What if the fastest American athletes did track?
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21:15 is nice for someone who hadn't run track for four years!
As a matter of fact, he shaved 0:80 sec off his 200m time without any track activities from 15-18!
You want us to believe Bolt can shave his time, but Moss wouldn't have been able to?
Both are elite athletes and freaks of nature.
I agree. It is not easy. But, the US has had a few non-track athletes that, with the right focused trainig from an early age, would have been right there in the conversation.
Randy Moss is one of them.
In bum ass West Virginia, do you think a broke ass family was going to have their 6'4" phenom focusing on track or basketball/football/baseball?
No one is saying NFL speedsters could drop football today and be competing at an Olympic level tomorrow.
We're simply saying that if they'd dedicated their lives to track, like Bolt did, from an early age, chances are many of them would be Olympic-level sprinters.
The reverse is true for Bolt. Had he dedicated his life to football, given his physical advantages, I have no doubt he would have been an elite receiver like Randy Moss or Calvin Johnson.
Check this out: Top 100 meter times by NFL players
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Stupid idiots acting like track & field isn't a HUGE NCAA sport with the best athletes in the nation
Oh really?
When is that even in TV?
What are their TV ratings for their championships?
How much money is given by boosters to direct players to certain schools?
How much grade fixing occurs?
Pretty sure it's all miniscule compared to the important sports that take athletes away from track.
Oh really?
When is that even in TV?
What are their TV ratings for their championships?
How much money is given by boosters to direct players to certain schools?
How much grade fixing occurs?
Pretty sure it's all miniscule compared to the important sports that take athletes away from track.
Lol! These people are really trying to claim that all the people who should be running track ARE running track in the United States.
We don't have top US heavyweights anymore because most of them get shoved into football, baseball or basketball at an early age.
We don't produce the sprinters we once did because they are playing basketball or football.
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It's a tough call...I mean none of the fastest players in NFL history have ever been known to run under 10 seconds...BUT the idea is that if they were professionally trained and dedicated....could one of them actually had been the fastest in the world in the 100m? Maybe...I'm sure you could take one of those wide receivers or whoever and train him to be faster than Bolt
There are ALOT of WR's and RB's that have run under 10.5 in the 100m (and that is VERY FAST...don't let the Olympic times confuse you) Historically off the top of my head, based on their 40 yrd and 100 m times I think these guys could actually get under 10 seconds with the training....BUT not necessarily faster than Bolt...Bolt is such an anomaly that I don't know how anyone with ease could even say that...his 100m is almost imaginably impossible.
Anyway, off the top of my head..and I'm sure there are plenty of modern day ones to add, but here they are ....
Hershel Walker
Deion Sanders
WillieGault
James Jett
Randy Moss
Levernius Coles
Bo Jackson
Don Bebe
Mile Vick
Warrick Dunn
EDIT add Darrel Green to that list...he's arguably the fastest in NFL history
Now these guys might not beat Bolt in a race with the training....but atleast 3 of them could possibly be faster than anyone else
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Man, I see Bolt's success really got some brehs in their feelings. 
Just accept that he's a once in a lifetime athlete. Now that he's retiring, the U.S. has a chance to reclaim their throne in track. Be patient brehs.
Just accept that he's a once in a lifetime athlete. Now that he's retiring, the U.S. has a chance to reclaim their throne in track. Be patient brehs.
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No he wouldn't have. I fukked w Moss heavy in his Min days, he didn't have it in him to beat Atl in 1999, he wouldn't have it in him to surpass Usain.You want us to believe Bolt can shave his time, but Moss wouldn't have been able to?
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This is so idiotic, your argument is nothing but fantasy that opens a can of spastic worms. So then Messi would be the GOAT PG if he focused on that. Lennox Lewis woulda been the GOAT PF. You're arguing like a white boy.
They are. Didn't u compete in school. We find out our specialty at an early age. You know absolutely nothing.
You are retarded, those are not the reasons. The reasons are because not enough boxers or sprinters have been good enough, not a single athlete in another discipline could have crossed over successfully. So I guess Somalia doesn't dominate all sports because their strongest/fastest fight in wars instead. Jamaica would dominate in EVERYTHING if nikkas didn't get shoved into normal jobs instead. Those are facts. Per capita, Jamaica is superior. If their economy allowed for better training, it'd be a wash for all events.