2008 The Year of New Records in Sports 12/29/08 - 1/4/09

Well 2008 will be remembered in sports as the year of new records.

To start things off, the year 2008 in sports began with the New England Patriots trying to become the second team in National Football League History to finish in Perfection. As it would later turn out their quest to perfection was derailed in the NFL biggest game of the year, The Super Bowl.

New England would lose that game to the New York Football Giants, along with a place in NFL perfection land with the 1972 Miami Dolphins. But New England did become the only team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins, to finish the regular season undefeated, so new record number one.

Then came the spring you had the Tampa Bay Devil Rays get rid of the Devil. A move that should have attracted the nation attention that this time these Rays would bring a new era in the baseball world.

But the Rays would not get that attention till mid season, that is when their were battling with the Red Sox’s for the division lead. The Fight for that Division lead would not end till two weeks till the end of the Major league Baseball regular season. As it would turn out the new era Rays would finish their season with three new records: First American league east division title, First American League Pinnate and the Rays first trip to the World Series.

Those three new records speak volume in itself, when you are talking about a team that up till this year, finished in the season in MLB basement.


Then came the Olympics and a guy named Michael Phelps. As Michael would not only challenge Mark Sprits record set in the 1972 game of seven gold medals which was up till these summer game the most that a single athlete had ever won in the course of one Olympics game. Well Michael not only tied with Mark at seven, but set a new record of eight gold medals in one Olympics by one athlete.


So as you can tell the year 2008 gave us a set of new records in sports. Will the year 2009 do the same for sports as 2008? Probably but for now time will only tell. Happy New Year Everyone!!


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