Was Ken Griffey Jr the closest athlete....

[BXKingPin82]

Yeah
Griff, SHAQ,Tiger, Tyson, maybe Gretzky

they were on that Jordan level "kind of"
Wasnt noone seeing Jordan as far as popularity
Muthafukkas who werent even into sports were on that brother dikk strictly off his shoes alone

 

[Luke Cage]

tiger had people taking up golf for the first time ever.

 

[Canada Goose]

If Bo had stayed healthy tho...

If you read Bo's lips, it looks like he says "You don't try that shyt on me, motherfukka "

 

[mvp_status]

 

[FTBS]

That doesn't even make sense though because of the business models. People wouldn't have paid $30 to watch Jordan dunk either and he was clearly the most popular athlete of all-time because people are used to watching basketball for free, people are used to watching boxing on pay-per-view.

That's like me asking if you could get people to drop $200 on some Mike Tyson kicks like you could for Jordans?

People were used to watching boxing for free at one time too. Shaq was a part of a league and while he contributed to it was never bigger than the league. Tyson was his sport at one point. At his height, some Tyson shoes or comparable gear (gloves) could have rivaled Jordans.

 

[prophecypro]

He was up there, maybe top 5 in popularity

Griffey Jr, Bonds, Agassi, Sampras, Tiger, Shaq, Penny, Iverson, LJ, Barkley, MJ, Gretzky, Dieon, Rice, Emmitt are the ones who stand out to me

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

It's Mike Tyson and its not even close.

Mike was a GLOBAL star...neither Ken Griffey Jr or Shaq ever were.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

He was up there, maybe top 5 in popularity

Griffey Jr, Bonds, Agassi, Sampras, Tiger, Shaq, Penny, Iverson, LJ, Barkley, MJ, Gretzky, Dieon, Rice, Emmitt are the ones who stand out to me

LJ?I hope you mean Lebron

 

[BamdaDon]

Music, movies, sports, shoes

This guy was quite popular as well.

Damn breh i watched the next video and I didn't need to see this. Just had to question Jordan goat status

 

[mson]

LJ?I hope you mean Lebron

Grand ma was popular a hell.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Grand ma was popular a hell.

I agree.That ni99a was the original Madea

 

[Methodical]

Yeah, he was the popular guy in MLB and Sports too. I had his jersey. His shoe was f*cking dope.

I remember my friend had almost all of his Ken Griffey Jr shoes and he was never fan of MLB but Ken Griffey Jr.

I remember I had game on Sega Saturn and had MLB games and I always play against my Uncle and I always picked Seattle Mariners cause I wanted to play with Ken Griffery and my Uncle always picked SF Giants so he can play with his favorite player Barry Bonds, we went against each other all the time.

 

[Methodical]

I always want these dudes but my parent said no cause it's too expensive . I always get jealous of my friend wore those and he always have Air Jordan too....damn his mom spoiled him too much.

 

[Methodical]

Look at that fluid swing, brehs.

Every little breh wanted a swing like that in the 90s. I remember practicing that shyt.

My childhood.

I did that too

 

[Methodical]

Sports Illustrated for KiDs.......I always had to get them, it was fun to read it for kids.....