There’s No Such Thing as a GOAT!
Say it ain’t so, Joe
This may rile my many followers and loyal readers, but I am no fan of the GOAT (Greatest of All Time) proclamation. It just bugs me. Why? And why bother writing about it?
Let’s start with the why question
I get that some athletes are great. They are super. Heck, I can go with super-duper. But greatest? Hmm. Comparing athletes of different generations is frankly ridiculous. The rules have changed. The equipment has changed. The pressure and media exposure have certainly changed.
Bodies are bigger. So are the events. So too is the competition and the training for that label of GOAT. Frankly, the entire media craze over “who is the GOAT?” is silly. It’s as if these commentators have nothing to say past the wow, cool, wow, amazing, wow, superlatives.
I never hear the athletes shouting into the camera, “I am the GOAT!” Not even Mohammad Ali ever said that. He said, “I am the greatest!” — big difference. He meant then, and at the time he might have been. Remember never faced Joe Lewis.
Let’s look at some of the recent (recent is the key here) GOAT-o-Rama personalities.
Simone Biles. Fantastic. Has done things never before seen. Except…wait. When was the last time you checked out Olga…
