Looking back, what was the sporting event result that gave you the most joy?
Who was playing, what was the result, why did it bring you happiness?
Was it your team or individual winning or was it the other individual or team lost?

Good topic: Baseball, Chicago Cubs Lifetime fan. So many players over the years!!! Andrea Dawson, Kerry Woods
growing up we had Tops Baseball trading cards etc. to keep the thrill alive on our blocks in Peoria IL... and we would cash in bottles I had a paper route where we'd wager and fist fight over games win/loss over the seasons!!! we'd play 500 almost every day or stick ball in the streets and pick a player we wanted to be for that day of events... such a shame I had to wait 52 years to see a World Series!!! 2016🇨🇮 🍺

Nowadays I still wager a 12 pack or case of beer locally with Cardinal fans on the season games, best of series!!! win or lose It's still entertaining to get together and dog each other... our local bars light up the jukebox when the Cubs Win.. I use the Touctunes app and can play the song "Go Cubs Go" from the Florida Keys or anywhere to our local watering holes when they win.. 🇨🇮 and usually get a text telling me to "Fugg Off" for playing the song when I'm suppose to be on Vacation!!! 🍺 🍺 🇨🇮

I really don't go to sports events anymore, but been to a few standouts.

The Fog Bowl. Refs should've called that game. You could barely see the field and we had excellent seats. Lower bowl close to 35 yard line. 17 rows up. Hell there were times when you couldn't see the top of the stadium if you looked behind you mych less across the field.

Seeing Detroit win its 1st playoff game at home. Knocking the Cowboys QB into a game leaving concussion. The place was so loud. White out of pom poms and when they played Axl's line " Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle baby!!!" would makenthe place get louder.

Paying 35 bucks for a standing room only ticket to see the Detroit Red Wings win their 1st Stanley Cup in 42 years.

2004 Red Sox win da World Series... and they beat the Yankers in the ALCS when they were down 0-3.

Ok most Memerable was the Cubs 2016 World Series where my son and I watched every game at the local Watering Hole... after the Game 7 Win.. I broke out my Pink Panty's and danced!!! the following 2017 season my son and I road tripped out to Mesa AZ Slone Park with his daughter and caught a Spring Training Game and followed the Cubs all the way through to the Playoffs 2017 season where the only game they won was Dodgers/Cubs game 5 at Wrigley and the game cam caught my son and I on the MLB app unfolding and holding up our "W" flag... Most Memorable Moments!!!

here's the Video of our Dance after Cubs winning the World Series 2016

Black hole of live sports here….Ive been to Ducks and Blazer games, miss watching Clyde he was a gentleman. Jerome and Buck were tough. My senior trip was with my two buddies driving a car with no AC to Arlington to watch Nolan Ryan in his final season.

Sports events that had the biggest impact?
Super Bowl XX
Nolan Ryan’s last 2 no hitters
The homerun chase that did save baseball
Bulls vs Jazz the calls/no calls ruined the NBA for me.
Pats vs Raiders Tuck game I never saw football the same
Brett Favre’s game vs the Raiders after his dad passed
Every championship LeBron lost
Jim Abbot’s no hitter
Sid Breams hit in the NLCS vs the Pirates
AZ Diamondbacks WS win
Red Sox and Cubs both breaking their curses

Off the top of my heads those are things I remember the most.

Does Professional Wrestling Count? WrestleMania 3 (at the time i was 9 and it was still "REAL" to me and many others) was a Huge deal to me as a kid. i was a big wrestling fan and Hogan Vs Andre was the Main Event.

I dont follow much sports other then NFL as a Washington Fan so limited success lol... my first live game was not until i was an adult so that was pretty memorable even though they lost to the Vikings due to a late game pic 6 ran from endzone to endzone.

however, number one for me is easy... Feb 2022 i got to watch my daughter as a freshmen in Highschool whom had never wrestled (real wrestling not Pro wrestling) before, win the County Championship for her weight class. when the season started she had never wrestled, and had shown no interest in competitive sports but was recruited by the Girls Coach for her High School once they found out she was a martial artist.

I can remember going to the Saints games when the fans wore paper bags over their heads. However, at this point I could care less about professional sports.

Basically my take is when it costs $800+ for two people to go to a game its appeal to me has ceased. But, if someone wants to spend their money on such more power to them. It’s theirs to spend how they see fit.

On the other hand I don’t relate to a bunch of billionaires who hold the local citizenry hostage to paying for extravagant stadiums lest they pack up and move to another market. Nor do I relate to the spoiled brats who have forgotten that this great country that they seem to hold in such low esteem provided them the opportunity to get where they are.

It wouldn’t hurt my feelings at all if professional football and basketball folded. I still enjoy some of the other professional sports, though I certainly wouldn’t call myself a fan of any.

I guess it pays to be the fan of a crappy team lol. I can routinely get tickets to see Washington play for less then $60 a person.

Hopefully new ownership helps.

In the vein of your WWF comment Snyder was kind of like a Vince Jr but dumb.

Maury Wills stole 104 bases in one season in 1962. Listened to most of those games on a transistor radio while in bed. The Dodgers had a weak hitting team, and a typical rally was; Wills drawing a walk; stealing second; stealing third; scoring on a ground out or a fly ball. That was when I became a huge Dodgers fan. The next year, 1963, after beating back the hated Giants and the Cardinals for the National league pennant, behind the incomparable Sandy Koufax pitching and Wills leading the offense, the Dodgers swept the Yankees, 4-0 in the World Series.




In response to the OP's request about a singular event, it was Ali vs Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974. I was a big Ali fan and I was afraid that Foreman would destroy the aging champ. I respected Foreman. He had represented the USA in the 1968 Olympics, winning gold while waving the American flag. He was undefeated and had knocked out a bunch of heavyweights before the Ali fight. Many experts thought Foreman was the greatest heavyweight of all time. I was shocked and elated when Ali won, but over the years I became a Foreman fan too. He was gracious in defeat and gave credit to Ali, who he said fought a smart fight. He said Ali asked him in the 7th round after he tagged him in the jaw with his best punch of the fight, "That all you got, George?" Foremen said, "Yup, that's about it." Ali knocked Foreman out in the next round. Foreman retired in 1977, after a few more fights. It was good to see Foreman make a comeback a decade later, regaining the heavyweight title at 45 years old...20 years after losing his title to Ali.

A few favorites:

1. At a WWF event in 1992-ish we had ringside seats (…I knew the promoter…) and one of the Bushwackers came over and licked our 7-year old daughter’s forehead and then a few matches later, Bret “the Hitman” Hart gave our 5-year old son his sunglasses. Needless to say, our kids were surprised / stoked!

2. After a 29-year lapse, the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI. Brett Favre, Desmond Howard and Reggie White were absolute DAWGS in that game! Only regret - wished their opponent in the NFC Championship game was Dallas.

3. Favre’s MNF performance after his father passed away.

4. Packers come back from the near dead and run through the playoffs in 2010-2011, beating Da Bears in the NFC Championship game then capped it off by winning SB XLV.

5. Games 6 and 7 of the 2011 World Series when the St. Louis Cardinals came back to beat the Texas Rangers. David Freese may not be a HoFer but he is in my book.

6. I now it’s not a professional sports event but went to my first big-time college football game in-person when our Pop Warner team traveled to the Mainland in November 1969. For many of us it would be our first trip out of Hawaii. We watched San Diego St. beat Long Beach St. 36-32. Big plays throughout the game by both teams. To put it mildly, we were entertained. Don Coryell was the HC for SDSU.

Boring and predictable, I know.

Patriots 2001 Super Bowl.

But don't take my word for it.

Bill Simmons writes better than I. And he did it for ESPN Magazine Page 2:

https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020204 

I may have cried when Brady and company ignored John Madden and drove down field.

I definitely cried when I read this the next day (or maybe the day after).


Note: I haven't re-read this article since the day it was published. I don't know if it aged well. But I remember that it hit me emotionally and felt "right" when so much of what was being said felt contrived.

I'll read it again. But not just yet.

edit:
I just read it again.

I almost forgot how Bill Simmons found me on that park bench...

Good article.

Perfectly conveyed the pent up emotions of Pats fans. Think it was similar to how I felt when the Packers won the Super Bowl with Farve.

And yes, the irony of that Super Bowl with Green Bay beating New England wasn’t lost on me.

Had a similar emotional elated response when the Lakers finally beat the Celtics for the Championship in 1985, in Boston, in The Gahden... on the parquet...