The Chris Moeller Archives

Mitt Romney thinks golfers are great athletes

Today in Ohio, 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate and 2014 runner-up contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" Mitt Romney told a crowded room that Jack Nicklaus was the greatest athlete of the 20th Century. Nicklaus, coincidentally, was standing next to Romney when he did this.

As Deadspin's Drew Magary points out, the 72-year-old golfer did finish 9th in ESPN's "SportsCentury" countdown of the greatest athletes of the last 100 years back in 1999. In apparent agreement, Deadspin's popular commenter "Raysism" set about discrediting the eight men who finished above Nicklaus on that list, and in doing, provides us with our Quote of the day:

"Michael Jordan: Probably the worst baseball player ever.
Babe Ruth: Was so bad at pitching, they buried him in right field.
Muhammad Ali: Anti-American Muslim. 
Jim Brown: Anti-American race baiter. Wore funny hat.
Wayne Gretzky: Un-American.
Jesse Owens: Proudly held Nazi gold. 
Jim Thorpe: Native American, and thus not an American.
Willie Mays: Turned his back on his team."

posted by CM @ 7:08 PM