Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Is Winning A Genetic Gene?

I started thinking about father and sons who have played professional sports and how they compared to each other. I think that it is almost always more difficult for the son because they will be compared to their father until they over take their father, anything less and they are a failure.

There is the question of success too, is winning a team championship equal to winning individual awards and does a Hall of Fame career trump everything else? 

If you were to pick a dominant family for each sport which would you pick? Here are mine:

MLB:
Ken Griffey Sr. & Ken Griffey Jr.

NBA:
Jellybean Bryant & Kobe Bryant (OK, no comparison but I wanted to write jellybean)
I would actually go with the Barry family for basketball

NFL:
Archie Manning & Peyton and Eli Manning (Based solely on Peyton and Eli's success)

NHL:
Bobby Hull & Brett Hull

NASCAR:
Dale Earnhardt Sr. & Dale Earnhardt Jr. but just slightly over the Lee family




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3 comments:

  1. Brett AlanJuly 19, 2017 at 5:45 PM

    Hey, Archie Manning was a very good quarterback who never got the chance to play for a good team.

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  2. FujiJuly 19, 2017 at 10:51 PM

    Being from the Bay Area though... I'd give Barry and Bobby the slight edge over the Griffeys... but honestly it's pretty much a coin flip. All four of them had stellar careers. I'll also be a homer and choose Steph and Dell as my NBA guys. Can't really argue with the rest of your picks.

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  3. WilsonJuly 20, 2017 at 7:06 AM

    How about Ray, Bob, Aaron, and Bret Boone? Apparently Bret's son just got drafted too, though in a very late round.

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