What do you think the greatest American sports franchise is? and why?
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I'd have to go with the NY Yankees (and they're not my team).\n\nCompared to any other team in any of the 4 major sports, They would have the most world championships, the greatest name recognition, the most legendary players (Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, etc.), the most famous stadium (the House that Ruth Built, although Fenway and Wrigley would be close), the most lovers and the most haters, etc.
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The NY Yankees, because they have the most World Series titles (26), and the most WS appearances (39). Overall, they are just a great baseball team! They have had some of the best players in all of baseball! Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle.....the list goes on! Also, because of the team they have NOW! Alex Rodoriguez (the AL MVP 2005!), Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Hideki Matsui, and Mariano Rivera! Also, because they are the most clean cut team! The Red Sox are too hairy, smelly, and shabby to be considered a good team! Maybe if they all got haircuts, and dropped a few pounds...Ya know? The Yankees are fit, and in shape. They are my favorite team, and they always will be!
597841
Go Pistons!!!!  Pistons are my favorite team and Chauncey Billups is my favorite player.  Any one of their 5 starters has the ability to take a game over.
337414
Football.  The most interesting in my opinion.
48087
I would love to see New Jersey going to the NBA finals again. They are exciting to watch because of Vince Carter's awesome slams and surprisingly long three pointers, Richard Jefferson's strong dunks, and Kidd's great assists. They also have an uptempo fast break game that makes them so fun to watch.
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The 95-96 Chicago Bulls.\n\n72 wins. NBA Championship. Only 2 home losses (one was the last game of the season and they barely tried).\n\nMichael Jordan, Scottie Pippen (two of the greatest 50 players of all time).\n\nFun to watch and a complete team with good role players like Kukoc, Kerr, and Rodman.
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every cntry have their special sports\ni think it is baseball,basketball, american football, (ice) hockey....etc for america\nprobably because they have their version of football...
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i am biased towards the nba so i would say the 1992 olympic basketball team the "Dream Team"\n\nthe celtics back in the fifties and sixties won like twelve championships (eight in a row at one point)\n\nthe bulls during the nineties. the lakers in the seventies with three guys who did or at least could score 30 a night. robertson, west, and chamberlain\n\nall great teams
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I like hockey because it is a fast paced game. NBA started to bore me to death. Since hockey was going on at the same time, i started to watch it. I picked up on the rules/strategies really easily.
924686
Good question.\n\nEach sport has it's Greatest performer. The standard changes with each decade.\n\nThere are many ways to measure Greatness in sports. Statistics is one, Consistency of performance is another.\n\nBabe Ruth is considered the greatest Base ball player of all time. \n\nMohammed Ali is considered one of the worlds greatest Boxers in the Ring...Ali was never knocked out.\n\n Sports Records are broken every year. So, the competition to excel keeps increasing.\n\nTiger Woods may be on his way to becoming the greatest winner of all time, both in Golf Matches won and his monetary rewards.\n\nThe Base ball and basket ball Hall of Frame takes the best players from each sport and asks the "Public" to vote for their admission to the Hall of Fame. It is very difficult to be inducted into the "Hall of Fame"....injuries to athletes is a great risk.
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i can not tell you whether USA is best in the NFL or NBA because NFL or NBA is played in USA only. you need to compare with some other countries in order to know who is the best. after i catched several year of NFL and NBA, i decided to leave it because it is sport games played and enjoy by one country only. \n\nwhat i can tell you about USA football team is they will not able to stand among elite team of football in near future according to perfomance of USA team in FIFA Football World Cup 2006 in Germany. \n\nthe big college scholarships and the dream of big money in NFL or NBA is only little compare to huge sum of money involve in football worldwide. there are more than billion people play football and it involve multi-billion dollar each year globally. \n\nin order to not make you confuse what i wrote here, football i mean here is the sport games played with leg and not hand.
807307
Listen to Colin L.\nThe 98 Yankees were arguably the best team ever.
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No doubt! San Antonio Spurs & Robert Horry!\nThe Spurs because they compete as a "team" on a good-sportsmanship level that rarely gives in to heated moments. They set the standard by which all teams should be measured.\nRobert Horry because when all the "big guns" were retiring, (taking their loot & quitting), Big Shot Rob continued to give back to the fans & is still a major contributor to the excitement of the game, becoming one of the most winningest players in history. His accomplishments may only be second to the fact that he is the most respected player, past or present, in the eyes of most NBA greats, are nows or has beens!
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Well if you think about it probably the New York Yankees. The were great team througout the history and have won 11 World Series. I also like Chicago Bulls and they were great with Michael, but they were only great with him (of course Stockton, Pippen, Rodman, Grant helped a lot too). They have won 6 championships and that's amazing - especially if you do that in just 8 years, but Yankees had more great/hall of fame type of players during their history than Chicago Bulls and have more championship titles! :) ;)
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i would definitely say the giants, they play in the new york area, actually east rutherford new jersey, but have great fans, to get tickets you have to wait like 30 years, and due to a bigger market have more cash.
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Shahz you have no idea what you're talking about. Soccer is currently the global sport. Basketball and Rugby(yes Rugby) aren't far behind. As for the top American sport: Football.
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That would be hockey for me and I would lead the Chicago Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup.\n\nI also wouldn't mind playing short stop for the New York Yankees and winnining the World Series.\n\nThey could have me for a lot less than Derek Jeter.\n\nI would like to ride in and win the Kentucky Derby as well.\n\nThe Nextel Cup in NASCAR is something else I would like to win,followed by an NBA and NFL championship.\n\nIf you had asked what sport would you choose if you could play a pro sport I would say baseball because you can have a long career and no one is beating the hell out of you.\n\nIt's fun to think about stuff like this but it's a little too late for me.