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Top 10 Sports Moments of All Time
Vanity | 6/9/13 | EqAndyBuzz

Posted on 06/09/2013 6:33:03 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz

What are the top 10 sops moments of all time?


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To: EQAndyBuzz

“The Catch” Willie Mays in Baseball, Dwight Clark in football, both in San Francisco.

1980 Miracle USA Olympic hockey team vs. Russians.

First 300 Homerun hitter/300 Base Stealer in history. Also first 400/400, first 500/500, and he beat Hank Aaron’s homerun record: Barry Bonds.

Immaculate Reception.

Roger Bannister first 4 minute mile.

Nadia Komenici getting the first of several perfect 10 scores in olympic gymnastics.

Okay, Secretariat.

Jackie Robinson being the first black professional athlete on a major league team.

Is aviation a sport? Lindbergh’s first solo flight across the Atlantic. Wright brothers first demo flight in 1908 — they originally got into gliding because “surely it is the king of sports”. First nonstop flight around the world by Dick Rutan. Montgolfier brothers first to rise in the air in hot air balloon. Recently, the first supersonic parachute jump.

Cal-Stanford game where the band comes out onto the field because they were so sure they won & one of them got smashed at the final part of the touchdown.

Crossover athletes are interesting, like Babe Didrickson, Bo Jackson, maybe even Arnold Schwarzenegger — first Mr. America (won more than once) to become a movie star then a guvernator.


121 posted on 06/09/2013 9:28:45 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Johnny Vander Meer’s consecutive no-hitters.
122 posted on 06/09/2013 10:02:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: rktman
I would say it’s king hussien abject failure at shooting hoops. 2 for 22? Seriously? He must shoot hoops like he tosses a baseball. Can’t really say that’s a throw.

Remember his campaign bowling game? We're supposed to think he was born and raised somewhere in the U.S.

123 posted on 06/09/2013 11:47:18 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

So, so many classics ... but I can’t believe it’s been 124 posts (this one included) without anyone yet mentioning Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary.


124 posted on 06/10/2013 12:03:44 AM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

http://espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/51

Kerri Strug fights off pain, helps U.S. win gold

ESPN rates it as #51, but it is higher in my mind.


125 posted on 06/10/2013 12:29:24 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Also for consideration:

1957 -- Bob Williams to Dick Lynch on fourth down. That and an extra point were all it took, and the Sooners' winning streak came to an end at 47 games.

Then there's Chaminade over Ralph Sampson and UVa.
126 posted on 06/10/2013 2:28:53 AM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Category Four
The problem there was that it was more media hype than anything else.

Sure, it was a great play to win a game as the clock ran down. But there are dozens of those in NCAA and NFL football history (including playoff and bowl games), and none of them seem to get the kind of attention that Flutie's pass does.

I find it interesting that the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" consitently makes its way to the top of so many of these "Greatest Sports Moment" lists -- and yet hockey is supposedly a second-tier sport when it comes to U.S. sports fans.

Even more interesting was a comment from Jim Craig (the starting goaltender on the 1980 U.S. team) in a book that was written about that team years later in the early 2000s. Craig tried to downplay the event a bit in the context of sports accomplishments, and said he didn't even think the "Miracle on Ice" was the greatest moment of the 1980 Winter Olympics. That honor, he said, belong to Eric Heiden's five gold medals in speed skating -- winning every speed skating event at the time. That will probably never happen again. It is the equivalent of having one track athlete win a gold medal in every track event from the 100-meter sprint to a 10,000-meter run.

127 posted on 06/10/2013 2:57:52 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Mike Darancette

It was very strange, because I just had the feeling that he would, too. When our son was 14 years old, his Mothers Day gift was a Kirk Gibson trading card encased in plastic. 24 years later, it’s still on her chest of drawers.


128 posted on 06/10/2013 3:51:48 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: o-n-money

Yogi says he never said most of the things he said. I think Mr. Berra was trying to be gracious, in his own way. That event, captured in several pictures from several angles, epitomizes two of the greatest careers in baseball.

Speaking of 42, I love Branch Rickey’s response to Jackie Robinson, when asked “Mr. Rickey, why’d you do it?”, “Jackie, you made me love baseball again.” Rickey was a deeply religious man, and a deeply principled man. He was always disturbed by unfair way blacks had been treated by organized baseball, and late in life, he was happy to have an opportunity to do something about it.


129 posted on 06/10/2013 3:58:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

April 15, 1947, Ebbets Field.

The beginning of the end of a great wrong, and like the 1936 Olympics, a moment when a sporting event quite literately transcended sports to signal a change in the way this country looked at itself.


130 posted on 06/10/2013 4:03:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
THE #1 Top Sports Moment of All Time, forget about it.

 Cheerleader Makes Flip, Half-Court Shot
131 posted on 06/10/2013 4:57:00 AM PDT by greedo
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To: Moonman62

The best QB who never won the SB and the greatest QB in the history of the NFL.


132 posted on 06/10/2013 5:07:35 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: BerryDingle

Yes, I do remember. And the thoughtful comment he made about bowling like a retard. What class huh? LOL! “IF” he ever played sports, you know he was the last guy picked for the team. Crap. Now he’s doing the picking.


133 posted on 06/10/2013 5:21:55 AM PDT by rktman
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To: EQAndyBuzz

In no particular order:

Carlton Fisk’s Game 6 HR waved fair
Immaculate reception
Miracle on ice
Thompson’s HR (The Giants win the pennant)
Mazeroski’s HR to win series
UNLV destroys Duke in NCAA final
Jack Morris’s 10-inning Game 7 win
Joey Kocur’s breakaway goal in Cup finals less than 6 months after being stuck playing for beers
Carl Hubbell strikes out 5 Hall of Famers in a row in the All Star game
and...you’re dead right...Secretariat!


134 posted on 06/10/2013 5:52:25 AM PDT by Clarence Boddicker
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To: o-n-money
I do not think this picture defines Yogi’s career.

Unfortunately, the one with him selling insurance with a duck will though.

135 posted on 06/10/2013 5:59:18 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: castlegreyskull

Marino may have been the greatest passer in his youth, but he was one dimensional and nowhere near the greatest QB for his career. He was lucky to play for a coach who coddled him.


136 posted on 06/10/2013 6:03:18 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Dallas finally beating the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX.


137 posted on 06/10/2013 6:12:52 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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To: UB355

Are you still thawing out?


138 posted on 06/10/2013 6:14:38 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I love big Red....actually own a chestnut 17.2 hand thoroughbred myself....tattoo lip and all

But number one for me as a boomer....

1980 USA HOCKEY GOLD

after that......

Kenny Roberts mastery of motorcycle flat track, superbike, USA grand Prix and Euro and world grand Prix late 70s and early 80s and a few years ago when King Kenny timed a best qualifier on a Yamaha TZ 750 TWO STROKE at aged 60 at the dirt Indy Mile.....most here have no idea what I’m talking about

Next

DiMaggio streak

Next

Wilt Chamberlains 100 point game

Next

Alabama over Miami in Sugar Bowl 1993....class over thugs

Next

Aryton Senna and Dale Earnhart killed respectively in F1 and NASCAR

Showed even guys who seemed invincible could die...sadly....just how dangerous

Just a few off the top of my head

Ted Turners repeated World Cup wins

Another big but obscure one.....huge really

Reinhold Messner’s nightime solo sans oxygen Everest summit...


139 posted on 06/10/2013 7:03:45 AM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: Category Four

That is a good one

I was driving on old US 80 tween Montgomery and Meridian listening on radio


140 posted on 06/10/2013 7:14:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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