Roger Maris hitting HR #61 . . . oh, wait. Been there, done that.
Then Super Bowl III.
The Crucifixion, or the Canada-Russia game.
The baseball game on 14 June, 1890, between Brooklyn and New York. Both were in the Players League that year. There was a triple play made in the ninth inning. It was reported as a double play by three newspapers, and as a triple play by three newspapers. No one really knows what happened, who was involved, etc. There was a driving rain during that inning that should have cancelled the game. It didn’t.
I really need to be there to witness what happened. Seriously.
I think I know whose Crucifixion you’re referring to, but as for hockey correct me if I’m wrong, but are you referring to the deciding game 8 in the 1972 Summit Series, when Team Canada defeated the Soviets 6-5 on Paul Henderson’s goal?
This thread isn’t about events you never want to see AGAIN (damned Mets fans). I’d rather go through the whole hot pokers in the eyes routine than experience that again.
I think that seeing Superbowl C would be kind of cool.
The Berlin Olympics of 1936. So that I can shoot Hitler in the face. And right after that, I’ll step out of my spot, as
Checkmate Adolf Hitler! It beats stamping out butterflies.
Miracle on Ice, no question. And I don’t even like hockey.
October 8, 1956 - World Series Game 5
Lineups:
Brooklyn New York
Gilliam 2B Bauer RF
Reese SS Collins 1B
Snider CF Mantle CF
Robinson 3B Berra C
Hodges 1B Slaughter LF
Amoros LF Martin 2B
Furillo RF McDougald SS
Campanella C Carey 3B
Maglie SP Larsen SP
Something behind home plate, please.
2012 Super Bowl. Then off to Vegas.
/obvious
Assuming I could confirm it, one of Caesar’s gladiator games (the one he did in honor of his father perhaps).
Under the OP, with Test cricket I can see a single match, with all the attendent drama of 5 days play.
4th Test Australia v England 1982. 250th Test between the two countries
An absorbing, fluctuating four days where alternatively each team stumbled then fought back. Four completed innings with totals within 10 runs, no centuries.
England 1st innings 284 (Tavarre 89, Lamb 83)
Australia 1st inning 287 (Hughes 66, Hookes 53, Marsh 53)
England 2nd Innings 294 (Fowler 65)
Stumps day 4 Australia, needing 292 to win and claim the Ashes crumbles against the pace of Cowans to be 255/9, with their last pair (Border & Thomson) having already added an unlikely 37 runs, needed another 37.
In baseball-speak Australia are 2 out, bottom of the 9th and three runs behind in game four of the World Series.
Given that the last day could have lasted just a single delivery admission is free. Somewhere around 18,000 hopefuls turned up to watch nearly 2 hours of edge of the seat live drama as the improbable becomes possible, becomes likely and then is lost by only 3 runs.
1985 World Series, Game 7.
Heck, I remember seeing it on TV, and I love watching my DVD of it. What must it have been like to be there in person with 40K+ fellow Royals fans?
I think I might take a trip to the first Olympic Games juust to see what all the fuss is about.
As a Cardinals fan, I agree with John DiFool.
I’ll compromise. You can go to Game 6 and report back whether Frank White was actually safe and Jorge Orta was actually out.
As for me, the 1932 World Series, Game 3. I want to be close enough to the field to actually hear what Babe Ruth was yelling at Charlie Root when he did or didn’t call his shot.
January 2, 1984, Orange Bowl, Miami, FL.
Miami 31
Nebraska 30
Kenny Calhoun’s tipped pass to clinch the title against “the greatest cfb team ever” would have been so crazy to witness. It was also the birth of a dynasty. God bless Howard Schnellenberger.
You probably mean game seven.
Indeed - the first one I thought of, and I can’t top it, although Nou Camp for the 1999 Champions League final would have been pretty sweet as well.
Game Three of the 1932 World Series.
All my life I have wished I could have seen Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot”
with my own eyes.
kunilou:
I don’t think anyone disputes that Denkinger blew that call. (Who knows, maybe Jorge Orta himself still thinks he had been safe.) But blown calls happen. Professional baseball players know that, and should be able to work around a single blown call. Instead, following that, the Cards failed to retire a single batter that inning (the only out being the fielder’s choice of Orta out at third). So, to heck with Cards’ fans bitterness. Their lights-out reliever (plus Jack Clark on a foul ball) failed them, beyond a single umpiring mistake.
But Game 7 - oh, the way the Cards totally lost it was funny. I mean, I’m sure it was very frustrating to them (especially since they couldn’t, and possibly still can’t, let go of the prior night’s umpiring mistake), but Joaquin Andujar was Donald Duck-esque in his rage eruption act. And I would have loved to be in the stands with other Royals fans seeing that.