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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
One example. The problem is that you can't give me hundreds or thousands of examples.
There are scores of guys that could have chosen the NFL over MLB or the NBA, but didn't.
These days, the best arm talent is choosing MLB over the NFL. And every stinkin' one of these guys would like to play in the NBA but can't, which is why we see guys tearing ACL's and injuring themselves playing pickup basketball in the offseason.
Brian Jordan played as a safety in the NFL but quit and went to the MLB, where he had a much more successful career.
Could you even imagine LeBron James in the NFL? Kobe Bryant? Shaq? James Harden? That's just to a name a few. They would have been so dominant that it wouldn't even have been fun to watch.
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All else being equal, I would chose a MLB or NBA career over football too. More money and less physically punishing = no brainer.
LeBron would be a ridiculous tight end, but you've also named one of the top five, if not the top ONE, athletes to ever play basketball.
Tell me, how would anyone over, say, 6'9" do in football? For the most part, not well. I don't think Kareem Abdul Jabbar would've been much of an NFL player to be honest, no matter how many NBA records he holds. Steph Curry throwing fear into me as, what? A WR? Yeah, not really. How about all those "skinny" (by NFL standards) 6'7" wings in the NBA these days. WTF are they going to do on a football field? They typically lack elite quickness, and they're going to get beat to shit at anything other than WR/CB.
Shaq? Now Shaq is a ridiculous athlete, but he wasn't fast and he was too tall to get good leverage. What is he going to be? Tight end, maybe? There's a reason why NFL players top out at 6'7" or so at TE, and maybe 6'8 at OL. You don't need to dunk on the goalpost to score...