Most promising SPORTS careers ended/halted by injury?

[Zap Brannigan]

Originally posted by: 95SS
Steve Emtman. Anyone who watched college football in the early 90's saw one of the greatest DT's to ever play the game. Drafted by the Colts #1 overall, and promptly got hurt.

I remember him! He returned a Marino pass for a touchdown! I remember that game from years ago lol. He was good. I was rooting for the dolphins though.

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: jkersenbr
Kirby Puckett and Albert Belle. I think Puckett would have been in the Hall of Fame someday and Belle just might have had a single-season home run record in him.

Uh, Puckett is in the hall of fame.

Link

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
bo jackson

would have been cool to see what he was capable of.

yup.

also gale sayers as one of the most famous.

Jr is not a good example as he is still playing and playing well i might add.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
Nique and grant hill.

Nique had a HOF career. if it hadn't been for a bball immortal called MJ, Nique would have been considered a celestial.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: raystorm
Ken Griffey Jr by FAR when it comes to baseball. Just imagine how many homers with that great swing of his he could have had by now if he was healthy all these years.

what about Ted Williams and his service in the wars?

sh1t happens but Jr is still healthy and still playing so he doesn't count.

he doesn't rank with the Gale Sayers or Bo Jacksons or Len Bias's of the world.

 

[Neurorelay]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
bo jackson

 

[PlatinumGold]

oh ya, here is someone that hasn't been mentioned yet and he was a FREAKY FREAKY BBALL PLAYER.

ROY TARPLEY.

he had Hakeem type skills but couldn't stay away from the drugs.

he had talent tho.

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
oh ya, here is someone that hasn't been mentioned yet and he was a FREAKY FREAKY BBALL PLAYER.

ROY TARPLEY.

he had Hakeem type skills but couldn't stay away from the drugs.

he had talent tho.

drugs are his own fault, not an injury.

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: anxi80
herb score

rookie year struck out 245 and went 16-10. next year struck out 263 and went 20-9. year after that hit with a line drive in the eyeball early in the season and missed the rest of the season and most of the next season. when he returned he was never the same and the most strikeouts he could ever amass in a season was 147.

I used to love listening to him call Indians games

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Indolent

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
oh ya, here is someone that hasn't been mentioned yet and he was a FREAKY FREAKY BBALL PLAYER.

ROY TARPLEY.

he had Hakeem type skills but couldn't stay away from the drugs.

he had talent tho.

drugs are his own fault, not an injury.

len bias was mentioned more than a few times in this thread, don't see how tarpley is any different.

 

[milagro]

hands down bo jackson

 

[Mo0o]

Bo Jackson

But also Grant Hill, it really pains me to think what he could have been capable of without all those injury problems.

 

[cw42]

Originally posted by: Rastus
Terrell Owen's career is suffering from his severe case of cranial rectitus.

hahaha.

 

[jkersenbr]

Originally posted by: Indolent

Originally posted by: jkersenbr
Kirby Puckett and Albert Belle. I think Puckett would have been in the Hall of Fame someday and Belle just might have had a single-season home run record in him.

Uh, Puckett is in the hall of fame.

Link

Doh! My bad. Still, that guy had at least another 10 years in him and would have gone down as one of the best pure hitters in the game.

 

[Lvis]

Harry Agganis


http://webpages.charter.net/joekuras/agganis.htm



This guy is truely a sad story.

Harry Agganis was born in Lynn, Mass. April 30, 1930, and died at Sancta Maria Hospital in Cambridge June 27, 1955. He was the Red Sox first baseman when he died, but he was a star football player, and his biography is mostly a football story. It was written by two Greek-Americans, working from a voluminous scrapbook kept by Harrys sister Mary, and from interviews with people who knew him....

 

[raystorm]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: raystorm
Ken Griffey Jr by FAR when it comes to baseball. Just imagine how many homers with that great swing of his he could have had by now if he was healthy all these years.

what about Ted Williams and his service in the wars?

sh1t happens but Jr is still healthy and still playing so he doesn't count.

he doesn't rank with the Gale Sayers or Bo Jacksons or Len Bias's of the world.

I know that dude.. you must have missed my post where I said it was a mistake for me to mention jr griffey. He shouldn't be mentioned at all.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: raystorm

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: raystorm
Ken Griffey Jr by FAR when it comes to baseball. Just imagine how many homers with that great swing of his he could have had by now if he was healthy all these years.

what about Ted Williams and his service in the wars?

sh1t happens but Jr is still healthy and still playing so he doesn't count.

he doesn't rank with the Gale Sayers or Bo Jacksons or Len Bias's of the world.

I know that dude.. you must have missed my post where I said it was a mistake for me to mention jr griffey. He shouldn't be mentioned at all.

ya, i didn't realize how far from the end of the thread i was when i responded to this post.

 

[raystorm]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

ya, i didn't realize how far from the end of the thread i was when i responded to this post.

I probably should have edited my post anyways.


Since I'm in NYC I'll mention Don Mattingly. His back issues halted a potential HOF career. He had a couple of great years in the 80's then his back problems started cropping up. Even though I'm a huge Mets fan I always liked Mattingly and that fine swing of his. In fact the 80's were great when it came to NYC first basemen with Mattingly on the Yanks and Keith Hernandez on the Mets.

 

[CTrain]

First person comes to mind is of course Bo Jackson.
Only 1 person mentioned Monica Sele and she was the most dominating tennis player until that guy stabed her.
I think shes still a HOF tennis player but she would have been Stefi Graf great.

I can't believe no one mentioned Anfernee Hardaway.
This guy was mentioned in the breath on MJ.
He and Shaq was the Kobe and Shaq before Shaq defected.
Even after Shaq left he was able to lead the Magic for a while(remembered he dropped 2 40+ pts against the Heat in the playoff ??)

After the Magic traded traded him to the Suns, he injured his knees and was never the same.
Remembered the Lil Penny mania ??

 

[TBone48]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
bo jackson

would have been cool to see what he was capable of.

 

[linkgoron]

Oded Katash.

 

[Al Neri]

brien taylor was a no doubter who got into a bar fight and broke his hand

i hate the yankees but that was a huge blow to them

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: yosuke188

Originally posted by: axelfox
Did we mention rock salt?

I think we forgot to mention rock salt.