The Greatest Sports Moment Ever

This last weekend, I let Nick have the remote-no questions asked. Usually, no matter who has the remote, we try to compromise. I won't watch "Murder, She Wrote" and he won't watch IFC (The Independent Film Channel). But Nick has been sick for about a month now with the cold-that will-not-leave and I felt sorry for him. So when he turned on "The Greatest Sports Moments Of All Time", nary a peep I made. And it turned out to be better than I thought. I missed most of of it but I caught the top five and they are as I remember:

5. Lou Gehrig's good-bye speech when he retired from Baseball
4. Lance Armstrong's Tour de France rqce AFTER cancer
3.Jackie Robinson's entrance into Major League baseball
2.
1.1980 Olympic Hockey team win-"Miracle On Ice"

Number 2 is blank-I just cannot remember what it was.

As much as all those moments are great, and to be admired in their own right, I was really disappointed that after all was said and done, the number one, all time, greatest moment ever was a hockey game. I understand it was the cold war, and few people love the Olympics more than me but really-this is what people find inspriational? A bunch of white guys triumphing against a political system-the commies"? Or was it the underdog beating a powerhouse-yet again? Sports is fun and all, and I have seen it contribute lots of good things-from keeping kids busy in a safe atmosphere (usually), to inspiring us to achieve things we never thought possible. But put it in a human world-what would be the number one triumph of all time? What one moment in the History of Sports made you cry? Inspired you to look beyond what was possible? To shout out loud even though the sport itself was less than moving?

I am biased, obviously, but every time I see clips of Jesse Owens winning Gold (in a sport I have ZERO interest) at the Berlin Olympics, I get teary eyed. That one moment just said so much for so many people, and proved so much for sceince, that I look at it as more than SPORTS.
It showed Hitler that his little policy of "The Master Race", was a bunch of scientific shit.
It was a small dent in the racist policies back home in the US: African-Americans WERE NOT, ARE NOT, inferior.
It was a small ray of hope for Jews that an American and not a German, hand picked Nazi stooge won the Gold Medal, in front of the entire world.
And last but certianly not least, it was a huge step for humanity. Jesse Owens beat his German rival, and then went on to treat his adversary as a friend. I can't remember the rival's name, and I cannot say they became the best of friends, but they did meet numerous times after the infamous race and they did have at least a very friendly professional relationship. That two men, from such different places, under such adverse conditions could grow to like one another and be friends, says a lot to me, and makes this THE best moment in sports.