No, I played the cards I was dealt, once we got ungrayed. I'm a huge Jets fan :)

I made the thread, it was always a mashup of joke and popularity sabermetrics. It's not like Barry P recommended your comment to get this out of the gray. :)

LeBron, Kobe, Yao Ming would all eclipse him now. LeBron might make it to the top 10, but basketball still pales to soccer in global popularity. Internationally, I think that Messi or Ronaldo still outdraw any basketball player.

Kudos to Ehboy for illustrating the math I was attempting to explain. Unfortunately, he used Hitler as his final solution. I refuse to live in a world where Hitler is in the top 10 as well.

Honestly, at this point the Rolling Stones are bigger over the same period, because they're still alive in touring. But, I respect your point and I'm a huge Beatles fan. :)

There doesn't seem to be a branch of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster close enough for me to attend regularly :). It seems kind of phony to try and attend services that I don't believe in in order to make friends that I have have almost nothing in common with, but I think it's sound advice for anyone who can…

The point is, to make the conversation interesting, to make it close, you need to balance the overwhelming numbers of the 21st century population with iconic figures influencing much smaller global population over the course of hundreds or thousands of years. Otherwise the list is Bieber, Gaga, a couple of soccer…

It's tough to make friends with people who think you should burn in hell.

Omitting Genghis Khan is the point, he's #1 by a mile. No religious figures is just Drew failing, how can you omit 90% of the famous people in history from the most famous list? It's like baseball before Jackie Robinson. Who cares about who the top white baseball players in the 1st half of the 20th century? Religion…

They have to be up there, but they've got nothing on Biebs a year ago. So many more teenage girls to love him now than back then. It's the same as the Pele vs Ronaldo question.

I'm not a religious sort, but I believe in mitochondrial "Eve," I'll give Adam a pass as he was kind of a package deal for the remark, and Abraham is believed to be a historical figure who lived in Ur by religious and secular scholars alike. "Ancient Aliens" backs me up on this, as does modern science, quit being a…

Pele suffers from being less famous than Maradona, Ronaldo, Messi, just due to global soccer penetration and population growth overall since the 60's.

That would so not be tax exempt.

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Chivas? I'm a longtime season ticket holder to the Red Bulls and I've never seen Chivas play either.

There's nothing really religious about the global original couple, and Abraham is a historical figure from Ur in Assyria. Gilgamesh, Enki, Jehovah, Jesus etc I consider religious figures. Also, the most famous people pre 20th century are ALL religious figures, so why not just say Bieber and Gaga. Magary is kind of an…

My Genghis Khan cult is tax exempt...

He was AWESOME for the Jets, led the league in DUI's one year.

Most famous people you totally forgot
Genghis Khan, Adam, Eve, Abraham

Warren Wilhelm Jr. used to eat pizza with his hands, unfortunately Bill de Blasio killed him and assumed his identity in 2002.