re: Greater Athlete: Bo or Deion

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You're right gump.

A heisman trophy, one of the best college career's of all time, an NFL pro bowl and MLB all star as well as the greatest YPC average of any NFL RB ever = nothing. I am sure you have accomplished more personally.

Oh yeah, 141 home runs in about 3.5 full baseball season is nothing as well.

Qualifying for the olypics is relatively laughable too.

Bo sucked and never did shite.

Right gump?

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Did he compete in the Olympics? No

He played 8 seasons in the major leagues, not 3.5. Only stat he ever lead the majors in was strikeouts.

Only an Auburn fan would call his college career one of the best of all time. I can name a dozen running backs with better ones. He's not even the best from the SEC.

Hate to break it to you, but All-Star games are popularity contests, not decided by accomplishments on the field. Bo was very popular, but never produced anything more than mediocre professional stats.

If you carry the ball once for 20 yards, that's a great average. Bo had a couple good games, which combined with his low number of carries gave him a good average. Sad isn't it that he never even once ran for 1000 yards in a season.

Again....production, versus potential. He had the potential, just never the production.

In your fantasy world, potential trumps production. I live in the real world, and production > all.