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Best USA Sport Moments of All Time

I'll have to go with the miracle on ice for two reasons; one , how much of an underdog we were and two, how much it captivated the entire county even those that knew nothing of hockey.
 
RJKarl said:
His taking the field was absolutely a "moment". The entire nation stopped for it and the nation was changed because of it.

The Miracle on Ice was a nice win. It helped the country for a short period. But to that "moment" could compare to the "moment" that changed the national pastime and the nation shows how wrong you are.
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you know who is wrong? you are.
 
RJKarl said:
His taking the field was absolutely a "moment". The entire nation stopped for it and the nation was changed because of it.

The Miracle on Ice was a nice win. It helped the country for a short period. But to that "moment" could compare to the "moment" that changed the national pastime and the nation shows how wrong you are.
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Once again you display horrible logic.

Miracle on Ice was a miracle. A black man playing in the majors was inevitable - everyone knew it would happen eventually.
 
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DeacMan said:
Once again you display horrible logic.

Miracle on Ice was a miracle. A black man playing in the majors was inevitable - everyone knew it would happen eventually.
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goddammit stop making me side with rj

inevitability is irrelevant. took huge balls to be the one to do it.
 
DeacMan said:
Once again you display horrible logic.

Miracle on Ice was a miracle. A black man playing in the majors was inevitable.
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Once again you show your unabated and baseless arrogance.

That black man played in a country that was oppressively segregated. In St. Louis and other cities, Robinson couldn't eat or stay with teammates. It took another year for Truman to integrate the Army. According to this and many other sites, Robinson's playing led to Brown vs. Board of Education and much more ( http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/jackie-robinson).

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson

"Robinson handled the abuses inspired a generation of African Americans to question the doctrine of “separate but equal” and helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement."

There are tons of other scholarly articles about Robinson's impact on Civil Rights.

He changed America forever that day.

Miracle on Ice was a hockey game. It buoyed our spirits for a bit. It no impact on our society.

The difference between us, other than your limitless and unfounded ego, is that I talk about what did happen. You talk about what might have been.

Yep, a hockey game is really equal to helping jump-start the civil rights movement.
 
RJKarl said:
Once again you show your unabated and baseless arrogance.

That black man played in a country that was totally segregated. In St. Louis and other cities, Robinson couldn't eat or stay with teammates. It took another year for Truman to integrate the Army. According to this and many other sites, Robinson's playing led to Brown vs. Board of Education and much more ( http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/jackie-robinson).

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson

"Robinson handled the abuses inspired a generation of African Americans to question the doctrine of “separate but equal” and helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement."

There are tons of other scholarly articles about Robinson's impact on Civil Rights.

He changed America forever that day.

Miracle on Ice was a hockey game. It buoyed our spirits for a bit. It no impact on our society.

The difference between us, other than your limitless and unfounded ego, is that I talk about what did happen. You talk about what might have been.

Yep, a hockey game is really equal to helping jump-start the civil rights movement.
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You're wrong. But that's fine. We're all used to it. Someone was going to break the color barrier in baseball. There was a long standing movement to make it happen. It's great it happened. It was still inevitable.
 
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I guess we could thank you for your arrogant actions helping to lead to the creation of this board. Your simplistic and wrongheaded actions did help launch this effort, yet you blamed everyone but yourself.

It's not worth saying much else to someone who thinks winning a hockey game is a greater for our country than helping free millions of Americans from segregation and much worse. Yep, you make sense.
 
RJKarl said:
Once again you show your unabated and baseless arrogance.

That black man played in a country that was oppressively segregated. In St. Louis and other cities, Robinson couldn't eat or stay with teammates. It took another year for Truman to integrate the Army. According to this and many other sites, Robinson's playing led to Brown vs. Board of Education and much more ( http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/jackie-robinson).

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson

"Robinson handled the abuses inspired a generation of African Americans to question the doctrine of “separate but equal” and helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement."

There are tons of other scholarly articles about Robinson's impact on Civil Rights.

He changed America forever that day.

Miracle on Ice was a hockey game. It buoyed our spirits for a bit. It no impact on our society.

The difference between us, other than your limitless and unfounded ego, is that I talk about what did happen. You talk about what might have been.

Yep, a hockey game is really equal to helping jump-start the civil rights movement.
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I feel like Texas Western winning the Natty, is a better "moment" than Jackie Robinson, which isn't really a moment at all.
 
WFcatamount22 said:
I feel like Texas Western winning the Natty, is a better "moment" than Jackie Robinson, which isn't really a moment at all.
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There wouldn't have been Texas Western without Jackie Robinson.

The "moment" Jackie Robinson stepped on the field America changed.
 
RJKarl said:
There wouldn't have been Texas Western without Jackie Robinson.

The "moment" Jackie Robinson stepped on the field America changed.
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Interesting take. Hard to see how you leap to that conclusion given (a) the events were almost 20 years apart, and (b) colleges were fielding African American athletes in integrated teams way before Jackie Robinson played in the majors. Jesse Owens ran track at Ohio State more than a dozen years before Robinson played in the majors. And he was hardly the first African American to play integrated NCAA sports. Paul Robeson was an All-American football player at Rutgers before the 1920's for instance. He, btw, also played in the pro-football league that later changed its name to the NFL.

What made 1966 so cool was not that Texas Western won - other college hoops teams had won with black players before they did - but rather that they, starting an all black lineup, beat Kentucky who put no blacks on the court.
 
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Jackie Robinson is the most historically important USA sports story of all time.

Miracle on Ice is the Best USA Sports moment of all time.
 
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