Odysseus
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Hello everyone! I hope you and yours are really well (in body, spirit and mind) and are getting ready to celebrate Christmas and New Years like never before. Today it's my first day off from the total sixteen that will follow. I hadn't taken a break in the past 14 months. I don't remember when was the last time I slept 8 straight hours to be honest.
Anyway, since I've got enough free time this morning and I'm home alone at the moment, I decided to make a holiday top 25 of my favorite people and things. Let's give this thread a festive character.
Since this is a sport website, I will start with my favorite sportsmen first. Please feel free to add any sport or personality/activity you feel I may left out!
Sports
Footballer: Tough one but I am between Diego Maradona and Roberto Baggio. Cristiano Ronaldo is probably the most athletic and influential personality in the history of the sport though.
Basketball Player: The one and only Nikos Galis!
Rugby Player: Sébastien Chabal
NFL: Tom Brady. I don't know much about the NFL, but I love this dude. I even bought my son a POP figurine of him.
MLB: I will go with the G.O.A.T. Babe Ruth. I don't even know how baseball's played btw lol.
NHL: Chris Chelios
Tennis: Pete Sampras
Driver/Rider: Tough one but I will go with the G.O.A.T. Michael Schumacher and Valentino Rossi.
Olympian: Pyrros Dimas. The greatest weightlifter to ever live in my opinion.
Fighter: I am going to cheat here big time but I will go with Mike Zambidis from kickboxing, Fedor Emelianenko from MMA, Jim Londos from professional wrestling and when it comes to boxing I literally have a top 25 itself so I will just name my two current favorites (Loma and Usyk) and leave it at that.
Extreme Sports/Other: Too many extreme sports out there and all of them dominated by white brothers. Btw, I would like to say here that many of you in this website seem to underestimate the MASSIVE influence extreme sports have in younger males and females from around the world. Their videos have hundreds of millions of views (NFL videos have hard time to reach a million or two) and the vast majority of the dominant athletes are white. Having said that, I will go with Felix Baugartner. What this brother did is out of this world. Also from other sports, I would like to pick the likes of Yiannis Kouros (not sure if it's accurate or just an hyperbole, but NASA once claimed that he's the only human in history to cover by running the distance between earth and the moon), John Brzenk, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.
NON-Sports
Inventor: Nikola Tesla
Explorer: Yuri Gagarin
Politician: Ioannis Kapodistrias (thanks to him I don't speak Turkish and I don't worship Allah today) and Pericles for visualizing and funding the construction of the Parthenon.
Scientist: Too many to name, but I will go with Aristotle.
Writer: Homer. This man is second to none.
Military Leader: Leonidas I in a tie with Constantine XI Palaiologos.
Philosopher: Socrates in tie with the likes of Plato and Heraclitus.
Artist: Michelangelo in a tie with El Greco. Now that I think about it, I love Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci and Pablo Picasso as much. Too many great folks from our kind.
Cuisine: Anything from Greek, Italian and European-American.
Director: My "Greekness" wants me to say Elia Kazan but I will have to go with the great Ridley Scott. I also love Andrei Tarkovsky for its incredible picture and cinematography.
Musician: Wow, too many but I will go with the greatest soprano ever, Maria Callas.
Actor/Actress: Hmmm, Leonardo Di Caprio is pretty good. Colin Farrell also. Tom Hardy as well! And Hugh Jackman. Too many really.
TV Series: The X-Files, of course. Especially the mid- 90's seasons.
Superhero: No one beats Superman, right?
Whoever has the time and energy, please be my guest. Our race is the only one who has great (if not THE greatest) ambassadors in every field of human activity, so please share your favorites. There are TOO MANY of our brothers to pick from
Anyway, since I've got enough free time this morning and I'm home alone at the moment, I decided to make a holiday top 25 of my favorite people and things. Let's give this thread a festive character.
Since this is a sport website, I will start with my favorite sportsmen first. Please feel free to add any sport or personality/activity you feel I may left out!
Sports
Footballer: Tough one but I am between Diego Maradona and Roberto Baggio. Cristiano Ronaldo is probably the most athletic and influential personality in the history of the sport though.
Basketball Player: The one and only Nikos Galis!
Rugby Player: Sébastien Chabal
NFL: Tom Brady. I don't know much about the NFL, but I love this dude. I even bought my son a POP figurine of him.
MLB: I will go with the G.O.A.T. Babe Ruth. I don't even know how baseball's played btw lol.
NHL: Chris Chelios
Tennis: Pete Sampras
Driver/Rider: Tough one but I will go with the G.O.A.T. Michael Schumacher and Valentino Rossi.
Olympian: Pyrros Dimas. The greatest weightlifter to ever live in my opinion.
Fighter: I am going to cheat here big time but I will go with Mike Zambidis from kickboxing, Fedor Emelianenko from MMA, Jim Londos from professional wrestling and when it comes to boxing I literally have a top 25 itself so I will just name my two current favorites (Loma and Usyk) and leave it at that.
Extreme Sports/Other: Too many extreme sports out there and all of them dominated by white brothers. Btw, I would like to say here that many of you in this website seem to underestimate the MASSIVE influence extreme sports have in younger males and females from around the world. Their videos have hundreds of millions of views (NFL videos have hard time to reach a million or two) and the vast majority of the dominant athletes are white. Having said that, I will go with Felix Baugartner. What this brother did is out of this world. Also from other sports, I would like to pick the likes of Yiannis Kouros (not sure if it's accurate or just an hyperbole, but NASA once claimed that he's the only human in history to cover by running the distance between earth and the moon), John Brzenk, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.
NON-Sports
Inventor: Nikola Tesla
Explorer: Yuri Gagarin
Politician: Ioannis Kapodistrias (thanks to him I don't speak Turkish and I don't worship Allah today) and Pericles for visualizing and funding the construction of the Parthenon.
Scientist: Too many to name, but I will go with Aristotle.
Writer: Homer. This man is second to none.
Military Leader: Leonidas I in a tie with Constantine XI Palaiologos.
Philosopher: Socrates in tie with the likes of Plato and Heraclitus.
Artist: Michelangelo in a tie with El Greco. Now that I think about it, I love Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci and Pablo Picasso as much. Too many great folks from our kind.
Cuisine: Anything from Greek, Italian and European-American.
Director: My "Greekness" wants me to say Elia Kazan but I will have to go with the great Ridley Scott. I also love Andrei Tarkovsky for its incredible picture and cinematography.
Musician: Wow, too many but I will go with the greatest soprano ever, Maria Callas.
Actor/Actress: Hmmm, Leonardo Di Caprio is pretty good. Colin Farrell also. Tom Hardy as well! And Hugh Jackman. Too many really.
TV Series: The X-Files, of course. Especially the mid- 90's seasons.
Superhero: No one beats Superman, right?
Whoever has the time and energy, please be my guest. Our race is the only one who has great (if not THE greatest) ambassadors in every field of human activity, so please share your favorites. There are TOO MANY of our brothers to pick from
