Name 5 past sporting events you wish you attended?

[RobBlake]

Noob topic starter alert. Apologies awarded if already discussed.


Jackie Robinson's first game...

Miracle on ice..

[carcosa]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

2 of those I would have left pissed off or depressed from.

you a ****ing commie!?!?!

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Right but that might be THE most historical moment in boxing history even if he wasnt in his prime. I get where you are coming from with wanting to see 2 guys in their primes put on a show though.

I would put George Foreman-Ron Lyle above Foreman-Ali because it featured two guys battling to get a title shot. It may be the most violent fight of all time.

To be there, with both guys just going for it all, would have been awesome.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by carcosa

you a ****ing commie!?!?!

Bretts pine tar HR didnt get reversed until later and Tyson losing sucked ass. And yes I voted for Comrad Obama.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I would put George Foreman-Ron Lyle above Foreman-Ali because it featured two guys battling to get a title shot. It may be the most violent fight of all time.

To be there, with both guys just going for it all, would have been awesome.

Sad how such a great sport turned shitty.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Sad how such a great sport turned shitty.

Evolution of money.

The best boxers are playing football and the best QB's are playing baseball.

I'm just happy to have seen The Golden Age of Boxing firsthand.

[POND_OF_RED]

Game 7 1985 World Series- game 6 has the better story, but game 7 has the better party
1936 Olympics- would be so great to see the look of disgust on all those nazi faces
1992 dream team scrimmage- so much talent in a 5-5 matchup even with reserves.
Tyson v Seldon- watch the 1st round knockout, then solve the case of who shot tupac
Wild card game last year- I was actually at this game but I wouldn't trade it for any other game in history.

[Xanathol]

A few baseball ones for folks...

1. 1932 Game 3 of the World Series - where Babe Ruth called his shot.

2. May 25th, 1935, Forbes field - Babe Ruth's 6th to last game ever, breaking down in his old age, he still managed to hit 3 HRs, one of which left Forbe's Field completely, one of a very, very few to ever do so.

3. 1996 College World Series, where in the bottom of the 9th, down by 1, 1 runner on, and with 2 outs, Warren Morris hit the game winning home run - the only time a major championship has been won in such a way.

4. May 1st, 1991 - Nolan Ryan's 7th no hitter.

5. September 8th, 1990 - Bo Jackson's hit hits Nolan Ryan in the lip, but Ryan not only throws him out at 1st, but stays in the game, bloody lip et al.

[scho63]

I'm going to double my list to 10

1. Super Bowl IV-The sad reason I am Chiefs fan until this day

2. 1960 World Series-Mazeroski homers in the ninth as Pirates beat Yankees, 10-9 and win series 4 games to 3

3. The 2004 Masters-Phil Mickelson wins the first of three green jackets and "The Leap" is created

4. 2010 Stanley Cup finals-Blackhawks win first Stanley Cup since 1961

5. 1978 NBA Championship-Bullets with Elvin Hayes, Wes Unseld, and Bobby Dandridge beat the Seattle Supersonics

6. 1979 NCAA Basketball Championship Game-Larry Bird vs Magic Johnson

7. 1975 Boxing Heavyweight Championship Ali vs Frazier- "The Thrilla in Manilla"

8. 1994 Monday Night NFL Football- Magic in Mile High as KC Chief Joe Montana outduels Denver Bronco Elway for one of the greatest games I've ever watched as a Chiefs fan

9. 1970 World Series- Pirates win again as Willie Stargell is MVP

10. Yankee Stadium July 4th 1939- Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day- Babe Ruth was also there. Gehrig delivered the famous opening line of his speech: "For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth."

[rico]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

A hoard of my friends got tickets to that game 6 2011 game everyone keeps referencing for Uber cheap since you st Louis pussies can't handle the rain even for a world series game

Funny story about that game.

I watched it at my parents' house with my younger brothers and dad. My dad is the biggest Cardinals fan I've ever met. He is also a very angry, pouty, pessimistic and downright spoiled rotten fan of them. He goes overboard with them...they drive him crazy. His day in general more or less depends on how the Cardinals did that day. If you ask him at 11:59 pm on any given day during the Summer in which the Cardinals played how his day went, his answer will always depend on how the Cardinals did that day. If he had a decent day and the Cardinals won, he will respond, "my day was ok...the Cardinals ****ing pissed me off, though." If he had a bad day and the Cardinals lost, his response would be, "I had a ****ing shitty day. This and this happened and the Cardinals shat one down their legs. Those ****ing assholes, I ****ing HATE THEM!" "But dad, they are still in 1st place and up 6 games for the lead in the division." "**** them, they still suck. They are dogshit."

And when they are having a bad season, it's "the ****ing Cardinals are ruining my ****ing life!!!"

Pretty dramatic.

And he seethes with hatred towards Cubs fans (as do I)...for their fans in our area are so mouthy and delusional. He can't help himself from lumping them all together. He could have an extremely positive opinion of someone he meets, but when he finds out that they are a Cubs fan, he can't help himself from having a lower opinion of them than he did before... He is that biased against them.

Ok, so game 6 of the 2011 World Series. When the Cardinals went down by 3 in the top of the 8th, he blew up and was like, "it's ****ing over. I can't handle this shit. ****ing bastards. The Cardinals can GO TO HELL!!!" Then he went to bed and presumably laid down and pouted. Cards scored that run in the bottom of the 8th...that was cool. But then when Freese hit that triple to tie the game in the bottom of the 9th, we all went nuts. Dad missed it, for he was too busy sulking in his room. I ran up to get him and was like, "DAD! You have to come see this!!!" His negative ass was like, "oh what, did we actually get someone on base with a bloop single or something?" And I was like, "no! David Freese tied it up with a triple." So he comes downstairs to watch again and the Rangers scored those 2 runs in the 10th to go up 2. Dad was irate...face beat red and all. He was like, "those ****ERS! Of course since I start watching them, they regress to their shitty selves!!! **** them, I am going to bed!!! Those ****ers!!!"

Then we scored the 2 runs in the bottom of the 10th again and we went crazier than we did in the bottom of the 9th. I ran upstairs and was like, "DAD!?! YOU MISSED IT AGAIN!!! CARDS JUST TIED IT UP AGAIN!!!" He was speechless...he was like, "you are ****ing shitting me?!" Then he jets downstairs just in time to see the Rangers get out of the 10th inning to enter the 11th. He went on another, "THEY SUCK WHEN I'M WATCHING" rant and said something along the lines of not being able to take it for he just KNEW the Cardinals were going to blow it. So he went back up to bed and pouted some more...and the game was tied at this point (top of the 11th).

Rangers were scoreless in the 11th and then Freese hit that walk off home run in the bottom of the 11th. It was absolute mayhem in our house with my brothers and I...this time, Dad took the initiative to run down the stairs himself when he heard the commotion and was like, "did the ****ing Cardinals just win this ****ing game?" And we were all like, "YEAH DUDE!!! FREESE HIT A ****ING WALK-OFF!!! MOST AMAZING GAME EVER!!! YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ACTING LIKE A TRAMPED OUT LITTLE BITCH, OR MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE CAUGHT SOME OF IT!!!" He was like, "un-****ingbelievable...when I watch, they suck ass to the point where I can't stand watching it, then when I leave, they win in historic fashion."

My dad...one of the most passionate fans I know of any team...missed both comebacks from the 2 run deficits in the bottom of the 9th and 10th AND Freese's walk-off home run... all because they were pissing him off so badly when he actually was watching.

[rico]

I wish I could have been in attendance for these wrestling matches:

Rulon vs. Karelin in the Olympic finals

All of Dan Gable's matches in the 1972 Olympics...didn't give up a single point all tourmament.

Lincoln Mcclravy vs. Gerry Abas in the NCAA Finals of 1993

Mark Ironside vs. Cary Kolat at the 1996 NWCA All-Star classic.

[BigCatDaddy]

My top 5 would include one of Rico's matches.

[rico]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

My top 5 would include one of Rico's matches.

I'll post my most embarrassing one...how about that? My friends give me crap to this day about this one. Figured this would be more fun for you guys to watch...at my expense of course.

I am in the black.

This was at state. I had just lost in the semis to a guy who went on to win his 3rd state title and wrestled for the Iowa Hawkeyes. The match in the video was my consolation semifinal match. If I won, I wrestled for 3rd and 4th, if I lost I wrestled for 5th and 6th.

I was confused when I walked on the mat because I thought I had to wrestle the kid I was beating 8-2 when I pinned him in the first round. After my match with the 3 timer in the semis, I walked over to that mat to see who I was going to face...it was either the guy I beat first round, or the guy in this video. The guy I destroyed first round was up 10-0 vs. the guy in this video with one minute left in the match. I just thought, "ok, I've got a rematch with the guy I beat 1st round. I'm fine with that" and walked away. I was still pretty pissy from losing my semifinal match.

So then when I saw this guy step on the mat, I thought, "what the **** happened in that last minute of that match!?!?! Last I saw, this kid was getting destroyed by the kid I destroyed 1st round!?!?!!" I would soon find out.

After I took the guy down, I could just tell that it was a kid that I could dominate...he was a lot weaker than me...type of kid I could have just forcibly turned over with a chicken wing and just pin with no problem. Almost locked up a couple cradles out of bounds...the ref didn't give me a chance to bring him back in and work to turn him with one of the attempts, IMO.

It was just a matter of time before I would find some way to pin him...he didn't seem very good...at all. In the 2nd period, I attempted a high crotch, he played the edge and went out of bounds. We then went back to the center of the mat and he hit me with the SLOWEST headlock I've ever seen. It looks like a 1st grader head lock. And the crazy thing was, I was not susceptible to those...that was the only time I had ever been caught in one, in practice or competition since I began in 1st grade...yet I got caught in the slowest, sloppiest headlock ever...and I got pinned and had to wrestle for 5th and 6th.

Turns out, that kid hit the guy I beat first round with the same headlock when he was down 10-0 with like 30 seconds left. Unbelievable.

To make things worse...the guy who I pinned in 54 seconds in the quarterfinals wrestled back for 3rd...he just destroyed this kid for 3rd and 4th...

And to think this kid actually became a national All-American in D3... It boggles my mind. This kid, other than that headlock, had nothing going for him...he wasn't good...and the headlock wasn't even very good...it was awful...I just had a brain lapse and got caught on it.

It took me 10 years before I could talk about this one without getting upset.

[RobBlake]

i never wrestled in my life and i have no clue how in the hell you got caught in that headlock. Must have been fatigued

[Rain Man]

You should find that kid on Facebook and challenge him to a rematch.

[rico]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

i never wrestled in my life and i have no clue how in the hell you got caught in that headlock. Must have been fatigued

I wasn't fatigued...I remember it like it was yesterday. I really have no clue how I got caught in that thing...no explanation. Only headlock I've ever been caught in...and I wrestled 1st grade through college. And boy was it an ugly headlock.

In youth and HS wrestling, we used to practice these headlock defense drills called the "turtle head" drills. Which basically we would have our partner try a headlock and you had to sink your head down into your neck and back away. We did those until it was second nature for us to start your defense to the headlock the instant your opponent appeared that they were going to initiate one... It was second nature for me to defend a headlock... And I got caught in THAT ugly thing. He only had like 1/4 of the top of my head locked up when he threw it. Just ugly.

Wasn't fatigued at all, though. I don't know what happened.