I stole this idea from another team's football forum, but thought it might help to fill up some of the off-season slack around here. What is your greatest and worst experience as a sports fan? Could be any team, and for any reason.
Here's mine.
GREATEST
1. 1987 IU NCAA championship: I was just a freshman in high school, and remember telling a friend as we walked home from school that I was going to be watching the game that night (lived in the Detroit suburbs). When Keith Smart hit the Shot, my dad, sister, and I were jumping up and down, screaming and shouting, right in the front of the television. The second is quite close, but this has to take priority simply because it was IU.
2. 2016 Cubs World Series: Simply never thought I'd even see them in the WS, much less win it in such an incredible fashion.
WORST
1. 1987 IU/MSU football: I was now 15 and a sophomore in high school, and this was the game to decide the Big Ten's Rose Bowl team. George "Mushmouth" Perles' Lorenzo White trampled us. I was so bitter that I rooted for USC to win the bowl. Didn't even get that wish.
2. 2003 Cubs' loss in NLCS: The "Steve Bartman" series. The poor guy was treated like absolute trash for doing what anybody might have, a kind of unthinking reaction for a souvenir you'd treasure your entire life. Nonetheless, it still seemed I felt everything shift in that series from that point. Incredibly disappointing result.
Let's hear what you've got.
Here's mine.
GREATEST
1. 1987 IU NCAA championship: I was just a freshman in high school, and remember telling a friend as we walked home from school that I was going to be watching the game that night (lived in the Detroit suburbs). When Keith Smart hit the Shot, my dad, sister, and I were jumping up and down, screaming and shouting, right in the front of the television. The second is quite close, but this has to take priority simply because it was IU.
2. 2016 Cubs World Series: Simply never thought I'd even see them in the WS, much less win it in such an incredible fashion.
WORST
1. 1987 IU/MSU football: I was now 15 and a sophomore in high school, and this was the game to decide the Big Ten's Rose Bowl team. George "Mushmouth" Perles' Lorenzo White trampled us. I was so bitter that I rooted for USC to win the bowl. Didn't even get that wish.
2. 2003 Cubs' loss in NLCS: The "Steve Bartman" series. The poor guy was treated like absolute trash for doing what anybody might have, a kind of unthinking reaction for a souvenir you'd treasure your entire life. Nonetheless, it still seemed I felt everything shift in that series from that point. Incredibly disappointing result.
Let's hear what you've got.