Following our Top 10 Soundbytes of the Decade, our second Top 10 list in The Decade Series at Randall Simon's Sausages has focused on the Top 10 Athletes of the Decade. In this list, we look at athletes from around the world of sports to see who are the Top 10 defining athletes of the decade. The RSS Committee factored in the athlete's resume as well as the lasting impact of each athlete. Click on the link on each athlete's name for our extended take for their entire resume, a couple highlights, and why they make the countdown. When we look back from the 2100's, these will be the 10 Athletes (give or take a couple) that we remember most from the 2000's. Here they are!
#10 The Williams Sisters - Tennis, combined 28 Grand Slam Titles
#9 Albert Pujols - Baseball, 8 Time All-Star
#8 Tim Tebow - College Football, 2 Time National Champion and Heisman Winner
#7 Kobe Bryant - Basketball, 4 time NBA Champion
#6 Michael Phelps - Swimming, 14 career Olympic Gold Medals
#5 LeBron James - Basketball, 5 Time All-Star, global icon
#4 Tom Brady & Peyton Manning - Football, 13 Combined Pro Bowls, 4 MVPs, 4 Super Bowl Rings
#3 Lance Armstrong - Cycling, 7 Straight Tour de France Titles
#2 Roger Federer - Tennis, 15 Grand Slam Titles
#1 Tiger Woods - Golf, 14 Majors, Earned $1 Billion Dollars
Best of the Rest - These are the guys that were considered for the Top 10, but fell just short:
Tim Duncan - (Basketball), Floyd Mayweather Jr. - (Boxing), Jimmie Johnson - (NASCAR), Michael Schumacher - (F1), David Beckham - (Soccer), Shaquille O'Neal - (Basketball), Brett Favre - (Football)... hahaha, ok that's a joke, we never considered him.
So there it is. We here at RSS want to hear what you think. Should some of these athletes be ranked higher or lower? Do some not belong at all, or have we totally missed out on a deserving athlete? Then again, maybe we've got it just right (but probably not). Let us know what you think in the comments below and tune in for the next installment in our Decade Series coming soon! Bye for now...
5 comments:
There was this guy named Barry Bonds who won 4 MVP's and hit about 300 homers in seven seasons...but his absence from this list can be forgiven.
You guys are so full of crap. It's Kobe Bryant who is the global Icon not Lebron. It's Kobe's whose jersey sales are #1 all over the world not Lebron's and don't you have to at least have ten years as a professional athlete to be #5. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves but you're not. You're just like all the other sheep that go with the newest shining toy as presented by the media.
Thanks for the comments. Yes, Kobe's jersey sales are #1 around the world, but much like Bonds it's the off the field/court stuff that move him down or off the list. At least in the states, the trial in Colorado was a huge, huge deal to Kobe's legacy and LeBron is more popular than Kobe now (just turn on a TV to see all the ads for LeBron vs Kobe). Maybe it's being a prisoner of the moment that James is above Kobe, but that's how our list shakes out, thanks for leaving your thoughts.
The Fact that GRADY SIZEMORE is not even considered is just sad and shows how wrong this list is....lol
Grady Sizemore was #11, at least he beat Barry Bonds!
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