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REAL LIFE REAL FAITH MEN OF FAITH | MARCHY 2016

ERAS OF GREATNESS
ALVIN L.A. HORN

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“Man Earl the Pearl invented the cross-over. You got all these fancy dribbling fools who
don’t know a thing about how good them’ cats were back in the day.”
“Ah man those old players can’t play ball against a good high school team.”
“Son, you need to hush your mouth. That’s blasphemous to speak of the greats before you
were even thought of.”
Back In the Day VS Present Day Athlete It’s almost a rite of passage for the impassioned
sports enthusiast to engage in a spirited conversation when speaking of different eras of
greatness. We compare how it used to be and how it is today. We want to know if this era’s
athletes would or would not dominate the athletes of other times. Even an angry debate
can occur when comparing older men’s thoughts in generations of long ago, and how they
feel younger men have no clue how good a team, a player, a fighter, or a coach was from the
90’s, 80’s, 70’s, 50’s and even before. Living to a certain age has afforthe older folks an
opportunity to have seen live or live TV sports and the competition. A younger person only
has YouTube as a source and maybe a classic sports channel to witness grainy clips of
greatness.
Some of the great competitions if we could only see the contrast of styles and
strengths:Steph Curry Vs Allen Iverson in a one on one contest to 21
Welterweights, Sugar Ray Robinson VS Sugar Ray Leonard Vs Mayweather VS Roberto
Duran Jim Brown VS Earl Campbell VS Emmitt Smith VS Gale Sayers VS Walter Payton VS
Barry Sanders VS Adrian Peterson, which running back would you pick?
Serena Williams VS Martina Navratilova, using the same rackets of either todays or
yesterday’s rackets, who would win?
A young Mohammad Ali VS a young Mike Tyson, who would be the Champ?ded