Twitter: Lebron James almost a Cowboy?

[SteveTheCowboy]

Well he has a football mentality. Put your head down, drive through the opponent, then cry when there's no flag.

 

[quickccc]

yeh yeh yeh yaaaaaaaaaaaawn ..

so was Carl Lewis ...and etc. etc.

 

[StuckMojo]

Ok, if your referring to him marketing himself blame Stern and Silver for that. NBA is a player driven league who needs their star players to market themselves. Add the blame to Jordan and Kobe as well. LeBron is just trying to be like them.

im not talking about marketing himself.

 

[DanA]

I can totally believe that. I can't help but wonder if he was supposed to be a WR or TE, though.

He might have been a "tweener." Whatever it might have been, he was surely athletic enough!

At 6’8 260lbs I’m going with TE

 

[Bullflop]

At 6’8 260lbs I’m going with TE

Probably so -- as a football player, he would likely be sporting more poundage than as a basketball player. Possibly around 270-275.

 

[robjay04]

I can tell you never saw MJ play.

Or Bo Jackson. Or Deion Sanders.

Not Bo Jackson...but the others yeah.

How is Bo Jackson relevant to this? Lebron is one of the best athletes of all time...how is that remotely debatable?

 

[zrinkill]

Yea sure he was .........

 

[J817]

im not talking about marketing himself.

I’ll bite, what are you talking about then?

 

[CWR]

Could he get all his super friends from other NFL teams to join us?

 

[CWR]

He lost me when him, Bosh and Wade decided to mock Flu Dirk right before he handed them their ***** in the finals.

 

[Vintage]

Lol, who’s going to cover him? CBs would bounce off of him.

If he had legit hands and could run mediocre routes, he’d be close to unstoppable one on one.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I don’t know if he could’ve replaced Romo. Dak definitely.

 

[Cowfan75]

Lebron doesn't like any contact. I can't see how football would have worked out.

 

[beware_d-ware]

When LeBron last played football in high school, his coach timed him at a 4.4 40. And LeBron was a 6'8" 260 pound tank even back then.

IMO, the dude is a generational athlete whose talent simply transcends sports. No, he wouldn't have the faintest clue of what he would be doing as a WR or TE. Yes, he could still be a 1,000 yard receiver at either spot.

 

[Proof]

No thanks. He flops and whines bad enough on the court what’s he gonna do on a football field

bully every single DB or safety in his path. There’s no charging in football.

 

[Proof]

Only the Mavericks.

yuck

 

[Proof]

Lol! His knees wouldn't last a month in the nfl. To different animals
MJ makes lebron look like a HS players and he couldn't make it in baseball! OK!!!!

Lol get out of here, Jordan doesn’t make Lebron look like anything, stop it. And baseball is a far different beast than baseball. Lebron could walk on as a TE right now. Doubt he could hit a solid breaking ball tho

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

LeBrain would have made us smarter.
Get it? LeBrain smarter.
Heh. Heh.

 

[KeepinTime]

He ain't no rico gathers.

Yeah but then again, who is?

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Not Bo Jackson...but the others yeah.

How is Bo Jackson relevant to this? Lebron is one of the best athletes of all time...how is that remotely debatable?

Lebron's a great athlete. One of the greatest, perhaps. But the statement was made in this thread (not by you) that he is the greatest athlete we've ever seen. You appeared to support that notion by objecting to the suggestion that MJ was better. I don't think that's really debatable to anyone who saw them both.

Bo was just another name from the same era that I think most objective observers would have to place ahead of Lebron (and probably even ahead of MJ) as a pure athlete. Deion too.