<v Speaker 1>Wednesday, July one, twenty twenty six, you are listening to

<v Speaker 1>the Daily Do Sports podcast and I am your host,

<v Speaker 1>Clinton Daily, coming to you from the Mahi City here

<v Speaker 1>in Denver, Colorado, and we are back for another week

<v Speaker 1>of talking sports with a dose of common sense. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Happy Wednesday to you. I hope that your week is

<v Speaker 1>going well. I hope you, your family, your friends, everyone

<v Speaker 1>in your world is staying strong and healthy right now.

<v Speaker 1>And yes, I've got some really good news because kids,

<v Speaker 1>this is a holiday week at least where I am

<v Speaker 1>here in the United States of America, because on Saturday,

<v Speaker 1>we will be celebrating two hundred and fifty years as

<v Speaker 1>a nation.

<v Speaker 2>And I realize even as.

<v Speaker 1>I say that, that there may be some of this

<v Speaker 1>out there that are gonna hear that, and I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>maybe take offense, or maybe they're gonna say, well, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>two hundred and fifty years of imperialism and colonization.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, yeah, I know.

<v Speaker 1>Oh, but making no mistake, we also have two hundred

<v Speaker 1>and fifty years of people waiting in line to try

<v Speaker 1>to get in, oh and also sometimes not waiting in

<v Speaker 1>line and risking life and limb to still try to

<v Speaker 1>get in. Look as older, financially well to do well.

<v Speaker 1>Mostly white women love to point out this country of

<v Speaker 1>mine does have some floss.

<v Speaker 2>And right now in my country, we.

<v Speaker 1>Are more divided than ever before, at least I feel

<v Speaker 1>like we are. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe that's just recency bias,

<v Speaker 1>but I feel like we can't agree on one thing

<v Speaker 1>right now. If you say it's this, the other side

<v Speaker 1>says it's this. We can't agree on anything. We're completely divided.

<v Speaker 1>And yet, you know, over the last few weeks, I've

<v Speaker 1>been watching these World Cup fans and they come to

<v Speaker 1>my country from other countries and they are just blown

<v Speaker 1>away by our country because you know, we might not

<v Speaker 1>have everything right, we might not do everything right. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>but you know we have We have BUCkies, we have barbecue,

<v Speaker 1>we have cars, we have air conditioning, we have ranch dressing,

<v Speaker 1>we have ice for our drinks and yes, those drinks

<v Speaker 1>usually come with three refills.

<v Speaker 2>Do we do everything right? Of course not, but do

<v Speaker 2>we do a lot right.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah. In fact, I'd go as far as to say

<v Speaker 1>that we do more right than most other countries. So

<v Speaker 1>we're doing something right well. With that in mind, today,

<v Speaker 1>on the dose, yes, NBA Free Agency is underway.

<v Speaker 2>We could talk about that.

<v Speaker 1>Kwhi Leonard is headed back to Canada and Brownie James

<v Speaker 1>is wondering why in the world doesn't my key card

<v Speaker 1>work anymore to get into the Lakers facility.

<v Speaker 2>The World Cup is cruising along.

<v Speaker 1>We have had some insane games already and now we

<v Speaker 1>are in those elimination games, which are even more fun.

<v Speaker 1>But like I said, this weekend is the two hundred

<v Speaker 1>and fiftieth birthday of my country. So I have something

<v Speaker 1>a little bit special for you today. We are going

<v Speaker 1>to be flashing back to some very American Daily Dose

<v Speaker 1>top fives from days of yore. We are flashing back

<v Speaker 1>to win. We counted down the top five American sports

<v Speaker 1>figures that if you're going into battle, oh, you'd want

<v Speaker 1>them right next to you, as well as the top

<v Speaker 1>five greatest American sports moments ever. Yeah, so we've got

<v Speaker 1>a very American daily dose for you today. So sit back, relax,

<v Speaker 1>and enjoy a very American Daily dose flashback episode. Now,

<v Speaker 1>as we do so many weeks here at the Daily Dose,

<v Speaker 1>we need to get to our daily dose top five. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>some genuinely sad and scary news this past week, as

<v Speaker 1>Russian President Vladimir Putin officially ordered his country's invasion of

<v Speaker 1>Ukraine last Wednesday, after greenlighting some sort of specialized military operation.

<v Speaker 1>Russian troops had been inching towards the border with the Ukraine,

<v Speaker 1>and Putin's recognition of the independence of two Ukrainian regions

<v Speaker 1>set the stage for last week's military action. Beginning, we

<v Speaker 1>decided to launch a special military action aimed at demilitarization

<v Speaker 1>and denasification of Ukraine. Is what Putin had to say. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not going into the politics and the reasons of

<v Speaker 1>why this is all happening. I'm not going into all

<v Speaker 1>the reasons foreign against the United States involvement in this

<v Speaker 1>huge mess. You can find that on my other podcast,

<v Speaker 1>The Daily Does Foreign Policy Podcast. But I did find

<v Speaker 1>something once again that brings this kind of back to

<v Speaker 1>the world of sports that this podcast actually does cover. See,

<v Speaker 1>unlike American celebrities who think they can make a video

<v Speaker 1>of themselves like singing imagine or some nonsense legendary Ukrainian

<v Speaker 1>boxing brother tandem Vitally and Vladimir Klitchko, they aren't making

<v Speaker 1>any documentaries with Sean Penn. They're not having a zoom

<v Speaker 1>call commercial reading some goofy poem. Instead, they are actually

<v Speaker 1>going to real work and they're doing some scary, scary thing.

<v Speaker 1>They are in fact on the ground in Ukraine and

<v Speaker 1>they say they are going to be actually fighting with

<v Speaker 1>their countrymen and women to defend their country. They're also

<v Speaker 1>calling on the other countries in the world to assist

<v Speaker 1>civilians and stop Russian forces from their ongoing slaughter of

<v Speaker 1>the Ukrainian people. I mean, they are even saying that

<v Speaker 1>Vasily Lomachenko has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine

<v Speaker 1>as that country is trying to fend off the invasion

<v Speaker 1>from Russia. Vasilly Lomachenko, can you imagine going to battle

<v Speaker 1>and next to you you see the Klitchko brothers and

<v Speaker 1>Vasili Lomachenko. Batali Klitschko is actually the mayor of Kiev,

<v Speaker 1>and they say he is currently on the ground alongside

<v Speaker 1>his brother Vladimir, who enlisted in the Ukrainian army to

<v Speaker 1>help fight and help try to keep their country sovereignty. Now,

<v Speaker 1>the Klitschko is put together quite a record as a

<v Speaker 1>boxing candem in the world of sports. Those two have

<v Speaker 1>a combined professional boxing record of one hundred and nine wins,

<v Speaker 1>with I might add ninety four knockouts and just seven losses,

<v Speaker 1>including forty six world title fights. Hey, those two guys

<v Speaker 1>make me think the Russians had better be real careful.

<v Speaker 1>If you think this is going to be easy. The

<v Speaker 1>Klitschko brothers might have something to say about that. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>the Ukraine might end up being a much tougher nut

<v Speaker 1>to crack than people might actually think.

<v Speaker 2>I'm not beating the edge. I still have armies in

<v Speaker 2>the Ukraine. You know what the Ukraine is. It's a

<v Speaker 2>sitting duck, a road apple noment. The Ukraine is week.

<v Speaker 1>It's feeble.

<v Speaker 2>I think it's time to put.

<v Speaker 3>The herd down.

<v Speaker 2>The Ukraine might come from Ukraine. You're not to say

<v Speaker 2>Ukraine Wick that when we're playing a game hare Palt

<v Speaker 2>Ukraine has planed to you, Papaa take a little afore us.

<v Speaker 1>But hearing the clitch goes involvement here. It also got

<v Speaker 1>me thinking if I'm in the Ukraine right now and

<v Speaker 1>I see the Klitchko brothers fighting alongside me, I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>feel a lot more confident. But I actually am not

<v Speaker 1>from the Ukraine. I'm an American. So here's the question

<v Speaker 1>I have for you today. On our deal with those

<v Speaker 1>top five, what American sports figures in history would you

<v Speaker 1>want fighting alongside you that might make you feel just

<v Speaker 1>a little bit better about going into battle today. Our

<v Speaker 1>deal with this top five counts down the top five

<v Speaker 1>American sports figures that I would want to go to

<v Speaker 1>battle with. And keep this in mind, this is when

<v Speaker 1>these people were in their prime. Time has no meaning here.

<v Speaker 1>We're just looking at all time. Who would we want

<v Speaker 1>as Americans to go into battle with us. Let's start

<v Speaker 1>off at number five, And if I'm going into battle,

<v Speaker 1>I want someone back in that war room who's doing

<v Speaker 1>all the planning, all the plotting, all the scheming. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>if we're going to be out in the field, if

<v Speaker 1>we're going to be out on the front lines fighting,

<v Speaker 1>I don't want some idiot coming up the plan. I

<v Speaker 1>need someone that is going to have my best interest

<v Speaker 1>at heart. But I also want someone that is capable

<v Speaker 1>of using whatever personnel that he has and putting them

<v Speaker 1>in the best situations to be successful. I also need

<v Speaker 1>someone who will do anything to win. Hey, who is

<v Speaker 1>someone that would try to win it all costs. Someone

<v Speaker 1>that might be great at skaming and coming up with

<v Speaker 1>a game plan to win. And honestly, I mean, this

<v Speaker 1>isn't a game, this isn't a sport, this is war.

<v Speaker 1>I don't care how they do it. Just get it done.

<v Speaker 1>So you come up with some film from other countries

<v Speaker 1>military that maybe you're not supposed to have. I don't care.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't bother me. You do what you have to

<v Speaker 1>do to win. So maybe he goes over to other

<v Speaker 1>countries and maybe he deflates their jeep tires. I don't know. Whatever.

<v Speaker 1>If I'm going to battle for the United States, let

<v Speaker 1>me have NFL coach Bill Belichick doing some planning because

<v Speaker 1>I know that guy is going to do whatever it takes.

<v Speaker 1>And Bill Belichick comes in today at number five. We

<v Speaker 1>move on to number four. And while I want a

<v Speaker 1>good planner as we go to battle back in that

<v Speaker 1>war room, I also need someone who gets things done.

<v Speaker 1>You need to be strong, you need to be fast,

<v Speaker 1>you need to be fearless, you need to be tough,

<v Speaker 1>and honestly, you need to be a little bit mean. Well,

<v Speaker 1>our number four entry had all of those qualities and

<v Speaker 1>this guy produced. Check this out. Michael Strahan and TJ.

<v Speaker 1>Watt are tied for the most NFL sacks in a

<v Speaker 1>single season at twenty two point five. The great Bruce

<v Speaker 1>Smith has the most sacks in NFL history in his

<v Speaker 1>career at two hundred sacks. Even well, thanks to nearly

<v Speaker 1>thirty years of research, Pro Football Reference has added sack

<v Speaker 1>totals for players that played before nineteen eighty two, when

<v Speaker 1>sacks actually became an official NFL statistic. Up to this point,

<v Speaker 1>there have been some estimates of how many sacks people

<v Speaker 1>had recorded from some of the best pass rushers ever,

<v Speaker 1>but they were just kind of guessing. Well, Pro Football

<v Speaker 1>Reference actually did the work and came out with exact

<v Speaker 1>totals according to their decades of research and film work.

<v Speaker 1>Los Angeles Rams pass rusher Deacon Jones is now unofficially

<v Speaker 1>credited with twenty six sacks back in nineteen sixty seven. Now,

<v Speaker 1>remember in sixty seven he only played fourteen games. Deacon

<v Speaker 1>Jones had twenty six sacks in fourteen games. Jones is

<v Speaker 1>also unofficially credited with one hundred and seventy three point

<v Speaker 1>five career sacks, that would be third most in NFL

<v Speaker 1>history if they actually counted those. Here's what's crazy. Jones

<v Speaker 1>racked up those one hundred and seventy three point five

<v Speaker 1>sacks in only one hundred and ninety one career games.

<v Speaker 1>Bruce Smith got his two hundred by playing two hundred

<v Speaker 1>and seventy nine games four Harrison's sake. If Deacon Jones

<v Speaker 1>had played as many games as Bruce Smith, he would

<v Speaker 1>statistically have over two hundred and fifty sacks in his career. That,

<v Speaker 1>my friends, is serious production. But like I said, I

<v Speaker 1>also want someone who's a little bit mean. Deacon Jones

<v Speaker 1>was so mean that he would use a head slap

<v Speaker 1>to get opponents to close their eyes and then he

<v Speaker 1>could get by them. He would hit them in their head.

<v Speaker 1>Listen to this clip from NFL Films.

<v Speaker 3>The head slap was to do two purposes. One was

<v Speaker 3>to give myself an initial headstart on the fast rush,

<v Speaker 3>in other words, an extra step, because anytime you go

<v Speaker 3>upside of man's head or woman, then they have a

<v Speaker 3>tendency to blink their eyes or close the eyes. And

<v Speaker 3>that was all I needed.

<v Speaker 1>Did you hear what he said? Did he really just

<v Speaker 1>say if you hit a man or a woman, play that.

<v Speaker 3>Again, because anytime you go upside of man's head or.

<v Speaker 1>Woman, he did. Deacon Jones said, when you hit a

<v Speaker 1>man or a woman with Deacon Jones trying to just

<v Speaker 1>be all inclusive back before that was a big thing.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it was, or was he giving advice.

<v Speaker 1>I don't have any idea. I don't know. I do

<v Speaker 1>know this, I want that guy on my side because

<v Speaker 1>he's going to hit whoever comes at him. And for

<v Speaker 1>that reason, Deacon Jones comes in today at number four.

<v Speaker 1>We move on to number three and we reach another

<v Speaker 1>guy that I would go into battle with because I

<v Speaker 1>want a good planner back in the war room. I

<v Speaker 1>want a mean guy that has speed and strength and

<v Speaker 1>will slap anyone in their head man or woman apparently.

<v Speaker 1>But I do also want a planner in the field.

<v Speaker 1>I want someone that is smart. I want a tactician.

<v Speaker 1>I want someone who knows what to do before it

<v Speaker 1>even happens. Our number three entry knows the best way

<v Speaker 1>to attack the opposition because he has a mind like

<v Speaker 1>a computer. Former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, he just had

<v Speaker 1>that mind. Peyton. Honestly, he wasn't that great of a

<v Speaker 1>passor his past got there, but it really wasn't pretty

<v Speaker 1>through a lot of ducks. He wasn't even particularly over athletic.

<v Speaker 1>He couldn't run, faster, jump, or really do anything physically.

<v Speaker 1>But Peyton Manning's mind was so sharp he knew exactly

<v Speaker 1>how to hurt you. He would plan, he would think,

<v Speaker 1>he would change his plays on the fly. He would

<v Speaker 1>direct traffic and get people to be where they needed

<v Speaker 1>to be to beat you most effectively. Yeah, that's the

<v Speaker 1>kind of guy I want on the ground with me. Plus,

<v Speaker 1>I have a question for you. Have you ever heard

<v Speaker 1>the old line say you're with a group of people

<v Speaker 1>and you see a bear, you get attacked by a bear. Remember,

<v Speaker 1>you don't have to be faster than the bear. I

<v Speaker 1>just have to be faster than someone else. Well, I

<v Speaker 1>guarantee I can be faster than Peyton Manning. Plus, that

<v Speaker 1>giant noggin in his is going to draw some fire

<v Speaker 1>away from me. Peyton Manning comes in today on our

<v Speaker 1>list at number three because I think he would actually

<v Speaker 1>be quite helpful in this sort of a situation. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>so we arrive at number two, and you can say

<v Speaker 1>we are putting together quite a little team here. So far.

<v Speaker 1>We have Bill Belichick in the war room. We have

<v Speaker 1>Deacon Jones slapping people in their heads. We have Peyton

<v Speaker 1>Manning in the field, he's planning, he's moving people into

<v Speaker 1>the right formations. Well, now we add one more quality

<v Speaker 1>because in this situation on our top five today, I

<v Speaker 1>want a winner. Hey, these poor people in the Ukraine,

<v Speaker 1>they're not playing some silly game. This is way more

<v Speaker 1>serious and our thoughts are genuinely with all the people

<v Speaker 1>around the world are being affected by this. But on

<v Speaker 1>this list today, I can't take a chance on someone

<v Speaker 1>who might lose. I need someone who knows how to

<v Speaker 1>come out on top. Well, how about we take a

<v Speaker 1>guy that has more rings than fingers. Because Bill Russell

<v Speaker 1>played thirteen seasons in the NBA. I want you to

<v Speaker 1>think about this. Just two times in that thirteen years

<v Speaker 1>his season ended without a championship. The other eleven he

<v Speaker 1>won it all. No one can compare in the winning

<v Speaker 1>department to Bill Russell. He played two years ever that

<v Speaker 1>he didn't win the title at the end of the year.

<v Speaker 1>That's insane. Eleven championships. No one's come close to that.

<v Speaker 1>But it wasn't just that. Bill Russell, after his playing career,

<v Speaker 1>then coached for eight years and he won two more rings.

<v Speaker 1>Bill Russell had thirteen rings. He almost had enough rings

<v Speaker 1>to fill three hands. Yeah, I need to win.

<v Speaker 2>In this situation.

<v Speaker 1>Bill Russell won, and sometimes he beat more talented players,

<v Speaker 1>sometimes he beat more talented teams. It didn't matter. Bill

<v Speaker 1>Russell found ways to be on the winning side of things. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>I would definitely want him with me if we have

<v Speaker 1>to fight. For that reason, Bill Russell comes in today

<v Speaker 1>at number two, So we reached the number one person

<v Speaker 1>on the daily those top five of Americans that I

<v Speaker 1>want going into battle alongside me. We actually have to fight,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm taking this number one guy for a few reasons. One,

<v Speaker 1>in his prime he was very very good. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>this guy could get into a phone booth and he

<v Speaker 1>could do some serious damage. But more importantly, he brought

<v Speaker 1>something else to the table. Because our number one guy

<v Speaker 1>brought intimidation, and in something as scary as this, if

<v Speaker 1>I can scare you a little bit, that might help

<v Speaker 1>my side. Because you could see back in his prime, bigger,

<v Speaker 1>stronger men climbing into the ring against Mike Tyson, and

<v Speaker 1>you could tell they wanted nothing whatsoever to do with

<v Speaker 1>that Tasmanian devil. They were beaten before the fight even started.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, if you're scared to death before the battle

<v Speaker 1>ever begins, Yeah, that's gonna be good for my side.

<v Speaker 1>And make no mistake, Like I said, Mike was talented.

<v Speaker 1>Mike could do damage and if nothing else, my might

<v Speaker 1>bite you, he might kick you, he might try to

<v Speaker 1>eat your children. He wanted to intimidate you. Yet Mike

<v Speaker 1>Tyson is going to bring a little fear into play,

<v Speaker 1>and in this situation, I think I like that a lot. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>in all seriousness, we wish the best for all those

<v Speaker 1>affected by this scary situation, and we hope that here

<v Speaker 1>at the Daily Dose, we can take your mind off

<v Speaker 1>of all the craziness going on in the world, at

<v Speaker 1>least for an hour each week by talking about some

<v Speaker 1>subjects that are a little more fun but nothing in

<v Speaker 1>comparison to things going on in the real world, some

<v Speaker 1>scary stuff going on out there. If you are listening

<v Speaker 1>to this podcast right now, you are dealing with tough situations. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>I wish you and your loved one's health. I wish

<v Speaker 1>you safety whatever it is that you are going through now.

<v Speaker 1>As we do so many weeks here at the Daily Dose,

<v Speaker 1>we need to get over to our daily dose top five.

<v Speaker 1>So we've been talking about things that are uniquely American today,

<v Speaker 1>this fifth of July, the day after we celebrated our

<v Speaker 1>independence from tyranny. We've discussed a number of traditions. We've

<v Speaker 1>discussed some foods, we've discussed some celebrations, and we've discussed

<v Speaker 1>things today that are uniquely American. But what are the

<v Speaker 1>actual greatest moments on the playing surface for America in

<v Speaker 1>the world of sports. What are some of the most

<v Speaker 1>memorable moments on the playing surface in the world of sports. Well,

<v Speaker 1>we have five unforgettable moments that kind of capture the

<v Speaker 1>essence of Americans. Here are our top five greatest USA

<v Speaker 1>sports moments. We start off at number five, five, and

<v Speaker 1>we have learned that there is nothing that can bring

<v Speaker 1>together this country quite like a horrible tragedy. But back

<v Speaker 1>in Septembmber of two thousand and one, that's exactly what

<v Speaker 1>we had. On September eleventh, two thousand and one, America

<v Speaker 1>was attacked by a milita Islamist extremist movement called al

<v Speaker 1>Qaeda that flew commercial airliners into the twin towers of

<v Speaker 1>the World Trade Center in New York City, two, I

<v Speaker 1>might add, of the five tallest buildings in the world

<v Speaker 1>at the time. Now, they also aimed two other flights

<v Speaker 1>toward targets in or near our capital, Washington, d C.

<v Speaker 1>The third team succeeded in crashing near the Pentagon, the

<v Speaker 1>headquarters of the US Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia,

<v Speaker 1>while the fourth plane actually crashed out in rural Pennsylvania

<v Speaker 1>following a passenger revolt in which they actually fought back. Now,

<v Speaker 1>those attacks killed nearly three thousand people, and they actually

<v Speaker 1>instigated the multi decade global war on Terror. And when

<v Speaker 1>these attacks took place, the world kind of stopped. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>air travel was halted and the world of sports completely

<v Speaker 1>stopped for a few days. However, just ten days later,

<v Speaker 1>it was decided things needed to get back on course,

<v Speaker 1>and what better place to shine than just blocks away

<v Speaker 1>from where the tragedy had taken place. It was on

<v Speaker 1>September twenty first, twenty twenty one, when New York Mets

<v Speaker 1>catcher Mike Piazza swatted a dramatic go ahead to run

<v Speaker 1>home run that not only helped his team win a

<v Speaker 1>game against one of their biggest rivals, the Atlanta Braves,

<v Speaker 1>but also gave the Empire state a reason to smile

<v Speaker 1>after what had happened. Now, it wasn't just the game,

<v Speaker 1>because you also had Diana Ross singing God Bless America.

<v Speaker 1>Prior to the game. You had Eliza Manelli singing New

<v Speaker 1>York during the seventh inning stretch. Then Piazza's home run

<v Speaker 1>gave the home team that three to two win, and

<v Speaker 1>the nation cheered with tears in their eyes. The two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and one game between the New York Mets and

<v Speaker 1>the Atlanta Braves following the nine to eleven attacks comes

<v Speaker 1>in today on our list at number five. We arrive

<v Speaker 1>at number four, and we reach a very similar situation

<v Speaker 1>because the year was nineteen ninety one and our nation

<v Speaker 1>found itself at war for the first time since Vietnam.

<v Speaker 1>The Gulf War was a ninety to ninety one arm

<v Speaker 1>campaign that was waged by a thirty nine country coalition

<v Speaker 1>in response to Iraq invading the country of Kuwait, and

<v Speaker 1>our country, remembering some of the treatment of soldiers that

<v Speaker 1>returned from Vietnam, well, they took a really really patriotic stance.

<v Speaker 1>Back in the ninety one era, American flags and ribbons

<v Speaker 1>were all the rage, and when the Buffalo Bills faced

<v Speaker 1>the New York Giants in Super Bowl twenty five in Tampa, Florida.

<v Speaker 1>Both teams wore red, white and blue. That's their color scheme.

<v Speaker 1>I might add again, the patriotism was running high because

<v Speaker 1>of what was going on overseas, and when singing Sensation,

<v Speaker 1>Whitney Houston stepped up to the microphone to sing the

<v Speaker 1>Star Spangled Banner as only she could. Again, the patriotism

<v Speaker 1>was running high. There was not a dry eye left

<v Speaker 1>in the building. The rendition was followed by a surprisingly,

<v Speaker 1>really good physical football game, which at the time Super

<v Speaker 1>Bowls that was not the norm. Super Bowls had been

<v Speaker 1>blowouts for like a decade, and the Giants won this

<v Speaker 1>game twenty to nineteen over the Bills when kicker Scott

<v Speaker 1>Norwood for the Bills missed a forty seven yard field

<v Speaker 1>goal with just seconds remaining. How good was Whitney Houston's

<v Speaker 1>song though, in the weeks following nine to eleven. More

<v Speaker 1>than twenty years later, her song resurfaced in America and

<v Speaker 1>began climbing the charts again. Super Bowl twenty five and

<v Speaker 1>Whitney Houston's incredible singing of the national anthem come in

<v Speaker 1>today on our list at number four. So we reached

<v Speaker 1>number three, and I'll be honest this one would be

<v Speaker 1>higher except for the fact that it's really going back

<v Speaker 1>in time, and so it just isn't as well known.

<v Speaker 1>There's not as much coverage, there's not as much like

<v Speaker 1>video evidence of the other ones on our list today.

<v Speaker 1>But make the mistake, this one was huge, and it

<v Speaker 1>was huge for so many reasons. We go back to

<v Speaker 1>the year nineteen thirty six and the Summer Olympic Games

<v Speaker 1>which were being held in yes, you guessed it, Berlin, Germany. Now,

<v Speaker 1>at this time, Adolf Hitler had come to power and

<v Speaker 1>within just three years the world was going to be

<v Speaker 1>at war. But back in thirty six, Hitler was in

<v Speaker 1>the process of kind of trying to prove his worth

<v Speaker 1>to outdo the previous nineteen thirty two games. In Los Angeles.

<v Speaker 1>Defarrer had gotten a new one hundred thousand seed track

<v Speaker 1>and field stadium. He also had six gymnasiums and other

<v Speaker 1>small arenas built. He was going to try to show

<v Speaker 1>the gloriousness of the Third Reich. The games were the

<v Speaker 1>first to be televised. You also had radio broadcasts reaching

<v Speaker 1>forty one different countries. Hey, Hitler saw the thirty six

<v Speaker 1>games as an opportunity to promote his government to promote

<v Speaker 1>his ideals of racial supremacy and of course anti Semitism,

<v Speaker 1>and the official Nazi party paper wrote in it that

<v Speaker 1>Jews shouldn't even be allowed to participate in the Games.

<v Speaker 1>German athletes a lot of times were barred or prevented

<v Speaker 1>from taking place in the Games by a number of

<v Speaker 1>different methods. Jewish athletes from other countries were said to

<v Speaker 1>have been sidelined so that they wouldn't offend the Nazi regime.

<v Speaker 1>Hitler actually went to the Games every day he was

<v Speaker 1>in attendance, and while Germany was the most successful country overall,

<v Speaker 1>they actually got one hundred and one medals. Second place

<v Speaker 1>was the United States, clear back at fifty seven medals.

<v Speaker 1>Germany also got thirty eight gold medals, which put them

<v Speaker 1>on top as well. However, it was a young black

<v Speaker 1>track star that stood Hitler's ideology that he was part

<v Speaker 1>of the master race on its collective ear because Ohio

<v Speaker 1>States Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the sprint

<v Speaker 1>and long jump events, and he became the most successful

<v Speaker 1>athlete to compete in Berlin. Owens won more than anyone,

<v Speaker 1>and Americans at home watched Jesse Owens beat the Germans,

<v Speaker 1>and he became a unifying figure way before the Civil

<v Speaker 1>Rights era. Jesse Owens domination in Berlin comes in today

<v Speaker 1>on our list at number three. So we reached number

<v Speaker 1>two on our Greatest US Moments in Sports.

<v Speaker 2>And we go back to.

<v Speaker 1>Another story where America watched good triumph over evil, but

<v Speaker 1>it was a little bit better this time. We go

<v Speaker 1>back again to nineteen thirty six where American heavyweight fighter

<v Speaker 1>Joe Lewis was the number one contender to champion James

<v Speaker 1>Braddock's title. Lewis had a twenty four and old record. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>German fighter Max schmailing he was experienced, he was tough,

<v Speaker 1>he was strong, but he was also beatable. He had

<v Speaker 1>a forty eight seven and four record, and they say

<v Speaker 1>when they scheduled this fight, Joe Louis took the fight lightly.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't train as hard as he usually would. The

<v Speaker 1>fight was held in Yankee Stadium in June of thirty six,

<v Speaker 1>and while Lewis was the heavy favorite, Shmaling claimed he

<v Speaker 1>had studied some film and he had found a weakness

<v Speaker 1>in the Brown Bombers defense.

<v Speaker 2>Turned out he wasn't lying.

<v Speaker 1>Schmaling attacked Joe's habit of dropping his left hand after

<v Speaker 1>he threw the job, and he actually gave Lewis his

<v Speaker 1>first professional loss. He knocked him out in the twelfth

<v Speaker 1>round in front of a stunned New York crowd. Adolf

<v Speaker 1>Hitler was so happy with the result he sent Schmaling's

<v Speaker 1>wife flowers and a message that said, for the wonderful

<v Speaker 1>victory of your husband, our greatest German boxer, I must

<v Speaker 1>congratulate you with all my heart. Okay, fast forward two years.

<v Speaker 1>Hitler was going to invade Poland just like a year later,

<v Speaker 1>but in June of thirty eight, we got the rematch. Now,

<v Speaker 1>the United States economy was struggling, because remember it was

<v Speaker 1>coming out of the depression. The economic problem had affected

<v Speaker 1>the US throughout the thirties, and many Americans were hoping

<v Speaker 1>to get some inspiration from the world of sports. Now.

<v Speaker 1>Adding to that economic instability was, of course, the fact

<v Speaker 1>that this was Nazi Germany against the United States. By

<v Speaker 1>the time Lewis Schmaeling rematched in thirty eight, Nazi Germany

<v Speaker 1>had already taken over Austria and there were tensions between

<v Speaker 1>Germany and kind of the rest of the world. Now,

<v Speaker 1>to be fair in this situation, Schmaling was not a

<v Speaker 1>member of the Nazi Party and he didn't want to

<v Speaker 1>be used as upon in this game. In fact, he

<v Speaker 1>actually had a Jewish manager. But the Nazi regime exploited Schmeling.

<v Speaker 1>They were putting out propaganda, they were taking steps to

<v Speaker 1>make it look like Schmaling was a full fledged member

<v Speaker 1>of the Nazi Party. Schmaling's wife and mother were kept

<v Speaker 1>from traveling with him because they were worried he might

<v Speaker 1>actually defect to the US. But a few weeks before

<v Speaker 1>the rematch, Joe Lewis visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the

<v Speaker 1>White House, and the New York Times quoted Roosevelt as

<v Speaker 1>telling Joe Louis, Joe, we need muscles like yours to

<v Speaker 1>beat Germany. While on June twenty second, nineteen thirty eight,

<v Speaker 1>the fighters met again in Yankee Stadium among more than

<v Speaker 1>seventy thousand people in attendance. You had Clark Gable, you

<v Speaker 1>had Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, j Edgar Hoover.

<v Speaker 1>I mean back then that a celebrity rowe. Meanwhile, back

<v Speaker 1>in Germany, Hitler actually waived the Nazi imposed curfew so

<v Speaker 1>that citizens could stay up to watch the fight. Now,

<v Speaker 1>they say Hitler called Schmaling prior to the fight to

<v Speaker 1>remind him no black fighter can be a German. In

<v Speaker 1>his seventy six biography, Joe Lewis wrote this, I knew

<v Speaker 1>I had to get Shmaealing good. I had my own

<v Speaker 1>personal reasons, and the whole country was depending on me.

<v Speaker 1>Imagine that pressure for a second. This time, Lewis took

<v Speaker 1>his training for the about very seriously. He gave up golf,

<v Speaker 1>he gave up women. He didn't drink. Joe Lewis said

<v Speaker 1>to a friend before the fight, I'm scared. I'm scared

<v Speaker 1>I might kill Max Shmaeling. Hey, he wasn't far off.

<v Speaker 1>Lewis attacked Shmailing from the opening bell, and he laid

<v Speaker 1>one of the worst beatings on him that, honestly I

<v Speaker 1>have ever seen. It is a little bit barbaric to watch.

<v Speaker 1>Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the action for the first time.

<v Speaker 1>Just a minute into the fight. Lewis had connected on

<v Speaker 1>five straight left hooks, and a body blow to Schmaling's

<v Speaker 1>lower left actually had him cry out in pain, so

<v Speaker 1>he sent it was to his corner. Donovan restarted the

<v Speaker 1>fight and Lewis jumped on him again. He knocked him

<v Speaker 1>down with the right hook. Shmaling stood up on the

<v Speaker 1>count of three. Lewis came back began beating on him again,

<v Speaker 1>connecting with his head. He knocked him down again. Somehow

<v Speaker 1>Shmaling got up at the count of two. But now

<v Speaker 1>Shmaling was in trouble. I mean he was a drowning man.

<v Speaker 1>Shmaling's corner actually threw a towel into the ring. The

<v Speaker 1>problem was under New York state rules that didn't end

<v Speaker 1>the fight, so his manager actually ran into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>The next time, Shmaeling got knocked down and stopped the

<v Speaker 1>count at eight, at which point the referee had already

<v Speaker 1>declared the fight over. Joe Lewis was the winner and

<v Speaker 1>the world heavyweight champion by technical knockout just two minutes

<v Speaker 1>and four seconds into the first round. It was a

<v Speaker 1>victory that pulled all of America in one direction. It

<v Speaker 1>was us versus you. This is back in the thirties.

<v Speaker 1>Civil rights hadn't come around yet, and yet this country

<v Speaker 1>was all cheering for a black fighter to win. Joe

<v Speaker 1>Lewis obliterating Max Smailing and Hitler comes in today at

<v Speaker 1>number two, So we reached the number one greatest sports

<v Speaker 1>moment in US history. And where else can we go?

<v Speaker 1>You know, people forget why the Olympic Dream Team was

<v Speaker 1>formed in nineteen ninety six. A lot of people criticize that.

<v Speaker 1>They still criticized the US for sending pros to those games,

<v Speaker 1>but the fact is most countries had been doing that

<v Speaker 1>for years, so the US finally caught up. But back

<v Speaker 1>in nineteen eighty, the United States was forced to play

<v Speaker 1>a hockey team full of grown men despite having just

<v Speaker 1>boys on the roster. The Soviet Union had won the

<v Speaker 1>gold medal in five of the previous six Winter Olympic Games,

<v Speaker 1>and they were heavy favorites to win another one in

<v Speaker 1>Lake Placid in nineteen eighty. The team consisted mostly of

<v Speaker 1>professional players with significant experience in international play. Meanwhile, the

<v Speaker 1>United States team, led by head coach Herb Brooks, it

<v Speaker 1>was mostly all amateur players. There were only four players

<v Speaker 1>that even had minor league experience. The United States had

<v Speaker 1>the youngest team in the tournament and in US team

<v Speaker 1>history prior to the games. In their last exhibition game

<v Speaker 1>against the Soviets at Madison Square Garden on February ninth,

<v Speaker 1>the Americans were crushed ten to three by the Soviets.

<v Speaker 1>This wouldn't be close now. In the group stage, both

<v Speaker 1>the Soviets and the US teams were unbeaten. The US

<v Speaker 1>actually had a few surprises. They got a draw against Sweden,

<v Speaker 1>which was big for them. They pulled off a shocking

<v Speaker 1>seven to three upset win over Czechoslovakia, and then they

<v Speaker 1>beat Norway, Rome and West Germany, so they went four

<v Speaker 1>oh to one. Meanwhile, the Russians were killing everyone. They

<v Speaker 1>beat Japan sixteen to nothing. They beat the Netherlands seventeen

<v Speaker 1>to four, Poland eight to one, Finland four to two,

<v Speaker 1>in Canada six to four. So on February twenty second,

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty, the Americans would get a rematch in the

<v Speaker 1>first game of the medal round. Well, the Soviets scored

<v Speaker 1>quick and took a one nothing lead. Everyone thought this

<v Speaker 1>is going to be another blowout, but with fourteen minutes

<v Speaker 1>left in the first period, bus Schneider took a hard

<v Speaker 1>shot from fifty feet out and the Russian goaltender kind

<v Speaker 1>of misplayed it. The US scored and tied it up. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>but Russia scored again. It was two to one, but

<v Speaker 1>with the period ending, American Dave Christian fired a slap

<v Speaker 1>shot from like one hundred feet away. The Soviet goalie

<v Speaker 1>saved the shot easily, but he misplayed the rebound and

<v Speaker 1>it bound out in front of him. Mark Johnson sliced

<v Speaker 1>between two defenders, found the loose puck, and fired it

<v Speaker 1>past the diving goalie, and suddenly the game is tied

<v Speaker 1>going to the second. The Soviets, they kind of panicked.

<v Speaker 1>They weren't used to this. They pulled their starting goaltender.

<v Speaker 1>After two periods, they held a small three to two lead,

<v Speaker 1>but then when the third period began, Team USA just

<v Speaker 1>kind of went crazy. Johnson scored again to tie the

<v Speaker 1>game with twelve minutes to play, and then eighteen year

<v Speaker 1>old team captain Mike Ruzioni gave Team USA the lead

<v Speaker 1>just two minutes later, and American goalie Jim Craig and

<v Speaker 1>the defense and a home crowd that was losing their

<v Speaker 1>collective mind had to hold on for ten minutes. The

<v Speaker 1>problem for the Soviets they weren't used to playing for behind.

<v Speaker 1>They didn't pull their goalie for an extra attacker. They

<v Speaker 1>had no idea how to even play that way. Some wow,

<v Speaker 1>the young US team pulled off an absolute miracle. As

<v Speaker 1>you will hear on this clip from ABC Man the

<v Speaker 1>Pumpels eleven pecond you've got paying Peconda going on right now. Well,

<v Speaker 1>fucking hey, the United States is a crazy mix of

<v Speaker 1>people from all over the world. We have different religions,

<v Speaker 1>different politics, and differing views of life, and sometimes that

<v Speaker 1>can be maddening. We fight, we complain most every day,

<v Speaker 1>and yet you will be hard pressed to find another

<v Speaker 1>country that has ever done it any better. And you know,

<v Speaker 1>when we are all pulling in the same direction, like

<v Speaker 1>we saw in our Top five today weekend, still be

<v Speaker 1>a force to be reckoned with. I hope you had

<v Speaker 1>a very safe and happy fourth of July this year. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>next week in the Dose, we will be back to

<v Speaker 1>our reg or format, and as we are now past

<v Speaker 1>the midway point of the summer, now July fourth will

<v Speaker 1>be over.

<v Speaker 2>Well, we just might have to check in on.

<v Speaker 1>Major League Baseball because now things might be starting to

<v Speaker 1>make a little more sense. We will also be sure

<v Speaker 1>to update what is going on in that World Cup tournament,

<v Speaker 1>and of course anything else that might be going on

<v Speaker 1>in the world of sports. So be sure that you

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