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.
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.
That is a good one
I was driving on old US 80 tween Montgomery and Meridian listening on radio