@Coinstartled said:
Gee, Moses won olympic gold 8 years apart (76 and 84) USA skipped the 1980 games. And let me repeat as it is early and 99 ye year old brains take a while to activate. 122 consecutive wins for Moses and 132-1 over a ten year stretch...all at the world class level.
1970's at least you learned something today. It may be helpful in the future on another forum.
I'll see your Edwin Moses and raise you Alexander Karelin. Karelin was 887-2 as a Greco-Roman wrestler, winning gold in 3 straight Olympics, while serving as the flag bearer for 3 different entities (USSR, Unified Team, Russia). He was so dominant he rarely even lost a point (going more than 6 years without losing a single point). His only loss at the top level - in 2000 to Rulon Gardner - came in a match he dominated because his hands broke apart for a brief moment.
@doubledragon said:
Seabiscuit vs Secretariat, both in their prime. Who wins? I din't know anything about horse racing, but I've heard about Seabiscuit and Secretariat a lot. So who crosses the finish line first? The bisc or Secretariat?
@stevek said:
Doing some studious math, along with a number of imperial calculations, I am fairly certain that Secretariat would beat Edwin Moses in a match race.
Don't they add time for knocking hurdles down. If so. it might be close unless Big Red could be taught to jump the hurdles.
@stevek said:
Doing some studious math, along with a number of imperial calculations, I am fairly certain that Secretariat would beat Edwin Moses in a match race.
Don't they add time for knocking hurdles down. If so. it might be close unless Big Red could be taught to jump the hurdles.
I know this guy, a businessman, who had a very small stable of cheap claimer thoroughbred horses. Usually one or two horses at a time. He owned this horse I think it was for around 3 or 4 years, and it barely paid the feed bills, if that. The horse finally wound up getting claimed and the guy was happy to get rid of it.
Well, you see it coming. The new owner switched the horse to jumping hurdles, and it wound up becoming a huge money making horse, even winning hurdle races for big purses at Saratoga during a few summers.
Little known fact about Big Red was that he was also a great horse on turf which is very rare that a horse is great on both dirt and grass. Probably would have been a great hurdler as well if given the chance.
@doubledragon said:
Seabiscuit vs Secretariat, both in their prime. Who wins? I din't know anything about horse racing, but I've heard about Seabiscuit and Secretariat a lot. So who crosses the finish line first? The bisc or Secretariat?
To make it fair, let's say your avatar, Sasquatch, has to ride Secretariat?
I would put my money on the biscuit simply because the Abomination doesn't look much like an equestrian.
And Mr. Yeti, or as they say in Russia, the Almasty probably weighs like 900 lbs.
@doubledragon said:
Seabiscuit vs Secretariat, both in their prime. Who wins? I din't know anything about horse racing, but I've heard about Seabiscuit and Secretariat a lot. So who crosses the finish line first? The bisc or Secretariat?
To make it fair, let's say your avatar, Sasquatch, has to ride Secretariat?
I would put my money on the biscuit simply because the Abomination doesn't look much like an equestrian.
And Mr. Yeti, or as they say in Russia, the Almasty probably weighs like 900 lbs.
Of course I'm referring to the Gigantipithicus as a male, the one in the footage in dragon's avatar was reportedly
a female because of the bouncing jiggly wigglies it put on full display.
Guy Lafleur for scoring the tying goal which forced overtime against the Bruins, the Canadiens won in OT then went on win the Stanley cup against the Rangers who upset the up and coming New York Islanders.
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I'll see your Edwin Moses and raise you Alexander Karelin. Karelin was 887-2 as a Greco-Roman wrestler, winning gold in 3 straight Olympics, while serving as the flag bearer for 3 different entities (USSR, Unified Team, Russia). He was so dominant he rarely even lost a point (going more than 6 years without losing a single point). His only loss at the top level - in 2000 to Rulon Gardner - came in a match he dominated because his hands broke apart for a brief moment.
That's easy....Big Red!
Don't they add time for knocking hurdles down. If so. it might be close unless Big Red could be taught to jump the hurdles.
I know this guy, a businessman, who had a very small stable of cheap claimer thoroughbred horses. Usually one or two horses at a time. He owned this horse I think it was for around 3 or 4 years, and it barely paid the feed bills, if that. The horse finally wound up getting claimed and the guy was happy to get rid of it.
Well, you see it coming. The new owner switched the horse to jumping hurdles, and it wound up becoming a huge money making horse, even winning hurdle races for big purses at Saratoga during a few summers.
Little known fact about Big Red was that he was also a great horse on turf which is very rare that a horse is great on both dirt and grass. Probably would have been a great hurdler as well if given the chance.
To make it fair, let's say your avatar, Sasquatch, has to ride Secretariat?
I would put my money on the biscuit simply because the Abomination doesn't look much like an equestrian.
And Mr. Yeti, or as they say in Russia, the Almasty probably weighs like 900 lbs.
Of course I'm referring to the Gigantipithicus as a male, the one in the footage in dragon's avatar was reportedly
a female because of the bouncing jiggly wigglies it put on full display.
Guy Lafleur for scoring the tying goal which forced overtime against the Bruins, the Canadiens won in OT then went on win the Stanley cup against the Rangers who upset the up and coming New York Islanders.
Where are all of 1970s posts on this thread? Does anyone else see them, or is it some kind of a bug or something?
Seems like he was banned.
Just checked - gone with the wind.
Looks like all of his threads got deleted as well? First time I've ever seen that, except from low post count trolls.
I warned him about posting that George Brett was better than Mike Schmidt, but he wouldn't listen.
At 99 you can go like that.