You need to look up “Miracle on Ice”... without doubt the greatest underdog story of all time. I wouldn’t consider myself a hockey fan... but that was an impossible story.
11:49 that was the Miracle on ice, USA vs Russia in the Olympics during the height of the Cold War. Russia heavily favorites to win gold losing to the USA
15:35 That is Lou Gehrig. Baseball and Yankee legend. He died of Amyotrophic Llateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 1941 (I had an aunt who died of the same disease). That's his farewell speech at Yankee stadium. One of the most famous speeches ever and is still quoted to this day. He was only 37 when he died.
@@kieranbenson9877 "success" is not measured in sports and money income. More "successful" rich people need to help charities and church more. And no I don't mean Kobe it's unfortunate what happened but hopefully he rests in Heaven.
At 11:55 it was the Olympics in 1980 in the middle of the cold war where the US hockey team full of college kids beat the greatest hockey team ever in the Soviet Union who was unstoppable and a juggernaut on the ice. Look up the movie miracle. The story is just incredible. That US team went on to win the gold and is more than likely the greatest upset ever and the only imo that rivals it is mike Tyson losing.
Tyson match was like 50 to 1 odds he loses if anyone had given the US team those odds in 1980 they would need to have their head examined. The US team had played the USSR like a week before the olympics and lost like 11-2 they were being toyed with
@@brianhalligan9268 I get that. I just think that mike Tyson losing was a major upset. It didnt have political implications but they had the fight in japan bc no one cared about it until Tyson lost.
Lmao the fact he has no clue what the Miracle On Ice is is unbelievable to me, but I guess that US history not UK history. 12:00, US college kids beat the Russians in the olympics
I thought the same thing. This was the first time him being a Brit really showed up. He doesn't know Miracle on Ice. But it makes sense he wouldn't know.
17:55 requires a little historical context. That was the first pro sports game played in New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina destroyed the city. That was a huge moment for the people of that city, an announcement to the world that they were back.
At 5:26 the team who hit the shot was unranked, and the opposing team was the number 1 team in the country which makes the shot even more crazy because it was to win the game
17:55 That game was the first game back in the New Orleans Saints stadium after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their old one. That was the first touchdown in that stadium and they now have a statue of that moment.
Man, that play pisses me off. Has to be the worst safety play in the history of football. All he has to do is tackle him in bounds and Saints win. He's early to the tackle, puts his head down and isn't even watching the tackle, he misses by a yard, and takes out the next closest defender. That is a failure on the Saints way more than an accomplishment by the Vikings.
This is my video! Great reaction. I’m close to releasing an updated and re-edited version of the same video with new clips as well as captions at the top to add context to each clip. I think that will help a lot of people who want to know what makes each one so great
@@isaacherskovitz3276 I’ve been working hard on it the last few weeks. Hoping to have it done around New Year so I can post it near the 2 year anniversary. Depends on how busy I am, but progress is good so far
12:00 That was the end of the Miracle on Ice in which the USA Olympic team defeated the USSR team 4-3, only three weeks removed from losing to the same team 10-3. The odds were so against the USA, that many call this the greatest upset in world history.
The play at around 9:27 was in the divisional round of the playoffs and it was crazy because their quarterback was a backup and the Saints were heavily favored to win the game
The Lou Gehrig clip “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Really touching. The Yankees honored him. While dying with what was to be known as the Lou Gehrig disease.
The hockey clip where it says “do you believe in miracles” is when the US beat the USSR for the gold medal in the olympics. It’s called the miracle on ice and Disney made a movie on it
I'm crying rn. I'm so proud of these teams and their players but I'm crying because during this Pandemic one thing is missing that brings so much emotion. The fans. They add so much to this
7:53 That is Byron Leftwich playing on a broken leg. He broke it early in the game, went to the hospital for the x-ray, then came back into the game when his team was losing. He couldn't walk, so his linemen had to carry him down field. He was having an amazing season and it was all the more remarkable because his school didn't normally have great players like him. He could have easily just sat out after the injury, but he came back to try and help his team win.
7:51 is so underrated. She hit a homerun and broke her leg rounding a base and the opposing teams players carried her around the rest of the bases so she get the score
10:26 This is actually incredible because Boston College is a small college that is not known for being good at football. They were playing the University of Miami hurricanes and won on a last second play. Doug Flutie was the quarterback and he went on to win the Heisman trophy (the greatest end of season award in college football) and also play in the NFL and CFL
The 2 soccer clips you hadn’t seen are 2 of the greatest US soccer moments. 1) US scores in the final moment vs Algeria at 2010 WC to go through to knockout stage. 2) US women win WC in 1996(?)
Watching your videos is like watching someone open your gift to them on Christmas. Seeing you watch some of the greatest sports moments ever for the first time reminds me of when I watched these moments for the first time. It’s amazing. Thanks for this.
Sports are one of the only things in this world that I am truly passionate about. And these videos always bring me to tears, you can feel the power in these moments. Truly one of a kind feeling to be a part of moments like these
that one with the vikings is called the minneapolis miracle and it was the most insane shit i've ever experienced. i was a freshman in college watching the game in a lecture room using the projector with a bunch of random college kids all in our jerseys and potlucking together, and case keenum threw that pass to stefon diggs and diggs made the run to the endzone. every time i see that clip i get the same heart-stopping, adrenaline-filled feeling as i do the first time. amazing.
You should make a multi part series and react to the 100 best plays of 2019! It’s on MLB’s RU-vid channel. It’s almost an hour long so maybe break it into like 4-5 episodes would be sick. Watching them make diving catches reminds me a lot of goalkeepers in soccer I think you’d get a kick out of it
The one at 12:39 was The Shot Heard 'Round the World, also known as The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff. The New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers had the most bitter rivalry in baseball, and were both considered contenders for the National League championship (the pennant) in 1951. By August 11, the Dodgers had a 13 1/2 game lead over the Giants. At that point, the Giants upped their game, at one point winning 16 straight, and the two teams ended up tied for first place at the end of the season. Under National League rules at the time, they had a three-game playoff to determine the league champion. The Giants won the first game, and the Dodgers won the second. In the third game, the Dodgers led the Giants 4 to 1 in the bottom on the 9th inning. It looked like the Dodgers would win the pennant and advance to the World Series. But the Giants scored a run and got a couple of men on base. With one out, and Bobby Thomson coming to bat, Dodgers manager Chuck Dressen pulled starting pitcher Don Newcombe and put in Ralph Branca. Thomson had hit a home run off Branca in the first game, but Carl Erskine didn't look good during his bullpen warm-ups, so Dressen went with Branca. With the Dodgers leading 4 to 2 and runners on second and third, Branca threw the first pitch to Thomson for a strike. Thomson hit the next pitch over the left field wall, winning the game and the pennant for the Giants. Radio announcer Russ Hodges immortalized the moment with the call, "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" The Giants had come from 13 1/2 games down, and from 3 runs behind in the last inning of the last game, to win the National League championship. It's considered one of the greatest come-from-behind victories in the history of American sports. Sportswriter Red Smith said about it, "Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention." The Giants lost the World Series to the Yankees 4 games to 2. Still, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run is an immortal moment in MLB history.
The catch at 17:01 was when Mark Buehrle was pitching a "Perfect Game". In Major League Baseball, when a pitcher faces 27-batters and records an out for every single one, it's perfect. It's so rare, only 23 people have done it in the history of baseball. 218,400+ baseball games have been played over the last 150 years... only 23 have been perfect. In this clip, what your witnessing is a player entering the game to play center field behind Buehrle in the 9th inning. Dewayne Wise is taking over for another player and literally just stepping onto the field for the first time all day...cold. THEN what looks to be a home run to ruin the no-hitter, the perfect game with only 2 outs left to go to achieve history ...Dewayne leaps over the wall to make an amazing catch to preserve what would end up being one of the only 23 perfect games in history. The stars aligned.
6:36 i'm a fan of the team in green, had the game in the bag and that cause their biggest rivals to win the game on a play where #5 pushed #11 in (technically illegal at that time, but was rarely ever called, now it's not illegal anymore) but that play isn't what makes me salty about that game, earlier that same drive it was 4th and 22, that's what pisses me off about that drive, not the Bush Push 10:10 that hit was on 2 bad legs and he still hit a home run in the championship series (i forget if it's to win the whole thing or keep the Dodgers in it) 17:55 team in white's first home game since hurricane Katrina where the city was devestated
The second one was Kirk Gisbon's walk-off homer in game 1 of the '88 World Series. Not only did that hit totally demoralize the A's, but it was also Gibby's only at-bat in the series.
You need to do some videos on great soccer moments for all us Yanks. Soccer still isn't that popular here in the states, it'd be cool to see you explain it and some of the great moments or players in the sport.
@@samuelpinder1215 I wish they had shown a longer clip on Leicester winning the Premier League. Despite being an American and witnessing many great moments in U.S. sports, I’ve never seen a more beautiful, improbable underdog story in all of sports. Believe it or not, even though European football (soccer) doesn’t get a lot of press in America, Leicester City winning the league was the top story on ESPN Sportscenter when it happened. 5000/1 odds.
Those type of videos are really just the best because it shows that every sport can be interesting to watch and just makes u want to watch other sports
It wasn't necessarily that they "weren't so good." It was more that they were all college students taking on the best team in the world that was completely made up by professionals. It would be the equivalent of a college football team beating the Patriots when they were winning back to back to back to back Super Bowls.
16:58 For those who don’t understand the context of this one, DeWayne Wise robbed the opposing batter, Gabe Kapler, of a home run in the ninth inning to keep Mark Buehrle’s perfect game bid alive. A perfect game is a game where one side never so much as reaches first base safely for any reason. This game ended up being the 18th perfect game in MLB history; to date, there have only been 23.
So many crazy moments in this that deserve context. One of my favorites is Kerri Strug, the Olympian at 9:00, needed this last vault to win gold and she did it on an ankle with two torn ligaments which is why she's holding her leg up at the end.
I saw that moment live and I freaked out, needless to say. Here's hoping she'll be the one to light the Olympic Cauldron in 2028 because that moment was so miraculous.
The hockey moment you missed right after the 12 mark is known as the Miracle on Ice. US college kids beat arguably the best USSR professional team ever assembled. Great movie too
At 10:19 that homer is in the video because that is Kirk Gibson, who pinch hit (basically substitutes for another player) for the dodgers in the bottom of the ninth inning in game 1 of the 1988 World Series. He pinch hit with moderate injuries to both of his legs. The pitcher was eckersley, one of the greatest closers of the time for the athletics. After hobbling to the plate and weakly swinging for the first 2 pitches he hit one over the right field wall for a home run, limping around the bases
That series winning shot by Lillard!!!! It's the greatest sports moment I've ever watched live. I'm a trailblazers fan so it made it that much sweeter :))
There you have it folks. A true sports fan. No bullshit. No "this sport is superior to this other one". Just pure joy, excitement and appreciation of the entertainment from professional athletes regardless of creed. Athleticism in the top echelon is just exciting.
As a Pitt Panther fan, the Kemba step back was tough to watch. Those were some of the best teams in college basketball in the 2000s and the furthest they got to was the Elite Eight. Still can’t get over that.
Look up Mets boo chase utley it’s the craziest scene you will ever see I was a the stadium that day and there were things flying everywhere all to boo one player 😂
This made me cry.....listen to the crowd....no more crowds....the people running out on the the field or court....no more....we might never have sports the same way
It’s also funny cos that guy Almunia is known as a trash keeper, when he played for Arsenal especially he was considered one of the worst top level goalkeepers in the world.
4:02 that is Barry Bonds breaking the world record of most career home runs. The record being 756 in total. *hint hint* please do a reaction to Barry Bonds. Also 12:38 the Giants winning the pennant in 1951 then seeing Travis Ishikawa's walk-off home run is emotional af.
San Franciscan and massive Giants fan here who was happy to see those moments included here. One thing of note, however. Barry Bonds (the GOAT), actually does not hold the world record for most home runs in a career. He holds the Major League Baseball record. The world record is by Taiwanese-Japanese ballplayer Sadaharu Oh, who hit 863 during his career in Japan's NPB (their majors). Obviously, just about every baseball fan in the world would consider Bonds' record more prestigious (let's just ignore the steroid stuff haha), but nobody's ever hit more than Oh.
That football clip with the dropped snap is one of the best moments I have witnessed. Michigan State was down with no hope of winning and then that happened.
this is a beautiful video. The greatest athletic feat I've ever seen is at the 2000 Pride Fighting Championships Grand Prix. Kazushi Sakuraba fought undefeated Royce Gracie for 90 minutes, handing him his first loss. He then went on the fight the top heavyweight in the world in Igor Vovchachyn. Outweighed by 50lbs he went to a Draw in regulation. He had to retire before an overtime round due to exhaustion, having fought a total of 105 minutes in one night.
You need to react to Miracle On ice! The greatest underdog story of all time. A group of college kids that had been playing together for a month or two beating the greatest hockey team on the planet. The Soviets. The soviet team had beaten then NHL all stars previously that year by A LOT. They were considered the greatest hockey team ever. And a group of randomly assembled college kids beat them in the Olympics. That’s why you heard the announcer say “do you believe in miracles?!”
