Tear-jerking sports moments?

I found this one, it's one of my Favs. Saku Koivu playing his first game with the Montreal Canadiens after beating cancer. Habs fans give him a five-minute standing ovation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxq4NumfAg&search=Montreal%20Canadiens

Stadium. Those were tears of joy and pleasure though. It was made better by us beating the Eagles.

You hear about that other fuckhead... Williams is it? The guy who's kicked out of the NFL for a year so he's going to the CFL.

Our tailgate party was on ESPN due to our creative use of a TO jersey. It was pretty fun. My friend does awesome tailgates regardless...shrimp, lobster, stirfry, steaks for the carnivores, etc.

...he's just in debt up to his eyeballs, and needs the money.

trust me - Owens might want to take a sick day when the Cowboys come to Philadelphia. We aren't the nicest of sports team

Bourque, finally hoisting Lord Stanleys cup....in 2001...I cried

It was good to see Ray get a deserved cup.

i boohooed like a little girl

If only he could've been wearing the Black and Gold when he did it...but at least he got to do it.

Man, I remeber seeing that game and just being completley awestruck.

22-of-30, 399 yds, 4 TDs, Final score: 41-7

was a combination of focus and anguish that was agonizing and frightening at the same time. You aren't alone in being awe-struck by that game.

Transcribed from "Willie Mays: My Life In and Out of Baseball":

____________________

I can never forget that moment — in late July of '61, when we came into New York to play the Yankees in an exhibition game at the Stadium.

This is from the San Francisco Examiner's story:

The Giants had come home, and in a driving, steaming summer rainstorm, the big town turned out to say hello.

There was no pre-game practice. It was raining. The pre-game home-run contest (Cepeda and Mays for us, Mantle and Maris for them) was called off. It was raining.

Game time was held up half an hour past the scheduled 7:55 p.m. start.

"We'll never play tonight," Alvin Dark said.

"Look outside and you'll change your mind," he was told.

He went down the runway and up into the visiting dugout along the third-base line and looked.

"Wow," he said reverently.

There in the rain sat the people. Waiting.

(They could have all stayed home and watched it free on TV. But they were there.)

"Ladies and gentlemen," said the Yankee Stadium announcer, giving the lineup for the San Francisco Giants, "at second base, number fourteen, Joe Amalfitano."

The cheering started.

"Number seven, Harvey Kuenn, right field."

It got louder.

"Number twenty-four, Wil—"

You never heard the rest of the Giant batting order announced here tonight.

An unbroken, throat-swelling peal of adulation sprang from the hearts of Giant-starved New Yorkers. It rolled and volleyed off the great tiering of this triple-decked palace and against the vague outline of the Bronx County court house, looming in the gray-black mist out beyond the huge scoreboard in right-center field.

They rocked and tottered and shouted and stamped and sang. It was joy and love and welcome, and you never heard a cascade of sound quite like it.

That was the moment. That was the one that will always have the best place in my heart. Not that there haven't been others. But no others like that one.

An unbroken, throat-swelling peal of adulation sprang from the hearts of Giant-starved New Yorkers. It rolled and volleyed off the great tiering of this triple-decked palace and against the vague outline of the Bronx County court house, looming in the gray-black mist out beyond the huge scoreboard in right-center field.

They rocked and tottered and shouted and stamped and sang. It was joy and love and welcome, and you never heard a cascade of sound quite like it.


That gave me chills.

One of the truly great sportswriters and a friend of Mays.

He passed a couple of years ago.

I'll never forget that game; there were people taking tickets to wait to jump off the Terminal Tower after that game.....

http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news_room/history/arts/3960.0.html

because I'm a Broncos fan, but I know as a very young lad I must have been rooting for your Browns over the Raiders. Take heart, Clevelant, the Browns' time will come eventually. :toast:

That was one of the greatest sports moments I have ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRDqSkBi__I

:thumbsdown:

...to send the Wings to the finals in '94.

2) Yzerman handing the Cup to Konstantinov in '97.

3) The standing ovation fans gave Steve after returning from his osteotomy.

I think there may be a theme here. :shrug:

Especially his handing Vladdy the Cup.

Another; the mayhem after Michigan upset Ohio State in football in 1969 -- Bo's first year; beating what Woody Hayes called his greatest team ever. Tears AND chills down my spine.

But I'm from Ohio.

FUCK MICHIGAN!!!!

:hi:

Never would have pegged you for a Buckeye -- those are brainless, hairy nuts which, if you love the Wings, you clearly are not. But, clearly, there is something amiss....:evilgrin:

Quick trivia question -- where did the marching script Ohio come from? That's right; Michigan's band originated it in a pre-game tribute.


Go Blue!

1.) Jim Craig with the USA flag drapped around him after we won the Gold Medal in 1980 Olympics Ice Hockey. Hell I started crying after we defeated the Russians to get the the gold medal round and didn't stop crying until they got the gold against the Swedes.

2.) Kerry Strug making that Vault to win the Gold Medal for women's gymnastic in Atlanta. I'm not even a particular fan of women's gymnastics, Bela Kayoli (sp?) or even Kerry Strug (a repuke mouthpiece now). But something about that moment when she attempted the second vault knowing she needed to stick the landing for the win even though her ankle was killing her - well that just defined what the olympics were all about. She wasn't even the big name on the squad and I'm even getting choked up thinking about it

3.) Game 4, 1990 World Series when Todd Benzinger caught the final out for the Reds to sweep the A's in a world series where Oakland was suppose to dominate the Reds. I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan and after enduring the horrible 80s where we always seemed to be in second place or if we had the best record in baseball there was a damn strike that split up the season. Reds had finally won the World Series and I still have all the games preserved on VHS.

4.) Eagles beat the Atlanta Falcons in the 2004 NFC Championship playoffs. Yeah, I know, we lost to the New England Patriots but thing is we had been in that NFC playoffs the past couple of seasons always coming up short. So when we finally won the NFC championship it was amazing to be amongst all these long suffering Eagles fans just grateful to know we were going to the Super Bowl. Perhaps 2006-7 will be our year!

in the Olympics. I'll never forget it; bawled my eyes out.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/94

This may have been during the '76 Olympics. One runner injured himself, and limped across the finish line an hour or more after the rest, to a standing ovation. I've Googled to no avail, finding no trace of this story.

The runner was an African who was the last man to cross the finish line in the Marathon, hours after everyone else had finished. There was a documentary about African distance runners which ended with that scene. It is so noble it is devastating to watch.

Terrific story.

The only thing I can compare it to is that scene in "Dumbo" where Dumbo goes to visit his Mom when she's been locked up.

He could hardly walk, it seemed, and his hand visibly shook, but he did it. that brought a tear to my eye.

his number 7 jersey when the B's retired Phil Esposito's number.

Tear jerking...maybe not but moving.

Down to 10 men, and tied at 2-2, England defend most of the Second Half and all of Extra Time against an Argentine onslaught only to be defeated in a penalty shoot-out. Well, it's a tear-jerker if you're English.

When the Florida Marlins beat the NY Yankees 4 games to 2, defeating them at Yankee Stadium, in what was the 100th anniversary of the World Series.

The Marlins, a team with one of the lowest payrolls, going up against the team with the highest payroll.

A team with one of the shortest histories going up against the "Team of the Century."

The youngest team by average age to ever win a World Series managed by the oldest manager to ever win a World Series.

A team that started off the season 19-29 before firing their manager and hiring Jack McKeon out of retirement to manage the team.

A team that was down 3 games to 1 against the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series only to win the next three games -- two games at Wrigley Field against their two best pitchers -- to take the pennant home.

It just doesn't get better than that.







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_World_Series

what I mean. And I cry because they won it.

I was living down in Fort Lauderdale at the time. We went to a Cub Marlin game in August of that year. Kerry Wood pitched a 1 hitter to beat the Marlins. There might've been 8,000 fans in the stadium, at least half of which were Cub fans. Two months later it would be full of 60,000 Marlin 'fans'. (Why be bothered DURING the pennant race, these fans wait for the playoffs!)

I listened out my window at the exact moment the Marlins won the World Series. Not one scream, not one car horn honking. Literally NOBODY seemed to even notice. Knowing what a Cub WS title would've meant to the entire midwest and seeing that it meant less than nothing to the people of South Florida made me cry.

(no offense to you Raging- I assume that you actually followed the team before and after the playoffs)

But there is no way to compare the loyalty of South Florida fans to the loyalty of Chicago fans. Especially when it comes to the Marlins. Not only did that team come into existence in 1993, they left a lot of resentment among their fans after the owner dismantled the team after the 1997 World Series.

The fans stayed away until the 2003 playoffs.

In Chicago, people are born into the culture of the Cubs or the White Sox, depending on what part of town your family lived. If you're a Cubs fans, chances are your father was a Cubs fan and his father was a Cubs fan and his father was a Cubs fan.

The only thing that comes close to that in South Florida are the Miami Dolphins, who came into existence in 1966, still a far cry from from the late 1800s, which is when the Cubs came into existence.

And South Florida is such a transient area that many people who live down here support other teams, mostly the New York Yankees or Mets, but many, like yourself, are Chicago fans.

in the orange bowl for the 2000 national championship ...

I'm curious, so why is that one so special to you? :)

:)

And it came after years of very bad football in norman, all of which I was witness to. After years of being one of a handful of fans left in the stands at the end of, say, a 9 touchdown loss to nebraska, that dream season was an amazing ride to be on.

And Heupel, going from some second-rate junior college to being the runner up for the heisman and leading the rebirth of one of college football's traditional dynasties--that was one of the great sports stories of the decade, in my mind.

he's a coach at the U of AZ now I think.

IIRC, he went to U of AZ with Mike Stoops when he was named head coach and was a position coach for either running backs or tight ends ... but after last season when OU's Offensive Coordinator was hired as HC at San Diego State, Heupel was hired back at OU as their new QB coach. Even while he was still playing at OU, everyone was expecting him to be a great coach someday--He didn't have a particularly strong arm and wasn't a great scrambler, but he won because he read defenses well, audibled effectively, and very rarely made bad decisisons.

Are you a 'Cats fan, then? I've cheered for the Wildcats for the last couple of years (since young Stoops became the HC there) ... hopefully this is the year they turn the corner :)

I go to the U of A though. Always been a Washington Huskies fan, so I stay pretty loyal, hard times or not. :)

I grew up in Northern Wyoming, so they were, oddly enough one of the closer D-1 teams (outside of the WAC/MWC) ... They're a team I generally pull for, unless they're playing one of the teams I have a genuine fondness for (as they will this September when they travel to norman to play the sooners :toast:)

I'm from northern Montana, and we have no D-1 teams, outside of the Big Sky Conference and they are D-1 AA.

First: I was at the Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway that marked Joe Torre's return from beating cancer. When he came out to deliver the lineup card, the Sox fans gave him a standing ovation--very classy.

Second: Game 5 of the 2001 World Series. Emotions were very raw post-9/11 and it was Paul O'Neill's last game in Yankee Stadium before he retired (and he had also just lost his father to a long suffering illness.) With the Yankees down by 2 runs in the top of the 9th (of a fricking world series game!) the 60,000 Yankee fans spent the entire half inning chanting Paul O'Neill's name. It was an incredible moment. He actually broke down and began to weep in right field.

I'll remember it forever even though the outcome wasn't what I wanted it to be. Games 4 and 5 with the comback HRs, Nov. Baseball and my favorite player Paul O'Neill last games as a player. That was the best WS I've ever watched.

record. Unlike Rickey Henderson who when breaking Ty Cobb's stolen base record praised himself, Ripken ran around the field and shook hands with crowd, thanking them for support.

Mark McGwuire going into the stands to shake hands and hug Roger Maris's children after hitting HR #62.

Miracle on Ice.

Bob Beamon shattering the long jump record at the 68 Olympics.

Ali lighting the torch at the 96 Olympics.

After watching him fall in the previous two Olympics and in the 500 earlier at Lillihammer he finally put it together in the 1000M.

The first Saints home game in the re-opened SuperDome.

(On edit: knowing the Saints, I'll have two reasons to cry!)

USA vs. Russia in Olympic Hockey, 1980.

his shoes in the ring signifying his retirement after the Athens Olympics

Good one! :)

1. The "MIracle on Ice" win -- not because it was the USSR, but because the underdogs beat the Juggernaut.

2. Julie Moss' finish at the 1982 Hawaii Ironman

3. Billie Jean, the last time she walked off Center Court after her short-lived comeback.

4. Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss's final lap in the 1984 Olympics Women's Marathon.

5. News of Pre's death.

6. Ekaterina Gordeeva's first skate -- as a single -- after her husband's death

able to watch it with my dad. The NFC Championship awarding at Lambeau field brought tears to my eyes. And Brett running around like a little kid after the first TD...ah, sweet memories. :hi:

Reading his poem at the first game after the 9/11 attacks.



Then when he and Darryl Kile passed within days of year other the next season... :cry:

I know it was fictional but I always get weepy when watching the finale of the Bad News Bears

In Wheelchair Basketball. Knowing I was the only kid from my high school to play college athletics and I was in a chair.

Cal Ripken Jr. became baseball's new "IRONMAN". There were alot of wet eyes that night. It was also at a time when the public had a pretty low opinion of professional baseball due to a previous strike.
Cal, we miss thee!!

Cal

Best Ever!

I miss the good ol' days when he and Billy were playing for the O's.

I miss Darrell Green from the 'Skins as well. I love the sports figures who just play hard and are consistent through many years, and do not let their success go to their heads.

....it was a beautiful thing!! :cry:

Chicago Cubs, Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks. Then he died when I was 10. So just about any time something emotional happens with one of my teams, I can't help but cry. I cry because I know that it was a moment that dad and I would've shared.

I was never so happy in my life. I have the 2nd photo autographed by Dwight Clark.

Lou Gehrig, Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939... Baseball's Gettysburg Address

What can I say, I am partial.

Joe Theismann getting his leg broken,

http://www.extremesportclips.com/videos/esc_JoeTheismanLeg_1149954710.wmv

And Doug Williams being the first black QB to win a Superbowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWuKrTn1DJw&search=doug%20williams%20superbowl

100 would have been even more beautiful