Comments on: What Is Your Favorite Sports Picture?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:34:11 +0000

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

By: Steve Kennedy

Steve Kennedy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:21:27 +0000

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.

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:08:04 +0000

Michael,

Although I look at that picture everyday when I leave my office that is just mean!

Still very painful!

Merrill

By: Bob Graham

Bob Graham — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:41:15 +0000

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

By: Michael Mermelstein

Michael Mermelstein — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:41:04 +0000

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!

By: Bill Priest

Bill Priest — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:25:48 +0000

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.)

By: Paul Kirch

Paul Kirch — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:56:31 +0000

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.

By: Stephenie King Gordon

Stephenie King Gordon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:55:46 +0000

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.