Athletes You Haven't Thought of In a While

Tom Brady - what ever happened to that guy?

Also - Triando Markray

Craig James - I forgot to #remeberthefive

Ali Haji-Sheikh

Kringle McKringleberry

His name is AMADOU BA

Shonte Peoples

Sam Sword

Rod Payne

Mark Prior

Scott Mitchell

Greg Skrepanak

Carl Lewis

That decathlete with the sex change thing and the reality show with all the annoying people. 

No one has mentioned Sam McGuffie yet?  I’d say this board has jumped the shark… but McGuffie already hurdled it.

John Oates 

Buster Douglas

Don Majkowski

Michael Chang

Jennifer Capriati

Herman Moore

Ben Jones steroid Olympic Canadian sprinter

Mark “the Bird” Fydrich (sp?)

Mark Messner

Andre Ware

Mike Utley

Percy Snow

Kato June

Steve Fraser

Rudy Tomjanovich (sp?)

The guy that was faster than everyone in Sega Hockey 94.  (Primo?  Think he was a Blackhawk)

Marcus Allen (Bo Jackson)

Brent Musberger

Derrick Coleman

Rashan Gary

Caleb Houston 

Moussa Diabate (I had to look up his name.)

Dennis Northfleet (his dancing will forever be remembered.)

Zach Charbonet— Hassan Haskins totally made me forget about Charbonet.  Though it looks like he had a fantastic 2021 at UCLA.

Gerald Ford

George Bell

Jim Plunkett (and Kenny "The Snake" Stabler)

Fred Lynn

Mark Messier

Howard Johnson

Bill Romanowski

Joe Carter

Would Tyler Ecker please pitch the damn ball to Breaston?  Still waiting, but had forgotten until this post,

Rosevelt Smith

Russell Davis

Harlen Huckelby

Oil Can Boyd

U. L. Washington 

Avery Queen 

Michael Moorer

Eric Montross 

Johan Garpenlov 

Kevin Gaines 

Orel Hershiser 

Jonathan Cheechoo 

Kirby Dar Dar 

Sharone Wright 

Cedric Benson 

C.J. Nitkowski

Matt Gutierrez 

Bill Gullickson 

Felix “Tito” Trinidad

Curtis Granderson

Martavious Odom

Marcus Ray

I don't know why but this post made me lose the game

Billy Sims

Eric Hipple

Chuck Long

Harold Snepsts

Kelly Tripucka

Champ Summers

Goose Gossage

Ryne Sandberg

Jim Thome

Jason Richardson 

Allen Iverson

Byron Hanspard (favorite player and wore #4 in HS cuz him)

Derrick Alexander

David Terrell 

Bobby Bouche 

I love this thread!!

Dexter Bussey

Doug Bair

Johnny Grubb

Brent Fedyk

John Wockenfuss

Bruce "Toast" McNorton

Gump Worsley 

Chris Pittaro - In his first MLB game opening day 1985 against Bert Blyleven, went 3-4 with 1 SB and the game tying RBI (I think). Tigers won 5-4 over Cleveland and it snowed for an inning and a half. Beat that with a stick. 

Matt Nokes (Tigers) and Shawn Burr (RIP, Wings). Few people can probably recall them, but they still somehow occupy some of my finest memories.

Dave Henderson 

Bruce Jenner

Ron LeFlore, center fielder for the Detroit Tigers in the 1970s.  Good baseball player.  And very fast.  He was my favorite player when I first started following baseball as a young kid in 1979.

I'd have put Johnny Wockenfuss, Tom Veryzer, Vern Rhule and Rusty Staub on the list, except Johnny died the other day. That got me thinking about how horrible those mid-70s Tiger teams were until Fidrych showed up. Then the 1978 rookie cards with Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell and Jack Morris came out, bringing us into a Golden Era of Tiger baseball.

Who of us growing up in the 70s didn't imitate Johnny's batting stance at least once?

Here's one I haven't thought of until last night: Terry Battle.  He's the head football coach for the local highschool (Walled Lake Northern), they got blown out by South Lyon East last night (27-8), although the score was 20-0 with a couple minutes left in the 1st Quarter.

Ray Vinopal!

C.J. Stroud!