Your most memorable sports moments?

[DrPizza]

*Almost* being passed during the final mile of a triathlon when I was 18. I held on for 1st place in my age division. Next to last place overall - it was a run/bike/canoe (rather than swim) triathlon. They didn't have a suitable place for the swimming. I was in an 18 foot flat bottom canoe, everyone else had these tiny little racing canoes. There was a very high, steady wind - whitecaps on the water. And, I had to paddle that beast into the wind. If I sat in the front, the current spun me around. If I sat in the back, the wind spun me around. While I was being passed - by a team of two paddlers - they flipped their canoe in the rough water. Otherwise I'd have been in dead last. (But 1st for my age division.)

FWIW, there was a biathlon option. I should have taken that option. When I got to the canoes, I was about the 4th or 5th to leave. I beat the majority of people who did it as 4 person teams at that point - one person runs, 1 bikes, 2 paddle.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: loki8481
I got a super good hit once in baseball in junior high gym, but the bat accidentally flew out of my hands after the hit so it was an out 🙁

😕

That's not an out in baseball.

It was in a high school gym so probably for gym class.

They often have those types of rules to keep the kids safe.

 

[Perknose]

Villanova beating Patrick Ewing and Georgetown for the NCAA championship by two points, in I think, 1984, with a near perfect game. They scarcely missed a shot the entire game. It was AWESOME.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: loki8481
I got a super good hit once in baseball in junior high gym, but the bat accidentally flew out of my hands after the hit so it was an out 🙁

😕

That's not an out in baseball.

It was in a high school gym so probably for gym class.

They often have those types of rules to keep the kids safe.

Yep. My son's little league has the same rule but the ump's usually give a warning first.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Game 163 last year for the White Sox. I was there, and it was amazing.

grrr, I was screaming at the TV that entire game. Mauer/Morneau were hopeless. =(

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
1991 World Series, game 6, Kirby Puckett's walk-off home run in the 11th inning.

Game 7 was awesome too, but not as exciting. It didn't stick in my memory the same way game 6 did.

That game was amazing, but game 7... wow.
1991 Game 7 was amazing. Jack Morris goes 10 innings to get the 1-0 victory and Gene Larkin gets the walk off pinch hit in the bottom. The fake double play by Gagne & Knoblauch was also a great piece of work.

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Watching Kimi Raikkonen come from last on the grid to win the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in 2005. He passed Giancarlo Fisichella (ironically) who was leading the race on the last lap on the outside of a stunningly fast corner to take the lead and win the race. I get chills just thinking about it.😀

replay

Excellent choice. I remember that clearly. Reps. I wish Juan Pablo Montoya was still in F1.


Other memorable events for me:

-Colombian Goalkeeper's Scorpion Kick against England at Wembley Stadium.

-Colombia's win against Argentina 5-0 for the World Cup 1994 Qualifiers.. The game took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

-Cameroon's Marc Vivian Foe's death during a game against Colombia.

-Colombia's biggest sporting mistake. The same crazy goalkeeper from the Scorpion kick video. We got eliminated from the World Cup in 1990 thanks to this stupid mistake.

 

[nutxo]

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Several videos of the event.

 

[buck]

Giants vs Pats SB
Boise State beating OU
UF vs Alabama for the SEC champ last year

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Titan
I guess this would be like 5 years ago now.

It was MNF and the colts were losing by 21 points with 8 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. MNF started late and could easily go past midnight. Everyone I knew turned off the game and went to bed thinking it was a route. I knew better. Peyton Manning came back with 3 TDs in 8 minutes to tie it up and the Colts won in OT.

Oh yeah, that, and the Giants beating the undefeated season Patriots. Best super bowl since the last time the Giants won one.

Oh yeah, that reminds me of the 2000 NHL playoff game between the Penguins and the Flyers. It ended in the fifth overtime period. Full 20 minute overtime periods. They played two and a half hockey games in one night. I was in college at the time, and as people's roommates went to bed they started consolidating into rooms that still had the game on. My roommate and I were both hockey fans, so we both stayed up to watch - I think by the end of the game, everyone on our floor who wanted to watch the game was in our room. IIRC it ended after 2:00 a.m. Indiana time, and I think that would have made it after 3:00 a.m. Eastern time? I forget which way the time zones went back then... stupid Indiana. When it finally ended there was relief that it was over, satisfaction for having watched the whole thing, and dread because we all had class the next day.

Philadelphia won, but they were eliminated by the Devils in the next round. I love when the Devils eliminate the Flyers. 🙂 Or the Rangers.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of Dallas Stars playoff games go long. The Stars played in 5 of the 20 longest playoff games in NHL history.

Personally, I scored 3 touchdowns in one game when I was at Polk High. I now sell womens shoes.

 

[her209]

NCAA Basketball:
Speedo guy

 

[BrokenVisage]

"He's going for the cornerrrrr, he's GOT IT"

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: mugs
Oh yeah, that reminds me of the 2000 NHL playoff game between the Penguins and the Flyers. It ended in the fifth overtime period. Full 20 minute overtime periods. They played two and a half hockey games in one night. I was in college at the time, and as people's roommates went to bed they started consolidating into rooms that still had the game on. My roommate and I were both hockey fans, so we both stayed up to watch - I think by the end of the game, everyone on our floor who wanted to watch the game was in our room. IIRC it ended after 2:00 a.m. Indiana time, and I think that would have made it after 3:00 a.m. Eastern time? I forget which way the time zones went back then... stupid Indiana. When it finally ended there was relief that it was over, satisfaction for having watched the whole thing, and dread because we all had class the next day.

Philadelphia won, but they were eliminated by the Devils in the next round. I love when the Devils eliminate the Flyers. 🙂 Or the Rangers.

Keith Primeau FTFW! I remember staying up for that entire game as well and I went crazy when he scored. It was the greatest finish I ever remember seeing for any Flyers game and I've seen quite a few for my age.

Yeah yeah.. the Devils lucked out and came back from a 3-1 series beatdown to win the next series, but that game will be apart of me forever. Epic, epic finish.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

and boom goes the dynamite

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I got a super good hit once in baseball in junior high gym, but the bat accidentally flew out of my hands after the hit so it was an out 🙁

In junior high gym class we were playing kickball, and one of my teammates kicked a double that he tried unsuccessfully to turn into a home run. I told him he was stupid to try for the home run, and he charged at me like he was going to hit me. I punched him. We both got detention.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Many throws to the plate from deep right by Andre Dawson. Best fielding arm the majors have ever seen.

Pick one of the twenty trillion Jordan highlights.

 

[Kev]

my favorite most recent one was the eagles destroying the cowboys in the last game of the season to secure a spot in the playoffs. I got tickets to that game for free from someone who thought the season was over.