re: The most amazing sports accomplishment you’ve seen in person.

Kick 6
And I actually saw Auburn win a Natty in person. Never thought that would happen


Almost saw a second one

I saw a one handed pitcher throw a no hitter in Yankee Stadium. It was my first and last mlb game, figured everything else would pale after that.

Saw Melvin Gordon rush for 408 in only three quarters against Nebraska in 2014. Samaje Perrine from Oklahoma broke the record the next week (427 yds in 4 quarters).

DBacks beating the Yankees in Game 7 of 2001 WS.

Wisconsin Badger BB team beating 38-0 Kentucky team in the FInal Four in 2015. Duke then beat Wisconsin in the championship game.

Player on my team was suspended for the first half, then scored like 30 points in the second half.

Saw Mike Anderson run for 252 and 4 TDs for the Broncos against the Saints in 2000.

Pretty good fantasy day.

I don’t go to many games to have seen anything significant. I did see a rare Pete Maravich dunk vs Golden State on a breakaway. 1978 probably

I've seen:

Joe Burrow torch Oklahoma.

the 7 OT nightmare in College Station

Les Miles last bout of incompetence at Auburn

But probably most impressive, I watched Mark McGwire hit homer number 45 against the Brewers in 98.

Darren McFadden going for 321 on the ground vs South Carolina.

I was working at LSU media production in the fall of 1988. Chris Jackson was an incoming freshman and we were shooting the cover of the media guide on a random weekday afternoon. He walked into the PMAC wearing polo shorts a t-shirt and running shoes.

They were setting up lighting for the shot when he walked into the PMAC wearing polo shorts a t-shirt and running shoes. He was painfully shy, didn't make eye contact and his Tourette's (I had no idea he had it or what it was at the time) made him look borderline handicapped and I thought he might be on drugs.

And then he picked up a basketball. His entire demeanor changed. He became more animated and we started shooting around and talking basketball. I was an average 6 ft 165 lb white guy good enough in high school to make all-state and had been around a number of great high school players. He looked nothing like any of them. We started shooting and after about 15 mins the 15-20 people in the arena had all stopped moving and got real quiet. I realized in that time he had not missed a single shot. Not one. From layups to goofing off with 35-40 footers. Not exaggerating, it had to be at least 50 shots.

For the photo, they wanted just his had hand palming the ball over the rim. They had a ladder there for him to stand on. They couldn't make it look natural enough, so they had him move the ladder and asked him to lay it up. Instead, he casually took two dribbles and went above the rim, hung in air perfectly still and dunked so casually, the shot came out with amazingly sharp focus.

After the shoot, as everyone was packing up, we moved to the other end and he made 25 free throws in a row while I rebounded for him. I touched the ball twice to tap it back to him. 23 of the shots grazed the back rim as it went in the and ball spun back to him at the line at the exact same spot. At that point, I was the one who looked like he had Tourette's.

The '88 media guide? Dumbass LSU athletics decided to go with a photo of the ball only.

Awesome story Basura.

Anyone who got to see Chris Jackson just shoot a basketball for fun was in for a treat.
Same as you, I was a decent enough basketball player to hang with good college players, but when you come across someone like this it makes you realize real quick there's a couple more levels above you of elite athletes, and you aren't even close to those levels.