Was this the greatest sporting moment you've ever witnessed?

[The NZ Patriots]

I'm genuinely curious to know whether you all consider SB 51 to be the greatest moment in sports that you have had the pleasure of viewing?

I guess it's pretty dependent on who you root for; I'm trying to rack my brain but nothing comes close. ALCS '04 along with some of the other SB wins would likely fall in my top 5 but most of my other memories are Australian/NZ sport related and they don't come close. I don't think I've ever experienced such a range of emotions culminating in pure satisfaction and reward so for me this takes the cake.

 

[billdog3484]

definitely wasnt the greatest sporting moment for the falcons fans lol

 

[mosi]

Nah, the 1980 Olympic hockey game is still it for me. When USSR was our enemy and it was basically our small amateurs against their pros. Nothing will ever top that for me.

 

[brdmaverick]

It's a great question. For those who were alive and paying attention to the 1980's Olyjpic hockey team I'm sure that will rank #1, but for those (like me) born aftewards it's a good question.

Given the stakes, the degree of difficulty of the comeback, and mix in a phenomenal play like the Edelman catch this can certainly go right up there.

 

[brdmaverick]

I know my in-laws would refer to the 0-3 Red Sox comeback to the Yankees as the greatest sports feat they've witnessed.

 

[1960Pats]

I'm genuinely curious to know whether you all consider SB 51 to be the greatest moment in sports that you have had the pleasure of viewing?

I guess it's pretty dependent on who you root for; I'm trying to rack my brain but nothing comes close. ALCS '04 along with some of the other SB wins would likely fall in my top 5 but most of my other memories are Australian/NZ sport related and they don't come close. I don't think I've ever experienced such a range of emotions culminating in pure satisfaction and reward so for me this takes the cake.

I'd put the Silence of the Rams and The Butler Did It wins ahead of this one.

I also liked the 68-69 Celts win at LA in game 7, Russell's last game. That one was on radio so I didn't get to see it, but I can still feel it.

Bobby Orr's Stanley Cup winner was another great sports moment for me.

Although I wasn't still a fan of MLB by then, I think the comeback against the Yankmees was also very big. That one actually gave Sox fans a lot of ammo. It was a once in a lifetime gag job.

 

[jri37]

Not sure about greatest moment that has to go to the US/USSR in the Olympics in 1980. I will say this it was the most gratifying of all the SB wins for me.

 

[nowayback]

Pats SB's 1, 4 and this were all in my top five , Red Sox down 3 to Yankees and Secretariat Belmont win by 40 something lengths getting the triple crown 1973

 

[Uncle Rico]

Still so hard to fathom. I'm going to cite two media guys who are so often wrong, but got it right this time.

1. Ben Volin:

Just .. .inconceivable

2. Felger.
I had not listened to him in, literally, years. (Hint: I stopped when we was on a roll about the Jets managing the cap better than Belichick). But I got out of work early yesterday and his show was on. He said*, to paraphrase, to think of it this way: The Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVIII with a Vinatieri field goal that left only about two seconds on the clock. Pretty dramatic. Yet that is only the fourth-most dramatic Super Bowl win in Patriots history. I can't remember his order but I have 51 (massive comeback/OT), 49 (sudden save, especially after the previous two SBs) and 36 (Vinatieri).

Wow.

(*Now my memory is foggy and I think it might have been someone else who said this. But that was the show

 

[RobertWeathers]

My sports memory banks go back to the early 80s.

In no particular order...All based on my personal emotional reaction.

-Bird steal vs Pistons 1987 G5.
-AV kick 01 Snow Bowl
-Foulke closing it out in 2004
-White run in OT
-Malcolm INT

 

[mosslost]

I'm genuinely curious to know whether you all consider SB 51 to be the greatest moment in sports that you have had the pleasure of viewing?

I guess it's pretty dependent on who you root for; I'm trying to rack my brain but nothing comes close. ALCS '04 along with some of the other SB wins would likely fall in my top 5 but most of my other memories are Australian/NZ sport related and they don't come close. I don't think I've ever experienced such a range of emotions culminating in pure satisfaction and reward so for me this takes the cake.

I got pretty drunk but I think so yes.

 

[jmt57]

I still have to let this one settle in before being able to make an objective ranking on what is a very subjective list.


For those of us old enough to remember, Bobby Orr's Stanley Cup winning goal and the Red Sox winning the '67 pennant on the last day of the season are right up there.


With that in mind perhaps one's age at the time it occurred has a profound effect on which sports memory is their best - not unlike how people from different age groups view music.


Make no mistake, this game - as the culmination for everything fans of this great team have had to put up with - is very, very special. I'm still processing the game, the season, and the last fifteen years for the Patriots.

 

[mosi]

If we are just comparing Pats Super Bowls, this is still second to the 2014 game. I mean, once the Pats got the ball back down 28-20, I felt really good they would get it. And when the won the OT coin toss, I cracked open a beer because I knew what was coming.

The 2014 game, I felt terrible. All hope was lost. Seattle was going to score from the one yard line and the Pats snatched it right out from them. To go from complete and utter despair to the joy in knowing that they won. That is still special to me.

 

[archstanton543]

It ranks up there. But it was a series of moments. For individual moments, I say:

- Pats '01: both Snow Bowl kicks, the kick to win it all
- Pats '03: Adam's kick to win it all Part 2
- Pats '04: Rodney's INT
- Red Sox '04: The Steal, two Ortiz walkoffs, Foulke closing it out
- Pats '14: Butler's INT
- Pats '16: Edelman's catch, Hightower's sack

(I don't like hockey or basketball)

 

[Bella*chick]

Yes.

It's not about a moment. It was about the inevitability. How everyone knew it would happen after they won the coin toss. Not one moment but a series of them. The Falcons knew and they couldn't stop it. It was the most awesome thing I've seen in sports because I still can't believe it really happened.

 

[BKapatsfan]

For a single games it was oh yes.

04 was more spread out over days of course and it really became an entire commuity event. The games were so long and so exhilarating and its the yankees there's no real way to reproduce that feeling.

 

[bormio]

After the '75 series, the '86 series and the '03 debacle I wanted '04 for me. I wanted this one for the team and especially Brady. Me, I've already been blessed.

 

[bormio]

For a single games it was oh yes.

04 was more spread out over days of course and it really became an entire commuity event. The games were so long and so exhilarating and its the yankees there's no real way to reproduce that feeling.

Most gut-wrenching, exhilarating 4 days I have known.

 

[wolverinejoe80]

yes it is. it was the greatest comeback i'll ever see in my life time.

we beat a better football team. i really believe that. yes they were top to bottom better. they were so fast and physical. our Oline just wasn't ready. i wished we had a guy like freeman. dude was strong and bouncy. all game i said to myself 'we have to get better'.


i don't know how we did it. we won with our guts and will to win. it really is inexplicable.

 

[The NZ Patriots]

Can't argue at all with any of these. From what I've heard that hockey game was absurd and I can't even really fathom what it would have been like as a foreigner.

Also despite being a huge Sox fan I think that maybe if I was in MA experiencing the fans, media buzz etc. over those few days it might push for no. 1.

God I love American sports - you guys seriously do it well. Wish I could jet over more.