ESPN Century

[bigtesticeicle]

what is the song at the beginning before aerosmith?? 

[Shawneeboy013]

Gives me goosebumps every time

[sportstalk23]

RIP Joe Frazier

[kjn24]

victory is

[kjn24]

100% proof that the greatest emotion is victory. proof is joe carter jumping around like a kid after winning the world series with one swing

[McCall72]

All my teams present in this video: Atlanta Falcons, Braves, NC State Wolfpack, and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

[mcnickyd13]

My nipples got hard.

[StFidjnr]

@ 1:22 da bears doing da super bowl shuffle before shuffleing thier way to a superbowl win

[BarackSays]

"HERE HE COMES, MARIO LEMEIUX, HANG ON...HE SCOOORRREESSS! YA GOTTA LOVE IT!"

[EdgertonLive]

2:46 R.I.P. Payne Stewart

[mullensax55]

derek redmond? 92 olympics?

[McCall72]

5:11 Dale Earnhardt winning the Daytona 500 was a happy day in my house.

[Rix2020]

Great video no question and mashing this all together is very, very tough I get that but I woulda loved to hear HK's call of Schmidt's 500th jack..unreal call for the NL's best ever 3rd baseman. A few other omissions would be any of Randy Moss's TDs from his first couple seasons and MJ's final jumper (didn't scope all the comments to see if others mentioned these clips)

[myd0ugie]

4:46 "The Greatest of All-Time"

[letsgobruins1985]

3:30 was Bryan Trottier, a member of the NY Islanders teams that won 4 straight Stanley Cups (80, 81, 82, 83)

[Aquamelli]

who is that at 3:30

[rgvc]

i never get tired of this video the song the moments are so great!!!

[jets1211]

wtf is that at :47?

[pas37]

First person to swim the English Channel

[jets1211]

noo that monster thing

[cattoy37]

Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel being covered in grease to protect her from hypothermia.

[StFidjnr]

@cattoy37 she did it while she's doing the backstorke

[aproffittable]

A swimmer...

[SuneyJ]

Wow, what an awesome video

[aproffittable]

The world would suck without sports

[aproffittable]

Best video on youtube!

[hlev123]

thats hilarious, "I'm PRETTY!"

[ImAFakeWhiteKid]

hockey is the best

[hlev123]

what is that clip when that woman is crying "why?" whhat is that?

[treymcneil]

a badass american runner, was the favorite to win the Olympic gold Medal, was about to win the gold when some no namer tripped her in the last 200 yards

[lpca12]

The aftermath of the earthquake in the world series A's vs Giants in 1989

[lpca12]

I'm sorry was wrong about the erthquake; her name is Nancy Kerrigan she´s a Olympic Medal winner and she was atack with a sledgehammer by Tonya Harding in a "conspiration" and he scream "why me, why anybody" you can check it on wikipedia.

[cattoy37]

Tonya Harding didn't hit her with a hammer, it was her ex and an associate.

[lpca12]

Well, I wasn't there so maybe you're right.

[BBOY73]

There's a long drive... it's gonna be, I believe...THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands! The Giants win the pennant and they're goin' crazy, they're goin' crazy! HEEEY-OH!!!''

[euskaldanak]

and a shot on Ehlo gooooood the bulls win the bulls win!

Bobby Hurley up the floor to laettner they throw it the length of the floor laettner catches tucks down dribbles shoots Scoooooorrrrrres! Christian Laettner hs hit the bucket at the buzzer! The blue devils win it 104 to 103 lookout minneapolis here come the blue devils.

[ihouse87]

sports are a microcosm of human emotion

this video is just proof of that

[KzK101]

Theres something that bugs me... i LOVE football, hockey, golf, and basketball. but where is SOCCER????

soccer has great moments, in america and in Europe ??????

[nfguzmanjr]

At 5:02, is that Johnny Dawkins?

[stan124]

it's Grant Hill in Duke, in the title game against Kansas in 1991

[desavage27]

best music video ive ever seen in my life for sure

[airHaakon]

good there was no damn soccer

[nfguzmanjr]

I think mid way in that was Pele being carried off on everyone's shoulders.

[bluerich59]

Congrats to those who put this together at ESPN! The passion with which the clips and audio was edited together shows they understand the history of sport in America and how it weaves a thread through society. It is truly an epic video!

[barratar1]

6:25 best

[redzebra16]

Namath or joe d both r great clips..curious on which you thought was the best

[acm0416]

3:46: who's crying and why?

[eman0716]

it is Eddie Robinson, the legendary coach of grambling football, Im assuming it was at his retirment in 1997..coached for over 50 years, one of the most winningest coaches in college football....died in 2007

[BarackSays]

For all the dumb stuff ESPN does, they do occasionally do something epic like this.

[girthanthraclops]

this is good

[joffreylupul15]

simply an epic video

yzerman had the sickest snip of the century during the first part of the dream on video.

[patcharlesboyd]

I think that was the purest slapshot goal ever scored, just the epitome of snipe.

[91jasperme]

does anyone know the song that is being played during the last half of the video?? Thanx

[lpca12]

Dream on by Aerosmith.

[austinheat10]

how would u not know that?

[franzmaurerusa]

GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!!

[lpca12]

Best video ever, Dream on: best song ever, great combination

[Brettt08]

Its Chamique Holdsclaw

[benfolds4980]

The man at 3:57 is Gordie Howe, and the girl at 5:25 is either Shamika Holdsclaw or Tamika Catchings. Not sure which one, they both played at Tennessee.

[vicentarufina]

i will like to know who is that girl crying and y is she crying 5 minutes and 25 seconds into the video?...thank u

[jeremiahlp1]

god this video is incredible.  easily one of the best things espn's ever produced.

[allblak]

Lame how its only about Americans

[rjwillia]

gretzky is canadian

[lpca12]

Roberto Clemente was from Puerto Rico.

Jean van de velde is French.

Sammy Sosa is from Republica Dominicana.

and Patrick Roy is Canadian.

[JuliusC1973]

It's an American Company covering amateur and professional sports in the United States, so what do you expect? I don't completely agree with the order that ESPN ranked them, but for those of us who have lived in the United States all of our lives, this is a good representation as to who we think are the greatest athletes of the 20th Century.

[ApexVideoLearning]

Who is the guy at about 3:57 between Mutumbo and Agassi? Older guy

[pas37]

I think it is Gordie Howe.

[ApexVideoLearning]

Ah - good call - thanks

[dsgghfds]

Gordie Howe

[pas37]

I hate to tell you this, but it was Jack Buck and not Vin Scully who had the call of Kirk Gibson's homerun.

[chn71]

Jack Buck had the radio call, which is used here, while Vin Scully made the call for the NBC broadcast

[HeisterEhlo4Prez]

@pas37 they both did and both are very memorable calls

[durnelljt]

One of the best videos I have ever seen!

[zone46]

What happened at 5:52? I'm curious.

[pas37]

Kirk Gibson's pinch-hit walk off home run against the Oakland A's closer Dennis Eckersley to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The great Jack Buck with the call.

[expatinasia]

It was, in fact, Vin Scully, with the audio. Great call, nevertheless, though definitely not Jack Buck.

[ihouse87]

What made it great was that Gibson was a possibility to not play at all because he was on two bad knees.

[spottratz]

I would love to get a better resolution copy of that for my Dad.

ESPN did an unbelievable job on that montage.

[SeanSawx05]

XD @ pandalise

[holotekor]

haha i was wondering that too

[pandalise]

what the heck is the song at the beginning, that piece of music? they always use it for trailers and whatnot too. i needta know

[cheese777]

aerosmith-dream on

[pandalise]

nope. see, the thing about "at the beginning" is that it means... at the beginning. i'm not retarded. i'm talking about the instrumental piece.

[woodsen2]

Its the theme from the movie Hoffa.

[pandalise]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE WONDERED WHAT THAT SONG IS. like prolly since i was 9 or 10.

[LTDANMAN44]

this is awesome

[claytron3000]

Thank you for capturing and posting this. I never thought someone would have the mind to record this segment. I remember watching the ESPN New Year's Eve show that night over and over again just to see this video.