Who was the luckiest professional athlete of all time?
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:01 PM Author: Kenneth Play
MFCR
*cue reverb sound effect*
"Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth."
*wipes away a tear*
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683126) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
Anna Kournikova is up there. A decent enough player who was hot as fuck and peaked in skill (and looks) during the personality vacuum that popped up post Seles/Graf and before the Williams sisters. Her fame is solely due to impeccable timing and a great ass.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682064) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
She’s in a wheelchair now
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682073) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:07 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/sports/anna-kournikova-seen-in-wheelchair-in-rare-public-appearance/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682413) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:49 PM
Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
she was a superb doubles player, for whatever that's worth.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682094) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
Her playing doubles with Hingis formed the basis of like 75% of my jerking off in the early 2000s
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682116) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682403) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:05 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
and a top 10 singles player, despite the forcememe that she was terrible bc she never won a singles title.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682407) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:22 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
She barely cracked the top 10 during a down period when there weren’t other stars. Lucky.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682661) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:29 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
diego schwartzman cracked the top 10 too. is he lucky? im not sure where you're going with this. lots of good but not truly great players crack the top 10 briefly after good runs. how is she any more lucky than any of them.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682690) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:38 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
She’s post menopause and in a wheelchair my man she’s not gonna fuck you
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682732) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
how would either or both of those things stop me?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682744) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:26 PM
Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
she's odd in that virtually every player who reached her singles ranking (8 iirc) managed to win at least one tournament. so maybe she was unlucky or maybe she didn't have the psychology to win solo.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682674) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:32 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
IIRC she was very tactical about the tournaments she entered, and ducked and dodged any loaded field that wasn’t a major
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682707) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:37 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
ur literally making shit up. she regularly played all the wta1000's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_career_statistics#Singles
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682724) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:33 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
yes she's an odd case. she was a top junior singles player. her failure to win a wta singles title is most likely mental midgetry. but that doesn't mean she sucked.
she certainly had talent and at many times proved she didnt suck. check out this tourney where she beat davenport, seles, conchita martinez and sanchez-vicarrio all in the same week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Lipton_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_singles
she beat all those players and then came up against penis in the finals. that's certainly unlucky. that performance should be good enough to win most tourneys.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682709) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
you're conflating fame as a celeb versus fame on her tennis prowess. she's less respected as a tennis player bc she was hot and everyone wrongly makes fun of her for being "terrible" bc she never won a singles title.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682415) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:05 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
Derek Fisher was a PG who couldn’t play PG. Mediocre distributor and poor defender. Ends up in a Phil Jackson offense (which doesnt use a traditional PG) and gets to operate as a pressure release for two of the top 50 players of all time in Shaq and Kobe. He could shoot wide open 3s.
He played for 18 seasons, won 5 rings with the Lakers, and succccccked any time he wasn’t in LA with that offense. If any other team had drafted him he probably wouldn’t have seen a second contract in the league.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682148) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM
Author: .,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,..,
Sam Bradford comes to mind. $130M career earnings over 8 years.
Brady also bc he could have easily just never gotten a window
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682078) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:06 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
yes, absolutely
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682411) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:05 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
sup roger?
this is such flame
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682409) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 12:53 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,
Eli Manning has a great case for this. He's going to get in the HOF and is a 2x Super Bowl MVP and a legend for beating Tom Brady twice.
But if it weren't for 2 ridiculous catches, he'd have 0 Super Bowl wins, 0 great teams (his super bowl teams had a 10-6 and 9-7 record), a career .500 record, and only ever led the league in INTs.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682107) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
yeah not sure how this isn't /thread
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682434) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682120) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:09 PM
Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682174) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:10 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682419) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 1:06 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,
Throwing out a couple of more names:
Madison Bumgarner - he's actually got better regular season stats than i remember, but i think you could argue he was lucky to have his best stretches appear in the World Series
Matt Flynn - started last game for Green Bay, ran up the score against an awful Detroit team, and got himself a $20 mm contract (a lot at the time) from Seattle...
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682151)
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,
Flynn is a really good one. That contract was based on more than the one game though - he had also looked amazing for several preseasons in a row and was widely thought of as being starter-ready but for being behind Aaron Rodgers.
Turns out he just knew how to flex on backups. He couldn’t even beat out Terrelle Pryor in Oakland.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682228) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:35 PM
Author: ,...,.,.,.;,.;,.;.,..,.;,...,.,,.,;,.,.;,.,
A hilarious follow-up to this is that he went to Seattle and sucked, went to Oakland and sucked, but then when Rodgers got hurt in 2013 both of their backups were horrible, so they just brought Flynn back and he was good again and got them into the playoffs.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683212) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 1:18 PM
Author: .;:..;:.;.:.;.,,,..,.:,.;....;,;;;..;,..,,.,,....,
Lebron. Jumps from superteam to superteam to win championships. Lebron stans ignore his abysmal +/- ratio and poor defense during his later years. Takes way too many plays off and gets his stats on bottom feeding teams
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682208) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:40 PM Author: 718-662-5970
Lebron is the example of something else. He has natural gifts that are probably the highest in NBA history. So his giftedness:accolades ratio is nothing outrageous.
Matter of fact, it probably goes the other way. He should have won so much more, and closed the argument on GOAT persuasively. Jordan with Lebron's body would have won 10 championships
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682298)
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:45 PM Author: 718-662-5970
i used to chuckle thinking about Ron Harper playing some "guess this celebrity" game:
1. Im a black NBA champion
2. I play for the Chicago Bulls
3. Im a 2 guard
4. I shave my head totally bald
Guess who I am!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682322) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,..
Dwight Howard or Kwame Brown. Egregiously bad, just got max contracts by being tall and having gym rat bodies
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682323) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:19 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,..
Also Kobe hated him. If you were a fan of the lakers then you hated him. He didn’t do shit for years and cost a ton of trade assets. As soon as we had gasol we were suddenly good again. Guy did nothing with his physical assets, just totally overrated
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682452) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 2:13 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
lots of golfers come to mind, particularly in the post-tiger vacuum:
paddy harrington is a 3x slam winner. c'mon man.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682432) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:23 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
you have to grind in most individual sports, but golf has lots of inherent randomness. golf majors are way more random than, say, tennis. plus the fact that all the 4 majors are in like a 2.5 month period means that someone peaking at the right time can get lucky and rack up several.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682466) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Paddy made huge use of square grooves which were then banned.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682679) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:26 PM
Author: .,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,..,
Reteif Goosen
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683552) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 2:22 PM Author: mountain cat
Charles Martin
Totally unremarkable fighter who got to be heavyweight champ of the world.
In 2015, after beating Wlad Klitschko, Tyson Fury was ordered to fight Vyacheslav Glazkov to defend his IBF World Title. Fury instead vacated the belt. Glazkov was then ordered to fight Charles Martin for the vacant belt. In the 3rd round, Glazkov slipped and tore his ACL preventing him from continuing and resulting in a TKO victory for Martin who then was KOd in his next fight against Anthony Joshua.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682464) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 4:11 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
Michael Chang. Total fluke a 5’7 oriental 17 year old won Roland garros defeating edberg and Lendl.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682832) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
agreed. i didnt say he's the worst. and he's not even close to the worst. he just got extremely lucky somehow destroying a tough field. and 17yo's usually dont win slams.
i'm just saying his RG title is extremely lucky given the tough field he faced
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683150) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 5:46 PM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...
Rich Gannon also jumps to mind. He was a career backup who suddenly became a Pro Bowler and one-time MVP at almost exactly the same time that he got to throw the ball to Jerry Rice. Now that you mention it, Joe Montana and Steve Young could also be part of this conversation for the same reason, but Gannon was far more egregious. Eli Manning is still a better pick, though.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683091) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:57 PM Author: Retro face diaper
Montana was in the right place at the right time and was the right kind of QB to run the west coast offense, which took some years for defensive coordinators to solidify schemes and obtain players to effectively deal with.
You could also say that Rice, who was not incredibly fast, benefitted more than a little by catching balls from Montana and Young.
They both benefitted from having dudes like Ronnie Lott murdering people on a weekly basis.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683117) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 9:49 PM Author: potluck
argument to be made for B.D. Nick Foles
probably shouldn’t have gotten serious consideration as a starting qb but was immediately playing behind an injury-prone Vick. around the time he’s headed to the trash heap early career, chip kelly comes on and has some gimmicky shit that helps Foles look like maybe he’s great. has that 7 td game, just a few games where he looks like he has promise. he actually sucks but just enough notoriety to keep getting qb2 gigs.
then inexplicably goes on an insane run in the playoffs after wentz goes down. remember, foles looked like absolute shit in that regular season. super bowl comes, philly special, unsustainable throw after unsustainable throw, beats brady & gets SB MVP. forever a hero, immortalized for that one run. also got him paid (and he went right back to being sps)
great thread btw
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683604) |
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