Top Five Moments in Baseball that were about much More than baseball
Lou Gehrig's speech retiring, "Today, I consider myself, the luckiest person on the face of the earth..."
Mike Piazza's home run in first game back after 9/11. A lot of joy and a lot of sadness on that night, but that home run I think everyone cheered for.
Hank Aaron hitting Home Run number 715, passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list.
Cal Ripken's 2,131 straight game, break the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games. Brought baseball back from a bad place following an ugly work stoppage. I was there!
Jackie Robinson's first game in the Major Leagues.
Top Five Performances as the Villian in a feature Film
Kevin Spacey gave creepy and terrifying performance as John Doe in Se7en. He was perfect in his role as a diabolical and meticulous psychopath. What's in the box!?
Okay Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery? Gave me nightmares for a week. Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this performance and deserved it. The sledgehammer scene is brutal, but in the book she cuts off his legs completely so it could have been worse.
Anthony Hopkins also won Best Actor for his role in The Silence of the Lambs. He played Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibal who would eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth in Schindler's List was one of the most chilling and horrific characters to ever exist on the screen. Fiennes gave a remarkably accurate depiction of the genocidally evil man who in real life was as sadistic as he was shown to be in the movie. Goth was Commandant of Plaszow concentration camp during the Holocaust and I can't even write of the atrocities that he committed. But Fiennes was unforgettable, and his work is truly important as we see this historical figure and make sure to not ever have history repeat itself.
For Number 1 I have to go with Health Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight. I think the whole movie is Heath Ledger. This role led him to the deep and depressing depths of humanity, and must have been at least a small factor in the ending of his life soon before the release of the movie.
Top Five Worst Incidents in Sports History Involving Fans
Top Five "Are You Kidding Me" Last Second Sports Victories
(This is strictly for games that were basically miracle victories, where the odds were so low because of the time left in the game. For example, Brady's comeback down 27-3 in Super Bowl against the Falcons, while improbably, that's a gradual comeback, not what we're looking for here)
Top Five Football Players From "The U"
Top Five absolute badass characters from movies or tv
Top Five Juggernauts in Sports History (Teams or Individual, doesn't matter)
Many people won't really care for this but I would argue it should be higher on this list. Since it's European I'm putting it down here. But Man City had dominated for years, just couldn't get over that hump, then the stars aligned and Erland Haaland joined the team as the striker. Setting a record for goals in a season, Haaland was incredible, De Bruyne was magical, the team won the treble and they were a true juggernaut.
Considered by many to be the best college football team of all time, the Hurricanes averaged 46 points per game while giving up an average of 9. The list of players will simply amaze you; Clinton Portis, Frank Gore, Andre Johnson, Kellen Winslow, Sean Taylor, Vince Wilfork, Jonathan Vilma, Jeremy Shockie, Antrel Rolle, Ed Reed, Willis MacGahee, in total 17 players from that 2001 team were taken in the first round of the NFL draft. 17!!!
Do you understand how dominant Tiger was in his prime? After taking the world by storm he did nothing but amass seriously impressive stats, like: the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history; the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history; the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row; the all-time PGA Tour record for most consecutive cuts made, with 142; the PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times; the PGA Tour Money Leader a record ten times; the first player in PGA Tour history to win at least eight times in three different seasons. He once won 7 tournaments in a row and there were majors sprinkled in there. He was insane.
If you like hockey you know all abou this team. it was Gretzky's prime team, where he established himself as a phenomenon, a player with such skill that it was hard to believe that what you were seeing was real. As for the team, Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, and goalie Grant Fuhr contributed to the team winning the President's Trophy by a comfortable margin. They only had 5 home losses all season! Gretzky scored a jaw-dropping 47 points in the playoffs that year, with 17 goals and 30 assists!
I don't care about the cheat code Warriors, this is my juggernaut basketball team, the 72 win Bulls.
