Whats your best sports experience ever?

I am a huge Cal Ripken fan... my family decided to take a ride down to Baltimore to go to Camden Yards (against the Yanks)... and since I WENT to see Ripken, he didn't play! Broke the streak that night... I was disappointed not to see him but what an amazing experience and such a huge part of baseball history! :)

Second would be meeting my favorite Yankee, Jim Leyrtiz.

I'm working on meeting Ripken too! He's going to be at the Hall of Heroes as well... but

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I can remember, clear as day, sitting in my living room in Queens and watching the Mets win game 7 of the 1986 WS, I was just 10 yrs old and it was the greatest feeling in the world, I loved that team so much!...I remember running into the street screaming like a lunatic with a pot in my hand and a wooden spoon and beating it as hard as I could! I'm getting goose bumps just remembering it!

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Ha ha - I lived in Baltimore @ the time of the "streak" and I was at "2131"!!!! I think this would be my best sports experience. 2nd would be @ the Ryder Cup and watching Michael Jordan, Elway and Mario cheer on Tiger . I then shook MJ's hand!

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I forget what year it was, maybe 2000. We were at a Mets game, they were playing Atlanta and it was fireworks night. They were losing 8-0 bottom of the 7th. The pitcher walked in 8 runs and then Piazza came up and hit a 3 run homer. They won the game 11-8. It was amazing, the fans were going crazy!!!!

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It would have to be the Mets winning the '86 World Series. What an exciting series it was! I was 16, and I remember just freaking out - jumping up and down, screaming, and then going outside and hearing people in the neighborhood going nuts honking their car horns and yelling.....
I told DH that I want the DVD from that series for Christmas so I can relive it

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I wasn't there, but Dale Jr. winning Daytona this year was awesome! I will never forget that race

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Pitching a No-Hitter in college!

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Watching a game of the 1996 World Series (I don't remember which game it was, but I remember that Bernie Williams hit a monster home run) with some homeless guys on First Avenue. Seriously. Someone had put an old TV out on the sidewalk, and a bunch of homeless guys and passersby just stood and stared and cheered the Yankees together. Amazing experience.

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Winning 500 scratch lottery tickets for shooting pucks on the ice at MSG in between periods of a Ranger game.

After all the scratching, I ended up with $357.
But it was ALL about being center ice at MSG with the crowd cheering me on!!!! Totally awesome!

(I did also skate on the ice once too).




I also was interviewed on NY1 during the Stanley Cup finals (I was a little drunk and made little sense - said Reetch & Lichter - but I think they liked that I was a girl in a jersey all psyched)

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Hands down, the 2 World Series games I went to in 2001 at Yankee Stadium... I am fortunate to have been at them both

First of all, they were 2 of the greatest games I've EVER been at .. total "combacks" from behind... AWESOME!!!

But really what made so much more meaningful than any other WS game was because it was so soon after 9/11, Everyone was still raw and emotional and really just happy to be alive and at a wonderful sporting event in the greatest city in the world NY!! Going into Yankee stadium was so very different for me than it had ever been before. The crowd was exceptionally pumped, and the usual things like the National Anthem and God Bless America brought tears to everyone's eyes and took on new meaning.

And I can honestly say (and trust me -- I'm not a George Bush fan at ALL ) that when the president came out onto the mound , stood there and threw out the first pitch, I got chills down my spine.

Even though the Yanks ultimately lost the WS, those games will always be the most special in my heart.

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I think I have to go with the 86 Mets too. My dad is usually in a bad mood for one reason or another and I remember him screaming and yelling and just being sooooo happy! I was 9 yrs old and I was thinking that I loved the Mets b/c they made my Dad happy.

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It would have to be the Mets winning the '86 World Series. What an exciting series it was! I was 16, and I remember just freaking out - jumping up and down, screaming, and then going outside and hearing people in the neighborhood going nuts honking their car horns and yelling.....
I told DH that I want the DVD from that series for Christmas so I can relive it

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Posted by Anniegrl

It would have to be the Mets winning the '86 World Series. What an exciting series it was! I was 16, and I remember just freaking out - jumping up and down, screaming, and then going outside and hearing people in the neighborhood going nuts honking their car horns and yelling.....
I told DH that I want the DVD from that series for Christmas so I can relive it

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is there a DVD coming out???

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watching on TV New Jersey Devils winning their first Stanley Cup in 1995

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Posted by Anniegrl

It would have to be the Mets winning the '86 World Series. What an exciting series it was! I was 16, and I remember just freaking out - jumping up and down, screaming, and then going outside and hearing people in the neighborhood going nuts honking their car horns and yelling.....
I told DH that I want the DVD from that series for Christmas so I can relive it

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is there a DVD coming out???

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They have the 86 World Series DVD at Hall of Heroes.

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These are great stories!!

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being at the Subway Series AT Shea and watching the Yankees win the World Series against the Mets!!! awesome feeling- not for my boyfriend at the time- he was a Met fan!!!

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meeting terry bradshaw and lynnn swan im a huge steeler fan

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From a playing point of view it was hitting a game winning grand slam in softball when I was in high school.

From a fan point of view there are so many to choose from:
-Being at the game in 2001 against Seattle when Soriano hit the game winning home run. The emotions at that game were incredible. I've never heard Yankee stadium like that before.
-Last year the Yankees vs. Boston, Boone hitting that home run
-1996 when Leyritz hit that home run against the Braves to tie the game. I remember watching the game with my brother-he was in from California visiting. When Leyritz hit that home run we went nuts.
1994- Rangers winning the cup.

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Mary Lou Retton winning the gold! And that's probably the last time I ever willingly watched a sport.

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my day took me to game 7 of the 77 world series......the man does not even like baseball, and i am a big yankee fan

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It was Yankee Stadium, '99 World Series. My friend and my ex and I paid a security guard $60 each to let us in. Not only were we able to get in, we found seats and watched the game from the 6th row on the 3rd base line!!!! We made friends with the older police officer in that section who thought that my friend and I were just the cutest things... By the way, Jerry O'Connell was behind us with his woman....it was awesome especially since the Yankees won, it was an incredible thing to experience.

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I am going to totally date myself here...I grew up in Uniondale and we used to sneak into the Islander games, watching them win the Stanley Cup year after year was amazing. And living there with everyone beeping after the games and watching the parades was so much fun. I can never forget it!