best sporting events you've seen IRL

[hammertime]

Northwestern State beating Iowa with a 3 at the buzzer in the 1st round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament.close calls:I was at the "Miracle at Michigan" game, but I had to leave early because my friend had to be back in Toledo for a hockey game. Urgh.I also swear I was at the game where Eric Davis hit for the cycle, but that may be my imagination running away with me...I should ask my dad.

 

[asstro]

I was there... saw the medal ceremony too.

 

[SoulOnIce]

I was there... saw the medal ceremony too.

So, you saw the gold medal game?

Or did you see the USSR game too?

 

[Rockadelic]

I was at Shea Stadium the day Nate Colbert hit 5 Home Runs.

 

[kitchenknight]

1990 World Series Game 1- Eric Davis homerun in the 1st inning, en route to the Reds sweep.

1997 NCAA Championship Game- Arizona beats UK in OT. Great game...

2004- Red Sox over Angels in the ALDS game 3...David Ortiz wins the series on a walk off home run.

Pats over Colts in 2004 AFC Divisional round...One of the most dominant team performances I've ever seen.
Few other Pats-Colts tilts are memorable...

 

[SoulOnIce]

I saw Ray Bourque have his number retired.

I saw Kevin McHale put up 56 against Detroit in '85.

Nine days later Bird dropped 60, but I wasn't there.

 

[bobbydee]

Brazil vs. Czech republic football in the 2000 games.
The game was good, but the Brazilian crowd was

They had to tell them to "quiet down" as they were worried the top tiers of the stadium were bouncing in a dangerous manner. It was seriously moving a good 50cm or so. Crazy

 

[asstro]

I was there... saw the medal ceremony too.

So, you saw the gold medal game?

Or did you see the USSR game too?
The gold medal game vs Finland, so technically that pic is wrong, I know...

I was also at the infamous Reggie-Bar game at Yankee Stadium, opening day 1978.

 

[pacman]

Saw a huge brawl between the Orioles and the Royals @ the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Tom "Flash" Gordon was the starting pitcher for KC. It was beer tankard night and everyone started throwing them on the field. These were HEAVY plastic steins. Nuts. Sam Horn homered that game too....landed 4 rows in front of me.

Saw the first Night game @ Camden Yards vs the Indians. Saw the first homer run hit in the stadium (I believe it was Mark Lewis of the Indians, but I can't confirm on google).

Saw a last second 3 pointer by Marbury when he was in Phoenix against the Sonics.

Witnessed Jose Jimenez no-hit the Diamondbacks.

Saw Opening day one year...Diamondbacks vs the Phillies.

I think that's it.

 

[waxjunky]

I was at the Stanford-Cal game in 1982 for The Play.





I was also at the 1989 World Series when the earthquake hit.

 

[wescoasia]

I was in attendance at all the Warriors home games last year when they took out the Mavericks. The atmosphere in Oakland was bananas.

 

[HarveyCanal]

These were good ones...

 

[pcmr]

I was at the Stanford-Cal game in 1982 for The Play.

 

[Rockadelic]

The atmosphere in Oakland was bananas.

That arena looks like it's filled with human bananas!!!

 

[DB_Cooper]

I saw Ray Bourque have his number retired.

I saw Esposito have his number (7) retired, which was when Bourque switched to 77.

1999 ALDS, Game 3. Sox down 2-0, facing elimination. Fans resuscitate "Darrr-yyllll" chant from ???86, switching it to "Jar-et." Jaret Wright loses his composure in one of the most humiliating professional sports implosions I've ever witnessed. Sox come back to utterly destroy Cleveland. Wright is emotionally scarred for life.

Some random Sox game in 2000 (or 2001?) Pedro is pitching against the Yanks. K-cards are distributed. A couple of friends and I are drunk in the bleachers. We start making paper airplanes out of K-cards. Within moments, 10,000 drunken bleacher bums are throwing paper K-card airplanes at the Yankee bullpen. Play is suspended while several dozen fans are ejected. My friends and I are not.

 

Game 4 of the Mets/Arizona NLDS, when Todd Pratt hit a walkoff in the 10th to send the Mets to the NLCS against Atlanta. I've never seen a stadium react like that, I looked up to the upper deck where my friend was in the front row (I was at the field seats) and the whole tier was BOUNCING, I thought it was going to collapse. Looked like an earthquake hit.

Also, Game 7 against St. Louis in '06 when Beltran struck out looking with them loaded in the bottom of the 9th. Even though they lost it was easily the best game I was ever at. Got to witness firsthand Endy Chavez making the greatest catch of all time (I can still see the ball landing in his glove, I was the first in my section to realize he caught it and screamed OH SHIT loud enough for the stadium to hear), and the only reason it's not recognized as so is because they lost the game.

 

[Rockadelic]

Got to witness firsthand Endy Chavez making the greatest catch of all time

Greatest catch of all-time (imo) was made by Kevin Mitchell

 

Got to witness firsthand Endy Chavez making the greatest catch of all time

Greatest catch of all-time (imo) was made by Kevin Mitchell

Dude cut off the head of his girlfriend's cat in a cocaine-fueled frenzy. I have to respectfully disagree.

 

[DB_Cooper]

Got to witness firsthand Endy Chavez making the greatest catch of all time

Greatest catch of all-time (imo) was made by Kevin Mitchell

Dude cut off the head of his girlfriend's cat in a cocaine-fueled frenzy. I have to respectfully disagree.
Right? I don't think that can technically be considered a catch at all, never mind G.O.A.T.

 

[Rockadelic]

Dude cut off the head of his girlfriend's cat in a cocaine-fueled frenzy. I have to respectfully disagree.

At least that's what a coked-up Gooden said.

Snagging a 300 foot line drive bare-handed is some next level shit though.

Can't find it on youtube.

How was this not a "catch"

Huh?