There was a player that switched between baseball and football. Played for Atlanta, I believe. I don't remember his name, nor which was his first sport. But it wasn't Jordan, as so many commenters have already pointed out.

Err, members of the medical profession are addressed as "Dr" purely as a courtesy, they generally hold no doctorate (although there are exceptions).

The idea that those who actually hold the degree shouldn't use the title to avoid confusion with a courtesy title is silly.

How come the whole WebTV story isn't in the list? They acquired this company in '97 for $425 million as part of the strategy to control TV and internet access via a set-top box, but they never managed to get it off the ground in Europe. This was largely due to the negligable proliferance of cable and DSL subscriptions at the time and possibly also because the existing content providers did not fancy losing control to Microsoft. Nevertheless, Windows 98 and some later versions featured some components to facilitate WebTV EPG access, before dropping it altogether in the current decade.

Sorry you are deathly wrong.
Windows 3.0 was never a success.
Windows only became popular after the release of 3.1
Only then it took off.

Is there actually a point to this drivel, other than meeting your weekly quota of rabid Anti-MS missives to keep the website hit-rates up ??

space jam wasn't about bugs bunny playing american football in outer space, now was it?

rather, mihkael yodan was shooting some b-ball outside of his school, etcetera.

What are all you commenters on about, Michael Jordan was the greatest footballer of his generation, he was the Air Beckham of the pitch.

more comments about Michael Jordan.

you mean, of course, that Michael Jordan left Basketball

Michael Jordan never played professional American football. He was a basketball player when not playing baseball.

Michael Jordan - American football ???


uh, no. It was basketball he left temporarily for baseball.

Actually Michael Jordan left American *Basketball* for baseball. Not football.

"Michael Jordan temporarily left American football"? I knew you Brits were woefully ignorant of real sports, but the inability to distinguish between football and basketball is a new one.

"Michael Jordan temporarily left American football for baseball"

Is there a fact-checker in the house?

Michael Jordan was a basketball player (not football), then a baseball player. Maybe you're thinking of Bo Jackson??

Michael Jordan was a Basketball star, not football. But he did try baseball for a little bit then returned to Basketball.
why bother mentioning him if you cant get your facts straight.

left football? Uhhh... No.

MJ was the greatest BASKETBALL player ever. You may as well say that Bill Gates made his fortune selling Amway.

And just to include some other truth, he played Baseball because his father was killed in a mugging and as part of his mourning, he returned to a sport that he and his father had always found togetherness in during MJ's childhood. Not really a "U-turn" IMHO.

Jordon played Basketball you foppish twat, who's the editor of this rag, Lord Periwinkle? There are starving kids in Bangladesh who know that Jordon played Basketball and you call yourself a reporter?!

Of course, those kids wouldn't be starving if Jordon would just put out a bit more dough to feed them. ;)

I believe Michael Jordan's day job was playing basketball, not American Footbal.