Has there been a bigger fall from grace in sports history?

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He didn't get off and is now dead, ez

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Not even close to the level that OJ got JUST'd, but Manziel got JUST'd pretty hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulkf-XEmFDc

>>77406301
Forget gayweather vs goober- this is what killed boxing

>>77406301
what the fuck, context?

>>77406329
Cocaine is a hell of a drug

>>77406278
Bullshit, Manziel's never been to prison. That automatically puts him outside the top ten.

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this guy was once offered a contract from the Yankees

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>>77406245
Fog on the Tyne is mine, all mine!

Lance Armstrong by a long shot

>>77406245
Oscar Pistorius

>>77406410
I genuinely don't understand why the media and everyone went after Lance so hard. He definitely wasn't the only one doping, and half of the reason he was considered a hero is because he beat cancer. It just didn't make any fucking sense to me.

>>77406364
False

Also Joe Paterno

Shoeless Joe Jackson

>>77406272
>he didn't get off
Technically he did

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>>77406272
He literally went full retard

>>77409311
Implying he wasn't just a meme to begin with

The Mount Rushmore of sporting falls from grace is OJ, Aaron Hernandez, Joe Paterno and Lance Armstrong. A lot of people are going to bring up Tiger but I think his fall is incredibly overstated right now. All he needs to do is retire and do a couple of apologetic interviews for people to love him again. At the end of the the day, he never cheated in golf or did anything especially reprehensible outside of golf. If Tyson could come back from raping a chick then Tiger will be fine.

>>77409676
Tyson raped a fucking girl? What? Are we talking like Kobr or straight up rape?

>>77409676
>>77409804

*raped a woman

You guys need to be more respectful

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>>77406370
for me, it's paul gascoigne

>>77409366

Purely because he was such a cunt about it.

Look everyone knows cycling is dirty as fuck and that everyone's doping.

Lance actively bitched out people for doping and swore up and down even when nobody was asking that he was clean.

That guy is a fucking dickhead.

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Marco Pantani, from being the best of the circuit to dying from overdose in his puke in a shitty hotel barely a few years after retiring, alone and abandonned by everybody.

>>77409894
wasn't that a result of everyone claiming he was doping since he beat cancer

>>77409959

I don't mind his defensiveness when people were questioning his integrity.

What I mind is how when unprompted Lance would go into tirades about others doing it.

Still, I'm less harsh on Lance than the media anyway. Cause even though he was a supreme dick about it mostly, his Autobiography gave me a lot of motivation when I was in highschool, even if most of it was lies the story still helped me for a time.

>>77406245
Nope. Pretty big one though

>>77409410
That is correct. Nothing worse than being remembered as the guy who buried, and essentially aided and abetted boy rape.

>>77406272
He's definitely the dumbest.

>>77406245
Joe Paterno honorable mention.

>>77406245
Tiger

Pete Rose is trying his hardest.

>>77406364
>play a sport no one watches
>become one of the world leaders

I think he made the right choice.

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HE KNEW

>>77412965
>play a sport no one watches
wrong.
>world leaders
wrong again

>>77413037
Literally the whole world knows of Fidel Castro. Might not always be positive but everyone knows him.

I bet less than 1% of people outside of the countries where baseball is popular in (which is only really like 10-15 countries) know who Mike Trout is.

>>77410009
Yeah and it started out as like one Irish journalist and a former teammate that Lance threw under the bus and instead of being like yeah all of us were doping sorry everyone he flipped the fuck out on them in public statements and personally called and harassed their families. He went so far as to try to destroy the journalists career amongst his peers by spreading lies and even brought the journalist's recently deceased son into it.

Great interview on NPR if you go search their audio archives.

>>77406245
is he the guy from the new jayz's track?

>>77406272
He's actually legally innocent now

>>77413411
Yeah but he wouldn't have been if he stayed alive. The state decided it wasn't worth the money to prosecute a dead man.

>>77413350
No, he's black.

>>77413460
He's not black, he's OJ.

>>77413492
ok

>>77406272
I'm sorry, but is Aaron Hernandez already dead? Oh, that's right. His life isn't even over yet. In fact, he's only middle-aged. Does not having a pulse at middle-age count as being dead? Is that what you're saying? Because if you're saying that I can assure you that you're wrong. Why would you make this topic when the trial is still on? Aaron Hernandez is still appealing right now and he has the best Jewish lawyers in Massachusetts for how many years now? They're appealing one of the worst decisions in the court, who just happen to have a conviction because one of the suspects agreed to testify for a plea deal. But you know what? They still fucking suck. Aaron Hernandez is one of the best fucking murderers in the NFL, he went 2-0 last year and would of walked free if his accomplice didn't snitch. Maybe you should shut the fuck up before you make retarded topics like this. You know why? Because you're going to be embarrassed when Aaron Hernandez wins and someone bumps this topic. Oh look at that, the Commonwealth just had their conviction overturned short of the 1st degree murder charge when they needed to get one, just like Marcia Clark did. Are you a fucking drunk? Are you retarded? Are you autistic? You are a fucking idiot and you should never make a topic on this board again and I'm fucking serious. I almost have a feeling you're the only guy making all these anti-Aaron Hernandez topics because you're a faggot hater who doesn't like the man because he's good. Fuck you, be good at something in YOUR life and then maybe try to troll this fucking murderer on the board, like I give a fuck. It's so easy to spot out your threads now, you're a retard. Always doing stupid shit like this. Why don't you try to be a good poster? Just for once? For once in your fucking life try not to make a topic like this. That's just you, you're always right at getting it wrong. Fuck you. You are nothing.

>>77406272
Of course he killed himself during the offseason so we have to wait months before proper bantz can be done

>>77412894
Fucking this

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>>77416323
That's brett favre clapping you faggot

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>>77416614

>>77406272
His team also went on to win two owls without him

>>77406360
JUST

>>77416738
They should make an "Angels in the Outfield" ripoff movie about Aaron murdering people to get his team to the Super Bowl.

>>77416120
How did no one acknowledge this edited copypasta? Top kek

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>>77416669
that was jeopardy you dumbfuck

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>>77416937
this is already a stale meme

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>>77412882
The public will never see gambling as being as bad as murder or what pic related did.

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Connor McGregor after Floyd embarrasses him

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>>77406245
Lance. He was basically one of the greatest athletes of all time, also most inspirational one in the eyes of a vast number of people.

>>77417022
have they done a Lance 30 for 30 yet? would be an interesting and enlightening one for sure

>>77417022
>most inspirational one in the eyes of a vast number of people.
no one really gives a fuck about cycling

Messi
Lebron
David Price

>>77409956
I don't get the pantani love. he has:

1 (one) giro GC
1 (one) TDF GC

all in possibly the most chemically enhanced generation of riders the peloton has ever seen.

>>77417073
I think they would want to interview him for it, and IIRC, he's being sued right now for the prize money he won from the TDF.

Owen Hart

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pic related.

>>77406301
Whats even funnier is that he paid some bitch $20 million to keep quiet about it, and then later admitted it was him

>>77417495
He had 8 stage wins in high mountain, Merckx holds the record with 10. Climbers are the most entertaining cyclists, hence the love for Pantani.

Same goes for Virenque in France, he won 7 polka dots jerseys and people tend to forget that he was the leader of the team from the first doping scandal. Even now, he is a perrenial TV host and people refer to him when French riders to well on Le Tour, as if he was an example to follow.

>>77416999
what about fucking 15 year old girls when you're a 34 year old pro athlete?

>>77417616
I call that living the dream.

>>77417570
>climbers are the most entertaining cyclists

ya I don't buy that.

Sagan, Gallopin, and Kwiato are loads more entertaining on varying terrain than a quintana, landa, or aru.

>>77417635
Attacking in the hills and winning solo atop the mountain is by far the most entertaining thing in cycling, that was exactly Pantani's style.

No rider has been more entertaining than Barguil on this Tour, for example —and, unsurprisingly, he was compared to Virenque.

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>>77406245

>>77406278
weird, I'd completely forgotten about this clown

>>77406370
classic

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He went from rising UFC star, to serving decades in prison for committing LITERALLY the biggest bank robbery in history.

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>>77412882
daily reminder that Jordan got turfed out of the NBA for gambling - sorry, I meant he decided to go play baseball.

Then there's the business with his father...

>>77418832
not to mention beating Tito Ortiz in a street fight

>>77406370
The Raoul Moat incident makes him top the list

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>>77416323