understanding sports?

Question

has anyone else changed their opinion of sports as they get older, my example here is all the people thinking brady is the greatest q.b. of all time or d-wade better than jordan, or that kobe is the best ever, my bet is 99 out of 100 times those thoughts are from kids, when i was younger i thought will clark was better than micky mantle just because will clark played when i was a kid, well i now know better, my question is is their anyone you thought was better than the all time greats when you were a kid and now know that not even to be close to be true, please give examples, football, baseball, basketball only please

Answer 1

I think the older I get, the more I realize that I don't know it all. There's always more information out there than I can get, so it's difficult to jump to conclusions.

When I was a kid, I rooted for Bill Russell in his games against Wilt Chamberlain. But I think I realized how good Wilt was, and my respect for his game only grew over the years. I was a big Carl Yastrzemski fan, but I don't think I ever thought he was the best ever. I recall being a pretty good student of history even then, and knew Babe Ruth was an all-timer.