The Most Overrated Player In The HISTORY Of Sports Is.......

[HacheMan]

Who?

 

[HinesWard86]

John Elway

 

[steaktartar]

John Elway

wow disagree...guy was a battler with a cannon even before superbowls... evers or tinkers for me

 

[TomGshotput]

http://therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=663832&highlight=overrated

I stand by Nolan Ryan. Only because I know far more about baseball than any other sport. Though it looks like he might be doing better than people give him credit for in his management role

In the NFL Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman get a lot of credit for the things his teammates did, that is always an easy way to be highly overrated

In the NBA Iverson is the first name to come to mind

 

[JohnnyMac]

Tony Romo.

 

[JohnnyMac]

Don Mattingly

 

[PBR]

Oil Can Boyd

 

[douglas]

I will catch grief for this ..............Cal Ripken ..........not the most overrated ..........but up there for me

 

[louisvillekid]

Oil Can Boyd

damn, was he ever really "highly" rated.
I think he might of been talked about just cause of his name, kinda like when sportscenter used to always mention what place Dick Trickle came in , even though it was usually towards the bottom.

 

[wilheim]

Joe Namath as far as celibrity obtained in relation to actual career numbers.

 

[louisvillekid]

I will catch grief for this ..............Cal Ripken ..........not the most overrated ..........but up there for me

yes, and you should IMO, the damn iron man, just played the game as best he could day in and day out, no drama on or off the field.

 

[louisvillekid]

i'll second A.I.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

Pretty good names so far. I like Iverson, Ripken & Mattingly, all solid picks. I'm trying to think of other sports, but NBA just seems to stick in my mind:
T-Mac
Steve Francis
Carmelo

 

[GOLFINGMAUMELLE]

Allen iverson

 

[douglas]

Joe Namath as far as celibrity obtained in relation to actual career numbers.

Knew Joe ...........at the time he was a vile / despicable person too .

 

[Number_9]

Namath, easily.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

Namath, easily.

The guy did win a Super Bowl though and I always liked the swagger leading up to it. There's plenty of other blow-ups out there, if we're talking ALL TIME, no way Namath makes the list.

 

[whalewager]

Any of the white athletes

 

[festeringZit]

Any of the white athletes

??

 

[HinesWard86]

wow disagree...guy was a battler with a cannon even before superbowls... evers or tinkers for me

Everyone now says Namath is overrated (and they are a right) so I look to Elway. Mainly because in two of their last informal polls, ESPN rated him as the best QB in history.......that is laughable. He is Top 10, he is not the best ever.

Here is a post I made across the street:

John Elway's NFL ranking in QB rating year by year:

1983 - 27th
1984 - 17th
1985 - 18th
1986 - 11th
1987 - 11th
1988 - 18th
1989 - 17th
1990 - 14th
1991 - 19th
1992 - 20th
1993 - 3rd (11th year, FIRST Top 10 finish....WOOOOOOO...Greatest Ever!!!!!)
1994 - 4th
1995 - 14th
1996 - 4th
1997 - 7th
1998 - 5th

So........5 seasons (out of a 16 year career) in the Top 10 in quarterback rating is good enough to make you the best QB ever????

This is why statistical analysis is coming to football.


QBs like Neil Lomax, Dave Kreig, and other stiffs had much better numbers than Elway. Dude threw a ton of INTs and he gets lauded as the best ever. Whatever.

The funniest thing is that many of the attributes used to describe Elway, "tough" "gamer" "winner" "clutch", are used to describe Ben Roethlisberger and no one even puts him in their top three of current QBs (and rightfully so)