Zaturdays: The People Have Spoken

Two weeks ago in this very column I put forth the argument that Gonz and Tony Hawk are the two best skateboarders of all time. Best is usually a relative term, but not in this case. Then I went on to ask your pick for the third best skater of all time. Before getting to the results, a couple of observations. One: a lot of you can’t follow basic instructions and instead of answering with one pick for the third best skater, you suggested two, or three, or even four. How can you have four picks for the third best? There’s only one spot. But just so you know, in some cases I let it slide and gave credit to two names, but if you chose three or more I just went with the first name you wrote. Two: a bunch of you voted for Gonz as third best, which is odd since we’d already clearly laid out the argument for why he’s already in the top two. Either way this was far from a scientific study, but it gives an idea. So enough chatter, out of the 169 comments this post generated here are the final results followed by their total votes: 1. Rodney Mullen aka Mutt: 52 2. Daewon Song: 15 *People that think Rodney is the best also tend to like Daewon. 3. Natas: 10 3. Cardiel: 10 5. Andrew Reynolds: 8 6. Guy Mariano: 6 * Joey Brezinski was the rare celebrity to chime in; he went with Guy. 7. Dylan Rieder: 5 7. Danny Way: 5 9. Tom Penny: 4 10. Eric Koston: 3 11. Ben Pappas / Tas Pappas: 3 *Surprised to see the starts of All this Mayhem almost crack the top 10, beating out Matt Hensley, Steve Caballero, Lance, Chris Cole, etc. The following dudes all brought in two votes each: Jim Greco, Matt Hensley, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Jamie Thomas, Chris Cole, Neil Blender, Hosoi, and Nyjah. I should note that one of Nyjah’s votes was a “JK” vote, but hey, if you vote you vote so it counts. And each of the following managed one vote each (which is still impressive considering this is for the title of third best skateboarder of ALL TIME): Bob Burnquist, Duane Peters, Ishod Wair, Dan Van der Linden, Don Brown (Don Brown!?), Wade of Death (nominated by Wade of Death), Shane O’Neill, Kris Markovich, Ray Barbee, Rick McCrank, Ricky Oyola, Ritchie Jackson, Paul Rodriguez, Pontus, Pat Stiener (nominated by Treshan haha), Bam, The whole Bones Brigade, Sean Pablo, Jeff Grosso, Pat Schafer, Lil Wayne, Michael J Fox, Will Fyock, Andy Roy, Grant Taylor (Thanks for voting Thomas Campbell), Steve Berra, and Pat Duffy. Not a bad list of names. Thanks to all of you who voted. What should I do next, worst three?