Best moment in sports ever!

[Mac the Knife]

Playing:

My softball team winning its first championship back in '95.  We had gone 4-12 the previous season and came from literally out of nowhere to take the title.

Watching:

I feel lucky in this sense.  I operate a sports organization (our web site is at ColtSport.com, in case anyone cares) that runs a flag football league (and next year, a softball league).  Two of our three league championship games to date have literally been decided on the last play.  

Now that may or may not be exciting from a pure, casual observer standpoint perhaps, but what made it exciting for me is the fact that I know each and every player on the field, and can sense the emotion is going on, both while the game is being played and at that singlular moment of victory... and defeat.  Ratches things up a few notches.

[CrookedThumb]

My favorite moment came 2 weeks ago during the Bucs/Falcons game.Warren Sapp scoring an offensive TD.

[random]

watching is one of 2 great sports moments.

-Ricky Williams breaking Tony Dorsetts NCAA rushing record agains Texas A&M with a 70+ yard run.

-Drew Nicholas hitting the "Maryland Miracle" 3 pointer to beat UNCW in last years NCAA tourney first round.

[NJTank]

2. Rangers finally win Cup 1994.

3. Stephan Matteau wisn Game 7 of Eatsern Finals. .....

8. Devils beat Ducks 2003 Finals

9. Devils beat Stars 2000 Finals

What are you a Devils fan or a Rangers fan??

If you're a Devils fan under no, zero, circumstances, can you have those first 2. None at all, that's treason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're a Rangers fan, you can't have the last two.

If your a fan of one team, your rivals beating you or winning the championship can't be on your great moments.

And for the record those first 2 you had sucked and were in no way great. The last two were great.

Call me a band waggon jumper but I was a Rangers fan in 1994, but over teh past few years I have been supporting the Devils more as the DOlans run the MSG teams into the ground with stupid managemnt.

I just wish the Rangers will tear it down and rebuild like teh Mets started to this year, if they did that in 1999 when Gretzky retire dteh Rangers wil be close to contending again but instead tehy continue to spend outrageoulsy without concern for the sport or the theory of team chemistry.

If teh Rangers faced the Devils in the playoff now I dont knwo whod I root for any more, maybe Im just a disgruntal Rangers fan who will come around when the turn around, or someone who lives in Jersey taht finally saw the light.

[Discrim]

If teh Rangers faced the Devils in the playoff now I dont knwo whod I root for any more, maybe Im just a disgruntal Rangers fan who will come around when the turn around, or someone who lives in Jersey taht finally saw the light.

it can be done.  take it from a guy who's split between teh Packers and Bears....next Devils-Rangers game, just sit back and enjoy the show.  of course, if the refs are starting to screw one team over, you might not be able to contain yourself

[yh]

Well, it happened this past Saturday night -  Mizzou 41 - Nebraska 24.  I have been a season ticket holder for 22 of the past 25 years (I was in law school in Oklahoma for the other 3 years).  Nebraska is the only team from the old Big 8 that I had never personally witnessed the Tigers beating and NU owned a 24 game win streak against us.  Along the way we had a few close calls but this was always the one that got away and now we finally bagged 'em, and in an unbelievable fashion -- Brad Smith catching a cross-field reverse pass from WR Darius Outlaw and running it in from 47 yards out, a fake FG for a TD in the 4th quarter while the Tigers were down by 3, serious abuse of Husker QB Jammal Lord in the 4th quarter resulting in a fumble recovery and a pick returned to the 7.  It was just a shining moment in the history of MU football (especially since we were reeling from a horrible defeat at Kansas) and clearly the greatest sports spectacle I have ever witnessed in person.

And no, I wasn't one of the guys tearing down the goalposts but since my seats are 6 rows off the field, I certainly had an excellent vantage point for witnessing the postgame jubilation.

[See Red]

Watching

I have kind of alot I need to trim from my list but here they go...

Both of the Colorado Avalanche's Stanley Cup wins.  The first one, the 4 game sweep, wasn't nearly as good because of easy it seemed we won it.  And the second one is when we got Rob Bourque the Stanley Cup.  Along with, in my biased opinion, the greatest moment in NHL History, Joe Sakic handing the cup to Ray Bourque, Bourque kisses it and holds it high above his head.  Not to mention, it was game 7.

Terrell Owens - "The Catch II" 95% of my friends are Packers fans.  I'm the lone 49ers fan, so I couldn't have been any happier.  Young stumbles as he steps back, throws it to Terrell Owens with 3 Packers surrounding him, an amazing memory.

The Patriots final drive to win the Superbowl against the St. Louis Rams.  Great way to cap off an amazing post season.

When I saw that Teemu Selanne had signed a contract with the Colorado Avalanche, and then later saw that Paul Kariya had done the same.  Can you say "2003-04 Stanley Cup Champions"?  (Ok, so it's not the greatest, nor one of em', but it DOES rule)

And actually... I'm a 49ers fan, but I live in Colorado, so I'm also a Denver Broncos fan... and the single greatest moment in the history of sports to me... was actually two single plays in one game.  The first being a 4th down pass from the arm of Brett Favre that was knocked down by John Mobley to beat the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.  And earlier, when John Elway pulled the ball down, ran to his dove right into the two Packers players and did his little 360 divey thingy for the first.  As Terrell Davis said in his book "TD: Dreams in Motion", seeing how badly John Elway wanted to win that Superbowl was summed up on that one play and inspired that team.

Playing

the first was multiple moments, 10 to be exact.  I'm a huge football fan, can't get enough football, and just the thrill of stepping onto the field an hour before a game, and throwin the ball around with teammates, just to get loose, before there's any crowd there, wearing just the bottom halfs of our unis, was an amazing feeling for me, and it never got old.

I played football for my school in it's first year in existance, and stepping onto the field to represent my school in our first ever homecoming game was an amazing feeling.

There was a team we hated in my hockey league.  They were the most arrogant team in the league, and they just rubbed the fact that they were the best team in the league in everyone's faces.  But while me and my teammates and friends hated them, we were also pretty much best friends with em' and played with em' everyday.  Anyways... we scored with about 30 seconds left to take a 1 goal lead.  Then somehow, they put up a goal 13 seconds later.  So I went to the faceoff, knowing we had all our big guns in the game.  I was center, took the faceoff, our guys kinda fought for it on the side, and it got hit back into the center.  I took the puck, cut down the center, while the player on the other team hooked me from behind.  So as I'm being hooked, I deke one of their defenseman, almost lose my balance but mantain it.  I finally shed the hook, at that point and went in on a breakaway.  I put the puck between my legs and kicked it back to stick side and put the puck in the net for the one.  (I had been trying to perfect the timing of that move for awhile and had never been able to get it down.  Then we ended up having to play them in a make-up game the next week, and beat em'.  Then we played them in the league Championship a week or two later and beat em' again.

[Ez Street]

Watching:

1996 Stanley Cup, Uwe Krupp and that laser shot past Beezer for the cup. My Boy Joey Sakic wins the Conn Smythe!!!!

2001 Stanley Cup, Ray Bourque raises Lord Stanley's Cup!! Then he drops several F-Bombs, i'm like Dennis Miller i'm a big fan of the F-Bomb.

2002 Super Bowl, Patriots win it all! Very good game!

2003 Super Bowl, all the years of ridicule for likeing the Bucs pays off. This game melts away all those bad years the Bucs went though.

2004 Super Bowl, GOD PLEASE LET THE CHIEFS WIN IT!

Playing:

1995 Shawnee Heights Vs. Hayden, with the game out of hand Shawnee Heights losing 53-10, they bring in defensive specialist David Streeter. Ok so it was my only Varsity game, but we stopped them from running the score up even more. Only playing my freshman and sophomore years, i guess this would be the highlight. Still waiting on them to retire #51......

[Nate15]

Playing:

In my High School we take the football unit in Phys Ed very seriously.  Last year, my team made it to the championship game, and I caught 3 touchdown passes, as we trampled over the other team and won the 'championship'.

Watching:

"MATTEAU! MATTEAU! MATTEAU! THE RANGERS HAVE ONE MORE HILL TO CLIMB, BABY...AND IT'S MT. VANCOUVER"

-Howie Rose

I was age seven, but it's a hell of a vivid memory.  

Less well-known, but on my 12th birthday I went to a Rangers/Panthers game.  Rangers were down 4-3 and Brian Leetch scored with less than 1 second left in the 3rd period to tie it up.  Adam Graves went on to score about 2 minutes into overtime.  Best hockey game I've ever been to.

[Breakwood]

Watching:

Staying up till 3 am to watch John Davison get the fastest cricket century in a one day match.

Playing:

Probably play football in high school now. we are 4-0 playing the other 4-0 team (Iroquois Ridge) on wednesday and allready have a bye in the first round of the playoffs.  an im provment on last years 2-4 record.

[fiasco!]

watching:

9/27/99 - final game at tiger stadium, robert fick hits a grand slam in the 8th of the right field roof facing right above my seats for the last homer ever there.....tears start streaming out of my eyes uncontrollably.....my buddy roger and i had to be asked to leave the park 2 hours after the game....baseball hasn't been the same for me since.

1996 stanley cup - wings win while i'm sitting with my roomies and bandwagoneers at the 3rd street saloon in the cass corridor. after saying how much i didn't care if they won, the tears started when the final seconds ticked away.

1984 detroit tigers world series victory over the san diego padres in 5 game.

1980 miracle on ice....still feels like yesterday, absolutely unbelievable. i was 7 years old and it still is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen.

playing:

1988 - 2 triples, 2 doubles, 1 walk, 8 rbi's....high school all star game

1984 - catching a no-hitter in little league from former detroit tiger milt wilcox's son, kyle

1990 - trying out for the lake superior state university hockey team and knowing that i would have made it, if it weren't for my damn knees giving out on me.

2002 - summer beer league at the detroit skating club, taking a check from and blocking an aaron ward slapshot before i even knew that the other team had brought him in as a ringer. we were winning 4-0 with 5 min to go in the 3rd, and ward scord on 5 straight shots to win it.....bastards!

[vicfurth]

watching-1998 Big XII Championship between Kansas State & Texas A&M. Double-overtime game in which the Aggies are picked to get smeered. Down by 15 in the fourth, A&M staged a comeback to send the game into overtime. The first overtime passed with no fireworks, just an exchange of field goals. In the second overtime, KSU kicker Martin Gramatica kicked a field goal to go ahead 33-30. In the Aggie's possesion, they were faced with third-and-eighteen at the 32 (I think). The quarterback threw a slant pattern to Sirr Parker who broke a tackle & ran to pay dirt, giving Texas A&M their first & only Big XII title. My house went nuts. :cool:

playing-I only play football for fun, but waiting for my chance to wipe the ground with this one kid who makes fun of me during basketball season (still for fun, it will be more fun A.H.-After Hit)

Oh, yeah, that'll feel great!

[winters in buffalo]

Best moments in sports...

In person - watching the Buffalo Bandits win their 2nd MILL title. At home, in OT1.

On TV...Ray Bourque's Stanley Cup.

On the radio.... Bills comeback vs. Oilers (the game was a TV blackout)

[kirjtc2]

Playing: I haven't been involved in any organized sports in years (heaven knows my athletic ability is slim to none), but I do remember scoring a hat trick, somehow, by some fluke of nature, in the championship game of my intramural floor hockey game in 4th grade.

Watching:

Most Canadians would say the gold medal in 2002. Well, sure that was big, but it wasn't even my biggest sports moment of the month! That honor goes to Super Bowl XXXVI and Adam Vinatieri's field goal with no time left. I have an audio file of the final drive as called on the Patriots radio network, and it never fails to bring a smile to my face.

Obviously, the snow bowl against the Raiders is up there too.

#3 would be Joe Juneau's OT goal against the Sabres in 1998 to put the Caps in the finals.

JPK

[lucky34]

Watching:

-- "THE CATCH"...made me the 49ers fan I am today.

-- Ozzie Smith's homer in the bottom of the ninth in game 5 of the 85 NLCS

-- 2003 Natl Championship game..GO BUCKS.

-- Montana to Taylor for the win in 88 Super bowl

Playing:

-- Winning first ever LEAGUE Championship in High School.

-- Holding the All Time Leading scorer in my County to only 21 pts combined in the 2 games we played my Senior year.

-- Winning Intramural Football championship in OT on the last play of the game against Theta Chi!

[-kj]

-- Ozzie Smith's homer in the bottom of the ninth in game 5 of the 85 NLCS

"Go crazy, folks! Go crazy!"

[Puckguy14]

I'll expand it in 3 catagories.

Playing: Northern California Junior Hockey League Championship.  4 games, 3 days.  I was flying.  We lost the championship despite losing only 2 games all year.  And with 2 seconds left, our star scorer (84 goals in 20 games) hit the post in attempt to tie the game.

Watching (in person): There were two games. In 1999, in an exciting see-saw game, I saw Terrell Owens make "The Catch II" vs. Green Bay with 3 seconds left.  I was there last year when the 49ers made the greatest comback in NFC Playoff history.  

Watching: 1994 Western Conference Quarterfinals.  Anyone who thought the Sharks, 3rd year expansion team could beat the Red Wings (the heavy Stanley Cup favorite) in the playoffs, was wrong.  The first shock sent around the hockey world by the Sharks was made in 1994.  My Sharkies did it again in 1995, in double OT over Calgary.  Jumping up and down on my couch with my parents!

[Pat]

Wathcing on TV: well i barely remember it now but it would be green bay defeating the patriots back in january 97. but other than that it would be XXVI, when i thought it was heading to OT and adam vinateiri kicked it over the posts. awesome

and how bout the rams and titans? and it came down to a yard. wow. too bad i was going for the titans.

Live: a game between the leafs and philly when there was a HUGE brawl. it was totally awesome, the goalies were going, the benches were going everyone was going nuts in the stands, and the leafs won.

Playing: a couple years back in a abseball tourney in london ontario it was i think the semifinals, and i came in to close it and pitches the best of my life. that was sweet

[NJTank]

Best Game I saw in person 1998 Opening Day at Shea Mets Vs Phillies tied 0-0 until 14th when Alberto Castillo sent Mets home with 1-0 win.

[jrh31584]

Watching on TV: Game 7, 1992 NLCS.

Watching in person: September 9, 2000.  South Carolina 21, Georgia 10.