Favorite Teary-Eyed Sports Moments
yuichi
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I was watching a rerun of the X-Games MotoX Best Trick Comp, and watching Travis Pastrana land that double back flip. I don't even watch this type of thing usually, but damn that thing gave me goosebumps. He told his mom "If something happens, I love you", and he nailed it. That was glory. 
Another one still fresh in my memory is the sequence of plays by Kobe Bryant against the Suns in Game 4. Game-tying rainbow and the game-winning J, which brought an embattled, young, and insecure Laker team together for the first time in the season. And ultimately served as redemption for one of the game's most embattled stars. Yes, I am biased, but deal with it, that was the story.
Tiger Woods at Augusta, winning his first Masters in 1997. Vivid red and black colors. Powerful game. And only the beginning of a legendary career. Yes it was pretty dramatic:
Another one still fresh in my memory is the sequence of plays by Kobe Bryant against the Suns in Game 4. Game-tying rainbow and the game-winning J, which brought an embattled, young, and insecure Laker team together for the first time in the season. And ultimately served as redemption for one of the game's most embattled stars. Yes, I am biased, but deal with it, that was the story.Tiger Woods at Augusta, winning his first Masters in 1997. Vivid red and black colors. Powerful game. And only the beginning of a legendary career. Yes it was pretty dramatic:
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Youtube footage.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vGF3p-W6JLg
huge cosign...I definitely drove to work with tears in my eyes after watching that on SportsCenter.
Also, seeing James Earl Jones speak the National Anthem before a Sox-Yankees game at Fenway was
When, just after Sept. 11, they stopped a Rangers exhibition game to watch the President speak on the Jumbotron, and then called the game after the 2nd Period. Or, when Joe Andruzzi's brothers (all NYFD Members) did the coin flip for the Pats the next home game.
This is why I love sports...Moments like these...
true, but if you point to one moment, its got to be Roberts stolen base in game4.
-peeJ
Then he decided to have his number retired with the Suns and become a funny and annoying commentator.
Yes. I love when his dad waves security off like get the fuck out of my face.
KG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-f7EeDpYI
AI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQAxaGLxsIw
-e
I wasn't there for it, but I'm from there and was a 3rd generation season ticket holder growing up. Luckily, there's a Boston themed bar in SF a block from where I lived called the Connecticut Yankee (ironic much?). When the Sox won everyone pured out into the streets. I took a yelling victory lap around the block and when I got back people were hugging strangers, crying their eyes out and lighting fireworks in the middle of the road. The news showed up not long after to interview those that could compose themselves for a second. That was no one so they just filmed the crowd. It was totally surreal... best sports moment of my life by far and will never be topped.
YOU MUST DIE!
Peace to my 4th grade teacher who accepted my homework the next day despite the fact that I scribbled Dodgers all over it in blue ink.
It wasn't teary-eyed, but more of a
you know they're turning that into a movie right?
But yeah, Jimmy V's speech and the Olympic dude's dad helping him finish the race pretty much top this list.
Hard to understand emotionally if you're not a Niners fan, but that moment was cathartic on so many levels; finally beating Favre and the Pack in a playoff game, the team having faith in TO after a horrible game and having that faith vindicated, and in retrospect, it was really the last gasp of glory for Steve Young and the shadow of the great Niners teams of the 80's and early 90's.
But I still miss Joe....
and did that final backpedal after the game ended
Damn, I'm glad I did made this thread. When I first saw that KG interview, it was one of the most refreshing things I had seen on T.V. for a while. Sames goes for that A.I. with Steven A. Smith. After thoese interviews, i feel like coppin' a KG jersey or an AI jersey, for real.