Most Over-Rated Athlete

Michael Schumacher (if you call race drivers athletes)



why wouldn't you? it takes tremendous effort to withstand that kind of pressure drivers have to endure. race drivers probably have the strongest next muscles in the world with all the G Force that is being used on it.

the most overrated athlete in my opinion is Ronaldinho. I agree he's a good player and an amazing dribbler but he is not as good as he is made out to be.
 
why wouldn't you? it takes tremendous effort to withstand that kind of pressure drivers have to endure. race drivers probably have the strongest next muscles in the world with all the G Force that is being used on it.

the most overrated athlete in my opinion is Ronaldinho. I agree he's a good player and an amazing dribbler but he is not as good as he is made out to be.

one could make a case for people calling them pilots instead of athletes since the car is doing the work.
but thats up for debate and wasn´t really my point.
my point is that Michael Schumacher is the most overrated athlete in recent history.
 

Vanilla Bear

Bears For Life
one could make a case for people calling them pilots instead of athletes since the car is doing the work.
but thats up for debate and wasn´t really my point.
my point is that Michael Schumacher is the most overrated athlete in recent history.

You lucky guy. I will not say something to that!


Most overrated athletes for me:
David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane.
 
You lucky guy. I will not say something to that!


Most overrated athletes for me:
David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane.


I agree on Zidane but Beckham is probably the most hated athlete in Europe right now (most of his popularity is in Asia and USA).
 
the most overrated athlete in my opinion is Ronaldinho. I agree he's a good player and an amazing dribbler but he is not as good as he is made out to be.

I do agree with you here in a way Calm. He sure does have talent. But in a lot of games he's just not in it. So the rest of the team has to carry him just because he might do that one bit of magic.

You lucky guy. I will not say something to that!


Most overrated athletes for me:
David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane.

Certainly agree with Beckham. All he has as I've said many times before is a great cross. Sometimes the odd good freekick too. Zidane I don't though. He was a great footballer and could work hard for the team as well as put on the flair.


Ronaldo of Man Utd. Sometimes he's totally out the game. Put that to the around 20 dives a game trying to get fouls, players booked and sent off. Then he'll never be that great till he cleans up his act.


I'll also add any cricketer. That is just not a sport and yes I'm English and from Yorkshire who are supposed to love the game. It's just standing around in a field for days on end basically, moving the odd time. Hated summer when at school as we was forced to play this so called sport.
 
Lindros was the same exact way with just as much if not more hype around him. I believe he was being called "The Next One". Where's he now?
That was Lindros, and i'm not saying that players don't get over-hyped (personally I can't stand when ANY athlete gets hyped as "The next *insert famous athletes name here*" because it puts undo pressure on a person and besides let people be themselves), but you can't make that statement on someone who has not been in the NHL long enough to make that judgement is all i'm saying.
 
That was Lindros, and i'm not saying that players don't get over-hyped (personally I can't stand when ANY athlete gets hyped as "The next *insert famous athletes name here*" because it puts undo pressure on a person and besides let people be themselves), but you can't make that statement on someone who has not been in the NHL long enough to make that judgement is all i'm saying.

while we are talking about overhyped hockey players... how about Alex Daigle.

i mean he still turned out to have a "good" career, but only if you consider him a 3rd liner, but thats about it.

as for recent players, Ryan miller and giguere are so blatantly overreated. they get so much credit for basically just getting hit with the puck on the crest and the inability of the players to just roof the puck while they are laying on the ice with the net wide open.
 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Until a year or two ago I would have said Michael Vick had a decisive edge among all our athletes, but people are starting to finally see that he has, in reality, sucked for quite a while now.

Michael Vick was my first thought. Everyone has been waiting for this guy to reinvent the QB position and he just hasn't gotten it done.
 
Michael Vick was my first thought. Everyone has been waiting for this guy to reinvent the QB position and he just hasn't gotten it done.

not me. i remember randall cunningham. he didnt accomplish anything. and steve young? look at that team he won with. those kind of qb's arent really qb's at all. they are glorified running backs.
 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
barry bonds now or before? now, i agree. but dont ever say he was overrated back in the day.

I concur. Barry Bonds is anything but overrated. Bonds is perhaps the greatest natural talent ever to lace up the spikes. Problem is, like McGwire and others, he's tainted with the specter of steroids. Being a cheat, racist and asshole has nothing to do with being over-rated.
 
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