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post #31 of 262
10/5/09 at 4:54pm
Kenny Easley
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post #32 of 262
10/5/09 at 4:59pm
ken stabler
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post #33 of 262
10/5/09 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by kwiteaboy View Post
Ichiro is incredibly underrated, oftentimes even by Seattle fans.
A-Rod has been underrated for several years (while being the highest-paid baseball player ever, he's still been underpaid by about $40 million since 2002).
Adrian Beltre!

You're joking right? I'm so glad the Dodgers dumped him after his one and only decent season in 2004.
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post #34 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:01pm
roger staubach
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post #35 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:04pm
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You're joking right? I'm so glad the Dodgers dumped him after his one and only decent season in 2004.

He's been worth 16.5 WAR for the Mariners since that season. A little over 3 WAR per season while being best defensive 3B in baseball and lovable? I'd say he's underrated.
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post #36 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:10pm
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roger staubach

Staubach was a GOD to Texas schoolboys in the late 70's. A GOD I tell you. Most schoolboys would tell you that Roger walked on water and that imposter Danny White would be holding a clipboard until Roger was ready to retire.
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post #37 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:12pm
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Staubach was a GOD to Texas schoolboys in the late 70's. A GOD I tell you. Most schoolboys would tell you that Roger walked on water and that imposter Danny White would be holding a clipboard until Roger was ready to retire.

I did not live in Texas, but I can well remember Texan adulation for Staubach and burning hatred of White. I think my family has watched the '81 NFC championship game more times than actual NFL games have been played throughout history.
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post #38 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:15pm
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+1. How anybody can consider most of these guys underrated is beyond me. Steve's list is ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by iammatt View Post
Why not?

Joe Montana
Marcus Allen
Lee Trevino
Larry Bird
Kevin McHale
Nick Faldo
Bjorn Borg

all rated highly, but not highly enough.

alright. Montana and Allen were practically run out of town while still great, and people rarely saw them as the best at any one time. Trevino is classic underrated and scrappy, yet probably the second best hitter of a golf ball in history. Bird, you could argue, but mchale was rarelyentioned as a great. Faldo was the nest of his day, by a mile, but totally overshadowed by Norman et al. People forgot about Borg in two seconds.
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post #39 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:17pm
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I heard Ronnie Lott give a talk a few years ago, and he said something to the effect of:

anybody good enough to be a pro believes he can beat the other team. Some few players are so good that they make their teammates believe that they will, somehow, beat the other team, but, to his knowledge, only Jordan, Montana and Tiger Woods made the other team, at all times, convinced that they would do something that would beat them.

Tom Weiskopf once said of Jack Nicklaus, "When you got to the first tee, he knew he was going to beat you; and you knew he was going to beat you; and he knew that you knew he was going to beat you."
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post #40 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:18pm
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Staubach was a GOD to Texas schoolboys in the late 70's. A GOD I tell you. Most schoolboys would tell you that Roger walked on water and that imposter Danny White would be holding a clipboard until Roger was ready to retire.

Danny White
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post #41 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:21pm
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Originally Posted by kwiteaboy View Post
He's been worth 16.5 WAR for the Mariners since that season. A little over 3 WAR per season while being best defensive 3B in baseball and lovable? I'd say he's underrated.

At the risk of sounding like a complete dumbass, what the heck is a "WAR"?

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Staubach was a GOD to Texas schoolboys in the late 70's. A GOD I tell you. Most schoolboys would tell you that Roger walked on water and that imposter Danny White would be holding a clipboard until Roger was ready to retire.

Yep - I remember my mom hiding my Staubach jersey so I couldn't wear it to school everyday when I was in third grade. I still think he was unerrated compared to Bradshaw.
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post #42 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:22pm
Ah yes, the white athlete appreciation thread
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post #43 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:22pm
Larry Holmes
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post #44 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:22pm
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Danny White

Great punter
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post #45 of 262
10/5/09 at 5:23pm
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Larry Holmes

+1000
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