[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]
Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.
Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.
