SJ's 70,000th Thread

Big Circus · Oct 29, 2015

Baron Scicluna said: ↑

Birth of my kids, marriage to my wife, etc.

I remember a few years ago, we had a thread on here where we had to say what the best day of our lives were, but it couldn't be anything like a milestone thing, like a child's birth, or getting married, or anything like that. And it only took one search to find that thread, and here is my post on that:

One Friday in early January of 1991.

I'm a senior in high school. I was a mediocre athlete at best, but first period of gym, we're playing basketball. And every single shot I take, I make, even a three-pointer that I launch out of nowhere. I totally dominate and even my gym teacher is impressed.

Middle of the school day, they post the roles for the senior class play that I had tried out for the previous month. A bunch of kids had tried out, and I didn't think I had done that well. I got one of the biggest supporting parts.

Later in the school day, I get the results back from a test that I had taken in a class. I had hoped just to pass. Instead, I got a 100.

Get home from school, look through the mail. Found a letter from one of the colleges I applied to. Figure that it's another rejection letter. Instead, I was accepted. It was my first acceptance letter, one of two. I ended up going to the other school, but I've always been grateful for the rejected one.

My dad gets home from work, I show him the letter, and he decides, let's do something spontaneous to celebrate. We ended up going to an NBA game with the local team and the Magic/Worthy Lakers and the game went into overtime before L.A. won.

Just one of those days in which everything just came together.

What was the best day of your life? | SportsJournalists.com
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They didn't happen to beat the Supersonics that day, did they?

Baron Scicluna · Oct 29, 2015

Big Circus said: ↑

They didn't happen to beat the Supersonics that day, did they?
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Nope, different NBA team.

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