What is your greatest sports moment

Mike · December 18th, 2007, 08:42 AM

I thought that this would be a fun hot topic. I am sure that most of you played some sport when you were younger. Whether it is High School football or little league. I wanted to know what your greatest sports moment was. It could be on the field or watching the game.

This could be fun

**again please stay on topic

Rusty27 · December 18th, 2007, 08:46 AM

Sorry,I got nothin.
I could write about my JV tennis victories,but I digress.

Mike · December 18th, 2007, 08:47 AM

lol, why not Rusty... If that is what you remember, shoot, write about it

Rusty27 · December 18th, 2007, 08:55 AM

OK.We played the best team in the area and everybody lost but me.The coach praised me in front of everybody.In reality,nobody knew the guy I played was by far their worst player and we played down at the end of the courts and nobody saw how bad this kid was.

BtownJay · December 18th, 2007, 09:00 AM

In high school wrestling, i had a 1st period pin over a guy who was 14-0 at the time. He then went on to be ranked in the top 10 in the nation while wrestling for Penn State in college.

On that note, not a great moment, but i wrestled and lost to a guy who went on to be a 4 time all american and finshed 2nd in the nation twice while at Nebraska.

Edit - this dude...
HuskerWrestling.com :: Nebraska Wrestling Team Website

One of the best wrestlers in school history, Snyder joins the Nebraska staff after a one-year stint at Harvard in 2002-03. Competing for the Huskers from 1999 to 2002, Snyder is the first NU wrestler to become a four-time All-American and four-time Big 12 champion. Snyder was a two-time NCAA runner-up in the 157-pound weight class in 2001 and 2002. As a freshman in 1999, Snyder finished fourth, while taking fifth as a sophomore in 2000.

A native of Easton, Pa., Snyder was a three-time state place-winner and a 1997 state champion. He finished with a 112-12 prep record.

BaldBil · December 18th, 2007, 09:04 AM

1. January 1978, 4:33.5 indoor mile Lynn Tech Fieldhouse

2. December 1977, fight at track meet(mile run) with Beverly runner in Beverly.

3. August 1986(US Army), 2-out double and trhen scoring winning run to win 3ID softball championship from the losers bracket.

Rusty27 · December 18th, 2007, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by BaldBil

1. January 1978, 4:33.5 indoor mile Lynn Tech Fieldhouse

2. December 1977, fight at track meet(mile run) with Beverly runner in Beverly.

3. August 1986(US Army), 2-out double and trhen scoring winning run to win 3ID softball championship from the losers bracket.

I love #2!!!

Tell us more

BtownJay · December 18th, 2007, 09:17 AM

Oh, speaking of fights... after one wrestling match we had a brawl between both teams in the middle of the mat. The cops had to come in and take some guys out in cuffs. It was against out cross town rival... we were HUGE underdogs and pulled off the upset. Many of the local writers had us losing by 30 or more. Needless to say they were pissed. I also had a 45 second pin in that match... it was fun.

BaldBil · December 18th, 2007, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty17

I love #2!!!

Tell us more

I believe we covered that a couple of months ago. He was Rusty Rollins, I hauled him down with an open field tackle after we exchanged some sharp words and sharper elbows. Got a few shots in befeore we were seperated. Ten minutes later we went at it again under the fieldhouse stands.

He is now a Beverly Police Sergeant with a roughneck reputation.

klicks · December 18th, 2007, 11:29 AM

1 - Seeing Team Canada's comeback and Paul Henderson's game winning goal in the first Russia/Canada series, my dad let me stay home from school to watch the game (i was in like grade 6 or so)
2 - Winning the city championship in Bantam hockey; with a team that was basically made up of a group of us that were perennial 'last cuts' off the triple A level due to 'bad attitudes'. One coach took the chance, took all the bad 'tude guys and our area put 2 triple A teams in the league that year. We beat the other team from our area (the guys that always made the AAA teams) in the final series...sweet because we weren't even supposed to be in AAA we kicked ass. Same minor hockey organization that produced Steve Yzerman, Darren Pang, Jeff Brown, Dave Lowry, Jeff Chrychrun and others BTW.
3 - Playing the Russian national midget team in front of a packed rink on their first trip to Canada in 1976 (we won 3-1, first team to beat them on their swing through Canada starting on the East coast and going west. I think a couple of teams in the west beat them later). One ofthe dirtiest frigging teams I ever played by the way.
4 - Losing 3-0 in the city high school soccer championship - I was goalkeeper, and faced something like 35 shots (in SOCCER!!) including 2 penalty shots (stopped one), it was raining and snowing and a complete mud bath; the other team's coach gave me the game ball. It was the best game I ever played in nets in soccer despite the 3 goals.

klicks · December 18th, 2007, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by BtownJay

... I also had a 45 second pin in that match... it was fun.

Nice Jay! I wrestled in HS, mostly as cross-training for my primary sports and becuase I was young and small and it had weight classes. I wasn't very good at first so my aim was to last 45 seconds or more in my first couple of matches - your 45 second pin reminded me of that.

BtownJay · December 18th, 2007, 11:36 AM

Awesome moments Klicks! Sadly, with all the other sports i was in, i never had time for, or got into playing hockey. Looking back, i wish i would have and given up baseball. I was never very good at that.

About bad baseball... Eli and I were on a Legion team that went 0-24. I was an infielder and I probably hit around .150 for the year. I had one pitching outting. 1 1/3 innings and gave up 11 runs. Not all earned, a few errors in there, but it was terrible. I now know how pitchers who are getting shelled feel (on a much smaller scale of course)... you can't get off the mound and into the dugout quick enough. One dude hit a ball off me that may still be in the air.

Last one - Tennis, in college, I was the #1 player on the team and we won the state championship. The league was probably below D3, but it was still cool. It was a league with all the Penn State satellite schools.

Wizarium · December 18th, 2007, 11:41 AM

Got 3...

#1 - Luckiest shot. Park League round ball, I was probably around 12 yrs old. Del Valle Park, Lakewood CA. I was tall for my age group, so naturally played center. Our team was mid-placed, nothing special. We were playing (of course) the elite #1 squad in the league. Game was down to less than 30 seconds. Ball was passed to me in the lane. I dribbled out of the crowd, and came up around the top of the key. With about 10 seconds left, I saw my couch jumping up and down and screaming something. At the exact top of the key, I did a Kareem-Abdul 'sky-hook' prayer - nothing but net to tie the game. We won in overtime. Pizza never tasted better!

#2 - Greatest no-luck-involved play. Park league hard ball. I spent all of my baseball years playing catcher. As a catcher, you dream of the 'perfect' throw down to nail a base runner. Playing against a team with a notorious and smart-ass-mouthed rabbit. He walked. Sat down at first base smirking and taunting me. This a-hole was burning a hole in my soul with his fake take off, then smirk. He was saying "we both know I own second base, bitch! I'll let you know when I'll have it.." Pitch came, fastball, perfect strike. Out of the corner of my eye, I see him take off in slow motion. In the smoothest move I ever had as a catcher, the mask came off, found the ball with my right hand and let it fly... it dropped in for a perfect strike to the shortstop's glove right as that bitch's foot was coming in for the slide. Still in slow motion, I saw the 2nd base ump call him out with a huge and ferocious gesture. Crowd went crazy, real time resumed. I watch him pick himself up, dust off his uniform, and he glared me down as he made his way back to the dugout. I flipped him off inside my catcher's mitt just for good measure.

#3 - Greatest revenge play. Park league hard ball again. I was about 11 yrs old. Skip backward about a month or two, and a good friend of mine got into a fight in the schoolyard. It was just a shoving match at the time I walked up. I got in-between the two of them and tried to talk them out of throwing down, let's be cool and settle it. Up walks one Donny Ross, definitely the biggest dude in school. All I heard was "let 'em fight if they want to" right before the lights went out. He had spun me around and sucker punched me right in the nose. Woke up in the nurses office, blood everywhere. Back to the ball game a few months later... I was at-bat against the team that Donny Ross played on, and he was their shortstop. Pitch came, I swung through and connected. I dropped the bat and started towards first. The ball was hit sharply, but right at Donny. Easy, routine play, he didn't even have to step left or right. He bent down to field the ball as I motored towards first. Suddenly, the ball found the tiniest little speck of dust to hit, and turned from a routine grounder into a horrific 'bad hop' ball. It leaped off of the field, bypassed Donny's outstretched glove, and punched him smack dab on the nose. He went down, and hard, as the ball doinked off his face and into left field. I crossed second base, and remember jumping over his limp torso on my way to third. "Whoa dude... that looks painful!" Lots of blood, paramedics, broken nose.

Hey Donny!

Bitchin' thread... I need to grow up. Or get therapy. Or both.

- Keith

December 18th, 2007, 08:42 AM	#1
Mike Join Date: 07-08-2002 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 10,747	What is your greatest sports moment I thought that this would be a fun hot topic. I am sure that most of you played some sport when you were younger. Whether it is High School football or little league. I wanted to know what your greatest sports moment was. It could be on the field or watching the game. This could be fun **again please stay on topic

December 18th, 2007, 08:46 AM	#2
Rusty27 Join Date: 07-15-2004 Location: Knoxville,Tenn. Posts: 24,264	Sorry,I got nothin. I could write about my JV tennis victories,but I digress.

December 18th, 2007, 08:47 AM	#3
Mike Join Date: 07-08-2002 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 10,747	lol, why not Rusty... If that is what you remember, shoot, write about it

December 18th, 2007, 08:55 AM	#4
Rusty27 Join Date: 07-15-2004 Location: Knoxville,Tenn. Posts: 24,264	OK.We played the best team in the area and everybody lost but me.The coach praised me in front of everybody.In reality,nobody knew the guy I played was by far their worst player and we played down at the end of the courts and nobody saw how bad this kid was.

December 18th, 2007, 09:00 AM	#5
BtownJay Join Date: 07-14-2004 Location: Lehigh Valley, PA Posts: 26,452	In high school wrestling, i had a 1st period pin over a guy who was 14-0 at the time. He then went on to be ranked in the top 10 in the nation while wrestling for Penn State in college. On that note, not a great moment, but i wrestled and lost to a guy who went on to be a 4 time all american and finshed 2nd in the nation twice while at Nebraska. Edit - this dude... HuskerWrestling.com :: Nebraska Wrestling Team Website One of the best wrestlers in school history, Snyder joins the Nebraska staff after a one-year stint at Harvard in 2002-03. Competing for the Huskers from 1999 to 2002, Snyder is the first NU wrestler to become a four-time All-American and four-time Big 12 champion. Snyder was a two-time NCAA runner-up in the 157-pound weight class in 2001 and 2002. As a freshman in 1999, Snyder finished fourth, while taking fifth as a sophomore in 2000. A native of Easton, Pa., Snyder was a three-time state place-winner and a 1997 state champion. He finished with a 112-12 prep record.

December 18th, 2007, 09:04 AM	#6
BaldBil Join Date: 06-15-2006 Location: Salem, MA Posts: 4,785	1. January 1978, 4:33.5 indoor mile Lynn Tech Fieldhouse 2. December 1977, fight at track meet(mile run) with Beverly runner in Beverly. 3. August 1986(US Army), 2-out double and trhen scoring winning run to win 3ID softball championship from the losers bracket.

December 18th, 2007, 09:17 AM	#8
BtownJay Join Date: 07-14-2004 Location: Lehigh Valley, PA Posts: 26,452	Oh, speaking of fights... after one wrestling match we had a brawl between both teams in the middle of the mat. The cops had to come in and take some guys out in cuffs. It was against out cross town rival... we were HUGE underdogs and pulled off the upset. Many of the local writers had us losing by 30 or more. Needless to say they were pissed. I also had a 45 second pin in that match... it was fun.

December 18th, 2007, 11:29 AM	#10
klicks Join Date: 07-04-2005 Posts: 1,385	1 - Seeing Team Canada's comeback and Paul Henderson's game winning goal in the first Russia/Canada series, my dad let me stay home from school to watch the game (i was in like grade 6 or so) 2 - Winning the city championship in Bantam hockey; with a team that was basically made up of a group of us that were perennial 'last cuts' off the triple A level due to 'bad attitudes'. One coach took the chance, took all the bad 'tude guys and our area put 2 triple A teams in the league that year. We beat the other team from our area (the guys that always made the AAA teams) in the final series...sweet because we weren't even supposed to be in AAA we kicked ass. Same minor hockey organization that produced Steve Yzerman, Darren Pang, Jeff Brown, Dave Lowry, Jeff Chrychrun and others BTW. 3 - Playing the Russian national midget team in front of a packed rink on their first trip to Canada in 1976 (we won 3-1, first team to beat them on their swing through Canada starting on the East coast and going west. I think a couple of teams in the west beat them later). One ofthe dirtiest frigging teams I ever played by the way. 4 - Losing 3-0 in the city high school soccer championship - I was goalkeeper, and faced something like 35 shots (in SOCCER!!) including 2 penalty shots (stopped one), it was raining and snowing and a complete mud bath; the other team's coach gave me the game ball. It was the best game I ever played in nets in soccer despite the 3 goals.

December 18th, 2007, 11:36 AM	#12
BtownJay Join Date: 07-14-2004 Location: Lehigh Valley, PA Posts: 26,452	Awesome moments Klicks! Sadly, with all the other sports i was in, i never had time for, or got into playing hockey. Looking back, i wish i would have and given up baseball. I was never very good at that. About bad baseball... Eli and I were on a Legion team that went 0-24. I was an infielder and I probably hit around .150 for the year. I had one pitching outting. 1 1/3 innings and gave up 11 runs. Not all earned, a few errors in there, but it was terrible. I now know how pitchers who are getting shelled feel (on a much smaller scale of course)... you can't get off the mound and into the dugout quick enough. One dude hit a ball off me that may still be in the air. Last one - Tennis, in college, I was the #1 player on the team and we won the state championship. The league was probably below D3, but it was still cool. It was a league with all the Penn State satellite schools.

December 18th, 2007, 11:41 AM	#13
Wizarium Join Date: 02-13-2003 Posts: 9	Got 3... #1 - Luckiest shot. Park League round ball, I was probably around 12 yrs old. Del Valle Park, Lakewood CA. I was tall for my age group, so naturally played center. Our team was mid-placed, nothing special. We were playing (of course) the elite #1 squad in the league. Game was down to less than 30 seconds. Ball was passed to me in the lane. I dribbled out of the crowd, and came up around the top of the key. With about 10 seconds left, I saw my couch jumping up and down and screaming something. At the exact top of the key, I did a Kareem-Abdul 'sky-hook' prayer - nothing but net to tie the game. We won in overtime. Pizza never tasted better! #2 - Greatest no-luck-involved play. Park league hard ball. I spent all of my baseball years playing catcher. As a catcher, you dream of the 'perfect' throw down to nail a base runner. Playing against a team with a notorious and smart-ass-mouthed rabbit. He walked. Sat down at first base smirking and taunting me. This a-hole was burning a hole in my soul with his fake take off, then smirk. He was saying "we both know I own second base, bitch! I'll let you know when I'll have it.." Pitch came, fastball, perfect strike. Out of the corner of my eye, I see him take off in slow motion. In the smoothest move I ever had as a catcher, the mask came off, found the ball with my right hand and let it fly... it dropped in for a perfect strike to the shortstop's glove right as that bitch's foot was coming in for the slide. Still in slow motion, I saw the 2nd base ump call him out with a huge and ferocious gesture. Crowd went crazy, real time resumed. I watch him pick himself up, dust off his uniform, and he glared me down as he made his way back to the dugout. I flipped him off inside my catcher's mitt just for good measure. #3 - Greatest revenge play. Park league hard ball again. I was about 11 yrs old. Skip backward about a month or two, and a good friend of mine got into a fight in the schoolyard. It was just a shoving match at the time I walked up. I got in-between the two of them and tried to talk them out of throwing down, let's be cool and settle it. Up walks one Donny Ross, definitely the biggest dude in school. All I heard was "let 'em fight if they want to" right before the lights went out. He had spun me around and sucker punched me right in the nose. Woke up in the nurses office, blood everywhere. Back to the ball game a few months later... I was at-bat against the team that Donny Ross played on, and he was their shortstop. Pitch came, I swung through and connected. I dropped the bat and started towards first. The ball was hit sharply, but right at Donny. Easy, routine play, he didn't even have to step left or right. He bent down to field the ball as I motored towards first. Suddenly, the ball found the tiniest little speck of dust to hit, and turned from a routine grounder into a horrific 'bad hop' ball. It leaped off of the field, bypassed Donny's outstretched glove, and punched him smack dab on the nose. He went down, and hard, as the ball doinked off his face and into left field. I crossed second base, and remember jumping over his limp torso on my way to third. "Whoa dude... that looks painful!" Lots of blood, paramedics, broken nose. Hey Donny! Bitchin' thread... I need to grow up. Or get therapy. Or both. - Keith