Battle of the Sporting Heroes

[PhoenixFire]

Pele & Abstain.

Really want to vote for Bolt, the bloke is a total freak (in the nicest possible way), but so is Jordan. Impossible to split them in my books.

 

[fredfertang]

Pele and Bolt

Pele for reminding me, whenever I see footage of him, of what Robin Friday could have been and Usain Bolt simply for being awesome for what he will do in the future as much as what he has done to date

 

[grecian]

Pele, just greatness and perfection in the "beautiful game"

Bolt despite worries over his longevity and other, umm, stuff......

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Pele
MJ

 

[Jamee999]

Pele
Jordan, because of the different aspects and skills in basketball vs just running really really fast.

 

[NUFAN]

Johnson and Jordan.

 

[luffy]

Pele and Bolt

 

[age_master]

Pele and Jordan

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Pele and Jordan

 

[cameeel]

Pele and Jordan

 

[Jono]

Pele and Jordan

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Pele, Bolt

first should have been the final though

 

[GIMH]

Johnson, Bolt

 

[Simon]

The Final

Pele (Brazilian) - Football

Honours
468 career games for Santos and New Yorks
501 career senior club goals
92 caps for Brazil
77 International goals
10 Domestic titles with Santos
1977 Domestic title winner with New York
3 time World Cup winner with Brazil
11 time Domestic leading goalscorer for Santos
Elected as Athlete of the century in 1981 and 1999
Uniceft Footballer of the century in 1999
FIFA player of the century in 2000
South American player of the century in 1999

vs

Michael Jordan (American) - Basketball

Honours
1072 career games
32,292 career points
6 time NBA winner
5 time NBA MVP
14 time NBA All Star
6 time NBA Finals MVP
10 time All NBA selection
1985 NBA rookie of the year
3 time NBA All star game MVP
2 Olympic Gold Medalist
NBA's 50th Anniversary All time team
1991 SI Sportsman of the Year
2000 ESPY Sportsman of the cenutry

 

[ripper868]

Going to give it to Pele

The kid is good.

 

[Burgey]

Pele, because he played a sport you don't have to, as a general rule, be 6 foot 1000 to be good at. Jordan obviously gun though.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Pele

 

[Jono]

Good final. Along with these two, the other two best to make the semis would have been Ali and Babe Ruth or Woods (in my honest opinion of course).

Anyway, Jordan for me.

 

[Johnners]

Jordan

 

[NUFAN]

Going for MJ.

Pele was from a different era so he was never a true sporting hero of mine. I watched a lot of NBA in the early 90s and Jordan was the man. Great final though.