If you had to pick 4 American athletes to be on the Mt. Rushmore of US sports, who would they be?

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1. Ali, Ruth, Thorpe, Jordan

2. Ali

   Secretariat

   Babe Ruth

   Jordan

3. Ali, Ruth, Jordan, and Brady.

4. Joey Chestnut, Jordan, Ali, Babe Ruth.

5. Rudy, Evel Knievel, Pete Rose, Ted Lasso

6. I’ll add Serena to the list.

7. Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Shaq, and Larry Bird

8. 4 Larry Birds and they are always trash taking visitors

9. If there’s no rule against it, I’d like to nominate air bud for Mt. Sportsmore

10. Phelps, Jordan, Babe Ruth, Ali

11. Jim Thorpe, Jesse Owens, Babe Ruth, Rocky Balboa.

12. Richard Petty, Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth

13. Matt turner

14. 1. Dylan

    2. Dylan

    3. Dylan

    4. Dylan

15. Jim Thorpe, Jesse Owens, Michael Jordan, and Babe Ruth.

16. Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater, Khabib Nurmagomedov, George’s St Pierre.

17. Ali, Ruth, Jordan, Gretzky (fuck you Canada we own him)

18. Bill Laimbeer, Tonya Harding, Barry Bonds and Butterbean.

19. Thorpe, Jesse Owens, Serena and Phelps. They represented the US as the best against the world. Mary Lou could also be considered.

20. Jordan, Phelps, Tyson, Brady.

21. Mohammed Ali, Jim Thorpe, Billie Jean King, Michael Phelps

22. Bill Murray twice (Kingpin & Caddyshack), The Dude, Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn (Charlie Sheen Major League), and Woody Harrelson twice (White Men Can’t Jump & Kingpin)

    With a big fucking cooler full of beer and caucasians in front of it

23. Shocked at the lack of Tiger Woods.

    Jordan, Woods, Brady, Ruth

24. Get Simone in there, she won’t take up much room.

25. Jesse Owens, Serena Williams, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady

    But also considered Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, Lebron James, Carl Lewis, Cael Sanderson, Jerry Rice, Babe Ruth, Jim Brown, Jon “Bones” Jones,

26. Bo Jackson needs to be there.

27. Polish sausage

    Coach Ditka

    Ditka

    Sausage

28. Jesse Owens (fucking up the nazis), Jackie Robinson (an icon of the desegregation of America’s pastime), Tom Brady (the best QB of all time, don’t @ me), Muhammad Ali (rebellious spirit and pure domination of his sport). Babe Ruth should be the 5th if we can fit him, and I had to argue with myself to not include him in the top 4.

29. Michael Phelps, Jesse Owens, Ali, Michael Jordan, and just cause it wouldn’t cost anything John Cena

30. Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, Tom Brady, Michael jordan

31. Ruth, Brady, Jordan, Phelps

32. Bonds, Brady, Jordan, Bo Jackson

33. Jim Thorpe, Michael Jordan, Mohammad Ali, Michael Phelps

34. Ali, Ruth, Phelps, Jordan

35. Michael Jordan

    Jerry Rice

    Hank Aaron

    Serena Williams

36. Ruth, Ali, Jordan, Woods.

37. Jesse Owens (or Muhammad Ali)

    Michael Jordan

    Hank Aaron

    John Heisman

38. Hank Aaron, Ali, Jordan, Jesse Owens

39. Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Jordan, Ali

40. Bo Jackson, Dan Gable, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali

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42. Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, Diana Taurasi, Florence Griffith Joyner

    just to get some love for women athletes going

43. The sultan of swat, the king of crash, the colossus of clout, and the great bambino.

    I hear my friends talk about those four guys all the time.