Was talking to a friend last night, he's 24. Somehow we got on this question, what percentage of 18 year old sports fans would recognize a picture of Wilt Chamberlain from his playing days? I said 50-60%. He says 10%. I think his number is insanely low, obviously.

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Probably lower than 10%

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We're talking about guys who consider themselves sports fans. Not just any random 18 year old hipster dipshit. I don't believe that for a second. Young people aren't that oblivious

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I would say maybe 25-30%

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I'm older than that dude and if Chamberlain were alive today and walked past me in the mall I don't think I'd recognize him.

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2013 CSFMB ROY

Sad!

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Lower than 10%

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Idk if it's 10%, but it's probaby lower than 50%.

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If it was him holding the 100 sign I would. Otherwise probably not.

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I'd go with 30%

Melt a Hershey Kiss on the picture and your odds go up to 36%

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

18 year olds? 15-20% would be my thought.

I'm 34 and only would recognice will chaimberlin from the movie airplane. And he wasn't even in that movie.

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Sports fans or NBA fans?

My son is 17, knows every NFL player from the last 20 years and he wouldn't know Wilt Chamberlain from Neville Chamberlain.

Unless there was a Madden-level video game for the NBA.

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Low numbers, yet Conan the Destroyer is one of the thirteen highest-grossing North American films ever....

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Now admittedly Atlanta is a shit sports town, but back in '89 I ran into Doc Rivers in the biggest mall there one Saturday afternoon. We had a brief conversation and he mentioned that he ordinarily went everywhere and that people usually didn't recognize him. Fortunately he was laughing about it. And that we were getting strange looks talking shit about the crappy food options there even though we were in the food court.

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I once attended a "kids fest" at the Rosemont Horizon about 25 years ago or so. I spotted a post-football Wendell Davis with his family. My wife heard he was a celeb and bothered him for pictures. He was very nice and he took a pic with both my kids.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

My friend's kid is a big SJW. On his 21st birthday his old man and I went up to his school to take him out drinking. The kid was an RA so he had the nicest room in the dorm. He had a poster on the wall of John Carlos and Tommie Smith on the medal stand at the '68 Olympics. I struck up a conversation about the poster and the kid thought it was Jesse Owens. Hey bro, try to Social Justice better.

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5 percent of kids can identify the vice president.
10 percent can identify iowa.

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I feel like I'm in a modern-day episode of Card Sharks.

Jim Perry: We polled 100 18 year olds and asked if they would be able to identify NBA all-time great Wilt Chamberlain in a picture from his playing days. How many said they would be able to identify him?

Contestant #1: I don't think too many 18 year olds from any era would recognize a professional athlete, all-time great or not, who played 50 years before they were born. I'm going to say 20.

Crowd: Higher! Lower! Leery is in the hallway!

Contestant #2: I'm 32 years old and don't know who Wilt Chamberlain is, so I'm going to say that number is going to be lower. 10.

Jim Perry: The number of 18 year olds who be able to identify NBA all-time great Wilt Chamberlain in a picture from his playing days is...2. I drive a Pontiac Grand Prix with a red pleather interior.

They'd think that Wilt was just another dead guy.

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I'd go with over 15% because 20% of the US population are probably his kids.

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pence is a great iowan, too. sad.

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There's no way that first line is true

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Over 50 percent of my stats were made up.

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I saw a student label Texas as Peru once.....so.....

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At least the kid had heard of Peru, so there's that

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And he knew it was somewhere south...

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Maybe they had been to LaGrotto's. Good pizza.

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One day I'll regale you with stories about the Showtime Lakers in Atlanta. How there weren't a dozen kids made on that two night stop still amazes me.

And that I lost two sure things to Big Game James still is a helluva laugh.

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