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My first memory of sports was when I was about to turn seven. It wa 1978 and the Dodgers were playing the Yankess in the World Series. I walked into the living room and my stepdad was watching it. I said:

"What are you watching?"

He says, "The World Series, it's baseball."

I say "Who is playing?"

"Dodgers and Yankees?"

Me, "Oh cool, who do you want to win?"

Him, "The Yankees, I'm a New Yorker, just like you."

Me, "Cool, I want the Dodgers to win."

Sometime soon after, I started reading the sports section of the paper everyday, and when the Miracle On Ice happened, it was over. I now loved sports than most anything else in my life (except family and friends), and still do.

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I had been going to Broncos games since I was a wee lass with my family (5 season tickets). I can vividly remember when the Broncos beat the Raiders in the AFC Championship (I was not quite 6), and the goalposts were being torn down right in front of me, and it was just sheer pandemonium all around. It was amazing.

bobby orr and muhammad ali.

my earliest memory of anything is bobby orr.

Walter Payton.

Roger Clemens, wwaayyyy back in the day before the roids and the pinstripes......

johnk5150 wrote:Walter Payton.

I hated him.

Now he's my favorite NFL player ever. Half his highlight reel is against the Vikes.

NeverSurrender wrote:

johnk5150 wrote:Walter Payton.

I hated him.

Now he's my favorite NFL player ever. Half his highlight reel is against the Vikes.

Walter and my poor dead grandfather watching the Cubs everyday from 1 to 4 are my most vivid memories of anything sports related.

And my father picking me up from summer school (not that strong a student) to tell me the Bulls drafted Jordan.

NeverSurrender wrote:

johnk5150 wrote:Walter Payton.

I hated him.

Now he's my favorite NFL player ever. Half his highlight reel is against the Vikes.

Speaking of the Vikes, it wasn't until I was much older that I understood my father calling him Whiskey Wade Wilson.

SebastianLeeDanzig wrote:World Cup final 1986. Didn't give a shit about football before, but that game hooked me, and I knew that, one day, I was gonna have a mustache just like Rudi Völler.

I'm still anything but a sports nut, though. Football is the only one I follow, and when Holiday On Ice happened, I thought that's pretty gay.

For me it was 1978 final.

Sometime around 1975, I noticed that my dad had put this sticker on his rear windshield:



"What's that?", I asked. He took me to few games that season, and I had my first sports obsession.

Not the last, though.

johnk5150 wrote:

NeverSurrender wrote:

johnk5150 wrote:Walter Payton.

I hated him.

Now he's my favorite NFL player ever. Half his highlight reel is against the Vikes.

Speaking of the Vikes, it wasn't until I was much older that I understood my father calling him Whiskey Wade Wilson.

He must have been confusing him with Two twelve pack Tommy Kramer.

This thread is making me realize I should love boxing.

I remember watching the Packers with my dad, and I remember Majkowski getting hurt and Favre taking over until "retirement" but I remember him watching HBO boxing and him letting me stay up later than normal to watch these.

I remember well when Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson and my dad being in complete shock. I also remember George Forman making his comeback(at 40 or so) and winning. Not sure which one came first, but I will never forgot those moments.

1975 Cincinnati Reds beating the Pirates and then beating the Red Sox in the World Series.

First memory of sport was the Rugby World Cup in 91 when England played Australia in England. England lost.

When my little league coach took me in the equipment room and taught me a lesson

My earliest sports memory is a good one..I can't remember if it was live or on tape-delay but I remember watching this with my mom the day it happened.I was 4 at the time.



I can remember watching Bobby Orr when he was still with the Bruins and Expos games from Jarry Park on tv a couple of years later.By the time I was 7 or 8 I was a total sports nut