Which athletes would win at the others sport?

[lleeder]

If at the end of the year the best football, baseball,hockey,basketball and soccer team in the world all played each other who would win? It will be a tournament where all 5 sports are played. Which group of athletes has the best versitility to do so?

[disneyspy]

i think hockey players would win in a golf tournament,course i'm only going by the red wings but those fuckers are great golfers

[Snoogans]

i go football because they have the biggest combination of skills sets from each sport

[TheMojoPin]

This is tough since so many guys in football and baseball played and were good at other sports often right up until they were drafted or signed.

[Snoogans]

Hockey is a pretty good bet too

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Football....... Hands down, lots of football players played well in other sports in H.S Then they decided football was the way to go because it rocks and is the best ever

[disneyspy]

hockey,everyone can play those other sports but only hockey players can play hockey

[spoon]

So retarded, why not.

We know hockey guys would be the second best at soccer due to their tie to it in Europe, and the NBA guys would take last in hockey. Outside of that, it's a crapshoot and I'll give it a try.

Hockey
NHL
MLS (Tons have links to hockey and endurance is there.)
MLB (Some links to hockey here...eg. Glavine/Walker.)
NFL (Linemen on skates would be hilarious, but skill positions would do something.)
NBA (Easiest one yet.)

Football
NFL
NHL (The league has size to fill many positions here and used to physical game.)
NBA (NBA players usually tied to football at some level in past, and would know the game.)
MLS (Edged out MLB due to better endurance and open field hitting.)
MLB

Baseball
MLB
NFL (Lots of NFL players grew up playing baseball, especially the skill positions.)
NHL (Timing here with small objects became a focus for my thoughts here & plenty of US peeps.)
MLS (Same as hockey with timing, but much less US influence so they drop.)
NBA (Their best ever was awful, and I just don't see it overall.)

Basketball
NBA
NFL (Again, the NFL has a ton of players linked to basketball as well.)
MLB (Less links to basketball than in the past, but still lots of dual athletes here)
NHL (This one came down to a draw in my mind. Both the NHL & MLS would be last.)
MLS

Soccer
MLS
NHL (Tons of euros in hockey allow them to be tops here.)
MLB (Central/South American influence here helps make this close.)
NBA (Enough overall endurance to overtake the NFL crew here.)
NFL

[lleeder]

So retarded, why not. NHL, NBA, MLS, MLB, NFL

We know hockey guys would be the second best at soccer due to their tie to it in Europe, and the NBA guys would take last in hockey. Outside of that, it's a crapshoot and I'll give it a try.

Hockey
NHL
MLS (Tons have links to hockey and endurance is there.)
MLB (Some links to hockey here...eg. Glavine/Walker.)
NFL (Linemen on skates would be hilarious, but skill positions would do something.)
NBA (Easiest one yet.)

Football
NFL
NHL (The league has size to fill many positions here and used to physical game.)
NBA (NBA players usually tied to football at some level in past, and would know the game.)
MLS (Edged out MLB due to better endurance and open field hitting.)
MLB

Baseball
MLB
NFL (Lots of NFL players grew up playing baseball, especially the skill positions.)
NHL (Timing here with small objects became a focus for my thoughts here & plenty of US peeps.)
MLS (Same as hockey with timing, but much less US influence so they drop.)
NBA (Their best ever was awful, and I just don't see it overall.)

Basketball
NBA
NFL (Again, the NFL has a ton of players linked to basketball as well.)
MLB (Less links to basketball than in the past, but still lots of dual athletes here)
NHL (This one came down to a draw in my mind. Both the NHL & MLS would be last.)
MLS

Soccer
MLS
NHL (Tons of euros in hockey allow them to be tops here.)
MLB (Central/South American influence here helps make this close.)
NBA (Enough overall endurance to overtake the NFL crew here.)
NFL

We need to have international flavor.
So who wins then?

[spoon]

We need to have international flavor.
So who wins then?

Ha.

I'd go MLS easy there. MLB is pretty centric to the American continents, with some Jap/China T-P influence. The NHL has North America mostly covered and Europe/Russia, while the MLS is world-wide.

[JimBeam]

This is a tough argument because every add factor changes the argument.

It's one thing to say " Eric Lindros go out and throw a 20 yard pass " when he's just throwing it. A whole other things to do it from under center and w/ a defense either pursuing him or defending the pass.

Same idea with other sports.

Telling Griffey to kick a soccer ball from 20 yards away into an open net would be much easier than doing so w/ a golaie and/or other defenders.

Dwayne Wade go out and catch 10 flyballs hit to you. Simple if it's fungos right to him another thing if he has to go after them in the alleys and such.

If you take a key skill for each it might easier to rank them.

I'd say that everybody would do the worst at hockey because skating is tough.

Basketball would probably be the easiest because you could get under the backboard and bank a shot in.

I'm gonna be partial to baseball as maybe the 2nd hardest when you take into account batting against a live pitcher who's not throwing batting practice pitches.

Dribbling a soccer ball up and down the field 2 times is more grueling than taking a kickoff and sprinting towards the endzone.

So I'd say hockey. baseball, soccer, football and then basketball.

But degrees of difficulty in each task would change things.

I think regardless basketball would remain at the bottom unless the goal was to score against Shaq/Kobe Bryant/Lebron James.

[Coach]

Swimmers would win where it counts..at drinking!

[Snoogans]

the hardest thing with this debate is you have to think if those guys trained at the sport their whole life.

Jordan was pretty bad at baseball, but he hit 214 in AA. And that was after not touching baseball for like 15 years. Eric Duncan was a cant miss 1B and he hit 215 in the minors. So you cant use that. If Jordan has kept with just baseball his whole life, maybe he would be a superstar and could only hit 25% of his jumpers. Thats what we dont know. You have to assume these athletes started in the other sport, not just moved there

[Snoogans]

and we should throw in more sports. With the Speed and agility he has, Floyd Mayweather could have done ALOT of other things. His family just pushed him into boxing

[Coach_Mac]

It has to be either hockey or baseball because these sports take skills that a lot of athletes have never done. Most people can't skate well and with baseball, it takes more than just being an athlete to hit or throw a strike.
Soccer comes in last because any athlete can run and kick.