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Your Favorite Moment in Sports

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Songbird, Dec 26, 2012.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    The best one I saw in person... "THE BAND'S ON THE FIELD... THE BAND'S ON THE FIELD..."
     
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Here's my issue with the Miracle on Ice... Were you watching it on TV as it happened? If you were, great... If you weren't, I don't see how it could be your answer.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Easter Sunday 1987, and I was there. Gutter, Bubbler and old_tony know what I'm talking about.



    Others over the years without a particular rooting interest:

    --Laettner's shot. No rooting interest either way, but what a great sports moment.
    --Bills come back against Oilers. When it was 35-3 and then the Bills scored, I called my girlfriend (now my wife), who was at home in Houston, and told her this one isn't over. I watched the whole game.
    --Boise State over Oklahoma.
    --Jordan's 63 vs. Celtics.
    --Tebow's OT throw to beat the Steelers.

    I'm sure I could throw this around and come up with another five to replace the five I just listed, and then another five to replace those five, but Easter Sunday will always be #1 with me.

    Flutie would also be on my list.
     
  4. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    I guess,technically, no one was watching it as it happened since it was a tape-delayed broadcast. I learned of the outcome before viewing it...and it didn't make a dern bit of difference. Greatest of my lifetime. Nothing else is close.
     
  5. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I don't doubt for a second that it is the greatest sporting moment of most of our lifetimes, but like most of the people here, I watched it while knowing the outcome. That prevents it from being my favorite sports moment.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Game 6, 1986 World Series. Gary Carter, Kevin Mitchell, Ray Knight and Mookie Wilson. Thank you. Oh, and Bill Buckner too, muchas gracias.
     
  7. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    The documentary is outstanding.
     
  8. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    I still had to see it to believe it and still had a hard time believing it after I saw it.

    EDIT: I would disagree that most of us here (SportsJournalists.com members) knew the outcome before we watched it that Friday evening. Many of our group hadn't been born yet.
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I was 6 and I remember my uncle calling my mom and telling her that I had to watch it. I knew while watching it that the US won, so the combination of that and being super young, it probably didn't have the impact on me that it should have had...
     
  10. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Good point. I gotcha by 12 years and was a huge hockey fan (still am). I'll confess my perspective, then and now, may be just a tad bit jaded. ;D
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    As I recall the Miracle on Ice game against the USSR was either carried live on radio or on Canadian TV (I lived in an area which picked up some Canadian stations) so the outcome was not really a secret before the game played on TV.

    The gold medal game a couple days later, which itself was pretty dramatic -- the US trailed most of the game, and if they had lost they would not have medaled at all.
     
  12. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    My favorite NFL team has won a Super Bowl in the last decade, but my favorite sports moment for me in that span only tangentially involved the Packers:

    (hi Rosie!)

    I had seen my first Packers game two weeks earlier at San Diego. Then came the famous Favre vs. the Raiders MNF game the following week. Then Poole caught that ball to send the Pack into the playoffs. Man, I thought for sure that was Green Bay's year. Then "We want the ball and we're gonna score", a sudden-death win for the Packers. Then an upset brewing at mighty Philadelphia ... everything was setting up for me to go see the NFC championship game in Charlotte, my first playoff game in person ... and then with Super Bowl dreams in my head, the Pack was thwarted by fourth-and-goddamn-26. Sigh.
     
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