Best athletic performance ever
 

In these trying times we need more of these fun threads. This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen in sports. I watched it live on TV and it was great!

Klay scoring 37 in one quarter.

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Jim Thorpe

That's a ball player, not an athlete. :D

"Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe

How quickly they forget...

How 'bout Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game against the NY Knicks back in 1962...a record that will probably never be broken. No 3-point shots back then either.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHid-nC45k

This was one of my most memorable sport memories

Franz klammers final downhill run in 75 ( or 76?) olympics to win gold .. To vanquish all the young guys..... Video online...

Klay scored 37 in about 9 minutes. That's on pace for 197 points in 48 minutes. I doubt if Wilt would have been a 3-point shooter anyway.

Clay beating Liston was huge for the time it happened .

Or how about Broadway Joe and the Jets beating the Colts for the super bowl win ?

He touched the ball 6 times, scored 3 touchdowns, and ran for 181 yards.
In the first quarter.
Total dominance.

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Paul Henderson. Period.

[QUOTE=rcooled;10796865]How 'bout Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game against the NY Knicks back in 1962...a record that will probably never be broken. No 3-point shots back then either.


Wilt had other records that he was more proud of. :)

I second Bo Jackson. Bo Knows.

Greg LeMond.
Five Tour wins in sport's most demanding event.
- all before doping became fashionable.
Bill K

Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr would disagree, both of whom have said my former neighbor Gordy Howe was the greatest hockey player of all time. Gretzky, Orr and Howe were selected (in that order, I think) as the top three Hockey players of all time.

Byron Nelson was so dialed in during the 1939 U.S. Open, he hit the flagstick six times on approach shots during the regulation 72 holes.
Many people play their entire lives and never hit one.

Tiger winning the 2000 US Open by 15 strokes will never be matched.

^^^ Athletes...golf????
Might as well include Billiards. :D

That is good.

I watched it live in glorious B&W!

Roger Bannister has to be on the list, so does Eliud Kipchoge.

There is something about solo sports endeavors that resonate with me.