soccer helmets?????

[Denver]

Originally Posted by JayBee

Dan Marino was one of the greatest QBs ever to play the game. He threw the ball with pinpoint accuracy. Had a great throwing motion with probably the fastest release of any of the great QBs. his fame was limited by the fact he never won a Super Bowl or got in a drug/sex scandal.

He retired in 1999. Never in a scandal, so, of course you wouldn't hear of him. With Maradona, it was one drug scandal after another, always in trouble. And the first I heard of Beckham is when he married one of the Spice Girls. If he hadn't married a Spice Girl, probably never would have heard of him. Since then, it is always, "Is Beckham cheating?" "Are they divorcing?" "Pics of Beckham with secret lover," etc.

Pele is the only one I ever heard of merely because he was a great soccer player!

Hey, what about Joe Namath. Old "Broadway Joe". Didn't you ever see his shaving cream commercials? Another great QB of long ago and a bit of ladies' man in his day!!

I that that was the law! You are supposed to try and bag the famous when you are earning loads of wonga! Yes, David Beckham is a pain in the bum with too much exposure. We are even getting him on tele here in Iraq pushing his aftershave. There was an Baseball player I seem to remember trying to get between Marilyn Munros legs at somepoint! So it is much the same now as it was then.

I'm just waiting for Beckham Bars along the lines of Babe Ruth (The bloke who played 'Big Rounders!')

[JayBee]

Originally Posted by Denver

[color="Green"] There was an Baseball player I seem to remember trying to get between Marilyn Munros legs at somepoint! [COLOR]

Actually, he married her. His name was Joe Dimaggio. popularly referred to as the "Yankee Clipper." A class guy. They say he went to her gravesite to put flowers there on her birthday every year.

Also immortalized in the Paul Simon song from the movie, "The Graduate," where Dustin Hoffman played a young man who was seduced by his GF's sexy mom, played by Anne Bancroft. The song was called "Mrs. Robinson."

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you
(Woo woo woo)
What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson
‘Joltin Joe’ has left and gone away?
(Hey hey hey – hey hey hey)

In his latter years, he was often seen on TV pushing the "Mr. Coffee" coffee maker machine.

He is still remembered for his record of most consecutive games with a base hit(56), which has never been broken, nor has anyone come close to breaking it. That was during WWII, and in a lot of the old war movies, the GIs are listening to the ball games on the radio to see if he gets a hit to continue his streak!

[the bigboy]

american football is rugby for pussies
rugby is football for real men
football is the sport of the gods
soccer is football for people who don't understand the game

[JayBee]

Originally Posted by the bigboy

american football is rugby for pussies

Say that to an NFL lineman at your own risk!! But first make sure your insurance policy is paid up to date!!