| It basically comes down to the most popular sports in the USA. The Elite 8 will be all football/basketball as they are by far the most popular sports. Sports like Tennis which are not huge/popular sports in America will always lose in a voting contest to more popular sports. The only exception is Tiger Woods because of his endorsements, his dominance, and his hot wife. If Federer wanted to win this stupid contest he would need to date Jessica Simpson and have way more endorsements, his dominance in tennis basically means nothing.
And I agree this contest is worthless. I change the channel when it comes on. The real best athletes imo are ironman athletes, marathon runners, Decathlon ahletes, and swimmers. I play basketball and football and while they are great sports, they are team sports where you rely on your teammates as much as you rely on yourself. Put Barry Sanders on Emmit Smiths cowboys and see what happens. You can be an amazing player but trapped n a crap team. Also these sports are not as physically demanding as say a marathon or a triathalon. In these sports you can rest on the bench when you are tired and you have 300+ pound overweight players playing sports or any person who is over 7 feet tall can legitamitly play like Sean Bradly or Manute Bol. Try running, swimming, and biking with no rest in the brutal heat. Now that's an athlete.
Who is now is a joke, all you need is to be on a good popular sports team in basketbal/football, have good endorsements, and a hot wife/girlfriend. Who cares about athletic ability.
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