Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Chitown's Greatest #23?

I believe the definition of greatness is if "they" change the rules to try to stifle the greatness. Tigerproofing golf courses, the ever moving three point line and the outlawing of dunking in college basketball back in the day are all examples of this.
The first "great" of this decade is Devin Hester. We can't even use electrifying anymore to describe Hester. It just doesn't do his greatness justice. This year the NFL tried to supress Devin by moving the kickoff and it took only 3.3 games for him to adjust. Hester ran one 70 yards from 9 yards deep. Unbelievable! Then he punctuated it with a TD punt return to break Texas-ex Eric Metcalf's record in half the time. Listen to the announcers tryto descibe #23's greatness over the years.
Of course, the original RG reminded me that the rule changes cut both ways and in the case of ski jumper Eddie th Eagle the rules were changed because he was so bad and something needed to be done to save dreamers from death at 90 meters:


I still think the definition works and thus Eddie was actually great. The adjacent articles make this page a classic. Tiger, of course. And the Canseco (steroid testing) vs. Herschel(underclassmen in the draft) fake martial arts fight. How great is that?

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