Truly the GOATs

Truly the GOATs is part of the Sports History Network - The
Headquarters for Sports' Yesteryear.


“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our
recollection and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of
tomorrow.” –Washington Irving


“The Greatest of All-Time”: An expression that has become so
ubiquitous in 21st-century sports reportage that it’s often more
convenient to use the acronym GOAT. Truly The GOATs takes that
expression very seriously, especially the “all-time” part.


From Europe to Asia, from Polynesia to Mesoamerica, humankind has
played organized or semi-organized sport for at very least 4,000
years. The games may be straightforward, as in throwing the
discus or running the 100-meter dash; they may be symbolic, as in
the ball game of the Aztecs and Maya; or they may be utterly
abstract, as in cricket or chinlone. 


Truly The GOATs seeks to remember those who enthralled spectators
with wondrous feats of athleticism in their day – whether
ancient, medieval, modern, or post-modern. We’ll also recall the
cultures that produced the games in which truly unique athletes
and their sports that may have become moribund, evolved beyond
recognition, or simply disappeared altogether.


On Truly the GOATs, we’ll travel through time and space, from the
football pitches of South America to the ball courts of
Mesoamerica. We’ll see Spain in the 15th century and return for
the late 20th. We’ll go from 40 miles per hour in Rome to 375 kph
in Germany. We’ll visit Canada and Japan, we’ll barnstorm
America, we’ll sail the Atlantic.


And Truly the GOATs hopes you see the commonality within
humanity. Whenever and wherever you go, you’re certain to find
fascination with the proverbial thrill of victory, the agony of
defeat – and tales of the Greatest Of All-Time…


Learn more about Truly the GOATs here on the website.