Sports Illustrated ranks their 50 fittest athletes

[the greatest]

This list is straight trash.. Galen Rupp makes the list but Mo Farrah doesn't?

cam newton ranked behind a pole vaulter?

the top 7 wasn't too bad though

[PhillyB]

On May 27, 2016 at 4:05 PM, The Huddler said:

Seperating women from men? Separate lists? Why do that bro? Dont want to compare women to men as if they are inferior bro?? 

 

 

Why even call it men and women bro? thats profiling bro!! Thats not PC bro!!

nailed it

[Judo Thoreau]

Didn't bother to read the whole list.

I'll go ahead and assume that Bartolo Colon was #1.

[imminent rogaine]

On May 27, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Datawire said:

#27 Oh my!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BB9tZ--B_xp/embed/captioned/?v=7

 

I mean, i didn't find much to complain about in that list at all. something sexy about a capable and strong woman.  49 and 22 are more my style but i'd probably let a few of the more muscular ones smack me round a bit too

[Mvp2014]

On 5/27/2016 at 3:39 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

Not a chance. I went to HS with a few high level D1 recruits. I was a pretty good athlete myself, certainly above average. Those dudes made me look like I was trying to move in quicksand. There was absolutely nothing I could do to close that genetic gap. It sucks to accept, but it's the truth. 

Same as the dominant college player who has marginal size and below average athleticism. WFU LB Jon Abbate comes to mind immediately. Great college player.  ACC DPOY. But, he was under 6' and couldn't even break the 5 second barrier in the 40.  Despite being a very intelligent player and very fundamentally sound, he's just not an NFL player. That takes nothing away from him being a great college player, but he's not playing in the NFL. He hit his ceiling. There was nothing he could do to make up for the fact that he had neither NFL size nor athleticism. 

 

Not only that but just the durability to play in the NFL is god given.  Plenty of physical freaks in HS and college that just can't stay healthy given the violence of the pro game

[Cj72]

While I think watching soccer compares to watching paint dry, they have to have the most fit athletes. That's a lot of constant running and scrambling around.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

On 5/29/2016 at 8:41 PM, Mvp2014 said:

Not only that but just the durability to play in the NFL is god given.  Plenty of physical freaks in HS and college that just can't stay healthy given the violence of the pro game

it's another thing that makes me roll my eyes whenever some idiot pipes up and goes "hur american football players are fat it doesn't take any skill to play that sport"

if that was true then any 6'5" moron on the planet who is over a certain weight could make millions playing quarterback in the NFL.  those guys are superhuman mutants.  even the "try hard" marginal type guys who maybe don't have archetypal speed, athleticism, or size are very physically gifted.