Why I Love Sports
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by user Shrubbery
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Best things/moments in sports; or the times when it’s great to be a sports fan in no certain order...
80 Moments That Make You Love Sports
- Game 7 of a Stanley Cup playoff series (nothing matches the intensity of the NHL playoffs)
- Game 7 of the World Series
- 2:00 left, ball on your own twenty, John Elway under center
- 1:30 left, ball on your 30, Joe Montana under center
- Michael Jordan pouring in 63 against Boston in the playoffs
- Ray Bourque hoisting the Stanley Cup
- Tiger Woods winning the Masters by twelve strokes
- Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame
- Secretariat obliterating the field at Belmont...he won by 35 lengths
- Lance Armstrong with the yellow jersey (God damn French)
- The Miracle on Ice
- Jim Valvano running around like a chicken with its head off after NC State upset Phi Slamma Jamma (rest in peace Jimmy)
- Villanova Wildcats upsetting Georgetown Hoyas
- Jim McMahon getting knocked the F out against Green Bay
- First Bronco home game
- Watching Anna "What a" Kournikova bounce seductively in a white mini skirt
- A hot dog at Yankee Stadium
- A micro brew at Coors Field...followed by three hours of bad baseball
- Meeting Peter Forsberg, who's the nicest guy, BTW
- No annoying chicks with annoying questions
- Mike Tyson getting his face beat in by some journeyman
- John Rocker getting crushed in the minors
- Randy Moss running a deep pattern
- Marvin Harrison catching a TD
- Jerry Rice working harder than everyone
- Michael Jordan switching hands in mid air and making the lay-up
- John Stephen Akhwari finishing the marathon in the 1968 Olympics. When asked why he didn’t just quit after falling and dislocating his knee Akhwari responded, “My country did not send me 7000 miles away to start the race. They sent me 7000 miles to finish it.”
- Jack Nicklas winning the 1986 Masters at the age of 46
- Sugar Ray Leonard humbling Roberto Duran in the “No Mas” Fight
- Muhammed Ali standing over George Foreman after knocking him to the canvas, the famous “Rumble in the Jungle”
- Listening to the silky smooth Vin Scully broadcast a baseball game
- Hearing the crowd groan after Steve Atwater knocked Christian Okoye into next week on Monday Night Football (I was at the game and I still get goosebumps watching that hit)
- Watching Barry Sanders dart around like a scared rabbit
- Al Michaels’ call as the clock wound down on the Miracle on Ice…”Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
- John Madden diagramming a play and going “Boom!”
- Albert Pujols smashing a home run out of Busch Stadium
- Charlie Steiner losing it and laughing for five minutes straight on Sportscenter
- Ricky Waters crying at the national anthem the first game after 9-11
- Lawrence Taylor hunting down quarterbacks.
- Cal Ripken and 2131.
- Lou Gehrig giving his speech at Yankee Stadium.
- Willie Mays making the over-the-shoulder basket catch in deep center field
- Tom Brady's humility. He gave up an opportunity to demand $10 million per year for the betterment of the Patriots. That's a man.
- Boston Red Sox beating the hated Yankees and sweeping the Cards to shake off 86 years of Ruth's curse.
- That 75 yard Hail Mary from Kordell Stewart to Michael Westbrook that broke the hearts of 103,000 at Michigan Stadium.
- John Elway getting pin-wheeled on 3rd & 6 that gave the Broncos the adrenaline boost needed to beat Green Bay in Super Bowl XXXII.
- Doug Flutie’s last second heave that beat Miami.
- Turner Gill and his incomplete pass that got batted down by Miami to give the ‘Canes the national title in 1983
- Watching CU take the field behind a real buffalo
- Bobby Thompson’s “Shot heard around the world”
- The US making it to the final eight in the 2002 World Cup
- Watching Pele
- Jesse Owens taking Hitler’s “Aryan superiority” myth and blowing it out of the water
- In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler demanded every country dip their flag as they passed by the Fuhrer…the only country that refused was the United States of America
- Jackie Robinson breaking down the color barrier in baseball
- Ronnie Lott cutting a path of destruction through opposing receivers
- Jim Everett jumping across the table to shove Jim Rome…he so had it coming
- Shannon Sharpe taunting the late Derrick Thomas so bad that Thomas eventually lost it and got ejected
- Nobody could talk smack like Muhammad Ali
- University of Denver Pioneers winning back-to-back NCAA titles in hockey…I went to law school at DU
- Northern Colorado winning back-to-back Div. II titles in football…I did my undergrad work at UNC
- Michael Johnson obliterating the record in the 200m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
- Carl Lewis winning four gold medals at the 1984 Olympics in LA
- Joe Lewis pummeling Max Schmelling, knocking him out in 124 seconds
- Josh Gibson…still the only man to hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium
- Danica Patrick finishing fourth in her first Indy 500
- Watching grown men cry when they win a kids’ game
- Jason McElwain hitting six 3’s in his final high school basketball game…he’s autistic
- Joe Namath and the “Guarantee”
- Knowing that if Wayne Gretzky had a phobia of shooting the puck he’d still be the leading scorer in NHL history
- Johnny Vander Meer pitching 18 no-hit innings in 1938, the greatest single pitching performance ever and perhaps the most unbreakable feat in sports…he was only 22
- Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series
- Arthur Ashe and his Wimbledon tennis title…maybe the classiest athlete to ever walk the planet
- Magic Johnson’s smile
- Brett Favre and the sheer joy with which he plays football
- Mark Spitz and seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics
- Maradona and the infamous “Hand of God” goal, and a brilliant second score that beat England in the ’86 World Cup
- Gale Sayers scoring six touchdowns…in one game
- Bob Beamon shattering the world record in the long jump by nearly two feet
- Derek Redmond blowing out his hamstring in the 400m at the Barcelona Olympics…he refused to quit and started hopping towards the finish line. His father rushed from the stands to help his boy cross the line, a moment that will reduce you to tears.
Date
Fri 06/09/06, 10:07 am EST
