What is the best sporting event you ever witnessed in person?

[freeringo]

1980, I went to a 49er vs. Saints game with my parents and best friend and we were down 35-7 at half. Bill Walsh had Steve Deberg at QB and experimented rotating QB's with his new rookie Joe Montana. Easy to do when you were 2-14 the season before. My friend and I were drinking heavily and some old lady was feeding us Oatmeal cookies. During the halftime, some grizzly looking faithful behind started shouting " FORTY"
pause "FORTY" pause "FORTY" that was it Bruce and I started shouting
" NINERS ". This went on for a while, then the team took the field and we start shouting "WE WANT JOE" "WE WANT JOE". Freddy Solomon, who was a WR, took the kick off up the middle, got stood up by big hit, bounced off it
and ran around the outside for a TD. 35-14
When the 49ers got the ball back again, it was all Joe Montana, tying the game at 35. In OT, Ray Wershing kicked the game winning FG.
At the time it was considered the greatest comeback in NFL history, now it is #3.
The story continues, when we left Candlestick Park and found that our cars
back window had been smashed with several others in the parking lot.
I proceeded to throw up all over the place and passed out for the ride home.
The following year they won the Super Bowl

[freeringo]

1989 I was living in Austin Texas for just a year.
Well I bought tickets to a 49er vs Houston Oilers and Warren Moon.
I sent my best friend Dave (California) a plane ticket to join me at the game.
I paid $50 a ticket for end zone seats where all the 49er family members sat.
The story starts on the way to Houston from Austin. We decided to take back roads instead of the main highway because I had a suspended license
( another story ) (too shocking to tell ). Well I got pulled over and was told by officer to follow him to town to see the judge. OH NO. We get to town and we stop at an old fashion Dairy drive through to get drinks. Everyone
is friendly, we leave again and after 5 minutes Dave and I are really starting to worry because we aren't heading the same way anymore. 5 more minutes go by and the cop pulls over into a field and we stop. He says that he can't believe that both of us from California don't have a valid drivers License.
It was my 1st month in Texas. The Cop then says that the Judge must be fishing and couldn't find him and gave me a ticket and said "you drive that way and I will drive this way and if I see you again, I will arrest you."
I asked which way was the highway? He said you drive that way and I will drive this way. We drove aimlessly for 40 min and found the Highway.
Thank God we told him we were on the way to the game and showed our tickets and he didn't search our car and found our stash.
So we make it to Houston and spent the night in the sleaziest motel you could imagine. The next day was game day. Our seats were right next to the tunnel where the visiting teams enters. We could high five all the players.
Awesome and chatting with their families. During half time we met Steve Young under the bleachers and we got his autograph. I am a huge Steve Young fan. Well Dave got his hat signed and I had a Red marker with a red hat including the bill. So I had him sign my ticket stub, my prized possesion.
When the team re-entered the field I noticed everyone on the team had smiles and high fiving every hand. Not JOE MONTANA, his eyes were so focused. I will never forget that look. I was less than 20 feet from him.
What a leader. The niners were down 27-14 with 7 min left in the game and
Joe scored 2 touchdowns to win 28-27. The best weekend ever.
We walked to the Holiday Inn attached to the parking lot and the place was
packed. Well good thing I didn't get my hat signed. I was in hostile territory with the enemies Hat on. By the time I was able to squeeze to the bar for a drink, someone nabbed my hat and threw it across the room.
We smiled all the way home.

[eejit101]

Stop answering your own things!

If we are talking live events....

Ive seen Manchester United beat Bradford 7-0 at home, that was a great game!

I was working for Glamorgan Cricket Club when they came back from a huge defecit to win somehow, was also good.


Sport here isnt as good tho or nationally loved so ill never top that.