Cruising around the interweb today I stumbled upon this list of the Top 10 Miracles Of All Time in sports at Off Wing Opinion. The parenthetical comments are Eric at that site's thoughts on the list compiled by another site called Beliefnet.
10. Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World
9. NC State Beats the Buzzer (not 'Nova over G'Town?)
8. Secretariat: The Miracle Horse (Until Barbaro rises from the dead)
7. Kerri Strug Vaults to Gold (How about Mark Spitz?)
6. Jack Nicklaus Masters the Masters
5. Cinderella Man (Buster Douglas?)
4. Doug Flutie's Hail Mary
3. The Immaculate Reception
2. Red Sox Reverse the Curse
1. The Miracle on Ice (Got that right)
I think they are way off in all their choices. These are all great performances, although some are a little too extended to be considered miracles, but they really aren't as miraculous as the 10 I came up with here.
10. (Tie) The home runs of Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone to beat the Red Sox. The annals of baseball history are chockful of classic home runs - Thompson's, Joe Carter, Bill Mazeroski, Kirby Puckett - but never have as brutal a pair of assclowns won games so big as the ones in 1978 and 2003, respectively.
9. O.J. Simpson, not guilty. For those who think that God's the only one behind a miracle, keep guessing.
8. The Dunk - I love John Starks. Cheered for him when he was feasting and cried for him when he was in the throes of a famine but this singular play is so good and came at such a fortuitous moment that I have to believe it was divinely inspired. My fried Gerard at Can't Stop The Bleeding calls it the Greatest Moment in Mankind's History. You have no argument from me.
7. The professional basketball career of Mark Madsen.
6. The professional football career of John Navarre.
5. Jeff Hostetler, Super Bowl winning quarterback.
4. Mike Tyson's continuing career as a living, breathing punchline as opposed to the dead cautionary tale he surely should have been five times over by now.
3. If you're a believer in God, you have to take a look at Willie McGee and just assume that the man upstairs has not only a sense of humor but a sense of fairness that he gave with one hand while taking away with the other. If you're not a believer then you have to doubt your atheism a little bit. This is a miracle for sports fans, by the way, because there's no doubt that we all get more ass than an actual baseball MVP and for that I'm inclined to tithe.
2. Daniel LaRusso's run through the 1984 All-Valley 18 and Under Karate Tournament.
WTF?!?!?!?! You think you get more ass than Willie McGee? Are you Wilt Chamberlain?
Posted by: Jay | February 21, 2007 at 12:17 PM
WTF?!?!?!?! You think you get more ass than Willie McGee? Are you Wilt Chamberlain?
Posted by: Jay | February 21, 2007 at 12:18 PM