OK - I'm trying an ambitious poll - Top 10 Events All Time

[93Devil]

I have always loved the debate about which sportsing events would I have attended/covered if I had the chance. A lot of times I will say, "that would have made my ten" when thinking watching a sporting event. Honestly, I do not even know what makeup my "10."

So I want to try and do a huge poll to decide this. I think there is an unlimited number to the amount of possible choices in a poll, so that will work well for this undertaking.

Here is a very quick possible list of choices.

I know I have not listed every possible sporting event that could go in this poll.

Soccer, horse racing, auto racing, Olympics, baseball I'm sure is woefully lacking. I'm sure I misspelled some names, also. Any additions are welcome.

That is what I am asking the collective membership of this board to add to this list with posts. I will do my best to add the responses to the master list.

One request, please try to keep the additions to something that you think two or three other people at least would like to see in their top 10.

Once I feel I have enough to do complete poll, then I will, of course, create the poll.

Hopefully this will be a nice poll. If no one feels like doing it, well at least I tried.

Pro Football
Ice Bowl
Jets - Colts - Broadway Joe
Immaculate Reception
Steelers - Cowboys SB X
Redskins - Broncos - Doug Williams
Chargers - Dolphins - Winslow
Rams - Patriots - Brady's first
49ers - Cowboys - The Catch

Pro Basketball
Wilt's 100
Bird vs. Nique game seven
Jordan's jumper vs. Jazz
Jordan's 63 vs. Celtics
Magic's 42 as a rook vs Sixers
Suns - Celts 3 OT
Havlichek Stole The Ball
Bird steals the pass, underneath to DJ...
Reed's one good leg

Boxing
Ali - Foreman I
Ali - Foreman II
Ali - Foreman III
Hearns - Leonard
Hearns - Hagler
Tyson - Douglas
Tyson - Spinks
Schmelling - Louis II
Ali - Foreman

Pro Baseball
Maris 61
Larsen's perfecto
Bucky Dent
Bill Buckner
Nolan Ryan's seventh no hitter
Pete Rose passes Ty
Bonds passes Ruth
Ruth's called shot
Lou G.'s speach - Luckiest Man
Maz walks off the Yanks
Gibson off Eck
Ripkin passes Lou
Reggie, three swings, three jacks
Mantle hits facade
Joe Carter
Kirby Puckett wins it for the Twins
Ted gets .400 in double header

Tennis
Mac - Borg

College hoops
Duke - Kentucky
IU - Syracuse
NCState - Houston
GTown - Villanova
Chaminade - Virginia
UNC - GTown
Duke - UNLV
UCLA wins one more for Wooden
Walton's near perfect game
George Mason - UConn

College Football
OU - Nebraska - Rogers
Ohio State - Miami
Stanford Band
Flutie - Miami
Boise State - OU
Nebraska goes for two
Tie one for the Gipper - Notre Dame Mich State

Golf
Tiger's first Master's win
Tiger shreds Pebble Beach
Jack in 86 at the Master's
Watson's chip at Pebble Beach
Van De Velde's collapse at the Open

Olympics
Strug nails the landing
Jessie Owens in front of Hitler
Ben Johnson
USA Hockey, Lake Placid, USSR

 

[sportschick]

You should probably add the Sampras-Courier match right after Sampras' coach was diagnosed with cancer (or maybe it was right after he died). Sampras was crying on court, still pulled out a 5-set win. Also the last Davenport-Venus Williams Wimbledon final. Best women's match I've watched as an adult.

And why's the only hockey from the Olympics?

 

[SuperflySnuka]

Ali-Frazier? no?

Colorado FB Kordell to Westbrook

Kobe's 82-pt game?

 

[Lester Bangs]

Bobby Thomson

 

[Idaho]

Where's Bear Lake High School's upset of Marsh Valley in the 1987 Fifth District tournament championship game? There was a backup forward that scored four of the most underrated points in the history of high school basketball.

Or three years earlier, when that same player became the first player in the history of Idaho high school basketball to make a 3-pointer?

 

[Webster]

In Soccer, I think that you could add to the mix:

Maradona-England in 1986
Zizou's headbutt
Man United - Bayern Munich in 1999
Liverpool-AC Milan in 2006

 

[Songbird]

"Miracle on Manchester"!!!

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Colts/Giants OT game in '57

 

[Songbird]

Game 7, 1991 World Series.

 

[rallen13]

Baseball--Bobby Thompson 1951
Football--Houston Oilers vs Dallas texans 7 quarter Championship game
Basketball--Wilts's 100 points
Hockey--Wayne Gretzky's 90+ goal season
Winter Olympics--Miracle on Ice, Lake Placid
Summer Olympics--Mark Spitz' seven gold medals
Soccer--U.S. Women vs China shootout
Golf--Byron Nelson's tournament winning streak
Tennis--Billy Jean vs Bobby at the Astrodome
Racing--A.J.'s four Indy wins
Anything on Skis--Vingko Bogatai's fall off the ski jump on Wide World of Sports
Horse Racing--Secretariat's 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes

 

[txsportsscribe]

your failure to include any jv, cross country, cheerleading, etc. shows just how unprofessional you are as a journalist.

 

[rallen13]

OOPS! I missed
boxing--the three Patterson-Johannsen fights.

 

[Mira]

Braves winning the World Series in 1957


There isn't much auto racing on any lists so far. So how about these:

Dale Earnhardt winning the Daytona 500
Dale Earnhardt dying on the final lap of the Dayonta 500 in 2001
Alan Kulwicki winning the 1992 Winston Cup title
Michael Schumacher winning his seventh F1 title
Any title or significant race won by Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt, Richard Petty and Rick Mears
The F1 race that included the accident which took the life of Aryton Senna
IRL and CART splitting in 1995 (idiots)
The German CART race where Alex Zanardi crashed and was miraculously saved
The Indianapolis Grand Prix where the tires stunk and hardly any drivers competed

 

[Songbird]

Appalachian State over Michigan at the Big House.

 

[poindexter]

JDV's three national powerlifting championships

 

[Flash]

Poin ... stellar ...

Where's hockey?
Like ...

The 1972 Summit Series
Bobby Orr's flying goal
The Calgary Flames becoming the only team in history to win the Cup on Forum ice
Bobby Baun's game-winner (yeah, yeah, JR ... Leafs history ... some of it is important)
The 1987 Canada Cup

There's more ... dammit ... this cold is fogging my brain.

 

[Songbird]

Flasher, sweetie,

See above, "Miracle on Manchester"

 

[Starman]

The most dominant athletic performance in the history of the planet.

 

[Flash]

Flasher, sweetie,

See above, "Miracle on Manchester"

Xan, doll ... I've been a Flames fan since I was 4. I've blocked out most Oilers accomplishments.

 

[pallister]

In no particular order

Steelers winning Super Bowl IX
The Mean Joe Green Coke commercial
Steelers winning Super Bowl X
Franco Harris revolutionizing the game by running out of bounds
Steelers winning Super Bowl XIII
Terry Bradshaw's first divorce
Steelers winning Super Bowl XIV
Lynn Swann running for public office
Steelers winning Super Bowl XV
The birth of Ben Roethlisberger