So ESPN is running a time filler called the Mt. Rushmore of Sports. In it they allow fans to vote for the top four athletes associated with that state. This includes ALL sports and not just the major four. Sidenote: further proof that fans are retarded, Tim Tebow is on the Florida Mt. Rushmore. For the past week, ESPN ran the top five states that had the most votes and then revealed the top state. At first I was pissed because New York, California, Pennsylvania, and Alabama were all presented and ESPN wasn't going to show love to ANY Midwest state. But lucky me, Illinois was the fifth state presented.
I was happy with that. I was happy that my home state got some ESPN love. But to my surprise, Illinois was voted the best state Mt. Rushmore! While this is so extremely trivial, I'm just happy whenever ESPN devotes significant time to Chi-town.
Here's the four players Illinois picked:
-Michael Jordan: The greatest basketball player of all time
-Walter Peyton: One of the greatest football players of all time and the second greatest RB (next to the great Jim Brown)
-Ernie Banks: Two time NL MVP and has the most HR for a SS (or maybe a NL SS)
-Mike Ditka: One of, if not, THE greatest TE ever and a great coach
Notables left off the list:
-Red Grange: One of the greatest LB of all time. Played for Illinois football AND Da Bears
-George Halas: Mother fucker just invented football
-Bobby Hull: One of the greatest LW ever
-Jackie-Jorner Kearse: Great track star and Olympian
-Brian Urlacher: Say what you want about him now but mother fucker has been great
-Any from the 1985 Bears defense
Me personally, I would have replayed Banks and Da Coach with Hull and Halas (seriously, after all George Halas has done for football and for the Bears, how was he not even considered?)
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ESPN's First Take did a question of what would the Mt. Rushmore of Sports look like for fictional characters. Here's what mine would look like:
Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins): Bull Durham
Rocky Balboa (Sly Stallone): Rocky
Norman Dale (Gene Hackman): Hoosiers
Irv Blitzer (John Candy): Cool Runnings
What's yours?
If ESPN did a mount Rushmore, it would be:
ReplyDeleteDerek Jeter
Brett Farve
Tiger Woods
and Derek Jeter.
Jeter gets 2 places because of how much ESPN talks about him
If John Madden did a Mt. Rushmore it would be:
ReplyDeleteBrett Farve
Brett Farve
Brett Farve
Brett Farve
You forgot about A Rod. The second Jeter would be A Rod
haha. If Arod and Derek Jeter had a baby, it would be ESPN
ReplyDeleteA great philosophical conundrum: If Derek Jeter joined Baseball Tonight, would he jerk off to himself?
ReplyDeleteyou guys are too funny.
ReplyDeletei agree with hull and halas. quick story. i was in florida 5 years ago with a bears shirt. i run into some middle aged, beer belly, loser with a packers shirt. he starts getting on me about how much better the pack are. his main point, the championship is names after lambardi. I respond, well the league wouldnt exist without halas. OWNED!!
my current mt rushmore would have kane toews ovechkin and kovalchuk. Sorry
my fictional mt rushmore.
kevin kostner (field of dreams)
emilio esteves (mighty ducks)
willy mays hayes(major league-mainly cause he was first played by wesley snipes, and then by foreman from house)
adam sandler(waterboy, happy gilmore, longest yard)
Dude, I was standing in line at a club and I saw Emilio Esteves walk in and me and my friends were like "EMILIO! EMILIO! EMIIIILLLLLIIIIOOOOO!"
ReplyDeleteAnybody get the reference?
of course.
ReplyDeleteNight at the roxbury
great movie