00:00all right it's a new list it's an updated list it's the four most important athletes in america
00:04over the last hundred years okay so i'm not going back to like althea gibson and people that were
00:09very important just after the turn of the 20th century okay so i'll give you my four you give
00:14me your four okay i think i think we're going to share two in common so we can get those
00:19two out
00:19of the way first because there's no real conversation around them uh the two that i
00:23have to think i think have to be on everybody's list i need no particular order but jackie
00:28robinson obviously breaks the color barrier in major league baseball uh and was obviously very
00:34important uh from a civil rights standpoint in this country and muhammad ali so i think we agree
00:40they're on your list as well tyrone and i want to get into what they did obviously you're talking
00:45about a guy that gave up his career in the prime of his career for what he believed in and
00:50what
00:50many people believe in doing have a voice in that and that's muhammad ali cassius clay and of course
00:55jackie robinson okay so we put them aside they are always on everyone's list if you ever don't
01:00have them on your list then there's something wrong with you the next two are interesting though
01:03because my get my gut is you're not going to disagree with mine and i'm not going to disagree
01:09with yours and i'm assuming here and i don't know this because i didn't ask you that they're four
01:14different people all right so we'll go one one one one okay so my first one is actually tiger woods
01:21because tiger woods changed the sport of golf in a manner that no other golfer could have
01:26being as he said blasian you know black and asian and bringing the sport to minority community
01:33which he did more than anyone in the history of the sport and making the sport cool and making the
01:38sport something young kids wanted to do and even the rise of the youtube golf word now i think it
01:44goes
01:44back to tiger woods tiger woods made golf accessible to the inner cities and minority communities and two
01:52made it cool to the white community that was kind of like a stodgy stick up your ass kind of
01:58you know
01:58sport and the fan with the fandom of golf uh were very similar in that regard so i think tiger
02:04woods
02:05and that you know obviously the story of the last week made me rethink tiger's place in american
02:10sports anthology and i think tiger woods uh is the single most important golfer of all time
02:16of any color and i think by default then becomes one of the most important athletes of the last hundred
02:22years in this country so i have tiger woods yeah i can't argue with that at all but tiger to
02:28me is
02:29sort of the third iteration of the person i'm thinking of and mine is oj simpson and i understand
02:36what oj did i'll say he did he was found not guilty i know what oj did but tiger ended
02:42up being
02:43a great pitch man in addition to everything he did in the sport itself after michael jordan oj simpson
02:49was the original in my opinion for that because he opened up that black people in general could just
02:55sell products hurts rental car period previous to that when you had you obviously had famous black
03:01athletes forever you had them do black products it once oj came it became just products jordan then
03:08takes that to the next level and then tiger woods takes that globally and and also personality wise
03:14oj went out of his way to say i'm not black i'm oj just like tiger woods you mentioned with
03:20the
03:20coblation and all that stuff very similar personalities not with the murder i would have thought of oj but he
03:27was the first athlete to truly cross over where the white sports fan accepted him from a pitch
03:34standpoint and didn't view him as a black athlete so i would never would have thought of oj simpson
03:39but i'm with you 100 all right my last one here and you might push back a little bit on
03:44this but uh
03:44i'm gonna win anyway and it's caitlin clark like billy jean king yes obviously at the time that she
03:51came around and created title nine which was probably the most important thing to this day
03:56in the history of women's sports and i have a great admiration respect for billy jean king
04:02caitlin clark made wnba basketball viable and while there are great players before her and we could
04:09argue there are better players than her in the league like aj wilson like maybe page buckets and
04:14maybe others that you name that i don't even know caitlin clark changed the entire dynamic
04:20of a sport and an ecosystem of sports that made the wnba both relevant and worth investing in this is
04:29a sport that's lost hundreds of millions of dollars that had no audience whatsoever either on tv or even
04:36in the arenas that these talented women played in and then without trying along comes caitlin clark
04:43and overnight the sport of women's basketball became viable and a little bit relevant not as much as
04:52they think it is and i think caitlin clark right now is one of the most important athletes in this
04:58country in the last hundred years
05:00the most important athletes in the black community in the last one of the most important athletes we
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