From the same game, [Darryl Sydor]
(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.
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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.
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.
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, luckily.
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.
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.
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. 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…
As long as we’re reminiscing, 42 of the 49 installments in NFL Films’s excellent “America’s Game” series are available on Hulu – 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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Botham’s Ashes 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.
I agree with your facts, but my memories of it firmly belong in the other thread.
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
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”.
