5 Sporting events you wished you’d seen in person.

justanotherpackerfan posted:

The Heckler posted:

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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)

Holy hell! Easiest win Larry Sorensen ever had. Brewers won 18-1.

Yount homered right after Money's grand slam. What an inning.

Six Hall of Famers played in that game (and will eventually be seven when Dwight Evans gets in): Yount, Molitor, Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Perez and Carlton Fisk. 

Miracle on Ice. Watched each and every game of that Olympics as a 9 year old, most of them on school nights with a blanket over a small black and white in our bedroom so as to not wake up my sisters. Started with the amazing tie as Bill Baker tied it up with 27 seconds to go vs powerhouse Sweden and ended with another comeback to win the gold vs FInland. What an intro to hockey.  Oh, and hey, there's this kid named Wayne Gretzky in the NHL...

2005 Midwest Regional Final Illinois comes back from 14 down with 3:28 minutes to go to beat Arizona and move on to the Final Four. Losing to UNC in title game will haunt me forever.  

Game 5 1982 ALCS My parents went with another couple. I WILL HATE THEM FOREVER BECAUSE OF THIS.

Game 5 2011 ALDS Walk off win to go to the ALCS.

Game 6 2013 Stanley Cup Finals. Blackhawks staring at a game 7 score 2 goals in 16 seconds in the last 75 seconds of regulation and go from a 2-1 deficit to winning the Cup.

I saw Matt Cain's perfect game in person.

Any list I create would include this game & I was actually there.

The other 4 would most likely be NFL games

I was at the 1986 Houston-Mets NLCS game 6 that went 16 innings. One of the best baseball games in History. I had World Series tickets that year if the astros advance but was glad the Mets won it. The place was quiet when Orosco struck out Kevin Bass for the final out except for one crazy fan screaming from the 2nd level above 1st base dugout. 

Brainwashed Boris posted:

I saw Matt Cain's perfect game in person.

Any list I create would include this game & I was actually there.

The other 4 would most likely be NFL games

Actually I thought one of them would’ve been Miracle On Ice 

I saw Babe Ruth’s first ever game at Yankee Stadium, The Ice Bowl, Tiger at Augusta in 97, Michael against Ehlo, and The Miracle in Ice, (Although I I was a Russian Citizen at the time), so I feel fulfilled.

Saw Diamond Dave vs Goliath back in the day. This was before all that dumb "entrance music".

Some great suggestions here. I would just add watching Buster Douglas whoop Mike Tyson. That must have been one seriously stunned crowd.