Interesting. All from the 1970s. Before we got so politically correct. No politics involved in these choices, at least no politics imputed by me.

Frank Klammer’s Gold Medal downhill from the’76 Olympics. At the end of the day, on a beat-up course, as the favorite who was no longer favored.

Muhammad Ali in his amazing conquest of the fearsome puncher George Foreman. 1974. The boxer poet who became the fighter-chessmaster-killer. Too many other videos would be required. I remember this one as a social event. We cheered our asses off.

Secretariat. 1973. I just keep hearing the announcer giving up the ghost: “like a tremendous machine.”

No other horse was even in the picture. Only one other thing since the Seventies. The 1980 Phillies. But that would make this seem parochial. Which it isn’t. It’s universal.