Who are the best brothers in sports history?

[crows2]

Klitschkos are up there, no?

This is the answer, but most people here only know NBA, NFL and MLB lol.

Eli Manning is nowhere near as good of a football player as the Klitschko are boxers. But Peyton makes it somewhat close.

Don't diss Eli too much. He finished in the top ten for career passing yards and both of his SB victories were over the Bellicheat/Brady Patriots.

And here is food for thought: Cooper Manning, the oldest brother, was an excellent football player, just as good as his brothers according to Archie, Peyton, and Eli. He was already committed to the Univ. of Mississippi, but a diagnosis of spinal stenosis ended his career before it had a chance to take off. And Archie wasn't a bad QB despite the stats: he was stuck on those 1960's horrible Saint teams, some of the worse in NFL history.

Quite the athletic family.

Cooper’s son Arch is currently the number 1 high school recruit for 2023 and looking like one of the best QB prospects in years (possibly in the Trevor Lawrence, Andrew Luck tier).

[BostonCouchGM]

TJ and JJ Watt. Both for sure Hall of Famers among the best ever at their positions.

[BernteB]

The Klitschko brothers would surely be up there given the sustained boxing dominance.

i'm not an expert when it comes to boxing, but the opinion amongst boxing fanatics is mostly, that they were very selecetive with regards to whom they fought, so their records look better than they actually were (i think this goes more for the younger of the two).

That sounds more like the opinion of casual boxing fans, not fanatics. Fanatics know they're among the best HWs of all time. Aside from that, what heavyweight boxer could avoid both of them? It wouldn't even be possible.

eh, no. actually it's the other way around. a casual usually only sees the number of wins, a boxing fanatic or, generally speaking, someone who follows the sport closely, can tell what these wins are worth. on boxing forums you read a lot about the klischkos beating a lot of garbage to rig their records.

[CobraCommander]

Klitschkos are up there, no?

Up there? Uh they are the best....add sisters and it’s Williams and Klitschkos....the Manning’s great but on the real, Heavyweight world championship is a bigger singlehanded accomplishment than super bowl qb....

[CobraCommander]

i'm not an expert when it comes to boxing, but the opinion amongst boxing fanatics is mostly, that they were very selecetive with regards to whom they fought, so their records look better than they actually were (i think this goes more for the younger of the two).

That sounds more like the opinion of casual boxing fans, not fanatics. Fanatics know they're among the best HWs of all time. Aside from that, what heavyweight boxer could avoid both of them? It wouldn't even be possible.

eh, no. actually it's the other way around. a casual usually only sees the number of wins, a boxing fanatic or, generally speaking, someone who follows the sport closely, can tell what these wins are worth. on boxing forums you read a lot about the klischkos beating a lot of garbage to rig their records.

Yeah but they also won the belt and held it. I’m not a casual fan...I think I know boxing and it’s honestly not a debate....they beat the guys in front of them when they had the belts...it is what it is.

[Wilfried]

In soccer, you had Brian and Michael Laudrup (Danish), both extremely talented players who both played for the best european teams. Michael was clearly the best and had the greatest career, Brian had a lesser career but still very talented player (who played for Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Rangers, Chelsea, ...) and he also was a key player in the european championship, won by Denmark in 1992.

They are the equivalent to the Gasol Brothers to me