Creepy Sports Threesomes, Rob Lowe and World Series Observations

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FRESH MEADOWS, NY – You know how celebrity deaths tend to come in “threes?”  Well, I just came from the Rec Center – where Creepy Me enjoys watching folks swim –  and  noticed that things really do come in threes. Plus, there are so many cool ways to use the number 3 when describing teammates, or moments in sports: Three, Trey, Troika, Trio, Trinity, Triumvirate, 3-ball, you name it. It’s all kinds of fun. And nowhere is this on display more than in team sports. It got me thinking of the Greatest Creepy Sports Threesomes in Sportsnow and historically.

What drove me to this was watching not just folks swimming at the Rec center, but also watching the first two games of the 2014 World Series. The upstart Kansas City Royals and the seemingly ubiquitous San Francisco Giants are battling for the World Championship. The Giants’ holy trinity in my opinion is comprised of Catcher Buster Posey, Right Fielder Hunter Pence and 3rd Baseman Pablo Sandoval.  These 3 veterans play with ice water in their veins, and when the chips are down they make it happen (cliche, much?). They, more than any other Giants, are the reasons that they always seem to get it done in October coming up with big hits nightly.

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celts1980s Boston Celtics: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert “The Chief” Parrish. In one fell swoop, the Celtics headed into the 1979-80 season with a completely new front line-each one a Hall of Famer. Each one more disconcerting than the next to look at up close.

1990s Dallas Cowboys: Troy Aikman may be the worst color commentator in sports. I consistently throw up in my mouth when he starts waxing poetically about the brilliance of the Cowboys’ punting unit in between his concussion induced grand mal seizures. But he along with Michael Irvin, who once stabbed a teammate in the neck and Emmitt Smith, the most stat obsessed athlete ever formed a troika that set records and won two Super Bowls.

Joe Montana1980s San Francisco 49ers: This triumvirate would be my pick as the top threesome ever-or at least the most underrated. Joe Montana was Joe Cool when it counted the most. Jerry Rice is simply the best football player in the history of the NFL. But perhaps the most overlooked true superstar of his generation was running back Roger Craig. Look up his numbers. Running, receiving, he did it all.

Late 80s/early 90s Cincinnati Reds: The “Nasty Boys” Reds bullpen of Randy Myers, Rob Dibble, and Norm Charlton were as nasty out of the pen as they came.  Their highlight moment came in the 1990 World Series when they completely shut down the fake sluggers of Oakland in a 4 game sweep. Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire were dumbfounded when, even loaded up on deca-durabolin, they couldn’t catch up to the filth from the Nasty Boys.

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1982 North Carolina Tar Heels Mens Basketball: This team won the National Championship that year. It was the greatest college basketball team of all time, and was led by a fairly decent trio of superstars you may have heard of. Michael Jordan, James Worthy and Sam Perkins.

1980s New York Football Giants: Before Jerry Sandusky established his own version of “Linebacker ‘You There?,'” no one picked LBs like The Tuna himself, Bill Parcells. He loved his linebackers tall and rangy, and he had a factory in the 80s that churned out Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson and Carl Banks that dominated offenses for a decade, while winning two Supes. With guys like Andy Headen, Byron Hunt, Pepper Johnson, et al just behind that Gang of 3, it was no wonder that their Defensive Coordinator Bill Belichick became the defensive guru of the century.

Give me your troikas… your threesomes. Tell me why they stick out for you.  Creepy Me is going back to the rec center.

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