Ammo’s thread got me thinking. If you could hit the fantasy time machine and grab a ticket to any sporting event ever. What are your top 5? Mine:
1. Russia v USA Hockey 1980 Lake Placid.
2. Ali v Frazier 1 Madison Square Garden.
3. Sunday 1997 Masters.
4. Ice Bowl.
5. Men’s 4x100 relay finals 1936 Berlin Germany.
23. Vikings v Saints 2009 NFC Championship.
Sorry...... had too.
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In no particular order:
Harvey Haddix vs. Lew Burdette in 1959. Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings but lost in the 13th.
1962 NFL Championship in Yankee Stadium. Jerry Kramer makes 3 of 5 FG attempts to beat the Giants 16-7.
1963 Rose Bowl. Badgers vs. USC.
Any game in which Don Hutson played.
Juan Nieves no hitter. Fantastic catch by Robin Yount for the final out off the bat of Eddie Murray to save the no hitter.
I would have loved to be in the stands when the Vikings won their first of 4 Super Bowl titles. Oh wait........
Even though I grew up 20 minutes from Lambeau I have never been there for a game. Yep I would take any Packers game but if I had to pick I would take the NFCC game against Carolina
See Babe Ruth play
Miracle on Ice
Ice Bowl
Go back and see a Brewers game from the early 80's. Those were some good times.
Badgers Rose bowl game after the 93 season
Badgers vs Xavier NCAA Tournament game where Koenig drains a 3, from the corner, for the win as time expired.
The Badgers-Wolverines Mens regular season basketball game at the Kohl Center where Brust throws up and drains a half court shot to tie the game as time expires.
Game 5 of the 2017 World Series (Astros vs Dodgers)
The Ice Bowl.
Either the New Orleans-Minnesota NFC Championship game or any of Minnesota's 4 Super Bowl losses.
I should also add the Brewers at the Twins where Prince Fielder hits the ball a mile into the air and Twins LF'er Lew Ford loses the ball in the Metronome roof, so he just stands there as the ball lands 30 feet behind him as Prince rounds the bases for an In-The-Park Home Run!
When I saw the thread the first thing that came to mind was the Miracle on Ice. I didn’t even think about the Ice Bowl.
My father in law did attend the Badgers 1963 Rose Bowl and said it was amazing.
My personal favs- in no particular order:
1) Kirk Gibson HR game - yes he’s a tool but talk about improbable and dramatic moment
2) Badgers v UK - David takes down Goliath in Final Four
3) Packers v Niners in 1995 playoffs - one of the most enjoyable upsets ever
4) Brewers v Texas on Easter 1987. I still get goosebumps watching and listening to the highlights of that one.
And more...
How about the game where the Packers finally got Dallas as Lambeau Field after all of those losses in Dallas? Not sure of the year maybe 1996?
Game 7 of the 2004 MLB playoffs where the Red Sox came back from down 0-3 and thumped them in game 7
Sixto Lezcano hits a walk off home run on opening day to beat the Red Sox
Ice Bowl. Are you kidding? Of course!
Miracle on Ice. Just too good to pass up.
Secretariat winning the Triple Crown. He demolished the competition in the Belmont, the toughest race of them all.
Any Badgers game. Never been, and would like to go someday.
1999 Women's World Cup game (the Brandi Chastain game)
1) Packers vs. Cowboys 1997 regular season at Lambeau. That game was special, because by the end of that game, you could see that the Cowboys dynasty in the '90s was finished. Michael Irvin was crying after the game because he knew it was over. The Packers just rammed the ball with Dorsey Levens right down their throats in the 2nd half and the Cowboys could do nothing to stop it. Was fun watching on TV, but kind of wish I could have been there.
2) Wisconsin-Green Bay over California in 1994 NCAA men's basketball tournament. It is the only NCAA tournament game my alma mater UWGB has ever won and it was over a loaded Cal team that had future Hall-Of-Famer Jason Kidd on it, plus NBA lottery pick Lamond Murray. Was awesome seeing it on TV, but kind of wish I could have been there.
3) Any Brewers win from 1982 World Series. I remember as a 13 year old just how geeked up everyone was about that team. The 1982 World Series basically just turned into a giant party for a few days for the city of Milwaukee while it was going on. Was fun watching the games from home in Fond Du Lac, but still wish I could have been at some real games.
4) Any good LA Lakers/Boston Celtics close finals games from the '80s. At the time, I hated those teams but as time has gone by, I really enjoy watching any sort of documentary about either of those teams. It will be hard for any team to duplicate what those teams had in terms of continuity as it was easier to keep players on the same team back then.
5) Badgers over Purdue in 2000 NCAA tournament to get Dick Bennett and the Badgers into the final 4. I was a much bigger Badgers basketball fan when Bennett was there so that game was special to me. Bennett had been coach at UWGB when I was there so I became a huge Badgers fan during the time he coached there.
I couldn't put something like the ICE Bowl on my list because I was at 1 cold weather game Packers vs. Raiders 1993 (Birth of the Lambeau Leap) and I would never do another game as cold as that one ever again.
I like your list Chili. I will add one more:
- 2003 Vikings at Cardinals...just to see the excitement from Vikings fans that they were going to the playoffs only to see them crushed at the last second.
I like a lot of them on this list, but one I remember listening to (that isn't on anyone's list) on the radio and would have like to have been at was the Cecil Cooper 3 HR game against the Yankees in July 1979. I remember it was about 90 degrees that day and the humidity made it feel like a sauna. The whole game was tense and the teams actually hated each other at that point. Cooper's game winning home run with two outs in the bottom of the 9th was electric - you could sense it listening to Uecker on the radio call (and Uecker went nuclear on that home run call).
https://www.baseball-reference...L/MIL197907270.shtml
Others for me:
1. 1982 NLCS when Cooper singled in the go ahead runs.
2. Michael Jordan's 63 point game in a losing effort against the Celtics in the 1986 playoffs. It was the game when Jordan really "arrived"
3. Tiger Woods 15 stroke win at the 2000 US Open at Pebble Beach. Tiger reached the par 5 18th on Sunday in 3 strokes which means he needed to 17 putt the 18th to win. That's the most dominant performance of any athlete in any sport I've ever watched on television.
4. Favre to Kitrick Taylor 1992. Whatever Favre's done since, this was a moment when after about 20 years of lousy teams you had the sense that the Packers were going to be relevant again.
5. Rob Deer's home run in 1987 on Easter Sunday to let everyone get the free burgers at George Webbs. Again, hearing Uecker go nuclear was one of the best parts.
Even just to see this in person
I’m sorry to say I haven’t even seen 5 sporting events on tv. 
I either turn the channel to something else, or am in bed. But a lot of previous posted events sound fantastic 
MichiganPacker posted:2. Michael Jordan's 63 point game in a losing effort against the Celtics in the 1986 playoffs. It was the game when Jordan really "arrived"
That really was amazing. There still are some that think the '86 Celtics were the best team of all time. But Jordan at that time was such a freak athlete, nobody even came close in terms of athleticism at that time. As great as the '86 Celtics were, nobody would call them extremely athletic so they had a tough time matching Jordan. To this day, I still consider the 1980s the most fun time to watch the NBA partially because the Bucks were very good during that time as well.
As amazed and excited as I was seeing Favre to Taylor on TV, it took me a lot longer to believe it was more than a fluke. The thick scar tissue of the 80s took a while to soften enough to start believing again. Id say it was 94 by time that happened.
Great video of the 2003 win over O$U.
I know it isnt a time hop thing but what I really want to be in person to see at some point in my lifetime and be there for it is to see Bucky finally beat O$U. I have been to that game 4 times in my life and each time Bucky ends up losing.
Oh and add a game (preferably a night game) at Camp Randall to my list.
fightphoe93 posted:MichiganPacker posted:2. Michael Jordan's 63 point game in a losing effort against the Celtics in the 1986 playoffs. It was the game when Jordan really "arrived"
That really was amazing. There still are some that think the '86 Celtics were the best team of all time. But Jordan at that time was such a freak athlete, nobody even came close in terms of athleticism at that time. As great as the '86 Celtics were, nobody would call them extremely athletic so they had a tough time matching Jordan. To this day, I still consider the 1980s the most fun time to watch the NBA partially because the Bucks were very good during that time as well.
Larry Bird, who wasn't exactly used to admitting that anyone was better than he was, actually said the following after the game.
"I didn't think anyone was capable of doing what Michael has done to us," marveled Celtics ace Larry Bird. "He is the most exciting, awesome player in the game today. I think it's just God disguised as Michael Jordan."
http://www.nba.com/history/jordan63_moments.html
He did this playing with the following teammates that day: Charles Oakley, John Paxson, Orlando Woolridge, Kyle Macy, Dave Corzine, and Sydney Banks. This was against a team with Bird, McHale, Walton, Ainge, D. Johnson, and Robert Parish (5 Hall of Famers). Dennis Johnson was one of the best defensive guards in history and he couldn't contain him (despite having McHale, Parrish, and Walton to protect the rim). Jordan also had 6 assists, 5 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 blocks, and went 19-21 from the line. He was 22 for 41 from the field with ONLY 3 SHOTS that were uncontested. He hit two FTs at the end of regulation to get the game into OT.
http://www.espn.com/blog/stats...ordans-63-point-game
Goldie posted:I’m sorry to say I haven’t even seen 5 sporting events on tv.
You've not seen 5 Packers games? Or any combination of 5 Packers/Brewers/Bucks/Badgers/Braves games?
Replays would count. And they'd make sense for you.
Good topic...
1) Super Bowl 31
2) game 5 of the 1982 ALCS (my brother and father were there)
3) 2015 Final 4 UW versus KY
4) Super Bowl 45
5) 1994 Rose Bowl (I was in basic training instead)
Rob Deer ‘87... that’s a good one.
73 Belmont is a great mention. That’s a legendary sports moment.
Koufax perfect game in 65 is up there. 14 SO in a perfect game is a good paid admission.
Only 5?
Some really good ones that first popped into my head when seeing the topic are already taken: Jessie Owens running/jumping at the Berlin games in '36. The Ice Bowl, The Miracle on Ice, any of the Packer Super Bowls/NFL Championships with Lombardi, or Brewers World Series games from '82 are no brainers. Seeing Ruth or Don Hutson play. So, I'll try to pick some that haven't been brought up.
1. September 30, 1972. Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh. Roberto Clemente leads off the bottom of the 4th with a double off of Mets pitcher Jon Matlack. 3,000 career hits for Arriba.
2. September 28, 1941. Shibe Park, Philadelphia. Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enters the day batting .3996 (179 hits in 448 official at bats. He was walked a whopping 147 times!). Red Sox skipper Joe Cronin offers to give Williams the day off, thinking that he had already secured a .400 season. But Williams elects to play in both games of the doubleheader. He went 6 for 8 in the doubleheader, finishing the season batting .406, the last man to bat .400 in a season.
3. September 27, 1959. New City Stadium (before it was called Lambeau Field). The first game of the Lombardi era. The Packers take on George Halas' Chicago Bears, and beat them 9-6 on a Jim Taylor rushing score, and a safety. The first win of the Lombardi dynasty. I'd want to see how it all started.
4. October 3, 1982. Memorial Stadium, Baltimore. 162 games were not enough to determine the winner of the American League East, so a one game "tie breaker" would decided it. Two future Hall of Fame twirlers got the start-Jim Palmer, the three-time Cy Young Award-winner for the Orioles faced eventual 300 game-winner Don Sutton, who was now a Brewer after a long career with the Dodgers. AL MVP Robin Yount ruins Palmer's day, hitting back to back home runs, the first an opposite field shot, the second to left center field. The Brewers rout the Orioles 10-2. There are six Hall of Famers on the field that day (Sutton and Palmer, Yount, Paul Molitor, Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken Jr), and another that might be enshrined in Cooperstown soon, Ted Simmons, who fell one vote short of election from the Hall's Historical Overview Committee in December of 2017.
5. July 5, 1980. All England Club, London, England. 1980 Wimbledon Men's Final. Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe in five sets, 1-6, 7-6, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6. Sweden's Borg holds off a furious rally from the American upstart McEnroe in which McEnroe took the fourth set in an 18-16 tiebreaker; it is Borg's fifth straight Wimbledon title. Often called the greatest match ever played.
(tie). May 2, 1954. Busch Stadium, St. Louis. Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals belts five home runs in a doubleheader, setting a Major League record that still stands. Hall of Famers on the field that day: Musial, Red Schoendienst, Willie Mays, Monte Irvin and Hoyt Wilhelm.
lambeausouth posted:3. September 27, 1959. New City Stadium (before it was called Lambeau Field). The first game of the Lombardi era. The Packers take on George Halas' Chicago Bears, and beat them 9-6 on a Jim Taylor rushing score, and a safety. The first win of the Lombardi dynasty. I'd want to see how it all started.
Pretty sure it was 1957.
I was there, along with Miss America, James Arness, and Tricky Dick Nixon.
Miracle on ice
ice bowl
patriots packers 2014
nebraska Oklahoma 2009
Nebraska Oklahoma 1987
gobigred
Couple others:
1950 England v US World Cup match: the part-time players of the US upset "The Kings of Football" in Brazil 1-0.
Eric Heiden's Olympic races: like a machine
Bobby Orr's OT winner: made all the more memorable by the photo
Cal-Stanford band game: just for the laughs
Great lists. Great great moments.
Some additional ones, off the top of my head:
1968 Mexico City Olympics Bob Beamon obliterating the men's long jump record to win gold
1986 World Cup Argentina vs England (first WC after the Falklands War), Diego Maradona with two of the most spectacular goals ever including the 'Hand of God'
1996 Atlanta Olympics Opening Ceremony with Muhammad Ali lighting the torch
Really, any futbol WC semi-final or final. Same for the Copa America. My personal favorite is Spain over first Germany in the semis then defeating Netherlands in extra time in the 2010 WC in South Africa. That Spanish team is to me the greatest ever.
Any meaningful game with Lionel Messi.
Any Olympic final with Usain Bolt.
There are really so many others. The great thing about sports is, win or lose, it produces so many memorable moments.
Toofless posted:Miracle on ice
ice bowl
patriots packers 2014
nebraska Oklahoma 2009
Nebraska Oklahoma 1987
gobigred
What, not the 2012 B1G Championship Game for football?
bvan posted:lambeausouth posted:3. September 27, 1959. New City Stadium (before it was called Lambeau Field). The first game of the Lombardi era. The Packers take on George Halas' Chicago Bears, and beat them 9-6 on a Jim Taylor rushing score, and a safety. The first win of the Lombardi dynasty. I'd want to see how it all started.
Pretty sure it was 1957.
I was there, along with Miss America, James Arness, and Tricky Dick Nixon.
You are talking about the opening of New City Stadium. LS was talking about Lombardi's 1st regular season game coaching the Packers.
Music City posted:Toofless posted:Miracle on ice
ice bowl
patriots packers 2014
nebraska Oklahoma 2009
Nebraska Oklahoma 1987
gobigred
What, not the 2012 B1G Championship Game for football?
No. Not one bit. If I ever the huskers roll over like that again, I’ll move to Iowa.
Carlton Fisk's HR in game 6 of World Series vs. Reds
Majik's pass in the Bear's instant replay game
The Heckler posted:And more...
How about the game where the Packers finally got Dallas as Lambeau Field after all of those losses in Dallas? Not sure of the year maybe 1996?
Game 7 of the 2004 MLB playoffs where the Red Sox came back from down 0-3 and thumped them in game 7I was
Sixto Lezcano hits a walk off home run on opening day to beat the Red Sox
I was at the second game of the 1980 season. That game featured a second inning where the Brewers hit 2 grand slams in the same inning....and a solo shot later in the inning.
Unbelievably cold at that game...but wow was it fun. (Freshman year in college)
Dec 22nd, 2003 Packers-Oakland game, although pretty meaningless, would have been special to see in person.
Goldie posted:I’m sorry to say I haven’t even seen 5 sporting events on tv.
Top five Lifetime movies?
There are a lot of good events listed. But as far as Packer games go, I would want to go to the snow globe game in 2007 vs Seattle at Lambeau. Everyone I have met that has been there talks about the atmosphere. Plus it was a Packer win.
chickenboy posted:Goldie posted:I’m sorry to say I haven’t even seen 5 sporting events on tv.
Top five Lifetime movies?
For Goldie? Let's see ............
1) Sleepless in Seattle
2) You Got Mail (in New York)
3) Pearl Harbor (where the Germans started WWII - not to mention the love triangle)
4) While You Were Sleeping
5) Sleeping Beauty
6) Cinderella
That wasn't tough at all. But I am probably way off base with this list.
I should have added the 2005 Badger- Gopher football game where the Badgers won at Minnesota after they recovered the ball in the end zone and where Minnesota's punter had to run to punt the ball after he muffed catching the snap. In the final minute of the game. On the Friday night prior to the game, the Badger Marching Band came to Hudson for a pep rally and really fired up the crowd. An alumnus played in the band so the Bandleader had them play at the alumnus' home field. It was really great and was a shot in the arm for the people in western Wisconsin who have had to put up with Minnesota bull roar for quite some time. From 2005:
Tschmack posted:
3) Packers v Niners in 1995 playoffs - one of the most enjoyable upsets ever
If I recall correctly, that was the only time during the 1990's that an NFC team won a divisional playoff game on the road. Remarkable.
I loved that game- Wayne Simmons was huge and I am still sick the Packers got hosed in the Dallas game the next week!!
yes, they were ready.
ChilliJon posted:Ammo’s thread got me thinking. If you could hit the fantasy time machine and grab a ticket to any sporting event ever. What are your top 5? Mine:
1. Russia v USA Hockey 1980 Lake Placid.
2. Ali v Frazier 1 Madison Square Garden.
3. Sunday 1997 Masters.
4. Ice Bowl.
5. Men’s 4x100 relay finals 1936 Berlin Germany.
23. Vikings v Saints 2009 NFC Championship.
Sorry...... had too.
Man, that summed up my list nicely. Particularly Ali v. Frazier.
Also agree about those early 80's Brewer teams.
