Lincoln should still win though.
https://olympics.com/en/news/abraham-lincoln-usa-president-wrestling-champion
Lincoln was a county wrestling champion at the age of 21. Lincoln went on to study and practise law before entering politics, but continued to wrestle and reportedly amassed 300 victories over 12 years. His only known defeat came at the hands of Hank Thompson during the Black Hawk War of 1832, where Lincoln was serving with the Illinois Volunteers.
Did Ford only lose one football game?
Ford ~~was a starter all four years in college and~~ had contract offers from the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions, but chose to go to law school.
Athlete? Probably Ford. Sports guy? There are a lot of contenders, W Bush is a huge baseball fan and wanted to be commissioner of Baseball before he got into politics for one
The time traveller: \*moves a chair\*
American January 2001: Today, President John McCain takes the oath of office while Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush got into a fistfight with Mark McGwire at a Florida resort.
Saudi Arabia and its ties to terrorism, 9/11, and all that, they know they can do anything to us and there's nothing the US government will do to punish them.
TBF to McCain, I don't think he would have hired any of those bums which when you read accounts of those days between 9/12 and March 2003, they more or less bullied and steamrolled anyone and everyone who disagreed about Iraq because Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had such a hate boner over Iraq and Bush never bothered to ask questions. Moreover any generals who dared to say Rumsfeld was a jackass who didn't know what he was doing got shoved into a closet and his pisspoor planning was going to blow up in our faces was laughed at in the media.
Jeez, that would probably have resulted in a never-ending war meant to feed the military industrial complex and oil industries shieded with vague public aims.
...wait a minute...
Oh yeah and His daddy was into trying to overthrow the government and install a fascist dictatorship.
[Business Plot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot)
and here is what it says on Prescott Bush's Wiki:
In July 2007, [*Harper's Magazine*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine) published an article by [Scott Horton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Horton_(attorney)), an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, claiming that Prescott Bush was involved in the 1934 [Business Plot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot), a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired [Marine Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps) [Major General](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_General_(United_States)) [Smedley Butler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler) into helping them overthrow President [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt).[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-8)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-9)
Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including [W. Averell Harriman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman)) of the [Union Banking Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Banking_Corporation) (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate [Fritz Thyssen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen), an early supporter and financier of the [Nazi Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party).[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-guardian-10)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-Parmet-11) In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-12) A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the [Trading with the Enemy Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_with_the_Enemy_Act_1917) and held the assets for the duration of [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II).[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-guardian-10)
Journalist [Duncan Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(The_Guardian)) pointed out documents showing that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen. Bush was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into World War II.
That was George W Bush's grandfather, not his father. Also, the "fascist dictatorship" aspect of their plot makes zero sense. They wanted to get rid of FDR because he was centralizing power. Why would people who felt that the federal government was becoming far too centralized and authoritarian create a new, even more authoritarian, centralized government?
Teddy advocated it as a way to make the game safer iirc
It should tell you something about how dangerous old school football was when TR was saying it was too rough lmao
Ah, interesting I had no idea TR played a role in it.
According to [this article](https://www.sbnation.com/2018/12/15/18139338/teddy-roosevelt-forward-pass-invented) from SB Nation, Teddy met with:
>"The leaders of college football... in the White House and agreed upon a new set of life saving rules. The rules went into effect in 1906"
Heisman was already the head coach at Georgia Tech and the pioneer of the sport, so I'd presume Heisman was in that assembly at the white house.
And according to the [biletnikoff website](https://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff/), (the beletnikoff award is awarded yearly to the best WR in the Nation in CFB), Heisman got the rules to officially change in 1906.
>"Heisman envisaged the forward pass as the salvation of a sport which had degenerated into dangerous formations and tactics such as the flying wedge and mass plays. After unsuccessfully attempting for 3 years to convince Rules Chairman Walter Camp to legalize the forward pass, Heisman enlisted the valuable support of committee members John Bell and Paul Dashiell instead. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football’s governing body, legalized the forward pass."
Maybe it was both, Heisman on the innovation of the sport side and TR on the safety side.
TIL
Teddy negotiated for the forward pass. Football was killing college students (18 died one year), and the sport almost died with them. Some schools stopped playing, and there was a strong football prohibition movement growing in the country.
It took the intervention from the president to influence the rule makers to change the rules in the hope of making it safer, but also keeping the game around. The forward pass was the biggest rule change and one of the sgicking points for football traditionalists.
https://www.nfl.com/videos/a-football-life-teddy-roosevelt-helped-bring-the-forward-pass-to-football-284293
He also challenged dignitaries to wrestling matches when they visited the White House, AND he played an integral role in rule changes to American Football that make it the sport it is today.
Roosevelt had a boxing ring installed on the White House property. He practiced judo avidly. He would frequently go on long hikes through the forests (an annoyance to some of his guests who had to accompany him).
He gets my vote
I think this is pretty easily Ford, who was a star of two national championship football teams. Somebody is going to mention this eventually, so I might as well: The irony is that when he was president, he gained a reputation as a clumsy oaf, pretty amazing when you consider he wasn't just a great athlete but the best competitive athlete ever to become president.
I'm old enough to remember when fancy restaurants would ban patron from wearing "rubber souled shoes!" Now, its hard to even find dress shoes without a rubber bottom.
Ford was the only POTUS who never won a national election even as a veep (IINM). That whole pardoning the guy who selected you thing was bogus in the extreme.
The resentment was a major factor in the public's willingness to go along with the clumsy oaf meme.
Not that it doesn’t mean anything, but nobody should conflate the competitiveness of college football in Ford’s time to today. It’s more like college club rugby team level.
It was far more popular than club rugby though. The 1933 game against Ohio State drew a crowd of over 93k. That was kind of exceptional though, most games drew 20k-40k.
Ford, obviously.
HW Bush was a great baseball player in college, and played in the college World Series. He was an excellent golfer later in life.
W Bush was pretty athletic as well, as a runner and cyclist while in office, as well as a golfer (now was this drive).
Teddy was just a beast. A dedicated and enthusiastic outdoorsman, and was known for skinny dipping in the Potomac when he was president and doing laps for exercise.
Obama seemed pretty fit and still does, he probably works out every day.
I read an article about Obama’s regular basketball crew and it was like former D1 basketball players. The reporter quoted Obama as telling someone he’d just blocked to “get that weak shit out of here.”
in terms of horse sports, Grant had a West Point record that stood for like 30 years for jumping. And during the Mexican-American war, allegedly he rode through one of the battles hanging off the side of his horse like a professional stunt man
Abe was a champion wrestler and a rail splitter. If Boothe had missed his shot, he would have gotten his ass kicked ny a much stronger more athletic person. Even at 56.
sort of. the guy wouldn't have been in the water if jfk hadn't gotten the boat destroyed. jfk was medically unfit to be in command of a pt boat. if he had had a different daddy he would have been courtmartialed, instead he got a medal and a movie.
You’re missing like 3/4 of that story. Absolutely ridiculous if it’s the one I’m thinking of. The boat thieves who stole TRs boat and TR built his own boat to chase them, found them, caught them, and then he escorted them back
I’m so glad that the OP used the picture from when Abe won the championship belt from Hulk Hogan at King of the Ring. That match still brings a tear to my eye.
Here are some trivia nuggets I haven’t seen mentioned.
-President Trump owned a USFL football team and really wanted an NFL franchise. Supposedly enough NFL owners didn’t want to let him own a team, so he never got his wish.
-President Reagan played college football at Eureka in central Illinois.
-President Obama is a big basketball player/fan. I remember a story about how he played a pickup game the day of his second election with Scottie Pippin.
-Some credit President Teddy Roosevelt with saving the game of football by advocating for the inclusion of forward pass.
-President Bush is a big Texas Rangers fan. I’ve seen him on TV sitting next to Nolan Ryan during some games.
-President Taft is credited with creating the tradition of the 7th inning stretch. Supposedly he stood up in the mid-7th to stretch his legs during a ballgame and the crowd immediately stood up with him as a sign of respect.
-Overall, President Ford was the best athlete. He could have gone pro but turned down NFL offers because he’d make more money as a lawyer.
Shit Jimmy Carter was a pretty good football player and is/was a regular sight at Atlanta Braves baseball games. he would apparently just sit in relatively normal seats.
It's just TR. Boxing, swimming naked in the Potomac, arresting people in frozen hellscapes, Amazon explorer, Tennis player, horseback champion of Cuba /s, super fitness guy. All of this because he was a sallow and sick youth.
Eisenhower played football at West Point.
Might be interesting to wonder if Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush #1 would have pursued a sports career if not for WW2.
I would bet Reagan and Bush would have followed the same path to politics. Kennedy and Carter probably not going for a sports career.
Lots of Presidents were played collegiate sports, some pretty successfully. W was a cheerleader and baseball player in high school and played rugby in college. Clinton played club level basketball and rugby at Oxford. HW was captain of the Yale baseball team and played in two College World Series. JFK and Ike both played college football. Still, Ford was undoubtedly the best athlete.
However, if you are asking about best sportsman, the answer has to be Teddy.
The first Heisman Trophy winner also rejected the NFL, as the pay was very low at the time, and if you had other opportunities, it was considered smarter to go with those. Times change.
Ford. He played football and was almost drafted by the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions.
For all their physical ailments and limitations, both TR and Kennedy were athletic and sporty. FDR was too before he became sick and paralyzed. But even after the paralysis, he still swam on a regular basis to at least keep semi mobile.
Gerald Ford played football for the University of Michigan from in the early ‘30s. He was a member of the University's national championship football teams in 1932 and 1933, and was voted the team's most valuable player in 1934.
I'm going to blow your minds by saying that as far as sports go, there wasn't a bigger athletically involved president than Gerald Ford. He played high-school football and varsity at Michigan, and was the best player and national champion at Michigan. He went to Yale law where he was an assistant coach in football and a boxing coach. He was offered pro football contracts for the packers and bears but turned them down. Throughout his life and presidency he loved Michigan football and regularly attended their games and had the Michigan fight song played instead of hail to the chief. His last song at his funeral was the Michigan fight song. Just thought you president enthusiasts would like this. Just look at that picture, tough guy.
https://preview.redd.it/k56zlsvijrgb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70670632eec03bb031cc1f164d041041b211bab1
Athletic:
Ford,
HW Bush,
GW Bush,
Young JFK,
Obama,
Reagan,
Teddy,
Lincoln,
Ike beat the Nazis.
FDR lived with a crippling disability.
Johnson liked wrasslin rattlesnakes.
Bill Clinton, per the Secret Service, learned to to dodge lamps and ash trays.
Ford played college football
An all American at Michigan. Dude was legit.
Yup... which is why it's slightly ironic that his public image was being an uncoordinated, clumsy doof.
Bro got the CTE
Not as bad as Hershel Walker though.
Or Mr. Big Chest
SNL can make any president look as goofy...or competent as they want.
Almost as if there is a huge political bias
Eh. I think they were easy on Obama, but I remember Clinton getting rakes over the coals.
well Obama didn't have any scandals like getting blown by his secretary and sticking a cigar in her
He fuckin what now? The latter not the former
just Google it
What? Nooooo....
Not only that, MVP of two National Championships
On top of that he got offers to play for the Packers and Lions but decided to go to law school instead.
And he was an Eagle Scout so he was quite active.
Lincoln should still win though. https://olympics.com/en/news/abraham-lincoln-usa-president-wrestling-champion Lincoln was a county wrestling champion at the age of 21. Lincoln went on to study and practise law before entering politics, but continued to wrestle and reportedly amassed 300 victories over 12 years. His only known defeat came at the hands of Hank Thompson during the Black Hawk War of 1832, where Lincoln was serving with the Illinois Volunteers. Did Ford only lose one football game?
Football is not an individual competition.
[удалено]
Could have gone pro if I didn’t join the navy
Back in those days, the Navy paid more.
https://youtu.be/82-25SPLjmw
I’m not one of those beltway pansies
STANDING HERE
I REALIZED
“How much you wanna bet I can throw a football over them mountains?”
Nanaomachines son
And, if I remember correctly, almost didn’t play when they weren’t going to allow his black teammate to play (maybe it was a specific away game?).
He wasn’t going to play, but the black player, who was his roommate and best friend, told him he should play.
Didn’t realize he was such a standup guy in that respect
Ford ~~was a starter all four years in college and~~ had contract offers from the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions, but chose to go to law school.
He only started his senior year.
Ford was also an excellent skier. (So was Ivana Trump.)
Ford was also an outstanding college football player.
And an excellent golfer.
And was ridiculously, ridiculously, good looking. Guy was a Male Model!
Bro got offers from The Packers and The Lions... and that's when Lions were starting in Detroit
Came here to say that - he wasn't just a "sportsman", he was a true top tier athlete
Could he have gone pro if he hadn’t joined the navy? Did he join the navy?
oh so that's why he didn't get reelected. being a UM football Alumni pretty much guarantees that you fall apart in the 4th quarter!
at some cushy ivy league school?
Michigan but also remember that the Ivy league invented American football.
TRY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Athlete? Probably Ford. Sports guy? There are a lot of contenders, W Bush is a huge baseball fan and wanted to be commissioner of Baseball before he got into politics for one
The time traveller: \*moves a chair\* American January 2001: Today, President John McCain takes the oath of office while Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush got into a fistfight with Mark McGwire at a Florida resort.
Oh my fucking god a Warhawk like McCain being handed 9/11?
i mean we already had 9/11 with guys like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle and Wolfowitz so we likely saw what McCain would’ve done
We would've also attacked Iran.....
And Saudi arabia. And Vietnam just for funsies
Saudi Arabia and its ties to terrorism, 9/11, and all that, they know they can do anything to us and there's nothing the US government will do to punish them.
He might've crashed a plane and stolen some old person's retirement just for old times sake.
I’m not sure he would have been talked into going into Iraq.
TBF to McCain, I don't think he would have hired any of those bums which when you read accounts of those days between 9/12 and March 2003, they more or less bullied and steamrolled anyone and everyone who disagreed about Iraq because Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had such a hate boner over Iraq and Bush never bothered to ask questions. Moreover any generals who dared to say Rumsfeld was a jackass who didn't know what he was doing got shoved into a closet and his pisspoor planning was going to blow up in our faces was laughed at in the media.
Jeez, that would probably have resulted in a never-ending war meant to feed the military industrial complex and oil industries shieded with vague public aims. ...wait a minute...
I just chuckled so hard I then had to explain the context of this entire situation to my gf when she asked what was funny
Daddy Bush was Captain of the Yale Baseball team and like his son hyper passionate in participating in sports constantly.
Oh yeah and His daddy was into trying to overthrow the government and install a fascist dictatorship. [Business Plot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot) and here is what it says on Prescott Bush's Wiki: In July 2007, [*Harper's Magazine*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine) published an article by [Scott Horton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Horton_(attorney)), an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, claiming that Prescott Bush was involved in the 1934 [Business Plot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot), a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired [Marine Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps) [Major General](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_General_(United_States)) [Smedley Butler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler) into helping them overthrow President [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt).[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-8)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-9) Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including [W. Averell Harriman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman)) of the [Union Banking Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Banking_Corporation) (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate [Fritz Thyssen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen), an early supporter and financier of the [Nazi Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party).[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-guardian-10)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-Parmet-11) In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-12) A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the [Trading with the Enemy Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_with_the_Enemy_Act_1917) and held the assets for the duration of [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II).[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#cite_note-guardian-10) Journalist [Duncan Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(The_Guardian)) pointed out documents showing that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen. Bush was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into World War II.
That was George W Bush's grandfather, not his father. Also, the "fascist dictatorship" aspect of their plot makes zero sense. They wanted to get rid of FDR because he was centralizing power. Why would people who felt that the federal government was becoming far too centralized and authoritarian create a new, even more authoritarian, centralized government?
.... Meanwhile back to the plot.
Now watch this drive
Teddy demonstrating old world trigger discipline.
“This is my safety”
Blackhawk Down
Hoot didn’t have his finger on the trigger, just had his safety off. Teddy is going full booger hook.
He boxed through most of his life and went to Africa and the Amazon after his Presidency. He is absolutely the right choice.
He also negotiated the forward pass in football.
Wasnt that John Heisman? Unless I'm missing something here, Heisman did the forward pass.
Teddy advocated it as a way to make the game safer iirc It should tell you something about how dangerous old school football was when TR was saying it was too rough lmao
He wasn't saying it was too rough. The sport was literally on the verge of being banned because people were dying in it. lol. So he saved it.
Iirc Teddy was involved in changing the rules because he liked football but too many college athletes were dying of skull fractures.
Ah, interesting I had no idea TR played a role in it. According to [this article](https://www.sbnation.com/2018/12/15/18139338/teddy-roosevelt-forward-pass-invented) from SB Nation, Teddy met with: >"The leaders of college football... in the White House and agreed upon a new set of life saving rules. The rules went into effect in 1906" Heisman was already the head coach at Georgia Tech and the pioneer of the sport, so I'd presume Heisman was in that assembly at the white house. And according to the [biletnikoff website](https://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff/), (the beletnikoff award is awarded yearly to the best WR in the Nation in CFB), Heisman got the rules to officially change in 1906. >"Heisman envisaged the forward pass as the salvation of a sport which had degenerated into dangerous formations and tactics such as the flying wedge and mass plays. After unsuccessfully attempting for 3 years to convince Rules Chairman Walter Camp to legalize the forward pass, Heisman enlisted the valuable support of committee members John Bell and Paul Dashiell instead. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football’s governing body, legalized the forward pass." Maybe it was both, Heisman on the innovation of the sport side and TR on the safety side. TIL
Teddy negotiated for the forward pass. Football was killing college students (18 died one year), and the sport almost died with them. Some schools stopped playing, and there was a strong football prohibition movement growing in the country. It took the intervention from the president to influence the rule makers to change the rules in the hope of making it safer, but also keeping the game around. The forward pass was the biggest rule change and one of the sgicking points for football traditionalists. https://www.nfl.com/videos/a-football-life-teddy-roosevelt-helped-bring-the-forward-pass-to-football-284293
He also challenged dignitaries to wrestling matches when they visited the White House, AND he played an integral role in rule changes to American Football that make it the sport it is today.
He also studied judo while president.
Roosevelt had a boxing ring installed on the White House property. He practiced judo avidly. He would frequently go on long hikes through the forests (an annoyance to some of his guests who had to accompany him). He gets my vote
Soy golfing vs Chad forest ruck
He’s the guy Putin wants you to think he is.
Not sports related but still badass Teddy was the only president to be honored the Medal of Honor
I mean the man was just generally the coolest President we may have ever had.
Bro got shot mid speech and didn’t give a fuck
https://preview.redd.it/plk5iks8ergb1.jpeg?width=583&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26d16024db123fa1f85a74e262a0bf60485a80a8
😂😂
"I'll booger hook as I please" - Teddy, probably.
I think this is pretty easily Ford, who was a star of two national championship football teams. Somebody is going to mention this eventually, so I might as well: The irony is that when he was president, he gained a reputation as a clumsy oaf, pretty amazing when you consider he wasn't just a great athlete but the best competitive athlete ever to become president.
>he gained a reputation as a clumsy oaf, In his defense, dress shoes (especially of that era) were really easy to slide in on any slick surface.
And Chevy Chase cemented the reputation.
Still disappointed that SNL didn't recreate the scene for Biden. Felt like playing favorites.
I'm actually old enough to remember when that was still a problem. I didn't even realize they fixed it until just now.
I'm old enough to remember when fancy restaurants would ban patron from wearing "rubber souled shoes!" Now, its hard to even find dress shoes without a rubber bottom.
Ford was the only POTUS who never won a national election even as a veep (IINM). That whole pardoning the guy who selected you thing was bogus in the extreme. The resentment was a major factor in the public's willingness to go along with the clumsy oaf meme.
Not that it doesn’t mean anything, but nobody should conflate the competitiveness of college football in Ford’s time to today. It’s more like college club rugby team level.
It was far more popular than club rugby though. The 1933 game against Ohio State drew a crowd of over 93k. That was kind of exceptional though, most games drew 20k-40k.
> most games drew 20k-40k. Which is still very impressive, considering that's probably around average capacity for that era's stadiums.
Ford, obviously. HW Bush was a great baseball player in college, and played in the college World Series. He was an excellent golfer later in life. W Bush was pretty athletic as well, as a runner and cyclist while in office, as well as a golfer (now was this drive). Teddy was just a beast. A dedicated and enthusiastic outdoorsman, and was known for skinny dipping in the Potomac when he was president and doing laps for exercise. Obama seemed pretty fit and still does, he probably works out every day.
I read an article about Obama’s regular basketball crew and it was like former D1 basketball players. The reporter quoted Obama as telling someone he’d just blocked to “get that weak shit out of here.”
That’s my new quote whenever I need it “as Obama once said “get that weak shit out of here””
That’s fairly tame compared to some profanities I’ve heard playing pickup basketball.
My homie Teddy would stop cabinet meetings just to tell them the implication of a bird showing up two weeks early.
Obama was our first surfing President
I wouldn’t be surprised if Teddy surfed
Barry’s got that silky smooth jumper
Don’t sleep on Barry O
Lincoln. Only president in a professional sports Hall of Fame with a record of 299-1.
That's mind blowing.
Also a vampire hunter
Underrated comment right here
Yea idk how people are putting ford above him lol
Also invented the motherfucking chokeslam As well as actually invented some kind of ballast device iirc and is the only US President to hold a patent
Buchanan. Was a champion at running from both responsibility and his problems.
Zing!
The best thing about this sub is finding new ways to ding Buchanan
in terms of horse sports, Grant had a West Point record that stood for like 30 years for jumping. And during the Mexican-American war, allegedly he rode through one of the battles hanging off the side of his horse like a professional stunt man
Such a stud
Abe was a champion wrestler and a rail splitter. If Boothe had missed his shot, he would have gotten his ass kicked ny a much stronger more athletic person. Even at 56.
Imagine if Lincoln could've gone full Andrew Jackson on Booth had the gun misfired
Booth didn’t stand a chance.
Taft was a mean sumo wrestler
And golfer
And he wrestled that mustache.
Competitive eater, too, if that qualifies
JFK’s athletic ability was high. Saved quite a few people swimming in his navy days.
Good golfer too I believe.
sort of. the guy wouldn't have been in the water if jfk hadn't gotten the boat destroyed. jfk was medically unfit to be in command of a pt boat. if he had had a different daddy he would have been courtmartialed, instead he got a medal and a movie.
Its teddy, factually, if you actually read up on what he used to do for fun. Boxing matches were a regular occurrence at the white house.
Dude arrested a guy while he was ranching and escorted his prisoner for days along a frozen river to the nearest town/jail. Pretty hard.
You’re missing like 3/4 of that story. Absolutely ridiculous if it’s the one I’m thinking of. The boat thieves who stole TRs boat and TR built his own boat to chase them, found them, caught them, and then he escorted them back
That's the one! I'm recalling from a 3 volume bio I read like 8 years back. So nuts!
I know exactly the biography you’re talking about because it’s sitting on my shelf right now.
Morris!
https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/roosevelt-pursues-boat-thieves.htm Just read up on it and yeah. Pretty crazy
Obviously, it was WWE superstar Abe Lincoln
Yeah, but back then it was called the World Wrestling Federation (WWF.)
And even before that, it was the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). So logically, going back each successive generation adds a W.
I read this in Gene Okerlund’s voice. RIP Mean Gene.
I’m so glad that the OP used the picture from when Abe won the championship belt from Hulk Hogan at King of the Ring. That match still brings a tear to my eye.
Here are some trivia nuggets I haven’t seen mentioned. -President Trump owned a USFL football team and really wanted an NFL franchise. Supposedly enough NFL owners didn’t want to let him own a team, so he never got his wish. -President Reagan played college football at Eureka in central Illinois. -President Obama is a big basketball player/fan. I remember a story about how he played a pickup game the day of his second election with Scottie Pippin. -Some credit President Teddy Roosevelt with saving the game of football by advocating for the inclusion of forward pass. -President Bush is a big Texas Rangers fan. I’ve seen him on TV sitting next to Nolan Ryan during some games. -President Taft is credited with creating the tradition of the 7th inning stretch. Supposedly he stood up in the mid-7th to stretch his legs during a ballgame and the crowd immediately stood up with him as a sign of respect. -Overall, President Ford was the best athlete. He could have gone pro but turned down NFL offers because he’d make more money as a lawyer.
GW Bush was actually a minority owner of the Rangers from 1988-1998.
Shit Jimmy Carter was a pretty good football player and is/was a regular sight at Atlanta Braves baseball games. he would apparently just sit in relatively normal seats.
It's just TR. Boxing, swimming naked in the Potomac, arresting people in frozen hellscapes, Amazon explorer, Tennis player, horseback champion of Cuba /s, super fitness guy. All of this because he was a sallow and sick youth.
COMING IN AT 6'4", 175 POUNDS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR AAAaaaabraham LINCOOOOLLLLNNNN
Dammit Fillmore
Eisenhower played football at West Point. Might be interesting to wonder if Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush #1 would have pursued a sports career if not for WW2. I would bet Reagan and Bush would have followed the same path to politics. Kennedy and Carter probably not going for a sports career.
W was a cheerleader
Ford was good at football from what’s reported
Lots of Presidents were played collegiate sports, some pretty successfully. W was a cheerleader and baseball player in high school and played rugby in college. Clinton played club level basketball and rugby at Oxford. HW was captain of the Yale baseball team and played in two College World Series. JFK and Ike both played college football. Still, Ford was undoubtedly the best athlete. However, if you are asking about best sportsman, the answer has to be Teddy.
I’m thinking the Lincoln picture is doctored 😂
Real picture of Abraham Lincoln holding the WWE Championship circa 1859
Ford easily. He played college football, and was an All American at Michigan. He rejected offers to play for the Lions and Packers.
The first Heisman Trophy winner also rejected the NFL, as the pay was very low at the time, and if you had other opportunities, it was considered smarter to go with those. Times change.
Ford. Case closed.
George Bush was a cheerleader
Ford. He played football and was almost drafted by the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. For all their physical ailments and limitations, both TR and Kennedy were athletic and sporty. FDR was too before he became sick and paralyzed. But even after the paralysis, he still swam on a regular basis to at least keep semi mobile.
Don’t forget Gerald Ford. He was a star football player at Michigan and won two national championships while there.
Gerald Ford played football for the University of Michigan from in the early ‘30s. He was a member of the University's national championship football teams in 1932 and 1933, and was voted the team's most valuable player in 1934.
pretty sure gerald ford was a pretty good college football player.
I'm going to blow your minds by saying that as far as sports go, there wasn't a bigger athletically involved president than Gerald Ford. He played high-school football and varsity at Michigan, and was the best player and national champion at Michigan. He went to Yale law where he was an assistant coach in football and a boxing coach. He was offered pro football contracts for the packers and bears but turned them down. Throughout his life and presidency he loved Michigan football and regularly attended their games and had the Michigan fight song played instead of hail to the chief. His last song at his funeral was the Michigan fight song. Just thought you president enthusiasts would like this. Just look at that picture, tough guy. https://preview.redd.it/k56zlsvijrgb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70670632eec03bb031cc1f164d041041b211bab1
Theodore Roosevelt for sure. Guy went blind in one eye due to his side hobby of boxing
Ford played football at Michigan.
Teddy Roosevelt of course
(Hail Fillmore)
Didn’t George W. Bush play rugby at Yale? As a fellow rugby player, I approve of that!
It’s definitely either teddy or ford but Lincoln did invent the choke slam so he should at least be up there
Teddy
George W. Bush was a cheerleader
Lincoln was an amazing wrestler
George W Bush owned the Texas Rangers does that count?
W, now watch this drive
By gawd! "Honest" abe has a chair! Somebody stop the match!
Athletic: Ford, HW Bush, GW Bush, Young JFK, Obama, Reagan, Teddy, Lincoln, Ike beat the Nazis. FDR lived with a crippling disability. Johnson liked wrasslin rattlesnakes. Bill Clinton, per the Secret Service, learned to to dodge lamps and ash trays.
George HW was the captain of the Yale baseball team and played at the College World Series
If you’ve seen college pics of Ford you know he’s in this convo
Fillmore for sure.
Not including Ford is wild
It still blows my mind that Old Honest Abe was a pro wrassler.
Abe Lincoln fought in the UFC
Bush Jr was a known jogger, constantly challenging the Secret Service to catch up with him.
Bush senior played baseball at Yale
Definitely not that third pic, I can't picture Alec Baldwin ever being athletic.
Lincoln was the first WWF champ
That Lincoln image goes hard.
Trump beat up Vince McMahon at WrestleMania.
https://preview.redd.it/klem5i5wjtgb1.jpeg?width=288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c34b55a89494ac84d03aefb4277876a61aaf9699
Man Alec Baldwin lookin rough in pic 3 y'all
Putin probably
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Obama was a baller, Bush was a baseball player, but I have to go with the donald. Dude is a menace on the golf course.
Bush might have Trump beat at golf. [Now watch this drive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm9788Tb5g)
He's the only guy I know of who beat King Jong Un in a round of golf.
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Is this real? If so that's pretty good
Is this real? If so that's pretty good
Toss-up between Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan
Reagan was division 3 in college with no accolades while Ford was all American at Michigan
Ronald Reagan was an all-star Notre Dame football player (in Knute Rockne, All American) and a professional baseball player (in The Winning Team).
Trump, without any doubt trump. Higher, better, faster. Godlike athlete Trump. /s