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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 313571, member: 27"]
I never saw Hanson or Brown play in person, or even live on TV.  In fact, I have never seen film of Hanson play any sport.  I have seen film of Brown playing football.  No doubt in my mind he would be a dominant player today in the NFL.  He was far, far, far ahead of his time.  I think we are in at least close to being in agreement on him and his football playing ability.  Regarding lacrosse, I can only go by with people like Dick Schapp and Roy Simmons have said (he is the best player ever).  I will go with their opinion on that.
 
I have seen all the players you mentioned play.
 
Ainge averaged 11.5 ppg in the NBA.  I think he was even all pro one season.  He was a good basketball player, but nothing special.  Never even the best player on his own team.  He was a borderline major league baseball player.   I saw him try to play in Syracuse with the Chiefs.  He was slow, awkward, clumsy and crappy.  Was a 0 tool player.  Lifetime batting average of .220.  2 home runs.  I can't imagine you are serious trying to argue he was a better athlete than Jim Brown.  Seriously?  Danny Ainge?  Seriously? 
 
Sanders was a great cornerback.  Outstanding in coverage, dinged hard for being a poor tackler and not being physical, but he had undeniable fantastic athletic ability for football.  Loses some points because he was just a CB, not as important a position as RB.  I say he was close to but not as dominant a football player as Jim Brown. 
 
He was a good baseball player, certainly much better than Ainge was, but was never remotely a great one.  Lifetime average of .263 with 39 HRs and 186 SBs.  Forget that he was not remotely close to the best baseball player of all time.  If he was a hall of fame baseball player, I might agree with you.
 
Don't have time to go through the others (Fralic an all time great two sport athlete because he acted in a few pro wrestling acting events).  Let's agree to disagree.
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