Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Thorpe comes in at number 37 on NFL Films' "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players" list produced in 2010. Subscribe to NFL Films: goo.gl/XJTggL
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@josephzupan11497 жыл бұрын
guys always say, "well the game was different back then." some truth to that. However....people often forget that these individuals jerry rice, Jim brown, Jim thorpe, would also evolve with the game. so imagine, if you will, Jim Thorpe's natural athletic abilities combined with today's training methods, supplements, knowledge of nutrition, new game techniques, and actually practicing every day. I wish I could watch a guy like that play....shit I wish I could have just seen Jim in his natural athletic prime playing a game of football.
@josheden8326 жыл бұрын
Agree 100 percent. Don't know why people think the early nfl greats won't survive in today's game but in reality I think they are so much more athletic because the lack of everything you just mentioned
@sdgakatbk6 жыл бұрын
Okay, I'm a dinosaur, and DEFINITELY prefer older versions of the NFL to what we have today for a number of reasons. However, I think these arguments cut both ways. Players today would have to adjust to a league where there are more physically, questionable, violent hits allowed, (like clotheslining for example), more primitive transportation and accommodations, less protective equipment, having to work a job in the off season, and, depending on the era, having to play on both offense and defense. The early era players playing today would mainly not be as physically as big or as fast, which I think is a big disadvantage. They would also have to adjust to longer schedules in both the regular and post season. I also believe the offensive and defensive schemes are more sophisticated today. It definitely would be special to go back in a time machine to see Jim Thorpe. From the video, I wonder if the technique of giving the tackler a hip and then taking it away as it is described originated with Thorpe or maybe he made more use of it.
@Teschim6 жыл бұрын
Money as the driving force, simple as that. Increased competition due to a bigger player pool. The selection process will ensure that basically only the really gifted athletes are left able to compete (including a lot of other boundary conditions e.g. technique etc.). The game changed and therfore the requirements expanded. In short, in order to stand out purely with his "natural athletic abilities" he'd be required to play on a whole new level (think of LT, Vick..). Also as mentioned already the change in schemes would effect them as well.
@cowpoke025 жыл бұрын
he practiced since he was born every day . haha.. he practiced more than even larry bird . people in school he was practicing . opposite . he three times the shape and conditioning of people today .. haha. he didn't need technology . did it form birth . he would be better even maybe . probably not cause he practiced and trained way less vs at end of the game not even tired . he could probably run the field 100 yards not even be gasped . haha. can't train that ..
@emjay2fly5 жыл бұрын
Joseph Zupan you did see a guy like that. His name is Bo Jackson
@TyBoogzz3 жыл бұрын
Crazy how probably no one alive today can tell they you that they watched him play but we still know his greatness, crazy 🙏🏾💫
@mrjadter2 жыл бұрын
Yea you gotta appreciate stuff like that fr. Sports History is important to me at least
@thescatman50295 жыл бұрын
This dude ran a 4 minute, 48 second 1500m, in the decathalon! On dirt! A lot of decathletes can't do that, now!
@astrobullivant59084 жыл бұрын
Even today, he'd be a star in the NFL
@noconaroubideaux94234 жыл бұрын
With shoes he found in the garbage after someone stole his.
@queensugar49534 жыл бұрын
He also did it with two different shoes since someone stole his shoes hoping to sabotage the race.
@Bshop-nt2hn4 жыл бұрын
I know some military soldiers who ran 4 minute miles
@bryantav68434 жыл бұрын
False , only a few athletes have been able to run and break the four minute mark
@michaellotharp81473 жыл бұрын
Who got this recommended after he got a card in mut
@aledeane69423 жыл бұрын
me
@jarenreid70513 жыл бұрын
Me
@nijel20033 жыл бұрын
that card be sellin everyone ik that uses it he fumble all the time
@j.psensational68603 жыл бұрын
Me here 😂
@IzzyMostWanted_3 жыл бұрын
Facts Only reason why I’m here 😂
@Darius_Icewood3 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe is my ancester! I used to read biographies of him in elementary school back in 2004. My Grandma used to tell me stories of him. My kids great great grand-kids will know who he is! Like if Jim Thorpe is the GOAT 👍🏾
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
What a coincidence! He's my ancestor too! We must be related! Or FullOfShit. Probably the latter.
@steverenom.2993 жыл бұрын
Your grandma once told me, "This idiot grandson of mine will believe anything". lol
@SAINTxSZN Жыл бұрын
Yeah he's your ancester not your ancestor.
@bosskproductions3462 Жыл бұрын
@@TheBatugan77 me too! My last name is Comte
@marlonperryman712910 ай бұрын
Wow
@nujeru997 жыл бұрын
Also DOMINATED the Olympics in the Pentathlon and Decathlon events. Thorpe was an all-around BEAST and arguably GOAT for male athletes in the 20th century
@clightning97035 жыл бұрын
stop calling Goat that's a devil meaning..
@lancebaker13745 жыл бұрын
YES, GOAT, GOAT, GOAT!!! What does GOAT mean?
@ilikemountains25854 жыл бұрын
@@lancebaker1374 Greatest, Of, All, Time. G.O.A.T
@andrewdussault23154 жыл бұрын
@@ilikemountains2585 technically then he's the GOTTC?
@genelsopires67153 жыл бұрын
esse esporte é destrutivo demais
@Thechad2016 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe made the list?! Hell yeah! Well done NFL Films.
@Heezydoesit16711 ай бұрын
He should be higher
@ryancruz18763 ай бұрын
Why wouldn’t he have?
@landellwhiterock95434 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe is the best athlete ever played the most sports and was all star player at all of them.
@TallPaulHipHop7 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe at #37 is a joke. GOAT.
@justannbafan36465 жыл бұрын
TallPaul612 no, he wasn't. what about grange or people right now. thorpe has no credentials or credibility other than what others say. red grange didn't have too much credibility either, but there's actual footage of him dominating on both sides of the ball and special teams. i think he would be great in the nfl now, but not as great because players now are bigger, stronger, and faster.
@TryPuttingItInRice5 жыл бұрын
wrong
@lancebaker13745 жыл бұрын
A joke because he should be rated higher or a joke because he should be rated lower?????
@ericruiz10364 жыл бұрын
She says it best at 3:25. We hear the faintest echo of what he was, but it's loud enough.
@johndoniganjr44284 жыл бұрын
If he and Jim Brown played today, no one would be able to beat their records!
@robertgollnick51833 жыл бұрын
They had his name on a plaque above the doors when you entered the gym at my middle school. He has nothing to do with the school at all, but I realize now that they did it to honor someone who loved sports. This man was the definition of an athlete.
@baller4621 Жыл бұрын
Mad respect to the person who made that happen
@cricketrice89986 жыл бұрын
"Wa-Tho-Huk" Bright Path, Jim Thorpe. A member of the Sauk and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.
@lancebaker13745 жыл бұрын
All presented elsewhere, so your comment is meaningless.
@Branden7874 жыл бұрын
@@lancebaker1374 yale Oklahoma is the home of Jim
@Garrett12404 жыл бұрын
@@Branden787 Prague, Oklahoma is where Jim is from.
@Branden7874 жыл бұрын
@@Garrett1240 yale Oklahoma is where his house and some of his medals are
@smhintz4 жыл бұрын
@@lancebaker1374 you are worthless
@chrisaultman13 жыл бұрын
My dad was born in 1921 and when I was a kid, all I heard was how in AWE he was of Jim Thorpe and Babe Didrikson. He said they both could do it all.
@TrevorHamberger Жыл бұрын
babe didrikson was a man.
@ignaciocompilation50693 жыл бұрын
Respect from the Navajo Nation ✊🏽🔥
@fuzzydunlop05072 жыл бұрын
Do you know the song and chant at the beginning of the video?
@loganstolberg27435 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely ridiculous Jim Thorpe should be way higher on the list he transformed football and was an amazing athlete
@sambeltran56403 жыл бұрын
The greatest athlete in history, you will never see someone like him
@lilcurry43142 жыл бұрын
Wilt Chamberlain?
@Johnadams20760 Жыл бұрын
@@lilcurry4314 wilt would be the 2nd greatest of all time just behidn thorpe. wilt would have him on strength.
@SAINTxSZN Жыл бұрын
@@Johnadams20760 best athlete with barely any film yeah right
@Johnadams20760 Жыл бұрын
@@SAINTxSZN you don't need film to know this. just simply look at what he did.
@funny3272 Жыл бұрын
Today the Olympic Committee reinstated Jim Thorpe. It took 110 years. Thorpe once again is the sole winner of the 1912 Olympics and medals returned.
@redmustangredmustang Жыл бұрын
Finally
@riskyingo7 жыл бұрын
Greatest athlete of all time.
@AHMAD-23246 жыл бұрын
James Jackson Ummm not of All-time, that'll be Michael Jeffrey Jordan buddy... But definitely of his Era assuming all of this is true. Unfortunately we don't have any film to judge for ourselves!
@double00shotgun6 жыл бұрын
Ahmad2423 he sucked, Jim was the best athlete of the 20th Century
@V.D036 жыл бұрын
Ahmad2423 jordan is overrated
@nickca61045 жыл бұрын
@@AHMAD-2324 Messi is a much better athlete than Jordan. Soccer is by far the most popular sport.
@justannbafan36465 жыл бұрын
Ahmad2423 jordan is overrated. he was not the greatest nba player, he was an amateur-caliber golfer, and a bad baseball player.
@justusr50925 жыл бұрын
Natural multi-sport athlete, what a beast. Would be awesome to see him in action
@lonewolfgamingplus3793 жыл бұрын
Every native who participates in sports, his spirit lives in them.
@Poopchute5 жыл бұрын
I don’t mean to dismiss his incredible athletic ability with this comment but DAMN his hair was on point!!!
@mitchcolburn12164 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe's importance cannot be overstated. Without him emerging as the first true superstar, the NFL and professional football as a whole might never have taken off. I'm not saying he is the BEST player of all time, but he is without a doubt the most important.
@dvldwg89613 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorp is the Greatest Athlete of all time
@devinrivera65423 жыл бұрын
He just game out in madden and this is on my home
@sunshine_tidings69836 жыл бұрын
"We hear the faintest echo of who he was, but it's loud enough." UGH I CAN'T HANDLE IT.
@josephzupan11497 жыл бұрын
Guy could run 100 yards in 10 seconds. That I'd world class speed in any time period. Didn't have all the specialized training or performance enhancing substances or even protein powders that are around today. And....he never practiced..ever. This was back when giants walked the earth. Sadly...these giants are extinct.
@Eliteraven207 жыл бұрын
Jacoby Ford ran that fast in his prime. So did Chris Johnson and Jacoby Jones.
@CoolioXXX527 жыл бұрын
That's 100 years later with better cleats etc
@josephzupan11497 жыл бұрын
sanders, jackson, Hester...they all probably could run like that. Jim never practiced...ever. no specialized training or athletic performance substances...not even protein or any of the new methods. no footwork drills or parachutes or sleds. just raw athletic gifts.
@superdjaction6 жыл бұрын
Joseph Zupan Don Hutson could run 100 yards in 9.7 seconds
@williamkoscielniak8206 жыл бұрын
Joseph Zupan. Don't forget Sayers!
@stevefowler21127 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid growing up in the 60's who loved to play football and was a good athlete and fancied myself maybe being a decathlete some day, I asked my Dad who the best athlete in the world was and he said Jim Thorpe was and from that day forward he was my boyhood hero...unfortunately for me I stopped growing in the 8th grade so never played athletics past H.S.
@michaelmudd31984 жыл бұрын
The greatest all around athlete of all times hands down.
@pepamethodman8 жыл бұрын
Native Bo Jackson.
@yeastu8 жыл бұрын
Great analogy!! I concur!
@deibertmichael7 жыл бұрын
Far Better!
@JdwayneWilliams7 жыл бұрын
It depends on how you look at it. Bo Jackson could probably do almost everything Jim did better, and that's coming from someone who LOVES Jim Thorpe. Bigger, Faster, Stronger
@pepamethodman7 жыл бұрын
J Will Put Jim Thorpe in todays day and age with nutrition and training program and modern understanding about football not just the game but the training and all other sports, and put naturally physically gifted intelligent man that doesn't back down from anything and all he does he does his best like Jim Thorpe - you'll get the same results.
@JdwayneWilliams7 жыл бұрын
pepamethodman Thorpe is an interesting case, but not a chance he dominates like he did back then. Bo Jackson didn't lift weights and didn't use many of the modern advancements.
@bodensick3 жыл бұрын
How great a football, baseball, track and field athlete was Thorpe? He won numerous Gold medals in the Olympics, played professional baseball, and when you walk into the Football Hall of Fame...it's a giant sculpture of Jim that greets you. Not really sure how there are 36 better football players than Thorpe.
@JefferyT19918 жыл бұрын
No peds in his era! What a treat it'd be to watch him play
@Birdman7210003 жыл бұрын
There were peds back then, not the same anabolics we have today but they were used mostly by baseball players though so not sure if he ever took any. To be fair, medicine in general was pretty different back than as well. Definitely not taking anything away from his legacy and ability, still a GOAT regardless imo. Football wouldn't be the same today without the guy
@explodyz3 жыл бұрын
@@Birdman721000 Thorpe played baseball
@Birdman7210003 жыл бұрын
@@explodyz Okay fair! Like I said, not saying he did, and definitely not taking anything from his legacy. You heard that interview, man was a A1 savage! But to say PEDs weren’t around those days, is just not true
@justusr50925 жыл бұрын
Dude was my idol every time I tried a new sport lol, not just football
@lloydkline32654 жыл бұрын
He was super man
@lukaseichhorn47746 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that the guy who won an Olympic medal with unmatched shoes he found in the trash because his got stolen?
@LauraPerez-fo7uq3 жыл бұрын
I thought that was jesse owens
@wvu053 жыл бұрын
@@LauraPerez-fo7uq No, it was Thorpe.
@sambeltran70803 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe is the most amazing athlete in history, that simple, that great
@andrewbsfootballarchives42472 жыл бұрын
@Jordan Watkins Bo Jackson is certainly comparable. The other 2 aren't even in the same galaxy.
@anthonydescheenie11323 жыл бұрын
To me, he's the world's greatest athlete, played with everything he had, never cried like these athletes today, and he was a American, north American Indian ,red man he's part of mother earth
@maddenjesus34666 жыл бұрын
There is a town in Pennsylvania named Jim Thorpe after him.. I live very close to there.. local legend
@MichaelWilson-eh1os7 жыл бұрын
The greatest athlete of all time and maybe the greatest football player of all time
@richym38997 жыл бұрын
Michael Wilson Lmao neither
@AHMAD-23246 жыл бұрын
Michael Wilson 😂😂😂Nope wrong on both. But I understand you're caught up in the hype of the video...
@nickca61045 жыл бұрын
He may be the greatest athlete of all time. He excelled in every sport he played.
@3kitchen5 жыл бұрын
Keep dreamin
@Odosagih5 жыл бұрын
@Kam Mike you saw him? Wow!
@manbok20353 жыл бұрын
Who else is coming from Madden 21?
@Kevimngg67n8kk3 жыл бұрын
Facts yo
@jesuz3103 жыл бұрын
💯
@goldennuggetjr47253 жыл бұрын
There are very few videos on him to the point where there are more videos of him in Madden:
@manbok20353 жыл бұрын
@@goldennuggetjr4725 Thats actually true. If you search "Jim Thorpe Madden 21", there are a million KZbin videos.
@ericsilva65175 жыл бұрын
This dude was a god at life
@davidholcomb93936 жыл бұрын
The fact that we have no real footage of the guy increases his mistique even more and pushes him past mere mortals ,into the clouds and a righteous spot among the pantheon of the Gods.
@gpl9925 жыл бұрын
Along with Bruce Lee,lol.
@lancebaker13745 жыл бұрын
There is plenty of real footage. Just because some KZbinr can't find and provide it doesn't mean the footage does not exist.
@TheSheldonSpartan4 жыл бұрын
@@lancebaker1374 Did you even listen to the video?
@gettinggains13642 жыл бұрын
Just imagine if their was more footage of him playing he would be ranked way higher
@jmo29446 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe... Such a great athlete and person he has a town named after him. That's when you've done something with your life
@edelizondo83382 жыл бұрын
Much respect to Jim Thorpe a real bad ass.
@owengette80897 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe, in my opinion has got to be the greatest athlete of all time.
@sovietonion726 жыл бұрын
Happy Highlights-Highlights, talk show, and more! To say a player (in any sport) as goat is a huge misconception, even to say greatest in the NFL, don't get me wrong each great in their own right, let's take Tom Brady for example 5 SB wins most this, most that etc, maybe the best as QB but there's all the other positions as well so you would have to break it down by positions, if you were to ask me whose the best I would say it's personal preference and opinion.
@josheden8326 жыл бұрын
Soviet Onion 72 you mind want look up the definition of the word athlete..... you can say Tom Brady is the greatest football player of all time but not even close to greatest athlete
@whayes80844 жыл бұрын
Owen Gette didn’t compete against one black athlete. So how so?
@owengette80897 ай бұрын
@@whayes8084 because it’s very hard to find records of nfl games in the 1920s, I can’t say for sure if he faced off against any of the small number of black players who played in the 1920s, but what I can say is that he almost certainly did during other athletic showcases.
@spookyboi84463 жыл бұрын
The fact that Jim Thorpe played for a team in Massillon Ohio is mind blowing
@jakeb88383 жыл бұрын
He’s so famous there’s a town in Pennsylvania named after him
@Carlos-sd6cz4 жыл бұрын
We have the idea to had watched "Legends"; like Montana, Rice, Payton, Taylor, Lott; etc; we will be able to watch them forever. Just one footage and some photographs from Jim Thorpe and above all the LEGEND of his work like an athlete. In those days it was about to knew the existence of Jim Thorpe, and imagine his greatness.............. that is a LEGEND.
@BBBYpsi4 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe to me was the greatest athlete that ever lived & this should never be questioned. You will never see someone accomplish at a high level what he did ever again.
@ramonejones67493 жыл бұрын
Should be questioned he didnt compete against no black athletes only slow white guys
@hectorsoto4568 жыл бұрын
awesome!!
@mizofan7 жыл бұрын
Incredible sportsman, of native American parentage. Too often great sportsmen and women of history are overlooked now but he is still the best all round there has been
@redmidnight6 жыл бұрын
I think thorpe's dad was white
@dominiccart89676 жыл бұрын
Mister Blue and his mom was also have white
@johnconnor2103 ай бұрын
If thorpe played in the modern era he would be arguably top 5.
@gutsdw3 жыл бұрын
33 at the NFL’s inaugural season and yet was the league leading rusher 3 times, imagine if he was born 30 years later in the peak of old school running backs
@williamdelong82652 жыл бұрын
Rip Jim. Shout out to a whole great little town named Jim Thorpe in P.A.
@ff7fanboi Жыл бұрын
back in the 90's i was in third grade... we had gone to the library to check out books and i chose some football one and in there they had half a page dedicated o this man. the title to the short passage about him was "the greatest of all time" and it had a pic of thorpe throwing a football in what seemed to be a native shirt. we had to present our books to the teacher who was an old vietnam vet and as he rummaged through my book the only page he commented on was the thorpe one. he pointed at the picture smiled and told me 'ol thorpe was somethin special"
@donaldschmidt2990 Жыл бұрын
Freak before everyone used that term in sports. He created the term "Visualization," using pictures and photographs of athletic motion and transferring it instantly into action. There probably was no athletic endeavor "Bright Path" couldn't blaze a trail through. Trained with modern techniques he would probably still be regarded as what he was. The World's Greatest Athlete. As King Gustav of Sweden observed, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." "THANKS KING." WAS HIS CLASSIC REPLY. Truer words were never spoken.
@sambeltran50995 жыл бұрын
Jim Torphe The Real GOAT!!!
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
Big Jim shouldn't just be in the Hall of Fame. He should be ON it. His image should be above the entrance.
@bodensick3 жыл бұрын
Oh, and Thorpe played in an era when there was very little padding, no face guard and all of the men were MEN!
@rickpeuser2334 жыл бұрын
37???? Too low. He is easily in the top 5.
@aqua69303 жыл бұрын
He was great but not top 5. I would say top is Tom Brady, Jerry Rice, Lawrence Taylor, Jim Brown, and Joe Montana. He was great, we just cant put him that high
@theNash6192 жыл бұрын
@@aqua6930 he better then joe Montana
@Adino12 жыл бұрын
Guys like Thorpe, Baugh, they are forgotten today. All of this was built on the shoulders of giants, like them.
@haterzzbehatinn8 жыл бұрын
Should be higher
@yeastu8 жыл бұрын
Yeah at least top ten
@LSturdy7 жыл бұрын
How can you be Sure..there is no film.
@studogable6 жыл бұрын
Hard to put him much higher when he didn't play pro football full time until into his 30s, and the league was not a huge talent magnet in his day. I'm a huge Jim Thorpe fan, but I'm comfortable with this ranking. Had he played today, he might have been an elite slashback, doing everything well. But we'll never know.
@franciscozarraga91755 жыл бұрын
Should be top 5 hands down!
@lancebaker13745 жыл бұрын
Should be higher
@nancyallen641 Жыл бұрын
I think that Jim, in all his sadness as a man caught between worlds, always seemed to believe when faced with a challenge, well, let’s have at it. God bless Jim Thorpe.
@elcochiloco14562 жыл бұрын
Took a course in American sports history in college back in the day… after hearing about him I knew he was the goat.
@georgeralph80314 жыл бұрын
Thanks, King.
@sambeltran70803 жыл бұрын
The greatest athlete in the history of the world!!
@carlajenkins19904 жыл бұрын
#37? Hell, he is #1 Athlete of 20th century! And that includes Secretariat and Muhamed Ali.
@ramonejones67493 жыл бұрын
Not when he didn't compete against black athletes
@fuyu59794 жыл бұрын
Should have been rated higher ! He appeared on the scene much earlier.
@queensugar49534 жыл бұрын
Bo Jackson name is still well known today because he played Pro Football and Pro Baseball (he sucked at baseball) Yet, no one knows Jim's name. Jim played and dominated all the main sports Pro Football, Basketball & Baseball and he competed in the Olympics, he was even dubbed by a king as the greatest athlete in the world! This is true, I can't think of an athlete today who accomplished any of the things Jim did. He was a natural born athlete who excelled in any sport he played, he also was a boxer, lacrosse player and swimmer, he was a coach's dream athlete it didn't take years for coaches to teach him a sport it just came natural to Jim.
@The_Mad_King Жыл бұрын
This country needs another one of him
@kelvinkloud4 жыл бұрын
surprised there wasnt more footage of him.... jack johnson & jack dempsey were filmed a lot. hes like a ghost... incredible legend.
@RLSmith-jt8qj3 жыл бұрын
boxing was the more popular sport
@trell1ktv2483 жыл бұрын
Rip Jim Thorpe 🙏🏾
@Junkbox908027 жыл бұрын
They Don't make e'm like that anymore....
@dinohag2266 жыл бұрын
they make em better now
@aaron23425 жыл бұрын
Dean Hagler-Jaen greatest comment 😂😂😂
@Lucille69caddy4 жыл бұрын
Dean Hagler-Jaen They PRODUCE, as in supplement. Something Jim Thorpe had none of.
@Lucille69caddy4 жыл бұрын
aaron2342 No, low IQ.
@hayob34 жыл бұрын
Matter of fact they never made em like that before Jim Thorpe was rare like Mr. Clean with hair
@timothymoriarty97346 жыл бұрын
JIM has got to be top 10 !
@elderhardaway56746 жыл бұрын
Jim Thorpe: "An Amazing Athlete!!!!" No Contest.****
@PunkyBoyGWiz3 жыл бұрын
I feel like I'm the reincarnation of Jim Thorpe, we were born on the same day may 28th, we are both 6'1 and both native American. I'm up next lol
@cameronhamilton74393 жыл бұрын
As far as Ranking among Greatest players, you could possibly rate him much higher, however ,as an all around athlete, I'd say in top 2.
@Monkeyshine9116 ай бұрын
Let's not disrespect Ladainian Tomlinson, please. Two different eras. LT was a monster.
@deibertmichael7 жыл бұрын
He had more Heart than any player today!
@AHMAD-23246 жыл бұрын
michael d Well of course he did they were playing for pennies. Compared to today's athlete's...So my point is he didn't have anything else to play with or for. Because they dam sho weren't gonna give a native American in the 1920's any endorsement deals.
@dominiccart89676 жыл бұрын
Ahmad2423 he's mixed half white half native American
@marlonperryman91262 жыл бұрын
Greatest American athlete
@43Magicman3 жыл бұрын
Yeah! We love Jim...The G.O.A.T!
@jeffreyallen96262 жыл бұрын
Amazing athlete rip🙏❤😔
@sandyacombs4 жыл бұрын
If not the greatest player ever to play certainly the greatest athlete to ever play.
@arturogomez43817 жыл бұрын
This is the number 1 football player. and probably number 1 in baseball aswell.
@andersengebretson37867 жыл бұрын
Arturo Gomez definitely not baseball
@andersengebretson37867 жыл бұрын
In that time period Honus Wagner, ty Cobb, Johnny Evers, and frank baker were miles better than Jim Thorpe. That's just in the 1900s and 1910s, I'm leaving out all the greats before and after that time period. For football still no however he is definitely amongst the greats but jerry rice is still the goat.
@larrylegend86537 жыл бұрын
You just say things to sound safe. What an idiot you are.
@owengette80897 жыл бұрын
Arturo Gomez BEST ATHLETE EVER
@AHMAD-23246 жыл бұрын
Happy Highlights-Highlights, talk show, and more! Naw the greatest Athlete Of All-time is easily Michael Jordan...IMO that's not even a serious debate!
@jimlascola7 ай бұрын
Sad how the Fantasy Football stats junkies wont give this hero the time of day or spare a thought in his direction... What a Great Man!
@bouggyman1803 жыл бұрын
People don’t understand how athletic native Americans are😭I went from 120 skinny to 155 buff in a matter of two months, and not to mention my grandpa who never worked out a day in his life, was one of the most muscular guy I know lmaoo
@TheGoat-xo8mp3 жыл бұрын
Who’s here from mut?
@dasaniwater11813 жыл бұрын
Me
@theyesveryshow1653 жыл бұрын
Who is he?????
@TheGoat-xo8mp3 жыл бұрын
@@theyesveryshow165 Runningback card coming out in mut tmr
@guardian085276 жыл бұрын
Awesome athlete! Wish they could of picked someone else to narrate for him instead of a Washington Post crony. Didn't need that cheap plug for her book either.
@Showtimepictures319 Жыл бұрын
Bro how in hell does he not have a modern day movie of him
@wpl82753 жыл бұрын
The interesting bit about his mismatched shoes at the Olympics is that he borrowed one from a teammate which was too small and squished his foot a bit and the other he found in the garbage was too big so he wore an extra sock to make it more snug. With those shoes he won the high jump, ran a 15.6 110 meter hurdles which was faster than Bob Mathias ran it in the 1948 Olympics, placed third and fourth in the pole vault and javelin (events he was inexperienced with) and then finished the decathlon with a 4:40 1500 meter run. According to his obituary in , he could run the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat; the 220 in 21.8 seconds; the 440 in 51.8 seconds; the 880 in 1:57, the mile in 4:35; the 120-yard high hurdles in 15 seconds; and the 220-yard low hurdles in 24 seconds. He could long jump 23 ft 6 in and high-jump 6 ft 5 in. He could pole vault 11 feet; put the shot 47 ft 9 in; throw the javelin 163 feet; and throw the discus 136 feet.
@217xAdam4 жыл бұрын
Proud to say I’m related to him.
@TheBatugan774 жыл бұрын
Me too! 👍👍👍
@johnfinch7281 Жыл бұрын
And to make him Thorpe even more legendary Jim Thorpe would never train before trying something new so he was always good right away at whatever he did
@alansjf335 жыл бұрын
This guy should have been a lot closer to Number 100 on this list.
@smkyka7 жыл бұрын
I really like the song they use at 2:45. Anyone know what it is?
@beasler3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else here in 2021 after he got his UL card?
@johnraybey91103 жыл бұрын
This story should be shared and told worldwide. Could well be the goat in terms of the NFL. Tom Brady Jim Brown and Jerry Rice are modern-day greats but Jim Thorpe is a real legend .
@wv4776 Жыл бұрын
Idk about any of his other stuff but she calls him “one of the best baseball players at the time” when he was literally a below average big league baseball player at the time with a small sample size.
@jennifersman79904 жыл бұрын
#37?? He should be in the top 10. Thorpe, Red Grange & Bronko Nagurski were the first superstars of the NFL. If he’d played in Chicago or NYC he’d be better documented in terms of film and statistics
@jgray1711 Жыл бұрын
The best part of this clip, when Thorpe actually plays football, and KZbin has to run ads over it. SMH.
@Sam_Federman3 жыл бұрын
Okay let's not call 99 career OPS+ Jim Thorpe an elite baseball player
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
Okay, shove your OPS+ UpYourAss. Sideways.
@carpediem10153 жыл бұрын
Lol
@penguinrea00882 жыл бұрын
God bless you
@steve-hp3uq4 ай бұрын
guy apparently ran 10 second flat 100m in the olympics over 110 years ago. pretty wild.