What Was the Most Exciting Moment in Sports That You Did or Saw?
What Was the Most Exciting Moment in Sports That You Did or Saw?
The Miracle on Ice - Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the story of the gritty underdog U.S. hockey team and their unlikely defeat of the powerhouse Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics will live on in the hearts of Americans forever.
I can tell you that Canadians (who ARE the world's greatest hockey fans) were as excited by that last game of the Olympics held at Lake Placid, New York, in 1980.
There are many very exciting moments in sports, and I'm sure that most of us have a favourite moment that we saw or was personally involved in. I can tell you mine. I was sitting in Toronto's Skydome watching the sixth game of the 1993 World Series. The Jays had already won 3 and the Phillies 2. The Blue Jays had already won the 1992 World Series in Atlanta, and this time it was the bottom of the ninth, with the Phillies 1 run up on them. Paul Molitor, who had just joined the club, was on base, and Joe Carter was at bat. When Joe hit a homer, winning the game and the World Series you could have heard the Skydome fans in Philadelphia. That was the most exciting moment I ever had in sports.
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Now, what was YOUR most exciting moment in sports - one you saw or were involved in?
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The article about the World Series got me going with this. So now, what was YOUR most exciting moment in sports - one you saw or were involved in?
Evening... Australia winning the America's Cup..after the NYYC held it for 132 years...
That would have to go down in one of Australia's greatest sporting moments..
Remember it like y'day...and we nearly scored a public holiday after it...needed it after all the celebrations...🦘
LOL. That was 41 years ago and I can remember it happening as well, now that you reminded me of it.
Morning...it is one of those moments you can remember where you were and exactly what you were doing..
It was history in the making and the whole country stopped that morning as we watched inch by inch as Australia 2 sailed to the finish line..
Not much work got done that day..plus I was working for Alcoa so we bagged them out all day..
And to come back from 0 to 3 wins.. the yanks we worked with were yacking on we've got it in the bag, white washed the Aussies...think I was about the only one that said it ain't over yet. They went very quiet when it was 3 - 3..
Luv that sail with the Kangaroo!
I'm so disappointed. I just discovered that Yogi Berra NEVER said: "It ain't over till it's over." I was going to say that you must have known that the great American philosopher Yogi Berra had said something similar.
So do I.
Arvo...they had it especially made in case they actually did win..you see it everywhere now, especially when we are playing cricket against the Poms (Brits)..
I went to high school in an English-style boy's day school and cricket was one of the sports so I learned how to play it. It's not a common sport in Canada.
And he never actually said "Play it again Sam"!
(Of course neither did Ingrid Bergman).
That place has gotten so crowded, no one goes there any more!
That's why you should never seek out for whom the bell tolls.
Evening..cricket is the 2nd most popular sport in the world..
We get 100,000 rolling up to a cricket match down Melbourne at the MCG..(Melbourne Cricket ground)..
Between us, NZ, Pakistan, India and the Brits plus other countries it amounts to a couple of billion people..
I assume then that football (i.e. soccer) is the most popular sport.
You are correct..
The Immaculate Reception:
I couldn't open that, but I checked it out - great choice.
Damn, I'm sorry I forgot you couldn't view youtube video.
It's okay, you gave the title of it so I could still check it out. My problem is when I see nothing but a blank comment.
Old Raiders fans still call it the "Immaculate Deception"
Conception, deception, exception, perception, invention, poets must love those words.
Pittsburgh calls them the sore losers.
There are so many from the 1975 World Series to Secretariat's Belmont Stakes victory.
I'm going with something I can't show. In the early 70's a horse named Roman Sonnet won a cheap claiming race at the long-departed Suffolk Downs racetrack in Boston. He crossed the finish wire first before snapping off a leg. He was declared the winner, and his owner collected the winner's share of the purse along with the corpse.
I'll bet I am one of a very few, or maybe the only one who might remember.
Probably. It wasn't exactly Seabiscuit.
Sometime in the mid 80,s , I cant remember what year without looking it up, I was at Hawthorne, the race track on the far west side of Chicago, and one of the races was for 2 yr old maidens. The winner, a horse named Meadowlake, finished 22 lengths ahead of the second place horse, it is rare for any horse race to be decided by such a large margin.
Meadowlake was the real deal, and was to be primed for the next years Kentucky Derby. He went to New York to continue his racing career there, and won his first race in NY easily.
But disaster struck. Because of his very large size he had chronic leg problems and never raced again after that first NY race.
Meadowlake did go on to be a champion sire, turning out 54 stakes winners.
He was undefeated though he only had those few races. The Blood-Horse credits him with 60 stakes winners (6.3%). "He tended to pass on his size, scope and powerful build and had a reputation in some quarters for passing on bad feet as well."
He died in 2005.
Great story, JR. I've enjoyed watching racehorse movies. During the last 6 months or so I've watched Dreamer, Seabiscuit, and Midnight Stallion. They get you figuratively cheering for the horse to win.
That was amazing, (He actually finished 25 lengths ahead of the next horse! You can see it clearly in the video).
Secretariat Belmont Stakes 1973 & Extended Coverage
Two things about that were exciting about race for me:
1 The actual race. (Buzz you can probably do a search for this video on a site you can access). Near the end of the race you can see Secretariat pulling away from the pack-- he ends up being so far ahead its amazing to watch.
2. I was there! I was really close to the starting gate-- watched the race from "inside" the track. After it was over we had to cross the track to go to the winners circle. Then I was actually in the winners circle!
I was working-- but it felt like play!
I had never been an especially big fan of horse racing-- in fact this was the first horse race I ever saw!. (Well I occasionally watched a race for a few minutes when flipping channels on TV).
I think I might have been to one race horse in my life and I don't remember it at all. My father had previously warned me not to bet on it, because if I do and I win I'll be a hooked gambler for the rest of my life. I didn't, but the first time I went to Vegas, to attend a conference, the first thing I did was purchase some $1 chips. The first chip I put into a slot machine immediately paid me back 100 chips. That did it. I was hooked. After a while I was sitting between two slot machines and playing them together like a maniac. The staff saw me and gave me a VIP card, they loved me, I was their kind of person. When I was on my way out to go home I called my wife back in Toronto to tell her I was on my way, and that I had $100 in chips left, what did she think I should do with them. she told me to put them on number 18 at a roulette table. I went there, and the croupier was just going to start the wheel, and I saw so many chips on number 18 I decided to wait. Want to know what number came up? 18. I would have gone home with $3,000. That ended my gambling career except for the regular poker games with my friends.
I remember reading a while back that with gambling, the "payoff" if you win (compared to the amount you bet) is the worst in horse racing. Supposedly the reason for this is, as a business, the track has the highest expenses.
I don't reallly enjoy gambling-- that's why I avoid all forms of risky gambling and instead put my money in something safe, & low risk-- so I trade stocks!
Secretariat, What a great horse!
Supposedly he is ranked with one or two others as "The Greatest Race Horses of All Time".
50 years later Secretariat still holds the fastest time for all three Triple Crown races. The only competition for him as the greatest horse of all time is Man O' War , who raced right after World War I. He only lost one race in 21 starts.
And I think he could type like 150 words per minute as well....
People are saying he could recite all the words to The Declaration of Independence...backwards!!!
And I think he could type like 150 words per minute as well....
People are saying he could recite all the words to The Declaration of Independence...backwards!!!
While blndfolded!!!!!
All that.. while standing on his head!!!
Without looking at the keyboard. LOL
Yep, even saying the words backward. Like "sdrawkcab"
And sometimes he actually did it when there wasn't even a keyboard!
Not really surprising actually. Few people are aware of this-- but Secretairiat was actually fluent in 5 different languages!
Two of which have died out eons ago-- and no long spoken anywhere in the world!
(Eons ago-- or millennia ago-- i ferget which as I'm not really an obsesive horseracing fan)
Oh, and I was imagining it to be a keyboard the size of a big dinner table so the horse could stomp out the letters.
I'll assume that pig Latin was one of them.
Without looking at the keyboard?
Heck, Secretariat was so great-- he didn't even need a keyboard!
Nope--- he could actually type 150 words per minute without even having a keyboard!
Maybe HE'S the one that really belonged in the movie "Dreamer".
The first fight between Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
That was boxing! I was young, but I still remember all the hype. Their 3rd match in '75 - the Thrilla In Manila was the one I was old enough to remember watching on TV. Frazier's trainer asked the ref to call the fight in the 14th round.
All three were classics and took everything out of both Frazier and Ali neither had much left after that.
Mohammad Ali can figure into more than one great fight.
He actually carried a dying sport until he finally quit.
Is boxing a dying sport? I really don't have much interest in it, only in the movies, like Cinderella Man, or Millionaire Dollar Baby.
Pretty much deceased.
Do you remember a conversation we had a long time ago about "LOOK AT HILL!!! LOOK AT HILL!!!" ?
Yup
The whole, improbable, great postseason run for the 2019 Nats. The one scene I'll never forget is Clayton Kershaw, Game 5, 8th inning, curled up in a fetal position after Rendon and Soto homered on consecutive pitches.
A pitcher's nightmare.
In the 2016 world series , game 7, the Cubs' Dexter Fowler led off the top of the first inning with a home run. It was the first and only time in baseball history that the first batter in a game 7 of the world series hit a home run.
I was in a bar with about 80 other people watching the game and the place immediately went bananas and stayed that way throughout the game.
I think a couple years ago ESPN put out a list of the greatest game 7's in baseball history, and the 2016 game 7 between the Cubs and Indians was ranked 2nd.
When I thought about most exciting times in sports you can be sure that a 10 inning game 7 win by the Cubs had to be something to behold, first World Series win since 1908. The fans had to go as wild as they did when Carter hit the home run I described in the article.
Harry Carry predicted that it would be one of the most memorable stories in Baseball history when the Cubs would finally win another World Series. He was kind of a Baseball legend himself. I tend to think of him and the Cubs whenever I see a bottle of Budweiser or hear the name Florsheim shoes.
I don't know the connection (Budweirser or Florsheim)? Were they sponsors?
Yes, and Harry Carry served them well. He wore those shiny Florsheim shoes, and it was amazing how much Budweiser he drank.
I think I had a pair of Florsheim many years ago, but I preferred my Bally shoes. However, I don't think I ever drank a Budweiser. Heineken was my fav.
You're not missing anything. Budweiser sucks. Heineken used to be one of my favorites along with Miller Genuine Draft.
I stopped drinking Heineken when I had the real thing when I was stationed in Europe. I can't stand the dishwater the US calls "beer"
It's been a long time since I drank a beer, at least 5 years.
Even the main brands of Canadian beer are better than the main brands of American beer. I'm not speaking about the small special breweries.
Being in Europe changed how I see what most of us Americans consider good.
BMW and Mercedes. They are by no means " luxury cars". BMWs are police cruisers and Mercedes S Class are taxi's. And both handle horribly at anything over 80MPH. (God I miss the Autobahns) and both are just as expensive to repair in Germany as they are in the US.
American beer is actually awful. Germany didn't have a "national brewery" like Anheiser Busch. Most of the beer is brewed locally and some of THE BEST comes from the monasteries
I haven't had much experience with the Canadian side. Closes I had was in northern Montana a few years ago.
Of all the cars I've owned, Canadian models of American cars, American cars, Japanese cars, Swedish cars, a French car, the only German car I ever owned was a VW Golf convertible for my 2 kids to share, and it wasn't too bad.
Definitely the night of April 7, 1979 at the Astro Dome in Houston when Astro Ken Forsch pitched his no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves...
I am going to be able to attend at least one World Series game this year at Yankee Stadium. Go Yankees!
There are such great baseball stories I remember the first time a pitcher from another team pitched a no-hitter against the Blue Jays, and all the fans kept cheering until he came back out of the dressing room and tipped his hat to the crowd that cheered even louder. The Toronto fans aren't homers, their real ball fans.
I just happened to be in Houston and went to that game spur of the moment. The most memorable thing about it was what the Astros had in the can prepared in advance for such a totally unpredictable phenomenon. There were fireworks and a marching band and confetti out the ass. The Astros presented Forsch with a new gold Cadillac convertible and a giant bonus check. It was memorable...
We are going back to that old classic matchup Yankees vs Dodgers.
I really hope I'll be able to watch them here. They do show the hockey finals so I'm hoping. I have to get my baseball fix from the movies.
II remember that when that in the days when NYC had three major League baseball teams, any any two of them went up against each other in The World Series, sportscasters used to refer to that as "A Subway Series")
I remember that move. Thie Dodger fans in NYC were VERY unhappy.
It still feels unnatural to say, "Los Angeles Dodgers"...
Listening to the St Louis Cardinals on AM Radio at night was a multigenerational thing for 20th Century Midwesterners...
For me too.
For Canadians, a multigenerational thing was to listen to the Saturday night hockey game, known as "Hockey night in Canada".
1980 winter Olympics Miracle on ice. I was lucky enough to be there.
The lead item on my article above. That had to be an incredible moment, college kids against professionals who lied that they were amateurs.
And vast majority of the “kids” were from Minnesota and two were from my tiny town of Warroad know as hockey town.
There's a reason why Canadians and those from far northern States are the hockey players. In the winter we got the ice. We even flooded our lower sunken back yard to create a small rink.
Going to bed now but keep the ball rolling everyone.
Speaking of the "ball."
I just finished my Chinese food; I'm looking at a fortune cookie.
The Chinese really dropped the ball when it came to deserts!
I remember eating deserts in Chinese restaurant--they weren't that great. It seems that what a lot of people did after eating in a Chinese restaurant was to find the nearest store that sold ice cream.(As a kid I always thought of it as some sort of required "ritual"-- after eating in a Chinese restaurant you had to eat ice cream!)
For some reason ice cream after Chinese food really tasted great!
Actually I can think of two things that worked well:
Eating Lychee Nuts for dessert in Chinese restaurants (IIRC there was a season for Lychees-- it seemed that most of the year you couldn't get them.)
I don't know if it changed, but I remember that two of the biggest Chinatowns were in San Franciso and NYC. And in both cases the Chinatowns were adjacent to the two cities' "Little Italy". So after a delicious Chinese meal many people walked a few blocks to the Little Italies"-- and had authentic Italian pastries.
"The best of both worlds"!
Are you kidding? Have you seen their cakes? Even in Toronto we bought our cakes from a Chinese bakery.
I never knew about them for years. It seems they don't serve them (or even slices) inChinese restaurants. I finally learned about them in visiting large Chinese Supermarkets-- they seemed very special.
I've noticed that ice cream really isn't that popular here for some reason. Sure, you can buy ice cream at most stores, variety stores, groceries, supermarkets and Haagen Daz is available at the big box METRO store, but because a urologist I had to go to once about an infection advised me that ice cream is conducive to urological problems and so my wife doesn't want me to eat it. I think I ate ice cream only once or twice this last summer. I eat yogurt that I refrigerate instead.
An example of a Chinese cake (one that we ate). They're lighter than western cakes. Their cheesecake is pretty good too.
What about Cheese-- is that popular in China?
I LOVE different cheeses, my favourite is Stilton and you can't get it here. The Chinese people know NOTHING about cheeses. The only ones they know are processed cheese slices and the cheese that's used in McDonalds or Burger King cheeseburgers or on pizza. I have to go to the big box METRO store to buy imported cheeses like aged cheddar, Ementhal (I prefer it to Swiss but they do have Swiss), Gouda, Roquefort (as close to Stilton as I can get), Monterey Jack, ground Parmesan that I put on spaghetti, and cream cheese for my bagels.
Love blue Stilton with port or an Oloroso sherry.
The reason I asked-- It seemed to me the Chinese don't eat much Dairy.? Americans drink a lot of Milk-- but if the Chinese drink milk I believe its Soy Milk?
And while it may have changed, years ago it looked to me that the Chinese don't eat Ice Cream-- and probably not a lot of Cheese?
Love blue Stilton with port or an Oloroso sherry.
Yum!
and cream cheese for my bagels.
How do you say "with a schmear" in Chinese?
Some time ago a few select Whole Foods stores gave classes in "healthy eating"-- and "healthy cooking". One of the teachers had been a chef at one of the best (and most expensive) restaurants in NY.
Since that time he had become strictly Vegan.
Once when we were talking, I asked if it had been difficult for him to give up meat. He said it really wasn't all that difficult. So I asked him what (Non-vegan) food he loved the most and was the hardest to give up?
He said it was Cheese!
Yogurt is considered a "health food".
It has friendly bacteria in it.
Some of those cheeses on crackers are MEANT to go with wine.
We're at 98 now and it's time for me to start watching a movie or two so I'm out'a here.
I guess the ball stopped rolling when I went to bed. Okay, sorry so few members have experienced really exciting moments in sports.
Sports stories have never done well here.
It used to be that most things haven't (consistantly) done well here. It seems like "All politics all the time"
But it is changing, due in large part to Buzz-- and a few others who post interesting things that aren't only political!
Nothing was posted overnight which was why I posted that comment when I woke up, but it has taken off since then. More than 35 comments and 5 votes up is not bad for a non-political article.
There still are a few of us who post non-political articles. JohnRussell does as well - music articles and sometimes movie ones.
Just checked-- there are now 52 comments.
And of course AMAC 's photo articles.
Yes-- he posts a lot re: music.
Now 69 . . .
And Veronica posts some unusual but interesting things.
Oh--- and how could I forget-- I love Dig's posts about his gardening!
Yes she does and she's sorely missed.
Interesting that his name fits those articles so well. He puts Voltaire's Candide to shame.
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Well, to be perfectly Candid about it . . . Its all part of the "Great Mysteries of The Universe" . . . many may enquire...but few truly understand !
Photo credit: Margaret Hamilton, in 1938, in the role of Miss Gulch, the Witch of the West, in the musical 'The Wizard of Oz,' directed by Victor Fleming.Virgil Apger (Getty Images)
Her famous line "I'm melting" was repeated by one of the baseball players returning to the corn field in Field of Dreams.
Now 86.
Shall we aim for 100?
Now 91
(Only 9 more to go!)
Yes-- we shall!
Already exceeded.
Ok-- so here's a little myticism for Veronica-- and any wannabe mytics in our studio audience here tonight.
(And its probably a bit "triggering" for those that don't believe in this sort of nonsense--- obviously there's no basis in fact for any of this-- so please ignore this if it upsets you !)
Yes that is Hebrew.
With the English pronunciations. Anyone have any idea what it is?
I don't. Maybe Veronica knows.
Well John, maybe so, but maybe that depends on a few things. First of all, maybe the article needs to be one with a topic that invites participation. Secondly, I try to reply to every comment, hoping to continue discussions, and thirdly, maybe everyone is getting sick and tired of politics and are happy to find a little respite from it.
I have to tell you, though, that I really am quite pleased, because as I'm typing this, the number of comments is almost 150, more, I believe, than for any article I have ever posted, and I go back to the very beginning of this site.
Most people,even those who have studied (or even practiced!) some form of mysticism may not recognize it. It comes from a very esoteric discipline not widely known in the West! So its possible that even #Veronica ("Hashtag Veronica") knows nothing about it.
She might, but I don't think she's tuned into the site right now.
OK then, I'll reveal what it it. Many major religions have a branch or denomination that is involved in studying "mysticism".
I believe mystics in Islam are The Sufis.
In Judiasm its those who studying the mysteries in The Kabbalah. This is a diagram that's very important in Kabbalism-- its called "The Tree of Life". Every part of it-- and the connections between them-- have profound meaning (well, at least for those that study it).
Whirling Dervishes:
I just googled it. Excerpt (Wikipedia):
Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) (Turkish: Semazen borrowed from Persian Sama-zan, Sama, meaning listening, from Arabic, and zan, meaning doer, from Persian) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and other orders such as the Rifa'i-Marufi.
It is a customary meditation practice performed within the sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (from the persian Darvish Persian درویش also called semazens, from Persian سماعزن) aim to reach greater connection with Allah.
This is sought through abandoning one's nafs, ego or personal desires, by listening to the music, focusing on God, and spinning one's body in repetitive circles, which has been seen as a symbolic imitation of planets in the Solar System orbiting the Sun.[1
There is a movie that you MUST watch. I don't know where you will find it because it is very esoteric, very rare. I forgot about it when I picked my 5 best movies. It's called Meetings With Remarkable Men, and Terrance Stamp acts in it, and he usually acts in unusual movies. Peter Brook, who is known for directing esoteric movies, is the director. This is the storyline on IMDb"
When my ex-wife was studying Yoga, before becoming a certified instructor, her instructor brought a movie projector and 16mm film of the movie to our home and we had some of her students over to watch that movie. Since that time I was able to have someone prepare a DVD of the movie, that I have here but I had forgotten about it and haven't watched it for a long time. You absolutely MUST find and watch that movie.
Actually I had heard about it-- long ago! (I had heard about the book, but didn't know about the movie). I was going to read the book, but somehow got side-tracked so never so never read it.
Thanks for the info-- I will do that.
Currently I have too many other ongoing projects but will eventually do it. (I really need to cut down on the amount of time Ispend on social media sites)
Krishna, do NOT put this on the back burner. The story is about seeking enlightenment, it has whirling dervishes, it's right up your alley of interests. I have to tell Veronica about it too.
This screenshot from the movie shows the two whirling dervishes.
Thanks.
I'll make a note of it-- looks very interesting.
But the other day, after you posted that, I remembered an experience I had-- long ago.
I was taking a class-- it was so long ago I don't even remember what type of class (it was something "mystical"... I've taken so many over the years!) IIRC it was a probably a Yoga class).
As people were leaving i was talking to the teacher about various forms of meditation-- including this sort of "Whirling"
She said she had tried it a few times. She said that it looks difficult but with practice it become very easy. So she helped me try it (right in the middle of a Yoga classroom)-- I was able to whirl in circles for a short time!
The purpose of "conventional" forms of meditation is to bring your focus away from your "everyday mind"-- ordinary waking consciousness-- so the awareness of "Higher Mind"* can come through.
Most conventional forms of meditiation are done sitting still-- in most forms this is accomplished by repeating your "mantra".
But there are forms of meditation that do this in other ways that consist of movement-- for example "Walking Meditation".
And it seems that's what this sort of Whirling does-- it moves your awareness towards "Higher Mind".
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*"Higher Mind": Various traditions have different names for this state of consciousness. One common name for Higher Mind is "Superconscious".
And pardon me for getting back on topic for a bit but in Basketball, when a player makes a basket by throwing the ball from the far end of the court to into the basket on the opposite end of the court (a shot that I had always though was impossible) . . . there are different names for that ..."in the zone", etc.
Well I would say that when the player is doing that, they are operating from their Superconscious mind!
(See also comment # 11.1.30 on)
Was it long enough to awaken your superconciousness?
If I were to try it now I would surely fall and break my hipbone.
Then would you say that another term for it would be enlightenment?
Well I would say that when the player is doing that, they are operating with their supermuscles!
I was trying to remember what the experience was like-- it was so long ago that I don't remember much about it so I'don't know.
And over the years I learned several other techniques, including more than one type of meditation. (I took the TM training decades ago, but didn't keep up with the practice. Later I learned other forms of meditation.
And to a large extent I've programmed myself that Superconscious automatically kicks in when its needed. (That is pretty advanced stuff-- and of course there's always more to learn).
As it says in Ecclesiastes, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."
I can name a few but this is the best:
There hasn't ever been anything as exciting as Tyus Edney taking the ball downcourt with 4.8 seconds left in the game and beating Missouri by 1 point in the 1995 NCAA tournament second round matchup. I watched it happen live on TV and I still love watching it. Tyus Edney, a Bruin hero forever.
Bad defense.
Guess you watched it too.
Pretty hard to defend against Tyus Edney. I saw lots of UCLA games that year and he was consistently brilliant. Missouri never thought anything like that could happen with 4.8 seconds to go. I loved his behind the back move.
They should have had someone on the ball making the inbounds pass either tougher or something that would have left Edney facing the wrong way. Then the guy guarding him was way too loose. If he had stayed in front of Edney for even a half second and made him dribble around him its unlikely he would have got a good shot off in time. I know Edney was very fast but that was not good defense.
No one is pressuring the inbounds passer and the defender is 5 or 6 ft off of Edney. He should have been right up on him when Edney caught the ball.
Maybe yes, maybe no. Either way it wasn't the Bruins problem and it didn't make the play any less exciting, especially for Bruin fans.
Very glad he wasn't!
I was never into basketball either to play or watch even though it was invented in Canada. I did go to a game in Toronto when the Rapters were playing against the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan was playing.
Michael Jordan attended the same college as I did (UNC) but he was there much later than I was. In some schools various other sports were most popular, but at UNC basketball was by far the most watched.
Atlantic Coast Conference: Duke was our main rival--but also NC State, Clemson, Wake Forest. (Probably a few others I forgot). Very big Basketball fans.
I had played Tennis as a kid at summer camps-- was pretty terrible at it. But in Freshman Phys. Ed. I tookTennis and got fairly good at it.
I also became a great swimmer. My roomate at UNC was a swimming champion in High School. He got a full athletic scholarship to Princeton. But the summer after he graduated he got a persistant ear infection so Princeton rescinded his scholarship...so he went to UNC (no scholarship!)
We spent a lot of time, 7 days/week, in the Olympic sized pool. He taught me a lot-- I became and excellent swimmer as a result!
Wake Forest college figured into the movie "The Longest Ride" wherein the female protagonist was a student.
I played a lot of sports when I was in high school, football, cricket (it was an English-style boys' school) squash, cross-country running, boxing (hated it), curling, and I was the school champion marksman. Here I'm receiving the Frances Malloch Gibson Memorial Trophy for Marksmanship from his widow, with the school's Headmaster looking on, on games day. Had I been the right age to serve in a war I would have been a sniper. Maybe that's why I like sniper movies so much.
But I'm a terrible swimmer. Had to be pulled out of the water when I was a waiter at a summer camp during school vacation.
Great photo-- you look really happy to receive the award!
I loved running. At one point I was training for a Marathon-- but injured my foot a few weeks before. I was in a cast for a while. (Now its compleely healed but I never got to run the Marathon).
I also had trained at the beach-- running on the central board walk, but occasionally doing intervals (slowly) in the sand!
That photo was published in our city newspaper. Even though I was an expert marksman, other than the cap gun and water gun I had when I was a little kid, I never even thought of owning a gun, never wanted one. I wasn't a hunter, I preferred to fish.
Running wasn't my thing. If you like running, there's a movie about a very unhappy kid who goes to a summer camp, but trains there to run, and wins the whole sports day competition against another camp which makes him the camp hero. Bill Murray stars in the movie, and a very good friend of mine who was also my client, Harvey Atkin, who was the camp Director. Bill Murray is always fun to watch.
LOL I just noticed I forgot to say what the movie's title was - Meatballs.
I've heard of it but never actually saw it.
I was at a hockey game in Colorado. It was halftime. A local business had a thing where if the contestant managed to make a particular goal the contestant's family would get a trip to Hawaii. There was a plywood panel placed in front of the goal. It had an opening for the puck that was six, maybe eight, inches wide. The contestant was a child of about five. His first shot with the puck maybe made it half way to the goal. The crowd was the usual noisy half-time crowd and a general laugh ensued. The refs took the kid maybe 15 feet closer to the goal, The crowd continued it's noisy half-time hubbub.
The kid, with a ridiculously humongous hockey stick (for a kid), addresses the puck and takes a whack at it. The puck is going faster than the first attempt but still, so slow I didn't think it would get to the goal. The line looked good but, so slow! But as the seemingly endless seconds went by the puck got closer and closer. The noise of the crowd got quieter and quieter. As what seemed like endless seconds, the puck got closer and closer. Good Lord! It looked like it just might make it.
At the end, it seemed like the whole place had gone silent, but I'm sure it hadn't. Not completely. But when that puck went sliding right through the middle of the opening the whole place went bananas! We lost our collective minds. The crowd actually scared the crap out of the poor kid because he looked up at us in astonishment. I think he thought he might be in trouble. I don't think he had a clue as to what he had done. It was Arthur pulling the sword from the stone. Rocky winning the fight. It was Audy Murphy holding off the whole German army. The lone individual winning against all odds.
It is one of my most treasured memories.
Wow. You sure know how to tell a great story - I was on the edge of my seat.
That's exciting!
If you're into hockey, the San Jose Sharks 2019 1st round Game 7 comeback win against the Vegas Golden Knights was unreal!
Less than 11 minutes left in the 3rd, score 3-0, Pavelski gets injured by a vicious cross check. On the ensuing power play they get a goal within 6 seconds by Logan Couture. Then Hertl, then Couture, then LaBanc, by the 6:00 remaining mark they scored 4 goals to go ahead.
The Knights score again, but the Sharks win it in OT on a goal by Barclay Goodrow to advance to the second round of the playoffs! After being down 3-1 in the best of 7 series, they come all the way back with this Game 7 gem! Easily one of the most exciting playoff comebacks in NHL history! Outstanding!
I'll assume your youtube illustrated what you wrote about.
It did, in a much more exciting way than my commentary. The San Jose crowd and the announcers were going nuts! Almost blew the roof off the Shark Tank! Wish you could see it! After the 0-7 start this season, this blast from the past brings tears to my eyes. I'm starting to think the Sharks will never have another team on the ice like those guys in 2019.
Hockey was the favourite sport for every Canadian. When I was a little kid (it was before TV) I would listen while in bed to the games being announced by Foster Hewitt, famous for shouting "He shoots, he scores" and of course my loyalty was to the Maple Leafs. But when the Blue Jays came to town, I developed a love of the game that eclipsed hockey for me.
The Sharks impressive comeback was rivaled only by my 13-16 year-old Babe Ruth fall baseball team just this past weekend.
Let me set the scene. Last game of the season and the second game of a double header against two different teams, that final team being the best team in the league with fresh legs and home field advantage.
We have a disastrous first inning followed by an equally disastrous second inning and find ourselves in a 15-0 hole after three. That score carries into the 4th and we finally put up 7 against their second pitcher mostly with two outs.
In the fifth we continue the comeback with 6 more runs to make it 15-13. They score three more in the bottom of the fifth. In the top of the 6th we load the bases and a smash to right center scores 3. Again with two outs we manage to score 3 more to take the lead.
Bottom of the 6th, score 19-18 good guys, no time remaining for another inning, and our last remaining pitcher, 5' nothing, 100 pounds soaking wet, 13 year-old new to the league facing the top of their order (a real murderers row who did most of the damage earlier) coming up. This kid bowed his neck and did an amazing job!
Leadoff batter swings at the first pitch, weak grounder to short for out number 1. Second batter hits a hot shot to third, fielded well but the throw to first just outside the reach of our 1B. So now a guy on first, one out. They were running on us the whole game, but our pitcher did a great job of holding him during the next at bat. Their number 3 hitter hits a line drive, right at our second baseman, two out, almost three but could not double the guy off at first.
The big cleanup guy now at the plate hits a fricken bomb down the left field line, foul! And good thing because that ball was in the next zip code. Short mound visit to remind our little Mariano Rivera to keep the ball down on this guy, nothing he can elevate. The next pitch is a 55 footer that bounces to the catcher and the runner at 1st takes 2nd base.... not that far down! Next pitch, a beauty at the knees, batter barely makes contact and the ball dribbles maybe 8 feet down the first base line. Our catcher is quick to retrieve it before it rolls foul and makes the throw to first just inside the runner, bang bang play for the final out! Players and parents go nuts! What a way to end a not so impressive 4-7-1 season! Fun stuff!
Bill Mazeroski hits walk off home run as Pittsburg Pirates defeat NY Yankees in the 1960 World series.
I grew up in Ohio southeast of Pittsburg and Mazeroski was a local kid that made it big in MLB.
Nolan Ryans 7th no hitter in Arlington, 44 years old and pitched a complete game throwing 16K's that night.
I only got to see live two no-hitter games in my life. The first one was the visiting team (can't remember which one) that beat the Blue Jays at home in Toronto. At the end of the game we all kept cheering until he came back out of the dressing room at the end of the game to tip his hat to the crowd. It was the first time the Toronto fans had ever seen a no-hitter. The second was a Blue Jay pitcher who did one.
I saw one no-hitter live back in the 90's. June 29, 1990, the late great Fernando Valenzuela vs. Cardinals at Chavez Latrine (what we Giants fans call Dodger Stadium, a twisting of the local's name for the field Chavez Ravine).
Fernando passed away yesterday.
Yes sadly so. That is why I said "late great Fernando Valenzuela".
A bit off the rails, but coaching my two sons in our 8-9 year old little league…b-league..,championship. We had lost to the season champion Pirates by twenty some runs just the week before and somehow won a couple games to meet them again for the trophy. Our Phillies won 3-2 in walk-off fashion and you’d have thought we won the World Series…players, coaches, and parents piled at home plate in celebration. Still have boys and girls and parents from that team share the memory. And that is the power of sports!
And thanks for the opportunity to share something that won’t mean a thing in the big picture, but was so joyous to our little summer family.
very cool. a client gave me corporate box tickets to the colorado rockies first opening day at mile high stadium, before there was a coors field. my 2 sons were 6 and 10 and the 6 year old insisted on taking his glove so he could catch a fly ball. to avoid a melt down, I relented. back in those days at the old MH the windows opened on those enclosed seats. he stood there next to the window for most of the game waiting for that fly ball. low and behold, when he least expected it a rockies player hit a fly and bounced the ball off the structure pretty close to him, standing there in the window. no way he could've reached it without falling out of the window, but he was forever memorialized on every highlight reel for that game. I installed cable TV in their room that year, to satisfy their sports habit, and to buy me 1 day off of pure rest on sunday. it seems like I only saw them at meals after that for a few years, because decades later they both follow all sports now and are smart enough to wager intelligently on the outcome. personally, I was finished with sports as soon as I discovered full contact cheerleaders ...
What are "full contact" cheerleaders?
young women caught in the middle of the 70's culture wars that were still able to prioritize their personal wants and needs over those of their athletic boyfriends, who were usually inconveniently incapacitated by the effects of drugs and alcohol on the weekends.
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I don't think I knew one, in fact I don't think I ever knew ANY cheerleaders. But I did know a lot of people who temporarily incapacitated themselves with drugs.
I sold the slack jawed neanderthals hard liquor and psychedelics after the games on friday nights and then helped their cheerleader girlfriends to briefly escape their goody 2 shoes reputations and explore long haired/bad boy fantasies on saturday nights when said neanderthals with no time management skills were usually still very much incapacitated. always the comical psychological dynamic of don't ask/don't tell at play in school the next monday.
Hey, you're welcome afrayedknot, this whole article is very much my pleasure as well. If the number of comments means anything I think it has attracted more comments than any article I have ever posted on NT and I've been here from the beginning.
But I also have a "Little League" story to tell. My son and our next-door neighbour's son, both of whom were really young, maybe 6 or 7, were playing a game in our less formal "VERY Little League", my son was catcher (and he was pretty good at it) and Josh, the next-door neighbour was 1st base. A kid from the other team got a hit, and just stood there. The whole crowd of parents and others who were there started shouting "RUN, RUN" and Josh ran to 2nd. His father has never lived that down.
“Hey, you're welcome…”
A funny aside to that game if I may:
My youngest, who was not a baseball enthusiast played right field and never had a hit all year, came up to bat with two outs in that last inning. I never thought for a moment about subbing him out as he was a great teammate and always tried his best.
He told me after the game that he was hoping to get hit by a pitch. His mother, sitting in the stands, also hoped for the same. He in fact, did get plunked, was thankfully unhurt and ended up scoring the winning run. That was his last baseball game, but we still laugh about it to this day.
The baseball gods are strange, but sometimes beautiful in answering prayers…best game ever!
Never heard of anyone WANTING to be hit by a pitch, but there's always an exception to everything and, and as you said, the baseball gods gave him his wish and becoming the hero of the game by scoring the winning run. To this day Joe Carter has people talking to him about his iconic home run.
I would like to know if this article is preventing anyone from voting.