Almost every sports-related argument leads down to biases. all sports fan has their favorites. Some like Lionel Messi and some swear Cristiano Ronaldo is better than the World Cup winner. This is the most basic debate that raged on since the inception of sports. There are always opposing views and clashing fan bases. However, few notions in the sports world have been accepted by many.
Views like few athletes stand above their peers, even the worst NBA player can walk all over a skilled Hooper that hasn’t trained or played in NBA and Tom Brady shouldn’t have returned from retirement.
Anyway, this story is about clashing views. All sports fan has hot takes. Hot takes are weird and strange views a few fans may have that most people would disagree with. Like a few fans declaring Kylian Mbappe a better player than Lionel Messi. Although this may be right, at this moment, not many people from the community will accept this notion. They once aired one such hot take live on it and it is breaking the ribs of soccer fans all around the world.
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The GOAT list is making fans throw tantrums on Twitter
Recently, a screen grab from what appears to be a TV program is making soccer fans mad. The screen grab has a man talking about a list beside him. The list is about the greatest athletes of all time. Now, this is a very subjective opinion. Even in a sample size of a thousand fans, it will be extremely rare to see the same list there are thousands and thousands of names to choose from. However, the list had one soccer player. Here is how fans reacted to the list.
What is babe ruth
— Away from 2 , 3 , 4 wonderful wonderful wonderful (@AravindBarca) February 2, 2023
If you’re talking about influence:
1- Cristiano Ronaldo
2- Messi
3- Michael Jordan
4- Muhammad Ali
5- Federer— N (@Ned4_X) February 2, 2023
Majority time on ESPN does top five greatest athletes. They completely forget about football, the only football they recognise is the NFL.
— Egal (@EGTVEgal) February 2, 2023
It’s sad to see how many people don’t included the Phelps in their lists. He is the most decorated Olympian of all time. This shouldn’t even be a debate to have him on the list.
— Chickie Plissken (@ChickiePlissken) February 2, 2023
Americans
— 𝟔𝟔 (@mason0872) February 2, 2023
When in comes to sports America are in their own bubble
— wannagetscrappy (@scrappythechulo) February 2, 2023
Top 5 American* athletes
— Kevin 🥃 (@StamfordBluesFC) February 2, 2023
Novak Đoković and Leo Messi should be on there, but hey, they're not Americans…
— CucuRella Popović (@ReljaKuku) February 2, 2023
Messi and Ronaldo 's hairs are better athlete than those whose Babe he is 😭😭
— Kartik (@twtkartik) February 2, 2023
It was hard for the soccer fans to digest the fact that there are top 5 athletes of all time and it had zero players from soccer. They might have a case to make here. The list contains some of the most legendary names from all the sports world.
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The list has NBA GOAT Michael Jordan on top and only a few will debate with that pick. It has Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, Tom Brady, and Serena Williams in that order.
Tom Brady has a major announcement to make
After announcing retirement in Feb last year only to come back a month later to play a not-so-great season compared to a legendary career, Tom Brady has announced retirement from the NFL. It ended arguably the most legendary career in the sport’s history. Having won Super Bowl 7 times, almost every fan has accepted the impact he can have on a match.
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This story is very similar to that of Michael Jordan, the undisputed GOAT of the NBA. However, Jordan, being Jordan, took the story to a new level. He retired from NBA, played in MLB and 2 seasons later came back only to rule NBA again. What would be your list? Tell us your top 5 athletes of all time in the comments below.