Jim Thorpe was a modest man and had a heart of gold.
@lestermount32874 жыл бұрын
Thorpe won the dec. by 800 points the greatest margin of victory ever. When his awards were taken after the Olympics the men coming in second refused to take them.
@williamtate62683 жыл бұрын
The GOAT no matter what competition. He could do it all.
@mosestrujillo8365 жыл бұрын
Pro baseball, basketball, and football. By far the best athlete ever.
@queensugar49534 жыл бұрын
Yup, no athlete ever came close to Jim's accomplishments! He also was a boxer, Hockey, lacrosse player and a swimmer along with competing in the Olympics where he won two gold medals and was dubbed by the King of Sweden as the Greatest Athlete in the World!
@coelhocointech98415 жыл бұрын
Should get more Credit for helping college football and nfl being what it is today... he played professional football at a time you still needed a job and football was more dangerous than today...
@Johnadams207602 жыл бұрын
i am UM fan , and inkow every year they have a jim thorple award for the player that is the best player on the entire team. and usually someone that does morethen 1 thing. mulitple things
@mariej25256 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 Tom Bradley
@petermanson34756 жыл бұрын
he's mad, bro
@lifelonglearners97846 жыл бұрын
+Peter Manson yep - pretty amazing guy
@QuarterMan886 жыл бұрын
LMAO not even close.
@evankoberg5 жыл бұрын
SEAHAWKS12 he forsure looked up most famous nfl player and forgot his name while making this vid
@chndrmk5 жыл бұрын
Most protected cheating cry baby qb. tuck rule, deflate gate. spy gate EAGLES philly special nick foles lol
@joem17805 жыл бұрын
the man who made legends.
@BBBYpsi5 жыл бұрын
He should be considered the greatest football player ever. He is to me the greatest athlete that ever lived & should never be debated.
@BigBudduh5 жыл бұрын
Should never be debated? Cmon now, Bo Jackson has something to say.
@BBBYpsi5 жыл бұрын
@@BigBudduh What did Bo ever win? Bo will never be in any Hall of Fame. Jim Thorpe was considered one of the greatest football players ever & track athletes ever. Also played baseball in the Majors. Bo Jackson ave per year in baseball .250 average 17 hr's per year 51 rbi's per year. So fast he only averaged 10 stolen basses per year at a 71% success rate. He averaged striking out every 2.85 ab's. Made 1 all star game in 8 years. NFL stats ave. 695 yards per year rushing only 88 yards per year receiving. Only ave. 4 TD's per year. Cracks me up everytime people say how great a RB he was. He was fast & strong. So what!!! I would put Dionne Sanders over Bo he had a much better baseball career & a Hall of fame Football career. Jim Thorpe is no question the greatest athlete that ever lived & he never practiced for anything.
@BigBudduh5 жыл бұрын
BBBYpsi Not talking about accomplishments or careers homie, we’re talking greatest athlete, and you said there is no debate. Cmon now, you said yourself “he was fast and strong”; yup that’s kind of the point.
@BBBYpsi5 жыл бұрын
@@BigBudduh that's right there is no debate Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete of his time and it wasn't even close there are other people that were considered close to Bo Jackson is being athletes. Besides that accomplishing stuff in athletics is tired of being a great athlete of course there are plenty of people who have complex nothing that you can say are great athletes but not really if they didn't accomplish anything
@BigBudduh5 жыл бұрын
BBBYpsi Dawg your English is horrendous, I don’t know what you even trying to say lmfaooo
@AKhanboxing6 жыл бұрын
well u have to realize that there is almost no footage of Jim Thorpe which is why he is so un heard of today. The athletes of today live in the age of the internet and everything the do is recorded on video. So no, legendary athletes of today will most likely still will be well known a hundred years from today
@lifelonglearners97846 жыл бұрын
Perhaps, time will tell. With so many professional sports I suspect most, if not all, will be forgotten but it will take sometime. Probably 2 generations, no more.
@AKhanboxing6 жыл бұрын
2 generations are only around 50 years tho
@mwmann6 жыл бұрын
AKhan I doubt that. Because so many of them are druggies and criminals. Time will reveal this more and more. Plus most aren't gentlemen or patriots.
@pumpkinlumpkin4756 жыл бұрын
No, they do have some footage... He is Native American, which is most of the cause of him not being known and the scandal of his medals.
@Garrett12405 жыл бұрын
@@mwmann Did you really just say 'Patriots'? That's hilarious. Why should patriotism be expected of professional athletes , if that's what you're suggesting?
@tedswanson21153 жыл бұрын
"Tom Bradley?!?" Apparently, his name has been forgotten already!
@sambeltran56403 жыл бұрын
The greatest athlete in history, you will never see someone like him
@j.a.65993 жыл бұрын
Wilt Chamberlain
@madelyncastoe2585 жыл бұрын
Hey... this dude is my great uncle
@stevenfitzgibbon11474 жыл бұрын
Dude really said Tom Bradley 🤦🏼♂️
@coelhocointech98415 жыл бұрын
Who hasn’t heard of the greatest athlete in history
@m.h.hanifbohari74815 жыл бұрын
Drunk History brought me here
@aaronscott49845 жыл бұрын
I know who he is only cause his body is buried not too far from where I grew up and our high school rivals were the Jim Thorpe Olympians
@alanparma73584 жыл бұрын
The Real GOAT
@DreamhopMusic7 жыл бұрын
thx fr sharing =3
@slthlrdz2 жыл бұрын
On Friday July 15th 2022 Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm - nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for "violations" of amateurism rules.
@dennisnyasende77984 жыл бұрын
This game a perfect
@Mr_Heydrich3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes Tom Bradley
@georgebalko25932 жыл бұрын
Thorpe was, and remains, the best ever. Period.
@hashkemma35946 жыл бұрын
It’s that Native American gene
@notchinham3165 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they tend to have a lot of stamina and natural high upper body strength. Explains why many mestizo laborers from Mexico last so long.
@theterrar35664 жыл бұрын
Nah it's the white Gene's that make him such a great athlete and winner.
@chicken-ne6ou4 жыл бұрын
@@theterrar3566 that's racist
@theterrar35664 жыл бұрын
@@chicken-ne6ou So I'm racist but the upper posts arent? Wow.. just wow.
@queensugar49534 жыл бұрын
He was just a natural born athlete and the greatest one!
@Growdyman5 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley 😅😂😂🤣
@fendertremolo97935 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley & Bill Beliuchi
@johnmoldavite10912 жыл бұрын
So Jim was about 24 before the extent of his talent became visible to the country. I wonder what could have done to find his talent earlier? The NFL seems to like; vertical leap, 60m, bench & squat for a baseline. Probably just vertical leap for a single test. So maybe a vertical jump & a 1km run? But his track & field coach didn't realise what else he could do. How to test for his incredible skill? If there was a standardised test for it, people would practice for it, then you don't know if it's raw skill or polished. He could have been the greatest olympian of all time. But I think his passion was football, & if he was born in a later time he would have been discovered in high school.
@eddy57055 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradly!?😂😂😂
@walterpay3413 жыл бұрын
i'm sorry...who exactly hasn't heard of the Great Jim Thorpe
@famousoklahomans31974 жыл бұрын
Good video!
@thornydig6 жыл бұрын
Amen🇺🇸
@NOTLeavingLV3 жыл бұрын
Maybe where you’re from (Australia?) you’ve never heard of him. Most everyone in the USA who is a sports fan has.
@Johnadams207602 жыл бұрын
thankyouk this is a wonderful video that is well thought out but sussinct enough to reallygo over what made him amazing. btw. in football, ithought i also read that had even thrown touch downs as well to score points on top of everything listed. and that 1500 meter or 1 mile run in the decathalon. someone actaully stole his shoes and he found some in a garbage can wher one shoe was too small one was too large. if he wore his normal shoes he probably would have scored even higher than his point total. and i believe it took 40-50 years before anyone really ever effectively broke that record. 20 before anyone tied or "slightly" beat it. but i am thinking that if his shoes were not stolen his point total would have been that it would take 50 years. oh plus i heard he did't ever playe 3 of the sports of the deathalon or pentathanlon and learned them just befor ethe olympics i wonder though, had they not taken his medals away and banned him. i am guessing he would have been in the 1916 and 1920 and who knows, maybe 1924 olypic games too getting many more gold medals. and in 1912 , not only did wint the 15 events betewen the 2 multi sport events, but he actaully also placed 4th in the individual high jump and i think 10th in the individual long jump or something like that. and his time for the 100 yard/100meer dash. in those days. would have almost qualified him for olympics today. however, he barely parctied, and also he would also have modern clohtes, shoes, training, nutritian etc.. so yes he would have made the olympics today. smae with theother sports. the 2nd best atheltte ever in terms of diversity after iim has to be wilt chamberlain but jim is clearly the best period.
@DRx.Factor4 жыл бұрын
The first president of the NFL and one of the greatest players to play the game and yet the Washington Redskins had the audacity to maintain their disrespect. It's fitting that you don't have a name or a mascot. You don't deserve one.
@ashrafsamad94686 жыл бұрын
Nice video I liked it
@lifelonglearners97846 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ashraf
@billbrown6380 Жыл бұрын
Yep
@pympton2 жыл бұрын
Did you honestly say Tom Bradley?
@billseota89673 жыл бұрын
Most Athletic: Bo Jackson Most Popular: Messi/Ronaldo
@shantoreywilkins6512 жыл бұрын
#amazing #92nd
@clunt40957 жыл бұрын
The legend says if your first the channel with reply
@lifelonglearners97847 жыл бұрын
replied :)
@mannysmandatories55955 жыл бұрын
Here after Drunk History
@jayd89342 жыл бұрын
Decent video actually, but Tom Bradley come on now bro 🤦🏽♂️
@RYDERRANTS7 жыл бұрын
Sonny Bill Williams.....
@lifelonglearners97847 жыл бұрын
+Rugby League GBU true SBW is brilliant. Wrong century for this video but still brilliant.
@nickca61046 жыл бұрын
@@lifelonglearners9784 On the topic of rugby how about Jeff Wilson?
@Roscoepoundz2 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley..
@smasherblues53224 жыл бұрын
Why call him Native American. Which nation did he belong to? North America is much larger than Europe. National ties mean just as much in both cultures. North America was just as divided by native nations, as the rest of the world is.
@queensugar49534 жыл бұрын
He was Sac and Fox and Potawatomi tribe
@eddardstark50343 жыл бұрын
Loling at Tom Bradly
@mwmann6 жыл бұрын
He isn't recognized because he was a simple good native American Man from Oklahoma. Had he been born in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles you'd hear about him constantly. The Truth is the majority of all the great athletes, gentlemen, and Patriots were all originally from the south, Oklahoma, and Texas.
@pumpkinlumpkin4756 жыл бұрын
fucking dumb.... lol
@jacobwatson14063 жыл бұрын
@@pumpkinlumpkin475 LOL
@trippierevv92414 жыл бұрын
#brown
@jamesh13696 жыл бұрын
Dumb title, anybody that follows sports knows who Jim Thorpe was.
@lifelonglearners97846 жыл бұрын
I suspect you have a much deeper knowledge of sports than the average person. The vast majority of people don't seem to know/remember him.
@jerryhernandez18955 жыл бұрын
James H He’s not as well known by casual fans I guess.
@chndrmk5 жыл бұрын
WHO?
@judah6152 Жыл бұрын
How many black people did Jim compete against?....I thought so.