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

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Same as you, I was a decent enough basketball player to hang with good college players

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I could hang on the A court in the fieldhouse, but that was my peak. I can honestly say though, pre social media/internet notoriety, if Chris Jackson had walked into the field house as a 5'11 150 lb freshman, I would've been chosen over him for a pickup game, as would about 30 other dudes.

And then the game would've started and whoever did the choosing would've regretted that decision for life lol. And you are dead on, it was extremely humbling just casually shooting around with him and seeing how elite someone like that really is. I have never seen anyone transform themselves like he could with a basketball in his hands. I can not stress enough how nerdy frail he looked just walking around campus.

Curry is the best pure shooter of all-time, but you put CJ in that offense in todays 3 point contest type game, and he would blow minds.

The Clowney hit. 10 rows up on the 50 yard line - right in front of us - sounded like a car crash

1996 Olympics, men’s 200M finals, saw Michael Johnson shatter the WR. It was amazing watching the flashbulbs follow him around the track.

Sadly for me it was the Camback in 2010.

Saw Kevin Faulk score about 10 touchdowns against Comeaux High his Sr. year.

LSU national championship 2003 in the Superdome.

Jim Rice hit a home run completely over the outer wall in center field at Fenway. He was the fifth person ever, and it will probably never happen again -- they put up a higher wall for advertising the next year.

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The "better than most putt". I was on 17 with a view of the tee box of 18. There with my dad. You see the condensed version of that but in real life..tiger scoped that like a billiard player. I think he had that calculations going off in his head. I bet my dad that Tiger would make it. Every other player we watched took some looks of how they wanted to approach it trying to get it close ....tiger was examining how to make it.

Also at TPC ..11th hole par 5;wed practice round. Tiger shanked one so bad, ball ends up on 10 and he's holding the wood with one hand twirled above his head. Sean O Hare was the practice round partner ..and started laughing and giving tiger grief . Tiger dropped another ball, rips a beautiful fade to about 6.7 ft and gave O hare a look

Craig Biggio's 3000th hit

Patriots Super Bowl comeback versus the Falcons.