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What's your favorite sports phenomena that you actively followed?
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:27 am
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:27 am
Just having this discussion with friends and wanted to hear of some that we may have missed. To me, there is nothing quite like a legitimate, inexplicable phenomenon that overtakes the sports world for some period of time. The type of shite where you are excited all day about watching (the knicks play a regular season game in February) or you are cancelling plans to watch a tennis match or something.
Linsanity
Dunk City
Tebow's run with Broncos
Leicester winning the EPL
George Mason to Final 4
Sosa/McGwire/Griffey HR Race
Some have more local interest, naturally. The Hawks going 17-0 in January 2015 was unreal. UGA winning the SEC Championship in 2008 winning 4 games in 3 days with the tornado and location move and all that shite was a short, but awesome phenomenon.
What's your favorite?
Linsanity
Dunk City
Tebow's run with Broncos
Leicester winning the EPL
George Mason to Final 4
Sosa/McGwire/Griffey HR Race
Some have more local interest, naturally. The Hawks going 17-0 in January 2015 was unreal. UGA winning the SEC Championship in 2008 winning 4 games in 3 days with the tornado and location move and all that shite was a short, but awesome phenomenon.
What's your favorite?
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 11:29 am
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Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:29 am to rockchlkjayhku11
I'm from Northern Virginia and people were absolutely freaking out when GMU and VCU made the Final Four in 2006 and 2011
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:30 am to rockchlkjayhku11
kobes last game
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:32 am to rockchlkjayhku11
SAD
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:32 am to rockchlkjayhku11
The Indians 22 game win streak was cool to watch last year.
Mississippi State's run to #1 in 2014.
Saints overcoming Katrina and winning the Superbowl.
Mississippi State's run to #1 in 2014.
Saints overcoming Katrina and winning the Superbowl.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 11:33 am
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:34 am to rockchlkjayhku11
The Teo girlfriend saga fascinated me. 
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:36 am to rockchlkjayhku11
quote:Gotta be this for me. (add Greg Vaughn to that race too). It happened at the perfect time right before the internet age where there was still room for monoculture where everyone was talking about the same thing the next day. I used to save the sports page every day that had a big tracker showing those guys' HR counts every day.
Sosa/McGwire/Griffey HR Race
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:36 am to Master of Sinanju
that one as well
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:37 am to rockchlkjayhku11
Back in '08 when LSU baseball went on that 23 (I think) game win streak wearing the Gold jerseys. shite was crazy
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:38 am to rockchlkjayhku11
1998 Home Run chase.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 11:39 am
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:42 am to rockchlkjayhku11
Conference realignment in college football, especially since the outcome I had been rooting for (RE: A&M to the SEC) came to fruition.
Hell, that phenomena is the primary reason I started posting here.
Hell, that phenomena is the primary reason I started posting here.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 11:43 am
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:43 am to Master of Sinanju
That whole season was nuts as a Notre Dame fan. NBC did a great 30 minute program on the season and all the adversity the team faced, including Teo’s “dead girlfriend.” Needless to say, it did not age well...
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:48 am to rockchlkjayhku11
Even if the saints were to win another Super Bowl, it won’t come close to the first one..
Can’t even really explain it tbh, it’s one of those things where you’d had to have been in NOLA to understand.. when we started 13-0, then entered the playoffs, the city was ELECTRIC.. not sure we will ever experience that (feeling) again
Can’t even really explain it tbh, it’s one of those things where you’d had to have been in NOLA to understand.. when we started 13-0, then entered the playoffs, the city was ELECTRIC.. not sure we will ever experience that (feeling) again
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:55 am to rockchlkjayhku11
2008 Beijing: Phelps going after Spitz's record. 
I waited all year to watch him try for it.
Add in the drama...
EPIC 4x100m free comeback!
Crazy out-touch on the wall of the 100m butterfly.
Most intense and lasting sports phenomena in my life.
I waited all year to watch him try for it.
Add in the drama...
EPIC 4x100m free comeback!
Crazy out-touch on the wall of the 100m butterfly.
Most intense and lasting sports phenomena in my life.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:56 am to Mr. Hangover
quote:
Even if the saints were to win another Super Bowl, it won’t come close to the first one..
Can’t even really explain it tbh, it’s one of those things where you’d had to have been in NOLA to understand.. when we started 13-0, then entered the playoffs, the city was ELECTRIC.. not sure we will ever experience that (feeling) again
I can relate--there are few things sweeter than being a part of a franchise's first title run (or first one in over a generation).
San Antonio in 1999 would have been my answer if there was a "1b" part to this question. It was magical. And it's a feeling that, you're right, is never truly captured again (at least not en masse ).
Winning the title in 2003 was special/unexpected, but also more about sending off David Robinson than anything.
2005 was more of a relief. That team should have won in 2004, and got pushed to the damn brink by Detroit.
2007 was gravy. Mainly got lucky that GSW took out Dallas.
2014 was probably the closest to 1999 in terms of meaningfulness. Primarily because of getting our hearts ripped out in the Finals the year before, but also because no one knew how much longer Duncan would play. That we got redemption vs. Miami and ran them off the floor in the process was cathartic.
2014 was probably slightly more special for me personally, but probably 9 out of 10 Spurs fans would cite 1999 as their most cherished. Can't replicate that type of euphoria.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 11:57 am
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:57 am to TbirdSpur2010
Especially the Memorial Day Miracle, in my opinion the most underrated shot in NBA history.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:59 am to rockchlkjayhku11
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:59 am to karmew32
It's crazy how few remember that outside the San Antonio bubble. Spurs weren't really on the map yet, of course, but that was THE moment that we all knew something was freaking different this time 
To this day i don't know how Sheed didn't block it. Elliott couldn't see the damn basket and his heels hanging over the sideline....ridiculous.
As a kid at the time, I'd yet to see my Spurs claw their way back into a game with those kind of stakes before. I mean, preachers around town were using it as sermon material for weeks afterwards
To this day i don't know how Sheed didn't block it. Elliott couldn't see the damn basket and his heels hanging over the sideline....ridiculous. As a kid at the time, I'd yet to see my Spurs claw their way back into a game with those kind of stakes before. I mean, preachers around town were using it as sermon material for weeks afterwards
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:01 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
Odd list. Tebow, Lin, Mason, Dunk, EPL wouldn’t even register in my mind as significant events
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:04 pm to kciDAtaE
Isn't that usually how it goes, though? Sometimes the stuff in sports that means the most to a fan on an individual level (or just sticks out the most) is the kinda random stuff.
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