Michael G. Clark

@infosecjeff @lippyent Ain't no way GNR is anywhere near one of the Top 4 American bands. Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd (pre-crash ONLY), Van Halen, CCR, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Ramones, KISS, The Grateful Dead, R.E.M., Heart, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Crowes, The Beach Boys...

@lippyent First of all this is a US Monument. We need these to be 4 of the best US Rock Bands, Eagles, Aerosmith, Heart, Guns N' Roses. If the theme was UK bands then the 4th would be Deep Purple.

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@lippyent Chuck Berry! Duh!

@TJWieger3et @lippyent Boston wasn't really a band. It was Tom & Brad. Tom did all of the instruments on almost all of the songs. Drums, bass, keys, and guitars. The live shows used hired guns who got their photos on the albums, but they didn't play on the tracks (other than Jim on one song).

@lippyent First I would get rid of the stones and Beatles and put Skynard inthere with bob Seger and Boston, just my preference

@Bamcdaniel77 @lippyent Not even Top 100. Great drummer, maybe the best ever. Front man who can't sing and can only write the same basic syncopated rhythmic pattern for the verses of every song's lyrics. Slightly better than mediocre guitarist.

@lippyent Rush!! Can’t have a Mt. Rushmore without more Rush!! 🤘🤘

@RealDealYup @Wes_Macc @Super70sSports It's been generally accepted and more or less confirmed using advanced film analysis. It's the same kind of analysis that revised Secretariat's time at the Preakness to give him the stakes record there.

@MichaelGrClark @Wes_Macc @Super70sSports We don't know that Sham's time was sub two minutes, because he wasn't timed.

On this Kentucky Derby day, here’s your reminder that Secretariat was faster than any horse who has ever lived. The year is 1973 and this is his track record run. Untouched for 53 years. The GOAT.

@Truth_n_facts1 @Super70sSports Yep. Not only broke the old world record, but broke a mythical number that runners have been chasing for decades. Didn't even win the race.

@MichaelGrClark @Super70sSports It feels like the guy who ran the London Marathon in under two hours last weekend and finished in second place.

@BlueCollarStorm @Super70sSports Secretariat would have ran whatever time he needed to beat Man 'O War. Turcotte said Big Red still had gas in the tank at the end of the Belmont. He had to hold him back and force him to cool down after finishing 31 lengths ahead of the rest of the field.

@MichaelGrClark @Super70sSports Not so clear:

@Montpelier20 @Super70sSports Thanks. I was not aware that Monarchos also broke 2:00.00

@MichaelGrClark @Super70sSports Not true — three horses have run the Derby in under 2:00. Secretariat (1:59.40), Sham (~1:59.9 estimated only), and Monarchos (1:59.97). Monarchos gets forgotten, but he’s in the sub‑2:00 club too — and yes, he’s a Secretariat descendant.

@L1_C_4 @Super70sSports Sham wasn't the only other horse in the Belmont. Secretariat beat Sham by 2 1/2 lengths at both the Derby and the Preakness. He beat the entire field by 31+ lengths in the Belmont.

@MichaelGrClark @Super70sSports Sham broke his leg in the Belmont. That's why he won by so much more.

@CitizenScreen Why did you use Neil Leifer's photo (with the color all out of whack) of Ali over Sonny Liston from the 1965 fight in Lewiston, Maine?

On October 30, 1974, 32-year-old Muhammad Ali became boxing’s heavyweight champion of the world for the second time when he knocked out 25-year-old champ George Foreman in the eighth round of the “Rumble in the Jungle.” #OnThisDay

@Truth_n_facts1 @EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports It's also still the only other sub 2:00 time ever run at the Kentucky Derby.

@EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports This video shows Secretariat setting a Kentucky Derby record that has held up for 53 years so far. The amazing second place horse picked a bad year to be born.

@Trish45714699 @EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports And I don't think he was yet running at 100% even when he crossed the finish line 2 1/2 lengths ahead of Sham.

@EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports In order to win by 2 1/2 lengths from last place, Secretariat ran each quarter faster than the previous. He accelerated through the entire race, which is a remarkable demonstration of his athleticism.

@DevinBrightblad @EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports I think you misunderstood my comment. I wasn't challenging your "case". I was pointing out that even when the other entrants at the Derby threw in the towel and the top 3 raced against fresher competition at the Preakness, they were still really only racing against each other.

@MichaelGrClark @EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports Yeah that helps my case. Secretariat was so dominant he scared away everyone else. Only 6 horses entered the Preakness. How is this not a display of Secretariat’s greatness. No one doubts that Belmont was Secretariat’s finest hour, you’re comparing dominance to a miracle.

@EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports How many horses have won the Derby after being in last place starting down the backstretch? From 15-20 lengths behind? Secretariat never hit full speed in the Derby. He was just playing with the rest of the field, still winning it after a near disastrous start.

@Super70sSports Interesting. He really didn't dominate the race like Belmont. He didn't come on until late. This is definitely not the video to use to show Secretariat's greatness. Heck of a horse though.

@DevinBrightblad @EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports And the result was exactly the same at the Preakness, even though Secretariat, Sham, & Our Native were the only three horses in the Preakness to have run the Derby two weeks earlier. The rest of the field at the Preakness were fresh. The rest of the field at the Derby didn't run.

@EricSloss1383 @Super70sSports What? Just because he didn’t pull off the greatest great escape ever seen? He won the derby decisively, Sham was only close in comparison to the rest of the pack, Sham lost by 2 1/2 lengths and Our Native was at least 4 to 5 lengths behind Sham.

@dougastevens @_jeff_irons @Super70sSports Only the winners' times are official. But it is generally accepted that Sham is the only other horse in history to run the Derby in under 2:00.

@_jeff_irons @Super70sSports Doesn’t he have the second fastest time in Derby history?

@Socalfan73 @Wes_Macc @Super70sSports Born any other year he'd have probably won the Derby and been a good possibility for the Triple Crown.

@Wes_Macc @Super70sSports Sham One great Horse

@uuhhmmmmmdug @Wes_Macc @Super70sSports Sham spent it all at the Preakness trying to stay with Big Red. He had nothing left in the tank, compared to Secretariat, three weeks later at the Belmont.

@Wes_Macc @Super70sSports Sham ran his heart out at Belmont! What a superb horse.

@Wes_Macc @Super70sSports And Sham knocked two teeth out getting out of the starting gate! He still ran the only other sub 2 minute time in Derby history!

@Super70sSports You have to feel for Sham. Even though he blew his wind in the third race trying to stay with Big Red, if Secretariat never entered then Sham was a sure fire Triple Crown winner.