Greatness or Imposter?

A segment from the Bo Jackson ’30 for 30’ left an impression on me.  Jeremy Schaap was talking about Jackson and thought that he came along at the right time for a mythical, superior athlete because if he came a decade later, he would have fallen under suspicion of PED’s due to his ridiculous physique and size/speed.  He went on to say that sports fans have lost the ability to be in awe of great athletes due to that shadow of cheating.  I thought this was a great point because so much of why we love sports is the ability to be wowed by these superior athletes, but now we are so jaded that in the back of our minds we wonder, “is it real?”  That takes much from sports, especially for young fans.  So, instead of completely buying in to greatness, we wonder is Lebron cheating?  Is Usain Bolt?  Is Adrian Peterson?  Is Albert Pujols?  What about Michael Phelps?  Serena Williams?  All athletic freaks.  They can’t really be that good, can they?

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