Favorite Sports Moments in Person

[Squid kids Dad]

Bourque

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Squid kids Dad

Bourque

Yup--early on before they retired Esposito's number. I remember the ceremony--Bourque came out wearing #7, and when Espo came out to be honored, Borque took off the jersey to reveal that he was wearing 77 under it.

[basswipe]

Best being at the '99 Daytona 500 and watching Jeff Gordon win.

I can also recall the worst.Being the '01 500 and Earnhardt Sr.'s death.

[striperman36]

Lakers - Celtics Game 7 1984 - the humidity was 100 pct, the temp was about that in the garden that day. My clothes were trash after that

Bobby Clarke, slices his face in the first period requiring over 30 stitches, he took shifts in the 3rd period

Bobby Clarke's Flyers vs the Central Russian Army in 1984 at the Spectrum

[justplugit]

1959 ,Yankee stadium Giants vs Cleveland.

My friend had tickets in the end zone and at the end of the game we jumped out on the field which was the usual at that time.

I was 6'4" about #220 at the time and as a i went down the field Jim Brown with his helmet on and a bloody gash over the bridge of his nose was walking toward me.
He looked like a towering giant, and when i saw the size of his legs, the size of telephone poles, i said to myself how could you ever tackle this guy coming at you full speed when you couldn't even wrap him up.

Just the pure size and power of this man was awe inspiring.
Prolly small by today's standards, but a moment frozen in time i could never forget.

[Slipknot]

That's cool JPI

[freebie]

04 games 4 and 5 of the alcs sox vs. yanks, game 4 we were 13 rows behind home plate dead center, game 5 six rows off the third base line in front of yankees on deck circle, not sure which game was better, but each one you could feel something special brewing all night

[EarnedStripes44]

Originally Posted by justplugit

1959 ,Yankee stadium Giants vs Cleveland.

My friend had tickets in the end zone and at the end of the game we jumped out on the field which was the usual at that time.

I was 6'4" about #220 at the time and as a i went down the field Jim Brown with his helmet on and a bloody gash over the bridge of his nose was walking toward me.
He looked like a towering giant, and when i saw the size of his legs, the size of telephone poles, i said to myself how could you ever tackle this guy coming at you full speed when you couldn't even wrap him up.

Just the pure size and power of this man was awe inspiring.
Prolly small by today's standards, but a moment frozen in time i could never forget.

that is excellent

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by justplugit

I was 6'4" about #220 at the time and as a i went down the field Jim Brown with his helmet on and a bloody gash over the bridge of his nose was walking toward me.
He looked like a towering giant, and when i saw the size of his legs, the size of telephone poles, i said to myself how could you ever tackle this guy coming at you full speed when you couldn't even wrap him up.

Now bear in mind that the average safety weighed about 175 pounds back then, and few linebackers went more than 215

Brown averaged almost 5 yards a carry---for his career

[Backbeach Jake]

My brother, Bob, who butted heads with our coach and was rewarded with a season long spot on the bench. The last game was wrapped up in the 4th quarter and the coach sent Bob in to receive a kick off. I watched as he calmly took the ball and wove his way through the tacklers and scored. The look on the coach's face was priceless. A player who he had discounted knew what he was doing. A look of stunned realization on his mug that I'll never forget.