What is the most iconic photo in sports history?

[PensFanInDC]

Now, if we are using the word 'iconic' then a lot of these pics certainly fall into that category. I have no idea what that F1 photo represents but it certainly may be of an icon of the skill that is car racing...

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

What is the most ironic photo in sports history?

[shafnutz05]

I actually laughed out loud at the Ben Hur photo.

Ask a Brazilian if the Senna picture is iconic.

It's not. That isn't even Senna's most iconic picture for us. Sorry.

lol, so good.

[Tico Rick]

I'm not sure many people outside of the U.S. know about the Miracle on Ice, much less that photo. Ali, on the other hand, is probably the most recognized athlete of all time worldwide. Both of those Ali photos were taken by Neil Leifer. Leifer called the one that slappy posted his best photo ever, though I personally like the first Leifer photo slightly better. They are both great photos.

[Dickie Dunn]

Not the most iconic photo, but I saw this a couple years ago and it cracked me up. Len Dawson during halftime of Super Bowl I. Stark contrast to modern locker rooms and the halftime activities of today's finely tuned athletes.

[mikey287]

A very early bottle of Fresca?

[Shyster]

To me, it would be this:


Natsu basho, May 2001. On day 14, Yokozuna Takanohana goes up against Ozeki Musōyama and lands awkwardly. In doing so, he basically destroyed the ligaments in his right knee. I mean he pretty much tore everything there is to tear. But he was in the lead so he decided to keep fighting on day 15. After losing his regular match with fellow Yokozuna Musashimaru, he and Musashimaru were tied, so he had to fight a second time in a playoff. He managed to throw Musashimaru and win the playoff, and thus the tournament. After winning he made this face, which expresses both the joy of winning and the agony he was fighting through. In fact, even after surgery and missing more than a year, Takanohana never fully recovered from the knee injury and that was his last tournament win.

[Dickie Dunn]

A very early bottle of Fresca?

Yup.

[djlm]

Let me chime in on my opinion as a non North American and non European... I personally consider the most iconic photo in sports history the one posted with mid flight Jordan. I mean this on a worldwide level.



Second place for me a tie between the hand of God by DM10 and Ali's photo on the OP.

I'm sure most will agree with these top 3, the order may vary.

[Gaucho]

I would agree.

[djlm]

Here's a hockey one I consider iconic but have not seen posted:

[slappybrown]

[columbia]

[slappybrown]

thats an excellent one columbia

[Gaucho]

What is it? The Pony Express?

[slappybrown]

The Four Horsemen from Notre Dame (college football)

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They were the subject of a famous piece of writing by Grantland Rice in the NYT:

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.

[Gaucho]

Aaah, thanks.

[dodint]

*yawn*

College football played by now-dead people. Woo.

This thread is mostly "Photographs of sports before most of us were born." I suppose that's why they invented the motion picture, for us ADD Millennials.

Then again, Hines Ward. So there is that.

[Eismann]

On phone, so not searching for it, but I always liked the Bob Beammon photo of him in mid air breaking/destroying the long jump record from way back in the day. It was in the Guinness Book of World Records from the 70's, and he beat the previous record by a foot or something outrageous like that.

[slappybrown]

I don't understand your angle here. Older photos are more likely to be iconic, because the passage of time and who/what the person in the photo becomes can have a huge impact on whether the photo is remembered.

You're seemingly annoyed because the photos are things you do not find iconic and/or are old?

[dodint]

I'm just annoyed in general. Carry on.

[djlm]

I don't understand your angle here. Older photos are more likely to be iconic, because the passage of time and who/what the person in the photo becomes can have a huge impact on whether the photo is remembered.

You're seemingly annoyed because the photos are things you do not find iconic and/or are old?

Who loves making threads and polls? We need a poll to see the age range of letsgopenners. I would say the majority are 30+?

[slappybrown]

I believe that thread exists somewhere in NHR.

[meow]

I believe that thread exists somewhere in NHR.

Yea, but it's from like 2 years ago so that data is useless.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I don't understand your angle here. Older photos are more likely to be iconic, because the passage of time and who/what the person in the photo becomes can have a huge impact on whether the photo is remembered.

You're seemingly annoyed because the photos are things you do not find iconic and/or are old?

Who loves making threads and polls? We need a poll to see the age range of letsgopenners. I would say the majority are 30+?

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