The 10 Most Over-Publicized Athletes

Thank God! Beckham is in America and ready to be soccer’s ambassador—finally elevating it to the same level of popularity that the sport has in the rest of the world.

Oh wait...He plays soccer. He is past his prime. He is over-paid. He is married to a life-size plastic sex doll. Why does anyone still care?

Let’s face it, Manning is a great quarterback, but it seems that he is more focused on his commercial career these days that getting wins. Manning might share company with Gillian’s Island in that at any point in the day, somewhere in the world, one of his commercials is playing in a regular rotation.

Now, if only he could figure out how to win again.

Adrian Peterson is one of the best running backs in the NFL. In just two seasons, he has proven to possess both speed and power, not to mention hands caked in Crisco. Do you think it is possible for announcers to go one game without showing the yards he gets for EVERY carry? Just so that they can highlight his big runs? 1, 0, 5, -2, 4, 0, 1, 65, 1, 5.

Yeah, we get it, the Vikings give him the ball a lot. Let it go.

He is a Yankee (and has been for what seems like an eon). He sucks by proxy.

His dad was a legend. He sucks. You would think that getting into the Top 10 for points or winning a championship would be required to get as much attention as Earnhardt gets. Nope, finishing a race is good enough.

He has officially joined the company of Tori Spelling, Nick Hogan, and George W. Bush for people that became famous thanks to their daddy.

Douchebag. It had to be said. Deal with it.

Kobe scored 40 points?! Wow! What are the odds that a guy that takes 90 percent of the team’s shots scores 40 points. Plus, lest we all forget, he has a smoking hot wife and still pulls in side action, which is so much more entertaining than hearing about anything he does on the court.

While this might only be worthy of getting attention in Maxim, can we all just assume he will be in the All-Star game, average 35 points a game and call it a day?

Great safety. Long flowing hair. Cool name. Gets more attention from announcers and analysts than Paris Hilton gets from the paparazzi. Other safeties get interceptions and sacks, but when Polamalu does, it seems that it has never happened before and will never happen again.

John Madden loves the guy? How do we know that? Because he talks about Favre instead of the game that he is watching.

While that isn’t so much of a surprise from the most overrated announcer this side of Dick Vital, perhaps someone should just let the two play seven minutes in heaven and get it all over with.

He is great, maybe the greatest of all time. Then again, he was 10 years ago, too. Things haven’t really changed, except we are still supposed to care. Let’s not forget that the sport that he is great at is GOLF!

How was anyone ever good enough to make golf interesting? Oh wait, no one is good enough to make golf interesting. Perhaps that is why people give a s**t about his love life, commercials, endorsements, bowel movements...