As you know, I love sports. A few weeks ago I received an email with 15 great sports pictures. I pared it down to 6 and wanted to share them with you today.
Yes these are all classics. I love baseball, but the player getting accidentally punched in the face wouldn’t make my top two. The Yao Ming picture is funny but again doesn’t make my top two. I think the diver looking frightened is the best! His facial expressions are amazing! My other top one is the soccer ball crushing the face of the player. How fast was that ball going to have that type of impact? 60mph? 70 mph? Call me crazy but that had to hurt a ton and leave the player in a need for many Tylenols.
What are your favorites?
Stephenie King Gordon says:
These are all more blooper pictures to me, than “sports pictures”.
My favorite is the one that captures Phil Mickelson jumping after his putt on 18 at Augusta National to win the Masters. That picture definitely captured Lefty’s true love for the game.
Paul Kirch says:
The soccer ball is great, but I have to say the ATV pictures is the one that gets me. I can’t imagine what is going through his mind. Since you can’t see his face, it seems he’s looking very nonchelant. My guess is he’s probably thinking he shouldn’t have hired his ex-wife as part of this mechanic crew… Anyway, these are all great.
Bill Priest says:
These are definitely funny, but my favorite sports picture is Pete Rose sliding head first into 3rd, arms outstretched, three feet off the ground. I like a guy that plays all out all the time. (He wasn’t bad at playing the ponies either.)
Michael Mermelstein says:
These are great. But, my favorite is seeing Bill Buckner’s back to the infield looking for that groundball that went through his legs.
Sorry Merrill – but that was great!
Bob Graham says:
I agree with Stephanie, these are more blooper pictures than sports picture.
My all time favorite sports picture is easy: Bobby Orr caught horizontally in mid-air celebrating the Bruins 1970 Stanley Cup win. (a pose so famous that McFarlane recreated it in an action figure: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sportsactionfigure.com/images/news-tmp_borr12inch_thumb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sportsactionfigure.com/&h=119&w=150&sz=8&hl=en&start=25&um=1&tbnid=mbCOyZgkA3WNKM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dorr%2Bmcfarlane%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN
Merrill Dubrow says:
Michael,
Although I look at that picture everyday when I leave my office that is just mean!
Still very painful!
Merrill
Steve Kennedy says:
Wheels falling off hands down. The others lack the “what happened next” mystery. The other five involve head contusions, bad taste in mouth, and entry into a pool. The ATVer holds a whole host of outcomes…miraculous two wheel landing, epic machine/man tumbling act, or even being impaled. Any great picture makes you use your imagination to complete the story and this one does exactly that. As for greatest sports picture of all time, Michael Jordan’s behind the backboard view of him slamming the ball over the hapless defenders. This picture created a term in basketball, posterized, for the poor person that is immortalized in a poster watching the other player 6 feet above them slamming home the basketball.
Elizabeth says:
Pepperdine’s Jason Walberg’s Eye Gouge is one that sticks with me. OUCH! I can’t believe there wasn’t a foul called.
http://www.faniq.com/blog/Picture-of-the-Year-Pepperdines-Jason-Walberg-Eye-Gouge-on-BYU-Blog-5472