Greg Mishinsky, you're here today to tell us a story that is kind of challenging for the medium we work in in a very specific way, because this is a story about a single photograph, which our listeners cannot see.

So I just wanted you to start by describing this particular picture for us. Just what is in the frame here?

Ten years ago in Vancouver, there was a riot.

Greg Wysinski covers hockey for ESPN.

It was a riot that followed game seven of the Stanley Cup final between the Canucks and the Boston Bruins.

And the photo we're talking about is the single most iconic image from that riot.

It depicts a street covered in debris.

There are riot police in the background running away.

There's a riot police officer in the foreground holding a baton and a shield.

And in between them is a man kissing a woman on the ground. The sky is filled with smoke.

You can feel the illumination of fires around the city.

And here's this guy, his legs intertwined with this girl, full-on kissing or not a peck,

just a full-on smooch in the middle of a riot in Vancouver.

It was a photo of beauty in the midst of mayhem, and it's one of those photos that you see and immediately you start wondering, what was going on there?

The photo that continues to captivate the world, romance amid the madness.

A tender moment in the midst of chaos.

It is this image of the so-called riot Romeo kissing his girlfriend that has captured worldwide attention.

Photo quickly went viral and raised, all kinds of questions.

Who were they?

And why were they locked in an embrace?

Laying in the streets smooching during a riot.

That is what people want to know.

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