# Your greatest sports stories thread

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 16, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-sports-stories-thread/961168 "2022-03-16T08:04:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-sports-stories-thread/961168/41 "2022-04-16T14:12:01Z")

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First of all, the USSR was by far the greatest “amateur” hockey team at the time and we were playing with college students so for a fair comparison you would have to compare Team USA to a team taken from college basketball players. It was also a time where the USSR was our sworn enemy and at a time where (as I remember it) it was almost embarrassing to be an American. We had allowed Iran to take our embassy hostage. We we suffering from stagflation. We had just gotten through the Nixon debacle and were being led by Jimmy Carter. So the closest comparison I could think of is if a collection of North Korean college basketball players were to beat Team USA.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-sports-stories-thread/961168/42 "2022-04-16T15:27:49Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Senna, sucker-punching Irvine, because he could get away with it. What a putz.

Here’s an article:

> **[When Senna punched Irvine](https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/25256869/when-ayrton-senna-punched-eddie-irvine)**
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> Max Verstappen's scuffle with Esteban Ocon bears some striking similarities with the time Ayrton Senna punched Eddie Irvine at Suzuka in 1993.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-sports-stories-thread/961168/43 "2022-04-17T03:27:40Z")

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The 1967 NFL Championship Game, a.k.a. “The Ice Bowl,” and Bart Starr’s drive for the winning touchdown for the Packers, in brutally cold conditions.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J1YgxWWBt3o/hqdefault.jpg "The endzone was 68 yards away") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1YgxWWBt3o)

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**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-sports-stories-thread/961168/44 "2022-04-17T04:40:34Z")

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Obviously for me…

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_XmhBaUdges/maxresdefault.jpg ""You Want Philly Philly?" 👀 The CRAZIEST Eagles Play From Super Bowl LII") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmhBaUdges)

I was yelling, “what kind of \*\*\*\* play is this, green morons?!?!?” 😁

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**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-sports-stories-thread/961168/45 "2022-04-17T05:43:18Z")

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Sorry for shitty link! Much better here. We get to hear Chris going off about onside kicks.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I-tX36j4REg/maxresdefault.jpg "Eagles "Philly Special" Trick Play In Super Bowl 52") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-tX36j4REg)

There’s also this: (originally from Chi-town, so still my no. 1)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HOp8w2PgHlM/maxresdefault.jpg "Cubs win World Series with Game 7 win") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOp8w2PgHlM)

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