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Other than UM Football game best sporting event ever attended.

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Dutch said:
I was just messing with you my man. There are some great people in Louisville and I’m sure your in-laws are some of them. The city, as a whole, has an over indulgence of ********. My wife went to school in Louisville for 4 years before transferring to NKU for her CRNA degree.
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CRNA? Very nice your like me and aimed high when it came to choosing a wife lol
 
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1997 Rose Bowl between Arizona State and Ohio State. My brother was a second-year equipment manager for the Sun Devils. Was sideline for the game and spent week around the team. Had long hair in my driver's license (I was 23 at the time) and the late, great Pat Tillman used it to get into a bar with a handful of us who went out.

Incredible game where Jake Plummer scrambled in for the go-ahead score late, but the young Devil's defense let the Buckeyes march down for a game-winning touchdown, 20-17. First time Ohio State stole something from a team I wanted to win.

Insult to injury; #3 Florida brought home the national title after rolling #1 Florida State, 52-20 in the Sugar Bowl. Had #2 Arizona State topped #4 Ohio State, the undefeated Sun Devils would've been national champs (as the Gators lost to the Noles in the regular season.) This was also the year the Sun Devils upset #1 Nebraska in Tempe, 19-0.

The following year (1997 season) I witnessed #9 Florida beating #1 Florida State in Gainesville (as I did my last two years of college at UF). Only game I attended at The Swamp as a student. Gators were defending champs, Noles were a win away from going to the title game and Spurrier rotated two average quarterbacks (Johnson and Brindise) in a back and forth game. Florida prevailed, 32-29—set up by a 63-yard pass to Jaquez Green and Fred Taylor punched it in. Noles tried to rally late but got picked up.

Hated both squads on the field that day (made worse by UM's 5-6 season and 47-0 loss at FSU that year)—but the lower-ranked Gators knocked the Noles out of the title race, so it made for a good party in downtown Gainesville that night.


Honorable mention: February 23rd, 1996 — Chicago at Miami after Pat Riley traded away half the team and the Bulls were en route to a 72-win season. Heat handed them one of their ten losses. Crazy game. Rex Chapman bombed nine 3-pointers (rare in the nineties!) and Miami pulled it off, 113-104. Great night.
 
Canes2082 said:
CRNA? Very nice your like me and aimed high when it came to choosing a wife lol
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Lol well we had a child and were married before she started nursing school. It was crazy busy with us both working, having three kids, and her going to school at the same time. Well worth it though
 
Watching Walter Payton Break Jim Brown's Rusing Record at Soldier Field, because I was captain of the owner of the Detroit Tigers Yacht and was tied up in Chicago thinking we'd play the Cubs in the World Series (He'd have a place to stay). Then the Cubbies got stage fright, lost the series lead, and let San Diego come back in 1984 (Tigers led from wire-wire that year, first time since the 1927 Yankees did it). But seeing sweetness break the record in seats I jumped, right in front of us, was awesome. Kenny the Snake Stabler over on the other sideline near the end of his career.

Watching Danny Marino Break 5 NFL Passing records against the Cowboys on the last Monday night game of the season in the old OB - and they manged to lose. As a kid saw Joe Willie in a presason game against the fins, when he had the Fu manchu (he shaved for a commercial for $10,000), he came over and asked some of us kids how we enjoyed the game. Saw the first playoff game in Joe Robbie where a 58 yard FG won it for the

Watching Bo Jackson pull a ball foul into the top deck of Toronto's new stadium about 30 rows deeper (and 30 years ago) than where Canseco hit one fair (The have a different colored seat there near left center). And watching Bo break a bat over his head after striking out in Tiger Stadium. While I'm on (the old classic) Tiger Stadium, saw George Brett and Cecil Fielder both hit balls completely out of Tiger Stadium, pretty cool.

**** I cheated with a flood of memories # old man...sorry chitlins
 
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RaiseCane said:
Awesome call on #3. I remember how tense that game was, how brutally hot that day was, and how crazy we all went when Jason Michaels hit the walk off grand slam. My friends still give me sh*t about some dust getting in my eyes as a result of that homerun. Those late 90s/early 2000s teams were so talented.
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I was there as well...Jason is a Great guy...
I think there still looking for the Ball Pat Burrell hit at the Light, coming off an Injury in the Regionals...Had to be 480' +....it was the Longest HR I ever saw hit at the Light..
 
Silver King said:
Watching Walter Payton Break Jim Brown's Rusing Record at Soldier Field, because I was captain of the owner of the Detroit Tigers Yacht and was tied up in Chicago thinking we'd play the Cubs in the World Series (He'd have a place to stay). Then the Cubbies got stage fright, lost the series lead, and let San Diego come back in 1984 (Tigers led from wire-wire that year, first time since the 1927 Yankees did it). But seeing sweetness break the record in seats I jumped, right in front of us, was awesome. Kenny the Snake Stabler over on the other sideline near the end of his career.

Watching Danny Marino Break 5 NFL Passing records against the Cowboys on the last Monday night game of the season in the old OB - and they manged to lose. As a kid saw Joe Willie in a presason game against the fins, when he had the Fu manchu (he shaved for a commercial for $10,000), he came over and asked some of us kids how we enjoyed the game. Saw the first playoff game in Joe Robbie where a 58 yard FG won it for the

Watching Bo Jackson pull a ball foul into the top deck of Toronto's new stadium about 30 rows deeper (and 30 years ago) than where Canseco hit one fair (The have a different colored seat there near left center). And watching Bo break a bat over his head after striking out in Tiger Stadium. While I'm on (the old classic) Tiger Stadium, saw George Brett and Cecil Fielder both hit balls completely out of Tiger Stadium, pretty cool.

**** I cheated with a flood of memories # old man...sorry chitlins
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Correction on the Dolphins Monday night game vs Dallas. They won. Marino threw his 48th TD of the 84 season to Clayton to win the game with less than a minute. Just anihilated the previous TD in a season record.

That was Clayton’s 18th receiving TD of that season. Also a record.

I know we have plenty of Marino haters here for whatever reason. But he is the greatest qb I have ever seen. The way he threw the football was just magical.
 
Bucs last game in The Sombrero. I was 7 years old. Me, my brother, and dad. It was freezing that day and an elderly lady sitting behind us gave me and my brother her blanket. TB shut Barry down and held him to something like 60 yards
 
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Bernie20 said:
Correction on the Dolphins Monday night game vs Dallas. They won. Marino threw his 48th TD of the 84 season to Clayton to win the game with less than a minute. Just anihilated the previous TD in a season record.

That was Clayton’s 18th receiving TD of that season. Also a record.

I know we have plenty of Marino haters here for whatever reason. But he is the greatest qb I have ever seen. The way he threw the football was just magical.
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Ok that's right, I guess my memory was of them not being able to shake the Cowboys, their D was giving up yardage as fast as Danny was making it.

I'm with you - best QB I've seen, that **** release he had. I also think it was most receptions by a pair of receivers, TD record, Most yardage
 
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