Hey, Calvin Johnson is one of about three NFL players who I can name. I lived across the hall from him in my last semester at Tech. Several times as I walked back to my dorm, there were a couple of police officers in the hall knocking on his door (don't know whether they were looking for him or one of his roommates, who I think were also on the football team), and they'd accost me as I approached them, "Do you live in here?" "No." "Do you know where they are?" "Uh, no, sorry, can't help you... 'scuse me..." (And I'd duck into my dorm.) It was very weird. The officers would keep knocking, like a child who keeps asking the same question over and over expecting the answer to change. Hey, if they didn't answer the door in the first ten minutes, they probably won't answer if you continue to knock politely.

Gotta be the roi ...

oops, sorry, NFL player, roid-free by definition.

My dad remembers Gordie Howe hitting batting-practice homers at Tiger Stadium. (Howe actually played semi-pro ball in Saskatchewan in the summer before the Red Wings told him to cut it out.)

Phenomenal athlete; he could be a 3 in the NBA, with a year's worth of preparation.

Phenomenal athlete; he could be a 3 in the NBA, with a year's worth of preparation.

Terrell Owens says hello.

Terrell Owens says hello.

I think the analogy here is Randy Moss 2.0, not Owens. Owens was never a burner -- big, quick and strong yes, but not a 4.4 take it to the house type. That's Calvin. Calvin is Moss, except about 20 lbs heavier and just as fast.

Calvin is sorta the Lebron of football or the Kevin Durant. Guys that big and tall shouldn't be that fast and able to move so quickly in space.

Anyways, Calvin was drafted by the Reds straight out of HS, so guy can play a little bit. Watching him swing here he has easy power, you can see what the scouts saw in him.

My point was about Calvin dropping everything and becoming an NBA player in a year. Owens attempted basketball at a higher level and despite being a real player, not an athlete, he wasn't of NBA skill level.

Johnson is more a faster Owens. He's not in the same speed zone as Randy in is prime.

To his credit, Terrell Owens does take over the NBA Celebrity games.

Unfortunately, this homer was overturned as Megatron did not control the ball as it went to the ground.

Watching him swing here he has easy power, you can see what the scouts saw in him.

Yeah, maybe more impressive than the home run was the swing before, when he hit it out to dead center and it hit the wall on a bounce (it looked like). That's 420' out there.

Watching him swing here he has easy power, you can see what the scouts saw in him.

That easy swing is what impressed me. I was expecting him to take some giant, comical, home-run derby swing and muscle it out. I was shocked to see that he was taking very easy cuts, looking like an actual MLBer taking BP not a NFLer having fun, and still managed to knock one out.

Phenomenal athlete; he could be a 3 in the NBA, with a year's worth of preparation.

He's not big enough. People underestimate how truly huge NBA players are.

6'6", 234 lbs. According to this site he's around the size of an average shooting guard (heavier, but he presumably wouldn't play at that weight in the NBA). Average small forwards are a couple inches taller.

People underestimate how truly huge NBA players are.

People underestimate how truly skilled NBA players are. Athleticism helps but so does years of practice, especially at the smaller positions.

People underestimate how truly skilled NBA players are.

He's automatically the best basketball player in Detroit.