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Bill Bowerman, an Uncommon card
William Jay Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.
- Bowerman disliked being called a coach, and during his 24 years at the University of Oregon, the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every year but one, attained 4 NCAA titles, and finished in the top 10 in the nation sixteen times.
- As co-founder of Nike, he invented some of their top brands, including the Cortez and Waffle Trainer, and assisted in the company moving from being a distributor of other shoe brands to one creating their own shoes in house.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bill Bowerman article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Bill Bowerman
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bill Bowerman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : University of Oregon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.