# The American Wayne Gretzky

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-wayne-gretzky/344588>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 15, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-wayne-gretzky/344588 "2006-02-15T03:54:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Queuing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Queuing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queuing)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-wayne-gretzky/344588/21 "2006-02-17T03:24:05Z")

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**RickJay** that was a masterpiece of a post, even better because it is true. I have goosebumps.

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**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-wayne-gretzky/344588/22 "2006-02-17T03:40:19Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> When Canadians say “Community centre,” they often mean “A facility primarily designed around an ice rink, but there might be some other stuff there too, I don’t really check it out.”

This is precisely the point where I realised you were dead right. Nice post.

If we were to open this up worldwide, would Pele come anywhere close? I’m not old enough to really know.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-wayne-gretzky/344588/23 "2006-02-17T04:15:03Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> I think Ruth and Jackson are the closest to Gretzky for Americans in general.

Would that be Tito Jackson?

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