Sports Stars Everyone Wrote Off - But Weren't 'Done'

Peyton Manning after Indy let him go.

If Tiger were to win another major, the argument for #1 is probably over.

I see he won a Champions Tour event recently, good for him.  
5 PGA wins, 2 of those majors - PGA & Open titles respectively.  I think his winning at St. Andrew's earns a bonus for cred.

Daly's 2 majors were real & I like listing athletes who's success we forget about.  Like Nolan Ryan, winning a World Series title with the f'n Miracle Mets of all random fateful teams - meanwhile he's best known for being the strikeout & no hit king with the Angels, Astros, & Rangers.

Is this true, or are you making it up?

He was signed by the Packers, was cut, and went from HyVee to AFL to NFL Europe to the Rams.

He won the Super Bowl with the Rams, lost his starting job ( to Marc Bulger ) and was cut by the Rams.

He signed with the Giants, lost his starting job ( to Eli Manning ) and was cut by the Giants.

He signed with the Cardinals, lost his starting job ( to Matt Leinart ) and then regained it, and led them to the Super Bowl.

Meaning he has overcome adversity more than a few times.

Andre Agassi admits long hairstyle was a wig

12:26AM GMT 31 Oct 2009

Agassi made the confession about his locks, which won him a legion of female admirers, in his new autobiography, Open.

"Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole.

"I asked myself: you want to wear a toupee?

On the tennis court?

I answered myself; what else could I do?"

He wore the wig for the French Open in 1990, the first time he had reached a Grand Slam final.

"Then a fiasco happened," he said.

"The evening before the match I stood under the shower and felt my wig suddenly fall apart.

"Probably I used the wrong hair rinse. I panicked and called my brother Philly into the room.

"It’s a total disaster!" I said to him. He looked at it and said he could clamp it with hair clips.

"It took 20 clips.

"Do you think it will hold?" I asked.

"Just don’t move so much," he said.

"Of course I could have played without my hairpiece, but what would all the journalists have written if they knew that all the time I was really wearing a wig?

"During the warming-up training before play I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off.

"With each leap, I imagine it falling into the sand.

I imagine millions of spectators move closer to their TV sets, their eyes widening and, in dozens of dialects and languages, ask how Andre Agassi’s hair has fallen from his head.

It was Brooke Shields, who he married, who suggested he cut all his hair off.

"She said I should shave my head," he said.

"It was like suggesting I should have all my teeth out.

"Nevertheless, I thought for a few days about it, about the agonies it caused me, the hypocrisy and lies."

After an 11-minute haircut, his appearance had changed dramatically.

"A stranger stood before me in the mirror and smiled," he said.

"'My wig was like a chain and the ridiculously long strands in three colors, like an iron ball which hung on it."