There are tons of athletes whose transcendent talent was sidelined by injuries (Bo Jackson or Bill Walton) or trauma (Monica Seles and Vince Young) or idiocy (Dwight Gooden and John Rocker and Ricky Williams and Daryl Strawberry and Michael Vick to name a few). What I’m interested in here are folks whose talent just seemed to……disappear. No satisfactory explanation. As though the devil said, you know what? Keep your soul. I don’t want it. But I’m taking back your talent. Deal with it.
Here are some suggestions for your consideration. I need your help and really welcome any suggestions and corrections, especially if these guys below suffered from injuries that explain their collapses.
Golf: David Duval and Ian Baker-Finch
Football: Brian Bosworth and Christian Okoye and Drew Bledsoe
Baseball: Roger Maris and Dontrelle Willis
Basketball: Phil Ford and Ralph Sampson and Grant Hill and Penny Hardaway
Others? Please let me know.
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Can we have a post of Top cliches in film we would like to never see again?
echoing microphone, slow walk away with explosion behind, family singing kareoke style while dancing together, frightened person looking backwards while walking...
Yes, we can. And will.
With Drew Bledsoe, I think it was just age. He actually had a long career and fairly impressive stats.
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