{"id":42485,"date":"2017-02-23T06:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/the-agony-of-defeatthe-story-behind-tv-sports-most-famous-line\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:28:53","slug":"the-agony-of-defeatthe-story-behind-tv-sports-most-famous-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=42485","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Agony Of Defeat&#8221;\u2026The Story Behind TV Sports Most Famous Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/the-agony-of-defeatthe-story-behind-tv-sports-most-famous-line.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;The Agony Of Defeat&#8221;\u2026The Story Behind TV Sports Most Famous Line<\/p>\n<p>Brent Musburger takes us to Oberstdorf, Germany and the 1970 ski jumping competition where this all got started. There, Vinko Bogataj, the former Yugoslavian skier, became a part of sports history and here\u2019s the whole story of the man that put &#8220;the agony&#8221; in defeat. There are some surprises here too!<\/p>\n<p>Although the clips in the &#8220;Wide World Of Sports&#8221; intro changed over their 37 year run, the copy read by Jim McKay was the same as it was when the show started on April 29, 1961. The Saturday afternoon tradition came to an end January 3, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpanning the globe, to bring you the constant variety of sports\u2026the thrill of victory\u2026and the agony of defeat&#8230;the human drama of athletic competition\u2026this is ABC\u2019s Wide World of Sports!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another look at the story of Vinko Bogataj, the former Yugoslavian (Slovenian) ski jumper who became infamous as the man in &#8216;Agony of Defeat&#8217;, in the opening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[evp_embed_video url=&#8221;http:\/\/CDN.eyesofageneration.com\/Content\/Daily_Posts\/2017\/p3agony.mp4&#8243; preload=&#8221;none&#8221; template=&#8221;mediaelement&#8221;]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1236806263023587\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Agony Of Defeat&#8221;\u2026The Story Behind TV Sports Most Famous Line Brent Musburger takes us to Oberstdorf, Germany and the 1970 ski jumping competition where this all got started. There, Vinko Bogataj, the former Yugoslavian skier, became a part of sports history and here\u2019s the whole story of the man that put &#8220;the agony&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,906,725,1035,806],"class_list":["post-42485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-jim-mckay","tag-star","tag-wide-world-of-sports","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57209,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485\/revisions\/57209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}