Borg-McEnroe Show on HBO.

With Wimbledon coming up, I had to watch the show.
They called it Fire and Ice which is perfect. 

Maybe it is the American blood in me or just my love for something different, but McEnroe was and is my favorite player by a landslide.  He is a punk and I would have probably hated him, but those hands were in a league of that we have not seen since.

Bjorn Borg was a truly great player and to me the first of the current robotic players that were all about the precision and fitness.   I had forgotten his icon status as the sex symbol and maybe greatest player ever at the time.
Borg retiring at 25 years old is still baffling,  how much did losing to McEnroe really have to do with this.  During the show Borg was not able to explain why he quit.  It seems that Mc just broke his spirit, even though Borg denies it was McEnroe overcoming him in Tennis.

I hope you get a chance to watch this show.

 The entire McEnroe saga is just absolutely incredible.
How can a man do those things with a racket, while being out of shape and a mental psycho. How could a man that some points in career said he couldn't touch his toes hits lobs and touch shots that baffled everyone in a professional sport.

The hardest thing to understand was that after Borg left McEnroe was never the same either.  The show spent time discussing how Johnny Mc lost his driving force with his Borg Gone. 
Mc never won a major after 25.

But, then to find out that became great friends as they matured, Borg was even in McEnroe's wedding, made me feel better.

J.