The best question on Twitter: What’s the best what-if in sports movies?

Have you seen names like Roy Hobbs and Gordon Bombay trending on Twitter Friday morning and wondered what’s up?

It turns out it’s thanks to former ESPN columnist and host Jemele Hill, now a staff writer for The Atlantic.

Hill posed a fantastic question on Twitter: What’s the greatest “what-if” in sports movie history? Her pick was if Apollo Creed of Rocky fame had lived?

That led to a heaping amount of sports movie takes, all of which are deeply fascinating. The one that popped into my mind was: What if Henry Rowengartner didn’t slip on that ball? (The answer, of course, is eventual Tommy John surgery.)

What’s the greatest what-if in sports movie history? For me: What if Apollo Creed had lived?

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 19, 2019

Here are some of the other answers we saw on Friday:

What if Shane Falco had won that Sugar Bowl

— Jeremy Schneider (@J_Schneider) April 19, 2019

And thus Finkle never becomes Einhorn https://t.co/pnUJRfTJZw

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 19, 2019

True https://t.co/kemaJXJOtf

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 19, 2019

What if Michael Jordan lost to the Monstars pic.twitter.com/uyz9Li5XEr

— Earl M. (@EarlMitchell90) April 19, 2019

What if Roy Hobbs hadn’t been shot?

— Clint Loerwald (@ClintLoerwald) April 19, 2019

What if Fulton Reed never hit Gordon Bombay’s limo? pic.twitter.com/diNFD2YvuF

— Alex Serrano (@TheDr1zz1e) April 19, 2019

What if Coach Taylor doesn’t leave his positional job at TMU to return and coach Dillon High? https://t.co/e0eBQSW8Vs

— Bennett Karoll (@TheBennettK) April 19, 2019

What if Boobie Miles never missed up his knee?! pic.twitter.com/3VXWphVGlh

— Coach Windom (@Coach_Windom) April 19, 2019

What if we actually gave the world's greatest mulit-sport athlete the respect he deserves? pic.twitter.com/0kMvNpacbZ

— Hot Pie (@tylerdecolorado) April 19, 2019

If coach would have put in Uncle Rico they would have been State champs. pic.twitter.com/btZkITPHEe

— Frank Huerta (@F4Rhino) April 19, 2019

What if Henry Rowemgartner never saw his moms name on his glove? pic.twitter.com/BxyYIxfdtr

— Eric Jawi (@TheRealJawi20) April 19, 2019

What if Notre Dame players had said.. "No chance Rudy. You're not seeing the field"? https://t.co/CHyPfemjbZ

— trey wingo (@wingoz) April 19, 2019

What if Roy Hobbs has just gone to his hotel room on that initial trip to Chicago and went to bed? https://t.co/ZO2cOwvn7n

— Tom #LGM #FinsUp (@Hotstover) April 19, 2019

What if Gordon Bombay didn't hurt his knee? https://t.co/oGdwPAymJO

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) April 19, 2019

What if Gordon Bombay scores on his penalty shot to win the Hawks the 1973 pee-wee state championship? https://t.co/CcEfcKZgPr

— Mitch Rausch (@RealMitchRausch) April 19, 2019

What if the stolen car had been Rick Vaughn’s third strike?

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 19, 2019

What if Lance Harbor didn’t screw up his knee? We probably never hear from Mox, Bud Kilmer enjoys his 23rd District in peace and Lance goes to Florida State

— Herb Lawrence (@Ecnerwal23) April 19, 2019

What if Quincy McCall had let Monica walk off after losing the one-on-one game for his heart? pic.twitter.com/5hYRxj861H

— Megan Armstrong (@meganKarmstrong) April 19, 2019

What if Lance Armstrong never convinced Peter LaFleur to go back and re-join his dodgeball team? Double what if Chuck Norris didn’t vote in favor of Average Joe’s Gym?

— Certifiably Sub-Par (@Michael_AC23) April 19, 2019

What if he built it and no one came?

— Polidiot Savant (@JebediahDobbins) April 19, 2019

What would've happened to Charlie Brown's Self esteem if Lucy woulda let him kick the football one damn time? H.S. , College .. Pro kicking Career?..
Lil Red head Girl??? pic.twitter.com/o3RH2JJSPm

— 🤴🏽⚔Ol' Man Eriq (@The06Gentleman) April 19, 2019