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Dean Wormer said:
Boxing’s not a game but the Thriller in Manila is right up there. If they hadn’t stopped it both Ali and Smokin Joe would’ve died in that ring. And if it was a 20 round fight, that’s just what would’ve happened. Brutal.
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Reading "Ghosts of Manilla" right now... Great read!
 
I'm going to go with Mets vs Astros, game 6, 1986. Mets knew they had to win because they weren't beating Mike Scott in game 7. Astros scored 3 in 1st inning and it stayed 3-0 until Mets tied in top of 9th. Mets scored in 14th inning, Astros tied it. Mets scored 3 in 16th inning, Astros scored 2 with winning run on base when Orosco got the final K.

I think that was actually a more exciting - and exhausting - game than game 6 in the WS vs Sox.

I'll also note that the entire 1986 baseball postseason was the most fantastic of any in history.
 
businesslawyer said:
Whether you're a Yankees fan or a Red Sox fan, the best and most dramatic game they ever played was the Bucky Dent game. Because of how great those two teams were that year and the story behind the Yankee comeback in the regular season. But objectively there were better and more dramatic baseball games. Bobby Thomson's home run. Bill Mazeroski's home run. Kirk Gibson's home run.

I don't know how you compare the best game in different sports.
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You must be a Yankee fan. Red Sox down by a run (series 3-0 Yankees) with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th and they come back against the greatest reliever of all time?
 
NEforceUConn said:
You must be a Yankee fan. Red Sox down by a run (series 3-0 Yankees) with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th and they come back against the greatest reliever of all time?
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I admit to being a Yankees fan. But the Red Sox won that game and were down 3-1 with no reasonable chance of coming back. I don't think that compares to a single elimination playoff.
 
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NEforceUConn said:
You must be a Yankee fan. Red Sox down by a run (series 3-0 Yankees) with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th and they come back against the greatest reliever of all time?
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Bitter Yankee fan here, dont care to ever watch that game lol, but no doubt a classic game with a bit of devine intervention, the Tony Clark double that wouldve scored Ruben Sierra had it not been a ground rule double. There were a ton of classic games that year, another was the Jeter dive into the stands game essentially ending the Nomar era in Boston.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Most entertaining games is different from greatest, greatest includes materiality along with a compelling and thrilling game experience.

Miracle on Ice win

Game 6 of the 1975 World Series

NC State over Houston, 1983 final

Patriots comeback over Falcons, 2017 Superbowl. The 2001 win over the Rams and the game saving interception against Seahawks, also great.
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That's a very nice list.
 
Narrowing to just college hoops:
1. 1985 Nova Georgetown
2. 1983 NC State Houston
3. 2016 Nova UNC
 
businesslawyer said:
I admit to being a Yankees fan. But the Red Sox won that game and were down 3-1 with no reasonable chance of coming back. I don't think that compares to a single elimination playoff.
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I erased the Bucky Dent HR game from my memory. But those two 1978 teams were juggernauts and probably did a lot to prompt expansion of the playoffs. Shame they couldn’t play a 7 game World Series.

Fisk waving the ball fair still stands out to me at the top, but you are right that Gibson’s more or less one handed homer was epic. Baseball has provided a lot of great moments. The lack of a time limit leads to lots of late drama
 
Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Pirates beat Yankees on a Mazeroski walk off. Final score is 10-9; no one strikes out in the whole game.
 
1. Giants 1986 Super Bowl ....Many years of terrible teams and play came to an end with LT, Simms, and the rest of the team.
2. UConn 1999 National Championship beating the evil Duke who had kick UConn out a decade earlier in the Final 8. This was payback.
3. Boston Bruins Bobby Orr scoring the winning goal, in OT to win the Stanley Cup.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
I erased the Bucky Dent HR game from my memory. But those two 1978 teams were juggernauts and probably did a lot to prompt expansion of the playoffs. Shame they couldn’t play a 7 game World Series.

Fisk waving the ball fair still stands out to me at the top, but you are right that Gibson’s more or less one handed homer was epic. Baseball has provided a lot of great moments. The lack of a time limit leads to lots of late drama
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Watched the Bucky Dent home run from the right field bleachers, and it was obvious it was gone at the point of contact. A few years ago, I digitized a slide carousel and noted a single photo from those seats at that game, a few innings earlier.

In 1975, I got right field bleacher seats via ticket lottery for Games 1 & 2. In the 6th or 7th inni g of game 2,my college roommate came and got me to follow him to prime seats 8 rows back from home plate. His brother-in-law was Monte Irving's assistant in Bowie Kuhn's Office of the MLB Commissioner.

The Sox were on their way to a 2-0 lead when manager Darrell Johnson pulled Bill Lee for Dick Drago in the 9th inning. Lee's disappoibted objections were overruled. I screamed. I groaned. My heart sank. The prior season, I'd lived in Boston, saw half the home games from the bleachers, and went back to college with the Sox in first place by 7 games;they did not play in the post season.

When Lee came out, I knew the Sox would lose the Series. Fisk's home run, thrilling as it was, represented a miraculous temporary digging out of a hole they shouldn't have ever been in. The following season I found myself rooting for the Reds over the Yankees, and watched Games 1&2 at Riverfront Stadium, courtesy of roomie's BiL. I most remember terrific ice sculptures surrounded by unlimited shrimp at elaborate buffets in the parking garage, walking over a Roebling-designed bridge to our cylindrical hotel in Covington, KY, and Bowie Kuhn famously wearing a sweater as he waved off criticism of a night game scheduled for play in chilly autumn air.

My 1986 story is even more wrenching because I'd spent the entire season rooting for the Mets while I lived in Suffolk County Long Island and my local cable company stopped carrying WSBK that year. After the epic win against the Astros (mentioned elsewhere in this thread), I went back to CT and told my father I was a Mets fan this time around. He gave me a skeptical, arched-eyebrow look that instantly consigned me to cheering for Boston, agonizing over Buckner's error, and having utter certainty in a Game 7 loss, irrespective of an early lead that had all of my co-workers and townspeople anxious that the Mets would lose.

I think it was after a later post-season meltdown by Calvin Schiraldi that I was so beaten down that I functionally stopped watching baseball except for tbe post-season, which usually didn't have Red Sox.

As my lack of interest solidified, I was too fearful after the Yankees were up 3-0 to watch the 2004 comeback, except for the extra innings and the late rallies. By then, the World Series sweep was pure anti-climax that robbed me of the joy I wished for since the mid-1960s when I go my first clock radio with a sleep timer.

Nearly a decade later, a friend gave me a deeply discounted DVD of the 2004 season, and I got to see a professionally produced accounting of what I'd missed. Loss aversion killed my fandom, and baseball is now simply a beautiful game that I watch starting in October, mostly to see great defense and whether there's an exciting and dramatic matchup.

I'm too tired to edit this. My hope is that the typos and autocorrect are amusing.
 
uconnbill said:
1. Giants 1986 Super Bowl ....Many years of terrible teams and play came to an end with LT, Simms, and the rest of the team.
2. UConn 1999 National Championship beating the evil Duke who had kick UConn out a decade earlier in the Final 8. This was payback.
3. Boston Bruins Bobby Orr scoring the winning goal, in OT to win the Stanley Cup.
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I've rolled my eyes and been critical of many posts by you. Not here. Thank you.
 
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Bills - Oilers comeback game 1993
Bills - Raiders AFC champ 1990 51-3 blowout
UConn 1999 77-74
UConn victories (3) over UK from 2010-2014
UConn-Duke 2004 semis.
Tom Glavine 1995 shutout 1-hitter for the Braves only chip during a monster run where they should have had 3-4.
Sabres - Stars 1999 game 6, 3OT Brett Hull “no goal” that stole a Sabres/Hasek Cup.
FSU National Championship game in 2014, GWTD to Benjamin from Winston.

Those are personal favs but also qualify as great/historic games for many reasons.
 
Was about to post the same as above the 6OT game was actually quite terrible. Tons of missed shots.

With my UConn Basketball glasses on - Kemba vs. Pitt is up there. Obviously the '99 NC match vs Duke.
 
  • As a Sox fan, Game 6 2004 ALCS is right there.
  • UCONN hoops: 1999 natty and 6OT 'Cuse game
  • UCONN FB: 2006 46-45 Win vs. Pitt with DJ throwing the ball in the parking lot
  • Duke vs Kentucky in the 1992 Elite 8 is hard not to remember
 
AreBee1969 said:
  • As a Sox fan, Game 6 2004 ALCS is right there.
  • UCONN hoops: 1999 natty and 6OT 'Cuse game
  • UCONN FB: 2006 46-45 Win vs. Pitt with DJ throwing the ball in the parking lot
  • Duke vs Kentucky in the 1992 Elite 8 is hard not to remember
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You were OK until Dook...
 
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#1 1980 US vs Russia Miracle on Ice
#2 Boise State takes down Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl (even though I had no dog in the fight)
#3 too many to decide, but Bucky Dent or Aaron Boone were pretty good:D
 
AreBee1969 said:
  • As a Sox fan, Game 6 2004 ALCS is right there.
  • UCONN hoops: 1999 natty and 6OT 'Cuse game
  • UCONN FB: 2006 46-45 Win vs. Pitt with DJ throwing the ball in the parking lot
  • Duke vs Kentucky in the 1992 Elite 8 is hard not to remember
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If we are talking football then the
UConn win at Norte Dame after Jazz Howard’s death is definitely a part of the discussion. I’d probably add the bowl win over SEC team South Carolina as well.
 
iffn ur a lifelong fan of el tigre, and it was like a decade since he won any big tourney, grabbing that green jacket for a fifth time was pretty special.
on judge smayles, that green jacket just looks like he is heading out for brunch with the blue haired crowd, but on tiger? priceless.
 
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