Greatest Moment In Sports?

[timfitz63]

If we hinged great sports moments on whether or not the team went on to win a championship, we'd have to eliminate probably 90% of them...

I'm good with that...

Remember:  the American ice hockey team's defeat of the Soviets in Lake Placid wasn't the gold medal game; that followed, and my recollection of the country's attitude about the gold medal game was that it was almost post-climactic...  Even if the Americans hadn't won gold at the 1980 Olympics (after beating the Russians, they were guaranteed at least silver), the "Miracle On Ice" would still have still been great...

I am of the opinion that, while it would've been a great moment, it wouldn't have been one of the greatest. The fact that they went on to win the gold medal is what makes it one of the greatest moments. It would always be the "miracle on ice", and rightly so, but it wouldn't have been one of the greatest moments in sports.

Had the Steelers gone on to win the Super Bowl in '72, Harris' catch could've been pointed to as a seminal moment in their march to the Lombardi Trophy. As it stands, it was just a great catch...

Well, it just seems like we've got different standards for defining a great sports moment.  Like guitar tone, it's all subjective, I suppose...

[mgap]

Well, it just seems like we've got different standards for defining a great sports moment.  Like guitar tone, it's all subjective, I suppose...

And with keeping that in mind: Thirty-one years ago this last July, American Greg LeMond won the closest Tour de France in history, completing the 2,000-mile race with a victory margin of only eight seconds. To me, LeMond and his eight seconds(which he gained on the last day) represent the greatest comeback in the modern history of American sports.

[donlyn]

Down by 25 with little over a quarter to play is remarkable in any football game, let alone the Super Bowl where you are playing the other best team in the NFL. Also the previous largest comeback in NFL Super Bowl history was 10 points by the Patriots a couple of years before against Seattle. SB LI also featured 2 successful 2 point conversions in that 4th quarter to tie it and the first overtime in SB history to win it, scoring another touchdown. Amazing even for Brady.

And somewhere before the comeback, there is on tape one Atlanta player telling another, "That's Tom Brady over there."

Not commonplace at all. And RB James White was the MVP of that game, not Brady. It's a team sport.

15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.   

If Ryan Leaf had orchestrated that comeback, it would've been amazing.

With Brady, it was almost expected...

Well Brady didn't do so well against the Bears last week with his latest 4th quarte comeback attempt, and all he had to do was get his team into field goal range in that one.

And nobody else ever came back from 25 points down in any super bowl. Patriots have the 2 largest 4th quarter comebacks in SB history (the second was 10 points), but they also failed at 4th quarter Super Bowl comebacks three times too. Nothing is automatic.

Besides, Belichick is a better coach than Brady is a player. It's a team sport.

And the score alone is a successful topic for it's own search on the 'net. Says a lot.

So,

28 - 3

leads the pack in my book.

[TrampsLikeUs]

While not in the top 10, (yet) , game 4 of this years World Series game was pretty remarkable.  When you compare team salaries, one of lowest in baseball has come a long way !!! 

GO RAYS

[Shutterbug]

While not in the top 10, (yet) , game 4 of this years World Series game was pretty remarkable.  When you compare team salaries, one of lowest in baseball has come a long way !!! 

GO RAYS

I didn't even realize the World Series was being held. Seems like a waste of time, given what happened to the season...

[donlyn]

Arozarena is having an incredible post season for the Rays. Hit his 10th home run of the post season tonight.