Surveys Among Athletes

In the world of professional sports, respect among your fellow peers is a hard thing to get. After battling the same guys, day after day, week after week, year after year, it is hard for everyone to like each other. Even some of the best players in the league get hated on by their fellow athletes. Every year Sports Illustrated runs a survey among ball players to find out how they feel about the league as a whole.

In the 2010 version of the Sports Illustrated NFL Players Survey, 239 professional football players voted Bengals WR Terrell Owens, the most overrated player in the NFL. Owens career numbers include over 1,000 career catches, over 15,000 years, and nearly 145 career touchdowns. Those numbers rank him among the best of all time! It may be more of T.O.'s off the field behavior that his peers don't like. Owens is notoriously known for tearing about locker rooms as he has been on many teams during his career. The rest of the top five overrated football players includes Tony Romo, Mark Sanchez, and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning.

In the 2008 Sports Illustrated MLB Players Survey, 495 professional baseball players voted New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter the most overrated player in the sport. That is just ridiculous. Jeter is a five time world champion in the sport and arguably a top five, maybe even top three Yankee of all time. If anything Jeter is one of the more underrated athletes because everything he does in my opinion, doesn't get enough credit. Rounding out that top five were All-Stars Alex Rodriguez and David Wright.

What does an All Star have to do to get some respect?