http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXSe1YQkRE

My personal shiver up the spine moment: England winning the world cup in 1966 - the BBC commentary by Kenneth Wolstenholme has gone down in history:-
"Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over! <England score *another* goal> It is now!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG_8E7-CVxY

Does poker count as a sport?

My Top 3, each I can remember like it was yesterday:

-The Winning TD Catch in the '98 SF/GB NFC Wild Card:

I'm a HUGE 49ers fan, and this was the moment I became one for life--my 49ers, back when they were a GREAT team, with Steve Young quarterbacking and Garrison Hearst running and Jerry Rice and Terrell Owens receiving...and against them Brett Favre, in his prime, before he became an interception-and-retirement machine. Niners trail late, are driving, need a touchdown to win, and I'm a kid and near tears, I think it's all over as Steve Young starts to fall down...but he keeps his balance, throws right over the middle, between two Green Bay defenders--and it's CAUGHT by T.O right in the endzone and he's IMMEDIATELY hit, and he'd dropped passes all day but he hangs on to this one and the 49ers win the game and advance further...and I becoem a fan for life!

Here's the clip, for those interested (making this moment even better is the fact the legendary broadcast team of Pat Summerall and John Madden, right up there with Howie Cossell and Don Mereditth, both now deceased, the second just this week, call the play):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3C4P9O20Qk

-Endy Chavez's Catch in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS:

If I LOVE my 49ers, than my New York Mets are simply part of my life to the point where I honestly don't know what I'd do without them...I really can't imagine life without them. They're so disappointing so often, and yet there's just a feel, being a Mets fan, especially with other fans, that we may root for a loser, and maybe we're having a hard time ourselves, but hey--we're losers together, we've got someone to talkt to and relate to. I could list a million other reasons why the Mets are so important to me, but that'd take an even longer post than my anti-Gaga post, so to press on, after jsut sucking for years, the Mets finally, and out of NOWHERE, exploded onto the scene in 2006 as the best team in baseball. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. They were winning games at an incredible clip, sometimes almost 10 in a row. Their hitting AND pitching AND defense AND baserunning was all perfect. I think they sent about six or seven members to the All-Star game and had more than the Yankees, for a change...that's part of the magic, or was, of that year--usually the YANKEES are the team that's the big shot team in NYC, and here in LA its the Dodgers--the Mets are often the second-team or fifth-team or jus shoved to the side. That year--the Mets and their fans were on top from April to October. They KILLED the Dodgers in the NLDS and went on to play the Cardinals in the NLCS--win there and it woudl be the World Series next. So close you could TASTE IT! And then the NLCS, damnit, turned out to be a GREAT Series...when I wanted a blowout for the Mets and just to get to the WS already! But they were tied after six games, so it went to the deciding Game 7. On the mound, a pitcher who gives ever Mets fan ulcers for a million reasons--Ollie Perez. He gives up a bomb, and it's going, going...CAUGHT!!!!!! I freaking lept into the air, I was SPEECHLESS! (And you can all tell--for me, that's really saying something!) Endy Chavez lept about 15 FEET in the air or so and stuck his entire arm, full extension, over the left-field wall...and just BARELY caught the ball in the webbing and came down with it! IT WAS INCREDIBLE! I thought for SURE the Mets would hAVE to win the NLCS and World Series after THAT magical moment, it was a sign, they just HAD TO! ... They didn't, and the next day was probably teh only time I've ever spent a whole day utterly inconsolable after a sports loss. But that one moment was just sheer joy...and its such an amazing catch!

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_tpl_3_1.jsp?mid=200610191718380&vid=7758&gid=2006/10/19/slnmlb-nynmlb-1&v=2

-Landon Donovan's Game-Winning Goal in the 2010 World Cup:

Really enough said--I really didn't care about soccer before this last WC, and afterwards...well, I'll certainly watch the next one and really be into it, city-based-soccer in the US doesn't appeal to me, but the thrill of nation vs. nation and the whole national pride figuring in--yeah, after this I'll watch. I have no idea who the announcer for this goal is, by the way, but whoever he is he's pretty fun to listen to, and really makes that call stick in youir head...total euphoria that they won, the US won, and hey, my soccer-crazed biology professor, an immigrant from the Middle East and former semi-pro goalie, gave us extra credit for that win, so yeah--I'll go with that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVU_2TM4o3I

And for a bonus, someone's compiled video of reactions to that goal around the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w&feature=related

Nobody cares, you pathetic wanker.

I hate all sports, but there's one sports moment that brings a tear to my eye when I think about it. This was in an Olympic sprinting event (88? 92?). The gun went off, everyone started sprinting down the track... except for one runner who blew out an Achilles tendon (I think) getting out of the gate. He was obviously in great pain, but he insisted on hopping his way all the way around the track on one leg while the other competitors watched (they'd already finished). He waved off his manager and his father both as they came onto the track to try and help him and convince him to stop. It was a moving display of dedication in the face of tragedy that I will never forget.

Again?????

mapleleaf, seriously, you accuse ME of being a troll, and then you come onto each of the threads I start and basically piss on me for two seconds and leave???

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Seriously, do you have NO LIFE, at all?

@Tolstoy:

I've never heard of that...wow, yeah, that DOES show true determination and just pure heart...if there was a medal for Gutsiest Place...

@Draug, if it did which moment(s) are you thinking of?

The craziest moment I've seen live was last year, I follow my college's D-III hockey team (Oswego) very closely, and they were in the frozen four playing in their semifinal game against St. Norbert. The games were in Lake Placid on the same rink as the Miracle on Ice (Herb Brooks Arena) so the venue had all the history you could want as an American sports fan. Anyway. . . Oswego is down 2-3 with 3 minutes to go. It's been a close game all game long, and Oswego scores with 3:32 left to tie it up at 3-3. The St. Norbert fans go quiet, Oswego fans are quite happy to say the least, a clutch late goal to force overtime. Not so much, with less than a minute to go Oswego turns the puck over on their own blue line after a sloppy play and the St. Norbert player with it wrists home the game winning goal. I'll never forget watching that goal go in, seeing their fans all celebrate (They were all sitting in the same section which happened to be right next to where our goalie was in the third) and just feeling totally deflated. I looked up at the scoreboard, 4-3 with 39.4 left. I'll never forget looking up and seeing 39.4, then looking at the Oswego fans on either side of me and seeing the looks of defeat on their faces as well.

Yeah it's only D-III hockey, but going from such a happy state of seeing the game tying goal to watching your team lose, it was such a horrible feeling. That was the craziest thing I had ever seen live. On TV, Donovan's goal that obiwan talked about was probably it, only I follow soccer and it was still absolutely crazy to watch.

The most recent thing that comes to mind is Galarraga's near perfect game for the Detroit Tigers. I live near Detroit so I was watching it on t.v. when it happened. Needless to say my head exploded when he was called safe at first base. But the way it was handled afterward by both Galarraga and Jim Joyce (the umpire who blew the call) was a rare good moment in sports.

And this is for you obi, because iirc, you are a Ducks fan? How about you pussy of a player Corey Perry (6'3 210lbs) picking a fight with 4 time Lady Byng (sportsmanship) winner Pavel Datsyuk (5'11 190lbs) and getting all he can handle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BtcrFmF650

Haha, yeah, Corey Perry IS a hotheaded jerk, and if he was on another team I'd probably hate his guts...

But he's OUR hotheaded jerk, damnit! (And besides, I've never liked players like Datsyuk and, before him on the Red Wings as well, Sergei Federov...PRETTY BOYS! Now, don't get me wrong, I don't want a bunch of Marty McSorely goons in there, either, but there's a line between being classy like Gretzky and being so much more of a finesse figure skater than a hockey player--which SHOULD involve some bumping and bruising, given the sport, and even some fighting's OK, my favorite player ever, Teemu Selanne, doesn't often drop the gloves, but he'll at least give a good, hard check if he has to.

So yeah, Corey's a jerk...but he's OUR jerk (and anyway, it was the RED WINGS...who likes THEM, anyway, bastards!) ;)

@Dan - Three: one known by thousands, maybe millions, the other by fewer that a couple dozen.

The "famous" one was watching (on TV) Quad Aces get beat by a Royal Flush. The other two were hands I was in, boht I won. In one I flopped a straight, turned a flush and rivered a Queen high straight flush. The other my pocket 2s beat pocket Aces by flopping the set and taking the pocket Aces for her (yes, a woman) entire stack.

There is a runner up I lost but was one of the most enjoyable hands I ever played even if I did lose $600 (cash game, yes) in it. Flopped a flush with an open ended straight flush. Went all in for $1400, got called by the nut flush draw for $600 (everyone else folded). He lucked out and hit the nut flush on the river. It was a $1/$3 game and we had been drawing a crowd all evening. It was like being at a major final table and, even though I lost, it was still thrilling and I honestly didn't mind because I had bought in to the game for $300 and had several big wins to reach the $1400. I recovered some and left the table that night with $1100 in front of me.

Most memorable moment in regular sports for me would be watching Pete Rose make career hit 4192: a line drive to left-center.

Found it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nifq3Ke2Q30

Not exactly how I remembered it from 18 years ago, but still brings tears to my eyes just the same. <sniff>

^
Now there's what sports is SUPPOSED to be about...a ton of heart by that guy...

obi-wanker posted : Again?????

mapleleaf, seriously, you accuse ME of being a troll, and then you come onto each of the threads I start and basically piss on me for two seconds and leave???

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Seriously, do you have NO LIFE, at all?
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I'm 48. I own my house in one of Toronto's most exclusive neighbourhoods. I'm retired(for as long as my wife will allow). I have three sons, all high achievers, athletically and academically.

All that I have TIME to do(re. webdip) is to pop into my den, enter orders, slag your pathetic, no-friends, lumpy ass with one or two well chosen shots, and get back to my family.

YOU, on the other hand, churn out essay after essay( you actually accused early american writers, such as Hawthorne, of being long-winded in one of them. ROTFLMAO).

How fat ARE you anyway?

In 1981 England had lost one and drawn one of the first two matches of the Ashes series against Australia, one of the biggest rivalries in world sport. The England captain Ian Botham resigned and then produced an amazing display to pull England off the ropes (they were quoted at odds of 500-1 at one point during the match).

On the final day they were letting people in for a pound because it was expected that Australia would wrap up an easy win, so my brother and I went along, and ended up witnessing one of the most historic days of cricket ever.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152213.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZzWcfg4_sc

Mapleleaf is the exclusive neighborhood you`re from somewhere near Church and Wellesley?

LT on Joe Theismann's leg. Classic. 56th second here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCXNt4P8Xg

@Lando

How did you accidentally type ` instead of ' ? They're on opposite ends of the keyboard : )

@Lando - Good one.

I typed NEIGHbourhood, not GAYbourhood.

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@Draug: Yeah the royal over quad aces was sick. I think Moneymaker bluffing Farha was huge too. I was playing $1/$2 NL at a local casino and called a guy on bluff for a $700 pot alltogether, he had bet 200 on the river. Easily the sickest call I had ever made live. The guy up and left the table the second I said call. I've never seen anyone leave a table so fast.

My set of deuces was a cruel one. I was so far up that the girl bet $100 on pocket Aces pre flop and I called. Of course, I put her on either a week pair (which would have me beat) or AK/AQ suited or unsuited trying to push me off the pot. Most people with pocket Aces limp or min raise, not go large like she did. When the flop hit and she started to push, I even said "Careful..." but she did it anyhow. She then proceeded to call me a jackass. But everyone at the table agreed that you don't open for $100 on pocket Aces because it looks like big Ace, not pocket rockets.

Boise State stunning Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl...
I was bored during the day, no interest in watching the game, was flipping through the channels and stumbled on it, about 4 plays before the hook and lateral. So I figured, "eh, I'll watch oklahoma destroy that team that can only kill no-bodies in football". After about 3 plays, I watched the game STANDING UP. I just couldn't believe what was unfolding in front of me. I know you can watch the highlights of the 4th quarter and OT on youtube. An amazing comeback with two huuuge trick plays (hook and lateral and the statue of liberty). A TREMENDOUS game I was lucky enough to watch live.

New Orlean's onside kick to start the second half of Super Bowl XLIV would qualify as an amazing and gutsy play.

She opened 100 at a 1/3 game? Standard 33X raise, nbd. That's pretty ridiculous lol. Draug if you're going to the ftf tourney we should hit up a casino in the area, if there is one.

+1 fortknox. I watched that game live as well, and it was nuts.

I plan on being there, but I don't know if Boston has casinos. I'll bring my chipset (near casino feel to the chips) along so when we are eliminated we can play some. :-)

Has to be Dennis Taylor defeating Steve Davis 18-17 in the World Championship final at the Crucible in '85. Eighteen and a half million people in Britain alone watched the two titans of the sport battle day and night in the closest match of all time. Stunning!

Rick Monday saving the flag at Doger Stadium.

@Dan - Well I was UTG and she was big blind. I opened at $23 ($20 on top) to push marginal hands off hoping to collect the blinds and knowing I at least had a pair. She popped it up to $100 so it was $77 more to call. What do you do when someone raises more than 3x your rather significant opening bet.