The first time my Uncles took me to a 49ers football game at old Kezar stadium ! That was a thrill for me !
Sports fans of Blurtit: Which is the most memorable game you remember watching in your childhood?
My most memorable game was going to see a Phillies game at Connie Mack Stadium in the 60's and watch my hero Richie Allen playing 3rd base. I took my pocket transistor radio and listened to By Saam call the game. It was my first time to any professional sports game and I was in awe. I think I ate 3 boxes of Cracker Jax.
What i'd like to mention would be from 2007
AC Milan - Liverpool - Champions league
I cried happiness that night! Glorious night for Rossonero! Milan!
Forza Milan ♥
The reason that I love Hockey. I saw the 1980 men's Olympic Hockey team win gold in Lake Placid. Which was aptly named the "Miracle on Ice". It was. I will never forget that feeling of pure joy that I felt that day.
My father and maternal grandmother were Boxing enthusiasts. I was able to watch the great Muhammad Ali fight against Joe Frazier. We had a great party with everyone at my grandmother's house.
Watching Nadia Comaneci get the very first perfect "10" in gymnastics in the 1976 Olympics. She went on to win Gold.
I couldn't pick one. Each one had a very important impact on my young life.
During my senior year in high school our soccer team was not what you would call stellar. We were ranked near the bottom of our division. We played and beat the number one ranked team in the state. They had two players that were playing in the Junior Olympics and several other players were All American. They had not lost a game in a season and a half.
Not to mentioon their school was a predominately snobby, well to do kids and we were a predominately a working class or rural school. They came in with a "we are better than you" attitude that really just ticked off everyone. Those on the field and off. When we shut them out with a 2-0 score you would have thought we had won the World Cup, when it was just one of our two wins of the season. It was spectacular!
I didn't watch it because I was half a world away but that would be the match between England and West Germany in the final of the World Cup in 1966. I was working night shift at Reuters that night and we listened on the radio as we worked. I wouldn't have believed so much emotion could come down the airwaves but when the crowd erupted as England took the lead I think we were all carried along with it.
It was only the second time in my life I wished that I was English. The other time was when I first read John o'Gaunt's speech in Richard II: {This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle; this Earth of majesty, this seat of Mars..." Powerful, evocative stuff.