The best moments came at the end, a 34-point fourth set tiebreaker, won by McEnroe, followed by a 8-6 fifth-set loso so thrillingly close that Borg's fifth consecutive Wimbledon victory spoke to the brutal, bright-size-life way that singles tennis has of revealing a man and displaying what he is made of.
At once terrifying and awe-inspiring, their enormous size, brutal attack methods and loyalty to the Stark clan make them some of the most amazing animals on television.
They arrested Laurent Nkunda, the Congolese rebel leader and former general whose brutal tactics and Congo-size ambitions had threatened to plunge this entire region back into war.
Otherwise, he bops around town on a brutal motorbike with wheels the size of rubber boulders, cape fluttering in the slipstream.
The most dramatic example was the westward march of the Qing dynasty from the mid-17th Century which, in a series of bloody and brutal wars, doubled the physical size of China.
The South Pacific's innumerable islands look like pieces of paradise, but the reality of life here is sometimes very different, with waves the size of buildings, brutal tropical storms, and, in the far south, even blizzards.
But these were soon pushed aside by radical Islamists, some linked to Al Qaeda, who have since imposed a brutal fundamentalist regime on a fiefdom the size of Texas.
After an initial brutal police crackdown, the protests grew in size and became more about toppling the government and putting an end to corruption than joining the EU.
Instead it's an outbreak of brutal, glass-clad blocky offices probably funded by chaps with secret concerns about the size of their genitalia.
