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Jordan

If you could go to one sports moment in history...

By Jordan, in General Football and Sport

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Jordan

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It wouldn't be Walsh or Claridge's play-off winners, nor would I choose one of the League Cup wins... I'd pass on the United States upsetting England in the 1950 World Cup, and would have to look over the 2-0 win against arch-rivals Mexico in 2002... Not the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980... not the New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years in 1994, with 33rd St. in midtown Manhattan turning into a mosh pit...

I'd pick a game from the New York Yankees--one that's not even from one of their 26 World Series triumphs.

In 1976, the New York Yankees returned to the playoffs for the first time since 1964 and faced the Kansas City Royals in the best-of-five American League Championship Series. The series came down to the deciding Game Five at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in front of one of the rowdiest sports crowds New York City had ever seen. At the time, NYC was riddled with crime, corruption and craziness (but was also the crucible from which punk and hip-hop were created).

There was tension in the air all throughout the back-and-forth Game Five, which entered the bottom of the ninth inning tied at 6. But before the last half of the inning could be played, the game was delayed for five minutes as police and the grounds crew cleared the outfield from large amounts of debris that had been thrown by Yankees fans at the Royals' right-fielder.

When (at least a modicum of) order was restored, Yankees first-baseman Chris Chambliss stepped up to the plate and ended the game and the series with a home run over the right-field wall.

In baseball, even if a batter hits a home run, he still has to touch all of the bases and home plate. Usually this involves the hero of the moment taking a slow, triumphant trot. This time, however, throngs of hysterically joyous Yankees fans (most of whom were probably intoxicated by one mean or another) invaded the field and Yankee Stadium turned into a madhouse. Chambliss had to fight his way through the crowd and actually didn't make it to home plate. When enough riot police entered the field to clear a path, Chambliss had to get a police escort to touch home plate, or in this case, where home plate had been--a fan had stolen it.

Watch the madness

A moment that typifies one of the most unique eras in New York City's history.

Bert

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Good thread, but you'll be lucky to find many who choose outside of '66 and playoff final

Right on there. Mines '66. Cos i witnessed play off final innit.

Guest Gist

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It would have to be the world cup win in 1966 for me.

Same here.

Finnegan

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Good thread, but you'll be lucky to find many who choose outside of '66 and playoff final

Then I'll be happy to oblige (any shocks there?)

I think mine are all rugby, to be honest. There's a few non-rugby ones I'd like to have seen. Rumble in the Jungle'd be one, as would our venture into the World Cup back in the fifties. But really I'd have to pick a toss up of three rugby moments. Alarmingly, none of them involving (directly) the Welsh national side!

1. 'That Try.' January 1973, the All Blacks stand against the Final Challenge and Gareth Edwards roars over to complete a piece of counter attacking the likes of which has still never been seen. I'm a great believe in trying to avoid over-rating history but this was genius.

2. 'The Day the Pubs Ran Dry.' Stradey Park, Octover '72. The All Blacks again, this time playing the Llanelli Scarlets at the home of the sosban. A club side upset one of the greatest teams in the world, the likes of Bennet and Jenkins the great Delme Thomas and Derek Quinenll. The greatest sporting generation any country's likely to see in any game anywhere and it was some twenty odd years before I'm even born. I think if you're offering up a trip back in time, that's probably my one.

3. 'The 99 Call.' South Africa 1974. Fed up of bias officiating and violent abuse from South African players (as dirty then as they are today) and playing in a time when substitutions were only permitable under extreme situations, the British Lions decided to get their revenge in before the Springbok deeds. At the '99' call, every British Lion would give the nearest South African a fooking hiding and a ruck insued! The logic was that the ref couldn't possibly send all 15 off. Genius! Doesn't quite work in the modern game, but oh well. Legendary JPR Williams (arguably the hardest sportsman in history) was reported to have run half the length of the pitch to beast some South African bloke twice his size and give him the hardest punch he reckoned he'd ever received. Genius.

I wish I was a child of the 60s. Thracian, you bastard.

Simi

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1966 obviously springs to mind.

Playoff final to.

Other than football, maybe the Rugby World Cup Final. Looked fantastic. :thumbup:

Asha

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I'd probably head back to the Colchester home game in September one of the most enjoyable and on-the-edge-of-your-seat games i have and ever will witness. Pure magic and i'm surprised the lot of you aren't finding that immediately springs to mind.

Bridge

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June 1977..Blazers win NBA championship against 76er's..Although a close second would be Yankee stadium, Oct 21 2004..one minute after midnight.

Sly

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For me it would be the Liverpool 5 - Alaves 4 UEFA Cup Final.

I'd loved to have witnessed that.

Unit

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Jordan, I think i'm about to piss you off.

My friend from New york is here (statton island or something) and he's a bit pissed, anyway i just mentioned this thread to him and he said somethinga long the lines of "fook that, fooking yankees, mets is where it's at" then said a year that i can't remember where they won something?

uh god knows.

EDIT: as for me, ermm, probably the '66 world cup win

another edit:

I was at the Tigers first european cup win in france but didn't get to ireland for the second, it sounds pretty amazing and i wish i could back in time and buy a fooking ticket

Jordan

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Jordan, I think i'm about to piss you off.

My friend from New york is here (statton island or something) and he's a bit pissed, anyway i just mentioned this thread to him and he said somethinga long the lines of "fook that, fooking yankees, mets is where it's at" then said a year that i can't remember where they won something?

uh god knows.

Something tells me your friend wasn't talking about the Mets' five-game loss to the Yankees in the 2001 World Series :P My best guess would be that he was referring to their comeback 1986 World Series win in seven games over the Boston Red Sox, one of the best series in baseball history... but which game--their series-clinching win in the deciding Game Seven, or the surreal Game Six when they were one strike away from losing the Series three times and won on the famous Bill Buckner error?

I would recommend that all Mets fans read Jeff Pearlman's outstanding book about the '86 Mets, titled The Bad Guys Won!. That team was fueled by talent, booze and cocaine, and there will never be a Major League squad that can replicate their behavior (for better or worse).

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