B/R 99 · Signature Series · Internal staff ballot
The 99 Best Sports Memes of All Time
Rank your top 99 from the pool. Drag to reorder or type a rank number. The sheet autosaves in your browser, so come back anytime. Hit Submit when you're done; resubmitting overwrites your earlier ballot.
What we're ranking
A sports meme is a moment, image, phrase or format that escaped its game and got reused by people who may never have watched the game. We're not ranking the best plays or the funniest clips. We're ranking the ones that lived the longest and traveled the farthest.
What to weigh
- Reach. Did it get used outside sports? Group chats, politics, your mom.
- Staying power. Still usable today, or a two-week flash?
- Reusability. Does it work as a reaction, a caption, a format, a line you can drop into anything?
- Recognition. Does the image or phrase land without explanation?
To make this ballot, a nominee had to
- Originate in sports (a game, an athlete, coach, fan, broadcaster or league moment).
- Get reused beyond the original moment: remixed, captioned, quoted or recreated by other people.
- Be identifiable by a name, phrase or image most sports fans would recognize.
Missing one? Add it under Write-ins at the bottom of the Ballot tab. Questions or a clunky button? Tell Jason.