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• FIVERINGS said August 21, 2008

  Well, Phelps would need to bulk up a bit, but he could be a bad-assed defensive end with that swim move.

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• PackMentality said August 22, 2008

  Phelps actually played lacrosse in his youth before switching to the pool. ( http://www.nll.com/article.php?id=3570 ) In a different alternate universe from the one we're exploring, he could have been on the Johns Hopkins squad that won the national championship a couple of years ago. That's the good news. The bad news is that by now he'd probably either be in a "real job" or toiling in obscurity in either Major League Lacrosse (pro outdoor field lax) or the National Lacrosse League (pro indoor "boxla" as that flavor of the sport is called).
  
  Back to the college football speculation, Phelps would be moving from a non-contact, non-impact sport to a full-contact sport that is murder on your leg joints. Bolt would have less of a problem, his legs being more accustomed to the impact of running. But in either case, one well-placed and/or lucky shot to the lower body would end their experiment with college football in a Beijing second.

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• FaceTheSEC said August 22, 2008

  Then Nick Saban would recruit both of them because he is the MAN!

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• bigscottyp said August 24, 2008

  if bolt doesnt get jacked at the line - he could be a dream for a QB

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