Ballots due
How to vote
  • Move memes from The Pool to Your Ballot with + Ballot or by dragging. Rule one out with Cut, or drag it onto the Cut tab.
  • Reorder by dragging, the arrows, or typing a number in the rank box to jump a meme to that spot.
  • Hit a thumbnail to play the clip right there, or click any card for its summary and the full example.
  • Search and the sport/type filters work on The Pool and Cut tabs.
  • It autosaves in your browser. Add your name and hit Submit; 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. Not the best plays, not the funniest clips. The ones that lived longest and traveled 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, 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 Your Ballot. Something clunky? Tell Jason.
Everything you haven't placed yet. Drag a card onto the Cut tab, or hit Cut, to rule it out.
    Not making your 99. Send back to The Pool anytime. Search and filters apply here too.

      Your Ballot

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      No. 1 at the top. Drag to reorder, or type a number to jump a meme to that spot. Click a card to watch the clip.

        Write-ins

        Something we missed? These go to a separate list and don't take a ballot slot.