Happy birthday to the GOAT

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[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

I've watched it a billion times and I still get chills all over my body every single time.

One of the greatest athletes of all time. Period.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Quoting Tom Durkin regarding the 1998 Belmont Stakes, "If a picture is worth a thousand words, this photo is worth $5 million . . . history in the waiting.”

Same words different sensation.

 

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I've watched it a billion times and I still get chills all over my body every single time.

I cry. Every time. I'm a pushover for stuff like this. The track announcer made it, if he had messed up the call, it would watch very differently. But, "He's moving like a tremendous machine!!" is just a classic line that you can't plan out.

 

[Jack Straw]

Not sure if this is the best place for this, William Nack, who chronicled the life of Secretariat has passed away. I had a subscription to SI growing up and read many of his great pieces. RIP.

Pure Heart

Veteran writer William Nack dies at 77

 

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The entire SI collection is archived on line and you can read any article ever published by them.

They archived it about 15 years ago, and i went back to he first issue in 1957 and right now I am up to 1988. When I'm bored I'll read a few articles and then a few days later a few more. I'll probably die before i catch up