Your favorite Sporting moment of all time. (1 Viewer)

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Alright fellas, this isn't just a question of baseball, or football but of all sports, curious to know what members number 1 moment of their favorite sporting event in your life has been.

Mine has to be when the Baltimore Colts won their last season regular season game in '77 against the New England Patriots to win the AFC East Division title and move on to the playoffs, the Colts were down 21-3 at the half and came back to win on the arm of Bert Jones to win the game 30-24!!! can remember it like it was yesterday, that win also led to the famous OT thriller playoff game against the Raiders....Dam you Casper and that ghost to the post!!...Sammy
 
Cal Ripken's lap around the field when he broke Lou Gehrig's record.

I loved that the announcers were silent and really decent human being accomplished something so amazing.

Gives me chills to think about it.
 
bradleyl30 said:
Cal Ripken's lap around the field when he broke Lou Gehrig's record.

I loved that the announcers were silent and really decent human being accomplished something so amazing.

Gives me chills to think about it.
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Right on with that one Bradley, that whole season of the O's/Ripken was strange, the Orioles weren't that good, and the media played up every game about the streak that season and it really took a toll on the team and Ripken, but when that magical series against the Angels finally arrived the whole series was about as good as it gets, including the HR's Jr. hit in the tying of the record then the HR in the breaking of Gehrig's record the next night, never forget that one as well...Sammy
 
Cal Ripken was a great player and is a very nice guy on top of it all, that was a great moment and I was glad to be watching that game. But my favorite moment was watching the 78 play off when Bucky Dent hit the homer against the Red Sox. My dad even got excited by that hit.

Dave
 
One of many in burgh history - The Immaculate Reception- Bradshaw to Franco to history!

Td
 
Mine was watching Larry Csonka blow thru the defense of the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl VIII running up 145 yards setting a super bowl record at the time.

Mark
 
My favorite moment/game in sports history was the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey team's win over the USSR. USA! USA! USA! Honorable Mentions go to John Riggins 43 yard run to paydirt on 4th down in SB XVII, putting the Redskins ahead for good in that win; Ripken's streak, that has been mentioned earlier; The 1968 NFL Championship game where the Colt's slaughtered the Browns 34-0, payback for the 1964 Championship, which the Browns won 27-0. Unfortunately, the glow of that win was erased by SBIII. -- Al
 
Game six of the 1975 World Series, capped off by the shot heard round New England, Carlton Fisk's game winning home run that rattled off the left field foul pole.

That is one of if not the greatest post season home runs in baseball history, the shot of Fisk going up the first base line willing that ball to stay fair, then Freddie Lynn jumping ten feet in the air behind him from the on deck circle as the ball hit the pole.

The 1975 World Series is arguably the greatest world series of all time and it started my love affair with baseball; as a 14 year old at the time, it was the greatest thing I ever saw.
 
tdubel said:
One of many in burgh history - The Immaculate Reception- Bradshaw to Franco to history!

Td
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So, I grew up a Cowboys fan to my father's chagrin as a diehard Redskins fan, but growing up on military bases they always showed the Cowboys so I fell in love with the "stars" on the helmets.

I remember being young and having my heartbroken by Lynn Swann's beautifully acrobatic catches that just seemed so unfair.

About 10 years ago when he was a politician, I was working on a project for HHS. I am entering the building with my client and get in the elevator and Congressman Swann and his entourage are already in it. As we head up to our respective floors I turned to him very seriously and said, "I hope you are proud of yourself for shattering a kid's heart so many times."

Everyone in the elevator took a collective gasp... which was my cue to smile and say, "All those catches that ended up beating my Cowboys just crushed my little heart."

As everyone else sighed with relief, he laughed a very genuine and hearty laugh as he said, "And I don't regret it one bit." He seemed like a true gentleman and I think really got a kick out of my little joke. Although, I was dead serious. Only Dwight Clark hurt me more!
 
Warrior said:
Game six of the 1975 World Series, capped off by the shot heard round New England, Carlton Fisk's game winning home run that rattled off the left field foul pole.

That is one of if not the greatest post season home runs in baseball history, the shot of Fisk going up the first base line willing that ball to stay fair, then Freddie Lynn jumping ten feet in the air behind him from the on deck circle as the ball hit the pole.

The 1975 World Series is arguably the greatest world series of all time and it started my love affair with baseball; as a 14 year old at the time, it was the greatest thing I ever saw.
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The '75 World Series was the 1st World Series I remember watching, as I was born in '66 I remember bits and pieces of earlier World Series but by '75 I was buying my first baseball cards with my yard cutting money and I was all in on everything baseball!!! yea, I certainly remember Fisk pushing the ball fair as he headed for 1st base, one of the best reactions of all time...Sammy
 
The flip from Jeter to Posada. Not a World Series play. But an Amazing play in the playoffs. On the Football side it is Kenny King Catching the ball out of the backfield (Plunkett barely got the pass over the LB, but it was off to the races after he caught it) for an 80 plus yard TD pass from Jim Plunkett in the SuperBowl. As a life long Raiders fan that was one amazing win in the SB vs the Eagles.
 
The 1980 U.S.Olympic hockey team provided thrills galore but I attended a 1/3/93 Bills-Oilers
playoff game.Bills 32 point deficit was overcome by Frank Reich which resulted in a 41-38 OT
Bill's win.(Not many fans in stadium to see this 'miracle'..the disgusted left early).
 
"The Catch"- Joe Montana to Dwight Clark in the 1982 NFC Championship Game against the Dallas Cowboys, made all the better by the fact that Vin Scully was the broadcaster for CBS.
 
semperrandyfi said:
The 1980 U.S.Olympic hockey team provided thrills galore but I attended a 1/3/93 Bills-Oilers
playoff game.Bills 32 point deficit was overcome by Frank Reich which resulted in a 41-38 OT
Bill's win.(Not many fans in stadium to see this 'miracle'..the disgusted left early).
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Interesting point, Frank Reich is a Maryland Terp and he led a very similar comeback against Miami in 1984. UMd trailed by 31-0 at the half, yet won the game 42-40 in what was the largest comeback in NCAA history to that time. It was a fantastic game to watch as a Terp fan. From the lowest of lows to a high that can't be equaled. -- Al
 
Actually guys I have to revise my favorite moment, as the title says "your" favorite moment......my High School football team (Essex Trojans) located in Tappahannock Va. in the Northern Neck area, we were having a great year in '85 as a team but were playing host to the King William Cavaliers who had been moved into our district 3 years prior and had not lost a single game in the Northern Neck Division as of that night, it was a tough back and forth game that came down to the final minutes, King William was up by 1 or 2 points and we had to drive the length of the field to score, we got lucky on a busted play but the clock was almost out of time but a quick first down and the luckiest of all a 15 yard unsportsmen like penalty on the King William bench gave us the ball with about 3 seconds left for a 35 yard field goal, one of my best friends (Steve Upton) who was a decent kicker got the call, all I remember was the ball looked like it just cleared the post but I couldn't tell until I saw the refs arm go up....GOOD!!!!!!!!! Trojans win!!!!!!!!! we went on to win the NND District crown that year, and needless to say that Friday night many years ago was one to remember!!!...Sammy
 
Ok, so your favorite moment, meaning you actually were involved then?

Ok; I played amateur baseball in the Boston Park League beginning in my late teens and into my early 20's. We finished in last place one year and were demoted to the Junior Park League. We fought our way to the Junior Park League finals with the winner moving back up to the Park League and were trailing in the final game of a best two of three, 3-1, bottom of the ninth, one out, runners on first an second, I'm at bat, Pablo Reyes was pitching (he had a cup of coffee as a member of the Tampa Bay Rays if I'm not mistaken), he threw a nasty fastball down and in, I drilled it over the right field fence for a game winning, series winning, three run home run.

The best part is if I struck out for the second out, someone else would have been the goat and not me...............:wink2:

Pablo went on to fame and big money in MLB, I went on to fame and big money selling toy soldiers, a total win/win.

So there you go.
 
My favorite moments playing sports were pond-hockey games when I was in high school. We would throw are skates, gloves and sticks in homemade nets, carry the nets about a mile down into the sand pits, and pick a pond that was frozen solid (you could kneel down and actually look where the edge of the ice had lifted from the shoreline and see all the way down) and tear up the black ice all day. Exhausted and literally steaming with sweat, we would drag the nets to the benches in front of "Louie's Shore Restaurant", which was owned by one of my team mates' grandfather. Tommy would collect our money, go inside to the bar, and come back out with 16 ounce styrofoam coffee cups full of the best clam chowder on earth. We would all sit on the benches out front, now steaming from the chowder as well as sweat, and talk and brag and laugh about the day's games. The next weekend day or day off from school, we would do the same thing, tearing up another of the dozen or so pristine ponds. It was private property and we were trespassing but that made sure the ice was untouched and added a little spice to the proceedings.

But my favorite all time sports moments watching will always be watching Lawrence Taylor play every Sunday when I was in high school. The Giants had stunk on ice my entire life to that point, and all of a sudden we had a player who dressed for games in a phone booth. It was just about as good as it gets for me as a fan.
 
1964, last game of the season, standing in the basement, radio on, Harry Carey announcing. "High pop foul, McCarvers there, the Cardinals win the pennant, the Cardinals win the pennant" A lot more sports memories since but for some reason I will never forget that.
Gary
 
I'm sure George appreciates watching those high lights first thing in the morning :)
 
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