn't matter, he's not even part of the conversation. I'm talking Jordan vs. Lebron. Which again, neither are the "all sports" GOAT either.

Well... are we counting the Conf. finals Brady lost too?

In those 6.. There's two sets or repeats. There's the what-if he didn't retire. But we all kinda know he would have won at least one other.

That sentence is horrible by the way.

"Congratulations on Jordan for winning the finals every time he got there."

It's not like he played for 5 years, missed the finals then got back to them. He just never left.

He chose to retire. We don't have any idea what would have happened those years, but he left. That was his choice, he doesn't get a reprieve for that.

[Axeman33]

Henri Richard and his 11 Stanley Cup victories wants in on this game.

[rataylor22]

Defining "greatness" by championships in team sports is the dumbest thing we do in team sports. Especially because nobody actually does it correctly, they just cherry pick.