Defining sports moments.

Inogenius

Politics Moderator

There are those moments that never leave your head; where you can sit back and replay them in your head. Those are classic sports moments.

Being from Cleveland, the majority of them are about Cleveland sports teams. Unfortunately we didn't have a football team for a few years so I missed out there. Here's some that I remember though;

1. It's the 9th inning at Oakland, with Cleveland down a few runs. Dennis Eckersley is on the mound, and Manny Ramirez at the plate. Bases are loaded. The count goes to 3-2, Dennis hangs a pitch right in Manny's kill area. It's a swing and drive, way back, and gone. Camera zoom's in on Eck's face, where Dennis can only say "WOW." Game ends, Manny get's beat in the head by all his team mates.
2. Fast forward to game 7 of the 1997 World Series. Cleveland is up by 1 with Jose Mesa closing for the Indians. Jose Mesa blows the lead for the Indians prompting manager Mike Hargrove to bring in Charles Nagy the next inning. Nagy, working on a few days rest after starting a previous game, gives up another run, losing the world series for the Cleveland Indians.
3. During the 1995 world series with Cleveland versus Atlanta, simply looking out and seeing the amount Atlanta fans doing their braves tomahawk chant.
4. Final game at municipal stadium, pitting the Cleveland Browns against the Cincinnati Bengals, that was played shortly after the announcement of the Browns moving to Baltimore (Die!). I remember sitting in my seat as a young 10 year old, only being asked to get up and move, as people tore the seats out of the stadium and thew them on the field. I stole a little sign from the stadium. Some people walked out with a whole row of seats.

Freak

First one that comes to mind:

1993 World Series, game 6: Philadelphia Phillies at Toronto Blue Jays
Bottom of the ninth, two men on base, Toronto's Joe Carter steps up to face Phillies reliever Mitch Williams. The Blue Jays are losing the game, but they're up 3-2 in the series. Next pitch: Carter blasts it over the left-field wall to win the Jays' second consecutive World Series.

Others worth mention:

• 1993 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Toronto Maple Leafs' rookie Nikolai Borschevsky scores the OT winner in game 7 to knock the heavily-favoured Red Wings out of the playoffs
• 1996 Super Bowl: Brett Favre leads to the Packers to their first championship in almost thirty years.
• 2003 NFL Week 16: The greatest, most memorable individual performance I've ever seen. The day after his father passes away, Brett Favre chooses to play in a Monday Night Football game versus the Raiders. He throws for 399 yards and 4 touchdowns in the first half, and the Packers win 41-7.
• 2003 NFL Week 17: After it appears the Packers are eliminated from the postseason, some schmuck Cardinals wideout named Nate Poole makes a miraculous grab at the end of regulation to defeat the Vikings, and give Green Bay the division title.

I'll think of some more later.

breisleach74

Inogenius

Politics Moderator

Rock on. That an absolutely amazing performance by Brett Farve. If you didn't respect him before, you had to after that. He put everything he had into that game.