ESPN has launched their own Hall of Fame, for memes. It's online, of course. There have been many memorable viral memes featuring sports stars, because, duh, they are photographed all the time. Some have been so successful, so long lasting, and so firmly embedded into our consciousnesses that they deserved to be enshrined. ESPN's very first pick for the Hall of Fame is Crying Jordan. Basketball star Michael Jordan was photographed with tears in his eyes while delivering his speech on the occasion of his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. The image is useful to illustrate any situation that would make someone cry, and it shows no signs of fading away.
For the rest of the inductees into the ESPN Sports Meme Hall of Fame, the company consulted experts, meaning the ESPN social media team and some other employees who use memes. They selected five more sports memes for induction into the Hall of Fame. Find out which ones they are and the story behind each, as well as examples of each meme's power, at ESPN.