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Who is the most coddled athlete?

Lebron
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Peyton Manning
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other
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Who is the most coddled athlete?
« on: February 06, 2016, 10:36:02 AM »

Offline Eja117

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It's hard to choose between them.  I put other because maybe there's someone I'm not thinking of.

To me coddled would mean essentially anointed on some level before they'd achieved as much as others.

Maybe Brett Farve.

Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
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Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2016, 12:21:36 PM »

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Who was given a 1 hour special to announce where he was taking his talents?  (before he achieved any playoff success)
Philly:

Anderson Varejao    Tiago Splitter    Matt Bonner
David West    Kenyon Martin    Brad Miller
Andre Iguodala    Josh Childress    Marquis Daniels
Dwyane Wade    Leandro Barbosa
Kirk Hinrich    Toney Douglas   + the legendary Kevin McHale

Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2016, 12:39:28 PM »

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LeBron.. Hands down, no debate.. Though it'll probably be Curry soon.
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Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2016, 12:48:32 PM »

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Yeah, but they changed the rules to help Peyton on many occasions, then went after his main rival with virtually no evidence, then ignored more serious stuff against him with more evidence.

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Manziel was pretty darn coddled and look where that got him now.


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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2016, 01:49:46 PM »

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Yeah, but they changed the rules to help Peyton on many occasions, then went after his main rival with virtually no evidence, then ignored more serious stuff against him with more evidence.

They've basically changed the rules for LeBron at this point, given how the refs always put him at the line, even when he's committing an offensive foul, yet let him get away with murder on defense.
Philly:

Anderson Varejao    Tiago Splitter    Matt Bonner
David West    Kenyon Martin    Brad Miller
Andre Iguodala    Josh Childress    Marquis Daniels
Dwyane Wade    Leandro Barbosa
Kirk Hinrich    Toney Douglas   + the legendary Kevin McHale

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LeBron easily.

Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2016, 07:33:06 PM »

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Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2016, 08:08:56 PM »

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Re: Who is the most coddled athlete?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2016, 08:12:43 PM »

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Of those two, easily Manning is more coddled. Lots more critical pieces prior to the draft than peyton got. More rule changes that favored Manning after his failures. Less criticism of Manninhs off field stuff. Lots of people questioning lebron's ability to win prior to his title, much less national criticism of that and excuses made for manning.


All time, maybe archie manning. Seriously, look at his stats.

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« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2016, 08:16:18 PM »

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Yeah, but they changed the rules to help Peyton on many occasions, then went after his main rival with virtually no evidence, then ignored more serious stuff against him with more evidence.

They've basically changed the rules for LeBron at this point, given how the refs always put him at the line, even when he's committing an offensive foul, yet let him get away with murder on defense.

I remember when the league changed rules to help control Shaq.

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« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2016, 08:36:29 PM »

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Yeah, but they changed the rules to help Peyton on many occasions, then went after his main rival with virtually no evidence, then ignored more serious stuff against him with more evidence.

They've basically changed the rules for LeBron at this point, given how the refs always put him at the line, even when he's committing an offensive foul, yet let him get away with murder on defense.

I remember when the league changed rules to help control Shaq.
True, but they also let him get away with murder his rookie year to try to establish him as a star and then his team....magically....won the lottery (wink wink) for the 2nd year in a row (it was like a .0125% chance) so that he and Chris Webber could play together. They traded for Hardaway and multiple firsts and he was in the finals pretty quick