Most exciting live sporting event you've ever attended

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What's the best live sporting event you've ever attended?

For me, hands down it has to to be game 3 of the We Believe Warriors playoff series against Dallas. It was the loudest and craziest crowd I've ever been a part of. We ended up blowing them out that game to go up 2-1 in the series.

Other cool ones I've been to:

MJ last games in 98 and 2003.
Barry Bonds last game.

Fun Fact: even though I've been a niner fan for years, and my dad went to the first 3 Superbowls that the Niners played in, I've only been to 2 games ever. Once at the stick and once at Levi's. Both losses if I recall, lol.
 
Giants vs. Nationals playoffs 2014 and my first hockey playoff game (sharks/avalanche); maybe '02? Playoff hockey really can't be beat. Great atmosphere and crazy loud. I went to Warriors v. Rockets playoffs in 2018 and what a dud! It was as if everybody was used to winning and didn't get hype at all.
 
Going to the Metrodome to welcome the Twins after beating Detroit in the 1987 playoffs was simply amazing. It was obviously not something that was planned ahead of time yet there was just over 50,000 people there. I was drunk and in the right field stands.


 
I have an easy one too... game 5 of the 2001 WS... nosebleed seats... never heard yankee stadium so loud, and never felt it shake like that... easily my favourite sports experience in my life...

2nd best would be the 2009 Giants at Cowboys regular season game... Just had so much fun there... and although I hate the cowboys, I will say at least there fans helped out to make it great fun... Probably the nicest fans out there...


Worst time I had at an away game because of the fans was Seattle... most the 12th man BS is the most annoying thing ever...
 
7 LEGGED OCTOPUS said:
I have an easy one too... game 5 of the 2001 WS... nosebleed seats... never heard yankee stadium so loud, and never felt it shake like that... easily my favourite sports experience in my life...
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I went to games 1 & 2 of the ALCS between Boston and NY in 99, sat in the bleachers at the old Yankee Stadium.

This was pre-booze ban. It was NUTS. There were Red Sox fans sitting there, and they took all kinds of crap. Girlfriend at the time (who was a yankee fan) wanted to leave game 2 in the top of the ninth, and people weren't letting us. One dude was in my face screaming "three more, dude! Three more!" I just went "woooo!" back at him, high fived him, and then ducked out.
 
When my daughter was a 7th grader, I coached the 7th & 8th grade girls basketball team. The school would always host an early-season tune-up "tournament" and invite various schools in east-central Wisconsin to participate. One particular school in the tournament always has a strong advantage because they have much greater enrollment numbers than the rest. We played them in the second game of the tournament.

In the first quarter of the game, my 7th grade point guard and 8th grade power forward executed an absolutely masterful high pick that literally laid out the other team's high-energy scrappy defender D'ed up on my point guard. Despite being a significant underdog in the game, that high pick shook the entire opposing team and we went on to dominate the game from that moment. Parents knew our team was at a major disadvantage and our success had the small gym jumping like never before.

I've been to hundreds of games from preschool tee ball to NHL, NFL, MLB playoff games and that small-grade-school girls basketball game was the most electric sports atmosphere I've ever experienced.
 
Been to a ton of college football games, not as many pro games but one that stands out is the 2009 Florida at Mississippi State game. The stadium only holds about 61K but it sounded like there were 120K that day. Florida was #2 and undefeated. Banks picked off Tebow in the endzone and ran 100 yards for the TD. He had two INT returns that game. MSU was up going into the 4th Quarter but ended up losing. Tebow had one of his worst career games that day. The atmosphere was electric though.
 
I haven't been to a ton of sporting events, and the ones I have weren't entirely memorable or great.

I saw the Bulls and Jazz go into triple OT, when Jordan got ejected. Prolly the most notable.
 
The first Monday Night Football game ever played in the new Cardinals stadium. Bears were down 23 to 3 in the 3rd quarter. Punt return by Hester, forced fumble by Urlacher that Tillman scored a TD on, and another special teams score before that. They were the first team in history to come back from that kind of deficit, and not score an offensive TD. That was fucking amazing.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
The first Monday Night Football game ever played in the new Cardinals stadium. Bears were down 23 to 3 in the 3rd quarter. Punt return by Hester, forced fumble by Urlacher that Tillman scored a TD on, and another special teams score before that. They were the first team in history to come back from that kind of deficit, and not score an offensive TD. That was fucking amazing.
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Oh fuck you...true story. I shattered the light fixture on our ceiling fan, with my wedding ring, when Hessy took it back. Cut the fuck outta my shit. My wife's all...."Um, you're bleeding kinda bad." LOL. Didn't even care bout the light, or the cut.
 
beardown07 said:
Oh fuck you...true story. I shattered the light fixture on our ceiling fan, with my wedding ring, when Hessy took it back. Cut the fuck outta my shit. My wife's all...."Um, you're bleeding kinda bad." LOL. Didn't even care bout the light, or the cut.
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But I think it was Mike Brown that started it off with a fumble return for a TD, forced by rookie phenom, one-and-done, Mark Anderson then Urlacher strip, and then Hester finished em off.

Maybe the ceiling fan and loss of blood cemented that memory in gud
 
Peter Gozintite said:
The first Monday Night Football game ever played in the new Cardinals stadium. Bears were down 23 to 3 in the 3rd quarter. Punt return by Hester, forced fumble by Urlacher that Tillman scored a TD on, and another special teams score before that. They were the first team in history to come back from that kind of deficit, and not score an offensive TD. That was fucking amazing.
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So were the Bears really who we thought they were?
 
beardown07 said:
Yes.

But they were fun to watch.
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I remember going to bed that night thinking what the hell is going on in that game and thinking Arizona was going to pull a massive upset, just to watch Sportscenter when I got up and saw the Bears won. That was a fun defense to watch.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
The first Monday Night Football game ever played in the new Cardinals stadium. Bears were down 23 to 3 in the 3rd quarter. Punt return by Hester, forced fumble by Urlacher that Tillman scored a TD on, and another special teams score before that. They were the first team in history to come back from that kind of deficit, and not score an offensive TD. That was fucking amazing.
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i remember watching that game as i was packing up all my gear and shit, getting ready for 2nd deployment to afghani-land. i was about to turn it off and get some sleep when hester returned that punt, then figured i'd watch another minute or two...which turned into the rest of the game, lol
 
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