What makes sports interesting is Superstars. Players that have extreme talent tend to draw in fans often times when you don’t really even like watching the sport. Players like Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods, or late drives from Joe Namath or Tom Brady, or runs from Sanders or Payton, or others who dominate. Screw equally matched, it;s the GOAT players that make things interesting.
“Sanders “
If you are talking about Dion Sanders, I don’t think he gets half the credit he deserves for being one great athlete.
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The 1980 “Miracle on Ice” is widely acclaimed as the greatest sports performance in U.S. history. That team was DEFINED by its lack of star players. There’s nothing more American than a G.O.A.T. that emerges from obscurity — and then returns there.