# Favorite sporting moments? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 12, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883 "2010-10-12T14:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/41 "2010-10-13T13:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=Ike Witt;13018550 From the same game, [Darryl Sydor] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO-Z3wPlZF0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO-Z3wPlZF0)) breaks his ankle and yet crawls to the front of the net to help out when he realizes that the play is not going to stop for his injury. [/QUOTE] Here’s a similar one . A high school girl, running in her final race(Ohio state cross country championship)breaks her leg and [crawls to the finish.](http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/news/story?id=3111847) Billy Mills wins the 10,000 meter run at the 1964 Olympics. Not only was he not a favorite but he was not even the top American in the race and was facing Ron Clarke, one of the greats of distance running. [Last lap.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOj0zjPzg-c) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/42 "2010-10-13T15:16:52Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Here’s a similar one . A high school girl, running in her final race(Ohio state cross country championship)breaks her leg and [crawls to the finish.](http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/news/story?id=3111847) Reminded me of another Great Moment in Good Sportsmanship: Softball player Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon hits her first-ever home run, in the last game of her college career. She was so excited that she missed first base, and when she turned to tag the base, she tore a ligament in her knee. The umpire tells her team (incorrectly, as it later turns out) that no one from the team is permitted to help her or it will be ruled interference; their only option is to sub in a pinch runner, who will take first base, and the hit will be ruled a single. Before the substitution is made, two players from the opposing team, Liz Wallace and Mallory Holtman, offered to carry her around to touch each base. [Someone was videotaping](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODqjUqW3c0U), luckily. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/43 "2010-10-13T15:23:32Z")
Man, I can’t believe I forgot the Canada-USA gold medal game in the Vancouver Olympics. Christ, that was just this year. I’m a huge hockey fan, so even tho I’m from the US I couldn’t really be _that_ disappointed when Canada won; it was a fantastic hockey game. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/44 "2010-10-13T15:27:47Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Even here in Cleveland, God has allowed us brief moments of sporting pleasure. 😉 > > 1995 ALCS Game 6, when the Tribe beat Seattle’s ace Randy Johnson 4-0 to win Cleveland’s first pennant since 1954, was a joyous occasion. > > The 1997 baseball playoffs, when the Tribe knocked off first the defending champion evil empire Yankees in the ALDS and then the Orioles in the ALCS, were a hell of a lot of fun too. Let’s see - 1995 is when you got held to 2 hits in game one of the World Series, and just 1 hit in the final game (Game Six), which you lost 1-0? And 1997 is when you lost the World Series in extra innings in Game Seven to the mercenaries in Florida, right? Sorry Cleveland - God just hates you \ ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/45 "2010-10-13T15:46:01Z")
One more moment in the sportsmanship category is Derek Redmond in the '92 Summer Olympics. He was a British runner in (I think) the 400m race, and he pulled/tore a hamstring about halfway through. His dad came on the track and helped him across the finish line. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/46 "2010-10-13T16:04:35Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Looks like no one has mentioned golf; the 1986 Masters is my favorite golfing moment. A 46 yr old Jack Nicklaus makes a back nine charge against a host of great players. and when he almost holed it on 16 and then drained it on 17 it made me realize that golf is where it is at. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/47 "2010-10-13T16:10:49Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m a Blue Jays fan, so this is an easy one: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknGBwd4seI&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknGBwd4seI&feature=related) The footage of Cito Gaston embracing Paul Molitor in the happy aftermath never fails to move me. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/48 "2010-10-13T16:30:26Z")
**Ellis** nailed mine with Ingram’s 3rd & 13 conversion; I was getting the same link ready when I scrolled down a bit to see that he’d beat me to it. “Wide Right” itself was almost certainly my happiest sports moment – the 1990 Giants were definitely my favorite team ever (was too young to really know what was happening in '86). My favorite “Holy shit!” moment is probably [Endy Chavez’s catch in Game 7 of the '06 World Series](http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=4498187). What I hear from people who were at the game is that, between innings, they just showed the catch over and over on the screen, to louder and louder cheers. That was a really fun team to root for. Good energy about them. I still can’t believe they lost that game… ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/49 "2010-10-13T16:44:18Z")
As long as we’re reminiscing, 42 of the 49 installments in NFL Films’s excellent “America’s Game” series are [available on Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/nfl/americas-game) – every Super Bowl winner from the '68 Jets to the '07 Giants. If you were a fan of one of those teams, there are worse ways to spend an hour, let me tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/50 "2010-10-13T17:11:32Z")
Well, shit. That’s 42 hours that I won’t spend studying this semester. Thanks for nothing, **Varlos.** ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/51 "2010-10-13T17:25:32Z")
No kidding. I had stuff to do today, but I got sucked into the '90 Giants one, which I’ve actually never seen. (Oops, the last two links on the page were hidden, they do have the '66 and '67 Packers.) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/52 "2010-10-13T20:05:53Z")
I came in to say Kirk Gibson’s homerun. But I can also contribute the Packers-Bears “[Instant Replay Game](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIiJ8i5uS0#t=3m00s)” in 1989. That iconic shot of Brett Favre running without his helmet after his bomb to Rison in Super Bowl XXXI. [Andretti v. Montoya](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bHlzCbLuA) at Michigan International Speedway in 2000. [Mika Hakkinen passing Michael Schumacher](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1WuWu8kGak) at Spa in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/53 "2010-10-14T00:50:30Z")
Here’s one that I can’t remember enough info about to find a video. This happened in the Summer Olympics one year when I was a kid–maybe 1992ish? It was one of the sprint races in track and field, and a racer pulled up lame and watched as the entire field passed him and finished. You could see the heartbreak and anguish all over his face, as everything he’d worked so hard for vanished in the blink of an eye. Then his coach came down from where he’d been watching the race and picked him up, and slowly supported him as he limped his way across the finish line. The man’s coach? His father. I am getting tears in my eyes just remembering this. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/54 "2010-10-14T01:02:00Z")
His name was Derek Redmond. 1992 is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/55 "2010-10-14T01:16:23Z")
[And here’s a video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-MRoIDXeuY) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/56 "2010-10-14T01:41:37Z")
[1973 Belmont Stakes.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFquax2F-k) Secretariat. Enough said. Super Bowl XXXIV. Tennessee comes back from a 16-point deficit to tie the game with 2:12 left. Kurt Warner hits Isaac Bruce for a 73-yard touchdown to take the lead. Steve McNair drive Tennessee 77 yards. On the last play, McNair hits Kevin Dyson, who gets taken down on the one yard line. St. Louis wins 23-16. Of course, for Titan fans, this goes into the “rip your heart out” thread. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/57 "2010-10-14T02:27:16Z")
7th game of the 1985 World Series, 5th inning. Joaquin Andujar just totally loses it. As a Royals fan, that particular moment just makes the series for me. 1995 Eastern Conference semi-finals, Knicks up by 6 with 15 seconds to go. Reggie Miller somehow manages to score 8 points in those final seconds to give the Pacers the win. I root for the Knicks, but damn, that was one incredible performance and I feel fortunate to be able to say I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/58 "2010-10-14T02:51:40Z")
[Botham’s Ashes](http://worldcricketwatch.com/ashes-2010/ashes-2010-the-memory-of-bothams-ashes-in-81/) in 1981, and in particular the third test (cricket). This will probably be meaningless to most posters on this board, but the odds offered by the bookmakers against England winning give an idea of the magnitude of the comeback. > [@](#): > > When England’s seventh second innings wicket fell, they were still 92 runs away from avoiding an innings defeat. Indeed they were such outsiders that in these more innocent times, Lillee and Rod Marsh took odds of 500/1 to bet on an England win. But Botham had been unburdened by the loss of the captaincy and decided that if England were to lose they would go out all guns blazing. Graham Dilley (56 off 75) and Chris Old (29 off 31) provided the support as Botham (149 off 148), smashed England into a 129 run lead. > > Now it was Willis’ turn. Having been deprived of the new ball by the shrewd England captain Mike Brearley (whose man-management of Botham was impeccable) and with his place in the side at risk, Willis bowled with controlled fury and menace to inspire an Australian collapse from 56 for 1 to 111 all out and take career best figures of eight for 43. Incredibly, England had won by 18 runs ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/59 "2010-10-14T04:41:10Z")
I agree with your facts, but my memories of it firmly belong [in the other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13006426&postcount=115). 😉 There have been just three instances of teams winning a Test after following on (in over 1,900 test matches). Australia v England at SCG 1894 Australia v England at Headingley 1981 Australia v India at Eden Gardens 2001 Australia was on the wrong end of all three ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883/60 "2010-10-14T08:42:12Z")
Another cricket memory. It’s legitimate to give the batsman something to worry about with bouncy fast balls around the chest, throat and head, although the laws do rein in out-and-out intimidation as, when it’s been allowed and tried, it’s made for some unlovely cricket. Even within the laws, there is usually a gentleman’s agreement that you don’t do it to the opponents’ fast bowlers - partly because they haven’t the technique to keep from being seriously hurt, and partly because they can retaliate. The 1994 South Africans forgot this when Devon Malcolm, a quick but usually inaccurate bowler and one of the world’s worst batmen, was batting. A fast ball from de Villiers hit Malcolm on the head and raised a sizeable lump. When he picked himself he vowed “[You guys are history](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzjsjmmZB0)”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sporting-moments/556883.md?page=4)