According to grammarphobia.com, LL Cool J first used "GOAT" to mean Greatest Of All Time in 2000 --> "The earliest example we could find for the term used as an acronym is an album by the American rapper LL Cool J entitled “G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time),” released on Sept. 12, 2000... In “The G.O.A.T.” track on the album, LL Cool J (a k a James Todd Smith) repeatedly says, “I’m the G.O.A.T.” (pronounced “goat”) and “the greatest of all time.” " ... With this new discovery, I will no longer accept GOAT to mean greatest of all time.
Edit: Beat me to it.
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