With all the different sports available to us, and with all the years of sporting memories behind us, it would be impossible to pick a list of the greatest moments in sport history. But certainly the moments listed here have to live up to some of the best. You can make your own decision.
Probably one of the most emotional, if not greatest, moments in the history of the sport was on July 4, 1949, when Lou Gehrig bid farewell to the world of baseball. Not long before this date, Gehrig had been diagnosed with a terrible disease that would later bear his name. In his speech he made the famous phrase: “Today I consider myself the luckiest man in the world.” There was not a dry eye in the stadium that day and Gehrig’s streak of 2,130 games had come to an end.
Moving on to the world of golf, a gentleman by the name of Tiger Woods became the youngest Masters champion of all time. The date was April 13, 1997. But Woods didn’t just win the Masters. He absolutely dominated it with a score of 18 in 4 rounds below par. He was 12 strokes ahead of the person closest to him. Woods was only 21 at the time. Millions of people around the world watched this historic event as it happened.
If you’re a soccer fan, there probably wasn’t a better time than January 12, 1969. On this day, Joe Namath, one of the most striking quarterbacks in the game’s history, led his underdog Jets to an incredible win over the highly favored Baltimore Colts, a team that had the best defense in football. The Colts had only lost one game all year, but that didn’t stop Namath and the Jets, who won 16-7 even though they weren’t favorites at 18 points.
For those of you who are in the Olympics, there have been many great Olympic moments. Probably one of the biggest was on October 18, 1968, when a guy named Bob Beamon broke the world record for the long jump. The 24-year-old from New York broke the record by two feet, which was absolutely amazing. The previous record was 27 feet 4 3/4 inches. Beamon jumped an astonishing 29 feet 2 1/2 inches.
But probably the greatest sporting moment of all time was February 22, 2003. On this date the impossible happened. It was the Winter Olympics and it was ice hockey. The Soviet Union had always dominated this sport and this year they were an absolute powerhouse. Meanwhile, the United States had assembled a group of teenage fans. These guys weren’t even supposed to make the medal round, let alone do what they did. They defeated the Soviet Union even before the final and then beat Finland to take the gold medal. But it was his defeat of the unbeatable Soviet Union on this date that shocked the world of sport and makes it the greatest moment in the history of sport.
