|
|
06-21-2013, 05:59 PM | Topic Starter |
Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Casino cash: $7759572
|
Athlete-Musician Comparisons
Thought this might make an interesting thread.
Rules: Offer a comparison. Provide support from both careers and respective talent levels. You don't have to list specific character flaws. For example, if one was caught with a teenaged prostitute, the other needn't be. I'll start with a short example: Tiger Woods was the Michael Jackson of golf. Both were revolutionary racial figures. Tiger won the most famous golf tournament at a time when people from a similar racial background were either excluded or discouraged from the game. He was the product of a maniacally driven father and was known to the public from a very early age. His first complete breakthrough into the public discourse came in record setting fashion and is considered the greatest singular accomplishment in the history of the sport. His dominance increased golf's popularity to unforeseen heights and opened it up as a potential possibility to a group of individuals who would have never considered it previously. He was so dominant in his twenties that people already acclaimed him the greatest to ever step into his field. Meanwhile, Jackson, for all his fame as a child and through his first single album, could not receive airplay on MTV until a music executive from Sony threatened to withhold all videos from the company. He released the best selling album ever when just 23 years old, and he also starred in what many to believe is the best music video of all time. He is also credited with changing music video into a legitimate artform. Before he was 30 years old he was also considered the greatest entertainer in history. What do you say? Who is the LeBron james of music? The Katy Perry of football? Proceed. |
Posts: 74,928
|
06-21-2013, 07:58 PM | #2 |
YOU take YOUR seat
Join Date: Nov 2007
Casino cash: $765105
|
Len Bias was the Amy Whinehouse of basketball.
Hours after being selected #2 overall by the Boston Celtics in 1986. Len Bias signed a $3 million deal with Reebok and proceeded to go out and get some coke. He died that night after abusing cocaine and alcohol. A bright future in the NBA was in front of him. Much like Amy Whinehouse, who was young in her music career, already making millions and receiving several awards. Had a promising music career in front of her. Whinehouse died from alcohol poisoning in 2011.
__________________
|
Posts: 34,529
|
06-21-2013, 09:11 PM | #3 | |
Debunking your bullshit
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: KC area
Casino cash: $4270315
|
Quote:
|
|
Posts: 52,592
|
06-21-2013, 09:19 PM |
cosmo20002 |
This message has been deleted by cosmo20002.
|
06-21-2013, 10:10 PM | #5 |
Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Casino cash: $7759572
|
Sandusky was never as successful as Jackson. And Bias was a much better basketball palyer than Winehouse was a singer, IMO.
What about Bias and Andrew Wood?
__________________
"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln |
Posts: 74,928
|
06-21-2013, 10:14 PM | #6 |
YOU take YOUR seat
Join Date: Nov 2007
Casino cash: $765105
|
never heard of Andrew Wood. I guess you could put Bradley Nowell in there instead. Or Layne Staley.
__________________
|
Posts: 34,529
|
06-21-2013, 11:04 PM | #7 |
Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Casino cash: $7759572
|
Thought about Staley, but AIC actually made it. Mother Love Bone was on the verge of making it huge, and had two of the members of Pearl Jam in it, Ament and Gossard.
__________________
"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln |
Posts: 74,928
|
06-21-2013, 11:01 PM | #8 |
Debunking your bullshit
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: KC area
Casino cash: $4270315
|
|
Posts: 52,592
|
06-21-2013, 10:13 PM | #9 |
Inmem 2.0
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: My house
Casino cash: $1217558
|
Tommie Frazier = Bob Marley
|
Posts: 76,081
|
06-21-2013, 11:06 PM | #10 |
Woman should only make babies
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Apartment "G UNIT!"
Casino cash: $1836136
|
Brooks Berringer-Randy Rhodes
__________________
|
Posts: 54,534
|
06-23-2013, 10:57 AM | #11 |
sorta mod-ish
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: KC North
Casino cash: $2121616
|
|
Posts: 103,162
|
06-21-2013, 11:07 PM | #12 |
Woman should only make babies
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Apartment "G UNIT!"
Casino cash: $1836136
|
Matt Cassel-kenny g
__________________
|
Posts: 54,534
|
06-21-2013, 11:09 PM | #13 |
Woman should only make babies
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Apartment "G UNIT!"
Casino cash: $1836136
|
Rick Ross-Pete Rose
__________________
|
Posts: 54,534
|
06-21-2013, 11:20 PM | #14 |
Debunking your bullshit
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: KC area
Casino cash: $4270315
|
Jim Abbott = Rick Allen
|
Posts: 52,592
|
06-21-2013, 11:24 PM | #15 |
Banned!
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: NOT Columbia, MO 65201
Casino cash: $1810194
|
__________________
Your son is a bench warmer because of your weak genetics not because of the coach Norlin Mommsen is disgusting. |
Posts: 46,659
|
|
|