Your greatest sports memory with family.

[toldozer]

Also watching the home run derby with my grandad. I went over to his house to watch it like six straight years. I need to make a point to go again next year if he is still around. I could care less about baseball, but he loves it. we would always bet on a winner. I never remember any of the winners except the one time he got it right. Tino Martinez!! After it was over he said that the derby was prerecorded and thats how he knew.

[Doc Holiday]

My family used to throw a pretty epic Super Bowl Party every year, the one for the Pats-Giants round 1 was more epic then normal, big party lots of friends and family and the best damn football game I've ever watched. truly epic!

[Anybodyhome]

September 1965- I was 9 years old and one of my parents favorite pastimes was to go see the Dodgers play. This particular game was the last we'd get the opportunity to see before school started.

Sandy Koufax pitched a pefect game against the Cubs which was something I'll never forget. The Chicago Cubs pitcher threw a one-hitter the same game. It was a 1-0 victory for the Dodgers. There is little else that compares to the anxiey and tension in a stadium while a perfect game is going on..... let alone when 2 pitchers are going at it like they did that night.

[PhillyB]

not one person alive in my family gives a flying poo about sports

however in six months i'll have a daughter to begin generation number two of panthers fans and i expect there to be plenty of memories.

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

I'm the only real sports fan in my entire family. I've been to a football game and a Formula 1 race with my dad, but that's the extent of it.

[CatofWar]

Dad took me a Stros game. I was 9 and it went 22 innings.

[Guest]

Going to a Mets game at the old Atlanta stadium in the early 70s (Tom Seaver was pitching)

Alonzo Mourning hitting that last second shot against the Celtics in the first-ever playoff appearance by the Hornets.

Me and my dad going to my first-ever NFL game (Panthers against the Niners, at Clemson)

Taking my kids to their first-ever NFL game(s)

Chad Cota intercepting Steelers in the end zone

Panthers beating the Cowboys twice in the playoffs

Smitty and X-Clown against the Rams

[The_Light_Brigade]

Seeing the 'canes win the cup with my sister was pretty awesome. My Dad and I had been to basically every playoff game together that season but he had to be in New York for game 7. No one sat down the entire game I've never heard anything like it since then. Helped flip the 96rock crown vic out front and went home covered in beer. That one stands out but everything I go to with my Dad I try to remember.

[j2sgam]

Spending summer evening at the Central Park ballfields watchin Yankees farm teams with my grandfather in Albany, NY... At the time it didnt matter that much to me. Now, they are some of my fondest memories with Grampa. Had countless baseballs signed by so many players, theyre all but gone now. Still have a Yankee hat hat he bought me when I was 8....

[charlotte49er]

Sitting in my dorm room with a bunch of buddies during the 1976 World Series. When I saw Don Gullet hit the home run, I knew that the Reds had just made the Yankees their B****** and win it in four!

I went to college with Larry Bird. There were so many live "Bird" moments, way too many to recall.

I was "The Hive" when Reggie Miller shot the lights out of the Hornets. (I forget the year.) We were in the first row right behind the press. Even the Charlotte Hornets crowd was shouting "REGGIE! REGGIE! REGGIE!" everytime the Pacers had the ball.

My buddy and I were at the Indy 500 in 1982. Started off with a terrible wreck. Red flagged for oever an hour whey they cleaned everything up. We had scored tickets right after the 4th turn when Gordy Johncock led Rick Mears out of the turn and they headed for the finish. Johncock won the closest 500 finish to date that year!

The we had tickets in the 3rd turn in 1986, when Arie Lyendike and Little Al raced into the 3rd turn and they touched wheels at over 200 MPH sending little Al into the wall and winning the race for Aire!

This really wasn't a sports moment. But I was the "I" arena when the guy put the puck through a hole in plywood to win a new Dodge Pickup from center ice during a Checkers game!

Those are just off the top of my head.

I have watched a ton more by myself on TV. When Peyton Manning and the Colts beat New England to win the AFCS and head to their first Super Bowl. I'll admit I was sobbing like a little baby! I didn't care who won the NFCS, I knew the Colts were going to be Super Bowl Champs!

[g5jamz]

This past spring, assistant coaching my son's 7-8yo baseball team. Losing our star to select play to a concussion for first 3 weeks. Going halfway through the season pulling our hair out with some kids that are borderline ADHD. Running a practice one night and get call that wife has broken/dislocated arm. Season progresses and team starts to gel. Wife then gets diagnosed with breast cancer right towards end of the season. We end season around .500...and playing so well that no team wanted to face us. Go into the end of season tournament and dominated. Looks on the kid's faces and the feeling inside of me will be tough to be topped.

[Mr. Scot]

My mother was generally too scared to come to my football games (afraid of seeing me hurt) but when my first high school game came around, I finally convinced her.

Very first play, I rush the quarterback, and somewhere in the fray my helmet gets knocked off and goes flying. My mom had a perfect view of the whole thing.

I think she watched the rest of the game through her fingers :lol:

[KBlizz]

Going to my first, and only, Ohio State football game with my dad. it was at the horse shoe, the last season that Tressel and Paterno coached.

[Jackofalltrades]

There's only one that really sticks out for me and it involves two teams I hate.

My father and brother are Duke fans, my former preacher, his family and I are all UNC fans but we went to his house in Harrisburg to watch the Duke v Kentucky game. Grant Hill throws that long in bounds pass from under the basket to Laettner at the top of the key who catches it and makes a perfect jumper to win the game. We all went nuts. As a Duke hater I thought it was terrific, as a fan of basketball how can you not appreciate the way that unfolded?

Now that Dad is gone and that preacher and family are no longer around I think about that game often as it represents, probably the easiest and most enjoyable period of my life.

I also remember eating KFC on the floor with my Dad as Doug Williams led his Redskins to the Superbowl win, I can still hear the cheers.