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

1988 World Series Game 1. Won a raffle at Naval Station Long Beach and got two tickets to the seats the base had at the time. Second row by First Base. Went with a co-worker. Tickets sold for $50. I was offered $1500 by another co-worker but decided to go. When Oakland lined up before the game I noticed the size of their players. McGuire, Canseco, Baylor, Parker...it looked like a mismatch but somehow, we hung tough until the end. Bottom of ninth and when Gibson came out the stadium shook. I remember when he hit the ball, I looked out to right field and Canseco just dropped his head and started jogging in. That is the loudest I have ever heard Dodger Stadium. It shook like an earthquake. I'll remember the arch on that ball the rest of my life...unbelievable.
 
I have mroe regrets and almsots, but the worst no go was not covering Gatti-Ward at foxwoods. I had credentials but didn't go because I wasn't getting paid by the AP to do an article. Watched it on TV. My mouth was agape.

I saw Daryl Strawberry hit a walk-off home run as a Yankee.
 
Not even close. Chris Chambliss’s walk off home run in the bottom of the 9th against the KC Royals in the fall of 1976 in the final game of the ALCS to send the Yankees to their first World Series since I became a fan.

Second would be the 2002 Eastern Regional Final — UConn against Maryland at the Carrier Dome — which was only marred by the good guys losing.
 
#1. Patriots tuck rule game. We went in a big RV, I avoided the weed brownies, great photos with cheerleaders before the game, game tying field goal kicked right at us (looked short), lost my camera in the celebration.
#2. Patriots beat Bengals in 1985 to clinch playoffs. Watched fans tear down the goal post, but didn’t see them take it to Rte 1 and get shocked.
 
Easily, the 1998 World Cup game between Argentina and England. It was the first athetic meeting after the Falklands War. Tension you. Could
Cut with a knife and passions galore. Beckham red carded, MIcheal Owen's break away goal, considered the second goal in World cup history.
The game ended a 2-2 tie. And it was a 4-3 win for Argentina in a shoot out. The great game in World cup history!!


.A wonderful second was watching NADIA Comananci record the first perfect 10 in gymnastics at The76 Olympics in MONTREAL
 
Best would be the UConn elite game vs Illinois at the TD Garden.

Most expensive 2021-2022 NFL, NFC Championship game at SoFi Stadium. Rams beat 49ers.

I also had great seats for Pele’s final game at the Meadowlands. My grandfather kind of knew people if you get my meaning. I sat right behind Muhammad Ali in the Meadowlands. I was a young kid but still knew how great Ali was although I was Joe Frazier guy. I still got his autograph on the game program. Nice collectible that I will hand down to my boys. Hopefully they will keep it but it is worth a pretty penny.

I was too young to really appreciate what I was watching and how much Pele meant to starting the process of making soccer a game that people would watch and play in the US.

They were all pretty cool, but the UConn and Rams game were great especially the trophy presentations at the end of the game. Usually at the end of a game you are thinking how do I get out of the stadium. After those two games I was thinking are our seats good enough to watch the trophy presentations or do we need to move.
 
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Dogdeacon said:
2013 ALCS Fenway Park
I was at Game 2, Sox had lost game 1 at Fenway so this was a 'must-win'.
Max Scherzer (won Cy Young that year 21-3 record, 0.97 WHIP was DOMINANT) pitched for Tigers. The Sox were shutout in the game 1 loss and looked even more anemic as Scherzer held them hitless thru 5. They scratched across just 1 run in the 7 innings Scherzer pitched and he looked untouchable. We were THRILLED when he didn't come out for the 8th with the Red Sox trailing 5-1.
The Tigers used 2 relievers as the Sox cobbled together an 8th inning rally, eventually loading the bases. My buddy and I had been pounding beers all game and upon the Tigers calling for their 3rd reliever of the inning we raced to the bathroom knowing we had to move quick not to miss Ortiz's coming at-bat.
We got back and stood at our seats just as the first pitch was delivered to Ortiz - he hit a scorching line drive Grand Slam homer that took the Tigers right fielder over the fence with it and had the iconic Boston cop putting his hands up. TIE GAME!
Non-UConn my favorite single moment at a sporting event, and that unquestionably propelled the Sox to win the ALCS (walk-off win in 9th, Ortiz goes on tear rest of postseason) and eventually World Series.
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Was at this game too! In the coke deck. I also was at Ortiz's last game where the Indians eliminated them at Fenway and he came back out to get a standing O -- it was straight chills.

Also up there for me was the Bama-Georgia national title game in Atlanta. Famous for Tua coming off the bench and leading a 2nd half comeback. I was in the endzone and saw number 6 break wide open and Tua put it on a rope to him for the winning score.
 
2002 - Game 7 in San Francisco vs LA Angels World Series game is tied with Superbowl XXX with Pittsburgh's onside kick made it fun though they lost to Dallas.

Got lucky for the Superbowl - was working in Phoenix and got given 2 tickets (seemingly no one working there was a fan of Pitt or Dallas).
 
After enduring a 36 hr bus ride from Hartford to Tampa, buying tickets from a scalper ( in an alley after my daughter left with the scalper’s friend and the tickets leaving me to settle on the price and pay the guy) for the very first time, and sitting center court 5 rows up to watch UConn make history ( at least for UConn ) beating the evil Duke Dynasty for the first on many Championships, will always be the Mount Rushmore of sporting events at least for me.
 
Game 4 of the 2001 World Series. Tino hit the two out two run shot in the bottom of the ninth to tie it. And with two outs in the 10th, Jeter fouls off a couple with two strikes to stay alive and then hits the walk off solo shot for the win. Upper deck behind the plate I had the same sensation that someone else mentioned regarding the shaking concrete.

The raw emotion of 9/11 made it extra special.
 
UConniki said:
After enduring a 36 hr bus ride from Hartford to Tampa, buying tickets from a scalper ( in an alley after my daughter left with the scalper’s friend and the tickets leaving me to settle on the price and pay the guy) for the very first time, and sitting center court 5 rows up to watch UConn make history ( at least for UConn ) beating the evil Duke Dynasty for the first on many Championships, will always be the Mount Rushmore of sporting events at least for me.
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"my daughter walked off with the scalpers friends, but I ended up getting great seats. Great memories all around."

How's your daughter?
 
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I saw Jacoby Ellsbury hit a home run and drive in four, AND Sonny Grey throw an absolute gem. In the same game. In terms of odds, that combo has gotta top any World Series feat or historical performance.
 
Game 7 of 1986 ALCS between the Sox and Angels. It was a blowout W for the Sox but unforgettable. Kenmore Square was madness with people hanging from street signs (before this was a thing).

It was a crazy series. In Game 5, the Angels were one strike away from eliminating the Sox but Dave "Hindu" Henderson hit a HR off Angels closer Donnie Moore who sadly never recovered emotionally.

Considering everything that happened versus the Mets in WS, this series understandably is overshadowed.
 
bristol rises said:
Game 7 of 1986 ALCS between the Sox and Angels. It was a blowout W for the Sox but unforgettable. Kenmore Square was madness with people hanging from street signs (before this was a thing).

It was a crazy series. In Game 5, the Angels were one strike away from eliminating the Sox but Dave "Hindu" Henderson hit a HR off Angels closer Donnie Moore who sadly never recovered emotionally.

Considering everything that happened versus the Mets in WS, this series understandably is overshadowed.
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I couldn't get tickets to the game so watched from Cask 'N Flagon which was a pretty good place to watch the game as well. Was this the game where Clemons got on the police horse to celebrate the victory?
 
bristol rises said:
Game 7 of 1986 ALCS between the Sox and Angels. It was a blowout W for the Sox but unforgettable. Kenmore Square was madness with people hanging from street signs (before this was a thing).

It was a crazy series. In Game 5, the Angels were one strike away from eliminating the Sox but Dave "Hindu" Henderson hit a HR off Angels closer Donnie Moore who sadly never recovered emotionally.

Considering everything that happened versus the Mets in WS, this series understandably is overshadowed.
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IMHO, there has never been another postseason like 1986. Both playoff series were extremely dramatic and the WS did not disappoint.
 
1. Joan Joyce and the Raybestos Brakettes with Joan, a catcher and 4 fielders beating a full compliment men's softball team
2. Eduard Charpentier The Flying Frenchman carrying me around the rink at Crystal Arena after defeating Haystacks Calhoun on my birthday
3. Derek Lowes no hitter
4. George Brett pine tar bat game
But best of all sitting with Clemson fans watching The Pass from Scotty to Tate
 
storrsroars said:
IMHO, there has never been another postseason like 1986. Both playoff series were extremely dramatic and the WS did not disappoint.
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It did disappoint and sting Sox fans like me, but it made 2004 even sweeter. It was tragic that Donnie Moore could not recover from that failed save opportunity.
 
Pedro beating Clemens 2-0 in Yankee Stadium. Great recap here:

May 28, 2000: Pedro Martinez, Red Sox defeat Roger Clemens, Yankees in a game for the ages – Society for American Baseball Research

sabr.org sabr.org

It's one of the greatest pitching duels of all time, albeit a regular season one. But what makes think so fondly of it was what happened immediately afterward. As a Sox fan living in NYC in the pre-2004 era, when you went to a game in Yankee Stadium, you knew you were going to be subjected to "1918!" chants all game long.

So when, as we were leaving our seats in the bleachers, I heard this rumbling come from inside the stadium, I said to myself, "ah, crap, 1918." But no! As I entered the corridor, I realized that the chanting I'd heard was "PEDRO! PEDRO! PEDRO! PEDRO!" Every single Red Sox was jubilantly chanting it, fists pumping. And Pedro was so dominant that Yankee fans couldn't even say anything. (This was 4 years before the "Daddies" comment.) No trash talk at all; they just silently shuffled out.
 
My family and I went to Belmont on June 9th, 1973 to watch Secretariat run for the Triple Crown. Granted I was an infant and don't remember a thing about it but I was there. I even have the ticket stub and the uncashed $2 bet that my Mother made on Secretariat to win.

The best sporting event that I was at that I actually remember was the "tuck rule" game. I think it took us 5 hours to drive 80 miles home but it was such an incredible game.
 
1986 NFC Championsbip Game, Redskins/Giants at Meadowlands. Cold as hell, and one of the most exciting games that I ever witnessed in person.
 
UConn beating Mich St at MSG to go to final 4(Sat in a MSU section, very lonely at end)

Mickey Mantle walk off 3run HR against Tigers at the Stadium in twilight of his career

Pele scoring one of last career goals before 77000 at Meadowlands while playing for Cosmos(Beckenbauer, Chinaglia, Werner Roth)
 
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