One Sporting Event You Could Witness Firsthand

[T Town Tommy]

Game 6 of the 75 World Series - was a Reds fan so I was down for a while but coming back and winning Game 7 made up for it.

 

[#1rish]

Miracle on Ice
2000 Game 6 Stanley Cup Final
2003 Game 7 Stanley Cup Final

 

[GoIrish41]

I'm saying Miracle on Ice is for sure the choice.

Sorry dude. Misread your post.

 

[ND NYC]

Kind of funny you brought up the 1936 Olympics because I just watched a trailer for a movie titled Unbroken which is the story of 1936 Olympian Louie Zamperini who was a runner and WWII POW. I posted the trailer in the Greatest Athlete thread. Definitely worth the 3 minute watch.

Unbroken is one of my all time favorite books, top 5 for sure.
to the extent a movie can, i hope it does Lou's story justice.

 

[Corry]

Gladiatorial fights in the Roman Colosseum.

 

[IrishinTN]

I cried like a baby. Not so much for me, but for all the old timers like my grandfather that waited so long for it to happen.

Games 4 & 5 of the ALCS that year would have been awesome too.

I have friends who had the reaction, too. Lots of emotions go with that win that people don't understand.

For me it would be Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS. Nothing would compare to watching the grand slam off Johnny's bat rise as fast as the Yankees fans hopes fell.

 

[GATTACA!]

Miracle on ice. I get chills every time I rewatch it so I can only imagine in person. Also I'd ask Walkin if he could wipe my memory so I could experience it with everyone else.

 

[DomerInHappyValley]

So far outside the norm with this one.
But the first Olympics in ancient Greece.

 

[ulukinatme]

31-30.

Fuck Jimmy Johnson

I'm down with this. I do love the 3 hour mark of the game here though. Johnson seems to spend the greater part of that first minute arguing/yelling at the refs when the game is essentially already over. What he's arguing about, who can say, but his look afterwards is priceless

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[greyhammer90]

Apologies for starting another thread but the threads started by TheFlyingAlamo and rtrn2glory got me thinking about the one single sporting event in the history of ever that you could be at, what would it be?

Here's the scenario: You wake up one morning and get out of bed, only to find Christopher Walken sitting in a chair, in the corner of your room. He says to you that he has access to the time machine from Bill and Ted but it can only bring you to ONE sporting event that the world has ever seen. He offers you this one chance. Its whatever sport you want, from whatever era. You get sideline seats. Front row. Doesn't even have to be a big time event like a Game 7 or Ali/Frazier. It can be a random game but something you've read about or heard and wanted to see.

Just ONE sporting event. Not one game per sport, just ONE.

Did anyone else read the rest of this in Christopher Walken's voice in their head after seeing his name?

The "just ONE" thing really works with his voice too.

 

[connect the dots]

Miracle on Ice.

The miracle on ice for me would be Squaw Valley, California(1960), when an unheralded USA team shocked the Russians, and the world of hockey. Television coverage of the game was from basically one camera, and the players didn't wear helmets and clear face masks. The brothers Cleary and Christian provided the offense, and with the indomitable Jack McCartan in goal, the USA won its very first hockey gold medal on the Big Ice(ice rink dimensions that make for a much better game). And, when the Winter Olympics were over, the players went back to jobs and families in the real world.

 

[anarin]

'88 National Championship

I only saw this on tv. It would've been amazing to see it live.

 

[ACamp1900]

1936 opening ceremony... THAT would be interesting to sit and watch.

I always have a spot for early era baseball...

-Would love to watch Hoss Radbourne pitch the year he broke the record,
-ANY game from Ebbetts Field...
-Any of the three games of the Second (I think ) World Series where Christy Mathewson just dominated.
-Any game of the 1919 Series
-Any game of the Series between Detriot and Pittsburgh where Cobb and Wagner finally got down.

-but above all I would love to be in the stands for the "Merkle Boner" game.

 

[connect the dots]

1936 opening ceremony... THAT would be interesting to sit and watch.

I always have a spot for early era baseball...

-Would love to watch Hoss Radbourne pitch the year he broke the record,
-ANY game from Ebbetts Field...
-Any of the three games of the Second (I think ) World Series where Christy Mathewson just dominated.
-Any game of the 1919 Series
-Any game of the Series between Detriot and Pittsburgh where Cobb and Wagner finally got down.

-but above all I would love to be in the stands for the "Merkle Boner" game.

I suggest that you watch Leni Riefenstahl's documentary, Olympia, from the comfort of your couch. Germans, even the upper middle class who could afford a ticket to the Berlin Games, did not bath themselves, or launder their clothes very often. Can you imagine, Adolph Hitler spent his whole life in a big stink!