The Greatest Sporting Event in History

[Ron]

Case closed.

CFL 1995: Calgary Stampeders vs Toronto Argonauts in the last game of the season. No game in history has had a greater impact to Canadian Culture.

[ArgoRavi]

Case closed.

CFL 1995: Calgary Stampeders vs Toronto Argonauts in the last game of the season. No game in history has had a greater impact to Canadian Culture.

The game that saved this great country!

[OV Argo]

I would vote for the 72 Summit Series as the greatest sporting event of all-time - just IMO of course, and it should be Captain Obvious that this purely subjective - i.e. there is no "truth" or righteous opinion here. 2 teams - continents apart - that had never faced each other in any way, play a tough, hard fought 7 game series that goes down to the wire/last minute.

And this is a Canadian / (Russian) thing. Americans would have no clue / wouldn't get this at all - a lot of them think the Super Bowl winners are "World Champs" = pompous, clueless, ignorant clowns. Some sports are competed for in a lot of places in the world - soccer for sure, hockey, basketball, baseball.

NO Olympic event - no matter how great a single athletic performance - can IMO compare to a 7 game series in a team sport with 20 some or more players on each roster. The Olympics reward system is a joke to me: a swimmer can win something like 7 medals in brief, ultra limited events, but an entire team (soccer, hockey, etc.) can go thru an entire tournament / multiple games to beat all others and gets rewarded with ONE medal ? - total farce. A runner winning gold in the 100, 200, 400, relay, 1500 and the marathon - now that would be something. ;o)

Team sports - easily, IMO - trump all single competitor sporting competitions. End of story !!!



Canadian football - with 12 men per side / 24 players on the field at one time (27 or so different positions in all counting offence, defence and special teams), played on about the largest playing surface possible = the ultimate - toughest, most complex - team sport (IMO / that is all ;o) )

The Grey Cup is the greatest prize in sports in that regard AND it has been played for / in competition for over 100 years - (sorry Super Bowl, you arent even close).

; 7 game series to win a championship in a TEAM sport - like the Stanley Cup or World Series are the toughest to win sports prizes - IMO (so, sorry swimmer who won 5 Olympic medals, you ain't even on the same planet)