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Today I am going to look at 3 of the worest/ the best trades in North American sports history depending on which team someone likes.
NFL - The Herschel Walker Trade was horrible for the Minnesota
Vikings who felt that all they needed was a running back to win the
superbowl and they gave the Cowboys players and picks that helped them get
Emmit Smith, Alvin Harper, Russell Maryland, Darren Woodson, and others.
While the Vikings had Herschel for 2 1/2 seasons and they did not even win
a playoff game with him while not even having draft picks for years and
years while the Dallas Cowboys won 3 superbowls in 4 seasons with a lot of
help from the Vikings draft picks.
MLB - Most people would talk about Babe Ruth and the curse going
from Boston to the Yankees but instead I am going to talk about a trade
that helped destroy baseball in Montreal. I am talking about the trade
where they receive Mark Langston for a pitching prospect and bird killer
the 6'10 Lefty Randy Johnson who helps the Mariners be a force to be
recking with in the mid to late 90's as their ace of their rotation. While
Langston only pitched the remander of the 1989 season with the Expos as he
played the following season with the California Angels and did not make
the playoffs while Johnson went onto over 300 wins and 4000 stickouts in
his career.
NHL - I would first like to mention that the Wayne Gretzky trade
may have hurt the culture of the NHL helping to put teams in places that
do not deserve to be in the league. The Trade I would like to talk about
is the Tom Kurvers trade in 1989 where the Leafs sent their first round
pick in 1991 that turned into Scott Neidermayer who simply was the glue
for the New Jersey Devils during their cup runs. Then after the lock-out
season he went to Anaham Ducks and a year later helped them to win the cup
something the Leafs have not done since 1967 and Tom Kurvers lasted only a
season and a quarter. It is still a bad trade eventhough the Leafs wanted
Eric Lindros who was a disappointment but still Scott Neidermayer would
have looked good in blue and white.
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