For Sports Fans

[smoothg103rd]

I'm having a big argument with my mans and them. They think a championship is more valuable than being a Hall of Fame player. Which is fucking stupid to me. I'm trying to get across to them that anybody could win a championship, Football, Basketball and Baseball are not individual sports. They are team sports. So that being said, a lot of people win a ring (alot) and some don't even contribute. But only a select few make it to the hall of fame. Rings are important but being a Hall of Fame states that you are one of the best to ever do it. What do you think?

 

[Tryharder62]

I'm having a big argument with my mans and them. They think a championship is more valuable than being a Hall of Fame player. Which is fucking stupid to me. I'm trying to get across to them that anybody could win a championship, Football, Basketball and Baseball are not individual sports. They are team sports. So that being said, a lot of people win a ring (alot) and some don't even contribute. But only a select few make it to the hall of fame. Rings are important but being a Hall of Fame states that you are one of the best to ever do it. What do you think?

I think the championship is the goal football players strive for so even being in the NFL but not getting a ring is just short of being the best. Unfortunately I don't think the general public cares about who makes the Hall of Fame as much as the ring.

 

[SolarHomo]

Have you seen those rings? They are god awful.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I think the championship is the goal football players strive for so even being in the NFL but not getting a ring is just short of being the best. Unfortunately I don't think the general public cares about who makes the Hall of Fame as much as the ring.

I know everyone strives for a ring, I know that. But the yellow jacket is more valuable than a ring ( to me anyways). So Robert Horry is better than Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing? The Knicks are not grateful for what Pat did for them?
I'm estimating that 2,544 players won a super bowl ring being that it was 48 super bowls and 53 players to a team. Not counting the players that receive rings while being injured. Their are only 280 people in the NFL Hall of Fame (I think). So you tell me what one is more valuable?

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I'm having a big argument with my mans and them. They think a championship is more valuable than being a Hall of Fame player. Which is fucking stupid to me. I'm trying to get across to them that anybody could win a championship, Football, Basketball and Baseball are not individual sports. They are team sports. So that being said, a lot of people win a ring (alot) and some don't even contribute. But only a select few make it to the hall of fame. Rings are important but being a Hall of Fame states that you are one of the best to ever do it. What do you think?

I tend to agree with you, but I think the current you're swimming upstream against is that most fans have a particular lust for "The Game" and, more specifically, "The Great Play."

Obviously, anyone in the HOF has had their share of great games and great plays, but by the time they get there they are usually separated from those games and plays by a number of years that somehow make the enshrinement anti-climactic.

In other words, screw the speeches and the jacket! Show me the highlight reel.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I tend to agree with you, but I think the current you're swimming upstream against is that most fans have a particular lust for "The Game" and, more specifically, "The Great Play."

Obviously, anyone in the HOF has had their share of great games and great plays, but by the time they get there they are usually separated from those games and plays by a number of years that somehow make the enshrinement anti-climactic.

In other words, screw the speeches and the jacket! Show me the highlight reel.

Who is your favorite player?

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Who is your favorite player?

Oh, gee, that's tough.

When I was a kid, it was Johnny Unitas.

As an adult, I was fortunate enough to live in Denver during the John Elway years.

In hockey, it was Bobby Orr first and Wayne Gretzky later.

In college basketball, John Wall was the most dominant player I've ever seen in the one year he played for my Kentucky Wildcats. I haven't really followed his pro career.

In baseball, I'll go with Willie Mays.