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In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 2:36 PM
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There are many.
I still get chills watching Secretariat’s final race where he totally demolished the field.
Another is Tom Watson’s almost win of the Open Championship at the age of 65 (I think.)
Love to hear others.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 2:41 PM
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I'll say it was me getting to 2nd base with Jenny Mae in 1961.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 2:45 PM
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Our 2016 Football Natty..... I was on cloud nine for a year🤣
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
May 7, 2024, 7:58 AM
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My cousin, was buried in his favorite Clemson shirt and his 2016 Natty Hat!
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 2:44 PM
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The "Miracle on Ice" has got to be up there.
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College football national championship. 2016 was great in that we
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May 6, 2024, 2:48 PM
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climbed the mountain. The 2018 beatdown against “the best team ever” was #1 in my opinion.
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Joey Chestnut eating 76 hot dogs
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May 6, 2024, 2:50 PM
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Without mustard or catsup
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I think it's his eating 76 soggy hot dog.buns dipped in water ***
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Oculus Spirit [81646]
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I'll have to say the 2016 national championship in football.
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While I was alive back in 81, I did not yet follow Clemson very closely. In 2016, I remember thinking that I may never see another one but that sure was a lot of fun. Then we did it again just 2 years later.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 2:57 PM
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Wes Unseld playing on 1 leg in the NBA finals in I think 1978.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 3:04 PM
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Nolan Ryan threw 235 pitches over 13 innings against the Red Sox. He struck out 19, gave up 3 runs.
Threw a no hitter at 43 and his 7th at age 44.
Freak.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 4:00 PM
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Could you imagine that today? Talking heads would be calling for firings and prison sentences for abuse of a pitcher. Nolan is still one of my all time favorites. I wish I wasn’t a kid when he pitched so I could appreciate it more.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 3:05 PM
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I would go with Joan Benoit winning the first Olympic "Ladies" Marathon.
This girl Julie Moss also got my attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVKqFAPdjIA
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IMO : Triple crown in baseball
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Batting average, home runs, and RBI best in baseball.
It is not the hardest accomplishment in sports, but it is my favorite and very rare.
In my nearly 50 years it has happened one time. 2012 - Miguel Cabrera
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 3:20 PM
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There are several that come to mind:
Bulls, 6 titles in 8 years
UCLA NCAA basketball run
Nolan Ryan pitching elite into his 40s
Michael Phelps 8 gold medals in one Olympics
Just some that come to mind
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 5:19 PM
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Good list.
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Cy Young 511 wins..Cal Ripken 2,632 straight games played.
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May 6, 2024, 3:27 PM
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Neither likely to ever be broken
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Edwin Moses winning so many 400 meter hurdle races
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May 6, 2024, 3:29 PM
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It was 107 finals in a row (according to Wikipedia). He set the world record 4 times in that period. I was a distance runner but tried the 330 hurdles (transition period from 220 to 440 yard period) one time and it was by far harder to me than any distance race I ever ran.
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Gotta be Shane Beemer.
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May 6, 2024, 3:37 PM
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He happened to show up on a day when Dabo fell flat on his face.
Frank’s son got a win in the rivalry! His first and his last.
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How did Dabo fall on his face?
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May 7, 2024, 12:17 AM
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Greatest accomplishment ever or about maybe 10th on the coots list. That’s how meaningless it actually was in the grand scheme of sports
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I am referring to that one single game.
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May 7, 2024, 6:17 AM
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Bad coaching decisions and we completely gave it away.
Probably the most disgusting loss I’ve seen in many decades. Just because it never should have happened.
And it probably took us out of the playoff.
But my point was Shane Bummer didn’t have much to do with it. Simply showed up and was there to take it.
So my answer was kinda a joke… ya know.
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Yep...Secretariat was special....
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May 6, 2024, 3:47 PM
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I know alot won't like this b/c its a thoroughbred and not a human, but beating Sham (a colt who could've easily won the TC if it weren't for Secretariat) was magical. Special. I've seen two TC wins live, but I know they don't really compare to that June day at Belmont in 1973....
Everyone remembers "he's moving like a tremendous machine" @ Belmont....but forgets his move at Pimlico (from last to first) in the first turn. Simply Unreal.
Three races, five weeks ending in 1.5 miles where he again shatters the course record...a record that still easily stands today. Him and Sham making it basically a match race from the beginning. A torrid pace. Show me a better athlete than that......
My fav video on this athlete...chills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zHvR7K1btQ
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Re: Yep...Secretariat was special....
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May 6, 2024, 6:26 PM
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I think he still owns the records for all three Triple Crown races.
I talked to Secretariat's jockey, Ron Turcotte, three times. The first time I asked him about the Belmont he said that the horse did it all himself--that was just a passenger. Can you imagine?
I have a signed picture of Ron looking back over his shoulder and seeing how far ahead he was of everyone else.
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It’s been a few years since I’ve watched that but it never gets old. Just incredible.
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I know a guy who scored 4 touchdowns in a single game back in high school***
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I remember that, it was in 1966 at Polk High.
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Clemson Tigers 2018-19 football team went 15-0, first team since Penn in 1897
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May 6, 2024, 4:06 PM
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to achieve that record!
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bROWENLL MAKING THE ELITE 8***
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 4:34 PM
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Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hit steak. Nobody will come close to this record. Pitching matchups and hitting approach make this impossible in today's game.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 10:17 PM
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This is the winner.
He also hit over .400 during the streak.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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winning the decathlon has to rank near the top. Mathias won it in consecutive Olympics
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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DiMaggio, 56 streak. "Never to be broken" record...
As for Secretariat, that's a horse, and a freak one at that, so it was just physical superiority, not competitive spirit. I think the horse's heart was 1.5 times larger than the average, or something like that. It was also a pathetic 6-horse field at Belmont, not very interesting. Great story of his acquisition and raising, though, put into a Disney movie.
And I'm a Kentucky horse guy. The more exciting horses were Seabiscuit and Man O' War (buried at Ky horse park)
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 5:46 PM
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The invention of the television
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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Some great examples ..... certainly Secretariat, DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak.
How about Tiger Woods 4 rounds at the Master's without a 3-putt. Maybe it has been matched, but at the time I thought that was impossible.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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May 6, 2024, 6:18 PM
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Jack Nicklaus 18 majors. Also impressive is he finished 2nd 19 times in the majors.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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Yes. People don’t recognize the seconds.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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Shooting your age in golf
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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TW was 59 I think
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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Breaking the four-minute mile while eating 76 hot dogs on July 4
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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Either Jordan winning all those NBA championships or
Brady winning all those Superbowls
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Bret Favres 297 consecutive games played or.
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Nolan Ryan’s 5714 strikeouts.
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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This isn’t the greatest accomplishment but I think it’s worth mentioning. I once heard that Fred McGriff hit at least 1 homerun off of more than 300 different pitchers.
I’ve never verified this.
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349 different pitchers
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"Fred McGriff hit 493 home runs during his career, 241 while playing at home, and 252 while on the road. Fred McGriff hit 269 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 53 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. McGriff homered off 349 different pitchers during his career, connected most often while batting fourth in the lineup, and drove in 788 total runs when he went deep!"
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/home_run.php?p=mcgrifr01
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Re: In your opinion what is the greatest accomplishment in sports?
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The white team beating Trevor Lawrence's orange team in the 2019 spring game.
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59 consecutive scoreless innings.
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