Your non football idol/childhood hero?

[zrinkill]

My Father
Grandfather
Colin Powell
Ronald Reagan

 

[MetalHead]

G.G. Allin,Jim Jones,The Ayatollah and Mr. Rogers.

 

[Stautner]

Steve Garvey. Pete Rose.

Both have let me down.

Pete was always a major *******, but you had to admire the way he played. I think that still applies. Not a good role model as a person, but a good one as a player.

 

[Yeagermeister]

G.G. Allin,Jim Jones,The Ayatollah and Mr. Rogers.

How's the kool aid?

 

[Stautner]

Pete was always a major *******, but you had to admire the way he played. I think that still applies. Not a good role model as a person, but a good one as a player.

sorry - he wasn't a major *******, he was a major jerk .......

 

[Yeagermeister]

sorry - he wasn't a major *******, he was a major jerk .......

You were right the first time :laugh2:

 

[Stautner]

You were right the first time :laugh2:

yeah, well, he was both.

 

[arglebargle]

I've been into American History since I was very young. I got one of those posters when I was four that listed all the presidents. My mom and grandparents used to tell me about them and many times brought up Ben Franklin. I started to study about them while still in grade school. Both of those men where extraordinary by any standard.

Read these two books.

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner

Both are extremely well written books. Walter Isaacson is a incredibly good writer. He is in the process of writing the first Steve Jobs *authorized* biography. Even though I can't stand the man and the fact that it's authorized which means he will have complete and utter control of every word, letter, and punctuation mark put in the book, I may just have to read it anyhow. Isaacson's literary skills are that good in my opinion. I don't blame Jobs for letting Isaacson be the one to write it.

Thanks also! Ben Franklin may not have been one of my childhood idols, but he certainly is now. Danged impressive fellow, and I will probably be more impressed once I hunt down that book.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Infra-man
Redd Foxx
Ace Frehley
Edward Van Halen
Jimmy Page
Marlon Brando

 

[Cajuncowboy]

My Dad. We always hung out together no matter where he went, he wanted me to go with him.

And I miss him.

 

[Hoofbite]

George Carlin.

I honestly couldn't think of a name but George might have to qualify.

 

[MetalHead]

How's the kool aid?

Cyanide Grape...

 

[notherbob]

My childhood heroes were Alexander the Great, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert "Norman" Einstein and Wernher von Braun. I wanted to be like them but I seem to have fallen a little short.

 

[couchscout]

I don't understand this "non-football" idol stuff. My heroes have always been Cowboys

 

[rash]

Cristiano Ronaldo

Mesut Ozil

Andres Iniesta

Cesc Fabregas

Zinadine Zidane

Xavi Hernandez

Lionel Messi

list goes on. But I am a Madridista at heart

 

[Rynie]

Cory from THRASHIN.

Currently, Norman Rockwell. His paintings are magnificent.

 

[WV Cowboy]

A split between Ben Franklin and George Washington.

From that era, Thomas Jefferson was a pretty impressive man too.

For me it was the Lone Ranger, Heath Barkley, Little Joe Cartwright, the Rifleman, Paladin, Cheyenne ... and Roberto Clemente.

I was either a football player or the Lone Ranger for halloween several times.

I loved the western shows and movies when I was little.

After that, what other football team could I possibly have cheered for?

 

[Cajuncowboy]

From that era, Thomas Jefferson was a pretty impressive man too.

For me it was the Lone Ranger, Heath Barkley, Little Joe Cartwright, the Rifleman, Paladin, Cheyenne ... and Roberto Clemente.

I was either a football player or the Lone Ranger for halloween several times.

I loved the western shows and movies when I was little.

After that, what other football team could I possibly have cheered for?

Man, I still love them.

 

[Stautner]

For me it was the Lone Ranger, Heath Barkley, Little Joe Cartwright, the Rifleman, Paladin, Cheyenne ... and Roberto Clemente.

That's a hell of a good list.

By the way, why didn't any of the Barkley's or Cartwright's ever get married?

 

[TheCount]

My hero has always been my dad, I don't idolize celebrities or athletes.