The Most Unanimously Liked Athlete and Thoughts and Prayers
I have been following a fascinating argument on Facebook over the last couple of days, and I wanted to share my thoughts with all of you. Who is the most unanimously liked athlete in sports?
As a Cardinals fan, Larry Fitzgerald comes to mind immediately, and it would be hard to find anyone to argue with you. He is the nicest guy on and off the field and just so happens to be a beast of a football player. But what about other sports?
Most of the people mentioned are loveable losers. Excellent players that never won anything, so they never built up any animosity with a rival team. Like Tony Gwynn or Muggsy Bogues. But in basketball, I think that there is an exception with Shaq. Shaq played with so many teams and for so long that he built quite a bit of equity around the league. The only current player I can think of is Kawhi Leonard. I hate the Spurs with all of my heart, but just kind find a reason to hate on Kawhi.
In baseball I already mentioned Gwynn, but Cal Ripken and Ken Griffy Jr. have to be mentioned as well. Another guy that was a winner that is very well like is Mariano Rivera. I think that most of the Yankee hate was tossed at Jeter and A-rod, so he got by with very little of it coming his way.
I don’t know much about Hockey, but PK Subban is a stud and is very hard not to like.
Individual sports are relatively easy in my opinion to pick. Rodger Federer, Phil Michelson, and Venus Williams are pretty well liked in and out of their respective sports.
Let me know who you think are the most unanimously liked athletes of any generation.
And finally, I have to mention the sad news that we all found out yesterday about Sen. John McCain. Brain cancer is as serious as it gets, but McCain has beaten cancer before and will fight like hell to beat it again. Thoughts and prayers from my family to his as they all go through this together.
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