1- Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes.
That's the first thing that popped into my mind. The horse who started his career fat, slow, and clumsy.
I don't have a top 10, but I will add the first one to the group.
1- Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes.
A few...
Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson in biggest upset ever.
Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle.
David Tyree’s helmet catch after Eli Manning’s improbable escape on the drive that ruined the Patriots’ perfect season.
The Munich Massacre during the ‘72 Olmpics.
The Miracle on Ice, US Olmpic Hockey Team defeats the Russians in 1980.
The 1992 NFL Playoffs, the Buffalo Bills come from 32 points down to defeat the Houston Oilers.
2008 Wimbledon Men’s Finals, Nadal topples Federer in epic match.
A twenty-one year old Tiger Woods wins the 1997 Master’s by twelve strokes.
Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in one game.
1992 Summer Olympics, Derek Redmond gets injured during the 400m and his father helps him finish the race.
When Smokin Joe Frasier coldcocked loud mouth Cassius Clay (muhammed ali)! Frasier lost the fight but Ali was permanently brain damaged due to Smokin Joe’s fist!
My no-hitter in Little League. 6-inning game, two walks, 15 of the 18 outs were strike outs. Well, maybe that was not quite as momentous as Miracle on Ice I guess.
Phidippedes running the original Marathon in 490 BC to announce the Greek victory over Persia, “Rejoice, we have conquered!” (and then he fell down dead).
Francis Ouimet winning the 1913 US open as an amateur.
Bird/Magic
Dan Marino ruining the 1985 Chicago Bears perfect season. It was the best defense in NFL history vs. the best QB in history who was having his greatest game.
Jack Morris’s pitching a 10 inning shutout to win the game 7 of the 1991 World Series for the Minnesota Twins.
The catch...
...and Babe Ruth’s homers at Forbes field
Elway jumping for the first down in the Super Bowl against
Green Bay. That showed the winning spirit. And it was a hell of a spin around.
Borg vs. McEnroe 1980 Wimbledon Finals
18-16 fourth set tie breaker that took 22 minutes to finish.
McEnroe saved seven match points in the fourth set, five of them in that excruciating 34-point tie breaker.
1- Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes.
That's the first thing that popped into my mind. The horse who started his career fat, slow, and clumsy.
For a 12 year old girl back in 1968, Bob Beamon breaking the long jump record by over two feet was a biggie. Also, that year, the Tigers won the world series and during the season Denny McLain won 31 games. My sister happened to be at the game where he broke the record and won his thirtieth.
Under the bleachers...1979....Cecelia Thomas...best sports moment EVER!
Nicklaus V’s Watson Turnberry 1977
Emma Worthington winning the 1989 World Croquet Championship.
The RedSox winning the world series, finally. :-)
The goal line stand.
Frank Reich leading the Bills over the Boilers in 1993. At one point, the Bills were down 35-3. They Beat Houston 41-38 in OT.
Well, I think that if sports is defined as a physical contest where spectators gather to cheer for their favourite and observe what happens, nothing beats the story of David and Goliath. Think about the scene and what was on the line…. Israel was defending itself against the Philistines and rather than each person going into battle, the Philistines proposed what they thought was a winner of scheme. The two archenemies were stationed on two mountains and there was a valley in between them… twice a day for 40 days, the Philistines sent a 9 foot high armed to the teeth giant named Goliath out into the valley and he issued this challenge to the Israelites after he was done mocking them…. “Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.” No one accepted the challenge until a shepherd boy named David showed up and accepted it after being astonished at the fear in the Israelites that they would allow anyone to ‘define the armies of God’. So David went into the valley dressed as the shepherd with nothing but a sling a bag with 5 stones in it… while Goliath came from the other side in full armour with a spear… and a second person who carried his shield. As Goliath got close, the confident David said “Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands.” And the rest as they say, is history. As Goliath came in for the kill, David reached into his bag and slung the first stone he found. Goliath’s armour had a hole in it and the stone found it…right in front of his forehead. The stone sank into Goliath’s brainbox and he crashed to the ground. The contest was done.