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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Still doesn't hit as hard as Colin McRae. Jules Bianchi gets bonus points for being live on TV.
    Nobody normal even knows who Bianchi was though. And McRae was more “him from the games? F.”

    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    About as likely as Cristiano Ronaldo being a rapist.
    So a yes then.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Nobody normal even knows who Bianchi was though. And McRae was more “him from the games? F.”

    So a yes then.
    Bianchi is living under a different name as leclerc

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    Edit: ahhh apparently he changed the date of the tweet somehow.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    Is Kobe passing the biggest profile sporting death of our internet generation?
    In America maybe, almost nobody cares about basketball over here.

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    It’s the highest profile shock one. Ali is the highest profile though.

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    He was one of the basketballers I could name.

    Michael Jordan
    'Shaq'
    Kobe Bryant
    Wilt Chamberlain
    Kevin Durant (only 80% sure on this one)
    somebody Abdul Jabbar

    That's it I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    He was one of the basketballers I could name.

    Michael Jordan
    'Shaq'
    Kobe Bryant
    Wilt Chamberlain
    Kevin Durant (only 80% sure on this one)
    somebody Abdul Jabbar

    That's it I think.
    I know shag all about the game but surely most would know Magic Johnson and LeBron James too?

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    Yep I know them although hadn't heard the name Magic Johnson for about 20 years.

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    I only know him because of aids in fairness. Was a big story at the time.

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    The only other one I could offer you is Scotty Pippen and that’s only because he was the guy who wasn’t MJ.

    Someone Barkley was in space jam too I think, but no idea on his first name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    He was one of the basketballers I could name.

    Michael Jordan
    'Shaq'
    Kobe Bryant
    Wilt Chamberlain
    Kevin Durant (only 80% sure on this one)
    somebody Abdul Jabbar

    That's it I think.
    Dennis Rodman too, surely?

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    I'd only ever heard of Rodman because it was in the news that some mad basketball player with best pals with Kim Jong-Un.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thommo View Post
    I'd only ever heard of Rodman because it was in the news that some mad basketball player with best pals with Kim Jong-Un.
    Similar for me but if we're listing Basketball players that non-Basketball fans have heard of then he'd be near the top.

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    Like I said originally. The biggest sporting name of our internet era. Who else has there been?

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    Nearly Schumacher.

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    Obviously I know the name, but I've never seen any basketball with him in, and do not have any interest in it whatsoever. For that reason, for me, a more shocking death would be Marc-Vivian Foe or Antonio Puerta dying on the pitch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thommo View Post
    I'd only ever heard of Rodman because it was in the news that some mad basketball player with best pals with Kim Jong-Un.
    I only really heard of him as a madman too and then I read his Bad As I Wanna Be book which merely confirmed it. Tough start to life, mind.

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    It probably wasn't in the 'internet era' being 1999, but the one I remember for where-were-you shock value was Payne Stewart.

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    Who?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Nearly Schumacher.
    Nearly isnt enough. Besides, he will be put into Stephen Hawkins mode soon enough.

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    That's the first time I've heard of Payne Stewart and I'm quite keen on golf. Three majors too. Odd.

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    He was a current major champion and well known for his garish trousers etc. It was a massive thing at the time, partly because of the grisly nature of the plane ghosting hundreds of miles on live TV before crashing.

    He was a much bigger name in the US than here though.

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    I was big into golf at the time, and it was a huge deal for me. He'd been on the US Ryder Cup a few weeks before.

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    Yeah that was a big one at the time.

    Senna is the biggest one I can remember, it happened live and during competition so it was that much more impactful. Rather stretching the definition of 'this generation' though.

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    He must be the only black man without a decent chopper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoonsky View Post
    I didn’t think I cared at all about Kobe Bryant but I was really shook when I heard. I think there’s something about sports stars seeming immortal. Imagine Ronaldo dying in a car crash etc.
    It's just so fucked man.

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    I have Airplane! to thank for knowing who Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is.

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    I've never chosen the fish.

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    Charles Barkley but I'm not sure if he's real because I only know him from Shut Up And Jam.

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    He's also famous for being one of the 'whales' Tiger Woods hung out with during his downfall period.

    And maybe he's in Clerks Animated?

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    Senna would surely be way more famous worldwide than Bryant.

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    Kobe is a god in Asia, though.

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    Is that why they named a steak after him?

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    Precisely my boy.

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    Kobe is a million times bigger in terms of name recognition than Senna was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    Kobe is a million times bigger in terms of name recognition than Senna was.
    But not a patch on George Galloway.

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    Basketball does seem to produce the megastar names that people in slums 10,000 miles away wear on their backs. Maybe because the nature of the game lends itself to personality cults.

    If I do the same player-naming exercise with the financially bigger American football I'm coming up lower than the basketball names I think. About 8 quarterbacks and Jerry Rice. Before I got into baseball, I would have had Jeter, Pujols and then all the others would have been from 50+ years ago. Ice hockey, just Gretzky I think. I'm thinking, but nah, just Gretzky.

    If you swap it around, I bet there is a lot of America who can name zero soccer players except maybe Pele or Beckham.
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    Kobe is a household name in the slums because basketball is more accessible than Formula fucking 1.

    Anyone below 30 has heard of Ronaldo and Messi at least. I'd say Ronaldinho still has the biggest name recognition for over 30's for Americans.

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    Ronaldo and Messi are the only ones that everyone in America know.

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    Yeah, I was trying the same thought exercise and hit the NHL wall. I want to say there's a player (the best one) who plays (probably played) for the Penguins with a girly sounding name Stacey or Tracy or something but other than that I have no idea.

    Baseball's not much better but there are more broad cultural references to that (The Simpsons alone can probably provide half a dozen . . . Daryl, Daryl, Daryl) so that'd be safer ground. Reckon I could get to at least 20.

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    I couldn't name 5 baseball players in a minute and i doubt i could get 8 NFL-and-Jerry-Rice players. Basketball I could maybe name 20. I could name a few hockey players besides Gretzky and Sidney Crosby (that's the one niko) but they're all Czech.

    Cricket I can name one. Rugby 0.

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    Yeah, that's him. Probably attests more to my having grown up with the Scream film franchise than to my knowledge of ice sports.

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    Baseball = Manningly, Conseco, Ken Griffey, Steve Sax, Homer, Ozzie and the Straw.

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    Don't forget Roger Clemens and Wade Boggs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    Cricket I can name one.
    Who is the 1?

    I also would have had Barry Bonds actually, as we went on holiday to the US in 2004 while he was on some sort of steroid-induced home run chase so it was all over the media every time he hit one.

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    I asked my mum how many footballers she knew recently and she came up with Ronaldo and Snodgrass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Yeah, I was trying the same thought exercise and hit the NHL wall. I want to say there's a player (the best one) who plays (probably played) for the Penguins with a girly sounding name Stacey or Tracy or something but other than that I have no idea.

    Baseball's not much better but there are more broad cultural references to that (The Simpsons alone can probably provide half a dozen . . . Daryl, Daryl, Daryl) so that'd be safer ground. Reckon I could get to at least 20.
    Sidney Crosby

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    Kobe is a god in Asia, though.
    I think you're confusing a 'few basketball fans in Shanghai' with 'Asia'. Nobody except for a few basketball fans have heard of him over here.

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    The NBA is as popular as the football down here.

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