OT: ESPN ranks most dominant athletes in the past 20 years

[Flash]

The Dominant 20

Notable:
#1 Tiger Woods
#2 LeBron James
#3 Peyton Manning
...
#20 Tom Brady

 

[signbabybrady]

Peyton at 3 is just ******ed.
There are some ridiculously dominant athletes on this list and it's easier to quantify if you play an individual sport so I don't want to complain too much about where Brady is other than to say it's insane Manning is that high or even on the list.

Trout seems a little premature to be on this list too.

 

[jah]

Not sure which is dumber: Peyton at 3 while Brady at 20, or a golfer being on a list of athletes.

 

[Zuma]

**** this is ******** ****

 

[Jackson 2]

The Dominant 20

Notable:
#1 Tiger Woods
#2 LeBron James
#3 Peyton Manning
...
#20 Tom Brady

That's funny. I literally laughed out loud.

 

[Clonamery]

Not sure which is dumber: Peyton at 3 while Brady at 20, or a golfer being on a list of athletes.

Brady is at least as athletic as Peyton even before the HGH.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

That's funny. I literally laughed out loud.

ME TOO!!!!!

 

[Ivan]

The Dominant 20

Notable:
#1 Tiger Woods
#2 LeBron James
#3 Peyton Manning
...
#20 Tom Brady

What a f.cking joke. ESPN never fails to embarrass themselves. I turned them off years ago and only use them when the Patriots are on MNF. I don’t miss them one bit, sh.tty network.

 

[RobertWeathers]

What a bunch of hypocrites.

I agree with Tiger as #1.

They count majors and Finals for LeBron and Tiger.

For Tom not to be in the Top 5 is a total and complete joke.

Spiteful trolls

 

[FoxboroFlyer]

This appears to be a list composed with crayons on construction paper.
What's next? A "list" of QB's who would have won more superbowls with BB in NE, than TB? Brady will be forever disrespected, and it's complete garbage!

 

[Soliel]

The Dominant 20

Notable:
#1 Tiger Woods
#2 LeBron James
#3 Peyton Manning
...
#20 Tom Brady

Ok so Peyton hgh Manning is more dominant than Michael Jordan, Larry bird, jerry rice, come on man the guy sucks ass

Brady should be in the top five easy. Tiger haven’t won the masters five times and Peyton, my wife eats human growth hormone, Manning is no where near that

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

**** this is ******** ****

Some glaring omissions:

Joe Maddon - The lead story on ESPN more times than anyone, anywhere

Roger Goodell - Stole not one, but TWO first-round draft picks from the hated Patriots

David Tyree - What holding?

Ray Lewis - It was more than twenty years ago, but he did kill a guy.

 

[tasmlab]

I think Peyton himself would roll his eyes looking at this.

 

[Soliel]

Ok just read the list. Jimmy Johnson drives a car bro wtf? What’s his ****ing cone time again?

It says athletes

 

[JMC00]

Putting Brady at #1-#3 doesn't get people talking. Putting him at #20 does.

They'll accomplish what they set out with this list. Shame people will fall for the BSPN trope tactic

By the way here is their "explanation on Brady/Manning"

For one thing, today's QB stats are steadily inflating. (There were 1.72 passing touchdowns for every interception in the NFL last season, up from 1.29 20 years ago.) For another, Brady wasn't really Brady-automatic Pro Bowler and MVP candidate-until 2007. Result: Manning considerably outpaces him when measured by yardsticks that don't depend on era, like MVPs (5-3), first-team All-Pro selections (7-3) and number of seasons throwing for 4 percent or more of the league's passing TDs (12-9, adjusted for number of teams). Then there's this: In evaluating players, we considered regular-season stats only, since there's no good way to compare playoffs across sports.

Yes. Let's not bring into account the games where championships are won. Nope let's just based it off of how Manning had a tit-division paying at least 10 games in a dome and another 2 in Jacksonville every year for a decade

 

[Patriot Missile]

Didn't Skip Bayless say that Tom Brady was as dominant as Michael Jordan when it came to sports legends?

How could the greatest ever.......? Ahh, never mind, it's espn lol.

 

[Soliel]

Didn't Skip Bayless say that Tom Brady was as dominant as Michael Jordan when it came to sports legends?

How could the greatest ever.......? Ahh, never mind, it's espn lol.

Why rank him at all? ESPN can bite my bag

 

[gronksmash]

Ok just read the list. Jimmy Johnson drives a car bro wtf? What’s his ****ing cone time again?

It says athletes

I didn’t want to give this list the time of day but you can’t be serious that jimmy Johnson is on it? Is he higher than Tom? Please say no.

 

[Soliel]

I didn’t want to give this list the time of day but you can’t be serious that jimmy Johnson is on it? Is he higher than Tom? Please say no.

Yep him and a formula one driver are more dominant athletes.

Not only outraged for toms sake. No Jordan, no bird, no Pedro. The list is over rated toilet paper. How you get a list of 20 most dominant athletes without Jordan on it at all and brady outranked by car drivers and female golfers is simply the dumbest thing they’ve ever done

 

[Patriot Missile]

Not only Brady but Pedro Martinez, the most comparable pitcher to Sandy Koufax of this generation, not on the list. That says all you need to know about espn bias. Moving on to reality.