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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 23:34:37 GMT
I go:
1A. Lance Armstrong
1B. Mike Tyson
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Oct 15, 2018 23:41:49 GMT
I find the Pat Tillman story fascinating. A skilled athlete in the prime of his career walks away for what he considers a higher calling, and ends up paying the ultimate price, in the end all for nothing.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Oct 15, 2018 23:56:48 GMT
C B Fry?
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Oct 16, 2018 0:12:24 GMT
Terry Fox.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 1:02:30 GMT
Ali.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Oct 16, 2018 1:36:40 GMT
Eddie Griffin
Jim Thorpe
Wilt Chamberlain
Ty Cobb
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 16, 2018 10:23:42 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Oct 16, 2018 10:39:39 GMT
Frank Worrall and Imran Khan- got into politucs after sport, Khan became leader of his country, Worrall died before he had the chance.
Henry Olonga- Zimbabwean cricketer who fled his country after publicly protesting Robert Mugabe's dictatorship and became an opera singer
Neale Daniher-contracted Motor Neurone (ALS) after retiring from AFL and became a tireless campaigner and fundraiser
Hansie Cronje- former saffer cricket captain banned for life for match fixing and died a couple of years later in a plane crash.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 16, 2018 12:14:57 GMT
Some great choices with Tillman and Ali. I always appreciate a Thorpe shoutout and I'll echo that. Guy walks off an Indian reservation to become the world's greatest athlete. (For context for those unfamiliar with Jim Thorpe, he was a college football legend, he won two Gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics [pentathlon, decathlon] and played professional football and baseball-- and he was a basketball barnstormer; in other words an incredibly versatile athlete.) But from a human interest aspect that's only the beginning. They took away his gold medals because he had played semi-pro baseball before the Olympics (which many Olympic athletes did, they were just savvy enough to use fake names). The medals weren't restored until decades after his death, and he became an unemployed alcoholic who died in squalor. His family tried to erect a shrine to him in his home state of Oklahoma but the town declined funding. Then his wife essentially auctioned off his remains to the town of Mauch Chunk, PA (a place Thorpe himself had never been) so they could create a tourist attraction around his remains to attract business. The town even changed its name to Jim Thorpe, PA.
On one hand the dude has a town named after him and a pretty sweet memorial. On the other hand, that place meant nothing to him and his remains belong in his home state, in my opinion. Thorpe was so far ahead of his time that most people today haven't heard of him, but stories of his athletic exploits will blow your mind even now. The idea that the world's greatest athlete could die broke and forgotten is unfathomable today.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Oct 16, 2018 12:24:12 GMT
Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956), was an English sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."
Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket and football, an FA Cup Final appearance for Southampton F.C. and equalling the then-world record for the long jump. He also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania. In later life, he suffered mental health problems, but even well into his seventies he claimed he was still able to perform his party trick: leaping from a stationary position backwards onto a mantelpiece.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 16, 2018 14:24:12 GMT
Curt Flood
Doc Ellis
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 16, 2018 14:28:11 GMT
Imagine the arguments on message boards and social media if a player fought for free agency today as opposed to back in Flood's day. |
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