{"id":9007,"date":"2009-07-06T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9007"},"modified":"2009-07-06T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T00:20:58","slug":"tony-hawk-in-six-way-influence-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9007","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk In Six-Way Influence Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tom Jones<\/strong>, of the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> recently wrote up a list of the ten most Influential sports figures of the last 50 years. We haven&#8217;t even heard of most of the guys on the list, but down there at the bottom of the list in a six-way tie for number ten is <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what Jones said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coming up with a list of 10 is impossible, so here&#8217;s a six-way tie for 10th. Among those are <strong>Larry Bird<\/strong>, <strong>Magic Johnson<\/strong> and, later, <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong> for saving the NBA in the 1980s; skateboarder <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> for helping extreme sports join the mainstream; Nike founder <strong>Phil Knight<\/strong> for creating the most popular shoe and apparel company in sports; and the unnamed person who created the major sports story of our generation &#8212; the man or woman who introduced steroids to sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the steroid thing, not bad company. But then Tony is good that way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-trib.com\/sports\/1653022,cheapseats-0706.article\" target=\"_blank\">The Post-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jones, of the St. Petersburg Times recently wrote up a list of the ten most Influential sports figures of the last 50 years. We haven&#8217;t even heard of most of the guys on the list, but down there at the bottom of the list in a six-way tie for number ten is Tony Hawk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}