Sports Illustrated - talk about being insular!

keps

Here are the top 100 photos 'of all time' according to SI.

Totally biased towards baseball, American Football & basketball.

Not one soccer photo!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/main/photos/1212/100-greatest-sports-photos-of-all-time-final/1/

keps

oops Sorry - one soccer photo( american).

theboat

I suppose I'm not surprised that there's a bias towards American sports, it being an American magazine.
It's more that there are quite a few photos in there that do nothing at all for me. I've certainly seen other sports photos that struck me more. But I guess that's the way things go!

The shot of the basketball game on the aircraft carrier is pretty cool though...

magicbastarder

no.3 is a meh photo; i don't see how it'd make the list at all let alone get up to that spot. maybe it's got some context that i would be unaware of.

no.19 is beautiful, but most of the photos seem to be picked because of the occasion, not because of the quality of the shot.

ado100

Some great photos but some truly ordinary ones too. What's the story with the ice hockey player on his own on the ice (shot 27), looks like it was taken with a camera phone? Maybe there's some amazing back-story about this photo but that just makes it a great sporting moment not a great sports photo IMO.

pullandbang

99 Sports related mediocre photos and one of a fish......wtf?

PopeBuckfastXVI

Got 99 photos and a fish is one...

dazftw

ado100 wrote: »

Some great photos but some truly ordinary ones too. What's the story with the ice hockey player on his own on the ice (shot 27), looks like it was taken with a camera phone? Maybe there's some amazing back-story about this photo but that just makes it a great sporting moment not a great sports photo IMO.

"Wayne Gretzky
New York, April 18, 1999
Wayne Gretzky waves to the crowd at Madison Square Garden after playing in the final game in of his career."

ado100

dazftw wrote: »

"Wayne Gretzky
New York, April 18, 1999
Wayne Gretzky waves to the crowd at Madison Square Garden after playing in the final game in of his career."

That's a great sporting moment, not a great sports photo! And as for the fish...

pixbyjohn

What a load of ould wans, stop bitchin:D

keps

Some better ones

http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/12/top-111-sports-pictures-of-2011/

pullandbang

keps wrote: »

Some better ones

You should send that link to the w4nkers on the editorial desk in Sports Illustrated to show them what real sports photography is.

Cookie P74

Loads of great photos of sporting moments in that SI list, loads of great shots on that other link too.