I bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
OT: Who was the unluckiest athlete in memory?
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Maravich was amazingly unlucky, but was never stabbed or attacked.
* Born w/ only one ventricle
* Had to move constantly while young
* Played on lousy teams his whole life
* No 3-point line (except last season)
* 2 torn up knees that could have been fixed in 6 weeks today
* Predicted his own death
* Born w/ only one ventricle
* Had to move constantly while young
* Played on lousy teams his whole life
* No 3-point line (except last season)
* 2 torn up knees that could have been fixed in 6 weeks today
* Predicted his own death
Bo- would have been HOF in two sports
My serious answer would be that it's hard to settle on anyone specifically. There are countless stories of athletes having careers shortened by factors which were out of there control. Is a potentially stratospheric Hall of Fame career shortened by injury while still living a long life (Bo) any more or less unlucky than an otherwise average player who suffered a life ending medical condition at age 26 (Piccolo)??
My unserious answer is Rocco Becht. He's been unlucky. He said so himself.
My unserious answer is Rocco Becht. He's been unlucky. He said so himself.
Rocco BechtI bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
Hank Gathers. A 23 year old Loyola Marymount Basketball All-American and Philadelphia native, passed away due to an abnormal rapid heart rhythm. One very sad moment in sports.
Not all time unlucky, but PSU related may be Journey Brown.
I loved Len Bias, but wasn't that sort of self-inflicted?
I bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
Unlucky for sure but at least she had a career - 9 GS wins (in only three years) before the incident. I’d say someone like Andy Roddick who had the misfortune to play at the same time as Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic. Guess that goes for all men’s players for a twenty year period or so…any other twenty year stretch and he wins half a dozen GS’s.
I don't remember Roddick getting STABBED in the back in the middle of a match though.
After more thought, I've come up with a couple of people more NFLers who were potential Hall of Famers (we'll never know) who had both their lives and their careers cut short due to tragic, unlucky events.
- Ernie Davis. 1961 Heisman Trophy winner and first round pick of the Cleveland Brown. Tragically died of leukemia at age 23 before ever playing an NFL game.
- Joe Delaney. 1981 second round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs. 1981 Rookie of the Year with 1,121 yards rushing and 4.8 yards per attempt. His 1982 season was a shortened by an eye injury and the players' strike. He died during the off season at age 24 while trying to rescue some drowning kids who were swimming in a place where swimming was prohibited, despite the fact he was unable to swim himself.
With all the people that snort cocaine like it’s going out of style and nothing happens, then someone dies the first time they try it, yeah I’d say that’s unlucky.
Not looking for an argument here, but unlucky? Bias made his own bed. Sad story, sure, a great great player, I mean no disrespect here. RIP.
KiJana, Aaron Harris, Journey Brown were definitely unlucky.
Me, I’m the luckiest SOB alive.
I guess you have a point. I’m definitely lucky I never got a DUI.
Sorry if this sounds harsh but killing yourself over dosing on drugs isn’t unlucky.
Me at the poker table, I’m not unlucky, I just suck.
Was the first person that popped into my head immediately before I even opened the thread.
I bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
Marcus Dupree and Aaron Harris
Very unfortunate, but it became a favorite Halloween costume that fall. My GF at the time dressed up in her cute tennis gear with a knife in her back. She did have the grunt downI bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
Best that never was. Benched 400 pounds 10x in HS. 4.3 - 40 at 230.
problem was it wasnt Len first time, but it made for a nice story
An aside: I became deaf from spinal meningitis, I was in kindergarten. It only recently occurred to me that I couldn’t have been the only one who got sick so I asked my older sister if she knew the story. “Five of you got sick. You were the only one who made it.” So there’s that.
I bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
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Kim Darby?
Didn't Kim Darby and Tonya Harding participate in the "Sex Olympics"?
LMAO!!!
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If you’re just talking these one in a million incidents then yeah, literally no one else has been stabbed on a tennis court.
I bounced around a lot of names. Bo Jackson, Maravich, KiJana, Greg Oden, and others, but I can't think of anyone who got a worse deal than she did:
I always think about the curse of the PSU running backs in the NFL. Lost Enis, Carter, Thomas (to an extent) all due to injury.
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