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Check out your sporting reincarnation predictions
Posted: Friday December 04, 1998 04:25 PM
In this week's Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly extrapolates how certain
figures in the sports world would be reincarnated. Here are a selection of
CNN/SI users responses on the same
topic:
Yankee fans come back as either Kansas City or Montreal fans, experiencing
firsthand the effects of being a small market team on an uneven playing
field.
-- Bill Caneira, Southington,
Conn.
Keith Jackson comes back as a "big hoss"; a 6-foot-6
"soph-o-more" from Decorah, Iowa. Whoa
Nellie!
-- Tom McConville, South Orange,
N.J.
The L.A. Clippers will come back as the L.A. Lakers; Scott Boras
will come back as a MLB GM who has a $250,000 payroll for his entire team;
Mark McGwire will come back as Rafael
Belliard.
-- Jonathan Dennis,
Atlanta
Michael Jordan comes back as a shoe salesman trying to push the newest
model of the Air Messier roller blades at a local Foot
Locker.
-- Donnie, Canal Fulton,
Ohio
Lawrence Taylor comes back as chairman of a D.A.R.E.
program.
-- Mohamed Mansour,
Vancouver
Bill Buckner comes back as Ozzie Smith's grandson, and annually wins gold
gloves as a slick-fielding shortstop for the Mets until his knees fail him. He
is resigned to a pinch-hitting role, and limps up to the plate to bury the Red
Sox with a World Series-clinching home run in the bottom of the ninth on an 0-2
count in the seventh
game.
-- Matthew Schaaf, Richmond,
Va.
George Steinbrenner comes back as an eight year old die hard Yankees fan
whose father can no longer afford season tickets because of the price hike in
the "new"
stadium.
-- Steve Bowen, New
York
Kansas State's football program will come back as Notre Dame's football
program and vice-versa. This way K-State will finally get respect whether they
deserve it or not, and Notre Dame won't be taken seriously even if they are the
best.
-- Cassidy Riegel, Manhattan,
Kans.
The PGA stalwarts will come back as Valley
Girls.
-- Ben Dillard, Cape Coral,
Fla.
Bob Knight will come back as a happy, fun loving college basketball
player who loses his self esteem and sanity after going to play at
Indiana.
-- Kapil Mathur, Austin,
Texas
The National Hockey League comes back as the World Wrestling Federation
and we only notice the change because more people care
now.
-- Brady Sylvester, Red Deer,
Alberta
Andy Katzenmoyer will come back as a rocket
scientist.
--John Steig, Dublin,
Ohio
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose will come back as
voters for the baseball Hall of
Fame.
--Von Spalding, Richmond,
Ind.
Anna Kournikova comes back as Dennis Franz with a
backhand.
--Albert Chen,
Baltimore
Greg Norman returns as Mark O'Meara so he can finally win The
Masters.
-- Doug Day,
Atlanta
Dan Dierdorf will come back as run-of-the-mill sports fan who sits down
to watch MNF and can't stand listening to the rubbish that is said by the fat
guy with the
moustache.
--Daniel Estrin,
London
John Cooper is reincarnated as the coach of a team that consistently goes
1-10 but always manages to win a big
game.
-- Bill Clark, Fredericksburg,
Va.
Kenny Anderson will come back as a guy who works 40 hours per week but
doesn't have a vehicle because the insurance payments are too
high.
--Chris Vining, Cold Lake,
Alberta
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