Perhaps the greatest athlete of all in perhaps his greatest performance, 06/09/1973 crushing Belmont's track record and winning the Triple Crown. Was gonna title thread "Big Red", but thought better of that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM&feature=youtu.be

You must be a boomer. Cut this shit out. He was a horse, not an athlete. Looking at you too over there JORR

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My father cried when he died. He went and visited him a couple of times. He had these real nice coffee table books about the greatest racehorses of all time. The one story that I still remember about him was in his first night race it was a mile and a quarter. The way the track was laid out he had to go round 3 times. at the back stretch was a bank of lights the first two times he hit the turn the lights startled him and he just froze came to a dead stop and let the entire pack pass him. He wound up winning by 4 lengths

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Even as a guy who knows about nothing about horses that is always cool to watch.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Look. At. His. Body.

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Wang whipping

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when it comes to who's an athlete or not FF is the last person that comes to mind ...sort of like asking Trump about medicine

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Since you saw them both, Walt, who was better Secretariat or Man O' War?

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whoa

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

That is mean. More than mean.

But what did you think about War Admiral?

1937 was the only year there was a triple crown in horse racing (War Admiral) and baseball (Joe Medwick).

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One of the first athletes to pose nude for Sports Illustrated.

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