Best Game You Ever Watched? Any Sport

[Elusive6thRing]

Dallas Mavs vs Miami Heat Game 6 NBA Finals 2011

Just the result really as I'm a huge Mavs fan, although lately has made it tough.

 

[Hardline]

 

[Reverend Conehead]

What was your favorite game you have ever seen? This includes any sport or boxing or MMA event. So what was your favorite?

Mine has always been the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey win over the Soviet Union. I actually cry over that victory and even the movies have not done them justice. They don't talk about the crooked refs either from East Germany or Czechvokia(spelling) trying to throw it to the Soviet Union. How we had 18 year old kids vs huge Soviet pros who were in they're prime as men in their 20s and 30s. How our guys were diving in front of the puck to block slapshots sacrificing their bodies. How we were actually short a man when Eruzione scored the winning goal sticking to the crooked refs and their crap. How Buzz Snyder shot from almost halfway line from the rink and scored . How Mark Johnson scored right before the period end ,I think 1 second was on the clock.Soviets were the ranked #1 team I think for like 7 years in the world and we were not suppose to be there. The game was AWESOME. ..That game meant so much ,it changed our attitude as Americans to believe we were not on the downswing. That game gave us hope and pride. USA!!USA!!USA!!!

So what is your favorite??

No one could possibly top the game you mentioned, but I loved the 1992 NFC Championship where the Cowboys avenged The Catch game with Montana sanding on the sidelines in his last game with a 49er uniform on.

 

[DallasEast]

So many to choose from and in several sports. Cowboys. Yankees. LSU. My high school alma mater first state championship in football. My college alma mater's Division I-AA football championship. Dr. J's 76ers teams in the late 70s and early 90s. The list is long.

Crazy as it may seem to me, I think the best game I ever saw had nothing to do with teams I love or like. Dolphins. Chargers. The 1981 season's AFC divisional game. The Miami Epic. Coaches always tell players to leave everything on the field. Miami and San Diego did just that and more. Just a fantastic all-around game.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Not sure it is the best or even my favorite over the years....but the 7OT game with Kentucky and Jared Lorentz vs Arkansas...He was a big kid even then and I don't know how he was still moving and breathing. Too bad they eventually lost.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Game 7 of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals was epic. Ray Borque was a great player with a long and frustrating 22 year career never winning the cup, and he won the Cup in that game, the final game of his career. I cried when he hoisted the Cup. You can't write a better story.

 

[Runwildboys]

Ooh, I have to change my answer. I'm not going to bother looking up the date, but Emmitt, playing with one arm, and making the Giants look like children.

 

[Ranched]

@Trouty @Runwildboys @Sarek @waldoputty @The Dark Bishop @Melonfeud @timb2

 

[SlammedZero]

The best game for me ever, to date, has to be the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. As a Boise State fan, we were told that Oklahoma was going to just destroy us. Well.................................................

Plus just the way it ended. The hook and ladder, the statue of liberty.......just amazing.

 

[Cowboys_22]

Every Cowboys SB win (Go Cowboys)

and game 5 & 7 from last year’s WS (Go Stros)

 

[Bigdog]

Miracle On Ice is, to this day, the best anything I've ever watched.

It is the greatest upset in sports history. The Russians were the best in the world for the past 20 years, just beat the NHL al stars, and hammered the Americans 10-4 two weeks earlier.

 

[sulu1701]

It is the greatest upset in sports history. The Russians were the best in the world for the past 20 years, just beat the NHL al stars, and hammered the Americans 10-4 two weeks earlier.

If I'm not mistaken, alot of those Russian players fell off the grid after that olympics

 

[lukin2006]

1975-Red Army vs Montreal Canadiens, 3-3 final

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Thanks for bringing up the Miracle on Ice game. I looked it up on Youtube and was able to watch the original game, plus some documentaries about it. Man, it gets in your gut! Here's the Sports Illustrated cover from that time:

Back then I had only read the Sports Illustrated article about it, but never saw the game. Now I have.

 

[jimmy40]

I'll throw this one in as one of my favorites for sure

 

[yimyammer]

Mine has always been the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey win over the Soviet Union.

ditto

 

[yimyammer]

What was your favorite game you have ever seen? This includes any sport or boxing or MMA event. So what was your favorite?

Mine has always been the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey win over the Soviet Union. I actually cry over that victory and even the movies have not done them justice. They don't talk about the crooked refs either from East Germany or Czechvokia(spelling) trying to throw it to the Soviet Union. How we had 18 year old kids vs huge Soviet pros who were in they're prime as men in their 20s and 30s. How our guys were diving in front of the puck to block slapshots sacrificing their bodies. How we were actually short a man when Eruzione scored the winning goal sticking to the crooked refs and their crap. How Buzz Snyder shot from almost halfway line from the rink and scored . How Mark Johnson scored right before the period end ,I think 1 second was on the clock.Soviets were the ranked #1 team I think for like 7 years in the world and we were not suppose to be there. The game was AWESOME. ..That game meant so much ,it changed our attitude as Americans to believe we were not on the downswing. That game gave us hope and pride. USA!!USA!!USA!!!

So what is your favorite??

Not to mention the underlying political tension that existed between the US and the Soviet Union at that time. If you didn't live during that time, I don't know how that sense of foreboding could be conveyed. This just made that incredible win even sweeter.

Sadly, the Olympics were a lot more exciting when the iron curtain canvased Eastern Europe

 

[daschoo]

2-1 against the muck always stands out for me. We were trailing in the league and had to win to have any hope of catching them.
Went in front with an absolute screamer from our midfield playmaker who their support and the media insisted couldn't produce in the big games. They levelled it through the player in their side we hated most then their player of the year got sent off for handballing a goalbound effort on the line only for us to miss the resultant penalty.
We got the winner deep into injury time when the rangers support were already celebrating winning the league.
There was even a bit of a rammy between the players at full time, the game had everything.

On a personal note as well I went with my wee brother who'd never been to a derby before. By the time we'd stopped celebrating the winner the rangers end was nearly empty. Had a great night out afterwards celebrating.

We went on to win the league on the last day of the season less than a fortnight after the death of a club legend (former player, coach and manager who'd been at the club in excess of 30 years) which wouldn't have been possible without the 3 points that night.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

It is the greatest upset in sports history. The Russians were the best in the world for the past 20 years, just beat the NHL al stars, and hammered the Americans 10-4 two weeks earlier.

It was really more then just the Soviet match. It was the entire process of beating one team, after another, that we had to beat in order to advance. All of those teams, seemingly favored over the U.S. team. It was the having to wait till after Nightline and Watch those games very late at night because they weren't shown during Prime Time. Getting up early in the AM to go to school, struggle to stay awake in afternoon classes, being dog tired in practice after school and then doing it all over again for the next game. I would not trade one minute of it for anything.

 

[Runwildboys]

It was really more then just the Soviet match. It was the entire process of beating one team, after another, that we had to beat in order to advance. All of those teams, seemingly favored over the U.S. team. It was the having to wait till after Nightline and Watch those games very late at night because they weren't shown during Prime Time. Getting up early in the AM to go to school, struggle to stay awake in afternoon classes, being dog tired in practice after school and then doing it all over again for the next game. I would not trade one minute of it for anything.

Another Superbowl ring?