Sports Moments That Made You Cry (besides Timmy at the Free Throw Line)

[Jelly]

Last night on one of the sports channels - can't remember which- they did a feature on Kirk Gibson's home run in the 1988 World Series. That totally took me back and I was in pieces by the end of it. I remember the intensity and anxiety and the knot in my stomach during his excrutiatingly long time at bat, striking and fouling, and then the sheer joy I felt watching him blow that ball into the stands and limp around the bases. That is one sporting moment that to this day tuns me into one big emotional pile of jelly. For me, it's definitely the greatest sporting moment of all time.
So, fellow Sports Fans...what are your most emotional and/or ecstatic moments as a spectator?

[SWC Bonfire]

Top moment: watching Sirr Parker dive across the goal line in overtime to win the Big XII Championship game. :tu

[samikeyp]

99 when the Spurs won the title.

that summer when they announced Sean's kidney problem

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Braves v. Twins. 1991. World Series. Game 7.
This was the year I started to follow baseball. I became a Braves fan in late May or June after watching them on TV and watched every game I could while trying to learn about baseball, its history, its personalities. This was the team, the season and the game which made me a diehard fan of the great game of baseball for the rest of my life.

Spurs v. Knicks. 1999. NBA Finals. Game 5.
What else can you say about this other than my favorite Spur of all-time hitting the game-winning shot.

These are all going to be ones I have observed, not seen after the fact. I know there are more, but I can't think of them right now.

[Summers]

When that Olympic sprinter fell and hurt himself and his dad helped him limp to the finish line... that made me cry.

[Ishta]

The Admirals retirement, and .04

[SWC Bonfire]

... and .04

That made me want to drink.

And I did. :lol

[atlfan25]

Braves v. Twins. 1991. World Series. Game 7.
This was the year I started to follow baseball. I became a Braves fan in late May or June after watching them on TV and watched every game I could while trying to learn about baseball, its history, its personalities. This was the team, the season and the game which made me a diehard fan of the great game of baseball for the rest of my life.
such a sad ending :pctoss :depressed

[ObiwanGinobili]

1.Every Spurs Championship......

2. Sean's jersey retirement

3. .04

4.......... 2 words..... BILLY BUCKNER

[KEDA]

I didnt cry but the 2 for me that stand outmore than others

1 MDM

2 The comebacker to Keith Foulke and the throw to Doug Mientkiewicz to clinch the title for the 2004 WORLD CHAMPION BOSTON RED SOX!!!!

[Jelly]

Braves v. Twins. 1991. World Series. Game 7.
This was the year I started to follow baseball. I became a Braves fan in late May or June after watching them on TV and watched every game I could while trying to learn about baseball, its history, its personalities. This was the team, the season and the game which made me a diehard fan of the great game of baseball for the rest of my life.

Spurs v. Knicks. 1999. NBA Finals. Game 5.
What else can you say about this other than my favorite Spur of all-time hitting the game-winning shot.

These are all going to be ones I have observed, not seen after the fact. I know there are more, but I can't think of them right now.

Thanks to my Dad I have been programmed to not like the Braves. I was a teenager in the 80s and we were all enjoying a Braves v. someone else game, and we were routing for the Braves, when the camera rested on Jane Fonda wearing a Braves cap and enthusiastically routing for the team. I think they even interviewed her. My Dad, a Viet Nam vet, freaked out at the thought of he and Jane Fonda being on the same side of anything. He went ballistic and from that moment, none of us dared show support for the Braves again.

[Sportcamper]

A battered Joe Frazier...All 5’9” of him...Landing that Left Hook to drop Ali.... :smokin
Joe Frazier (http://www.pugilistica.com/BoxingArchive1/JoeFrazierknockingdownMuhammadAli1971th_th_.JPG)
Left Hook (http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/classic/2001/0301/photo/c_ali2_i.jpg)

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I cried during when the Blue Jays won the world series, but that was because my brother had bounced my head off of a door knob in an unrelated rough housing incident.

[SWC Bonfire]

My Dad, a Viet Nam vet, freaked out at the thought of he and Jane Fonda being on the same side of anything. He went ballistic and from that moment, none of us dared show support for the Braves again.

:lol My dad has never mentioned her name, only colorful substitutions. Can't blame him.

[Ginofan]

Spurs vs Nets 2003 NBA Finals Game 6
Seeing David's last game ever in a Spurs uniform and winning the championship...man, what an emotional night!

Spurs @ Lakers, Novemer 6, 2003
Manu scoring 33 points and taking the arch nemisis to double OT without Tim & Tony. Just seeing the first taste of what was to come of Manu Ginobili was incredibly thrilling and brought happy tears to my eyes, even thought we didn't pull out the W.

Spurs vs Lakers, May 13, 2004 NBA WCSF Game 5
Come on, who didn't cry this game??

Spurs @ Rockets, December 9, 2004
Tmac's 13 points in 33 seconds...yeah that hurt big time, even if it was just a regular season game.



Damn, I'm a crybaby!

[tlongII]

George Foreman knocking out Michael Moorer at age 46.

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

1994 - Ayrton Senna dies at Imola Circuit
http://ourworld.cs.com/maikf1/Formel1/Senna/senna1.jpg

Senna was one of my early sport heroes. He was amazing driver, very talented, his death was something that shouldn't have happened.

1986 - Argentina wins the Soccer World Cup, lead by Maradona
http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/fotos/maradona.jpg
http://www.verkac.org/img/futbolcu/maradona-tanrinineli.jpg

This one is hard to explain to anyone who isn't Argentinian, but this is like our Yorktown or landing at Normandy (for the cultural impact on our society, nobody died, of course).

2004 - Argentina wins gold
http://cache.nba.com/media/athens2004/argentina1_355_040828.jpg

Not only Argentina beat the U.S., also Serbia with a last second shot, organizers Greece, and won the gold, while Manu was MVP of the tournament. The soccer squad won the gold too, 52 years after the country's last gold.

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Those three come to my mind right now, I can think of more.

[sa_butta]

1999 Spurs Championship.

The death of Dale Earnhardt.

2003 Spurs Championship (last year for Mr. Robinson).

When Dan Marino left the Dolphins.

.4 :flipoff

[samikeyp]

1986 - Argentina wins the Soccer World Cup, lead by Maradona

*coughcoughhandofGodcoughcough*

:lol

[spurschick]

2003 NBA Finals Game 6

2004 NBA WCSF Game 5, a.k.a. ".4"

8/28/04 Argentina wins Olympic Gold Medal in basketball

1/21/05 Spurs vs. Suns, a.k.a. Manu's 48 points

Sport Movie Moment: The end of "Field of Dreams" - I always cry, it never fails.

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

*coughcoughhandofGodcoughcough*

:lol


http://www.verkac.org/img/futbolcu/maradona-tanrinineli.jpg

That made it even more sweeeet!

[Jelly]

I don't know if anyone remembers this, but Dan Jansenns (sp?) gold medal was quite a tear jerker.

[T Park]

The trophy ceremony when David and Duncan arm around each other holding trophys aloft.

That was a teary eyed moment.


Also the Cardinals going to the world series last year when Womack threw Vizcaino out at first, THAT was another moment.

[Jimcs50]

Jack Nicklaus' Masters win in 86

Payne Stewart's first Major win

David Robinson's number retirement when Malik was talking.

[David Bowie]

I've never cried about sports, but .4 was very painful.

[1Parker1]

If .4 didn't make you cry.......then you are a cold, heartless person. :(

[ShoogarBear]

0.4* didn't make me cry.

Losing to the Bullets in Game 7 of the 1979 ECF did.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

0.4* didn't make me cry.

Losing to the Bullets in Game 7 of the 1979 ECF did.

I shed a tear after being blinded by ShoogarBear's jersey at the GTGs.

http://www.mailbling.com/det11.jpg

[1Parker1]

0.4* didn't make me cry.




then you are a cold, heartless person.

[David Bowie]

I was also quite upset when Brazil lost to France in the world cup. I doubt anyone saw that comming, especially with a score like 3 to nothing.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

If .4 didn't make you cry.......then you are a cold, heartless person. :(

I couldn't shed a tear. I was working covering a Missions game at the time. We saw it live, but the Missions were on the verge of a comeback, so reaction time was very short.

I remember seeing it, watching the replays for a minute or so, then having to head downstairs with people asking me if it counted or not.

[iminlakerland]

.4 made me cry it did i tell u...






















tears of joy :D

[Horry For 3!]

I don't think I have ever cried at any sports or if I did. I don't remember.

[ShoogarBear]

I shed a tear after being blinded by ShoogarBear's jersey at the GTGs.


That jersey should be added to the "you know you grew up in the 80s" thread.

[ShoogarBear]

I cried when I first saw Tony with Eva.

[ShoogarBear]

(that bitch)

[sa_butta]

That jersey should be added to the "you know you grew up in the 80s" thread.Great Scott I remember.

[1Parker1]

I cried when Brad Pitt chose Angelina over me.

[1Parker1]

That bitch

[ShoogarBear]

I'm not Jimcs50, but Angelina definitely has the bigger balls of the pair.

[Mixability]

The trophy ceremony when David and Duncan arm around each other holding trophys aloft.

That was a teary eyed moment.

And let me guess, you gave up on the Spurs that year too, when the Lakers tied the semifinal series at 2-2 just like the Sonics did this past year?

[adrienne]

Steve Kerr made me cry, 2003 WCF game 6. Bawled like a baby.

Those same playoffs, I did get a bit teary eyed when the Mavs eliminated the Kings...they were the team they struggled with the most that season, and in the playoffs the previous year. I despised the Kings more than anything. It was sweet.

[Xolotl]

I actually wanted to cry I dont remember who it was. But I think it was in a tournament. And the basketball players best friend on the team had recently died. So we went up and shot a free throw left handed because his friend was a lefty and he was a righty

[Low End Specialist]

Jordan breaking down at midcourt after winning the 1996 Finals was emotional.

Cubs... Steve Bartman.... 2003 NLCS... Wrigley Field.... ugh.

Raiders... tuck rule.... 2002 playoffs.... Brady laughing... Vinatteri kicking game winning field goal... ugh.

There's plenty more, but it's better to leave them in the past.

[SWC Bonfire]

Vinatteri kicking game winning field goal... ugh.


Noooorwood! Noooorwood!

[MaNuMaNiAc]

1994 - Ayrton Senna dies at Imola Circuit
http://ourworld.cs.com/maikf1/Formel1/Senna/senna1.jpg

Senna was one of my early sport heroes. He was amazing driver, very talented, his death was something that shouldn't have happened.

1986 - Argentina wins the Soccer World Cup, lead by Maradona
http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/fotos/maradona.jpg
http://www.verkac.org/img/futbolcu/maradona-tanrinineli.jpg

This one is hard to explain to anyone who isn't Argentinian, but this is like our Yorktown or landing at Normandy (for the cultural impact on our society, nobody died, of course).

2004 - Argentina wins gold
http://cache.nba.com/media/athens2004/argentina1_355_040828.jpg

Not only Argentina beat the U.S., also Serbia with a last second shot, organizers Greece, and won the gold, while Manu was MVP of the tournament. The soccer squad won the gold too, 52 years after the country's last gold.

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Those three come to my mind right now, I can think of more.
AMEN BROTHER!!

[MaNuMaNiAc]

2003 NBA Finals Game 6

2004 NBA WCSF Game 5, a.k.a. ".4"

8/28/04 Argentina wins Olympic Gold Medal in basketball

1/21/05 Spurs vs. Suns, a.k.a. Manu's 48 points

Sport Movie Moment: The end of "Field of Dreams" - I always cry, it never fails.

AMEN SISTER! LOL http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_11.gif

[MaNuMaNiAc]

That Angelina Jolie is too much woman for Pitt to handle!

[KEDA]

Great Scott I remember.

no no no


it was Mike Scott


he won a Cy Young in the 80's

[ShoogarBear]

I actually wanted to cry I dont remember who it was. But I think it was in a tournament. And the basketball players best friend on the team had recently died. So we went up and shot a free throw left handed because his friend was a lefty and he was a righty
Hank Gathers collapsed and died when he was at Loyola-Marymount.

Bo Kimble shot the free throw lefty.

[JoeChalupa]

For me it was a few summer Olympics ago when that young runner, I think it was in the 200 meters pulled a hamstring and collapsed and his father ran out on the track and helped him across the finish line.

[Jelly]

For me it was a few summer Olympics ago when that young runner, I think it was in the 200 meters pulled a hamstring and collapsed and his father ran out on the track and helped him across the finish line.

several people have said that. anybody know the name of the guy? I'd like to look him up. I'm always up for a good cry.

[baseline bum]

One and only one time.... when David Robinson checked out of a game one last time and Kevin Willis replaced him.

[TheTruth]

One and only one time.... when David Robinson checked out of a game one last time and Kevin Willis replaced him.
Ditto