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"The most impressive athletes in any sport in the world are in the NFL"

What a ridiculous statement to make! Even probabilistically this makes no sense, since the players are selected out of 3e8 out of 7e9 humans. Check out socker players, marathon runners, climbers etc and you will see that every sport has their very own geniuses.

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That depends on what the metrics are that make up "impressive" in this context. Since those are entirely subjective (I may be impressed by an athlete's endurance, but the author may be impressed by physical strength, etc) the quoted statement is meaningless anyway.

Marathon runners, climbers, etc you mentioned have a pretty narrow field of physical competence. No way in hell a climber can compare athletically to LeBron James.

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