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If you could go back in time and watch 1 sporting event live (1 Viewer)
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Ditkaless Wonders
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David v. Goliath
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Probably the Miracle on Ice. That had to be incredible to experience live, especially given the times and the Cold War and all that. I wonder if it had anywhere near the impact in the building that it did in the rest of the country afterward and in retrospect. I remember going ape as a little kid watching at home, to be an adult and watching in person had to be nuts.
The General
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Homer pick: Indiana Syracuse finals- Keith Smart jumper for the win
Random picks: McEnroe Borg final Wimbledon, 86 Masters final day, some surf competition in Fiji.
Random picks: McEnroe Borg final Wimbledon, 86 Masters final day, some surf competition in Fiji.
bud29
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The General
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This is a good one. A ton of Olympic events would probably be on the list, perfect setting for greatness.
BobbyLayne
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1957 NFL Championship Game at Briggs Stadium
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
SB 13 would be up there for me. Also game 7 of the '94 Stanley Cup Finals. I actually tried to go to that, but a 22-year-old EG underestimated the kind of cheddar it would take to get a ticket to a Stanley Cup game 7 at MSG. The scalpers were literally laughing at me. Picture the scene in "Rudy" where Rudy is trying desperately to get a ticket into the ND game only to fall just short on funds, only with way more people calling him a "f---ing a--hole." I ended up watching across the street at the Blarney Rock. Good frigging corned beef sandwich, though.
Cjw_55106
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Being in Bloomington was still pretty good, in fact it was probably more wild. That was probably my first choice, but in some ways being at the event is not always the best place to be. USA beating USSR in hockey would have been one though as it was not broadcasted live and it was a home game.
cstu
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Seeing Owens and assassinating Hitler - that's a solid two for one in the time travel game.
JB Breakfast Club
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WrestleMania III - Hogan/Andre and Savage/Steamboat while being part of the largest crowd of all time.
The General
Footballguy
B Maverick
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For me it would be hard to choose between 1988 World Series Game 1 (Gibson's Hr) and the 1999 Champions League Final (United scoring two in the final minutes to win), although the Miracle on Ice would also have to be considered.
ClownCausedChaos2
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1987 Fiesta Bowl: Penn State - Miami
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I love upsets and would have enjoyed seeing the Goergetown vs Villanova NCAA Championship game live in 1985.
FUBAR
Footballguy
These two, but out of those not mentioned, I'll take the 1952 NCAA Basketball Championship.
March 26, 1952
The University of Kansas’s men’s basketball team sailed practically unscathed through its 1951-2 season. By the time the sixteen team-NCAA tournament was set to tip off, coach F.C. “Phog” Allen had won his 700th career game while his Jayhawks had compiled an 11-1 record in the Big Seven Conference and an overall record of 22-2. Their two losses had come in a four-day stretch to Kansas State and Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State), but since the two-game skid, KU had rallied off an impressive nine consecutive wins.
The 1952 NCAA tournament began as well as the Jayhawk faithful could have hoped, with Kansas knocking off Texas Christian and St. Louis in its first two contests. The second game saw KU’s 6’9” center Clyde Lovellette, one of the five starting seniors and a three-time All-America selection, set a University record by scoring 44 points. (His achievement stood until Wilt Chamberlain shattered it in his first game as a Jayhawk in 1956 when he scored 52 points.) Having won their region, the team prepared to travel to Seattle for the 1952 Final Four. (In 1952, only 16 teams received invitations to the tournament. The field has been expanded a number of times since then. Its current format of 64 teams dates from 1985.)The first game of the Final Four pitted KU against the University of California at Santa Clara in a game that Kansas won by nineteen points. This victory set up a championship showdown between KU and St. John’s University of New York, which had knocked off Illinois in the other semi-final. It was the second time Kansas had made it to the NCAA final, but in its previous trip to college basketball’s most prestigious event in 1940, KU had fallen short. (The Jayhawks’ loss that year to Indiana by a score of 60-42 stood as the most lopsided result in an NCAA final for 20 years.) Thus for all of his other accomplishments, Allen had never won the tournament that he had helped to initiate. The 1952 team gave him a chance to rectify that shortcoming on his record. (Indeed he had begun recruiting in 1947 with an eye on winning the title in 1952 and taking his team to the Olympics.)
The first score of the final came on a Lovellette free throw, which might be considered significant for two reasons. First, it was apropos considering that sixty fouls were called during the game. Second, the Jayhawks maintained their lead for the remainder of the game. St. John’s geared its defense to stop Lovellette, but in so doing opened up Kansas perimeter players – Bob “Trigger” Kenney, Bill Lienhard, Charlie Hoag, Bill Hougland, and Dean Kelley – who sank easy baskets. Lovellette, who had been recruited from Terre Haute, Indiana, by Allen (in one of his first attempts to recruit nationally) with the promise that Allen would build a championship team around him, managed to score thirty three points despite the St. John’s defense. Kansas’s 41-27 halftime lead grew into a nineteen-point advantage after three quarters and ended in an 80-63 romp. The team’s victory brought to fruition Allen’s brash promise to his prize recruit four years earlier.
Kansas saw four of its five starters voted onto the all-tournament team when sportswriters placed both Lovellette and Kelley on the first team and put Charlie Hoag and Bill Lienhard on the second team. Lovellette’s numbers in the NCAA tournament proved particularly impressive. In the words of the University Daily Kansan, “Lovellette swept the NCAA record book clean” as he established new records for the most field goals, free throws, and points made by a single player in the tournament’s history. Not surprisingly, he was a near-unanimous selection for tournament MVP.
Back in Lawrence, students had huddled around radios to listen to the championship game. (Early in the third quarter, the Jayhawk faithful had to suffer through a ten-minute period in which the station had “technical line troubles” and had to interrupt the broadcast.) When the final buzzer sounded at about 1:30 AM Central Time, ecstatic students (including a “sizeable sprinkle of co-eds,” as the Kansan put it) threw coats over their pajamas and crowded into cars in search of spontaneous pep rallies. The Kansas City Star reported “about 100 cars were in the cavalcade, sometimes rolling three abreast on the main thoroughfares.” When the cavalcade had wound downtown, students gathered in the intersection of Massachusetts and Tenth where they sang KU songs and chanted “Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K.U.” amidst the popping of firecrackers and honking of horns.
The songs and yells quickly turned into chants of “No School Today,” and eventually the mob of students found its way to the house of Dr. Laurence Woodruff, KU dean of men. Woodruff was surrounded on his lawn by undergraduates demanding cancellation of the next day’s classes. The dean explained to the students that the Big Seven Conference did not allow him to “declare athletic holidays,” to which the students rained down “good-natured boos” upon him. Apparently his expression of hope that a “similar vigor would be displayed” later that day when the team returned to Lawrence eased any tension that still lingered in the air. When the procession of students arrived at the women’s dormitories, campus police “moved in to accelerate the dispersal.”
City and state officials joined KU students the following night when, after a delayed flight, the Jayhawks returned to Lawrence shortly after midnight. An ostentatious parade presided over by KU Chancellor Franklin Murphy saw 10,000 Kansas fans celebrate the team’s victory. A fire truck escorted the Jayhawks through the streets of Lawrence, and Lovellette was made an honorary Fire Chief. The KU faithful did not disperse until shortly before 3:00 AM.
KU’s appearance in the NCAA final gave the Jayhawks a chance to earn a spot for seven of the squad’s players on the US Olympic team that would be heading to Helsinki, Finland, the following summer. On March 31, KU achieved this goal with a victory over the NIT champion LaSalle University Explorers. But in early April, the Jayhawks lost to the AAU champion Peoria Caterpillars in the final round of the playoffs, which determined who would coach the US Olympic team. Allen, however, was selected as an assistant coach, and accompanied the Jayhawks to Finland where he watched seven of his players help the US win a gold medal in basketball.
Since its first NCAA championship, the University of Kansas has seen a number of excellent basketball teams. Wilt Chamberlain took the Jayhawks to the NCAA finals in 1957, Danny Manning and “the Miracles” won a second NCAA title for the University in 1988, the teams under the leadership of Roy Williams in the 1990s won an unprecedented number of games and Bill Self continued Big 12 dominance and won the National Championship in 2008 followed by the Final Four in 2012. However, none of KU’s basketball teams have achieved the dominance of that championship season enjoyed by the 1952 Jayhawks.
Keith R
The Don
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor I (March 17, 1990) - To unify the World Junior Welterweight title. Both undefeated. Chavez was the tough as nails three-division champion from Culican Mexico. Taylor was the Olympic Gold Medalist out of Philly.
For those that don't know how the fight went - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9zKwGeHIgM
For those that don't know how the fight went - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9zKwGeHIgM
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pantagrapher
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Lingerie Bowl I
comfortably numb
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Yankees/Cubs WS 1932 Game 3
Settle it once and for all on whether Ruth called his shot.
Settle it once and for all on whether Ruth called his shot.
The General
Footballguy
For fights: Marvin Hagler / Thomas Hearns
Keith R
The Don
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
Game 1 of the 1985 World Series. Not because I want to see the game, the Royals lost, the game was unremarkable.. although I imagine the atmosphere of Royals v. Cardinals would have been really cool...
Only because I know that 8 year old me and my dad were physically present at the game, I know approximately where I sat, and I want to give him a wad of cash and a few powerball numbers and some life advice... then i'll enjoy the atmosphere and the cheap 1985 beer, and a crowd where everyone is just talking to each other rather than photographing it or videoing it with their phone or tweeting about their experience.
Only because I know that 8 year old me and my dad were physically present at the game, I know approximately where I sat, and I want to give him a wad of cash and a few powerball numbers and some life advice... then i'll enjoy the atmosphere and the cheap 1985 beer, and a crowd where everyone is just talking to each other rather than photographing it or videoing it with their phone or tweeting about their experience.
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cstu
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Andy Dufresne
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Since Owens at the '36 Olympics was over multiple days I'll have to say
May 25, 1935–Owens broke the world records for the 220-yard dash, the 220-yard low hurdles, and the running broad jump, and equaled the world record for the 100-yard dash...all in 45 minutes.
May 25, 1935–Owens broke the world records for the 220-yard dash, the 220-yard low hurdles, and the running broad jump, and equaled the world record for the 100-yard dash...all in 45 minutes.
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
Miracle on Ice tough to beat. Thrilla in Manilla too.
Following Tiger in the 2000 US Open. Would be cool to say you watched the greatest golf ever played.
Following Tiger in the 2000 US Open. Would be cool to say you watched the greatest golf ever played.
In The Zone
Footballguy
I agree with the Miracle on Ice as well as 1979 NCAA final. Michigan State vs Indiana State. Magic vs Bird. I was 8 years old and this is when I really started getting into hoops.
On a local level I would say that I wish I was in Omaha in 2010 when Whit Merrifield delivered a single to right in the 11th to score Jackie Bradley Jr. for a Gamecock 2-1 victory and their first of B2B championships at the CWS. This game also closed out legendary Rosenblatt Stadium as far as CWS play is concerned.
On a local level I would say that I wish I was in Omaha in 2010 when Whit Merrifield delivered a single to right in the 11th to score Jackie Bradley Jr. for a Gamecock 2-1 victory and their first of B2B championships at the CWS. This game also closed out legendary Rosenblatt Stadium as far as CWS play is concerned.
gianmarco
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This probably won't be tops for most others, but Game 6 of the 2011 World Series would be right up there for me to have attended live.
Here's the 9th, 10th, and 11th inning highlights:
Here's the 9th, 10th, and 11th inning highlights:
Zow
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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Game 7 of the '75 World Series between Cincy and Boston. The Reds win in the 9th.
Assuming of course I was there to see Game 6 with the Carlton Fisk homer in the 12th where the Reds lost to go to Game 7.
Assuming of course I was there to see Game 6 with the Carlton Fisk homer in the 12th where the Reds lost to go to Game 7.
Todem
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Miracle On Ice is tough to top. But I would also second game 1 of the 1988 World Series and Gibson's improbable home-run off IMO the most dominant closer I had ever seen in Dennis Eckersley.
I remember exactly where I was when I saw the shot heard around the world. I was at Dania Jai-Alai crowed around a TV on the betting concourse. I just bet a couple of perfecta boxes and saw the crowd around the game.....I squeezed in there and watched Gibson limp into the box thinking this is all over and then crack.
One of the most amazing baseball moments I had ever seen to this very day. I would have loved to been in the park seeing it live. My goodness the electricity must have been majestic.
I remember exactly where I was when I saw the shot heard around the world. I was at Dania Jai-Alai crowed around a TV on the betting concourse. I just bet a couple of perfecta boxes and saw the crowd around the game.....I squeezed in there and watched Gibson limp into the box thinking this is all over and then crack.
One of the most amazing baseball moments I had ever seen to this very day. I would have loved to been in the park seeing it live. My goodness the electricity must have been majestic.
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