r/whowouldwin • u/retired-tweeter • 4d ago

Battle All 47 US Presidents are running against each other in a 40 yard dash. Who wins?

Every U.S. President is magically cloned into their peak physical form, dropped onto a football field, and lined up for a 40-yard dash. Who ya got?

Favorites:

JFK: 2 sport college athlete, plus military training. Swam 3.5 miles towing an injured soldier with a bad back.

Gerald Ford: Another strong military background who was a two-way football player at Michigan.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Extensive military career, who played halfback at west point until his injury. Guessing he was a little fast even in segregated times

Barack Obama: Gonna get a lot of votes here probably as one of the only presidents we've seen in action playing an athletic sport, but no athletic background, so you know, can't give him too much credit

Donald Trump: In doing my 20 minutes worth of research, I came across this quote from a Ted Levine in 2015 (In an article about Trump running in 2016 so...take that as you will) "He was just the best, a good athlete, a great athlete," Levine said. "He could have probably played pro ball as a pitcher. I think he threw 80 miles an hour.... He was physically and mentally gifted." So there's that (Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-high-school-classmates-what-he-was-like-2015-10)

All in All, I'd lean Gerald Ford. JFK had injury issues so who knows what his "prime" would have been athletically. Maybe at absolute peak and health, JFK could win, but I'm going with the 2-way football player from Michigan.

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u/TheDevilsAdvocate96 4d ago

Ford was the starting center at the University of Michigan, winning 2 nattys and a “team” MVP.

Eisenhower was listed as a 5’10, 174lb running back for West Point. Started 3 games, played in 6 before blowing out his knee.

At that size, I’m sure Dwight’s main attributes had to be either speed or agility. However the talent gap is so severe that I would bet on a juiced out “mvp” center from the UoM over a backup ACC rb.

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u/sloasdaylight 4d ago

A modern day back weighing 174 needs speed (and an extra 30lbs at that height), but in the 1910s could very well have been a bruiser. People have gotten much bigger in the last 100 years as nutrition and access to food has gotten better. Bill Curry, the starting center for the Packers in SB I was only 235lbs. Ryan Jensen, the starting center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they annihilated embarassed beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa's home stadium and became the first NFL team to accomplish that feat by an impressive score of 31-9, weighed 319 lbs, just as a totally random, completely unbiased example.

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u/throwaweigh1245 4d ago

Yea LBs and Linemen back then aren’t the behemoths we think of today. Still huge and strong men but plenty of speed

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u/hoopsrule44 4d ago

Why dont you just pull up their 40 times smh