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  • #1

    What is/are the awesomest win/wins you've celebrated as a fan?

    Enough of the defeatist crap from Gus. It's mid-August and everyone's teams are undefeated.

    Mine:

    MLB - Dodgers over A's '88 series. Gibson's 9th inning shot off Eckersley is seared into my mind, I levitated for weeks off of that.

    NBA - C's over Lakers in 2008. It was such a demolition, such a triumph of a team over asshat ego-trippers, such a devastating repudiation of Sasha and his hair style - but mostly it was redemption as a C's fan, the rebirth of a great franchise, and some guys who really deserved it winning a championship together.

    NFL - Niners over Cowboys in the 1994 NFC championship - I felt I had so much invested bt the bitterness of that rivalry and the need for Steve Young to break through and beat Dallas. His performance was so gritty and transcendent in that game. The SI image of him spiking the ball in the end zone after battling through the goal line lives forever.



    NCAAF - Too many, but I'll try: (a) Sure, I was 5 - but the Miracle Bowl over SMU defined my pseudo-religious relationship w/ BYU football - I was astonished to see all the middle-aged men around me (3 attorneys, a doctor and dentist, the pillars of my world, Bishopric and stake presidency members) in a dog pile in the middle of the living room floor; (b) The national championship win over Michigan - goes w/o saying; Detmer over Miami - incredible experience - A few kids at my high school were poser Miami fans and I bought about 20 copies of the Sacramento Bee that day and handed them out; (d) BYU over Utah in 2006 - it was more relief than anything else. A fifth consecutive loss to Utah might have broken my will; (e) 2011 over Texas - just a little exercise of the gift of prophecy.
    Last edited by oxcoug; 08-20-2011, 10:42 AM.
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    It can't all be wedding cake.
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Three Nothing
    Three Nothing
    Welcome back, Moose.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Three Nothing
      Three Nothing

      Hey it's the moose w/ the junior member. Thanks for stopping by.
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      It can't all be wedding cake.

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      • #4
        1998: Utes beat defending champion Arizona Wildcats to go to the final four. Andre Miller drops a triple double.

        1997: Keith Van Horn's 2 game winners in the WAC tournament.

        2010: Game 6 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Patrick Kane scores the game winner to win the cup for the Chicago Blackhawks.
        As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
        --Kendrick Lamar

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        • #5
          1. 1995 Orange Bowl, Nebraska over Miami and 2006 BYU/Utah. Both were my Shawshank Redemption moments as a fan. Finally, triumph after crawling through a river of feces in big games over the previous years. With Nebraska especially. As a kid I was so used to seeing them lose their bowl game or to Barry Switzer or both it seemed like Osborne would never break through. The Orange Bowl was for a National Championship, but the 2006 BYU game almost equals it because I was there. It was most amazing win I've ever seen in person.

          2. USA 2-1 Colombia in 1994 World Cup. This match qualified us for the knockout stage in the World Cup for the first time since 1930 and rekindled my love of soccer. Seeing The Two Escobars has since changed how I remember it, though.

          3. USA 2-0 Mexico in 2002 World Cup. Advancing farther than we ever had in the modern World Cup and doing so by knocking out Mexico was very satisfying.


          I like football and futbol.

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          • #6
            Let me be the first to shout SUGAR BOWL!
            The Holy War is over, and Utah won - Federal Ute

            Think of how stupid the average American is. Then remember that half are even dumber than that. - George Carlin

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Omaha 680 View Post
              1. 1995 Orange Bowl, Nebraska over Miami and 2006 BYU/Utah. Both were my Shawshank Redemption moments as a fan. Finally, triumph after crawling through a river of feces in big games over the previous years. With Nebraska especially. As a kid I was so used to seeing them lose their bowl game or to Barry Switzer or both it seemed like Osborne would never break through. The Orange Bowl was for a National Championship, but the 2006 BYU game almost equals it because I was there. It was most amazing win I've ever seen in person.
              For years I've had moments relating to sports and pop culture where people refer to a thing that I absolutely should know about - a song that was obviously a hit, a game that was obviously big, etc - but it doesn't connect to that in my memory.

              That Orange Bowl v Miami just did that to me - I cldn't remember Nebraska winning a national title by beating Miami...

              And then the obvious - I was on my mission.

              **Yes, I was also on my mission when the Niners beat Dallas in the 1994 NFC championship, but my Dad sent me every SI and made tapes in the European video format which my entire district watched on P-day (WITH our Mission Prez's approval, believe it or not).
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              It can't all be wedding cake.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Borderline Divine View Post
                Let me be the first to shout SUGAR BOWL!
                Agree 100%. Nothing so far can top that one. My greatest night ever as a Utah fan.
                “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                ― W.H. Auden

                "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Borderline Divine View Post
                  Let me be the first to shout SUGAR BOWL!
                  Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                  Agree 100%. Nothing so far can top that one. My greatest night ever as a Utah fan.
                  Yep.

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                  "We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
                  -Thucydides

                  "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
                  -Miyamoto Musashi

                  Si vis pacem, para bellum

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                  • #10
                    I'm with you on the '94 NFC championship, there was no question they'd win the next game. Last October/November was absolutely magical in the city as the Giants took home the WS. In game 4, my father in law watched it with us, and later we found a piece of paper under the couch with 1-9 written on it and number crossed out; he was counting down the outs. Final game celebrations in the streets will never be forgotten. That's why I like to cheer for underdogs, so fans that have never experienced the pinnacle in sports feelings can have that euphoria.

                    The Beck-Harline game was awesome, but certainly unique in that we were on a cruise. Parrothead was giving updates from his blackberry till the end, when we went to a computer and followed in CB chat (at something like $2/minute). On the final play there was complete silence till a yewt fan chatted "yewt", then we knew we had won.

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                    • #11
                      I just got goose bumps thinking about

                      #1

                      Game 7 1992 NLCS, bases loaded, bottom of the 9th, Francisco Cabrera hits one out of the infield, they wave Sid Bream around 3rd, the slide.

                      SAFE
                      SAFE
                      SAFE

                      Almost as good as sex.
                      #2

                      1990 Georgia Tech vs. University of Virginia
                      41-38 final score against the #1 team. I was bouncing off the walls of my house I was so excited. When we squeaked by VaTech the next week, it was ours. The victory over Nebraska was awesome, but when they called back Raghib Ishmael's TD punt return for a clipping call in the ND vs UColorado game, my hopes of an unshared national championship were destroyed. Stupid 5th down championship.
                      #3

                      Game 6, 1995 World Series. The waiting finally ended. Ahhhhhh.
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                      • #12
                        1984 Holiday Bowl
                        1990 BYU vs. Miami
                        2006 BYU vs. Utah
                        1997 "JOHN STOCKTON SENDS THE UTAH JAZZ TO THE NBA FINALS!!"
                        "Remember to double tap"

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                        • #13
                          "Snap to John. John backpedals. Plenty of time, plenty of time, plenty of time. He's moving to his left, shuffling, shuffling, shuffling. All kinds of time ... It's caught for the touchdown! Caught for the touchdown! Caught for the touchdown ... "

                          Watched it at my nephew's house. Nephew's neighbors thought I was absolutely out of my mind...

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by statman View Post
                            "Snap to John. John backpedals. Plenty of time, plenty of time, plenty of time. He's moving to his left, shuffling, shuffling, shuffling. All kinds of time ... It's caught for the touchdown! Caught for the touchdown! Caught for the touchdown ... "

                            Watched it at my nephew's house. Nephew's neighbors thought I was absolutely out of my mind...
                            Thanks to the shitty Mtn contract I had to watch this game via some live stream online. Of course my connection craps out right before that final play. I spend minutes reconnecting and for some reason my ESPN gamecast isn't updating either. Then I see the ESPN ticker and shows BYU won. I start calling all of my boys back in Utah to find out what happened. Otherwise, this would rank up there.
                            "Nobody listens to Turtle."
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                            • #15
                              Every time the Vikings beat the Packers its like I'm born again.

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