What's the best sporting event/game you ever attended

[Doctor Hoop]

1999 Ryder Cup at The Country Club in Brookline
Was at the 17th green for this putt:


Second place? The 1978 Yankees-Red Sox playoff at Fenway - the "Bucky (F.) Dent" game.

 

[CTBballfan243]

The Hartford Whalers vs the Montreal Canadiens playoff game in 1986 when Kevin Dineen scored the OT winner in Hartford.

 

[cullaville]

1986 World Series games six and seven

 

[HooperScooper]

Non-UConn game I'll go with Super Bowl XXI. Only because of the back story.

We were Giants fans growing up and they were horrid during the 1970s when I was a kid. My father told me and my brother that if the Giants ever went to the Super Bowl we would go. Figured I'd never see it in my lifetime. Then Lawrence Taylor and Bill Parcells came along and they got better in the early 1980s until 1986 when they were the favorites to win the Super Bowl. They beat the Redskins 17-0 in the NFC title game and I immediately called my father and asked, "Are we going to Pasadena?" He said he'd buy the package (tickets, flight, hotel) the next day and call me to let me know.

Game was close in the first half and then the Giants blew out the Broncos in the second half. We all cried because we thought we'd never see it.

 

[Flipside]

St John's 1pt win over Duke @ Cameron, 2000
Winter X Aspen, 2010-16
Lebron/Heat buzzer beater over Indiana @ Eastern Conference Finals, 2013
Notre Dame over Penn State @ Orange Bowl, 2025

 

[HooperScooper]

Also, I’m not really a baseball fan, but the one Red Sox game I ever went to ended with a walk-off homer by Kevin Youkilis at Fenway in extra innings, which was a pretty awesome atmosphere to experience.

Was the game against the Cardinals? I was there too with my 2 young sons and that was hard getting them to the end of the game. Game must have taken 4 hours.

 

[thekollieman]

I'm going to guess you didn't do so well on the SAT.

The original post:
What is the most memorable sports moment/game you attended? I'm talking non UConn, for obvious reasons.

Woop, woop! It’s the sound of the fun police!

 

[mussels]

Game six (deciding game) of the 96 world series.

Yankees hadn’t won a series since the 70’s and started the series by losing two games to Atlanta at home by a combined score of 16-1.Went to Atlanta and took three including a 1-0 game 5.

The stadium was absolutely electric from the first pitch to Wade Boggs hoping on the police horse on the field during the celebration. As the crowd exited the subway in manhattan after the game, the cars saw, and everyone started honking their horns.

The only time I’ve seen a sports venue as electric was 96 Big East final with Ray Allen and Allen Iverson.

 

[Peacefrog]

Clemens 20 K’s
David Cone perfect game
John Lester no-hitter

Was fortunate to be able to spend full weeks at The Masters several years in a row, 2005-2012. Superb event. Saw several aces and a double eagle but just a tremendous atmosphere in general.

 

[HooperScooper]

Woop, woop! It’s the sound of the fun police!

Well what's the sense of having a thread to discuss something like this if you don't follow the question and directions? Plus I just like to bust RuffRuff’s balls.

 

[TroyHall98]

1. 1987 NBA Finals game 4–Heartbreaking result but the atmosphere was unforgettable.

2. December 11, 1987–Lakers at Celtics. Magic’s hits a quarter court game winner. Another heartbreaking result but the atmosphere was incredible for a regular season game.

3. I don’t remember the date but it was summer of 1988 for rangers at Red Sox. I saw Clemens take on Nolan Ryan.

4.

 

[storrsroars]

I was in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium to witness a Dodger win in the 81 WS.
I was at the Tood Pratt HR game vs DBacks in 2000.
I was at the ridiculous Jets-Dolphins game where Marino and O'Brien threw for almost 1000 yards between them.

But none of the above compare to the 2013 Cincy-Pirates wildcard game. So much pent up frustration waiting to explode, and explode it did. Loudest sporting event I've ever attended, and Shea could get pretty loud.

 

[Jaydumo20]

I was at the Joe Namath Suzy Kolber game too

It was hilarious. They brought out the Jets hall of fame guys at halftime. When Pat Leahy and mickey shuler are part of the hall of fame id be drunk too.

 

[ElGuapo]

There were a bunch of epic Patriots games we went to when we had season tix in the late 2000's through Brady's last SB winning season with them.

But the absolute best was that UConn at Notre Dame road trip we did to South Bend.
That morning, day and night was one of the best days of my life.
And I've had a few...

We went absolutely crazy and bonkers in that early morning tailgate, winning game, post game parking lot festivities and then into the city for even worse debauchery.
So much fun!

 

[thekollieman]

Well what's the sense of having a thread to discuss something like this if you don't follow the question and directions? Plus I just like to bust RuffRuff’s balls.

Clearly a lot of people (myself included - hence the return ball bust) only read the question from the self-contained thread title and answered without excluding UConn experiences. I don’t think that removes the sense of having the thread.

 

[Zanzman]

Wade Boggs 3000 hit a homer in Tampa still hate him

 

[Kitaman]

Clearly a lot of people (myself included - hence the return ball bust) only read the question from the self-contained thread title and answered without excluding UConn experiences. I don’t think that removes the sense of having the thread.

No mistakes or worries. I am old and love hearing stories from 'friends' who have witnessed sports history in a way I never did. I just felt the UConn best and greatest games would be redundant having been already discussed in thousand different ways here, even in some cases while it was 'going down'.

Just a summer thread to ignite some fond memories and emotions of Yarders. I admire this group's wealth of experience and varied stories.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

2018 US Open at Shinnecock. The two there before that were pretty good too.

 

[ucp990411]

1978 Red Sox vs Skankees playoff game. Bucky Dent

1986 Kevin Dineen game winner vs Montreal in game 6. Didn’t sit down the entire game.

Clay Bucholtz 2007 no hitter. 15 rows behind home plate. 8th inning guy behind me guy behind me says to his buddy that there was something wrong with the scoreboard because it says Baltimore had no hits.

1958 at Fenway. My first game, at the age of 3. My favorite player , Jackie Jenson strikes out, my mother tells me I cried and cried.

 

[CL82]

Non UConn? Probably game four of the 1978 Stanley Cup finals (Bruins versus Canadiens). It was an overtime win for the Bruins and absolutely electric. The party spilled over onto the streets after the game, people, high-fiving and hugging, just a blast.

 

[husky99]

27 February 1999 Chelsea2–1Liverpool.
1st European football game.. the crowd was insane

 

[uconnfan68]

My favorite one is the first time UConn played Pitt at the Rent, went with my dad.

First night game. Was there too!

 

[BullDawg]

1992 Game 7 NLCS. Braves beat Pittsburgh in the 9th as Sid Bream slides into home. I was right behind home plate.

Runners up:

1981 Sugar Bowl, UGA beats ND and wins the football NC

2011, South Florida beats ND at South Bend in a much weather delayed football game

 

[gsmooth]

That's easy: the 1999 NCAA Championship game-UConn vs Duke. Need I say more.

Honorable mentions:
1999 semifinal game vs Ohio State (UConn's first Final Four game ever since it was their first Final Four in the program's history)
2024 Elite Eight game vs Illinois

 

[champs99and04]

The Pedro victory against Clemons in the 1999 ALDS was a special game to attend as well but not as rare as a no hitter. And the Yanks did go on to win that series.

Pretty much every Pedro game at Fenway from that era (especially '99) was like a religious experience. It'd be a hard thing to explain to kids today.

But for me, I think it'd be a pair of hockey games: Game 7 of Bruins-Panthers two years ago and then the 4 Nations Faceoff Final this past February.

 

[HooperScooper]

That's easy: the 1999 NCAA Championship game-UConn vs Duke. Need I say more.

Honorable mentions:
1999 semifinal game vs Ohio State (UConn's first Final Four game ever since it was their first Final Four in the program's history)
2024 Elite Eight game vs Illinois

@thekollieman, should I tell him?

 

[ucp990411]

Funny how some people forget what the original thread was

 

[Mik]

Not counting UConn games, I'd say my first trip to Fenway Park, as a young kid during Jim Rice's remarkable 1978 MVP season (months before the lamentable Bucky Dent playoff game).
According to a site called "Fenway Park Diaries" that recounts that 1978 season:
"Rice rifled a solo shot into the left field screen, accounting for the only Sox run in a 1 to 0 win, while Luis Tiant scattered seven hits, recording his second shutout and third win of the year."
Can you imagine, a pitcher going 9 innings? Complete-game shutouts now are nearly as rare as no-hitters.

1978 BOSTON RED SOX

 

[ucp990411]

I can only imagine being at that game. I was at Mad Murphy's in Hartford when they announced the score and the place went bonkers.

I was at a home show at the Civic Center and they announced the score. And yes people there went bonkers also

 

[storrsroars]

I forgot to add, not a great game as I was not a Yanks fan, but had company seats in 9th row behind Yanks dugout for this bit of fun.