Greatest Athlete Born in Each State.

[SEIndSAM]

Slide 14 has Larry Bird as the greatest athlete born in Indiana. Anyone diagree??

The Greatest Athlete of All Time From Every State

 

[pudly]

Bird is great, but I'd place Oscar [STRIKE]Robinson[/STRIKE] Robertson ahead of him.

Oops. Grew up in Indiana, but born in Tennessee.

 

[Peter Potamus]

Bird is great, but I'd place Oscar Robinson ahead of him.

Or maybe even Oscar Robertson.

 

[Peter Potamus]

Depends on how they define "great?"

 

[eldirector]

Not Fuzzy Zoeller? Or one of the many race drivers?

Not knocking Bird.

 

[HoughMade]

Larry Bird's a great pick, but I would take a hard look at Bob Griese. He led the only NFL team to go undefeated.

 

[T.Lex]

Larry Bird was a great basketball player, but more because of his work ethic than his athletic ability. Dude's vertical leap was about the same as 3 credit cards laid flat.

This guy gets my vote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ewry

Dude did a standing long jump of nearly 11.5 ft. Lots of NFL caliber guys can't do that.

 

[Mark-DuCo]

Larry Bird was a great basketball player, but more because of his work ethic than his athletic ability. Dude's vertical leap was about the same as 3 credit cards laid flat.

This guy gets my vote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ewry

Dude did a standing long jump of nearly 11.5 ft. Lots of NFL caliber guys can't do that.

Holy crap he get's my vote too, especially since he did after he was stuck in a wheelchair due to polio as a child.

 

[HoughMade]

Holy crap he get's my vote too, especially since he did after he was stuck in a wheelchair due to polio as a child.

The self-control I am exercising by what I am not posting in response to this statement must be acknowledged.

 

[OutdoorDad]

Steve McQueen.

Not just a racer.

Cool.

And Cool is the hardest sport of all.

 

[dcr465]

Chuck Klein, Mordecai Brown, Edd Roush

 

[hopper68]

With all these Bears fans on here I expected Jay Cutler.

 

[sharkey]

The fix is in, ain't it? Bird never did nothing carrying anyone on his back like Dan Patch did.

 

[jsharmon7]

The injustice is that my name is not on this list. I was set to go pro, but Little League baseball is terribly political.