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[lingiii]

This is always the one I think of.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

This is always the one I think of.

And it is what, exactly?

 

[talisayNon]

God Fearing man.

Shunned by his teammates. Judas'

 

[Berto]

Last time the two great rivals shared a podium, with a handshake.

 

[HylianTom]

Some more shameless fanboyism and life-longer team promotion:

September 25, 2006, the first game back in the Superdome post-Katrina (and I was there!): Steve Gleason blocks a Falcons punt by kicker Michael Koenen to be recovered by Curtis DeLoach in the endzone for a touchdown. When I tell you I have never heard a louder more incensed crowd in all my life. Reverberates in my mind to this day. The use as a symbol of New Orleans' rebirth is no joke, and I can personally attest to that. It's become even more poignant, since Gleason has since been diagnosed with ALS. Gleason has been a staunch supporter of the city and ALS research and care over the past few years, and just this past season he was commemorated with this statue on the outside Superdome plaza.

EDIT: And a shot of Gleason himself 2 years ago after first learning of his diagnosis and announcing it to the city at large. The game that day was played in his honor.

And of course:

Tracy Porter intercepts Peyton Manning (brilliantly caught on his ass in the background) for a 72-yard touchdown in the 3rd quarter of Superbowl XLIV to essentially seal the win in the Saints' first ever appearance in the Superbowl in the franchise's 44 year history. There were tears in the eyes of friends and family members who'd all gathered at my parents' place to watch this game. Afterwards we just hopped in the car and drove around the city, hanging out the windows and honking like mad on our way to the black and gold shop to get our New Orleans Saints Superbowl Champions shirts, caps, fotballs, cups, and whatever else we had to to convince ourselves that what we just saw had really happened. Downtown on Canal St. and in the quarter was just sheer pandemonium (and yet not a single fatality, injury, or even arrest that night). Not a single dry eye in the place. I've never seen a city so uniformly overjoyed. I imagine it must have been what V-Day was like back in the day.

Thank you for making me cry again over this.

I'll never forget where I was on each of those events. I was in a bar in Austin for Gleason's blocked kick. The Shoal Creek Saloon is/was a bar where New Orleaneans gathered each week to watch football and enjoy our home's food. Everyone there was crying. I'd never seen anything like it.

I'll also never forget seeing my parents cry when Porter pulled off that beauty. Mom fell to her knees. Dad covered his face, weeping, unable to believe that he was going to live to see IT happen. Sister was freaked at seeing her parents in this condition. As soon as the game ended, Mom insisted that I take the top off of the Wrangler and drive her around town, screaming and singing at people on the streets. You're right - it was as though we'd won a war. The sheer bliss and euphoria.. I couldn't believe my eyes.

These nights, along with the night of the NFC Championship, will have me smiling on my deathbed. As far as sports are concerned, my soul is at peace.

 

[British Monsoon]

The 1923 FA Cup Final, known as 'The White Horse Final', where an estimated 300,000 people crammed into and around the old Wembley stadium, over double the stadium's official capacity;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UORQK_hRlhM

 

[biggersmaller]

From the 1991 World Series.

Top: The famous Hrbek/Gant (alleged) push.

Bottom: Dan Gladden and Gregg Olson.

 

[mr2xxx]

Was Clyde ever young? He has always looked like a 40 y/o man, even when he got drafted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K161NCLHOO4

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

Thread soundtrack!

Bill Conti - Going the Distance

Round Up - NFL Films

John Fogerty - Centerfield

 

[alphaNoid]

The only iconic image I can think of is Jerry West.

I could try to list a few other memorable sports images, but none of them smell iconic like JW.

 

[Jimothy]

And it is what, exactly?

Are you serious?

 

[legend166]

Leo Barry takes the game saving mark with seconds remaining to win the AFL Grand Final for the Sydney Swans, breaking a 72 year drought.

 

[SteeloDMZ]

 

[Material541]

After defending his UFC featherweight title by defeating Chad Mendes by KO, Jose Aldo celebrates his victory by running out of the cage and into the crowd. The fight was held in Aldo's home country of Brazil -- his first fight there in almost five years.

 

[FINE-LINE]

Ty Cobb.

No special story behind the picture, he was just the dirtiest/best man to play the game.


John McGraw

Again not a really special picture. Though kind of isolating, considering how hard he was.
"His very walk across the field in a hostile town was a challenge to the multitude." - Sportswriter Grantland Rice
Bernard Malamud said that John was the definition of the true American; he had an incredible will and worked to put those around him under his will. (Ken Burns: Baseball)

 

[TheKaeptain]

I think butt fumble is pretty iconic.

For the haters

Man... MAN

 

[arglebargle]

Every thread like this, which I find very interesting, is filled with people who post images without any context what so ever.

It angers me.

Please post explanations with the photos people.

since the mods and evilore are in the mood to post about what is and isnt bannable, i cant believe they arent taking any action on this. any thread that has a focus on pics, gaming or OT, half of the posters assume everyone knows exactly everything they know. its infuriating.

on topic. i have never been a huge hockey fan, but i played a ton when i was a kid. and as a new yorker, i was swept up in the rangers stanley cup run in 1994. on top of that, i think this is just a really cool image:

mike richter stopping a penalty shot by pavel bure in game 4 of the 1994 stanley cup finals, which the rangers went on to win in 7 games.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Are you serious?

It's some guy winning a medal in something.

I could do a reverse image lookup if I wanted to find out. Or the person who posted it could have included a one sentence blurb.

 

[Messi]

little man Messi heads the ball to score in the 2009 cl final.

Eric Abidal comes back from liver cancer to play in champions league final. Gets to lift the trophy first

Lionel Messi wins the Balon b'Or 4 times in a row.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

I suggest everybody takes note of the last few pages.

 

[Wingfan19]

I can't find a pic of him doing the arm pump after sinking the putt to win the Masters during the 97 Masters, so this is the next closest iconic image of Tiger...

EDIT - I guess this is the closest I could find. I was hoping there was a better angle, more to the side.

 

[Cyan]

Kevin Moen of Cal just before crushing the trombone player from the Stanford Band.

 

[Fatalah]

Moments after winning their first World Series since the days of Reggie Jackson, Red Sox Hall of Famer, then Yankees third baseman Wade Boggs takes a ride around the old Yankee Stadium. Interesting side note: Boggs was fined by NYC for this act.

Infamous Yankees owner George Steinbrenner quarrels with Yankees manager Billy Martin, who George hired and fired a many times during his tenure. Steinbrenner is seen by some as a real life Mr. Burns.

The two best hitters of their time, possibly ever. Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. A healthy rivalry.

Being the most popular athlete in America has its perks. Joe DiMaggio and his wife Marilyn Monroe.

"The helmet catch". The underdog Giants would go on to defeat the undefeated Patriots in SuperBowl 42.

Yankees fan whips up paper banner minutes after midnight November 1st, as Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter wins the game. In 2001, the season was behind schedule due to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Jets QB "Broadway" Joe Namath the week before the SuperBowl in which he guaranteed victory. He was guarenteeing SuperBowl wins before it was cool.

For the pro-wrestling fans out there -- the original "clique" gang from the 1990's.

 

[Threi]

Jamaica's 1,2,3 finish last olympics. So glad I was able to see something like that in my lifetime. It's already pretty damn iconic (well to people with Jamacian backgrounds that is)

 

[Kacar]

Damn, this cuts deep. Probably the worst day of my life.

 

[neorej]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5iZWDzOrU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Twix]

Picture of Rashidi Yekini's iconic celebration after scoring Nigeria's first-ever goal in a World Cup (Nigeria vs. Bulgaria, World Cup 1994 in the USA)

RIP

 

[SouthernDragon]

None of those images mean anything

Talking bout fatlahtas post

 

[erlim]

 

[erlim]

 

[Ninja Scooter]

(Hopefully) The start of a great career

And the end of one.

 

[FO-totality]

[Where's the beef?]

[WHERE IS THE BEEF]

[BEEFFFF]

Man, I'm loving all this context.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Valentino Rossi passing Casey Stoner on the corkscrew at Laguna Seca 2008

Rossi celebrating his 100 wins

 

[GraveRobberX]

Valentino Rossi passing Casey Stoner on the corkscrew at Laguna Seca 2008

Isn't that out of bounds area?

Also some people even after stern mod posts and the graveyard that laid waste to them still are doing it

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Erlim. What are you doing.

 

[Eric Hall]

Dan Henderson dropping an H-Bomb on Michael Bisping at UFC 100

Anderson Silva submitting Chael Sonnen after getting dominated for 4 and a 1/2 rounds

 

[subrock]

The moment that Andy Schleck lost any and every chance of winning the Tour de France. Heart breaking image where it's just a technical that is all on him for wanting to lose his guard and ride without any way of stopping his chain from flipping off with out a blocker. He blew it in his confidence, his mechanic blew it in the smallest of adjustments.

Just one of those moments that makes cycling so iconic when it comes to those seconds

Yep. On board with both of these

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Isn't that out of bounds area?

Stoner had harsh words after that, Rossi gave the reason of "I saw an opening, I took it because I'm racing". Though Stoner's performance was also spectacular. I mean, he crashed, got the bike up and still got second place. They were like 30 something seconds up the field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY9mrKR5SkA

 

[GraveRobberX]

The start that was the XFL (Vince McMahon of WWE, American Football League)
Players can wear there name or nickname, there choice
Most stand out version of nick on XFL, also made English teachers cry afoul!

New York City Knicks vs Chicago Bulls. Heated rivalary in the early '90's
Each players on both sides tried to posterize the other just for bragging rights

I forget this one, I know it's Kobe, but I don't understand how this is Iconic moment in sports?

The only man to ever score 100 in the NBA, Wilt Chamberlin

Brittney Griner, NCAA Women's College Basketball Player... Dunking over the competition...

How Fucking hard was that?

Took me 3 minutes to write that, and that's all from my sports knowledge I have in my memory banks

 

[Cat Party]

Derek Redmond

1992 Summer Olympics
However, he was in good form by the time of the Barcelona Olympics. He posted the fastest time of the first round, and went on to win his quarter-final. In the semi-final, Redmond started well, but in the back straight about 250 metres from the finish, his hamstring snapped. He hobbled to a halt, and then fell to the ground in pain. Stretcher bearers made their way over to him, but Redmond decided he wanted to finish the race. He began to hobble along the track. He was soon joined on the track by his father, Jim Redmond, who barged past security and on to the track to get to his son. Jim and Derek completed the lap of the track together, with Derek leaning on his father's shoulder for support. As they crossed the finish line, the crowd of 65,000 spectators rose to give Derek a standing ovation.

Vladimir Konstantinov

In 1997:

In 1998:

Following a private party on June 13, 1997 celebrating the Red Wings’ Stanley Cup triumph, Konstantinov, along with Russian hockey legend Viacheslav Fetisov, and team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov hired a limousine to drive them home. The driver, Richard Gnida, whose license was suspended at the time for drunk driving, lost control of the limousine and hit a tree on the median of Woodward Avenue, in Birmingham, Michigan. Konstantinov spent several weeks in a coma before finally pulling through. He also suffered from serious head injuries and paralysis while Fetisov escaped with relatively minor injuries and was able to play the following season. Mnatsakanov sustained heavy head injuries and also spent some time in a coma; he has had a considerably more difficult recovery.

After the Red Wings successfully retained the Stanley Cup in 1998, Konstantinov was wheeled onto the ice, surrounded by his teammates, to celebrate the win. Throughout the playoffs the Red Wings' catchphrase was the single word, "Believe," and throughout the 1997–98 season the Red Wings wore a patch, with the initials of Konstantinov and Mnatsakanov featured prominently, with the word "Believe" written in both English and Russian.

 

[Peru]

It's some guy winning a medal in something.

I could do a reverse image lookup if I wanted to find out. Or the person who posted it could have included a one sentence blurb.

Rules are rules but not knowing that photo is weird.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Jordan dunking on the Knicks. Signature tongue out.

 

[TrAcEr_x90]

The greatest comeback in sports history.

 

[Branduil]

Heat lose game 2.

 

[GRW810]

Rules are rules but not knowing that photo is weird.

It's not about how famous a photo is. It's about the post contributor actually making a worthwhile contribution rather than just copy and paste an image URL.

It's amazing that even after a bunch of readers and even a mod tell people to post context, posters like Erlim and Fatalah have just strolled in here, dumped a photo and left.

I'm English, NBA isn't huge over here. I wouldn't know the story behind an iconic basketball photo if it was obvious to 99% of the world population. This scenario will apply to very single photo posted to some degree. One tiny little sentence at the very least - maybe 30 precious seconds of the contributor's time - remedies that.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Rules are rules but not knowing that photo is weird.

There are people now, who have grown up recently that don't know sports history of the '80's let alone the '60's-''70's Olympics

Most of them when they grow up will sooner or later will be met with these Iconic pictures is some way or form

Until then, a nice little blurb, hell a wiki link can do wonders

 

[jambo]

The greatest comeback in sports history.

Who and in what sport?

 

[Laughing Banana]

Each and every one of this is iconic to me.

Federer winning Grand Slams.

 

[Grenouille]

The greatest comeback in sports history.

Reminds me of

(Nogueira vs Cro Cop)

Another legendary last minute submission. Except sonnen has got nothing on prime cro cop.

Who and in what sport?

Anderson Silva vs Sonnen. UFC. Silva had a broken rib and was 2 minutes (i think) away from his first defeat in the UFC. Sonnen had been mocking Anderson Silva's jiu jitsu trainers before the fight, so finishing him off that way made it even more special.

 

[GRW810]

Each and every one of this is iconic to me.

Federer winning Grand Slams.

That's an impressive haul. Best tennis player ever? I think so. Guy is remarkable. He's still reaching semi-finals and finals at an age many tennis players have already slipped way down the rankings or even retired.