Celebrity Death Pool 2020

[FBD]

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Alex Trebek has passed away at 80 years old

[Pony]

Alex Trebek has passed away at 80 years old

Please phrase your comment in the form of a question.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Please phrase your comment in the form of a question.

This long time gameshow host just passed away at the age of 80 from pancreatic cancer.

 

Who is Alex Trebek?

[DemonGeminiX]

Lists updated

[Godfather]

I love Trekbek, one of Canada's finest exports. Rest in peace.

[FBD]

I watched a lot of Jeopardy in my growing years

[Muddy]

The man had style and grace..

[Hikari Kisugi]

RBP is on a roll

14. Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer, 74

CUnts dead at last

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Diego Maradona, Argentinian soccer legend, has died at 60 years of age.

[Goofy]

Diego Maradona, Argentinian soccer legend, has died at 60 years of age.

GOAT

Absolute genius of a player coupled with being strong as a bull, defenders just couldn't get the ball off him. He pretty much single-handedly (pardon the pun ) won the World Cup for Argentina in '86, something that neither Messi or C.Ronaldo have managed. RIP Diego Armando Maradona, the greatest of all time.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[DemonGeminiX]

Wasn't he a coach as well?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

GOAT

Absolute genius of a player coupled with being strong as a bull, defenders just couldn't get the ball off him. He pretty much single-handedly (pardon the pun ) won the World Cup for Argentina in '86, something that neither Messi or C.Ronaldo have managed. RIP Diego Armando Maradona, the greatest of all time.

From Sports Illustrated's list of the 50 greatest footballers of all time:



Peak: 1985-90

Major Achievements: 90min's Greatest Footballer of All Time, Corriere dello Sport's Best Athlete in History, 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, 1985 Serie A Footballer of the Year, FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, FIFA Goal of the Century, Argentine Sports Writers' Sportsman of the Century, two-time South American Footballer of the Year, four-time Argentine Football Writers' Footballer of the Year, two Scudetti, one Coppa Italia, one Copa del Rey, one UEFA Cup.

So what makes Diego Armando Maradona 90min's greatest footballer of all time?

Is it the fact that he won the FIFA World Cup in a way that no one else has ever been capable of doing - single handedly?

Is it the fact that he scored the two most significant goals in footballing history?

Is it the fact that one of these goals was the greatest goal of all time? The impossible made possible by a true genius?

Is it the fact that he joined SSC Napoli - a downtrodden, unwanted, unfancied team - and made them the best team in the strongest league Europe has ever seen?

Is it the fact that in his native land he is considered to be a God? A working class hero that empowered a nation through his messianic talent?

It's all of the above.

Diego Maradona, at his very best, is the greatest footballer we have, and will ever see. Effective and exceptional in equal measure.

The best of the best.

[KevinD]

Hal Ketchum passed today.