1980's Recreation
During the eighties new basketball stars emerged like Larry Bird, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Hakeem Olajuwon and Michael Jordan drawing fans back to the games . The "Big Shot" of the NBA - Michael Jordan was one of the best players in the history of basketball. He was the leading scorer in 1987 and 1988
The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were disrupted by a boycott led by the United States and 64 other countries in protest of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles were boycotted by the Soviet Union and most of the communist world in retaliation for the 1980 boycott.
The Jamaica national bobsled team received major media attention and stunned the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada for its unexpected good performance. It overcame the stereotype that northern countries were the only efficient competitors in winter Olympic Games. The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team
The best quarterback of the 1980 was Joe Montana and the best hockey player was Wayne Gretzky