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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 11:37 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 11:48 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 11:59 am to rockchlkjayhku11
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 rockchlkjayhku11
Ohio State’s 2002 season. There were dozens of times during the season where it could have ended, but they always found a way to win.
When Cie Grant broke through to Dorsey in the second overtime, we lost our minds.
When Cie Grant broke through to Dorsey in the second overtime, we lost our minds.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:09 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
I just took a look at the 98 home run chase wikipedia page and they have a log of every HR hit between Sosa and McGwire. I actually forgot that Sosa took the lead on McGwire at 66 to 65 before McGwire went on a tear to end the season. Both players had back to back days during the season where they hit 2 HRs each game. Crazy stuff. It's truly amazing how hot you have to be all year to hit that many homers.
Even more incredible is that Sosa only had 13 homers at the end of May. He finished June with 33
Even more incredible is that Sosa only had 13 homers at the end of May. He finished June with 33
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:10 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
The Braves worst to first run in 1991. That was so fun for me as a 10 year old to watch... Then have my heart ripped out by Puckett, Morris, and f'n Kent Hrbek in the WS.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:35 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
Since the firing of Fulmer, watching UT unravel from a top-tier program to a national laughing stock has been pretty wild, especially in it all coming to a head last year during Schiano’s “hiring” and ensuing social media crucifixion.
Sports radio here has had some pretty colorful personalities over the years (Travis being one of them) which made the years-long lampooning of Kiffen, Dooley, Jones, & Co. all the more engaging.
Just last years debacle could make a 30 for 30, but that was just the third act from a long, bad movie for pissed off Vol fans.
Sports radio here has had some pretty colorful personalities over the years (Travis being one of them) which made the years-long lampooning of Kiffen, Dooley, Jones, & Co. all the more engaging.
Just last years debacle could make a 30 for 30, but that was just the third act from a long, bad movie for pissed off Vol fans.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:38 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
I’m not a fight fan, but the way that Ronda Rousey looked like a kindergarten teacher by day and Mike Tyson by night was pretty cool to me.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 12:56 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
The way Bountygate turned into a complete farce conducted by an incompetent commissioner with transparent motives.
And still nobody did anything about it, and a bunch of idiots still talk about it like it actually happened.
I also liked how Goodell did it the exact same day Tebow was traded to the Jets so that the media would mostly ignore anything but the talking points and not investigate how shoddy a case they had against anyone.
And still nobody did anything about it, and a bunch of idiots still talk about it like it actually happened.
I also liked how Goodell did it the exact same day Tebow was traded to the Jets so that the media would mostly ignore anything but the talking points and not investigate how shoddy a case they had against anyone.
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