crooked-finger
11-06-2009, 09:36 PM
What are some of your favorite sporting memories. "I was there when UT beat Florida" need not apply. I'm interested in personal/curious stories.
Example: I was watching LSU play Vanderbilt in a baseball game twenty five years ago, and some dude for LSU hit a 500 ft home run(+/-) and it hit a car parked on Garland St. and 25th Ave. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vanderbilt+baseball&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.839416,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=vanderbilt+baseball&hnear=&ll=36.142692,-86.808268&spn=0.003959,0.006899&z=17) Of course, it was my car!! There was a baseball sized dent on the trunk of my car and it was parked pretty close to where this ball would have landed! Amazing shot.
Another example: I used to live in Ann Arbor, MI about 75 yards from Yost Ice Arena (http://www.umich.edu/%7Eyostice/). I would be awakened by loud "goings-on", and I would walk out and it would often be the parties at the "hockey house" across the street. Anyway, I used to go to matches and was amazed at the anachronism that was college hockey at the time 1989-90. Light bulb score boards, no advertising, sold out every night no-matter-what(i.e. no promotions)... amazing atmosphere. Anyway, the thing I remember most was the Rocky and Bullwinkle dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIM043bqSWo) at every game. I later realized that what was most beautiful about college hockey was that they don't fight. If you fight you miss two games which means basically two weeks..., so if you like playing hockey, you don't fight. Imagine that!!?
peace
Example: I was watching LSU play Vanderbilt in a baseball game twenty five years ago, and some dude for LSU hit a 500 ft home run(+/-) and it hit a car parked on Garland St. and 25th Ave. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vanderbilt+baseball&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.839416,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=vanderbilt+baseball&hnear=&ll=36.142692,-86.808268&spn=0.003959,0.006899&z=17) Of course, it was my car!! There was a baseball sized dent on the trunk of my car and it was parked pretty close to where this ball would have landed! Amazing shot.
Another example: I used to live in Ann Arbor, MI about 75 yards from Yost Ice Arena (http://www.umich.edu/%7Eyostice/). I would be awakened by loud "goings-on", and I would walk out and it would often be the parties at the "hockey house" across the street. Anyway, I used to go to matches and was amazed at the anachronism that was college hockey at the time 1989-90. Light bulb score boards, no advertising, sold out every night no-matter-what(i.e. no promotions)... amazing atmosphere. Anyway, the thing I remember most was the Rocky and Bullwinkle dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIM043bqSWo) at every game. I later realized that what was most beautiful about college hockey was that they don't fight. If you fight you miss two games which means basically two weeks..., so if you like playing hockey, you don't fight. Imagine that!!?
peace