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not the greatest United goal in history but it was an amazing strike.

highthief

Meh, actually the best United goal I've seen was Giggs against Arsenal years ago in the FA Cup. Youtube that one. By all rights he should have passed it, but kept running and scored, the selfish bastard.

Actually, of Gerrard's strikes, yeah the 2006 Final was great, but for pure technique, earlier this year against Marseille, his first goal was spectacular. You're not supposed to be able to contort your body that way and still hit it like that.

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Glory's Sun

I know that goal quite well.. it was pure brilliance, with a tad of luck thrown in. I would love to see Giggsy do something similar these days. Giggs is getting a bit old but still has great pace for his age and his ability to put the ball on the mark is superb.

I'm guessing you are saying 'Meh' because it was a Rooney goal. Many people (even in the United ranks) wonder why he's so popular... I like him not just because he has the ability to score fantastic goals.. but he's great at marking back as well as passing... but I digress.. here's Giggs:




and here's the 4 goals in 10 minutes that I eluded too earlier by Solskjaer

powerclown

Michael Schumacher's 7 F1 world championships. It will never happen again.

highthief

Nah, I just didn't think the goal was all that great. Good, not great.

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dlish

i forgot about this one...

derek redmond being helped by his dad in the 400m mens semi final of the 1992 Barcelona Games

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dippin

Pele's performance in the 1958 world cup. I doubt we will see a 17 year old being the man of the match in a world cup anytime soon.

dragon2fire

I remember where i was standing ...it was in a store electronics section. The Knicks where up on my Pacers by 7 with 9 seconds left ....even us die hard pacer fans thought it was over and then reggie miller proceeds to score 8 points in 9 seconds for one of the greatest personal performances in basketball history.

dlish

ahhhhhh yes. i remember that quite clearly.

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fatboss

Whenever anyone mentions Ryan Giggs' goal against Arsenal, all I have in my head is the image of him wipping his shirt off and twirling it round his head! Not a pretty sight! My wife hides behind her hands until it's over! LOL

With regards to Gerrards goal against West Ham in the FA Cup Final, when you consider that at least half of all the players were hobbling around with cramp (which seems to be an FA Cup curse!), Gerrard included, you couldn't write a better ending to a movie!

Stevie, you're the man! Let's hope you do what you do so well against the mighty Real Madrid tomorrow night!

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Liverpool 1 - 2 Barnsley.

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'cb'

That's cool you're an Appalachian State Alumni, I grew up with CoCo Hillary, he plays WR for the Mountaineers. I was going crazy when I watched that game too.

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MacGuyver

HATE this by the way. Nothing personal, I was just at Chattanooga in 2006 with UMass for the championship. This was basically a home game for AppState!

I gotta go with my homer picks of watching the Sox win in 04. Honestly the ALCS was more riveting than the WS itself! Celts in 08! Especially renewing the Laker rivalry of old. There's always a special spot when your hometown team beats a big rival on the way to glory.

Other than that I'll have to go with Phelps. Outstanding!

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dippin

oh, I would like to add to my previous post. Besides Pele in 1958, there is also Jesse Owens in 1936.

World's King

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dlish

greatest?

most infamous maybe? that along with the massacre of israeli athletes have to be the most infamous sporting moments for me.

politics and sport do not mix

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World's King

Okay fine...

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highthief

Oh, man - you can't compare terrorists gunning athletes down with a couple of guys doing a Ghandi and simply protesting peacefully.

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dlish

you're absolutely right. you cant.

but if i was to be asked about the day politics was mixed with politics, this would be at number 1.

the greatest rugby league game ever played. the 1988 grand final. even if my team was on the losing end.

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What about Tiger Woods winning a Major on a fractured leg and torn up knee, limping around the course and still gutting out a victory with amazing shots? Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Really being a Boston fan, the Patriots in 01-02 was amazing for me. No Boston team had won anything since the '86 Celtics 15 years before and the Pats had virtually no real stars and a 6th round QB off the bench! That Super Bowl run elevated a bunch of never-heard-of-thems to household names. And that playoff run from the improbable snow bowl, to Bledsoe coming off the bench and tossing a TD to Patton in the Pittsburg game, to Brady's drive and Vinatieri's kick to finish the Big Game, it was all amazing. And after that Boston fans believed that they could have winning teams again, and in a small way galvanized the Red Sox to finally get over the hump in '04 (which incidentally had the best ALCS ever).

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souzafone

Read the story of Jim Thorpe's 1912 Olympic performance. 4 events---long jump, high jump, pentathlon, and decathlon. The events overlapped, Thorpe won the pentathlon, winning 4 of 5 events outright, while also qualifying for the high jump finals on the same day. He got gold in the decathlon as well as the pentathlon winning a total of 8 out the fifteen events outright.

desal75

Michael Schumacher's 91 wins may never be topped. Complete dominance of the sport for almost 10 years.

Mary Lou Retton (sp?) 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

The "Miracle on Ice" in Lake Placid 1980

On a more personal note: going a winless 0-8 my junior year of football and and undefeated 8-0 my senior year.

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dragon2fire

how could i forget. the first saints game after Hurricane Katrina. It was truly a great moment the energy in the buliding. The fact that some of the fans where the same people who where using the dome as a shelter just a year piror.

Jadast

Kirk Gibson hobbling to the plate for the Dodgers in the World Series and homers against Oakland.

MikeSty

The best thing I ever witnessed in person might be a tie. On my 13th birthday, Scott Niedermayer scored a hat trick for the New Jersey Devils and they beat the Bruins in OT - that was cool!

However, I think the game that took the cake was when the Yankees played the Devil Rays a few years ago - I think Randy Johnson was starting against Hideo Nomo if I recall correctly. I was visiting my dad in the summer and we wanted to get tickets to a game - he insisted we go to see the "great" Randy Johnson, and we got some great tickets on StubHub, I mean, GREAT tickets (and we moved up too!) and went on a sweet journey to the game that involved a subway ride and almost getting lost
Anyway, Randy Johnson stuck and the Devil Rays pounded on him for like seven runs. Eventually the game really got out of hand and the Yanks were within a few runs by the time the 8th inning rolled around, and then before you know it, the Yanks bats went absolutely apeshit insane and I thought we were watching batting practice. We pitied the people who all left the game because this was a fireworks show - 13 runs in the 8th with several home runs. Posada, Rodriguez, Matsui, and Sheffield I think, all sent ones into the seats. Matsui jacked one into dead center and I think he had a RBI double earlier in the inning.
The best part was Bernie Williams bases-loaded triple that gave the Yanks the lead. I will never forget that one. He smacked it over Damon Hollins head in center field and he had a lot of trouble fielding the ball - if Bernie was younger, it would have been an inside-the-park home run for sure. But the 3 RBIs had capped a few base hits and took the lead, and then the next seven runs were just for show. It was really absurd.

I managed to jack the clip from MLB because I knew eventually they'd take it down or ask money for it,and I'm so glad I did

I will ALWAYS remember Aaron Boone sending a moonshot on the first pitch of the bottom of the 11th in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS to send the Yankees to the world series. It was easily a moment that could have been missed, and the call for it isn't really legendary in its own right but when I just THINK about how he turned on the pitch and sent it into the left field seats I get some serious chills. NO ONE would saw that coming and it was just like a cold nail right into the heart of the Red Sox Nation (who would get their revenge).

That's probably the best moment I've ever witnessed on TV. Clips of a few things mentioned here also give me chills - Gibson knocking Eckersley's pitch out and hobbling around the bases and Vin Sculley's call, Mets v. Red Sox in '86 and the Bill Buckner play (a little roller up along first .. BEHIND THE BAG! IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER! HERE .... COMES ... KNIGHT AND THE METS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a few more. I have a lot of random clips saved of good events like this

Aside from Baseball, I've seen a clip of Dennis Bergkamp scoring one against Argentina to win it for the Netherlands in the final seconds and the announcer completely loses his mind.

FuglyStick

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dlish

Edwin Moses has been in the news of late, and i just couldnt help but acknowlege his unbeaten record of 9 years, 9 months and 9 days in the 400m hurdles. He revolutionised the sport with the introduction of the 13 steps technique between hurdles.

Edwin, one of my forgotten heroes as a kid. Salute!

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dlish

Roger Bannister breaking the 4 Min mark in the mile


no other name is synonymous with breaching an untouchable mark than Bannister

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Walt

Baseball: The Randy Johnson pitching to John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star Game.

College football: 34-32. 'Nuff said.

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m0rpheus

I thought of that first but the thing is it isn't for me because I wasn't even born yet.

For me this is good

but this is better

or to tell the truth even this


because I can remember the huge celebrations going on for both of those. Although I do admit to getting goosebumps everytime I watch '72.

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pan6467

Saturday May 1st, 2010.... the Cleveland Cavaliers come back and win 101-93 after being down by 11 at the half.

Not a Lebron fan but love my Cleveland teams.

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For me it has to be the Red Sox 04 post season run. Hands down the greatest, I guess collective sports moments I've ever witnessed. Not only was comeback against the Yankees historic (no team had ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in a 7 game series), the series itself produced some absolute classic games/moments. Dave Roberts steal of second to help tie game 4 and keep the Sox alive, David Ortiz hitting back to back extra inning walkoffs, the meat grinder 14 inning 5 hour 49 minute game 5 marathon, the "Bloody Sock" game and finally winning game 7 at Yankee Stadium...

...all that and the World Series hadn't started yet. They still had to face the St Louis Cardinals, a team who had beaten them in two previous World Series. The Curse of the Bambino was still alive and nobody really expected them to break the 86 year curse...how wrong we were. The Red Sox swept the series 4-0 in what turned out to be a pretty routine, uneventful series, in fact they held the lead in all four games. However watching them win the championship was the highlight, and my god how sweet it was. As an eerie side not to the Series, game 4 in which the Red Sox won the championship, was played under a Lunar Eclipse, coupled with all the talk of breaking the curse it was an odd, eerie coincidence and gave the win a weird supernatural feel...I guess you had to be there.

Anyway it was amazing ride, one I don't think, for me will ever be duplicated.

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jerseyboy

Cant believe no one has mentioned the 1994 Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers. It was their first title since 1940!! 54 years is a long time to wait!

Leto

Ouch. yes, that's right. And Leaf's nation is in its what? 43rd year with no championship? I can't imagine waiting another 11 years. Wait a minute.. yes I can.

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I hear you Morph. You weren't born yet, but the '72 series was different in that it pitted ideologies (Western capatalistic freedom and individualism against Soviet communistic hegemony and suppression of the will) so that the Canadian superstars came off as out of shape desparate cowboys compared to the severly disciplined, well oiled machine that was Team CCCP.

The fact that at the hight of the Cold War, our modest, yet proud country was able to flip the bird to the big bad Soviets was, to me even as a 13 year old, the epitome of sporting achievement.

I still remember the cries of "Da Da Canada, Nyet Nyet Soviet" during the games and ironically shouts of "We Want Yakushev" at Maple Leaf Gardens in the subsequent NHL season when Paul Henderson was sitting out.

ahh.. good times those Cold War years eh?

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Gina_

It's been mentioned, but The Miracle on Ice, 1980 Winter Olympics. In the context of the Cold War, it was a supreme moment for Americans, especially those of us who grew up fearing the Russians, even though it wasn't for the gold. Everywhere you went, people were talking.

I have another small moment that will always stand out for me, even though I didn't see it in person, only the reports of it. I can't link the article or the Youtube, so I'll paraphrase. May, 2008, womens' softball, Western Oregon University vs. Central Washington in a game to advance to the playoffs. A WOU player hits her first ever homer that will win the game, but she missed first base. She turned to come back to the base, but collapsed from a knee injury. She's just laying there, can't walk, much less run and she needs to score in order to win the game. Two CWU players pick her up and carry her around the bases, stopping to touch each bag and finishing at home plate to win the game, eliminating them from the playoffs.

It is the single greatest act of sportsmanship I ever heard of. They said she hit the homer, she deserved the home run. I wasn't there and didn't know anyone in the game, but it has stuck with me since seeing it on the sports news.

FuglyStick

I had not seen that before. Very cool.

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dlish

great story Gina..

aww shux.. fugly beat me to it

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Gina_

Thanks and thanks for posting the video. It's not how you win, it's how ya play the game, in action.