Battle of the Sporting Heroes

[Simon]

Thought this would be a good idea for everyone in the Sports forum to get involved with. I'm guessing theres going to be a few obvious people left at the end but i'll be interested to see how it shapes up.
We'll start with everybody getting 10 nominations and 5 seconds. Depending on how many we get we'll asses then the size of the competition and battles.

There are no restrictions, anyone from any sport living or dead can be nominated.

Being a cricket forum there would probably be a heavy bias towards cricketers during this battle, how do people feel about leaving cricketers out as there has been numerous different cricketing battles done in CC?

 

[Simon]

I'm nominating

Juan Manuel Fangio
Rod Laver
Wally Lewis
Ayrton Senna
Mal Meninga
Allan Langer
Peter Brock
Tommy Haas
Alyson Annan (please someone second her)
David Coulthard

 

[Blewy]

Sounds good, Ill second AA's nomination.. A Super Campbelltown girl...

Will add a few others later...

 

[Johnners]

Nominate:
- Marcos Ambrose
- Andrew Johns
- Steve Renouf
- Andy Roddick
- Damon Hill
- LeBron James

Second:
- Ayrton Senna

 

[Simon]

Sounds good, Ill second AA's nomination.. A Super Campbelltown girl...

Will add a few others later...

Gun

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

 

[Johnners]

2nd 'im.

 

[Burgey]

Agree on excluding cricketers.

Nominate:
Ali
Kostya Tzuyu
Peter Sterling
Norm Provan
Brett Kenny
Roger Federer
Andre Agassi
George Best
Pele
Tiger Woods

Second:

Wally Lewis
Allan Langer
Rod Laver

 

[Johnners]

2nd Agassi

 

[Johnners]

Also Nom:

Harry kewell
Tim Cahill

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Hmm I'm not sure about leaving cricketers out, a lot of people here love cricket but most of them have strong passion about other sports as well. And it doesn't strike me as a battle of the "Best", more of a battle of "Who you loved the most as a kid/teenager/now" type thing. It's not as if Bradman etc is a lock or anything.

 

[Johnners]

Indeed, makes a good point. Doesn't worry me either way

 

[Jono]

Nominate:

Gary Ablett Snr
Wayne Carey
Matthew Richardson

 

[Simon]

Not having Bradman is unfortunate as part of my thinking. The reason i suggested it is mainly because, lets say for example we have a two way battle between a good to average cricketet, say Sorauv Ganguly up against an AFL player like James Hird, I reckon in almost every case the cricketer will win because this is a cricket forum.

If the majority say though that we should include cricketers then we will.

 

[Simon]

Second
Roger Federer
Harry Kewell

 

[biased indian]

Nominate
Greg Norman
Boris Becker
Steffi Graf
Jordan
Bubka
M Indurain
Borg
Gebrselassie
Nadia comaneci
Maradona

 

[Jamee999]

Second Nadia and Jordan

Nominate Jackie Robinson, Cal Ripken Jr, Joe Montana and Kurt Warner ().

 

[Johnners]

Not having Bradman is unfortunate as part of my thinking. The reason i suggested it is mainly because, lets say for example we have a two way battle between a good to average cricketet, say Sorauv Ganguly up against an AFL player like James Hird, I reckon in almost every case the cricketer will win because this is a cricket forum.

If the majority say though that we should include cricketers then we will.

ITBT, I'd say Ganguly would win, but more because of people wanting to see MikeW's reaction

 

[NUFAN]

Nominate
Phil Taylor
Usain Bolt
Michael Johnson
Lance Armstrong

Second
Peter Brock
Haile Gebrselassie
Muhammad Ali

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Nom Craig Lowndes.