I wholeheartedly believe the NBA community took LeBron James going to 8 straight Finals for granted. It takes a monumental effort to get there. The fact that it became routine is mind boggling. To this day he’s the most underrated competitor that’s ever played.
There are two 70-win teams in NBA history. Both had the league MVP. One was unanimous.
One had the best perimeter defender of his era. The other had a 2x DPOY winner.
Both had the best 3-point shooters of their respective eras. One had the greatest ever and another top five. Both had elite benches.
One had the greatest coach of all time with the greatest system of all time. The other had a player who learned that coach’s system, modified it, and helped implement it for a new era.
LeBron beat one of those teams while leading everyone on the court in every major statistical category, in a historically impossible situation. Jordan was a part of one of those teams.
LeBron is Everest. Jordan is K2.
Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.
In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.
He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.
Absolute legend.
Vikings are the biggest dumb fucks in pro sports. Imagine going 14-3 with a QB that puts up 35 TDs and 4300 yds and not paying him so you can start an injury prone “rookie” that won a national championship carried by the best defense and great run game.
January 21, 1979
NFL co-founder "Papa Bear" George Halas conducts the Super Bowl XIII coin toss from a vintage 1920 Hupmobile.
In 1920, a meeting in Ralph Hay's tiny Canton Hupmobile showroom formed the American Professional Football Association — which became the NFL in 1922.
I love how much Ben pisses off Shanahan and Mcvay because he rose through the ranks as a top offensive playcaller on his own without having to shake those guy’s hands or get their coffee
Boomers are on an incredible generational run of fucking young Americans from every possible angle, and they're so sensitive about it. Entry-level hires are 42 years old? What are we doing here guys
Remember when Caleb Williams led a historic comeback over the Packers and piped the most explosive passing plays in one half in NFL history and then Aaron Rodgers got ritually disemboweled to end the weekend? God what a great time was had by all