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What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:14 am
by ParaDime77
...that you attended??
Mine was Twins/Mariners in the old Kingdome in August of 1990. Griffey was just a pup.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 12:03 pm
by Rageman
Reds game in the 74 season. I was 6 so I have no recollection of who they played. Johnny Bench and George Foster homered and Cesar Geronimo had a great running catch in the left center gap to kill a rally late in the game. I remember those three plays because that's all anybody talked about on the ride home.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 12:18 pm
by David_Lee_Halen
Mets vs. the Dodgers at Shea Stadium in '73. I got Willie Davis's autograph. I vaguely remember the whole thing. I remember the pitcher golfcarts with those giant Mets hats on top of them bringing the pitcher from the bullpen to the mound.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:09 pm
by crabfan
I think it was a Raiders/Lions game in Oakland sometime in the late 70's with my Dad.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:02 pm
by NeverSurrender
Viking at Saints 1991 I believe. Saints won 29-0 and my beloved Vikings didn't run a play past the 50 yard line all day. They did cross it once, on the last play of the first half.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:41 pm
by LAglamrocker
WWF Superstars taping, Main Event Hulk Hogan vs One Man Gang
Chargers game vs Lions
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:50 pm
by bigbuttskinner
Super Bowl II
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:43 pm
by doctordestructo
Dodgers game in the mid-70's... second was an Angels game in the same season with Nolan Ryan pitching.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:07 pm
by TawnyVonJagger
Denver Broncos when I was about 2-ish. Dad had season tix, that my brother still uses now.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:10 pm
by killeverything
Would college count for pro?
If so it was a Texas Longhorns game when I was like 5 or 6, against who I don't remember. Roger Clemens was pitching though.
I can't remember the Sox games when I was really little, because they were before then. The first MLB game I remember was the Cardinals @ SF, I was like 12.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:09 pm
by thewonkytits
Andre the Giant vs. Ernie "Big Cat" Ladd in 1977 when I was a little kid. That's the only match I remember. It was amazing seeing Andre in real life.
I remember thinking to myself that was the greatest day of my life!
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:57 am
by HMJ
Orioles vs. Athletics at Camden Yards. Got rained out halfway through. Story of my life.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:11 am
by Kid-Wicked
i think it was a mariners game in the kingdome but it may have been a whitecaps game back in the n.a.s.l days.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:44 am
by Constantine
I made around $500 amercian dollars betting the underdog in the World cup soccer tournament in 2002. I bet against the home team...they were missing their best player for injury. 
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:11 am
by Tenacious_Dio
David_Lee_Halen wrote:Mets vs. the Dodgers at Shea Stadium in '73.
Same here.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:12 am
by WhiteHouseSubsAC
Yankee game at the stadium in 78 I think.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:34 am
by K.K.VanMalmsteen
It was either the Harlem Globetrotters at Madison Square Garden, the Golden Gloves boxing tournament at MSG, or seeing Tom Seaver pitch for the Mets at Shea. I just cant remember which came first. I was around 6 yrs old, 1976-77.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 11:07 am
by SLASH1976
Ajax - Feyenoord early in the 80's
It's impressive being in a full stadium when you're a kid
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:41 pm
by djwill665
Bears game in the early 70's.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:48 am
by Redman77
Tigers game in the late 70's.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:06 pm
by Crazy Levi
An Orioles game at Memorial Stadium in the early 1980s. I remember Al Bumbry homered and crowd chanting "EDDIE EDDIE EDDIE" when Eddie Murray was up. I think Jim Palmer pitched too but who can remember that shit I was 7 or 8.
I loved going to those night games...they'd go nice and late. It was fun.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:19 pm
by Lardbucket
White Sox vs. Tigers at Comiskey Park in 1972.
Got Stan Bahnsen's autograph (just looked up his stats for '72, and he was 21-16 that year). I loved watching the game through the chain-link fence in the "picnic area" of the left field wall.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:25 pm
by Inessence
No, never been to a Blazers game.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:19 pm
by John Simon Ritchie
NHL -Flyers versus Rangers at The Philly Spectrum in the mid 70s.
A Phillies game at The Vet wasn't far behind.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:46 pm
by VanDokken
Yankees at Orioles 1978
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:36 am
by milk-milk-lemonade
Kansas City Royals in '86.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 1:57 pm
by Tymaster
I honestly can't remember who/what I saw first: The Browns in Muni, the Cavs in Richfield, or the Reds when they had Bench and Rose...
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 1:02 am
by The Cusack
Carolina Lightning ASL soccer game in 1983. The league lasted from 1933 to 1983 and did ok in Charlotte. The game I went to probably drew 10,000 or more people.
I saw NWA Wrestling in 1984 when I finally moved to Charlotte with the main event of Ric Flair vs Wahoo McDaniel at the Coliseum.
As for my first "real" professional sporting event, I saw the Charlotte Hornets vs Atlanta Hawks on Easter Sunday in either 1994 or 1995.
Re: What was your first pro sporting event?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 6:07 am
by GreazyCapri
It was either an Astros or an Oilers game. Not sure which came first.