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00:00Yeah, we're not here for the talking.
00:03Individual performances of all time.
00:092020.
00:11On January 2nd, 1982, cramping, dehydrated, exhausted,
00:17Kellen Winslow was helped off the Orange Bowl feel that he had made his own personal stage of heroics.
00:24The Chargers tight end caught 13 passes, one for a touchdown,
00:28and blocked a potential game-winning field goal attempt
00:31as San Diego edged Miami 41-38 in overtime in an AFC Divisional Playoff Classic.
00:38Kellen's performance just represents what that game was all about.
00:43Never say die, win at all costs, leave it all out there.
00:47It was a great marriage with Don Correale's offense, with Fouts at the controls.
00:51Kellen was given an opportunity to showcase his talent.
00:55And we can put him out on the outside where he can bully a little defensive back there,
01:00bring him in motion and still be a blocker inside, but he's lined up outside.
01:04And if he had the ability to go downfield and catch a deep ball,
01:09just pick the ball away from a lot of people,
01:11because he is so big and he is so strong.
01:13He would come out of the game like he was about to pass out,
01:16and they would administer to him on the sidelines.
01:19I remember it was prickly hot.
01:22It was so hot that everybody was pinched.
01:24Trainers were working on him, and the doctors, they were getting him back in shape.
01:27As soon as he could walk again, they'd get him back in the ballgame.
01:29He would perform, make a couple catches, come back out.
01:31It was like going back and forth that whole time for Kellen.
01:34There were times that we'd walk back in the huddle,
01:36and we'd just go, somebody cover this guy.
01:38He blocked for the running game.
01:39He caught big plays for them when they had to have the big plays,
01:42and then he was instrumental on special teams.
01:45He could barely drag himself up off of the ground
01:49after exerting all his energy to make a play.
01:53And there were a couple of times our players helped him up off the ground.
01:57And when our players came off to the sideline, I said,
01:59don't you ever help him up again.
02:01Let him get up by himself.
02:02If you were to pick one game, one moment that vaulted him into the elite status
02:07and put him into the Hall of Fame,
02:08I think you have to look at that game and give that some pretty high marks.
02:12It just seemed like he was more of a factor
02:14than any other single player on the field.
02:22On May 16, 1980, in Philadelphia,
02:2620-year-old rookie Irvin Magic Johnson demonstrated why he got it.
02:3142-15-7.
02:33I'm not really as high on Magic, to say the least,
02:38as everybody else is.
02:39A lot of people are.
02:42You, you, he did that.
02:45I don't, I don't even care when you played.
02:49Look, it's in color.
02:53This nickname, taking over for the injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Game 6 of the NBA Finals,
02:58Johnson not only played center, but guard and forward as well,
03:02in a 42-point, 15-rebound, 7-assist performance that propelled the Lakers to the title.
03:08Kareem is hurt.
03:09Magic's going to play center now.
03:11Okay, well, all right, he's 6'9", but he's a point guard.
03:13You know, you don't play center.
03:14And they're, you know, they're not playing the sisters of support here.
03:17They're only playing in the NBA Finals.
03:19Magic was big.
03:20He was quick.
03:22He was a very, very hard worker.
03:25He was an exceptional point guard.
03:28The fact that one day he played all five positions,
03:31well, he's got the body to do it, you see.
03:37He's agile enough to bring the ball down.
03:39He can play the corners.
03:40He can play the off guard.
03:41He can play the center.
03:44When he did it, it was a little bit unusual.
03:49I believe Kareem not playing was the worst thing that could have happened to the 76ers in that series.
03:57I think it would have still been worse had Kareem played.
04:00Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
04:04And I'm liking, I'm liking that they had footage of all the buckets.
04:09I'm liking, I'm seeing left hand, I'm seeing tween, a little cross, mid-range.
04:17I like that.
04:20His performance that game might have been one of the greatest of all time.
04:2442 points.
04:25He shot the hook shot, the jump shot, he drove to the basket, he blocked a couple shots.
04:29I mean, he did it all.
04:34It's 18.
04:3711th, 1950.
04:38After nearly being killed in a car accident 16 months earlier, Ben Hogan won the U.S. Open in an
04:4318-hole playoff at Marion.
04:45After soaking in overnight baths, he shot a one under par 69 to beat Lloyd Mangrum by four strokes and
04:51George Fazio by six.
04:53Never a great putter, he sealed his victory with a 50-footer for birdie at 17.
04:58Ben had fortitude.
05:00He didn't know what quit was.
05:03He didn't even know that that existed.
05:07He could walk 18, but boy, it really hurt after the 18th.
05:10Nobody really thought that he would be able, for his comeback at the open, to be able to walk the
05:1672 holes.
05:18He was just exhausted.
05:19And so when we came in, of course, he was disappointed.
05:22He didn't win, but I thought he will never make it.
05:28So I said, I'm going to get your tub ready, get in and soak.
05:33He still had to soak his legs, because you know, naturally, he would get swilly.
05:39To have been playing in pain virtually the whole time, wrapping his legs in ace bandages and taking God knows
05:46how many aspirin to get through.
05:48It was just another brick in this mystique that he built up.
05:53That was probably one of the greatest comebacks in the 20th century, because this man was given up for dead.
06:02I would like to stress, literally.
06:09On October 24th, Red Grange returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown against...
06:16What was that?
06:18350, 400 yards of total offense or something like that?
06:22Five touchdowns or something.
06:25Unbeaten Michigan, igniting a dazzling one-man exhibition.
06:29The Galloping Ghost of Illinois scored three more touchdowns in the first quarter on runs of 67, 56, and 44
06:36yards.
06:37He raced for another touchdown later and threw a scoring pass, racking up 402 yards of total offense in a
06:4339-14 upset special.
06:45Well, they don't call him the Galloping Ghost for nothing.
06:48Here was this humble Midwestern kid who was just making people miss tackles right and left, scoring touchdowns and bringing
06:55fame and fortune and glory to his university.
06:58When you hear those numbers, it's remarkable.
07:01Four touchdowns, you know, before the game, most people sat down in their seats and he's already got four touchdowns.
07:09These are the kind of numbers that if they were being put up today, it would just be stop the
07:14presses kind of stuff.
07:16That was the first time that Red cut.
07:19He would always, you know, sweep the ends and go down the sidelines.
07:22He did that all day long and they never caught on.
07:24It was bedlam all over the campus.
07:26I mean, people were going bananas.
07:28They treated him like he was God.
07:3360, 60, 60.
07:36On July 5th, 1980, in an epic five-set Wimbledon final,
07:41Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe repeatedly pushed each other to the brink.
07:44To claim his fifth straight Wimbledon title,
07:48the Steely Sweet had to regroup after a tiebreaker.
07:52It was tennis from the gods.
07:56I think I was almost like, this is too easy.
07:58It's happening too easy.
07:59And once I thought that, he sort of snuck in mentally and started to play better and better.
08:04The next thing I know, it's match point.
08:06And, you know, the thing's almost over and I'm able to regroup.
08:10This tiebreak has taken on iconic significance.
08:13Borg had McEnroe on the edge of elimination in the fourth set
08:17with five match points in a memorable 22-minute tiebreaker.
08:21But he couldn't seal the deal and lost 18-16.
08:28Seven all, eight all, and I have match points.
08:30And John is coming up with these unbelievable shots.
08:33When I lost the tiebreaker, I was very disappointed in myself.
08:36I won this set.
08:37I won this match.
08:39And here I'm still sitting, changing side.
08:41I played some tough matches, but I thought he was going to, like, pack it in.
08:44But instead, he seemed to sort of pick it up physically enough.
08:48I'm starting to serve.
08:51And I know, if John is breaking me, I'm going to lose.
08:54Is he being counted as Borgs, McEnroes, or both?
08:58Because it seems like both.
09:01And the last set, which was unheard of.
09:04How he was able to put that behind him
09:06and lose three points on his serve in seven serving games
09:09without being a serving volley player.
09:11That, that is mind-boggling.
09:1515, 15, 15.
09:19On September 28th, the final day of the 1941 season,
09:23Ted Williams declined the easy way out.
09:25Rather than sit and let it.
09:27Is Joe DiMaggio on the list, too?
09:30Because.
09:33Is this 39955?
09:37400.
09:38He risked.
09:38Oh, he wanted the 400.
09:40Or not at all.
09:41400 all the way or not at all.
09:43Playing both ends of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia A's.
09:46The sweet swing in Red Sox went 4 for 5, then 2 for 3.
09:50Ending with a 406 average.
09:52No one has hit 400 since.
09:56Knowing Ted, he's not going to back into hitting 400,
09:59and, of course, he, what, he gets 6 for 8?
10:03I think he would have rather have gone 0 for 8
10:06and hit 394 than to sit on the bench.
10:11He did go for it, and he only improved, of course,
10:13as it turns out, in that second game.
10:16I just can't fan him.
10:17A guy batting 500 times, he's getting 200 hits.
10:19I just can't believe that can happen in big leagues.
10:22And that's 400.
10:27No one has done it since,
10:28and no one had done it for a decade or so before.
10:31I don't think anybody's going to do that anytime soon.
10:36Especially since pitchers keep getting a little bit better,
10:39a little bit better,
10:41and batters keep getting a little worse and a little worse.
10:45And they're not as smart.
10:48They don't have their right stances.
10:52They swing for this, swing for that,
10:54swing at stupid pitches.
10:59Have weird stances like this.
11:02What do you get from keeping your bat
11:05further away from the ball?
11:06Get your bat towards where the ball's going to go.
11:09The baseball isn't going to go up here.
11:12It's got to go right here.
11:14Keep your bat close to the ball.
11:2542.
11:26It will be a killer and a chiller and a thriller
11:30when I get the gorilla in Manila.
11:32On October 1st, 1975,
11:34in the third installment of their brutal trilogy,
11:37Muhammad Ali pounded out a TKO victory
11:39over smoking Joe Frazier
11:41in the thriller in Manila.
11:43Frazier, all but blind,
11:44wasn't permitted to answer the bell
11:46for the 15th round by his trainer,
11:47Eddie Futch.
11:49Ali had lost the first fight
11:50and won the second.
11:51The third, he said,
11:52was the closest thing to dying.
11:54He knew it.
11:55All out war.
11:56You kidding?
11:58And whatever they got together,
12:00fireworks.
12:01Frazier is very strong
12:02and scoring heavily.
12:05Muhammad was special.
12:06He was able to suck it up
12:07and continue.
12:09And I don't know
12:10where he got the reservoir from.
12:13Because 11th round,
12:15he came back
12:15and he was exhausted, limp.
12:17But then he got it up
12:18and he did his thing.
12:21It's 15 rounds
12:23and here is round one.
12:24It was a fight in three parts.
12:26The first part,
12:28Ali is just whipping on Frazier.
12:30Somehow, in the middle rounds,
12:32Frazier comes through.
12:33Frazier starts wailing.
12:34He cuts off the ring.
12:35He gets him on the ropes.
12:36He was killing Ali.
12:38And then it turned again.
12:40Joe cannot match hand speed with him.
12:42So when Ali throws a quick flare,
12:43Joe is very vulnerable.
12:45Very vulnerable.
12:46Closest to life and death
12:47I've ever seen.
12:48To equally match fighters
12:49at the top of their form
12:51with an intense,
12:53competitive edge.
12:54Actual hatred, if you will.
12:55But it didn't seem
12:56that you could survive that.
12:58Ali opens up fast.
13:02With everything that was at stake
13:04between them mentally
13:05and psychologically,
13:06yeah, I don't think
13:07near death
13:08is too hyperbolic a statement.
13:10It looked like Ali
13:10was going to have to quit in the corner
13:12because he was getting so beat up.
13:13He couldn't breathe.
13:14He said in the corner,
13:15I feel like I'm dying.
13:16This must be what death feels like.
13:19He and Frazier
13:20both left it all there
13:22and neither of them
13:23ever should have laced on.
13:25Muhammad Ali
13:26is pretty well spent.
13:27This has to have been
13:28one of the most bruising
13:29heavyweight championships
13:31of all time.
13:3513-13.
13:37A perfect chance!
13:42She was 14,
13:43sprightly as a sunbeam,
13:45utterly fearless,
13:46and on a magical
13:47midsummer night in 1976
13:48was judged to be perfect.
13:50Nadia Comaneci,
13:52a 4'11 Romanian waif,
13:54zipped through and around
13:55and over the uneven bars
13:56in Montreal
13:57and was accorded
13:58the first score
13:59of a perfect 10
14:00in any Olympic gymnastics event.
14:03Nadia Comaneci
14:04transfixed the country
14:06to see her.
14:06I think they actually
14:07made that illegal afterward.
14:09I don't know.
14:10Too dangerous or something?
14:12Her be perfect.
14:14Perfect.
14:15I'm perfect here!
14:17Everybody in Montreal
14:19was shocked,
14:21including the electrical equipment
14:23with Nadia Comaneci
14:25when she got the first 10
14:27ever recorded
14:27in gymnastic history
14:29and the scoreboard
14:30said 1.00.
14:32It was only equipped
14:33to go up to 9.99.
14:34I do remember watching it
14:36as a kid
14:37from Montreal
14:38and it's not like
14:39I was into gymnastics
14:40but I remember
14:41it was like this big deal
14:42because, ooh,
14:43nobody's ever had
14:44a perfect 10.
14:47Well, I dreamed of being
14:48Nadia Comaneci.
14:49No, I'm just kidding.
14:50Here comes Nadia
14:51out of nowhere.
14:52Bam!
14:5210!
14:53It's like, whoa!
14:54Nadia was a powerful,
14:56a very sturdy,
14:57very confident
14:58young athlete.
14:59The one always knew
15:01what you want to do
15:02and always was
15:03an ultimate fighter
15:04on the floor.
15:05She was just
15:06so far and above
15:08in difficulty
15:10than anybody else.
15:11She was doing things
15:12that, oh my goodness,
15:14you didn't dream about.
15:15I mean, she really was
15:16breaking a lot of ground.
15:19I was just completely
15:21inspired by her.
15:2512.
15:2612.
15:27On October 18, 1977,
15:31Reggie Jackson
15:31clubbed a home run
15:32in Game 6
15:33of the World Series.
15:34This is a recording.
15:35So is this.
15:36Three pitches
15:37from three Dodger pitchers
15:39in three consecutive bats
15:40ended the same way,
15:41the ball disappearing
15:42into the night.
15:44Three first-pitch homers
15:45worth five runs
15:46in an 8-4 Yankees clinching.
15:49Thus, Mr. October
15:50was born.
15:51I had a feeling
15:52he would do something
15:53real big that night.
15:54When you're in the zone
15:55like that
15:55and you're on center stage,
15:57Reggie just kind of
15:58just pops out at you.
15:59Boom.
16:00Hootin, home run.
16:01Boom.
16:01Elias Sosa, home run.
16:03Boom.
16:04Huff.
16:04This majestic,
16:05soaring,
16:06towering home run.
16:07And it was like,
16:08can you believe
16:09this guy did this?
16:14I tell you,
16:15it was never so sick
16:16to see this guy
16:16hit three home runs
16:17in one game
16:18off of three different pitchers.
16:20I couldn't believe it,
16:21really.
16:23I'll never forget
16:23the moment
16:24where he hits
16:24the third home run
16:25and he goes around
16:26for his pace
16:27and Steve Garvey
16:28is applauding
16:29inside his glove.
16:30Afterwards,
16:30somebody said,
16:31did you applaud him
16:32in your glove?
16:33I said,
16:34if I had hit three
16:35in a game,
16:36I would hope
16:37the opposition would say,
16:39that is special.
16:40And that feeling
16:41of being the man
16:43for a day
16:43was nice
16:44because I was a fan
16:46and a player
16:48and was both
16:49at the same time.
16:51I have to disagree.
16:54I think he was the man
16:55a lot longer than a day.
17:04On May 6th, 1954,
17:07Roger Bannister,
17:08a gaunt,
17:08tireless running machine,
17:10propelled himself
17:11four times around
17:12the track at Oxford
17:13where he was a medical student.
17:14His time for the mile
17:15froze the stopwatch
17:16at three minutes,
17:1759 minutes,
17:18and the three-minute barrier
17:20was finally broken.
17:21He ran the first quarter
17:22in 57 and a half seconds
17:24and the last in 58.9.
17:27What Roger Bannister did
17:29is he broke through
17:30something even greater
17:31than any kind of physicality,
17:32which was the psychological barrier
17:35of the four-minute mile.
17:36Roger Bannister's
17:38four-minute mile
17:39has been surpassed
17:40thousands of times,
17:41but like the first one
17:42to climb Mount Everest,
17:44you become immortal
17:45just by being the first.
17:49He ran it on a day,
17:50May 6th,
17:51which was raw,
17:53windy.
17:53He spent that day
17:54at the hospital
17:55doing his rounds,
17:57got in a subway,
17:58took a train,
17:59and at six o'clock at night
18:00broke the four-minute mile.
18:01I mean,
18:02there's no legitimate way
18:03to think that this
18:04would have been the day.
18:05People have been trying
18:06for this,
18:07you know,
18:08for half a century.
18:10I saw a quote one time
18:11and it talked about sports
18:13that Roger Bannister had written.
18:14Only in something like running
18:16can finality be achieved,
18:18but it is not the type of finality
18:20that leaves you with nothing
18:21to live for
18:21because sport is not
18:23the main aim in life.
18:24Yet to achieve perfection
18:26in one area,
18:26however small,
18:27makes it possible
18:28to face uncertainties
18:29in the more difficult problems
18:31in life.
18:32And that, to me,
18:33just hit the nail on the head
18:35what it's all about.
18:42Welcome back to
18:43Who's Number One
18:44in this...
18:46On April 13th,
18:47in the final round
18:48of the 1986 Masters,
18:50having read that his best days
18:51were long gone,
18:53Jack Nicklaus stormed
18:54vengefully through the back nine
18:55at Augusta National.
18:56He eagled the 15th
18:58en route to a 30.
18:59And his 65 was enough
19:01to win by a single stroke.
19:03At 46,
19:04the Golden Bear
19:05became the oldest Masters champ
19:07and put on his 6th Green Jacket.
19:12Even as late
19:13as the 8th or 9th hole,
19:14he wasn't even close.
19:16He was more of a ceremonial golfer
19:18at that point.
19:19Missed the cut in the U.S. Open
19:20the year before.
19:21Missed the cut in the British Open
19:22the year before.
19:23The great save at 8,
19:25the birdie at 9,
19:26that propelled him
19:28to walk to the 10th tee
19:29with a spring in his step
19:30as if he was 25 years old.
19:33I just started making birdie
19:34after birdie after birdie.
19:35You get a little confidence.
19:36You know, you say,
19:37hey, I'm in this hunt.
19:40I hadn't remembered
19:41playing like this
19:41for a long time.
19:42It's part of my old memory.
19:47He had one of the most
19:48pretty 400 shots
19:49you ever imagined.
19:50A high...
19:51He never left the flag.
19:52And he can't even see
19:53where the ball's landing.
19:54And he's having to ask
19:55Jackie,
19:56where to land, you know?
19:57And the crowds are going crazy
19:59and your goosebumps
19:59were like this.
20:02He hits his shot off 16 tee.
20:05I said,
20:06be the right club.
20:07And the ball, honestly,
20:08had not left
20:09the end of the tee.
20:10And he looked at me
20:11and winked
20:11and said,
20:12it is.
20:15All of a sudden,
20:16I wasn't Jack Nicklaus,
20:1746 years old.
20:18I was Jack Nicklaus
20:19in the prime of his career
20:20knowing what he could do
20:21coming down that stretch
20:22to do it.
20:25I hadn't had that magic
20:27for a while.
20:28He out-thought everyone
20:30and he out-thought
20:31the golf course.
20:32I knew
20:33that I was in position
20:34to win a golf tournament.
20:36I made that putt
20:37on 17,
20:37and that's the first time
20:38I was in the lead
20:39in the golf tournament
20:40the whole week.
20:42Jack Nicklaus,
20:43what he did
20:43at the 1986 Masters
20:44was absolutely
20:45one of the most
20:46inspirational things
20:47I've ever seen.
20:49It was as if
20:50he had a 15th club
20:51in his bag
20:51and his name
20:52was God.
20:56Nine, nine, nine.
20:58He defied gravity.
21:00On October 18th
21:01at the 1968 Olympics
21:03in the thin air
21:04of Mexico City,
21:05Bob Beeman
21:06accelerated precisely
21:0719 strides
21:08down the runway,
21:09launched himself
21:10six feet off the ground,
21:11and for a brief moment
21:13flew.
21:13He came down
21:1429 feet
21:15two and a half
21:16inches later,
21:17eclipsing the world
21:18long jump record
21:19by an astonishing
21:2021 and three quarter inches.
21:22Yes, sir.
21:25That was always
21:26this thing
21:27that nobody
21:28except Superman
21:29was ever going to do.
21:31He told me
21:31he felt
21:32like he was just
21:33floating.
21:34He said,
21:35I've never, ever
21:36felt that way.
21:38I only wanted
21:40to stand on that podium
21:42and win
21:42a gold.
21:43gold.
21:45I looked back
21:46and said,
21:47wow,
21:47you know,
21:48that's,
21:48that's,
21:48that's going to,
21:49I wonder what
21:50that's going to be.
21:51And I was pretty upset
21:52because I had landed
21:53on my butt.
21:54They had to go out
21:55of the stadium
21:55to get a manual
21:57tape for the jump
21:58because the jump
21:59was actually
21:59too long.
22:01They measured it
22:02at 8.90
22:04and they flashed it
22:05up on the board
22:06and so I said
22:07to my teammate,
22:08Ralph,
22:08who's throwing
22:09the discus?
22:10In the long jump,
22:11like in the pole vault
22:13and like in the high jump,
22:15your increments
22:15of new records
22:17are like this,
22:18inch,
22:19maybe two inches,
22:20inch and a half.
22:24This was almost
22:26two feet.
22:28This was out here.
22:29This was unbelievable.
22:31Absolutely unheard of.
22:36Eight,
22:36eight,
22:37eight,
22:37eight.
22:38Here was a
22:39so-called journeyman
22:41pitcher
22:41who'd had
22:43a pass filled
22:55with inconsistency
22:56and yet
22:57on one day
22:59he pitched the greatest
23:00game in the history
23:00of baseball.
23:01On October 8,
23:031956,
23:04Don Larson,
23:05known more for his
23:06partying than his pitching,
23:07authored the only
23:08perfect game
23:09in World Series history.
23:10The imperfect man
23:11paralyzed the Dodgers
23:12two to nothing
23:13in game five.
23:14His performance
23:15came only three days
23:16after he failed
23:16to get out
23:17of the second inning
23:18in game two.
23:23I took my hat off
23:24and wiped my brow
23:26and I've probably
23:27said a little prayer.
23:28I've probably said,
23:28no man,
23:29get me through
23:30one more.
23:30Strike three.
23:33I don't have
23:34perfect game.
23:35The Dodgers
23:36The imperfect man
23:37today pitched
23:38a perfect game.
23:39not only
23:40that his record
23:41before that series
23:42and afterwards
23:43was so spotty.
23:45He was never
23:45a great pitcher.
23:46He was maybe
23:47never even
23:47a very good pitcher.
23:48Larson pitched
23:49the second game
23:49of the World Series.
23:50He wasn't a very,
23:51he wasn't a good pitcher
23:53at all.
23:57He was 10 and 33
23:59as a starter,
24:00a starting pitcher
24:01before he got
24:03to the Yankees.
24:06after he left
24:07the Yankees.
24:1026 and 34.
24:13Seriously,
24:14knocked him
24:14out of the box.
24:16Look at the setting,
24:17the fifth game,
24:19World Series,
24:20Dodgers,
24:20Yankees,
24:20and everything,
24:21but look at the lineup.
24:22Hodges,
24:22Gilliam,
24:23Reese,
24:23Jackie Robinson,
24:24Amaris,
24:25Snyder,
24:26Ferrello,
24:27Roy Campanella,
24:28former and future
24:29MVPs,
24:30future
24:31I didn't face
24:32the Montreal Expo,
24:38that day,
24:40the son of a gun
24:41had good stuff.
24:4297 pitches,
24:44I mean,
24:44write just
24:45what you would want.
24:47Ted Williams
24:47said the series
24:49may very well depend
24:50on Don Larson
24:51because Larson's
24:52the toughest pitcher
24:53that I've faced.
24:55One of the wonderful
24:56things about baseball
24:57is that mediocre players
24:59sometimes accomplish
25:00the most remarkable thing.
25:10in February of 1990
25:13in Tokyo,
25:14Buster Douglas,
25:15a 42-1 underdog,
25:17unleashed a shattering
25:18five-punch combination
25:19that concluded
25:20with a concussive
25:21left hook
25:22and Mike Tyson
25:22and his aura
25:23came crashing down.
25:25Douglas scored
25:25the 10th round KO
25:26to win the heavyweight title
25:27after having been
25:28knocked down himself
25:29in the eighth.
25:31Tyson came in
25:3237-0
25:33and had never
25:34been on the canvas.
25:35He said it.
25:36He said it.
25:37I knew that I could
25:38do this game,
25:39that I could box,
25:40that I could be in here
25:40with the best of them.
25:41Buster Douglas
25:42came in
25:43at the absolute peak
25:45that Buster Douglas
25:46could be
25:47and I was astonished
25:48as the fight went on
25:49that he was fighting
25:50as well as he was.
25:52As a round went by,
25:54I saw Buster Douglas
25:56taking charge of the fight.
25:58He wasn't afraid.
25:59He was in command.
26:00He was in control
26:01and I said,
26:02you know what?
26:03Something's gonna happen here.
26:05For the first time,
26:06I've seen Mike Tyson staggered.
26:08Both guys trying
26:09to fight the hearts out.
26:11Tyson nailed again.
26:13Buster Douglas
26:13has brought it up
26:14from the depths of courage.
26:19I was in the zone, man.
26:21I was in that zone,
26:22that zone.
26:25I've never seen a guy
26:26get hit like that.
26:27If Mike Tyson
26:27didn't have a huge neck,
26:29he'd have ripped his head off.
26:30James Buster Douglas,
26:31the new heavyweight champion
26:33of the world.
26:34What a shocking surprise.
26:43On June 15th, 1938,
26:46in the first night game
26:47at Ebbets Field,
26:48Johnny Vandermeer,
26:49a 23-year-old lefty
26:50for Cincinnati,
26:51threw a no-hitter.
26:52But not just any no-hitter.
26:54No, this no-no
26:55was his second straight,
26:56four days after his previous
26:58start against Boston.
26:59This one, though,
27:00was adventurous.
27:00He walked eight,
27:01loading the bases
27:02in the ninth.
27:03But it was historic.
27:04His career record,
27:05119 wins,
27:07121 losses.
27:08Johnny Vandermeer
27:09is the name that,
27:10as a young girl growing up,
27:12reading baseball books,
27:13it was one of the first names
27:14I got to know
27:14because of the fact
27:15that he did have
27:16those back-to-back
27:17no-hitters.
27:18Whenever somebody
27:19has pitched a no-hitter,
27:21his name invariably
27:23pops up the next time
27:24the guy pitches.
27:25Now, this is a guy
27:26who has more baseball
27:27immortality
27:28than almost anybody.
27:31Two no-hitters in a row.
27:33If you get back
27:33no-hitters,
27:34you guys can actually hit.
27:38That's something.
27:40Nobody's gonna do that.
27:42They'd file that.
27:43Never have.
27:45Six.
27:46I can't imagine
27:48Johnny Vandermeer's record
27:49ever being beaten.
27:51Vandermeer wasn't really
27:52an outstanding pitcher.
27:54Just shows you
27:55how freaky
27:56a no-hit game can be.
28:03On August 6th, 1926,
28:05Gertrude Ederley,
28:06only 19,
28:07slipped into the water
28:08on the French coast
28:09in the morning
28:10and emerged
28:10on the English coast
28:11that night.
28:12Despite rolling seas
28:13and a punishing tide
28:15that forced her
28:15to swim
28:1614 extra miles,
28:17she became the first woman
28:19to conquer
28:19the English Channel.
28:20Her time,
28:2114 hours,
28:2231 minutes,
28:23was almost
28:24two hours faster
28:25than any man.
28:27I think it was
28:29absolutely amazing
28:30because no woman
28:31was considered capable
28:33of ever doing it.
28:34Let's face it,
28:35women are,
28:36women in some ways
28:37are a lot tougher
28:38than men,
28:38so they can take
28:39the pain.
28:41Even today,
28:42swim the English Channel
28:44is a very difficult thing.
28:46It takes a lot
28:47of intestinal fortitude
28:49to be a successful
28:50marathon swimmer
28:50because not only
28:51are you doing the distance,
28:52there's also cold water.
28:53I mean,
28:53you know,
28:54the English Channel,
28:54when I swam it,
28:55I swam it
28:56to Greece.
28:58It's cold
28:59when you're in there
28:59for 10,
29:0012 hours.
29:02When Ederley
29:02swam the Channel,
29:04the boat was
29:05decked out
29:05with American flags
29:07and there was
29:07patriotic music
29:08played the whole time
29:09that she was in the water.
29:10She and her father
29:12really played
29:12the theme
29:13of Americanism.
29:14People loved them
29:15for it,
29:16except for the British.
29:25If they could produce
29:26a woman to go
29:27beat that record,
29:28I'd like to see it.
29:29Or a man.
29:31He coated her body
29:32with automobile grease
29:33in order to prevent
29:35hypothermia.
29:36I thought that,
29:37my God,
29:38that was an image
29:39that lingered in mine.
29:43Four.
29:44Four.
29:46On April 13, 1997,
29:4911 years to the day
29:51after Jack Nicklaus
29:52became the oldest winner
29:53of Eldrick Tiger Woods,
29:56the Masters,
29:57Tiger Woods at 21
29:59became the youngest.
30:00He spread-eagled the field
30:02with a record
30:0218 under par 270.
30:04Woods also became
30:05the first person of color
30:06to win a green jacket.
30:09It was like
30:10suddenly seeing
30:10Mozart at the piano.
30:12I've never won
30:12a major championship before.
30:13And on top of that,
30:14I had a nine-shot lead.
30:19I don't have the experience.
30:20I don't know
30:21what it's like
30:21to be out in front
30:22of a major
30:22with the lead
30:23and how to handle
30:24the situation.
30:25It wasn't
30:26your typical golf crowd.
30:27And I'll tell you something,
30:28that's a euphemism,
30:29but the fact of the matter is
30:30that's the first time
30:31when it became clear
30:32to me that golf,
30:34you know,
30:36wasn't going to be
30:37exclusively
30:37a white man's game anymore.
30:40A place that
30:41didn't allow
30:42black members
30:42until 91
30:43hadn't had a black player
30:45until Lee Elder
30:45in the 70s.
30:48The further Tiger
30:49got ahead,
30:50the more people
30:51wanted to see him.
30:52But he broke it
30:53by beating the rest
30:54of the field
30:55by 12 shots.
30:55I mean,
30:56that's phenomenal.
31:00He would miss
31:00a tee shot
31:01behind a tree
31:02and he would curve
31:02the ball
31:03and end up
31:04six feet from the hole.
31:05I mean,
31:05it's exciting.
31:07It was probably
31:07one of the most
31:08difficult rounds
31:09I've ever had
31:09to play in my life.
31:11He took the course
31:12and almost physically
31:14reshaped it
31:15as we're watching him play
31:16because no one
31:17had ever played
31:18like that before.
31:19He's only 21 years old.
31:21So to watch this kid
31:22with such maturity
31:23and such gain
31:24just get more
31:25and more confident
31:26as the week went on,
31:27it was hard to believe
31:27what we were seeing.
31:30He was in that
31:31rarefied air
31:32that athletes
31:33occasionally get in
31:34where he could do
31:34absolutely no more.
31:36Masters have always
31:38been his primary objective.
31:44When he walked
31:45up that aisle,
31:49he walked
31:49to my office.
31:56So,
31:58top three
31:59gotta be Ruth
32:0127
32:01or 21.
32:05gotta be one of
32:06Jordan's games
32:08and I'll leave
32:09versus Cleveland Williams.
32:11Let's see if I'm
32:12if I'm right or wrong.
32:19on May 25th,
32:211935
32:22at the Big Ten
32:23meet in Michigan,
32:24Jesse Owens
32:25torched the record book.
32:26In less than 45 minutes,
32:28he broke
32:28three world records.
32:30The long jump
32:30at 26 feet
32:31eight and a quarter inches,
32:32the 220
32:33in 20.3 seconds,
32:35and the 220 yard
32:36low hurdles
32:36in 22.6 seconds.
32:38Earlier,
32:39he ran 100 yards
32:40in a record equaling 9.4 seconds.
32:43He did all this only days after suffering a tailbone injury.
32:48His back was hurting him, so I gave him a rubdown.
32:51See?
32:53He goes out and he breaks all these records.
32:56And I said to him,
32:59you know, I rubbed those records out of your behind, you know that?
33:06We were so accustomed to him that we didn't really realize that.
33:09And I'm talking about the other guys on the team.
33:11It was just another day at the office.
33:13Oh, my God.
33:14Look how far ahead he is of everybody else.
33:17The 100, the 200, broad jump, I guess they called it then.
33:22220-yard low hurdles.
33:23Those four events are sprinter's specialties, I guess you might say.
33:30Jesse just appeared to be flowing.
33:32And some athletes, you hear a pounding sound.
33:34Every footstep, the boom, boom, boom.
33:37You didn't get that with Jesse.
33:38You just hear a tick, tick, tick when he ran down the center track.
33:41Very light on his feet and just running seemingly effortlessly.
33:49When his races came up, everything stopped.
33:52It was quiet.
33:53And then when the gun went off,
33:57you could hear this noise.
33:59He said, oh, it's...
34:04Two, two, two, two.
34:08On June 9th, 1973,
34:11a copper-colored four-legged speedball named Secretariat
34:14topped off of a dazzling triple crown
34:16by not just winning the Belmont Stakes,
34:19but by crushing the field and wrecking the clock.
34:21Big Red's 31-length...
34:23He's moving like a tremendous machine.
34:26Secretariat by 12.
34:28Victory margin was a record.
34:30Two and three-fifths seconds faster than the previous mark.
34:38Secretariat, who was a great athlete.
34:42I know he was a horse, but he was a great athlete.
34:45Now, it's one thing to win a Super Bowl by two points.
34:48It's another thing to win it by 40.
34:52Secretariat's on the inside.
34:53Fire hit.
34:54All right.
34:55A great racehorse like he was.
34:58Secretariat, it looks like he's opening.
35:00Every time I see a tape of Secretariat winning the Belmont,
35:02I still get a shiver.
35:04The lead is increasing.
35:05Two.
35:08Secretariat is blazing along.
35:12Secretariat is widening now.
35:14He's awestruck by the horse's performance.
35:16He is moving like a tremendous machine.
35:20This huge, magnificent animal
35:22that wasn't tied up in scandal,
35:23who wasn't tied up in money.
35:26He just ran because he loved running.
35:28Secretariat by 12.
35:30I really thought he was probably the greatest looking racehorse of all times.
35:35Secretariat is all alone.
35:36He's out there almost a sixteenth of a mile away from the rest of the horse.
35:40Runaways are usually the dullest thing in sport.
35:43But just the unbelievable domination that this horse had over the rest of his field.
35:47And he just kept accelerating and accelerating.
35:50Secretariat leads his field by 18 lengths.
35:53Everybody was speechless.
35:55And then, when it set in...
35:58Secretariat has opened a 22 length lead.
36:02He is going to be the triple crown winner.
36:05I actually saw people crying at this event.
36:08I mean, it was such an overwhelming thing.
36:10Here's some Secretariat to the wire.
36:12An unbelievable, an amazing performance.
36:16Heywood Hill-Broom told me he was starting with Jack perfection like this.
36:20An amazing, unbelievable performance by this miracle horse.
36:24Anyone who saw him then still talks about him now.
36:28And has passed the stories on to their children and their grandchildren.
36:31That is a record that may stand forever.
36:34The search for number one in all of this esteemed company leads us inevitably to this performance.
36:40Number one now and possibly forever.
36:50On March 2nd, 1962, with 46 seconds to play,
36:54Wilt Chamberlain detonated the dunk that made history.
36:57It gave him 100 points in one game.
37:00He made 36 of 63 field goal attempts at the line.
37:03His area of vulnerability.
37:05He converted 28 of 32 in Philadelphia's 169-147 route of the Knicks.
37:10I don't have the footage.
37:12They just fed him the ball.
37:14He just did what would have been considered goaltending.
37:17And I like in other areas.
37:19And I like, look.
37:20We don't, we can't, we can't put this on the list if we don't have the footage.
37:26Let's get a Babe Ruth or Ali there somewhere.
37:31Let's get a Gretzky.
37:34And of all places, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
37:37The Big Dipper by the quarters, 23, 18, 28, 31.
37:41This is the Big Fourth quarter and everybody's thinking how many's Wilt's got to get.
37:44When you say Wilt Chamberlain, you're saying the most dominant athlete in the history of team sport.
37:53Chamberlain has 71.
37:55He's within two of the record.
37:56I'm not too sure what to say.
37:58I mean, it's, I mean, nobody's, Kareem never came close.
38:01Moses Malone never came close.
38:03Jordan never scored that.
38:04He could not be guarded.
38:06He could not.
38:06Duh, Moses Malone never came close.
38:10He's not in that conversation.
38:12Be defended.
38:13He could not be thwarted.
38:15He was the greatest physical specimen that anybody has ever seen on a basketball court.
38:20How many times in recent memory has anybody even scored 50?
38:24I mean, that's rare.
38:25Maybe a couple times in a season.
38:26Chamberlain are 75 with 10 minutes to go.
38:29The thing spoke for itself.
38:31I mean, it was, it'll never be matched.
38:33I mean, who's going to score 100 points in a game?
38:35History being written tonight in Hershey.
38:37Wilt was bound to score 100 points, whether it was going to be that season or some other season in
38:41the future.
38:42We were going for 100.
38:43His record was our record.
38:45The guesses are running as high as 100.
38:47In the second half, the team decided that maybe they can get 100.
38:51So they were feeding him constantly.
38:53One.
38:53One.
38:54One.
38:54He's going for 1-0-0.
38:56You'll never, ever see something like that again.
38:59He just scored at will.
39:01And it wasn't all layups.
39:02One minute and one second to play.
39:05Chamberlain has 98.
39:07He can make it easily.
39:08It was the greatest foul-shooting night of his career.
39:13No matter where the ball went, Wilt got it.
39:15In the children.
39:16He made it.
39:17He made it.
39:18That's it for sure.
39:19He made it.
39:20The fans ran over the floor.
39:22I just wish I could watch a complete tape of that game
39:25because I'd pay to see that today.
39:28The most amazing scoring performance of all time.
39:32100 points.
39:34That was a big difference.
39:39Look, the greatest is not a term you just throw around lightly.
39:42To qualify in this category,
39:44the performance must be the sort that lives on and on and on.
39:48That's a big difference.
39:48So, let's get started.
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