Relatives in professional sports

Does anyone here have any relatives that played in professional sports?
My great uncle was a baseball player who played in the 70's.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ahoujo01.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lahoud

I have a few of his baseball cards, including one from 78 (his last year.)

Inb4 Jeffy tells everybody how Tom Henke is his cousin.

Danny Gallivan (HNIC announcer) was either my dad's or my uncle's godfather.

As for actually playing at a high level, my cousin plays Junior B hockey. That's about it I think.

Posts in the same fashion as this guy and this one.

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Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP

Inb4 Jeffy tells everybody how Tom Henke is his cousin.

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hey.






















shut up

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

hey.

shut up

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Does he still wear the giant glasses?

http://www.hickoksports.com/images/henke_tom.jpg

yup, won't do contacts

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

hey.






















shut up

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lol

I know Shane Carwin's family.


That's...it.

As far as relatives, Henke is all I got.

People that I know?

Blake DeWitt
Scott Cooper (retired)
Tyler Hansbourough

People I have met before they became professionals, or have been around not at the ballpark?

Roland Williams
Ryan Howard
Jamal Mayers
Jim Edmonds
Stan Musial
Al Hrabosky
Scott Rolen
Jose Oquendo (made friends with his twins)
Ozzie
etc etc etc the list is long.

Roland Williams was earlier this summer, got to know him pretty well, he is a fantastic person, not what I expected at all.

Most of those are from working at Bank of America in Ladue in St. Louis...and I got to know them all pretty well, it was a great time!

UFC is not pro sports

Although, it is better than WW whatever

My dads uncle played for the Reds minor league system. I know Jeff Francoeur.

I also know a handful of OHL players, but so does every other 18 year old in Canada.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

UFC is not pro sports

Although, it is better than WW whatever

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Uh, you do it.

That **** is tough.

And not fake, like WWE.

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Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989

Uh, you do it.

That **** is tough.

And not fake, like WWE.

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I didn't say it was easy, just that it shouldn't be called a sport. ;)

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

I didn't say it was easy, just that it shouldn't be called a sport. ;)

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...because?

Is it done by professional athletes? Yes.
Are other combat sports (Kickboxing, boxing, etc.) considered sports? Yes.

UFC and Nascar are pretty loosely considered sports

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

UFC and Nascar are pretty loosely considered sports

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Again...BECAUSE?

Oh, and it's MMA. UFC is an individual company.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

UFC and Nascar are pretty loosely considered sports

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You're comparing MMA to Nascar?

Lawl.

Uh, NASCAR is totally different then MMA so the connection to the two is...?

Are the guys that do this athletes? Yes.

Is boxing a sport? Yes.

Is heavyweight boxing is still a sport (or better called heavyweight kneel on each other)? Yes.

MMA is a sport, and one I would never even think about getting into.

The guys that do this are great athletes, and to this day I've seen maybe one fat guy do it (who fought on Saturday and got worked by Carwin's training partner)

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

I didn't say it was easy, just that it shouldn't be called a sport. ;)

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If boxing is a sport, so is MMA.

The idea that somehow UFC is "not a sport" is 100 percent weapons-grade nonsense.

Oh, and I went to high school with Tim Redding. And I work with the guy who took the video of LeBron getting dunked on at his basketball camp last year that Nike confiscated. So yeah.

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Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989

Uh, you do it.

That **** is tough.

And not fake, like WWE.

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Pretty much my thoughts. I'm trying to figure out the reasoning in why it isn't a sport. :confused:

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Originally Posted by Kobie

Oh, and I went to high school with Tim Redding. And I work with the guy who took the video of LeBron getting dunked on at his basketball camp last year that Nike confiscated. So yeah.

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The guy who dunked on LeBron, Jordan Crawford, is now a member of the New Jersey Nets, who are now pursuing LeBron.

Full circle.

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Originally Posted by ragecage

Pretty much my thoughts. I'm trying to figure out the reasoning in why it isn't a sport. :confused:

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it's just kicking each others asses and fighting....let me tell ya, wooohooo, what a tactical sport

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

it's just kicking each others asses and fighting....let me tell ya, wooohooo, what a tactical sport

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Jeffy, I like ya, but in this case, you really don't have a leg to stand on.

You're damn right it's tactical. It's EXTREMELY tactical.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

it's just kicking each others asses and fighting....let me tell ya, wooohooo, what a tactical sport

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You're right, no tactics at all...just a blend of every combat sport in to one. Trying to mix together hand and foot strikes with takedowns, and defending against all of the same without being fooled. And then there's the ground portion of things.

Seriously, dude...watch a ground fight and tell me that isn't tactics. Grappling and jiu-jitsu is nothing but tactics.

Jeffy.

Just because you don't like MMA, doesn't mean it's not a sport.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

it's just kicking each others asses and fighting....let me tell ya, wooohooo, what a tactical sport

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Well, these fighters do have win/loss records. They fight for championships. If I didn't know any better, I think most other sports do the same thing.

Besides that, if it's all about tactics you're saying every single Olympic event is not a sport, and that soccer, hockey and basketball are sports in a very minimal sense.

Curling: More of a sport that MMA

I have always viewed fighting as an incredibly immature act, and turning it into a sport is just stupid.

I am willing to admit that I don't know anything about the process of the game/sport whatever you want to call it, but it is something I will never watch, and can not understand why it has such a following.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

I have always viewed fighting as an incredibly immature act, and turning it into a sport is just stupid.

I am willing to admit that I don't know anything about the process of the game/sport whatever you want to call it, but it is something I will never watch, and can not understand why it has such a following.

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Because people like to watch people beat the **** out of each other. They always have.

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Originally Posted by Kobie

Oh, and I went to high school with Tim Redding. And I work with the guy who took the video of LeBron getting dunked on at his basketball camp last year that Nike confiscated. So yeah.

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I hope Nike paid dearly for that video because that's pretty petty and kind of pathetic.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy25

I have always viewed fighting as an incredibly immature act, and turning it into a sport is just stupid.

I am willing to admit that I don't know anything about the process of the game/sport whatever you want to call it, but it is something I will never watch, and can not understand why it has such a following.

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It's not stupid, it's business. Someone willing to pay money to see people fight is all business and there's nothing stupid about it.

You can insert that line into any kind of sport you don't like. Like it or not, UFC is growing into one of the most popular sports in America.

MMA ain't my cup of tea and crumpets, but that doesn't mean I would question its status as a sport. Of course it's a sport. It's bloody and it's violent, but the NFL and NHL are violent as well and I don't see anyone here questioning their status as sports.

Whether anyone watches the NHL south of the 49th is a whole nuther story. I mean if Americans aren't watching the NHL after the Hawks/Flyers series and the success of their Olympic team at Vancouver 2010 they never will. It's still a sport, just not a major one.

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Originally Posted by actionjackson

MMA ain't my cup of tea and crumpets, but that doesn't mean I would question its status as a sport. Of course it's a sport. It's bloody and it's violent, but the NFL and NHL are violent as well and I don't see anyone here questioning their status as sports.

Whether anyone watches the NHL south of the 49th is a whole nuther story. I mean if Americans aren't watching the NHL after the Hawks/Flyers series and the success of their Olympic team at Vancouver 2010 they never will. It's still a sport, just not a major one.

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Well I tried getting into NHL when the Ducks made it to the Cup awhile back and just can never get into it. Nor soccer mind you.

I got into hockey when I lived in stl and my buddy had season tickets...we went to a lot of Blues games and Cards games, each of us educating the other on the sport and the teams.

I cared the two/three years that I lived up there, and have sort of lost interest since moving away again.

I have never been able to get into football, even though I like the sport, I have just never really cared that much about it.

soccer and hockey video games are fun, but beside that, I don't really care to watch them

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Originally Posted by actionjackson

MMA ain't my cup of tea and crumpets, but that doesn't mean I would question its status as a sport. Of course it's a sport. It's bloody and it's violent, but the NFL and NHL are violent as well and I don't see anyone here questioning their status as sports.

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a lot of it is, were scoring points, were using a ball, we are tactfully trying to score in one way or another....not just who beats the other up the most.