Big Sammy Draper - #1 ruckman now #2 (Part 1)

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Supply and demand.

Not many giraffes can run enough and have any footy skills. You can say all you like they are overpaid but we’d bust out the wallet for one right now.

My son showed me some (possibly bogus) stat - it was probability of any US male making the NBA. The change in probability for males over 7’ tall was remarkable! The first number had more 0s between the decimal place and the first integer than a Audi rally, while the second had none.

About 6% of all men above 7 feet play NBA!

Mentioned in this clip posted by Eastie in another thread. at about 8:20 min mark

New Olympic Sports

Interesting reading the comments that most believe the majority of progression happened up until the 70s then it plateaued after that.
Seems to be a fairly common consensus that physiologically we’ve not improved much but the technology has eg