Finish This Sentence: "The Greatest Moment In Sports History Was _______"

When the 1969 New York Jets won the Superbowl. It changed pro football and Namath changed the way modern day athletes act.

Yours is?

It didn't just change a sport, it changed the world.

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Hands down. Okay, I'm biased. Second place is when they won the NFC championship. Flambe away.

1980 Olympic hockey team beating the Soviets AND winning the gold medal

I wasn't much of a hockey fan back then either but I was hooting and hollering when Team USA won though.

Period...

Namath being arrogant isn't great.

That was AWESOME!

It shattered the world record at the time, not by inches as most records are broken, but by almost TWO FEET.

...for it to be considered the "Greatest".

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because the long jump is only a big deal during the Olympics. Most REAL sports afficionados would likely agree with me.

As a feat of pure human athleticism (sans steroids) it really stands alone.

It introduced pro football to TV, and American Sports hasn't really been the same since.

That's my pick too.

I just don't know how you can beat that.

My parents actually met because of that mighty blast! To be specific, because of the massive celebration in Pittsburgh that followed. So quite simply, if not for Maz, I WOULDN'T EVEN EXIST!!!

....The Flyers win the Stanley Cup.....Gene Hart.

I still remember "Broadway Joe" in the days before the game....partying and bragging that the underdog Jets would win. That was an amazing game.

Nine years old and sitting in the closed end zone of the Orange Bowl, lower level adjacent to the Baltimore Colts Corral of professional fans. My family and one guy in front of us who kept chanting "Roll 'em, Namath, Roll 'em, Roll 'em" were the only ones nearby who were rooting for the Jets.

So many of the key plays occurred right in front of us. I can still picture Earl Morrall's pass bouncing off a shoulder pad and being intercepted in the end zone by Johnny Sample. Then just before the half Johnny Orr ran straight down the left sideline and was wide open on the flea flicker. My dad and I shouted "Oh no!", then could not believe it when Morrall didn't see Orr and threw over the middle, picked off by Randy Beverly.

I was just old enough to appreciate how significant that game was. We lingered in the stadium and in the parking lot well after the game, and I saved the local newspapers before and after the game. Somehow my otherwise terrific mom threw them away when I went away to college.

Bill Buckner will always be an honorary Met in my book!

I was too young to remember it first hand but whenever I see the replays, it gives me goosebumps.

As for things that I experienced first hand, The grand slam single by Robin Ventura was awesome. But the Mets eventually lost to the Braves in the NLCS in the most horrific way (Kenny Rogers walking in the winning run) so that kinda tarnishes the memory.

treid to commit suicide after that game....Yeah...He jumped in fromt of a bus...but it rolled between his legs.:cry:

Three consecutive home runs off three pitches by three different pitchers, against the Dodgers in decisive Game 6 of the World Series. (Can you name the three pitchers in order?)

Technically, Reggie Jackson's home run streak actually started in the previous game, when he hit one in the eighth inning. Four official at-bats; four home runs and one world championship.

Thus the nickname "Mr. October" was born. Nobody was ever in a groove like Reggie was that night.

And I say all this as a lifelong Dodger fan.

Reggie crushed a knuckleball into the upper deck. I don't recall the other pitchers.

I was 11 years old, watching with my two older brothers - Mom yelling for us to be quiet (she had to get up for work at 5AM).

3 swings - 3 dingers. What a night.

After the third dinger, you actually saw Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey applauding inside his glove.

over the wall.

Willie Randolph told him to save some for the game!

Jesse Owens shoving it up Hitler's ass in 1936.

Steve Yzerman, Ray Bourque...

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That and the 2002 olympic gold medal hockey game.

I'm such a homer.

:-)

The first time the red curtain was lifted and Russia Played a Western team. No one knew what to expect and it was awesome right up to the Henderson Finale.

THere's one DUer who was there - I can't remember who though.

Jim Abbott's no-hitter was the obvious one. Here's a link to the box score...

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/09041993.shtml

The other would be the triple he hit against Rick Reuschel.

"March 18, 1991: California hurler Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, lashes a 400-foot triple in an exhibition game against the Giants in Scottsdale, Arizona. Rick Reuschel surrenders the 3-bagger."

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/A/Abbott_Jim.stm

at Anaheim Stadium. The guy's a tremendous inspiration -- not to mention athlete.

All my moments are baseball, and most include the Angels. Can't be unbiased. Probably my favorite is the Angels' come-from-behind, Series-saving win in game six in 2002. Second would be the win in game seven. I'm still not over it. Doubt if I ever will be.

Don Larsen's perfect game . . . Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier . . . Hank Aaron's 715th . . . Cal Ripken, Jr., breaks Lou Gerhig's streak . . . .

GOD! I love baseball.

It was on a pre-Olympic warm-up tour. Just amazing to watch.... especially fielding plays.

Got almost the whole team's autographs on a ball, too :)

Well, smell you, Myrna! I have Jim Abbott's #1 Draft Pick card....

Okay. I confess it. I'm jealous. :cry:

Having been a fan of the Tigers all my life, I never thought I would see them win a National Championship game. I screamed, I cried, I was bear hugged by a 300 lb man; it was the greatest time I ever had watching a sports event. I lost my voice for the next week.

scored the "Hand of God" goal. Of course now the only thing he scores is a nice big baggy of coke.

in the Rumble in the Jungle, 1974. The classic "Rope-a-Dope" match.

"Is that all you got, George?" Wham!

Germany 1-5 England.

the drinking to excess. :7

:hug:

Clearly he agrees with me.

Cassius Clay stunning Sonny Liston on Miami Beach in '64 to launch the most magical career and era in sports history.

Or how about Ali taking back the title from a young brute George Foreman in Zaire, '74? That result stunned me unlike any other since I've been old enough to follow sports.

One thing I know for sure: the March 8, 1971 Ali/Frazier bout in Madison Square Garden was the most anticipated and dramatic sporting event of all time. Nothing is even remotely close. I was numbed and crestfallen by the result, but for pure sporting theater and all the political aspects I doubt it will ever be equalled.

forcing a playoff in the british open!

I will say this: the agonizing and disbelieving look on John Daly's face (and his wife of the moment) was absolutely classic, and should be replayed more often.

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And Shoving THAT into Hitler's face

THAT kicked more ass than anything else mentioned here.

Edit: on the same vein, I may add Louis vs. Schmeling.

If they would've won the Rose Bowl they would've been national champs. :evilfrown: That was my greatest moment, probaly not the greatest sports moment for sports in general.

I was lucky with this one I had the week off work, I was sitting around in my pygamas half dozing some of the time watching on the tele.

The game was over, if you watch sport you know when a game is over. England were going to get a right shellacing. An innings and a 150 runs it looked like, a complete rout.

The day had started with the best English batsman to come in, but they had been dispatched ruthlessly efficienntly, so by the afternoon there is just Ian Botham left and he's not looking convincing at all. I'm sort half asleep and the game is drifting quietly to it's inevitable conclusion.

Then Graham Dilly comes in, and he's a bowler (pitcher), and he sort of says to himself 'well bollocks we've lost the game, I'm going to have some fun' and he does, and he is very successful at it. He starts thumping the Australian bowlers all over the place.

Then Botham catches fire and it's chaos.

Botham ends up with a hugh score. England make a total that just about makes a fight of it and the next day the English bowlers are fantastic.

Still makes me grin that one.

to put a salary cap of 200,000 dollars on every professional whiny ass professional sports player.

The Red Wings won their second straight Cup that year, but the big story was that one of their former players, Vladimir Konstantinov, who was injured in a serious limo accident after their win in 1997, was wheeled out onto the ice and hoisted the Stanley Cup in his wheelchair.

Wow.

:bounce: <----this was me

I wasn't at the ball park, but I was watching the game on t.v. I will never forget Cal's trot around the ball park. It was an awesome moment, made all the more-so because of Cal's modesty. The Orioles just aren't the same without him.

Dwight Clark. San Francisco 49ers...



Well, maybe it wasn't the greatest moment, but it was pretty cool.

It's got it all... it's baseball, which I love, and America loves... it's the long ball, which America loves (although I prefer a pure hitter like Tony Gwynn)... it demands skill, strength and endurance, while so many "sports" or records require only one or two... and it was a significant event for a black man, in 1974, in Atlanta, to set such a milestone.

Hank Aaron. Think about it.

Ayrton Senna is GOD.

That single error proved the Shakespearean quality of our national pasttime.

Second would be the Babe pointing to the outfield.

Well, you know its going to happen and I think it's gonna be great!

and rode it back into shore... clearing the way for more refined tree trunks and eventually surfing.

Kowabunga!

I know. I'm kinda shallow. :shrug: