Alltime personal favorites

Rasmuth · 01-17-2004, 02:02 PM

I'm curious....list your favorite person from each of the following(active or retired). Don't use your head...use your heart...It will be interesting to see all the variations of the members here. I'll start:

Baseball - Steve Garvey
Football - Steve Largent
Basketball - Patrick Ewing
Hockey - Miroslav Satan
Boxing - Gene Tunney
Auto Racing - Johnny Rutherford
Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - The Bucky Dent homer that killed the BoSox. It was incredible.

Just for fun everybody...no ganging up on anybody.

twins15 · 01-17-2004, 02:14 PM

Baseball - Kirby Puckett (though his scandal kinda hurt)
Basketball - Michael Jordan
Football - Cris Carter
Favorite Moment I saw on TV - end of the Raiders/ Patriots game, seeing Viniatieri kick those FG in snow was classic. Also the hit by LuGo to beat the Yankees.

Last Favorite Moments I saw on TV - Antonio Freeman catch vs. Vikings on MNF. Cardinals comeback vs. Vikings. Gary Anderson missing the kick vs. the Falcons in NFC Championship Game.

Teddyballgame · 01-17-2004, 02:20 PM

Baseball--Ted Williams
Football--Craig James
Hockey--Cam Neely
Basketball--Kevin McHale

Favorite Moment I've seen on T.V.--Either Vinaterri kicks against Raiders or the Rams

So ends my post of favorite white guys.

Johnny Slick · 01-17-2004, 02:24 PM

I can already see that we've got one repeat on the list...

Baseball - Randy Johnson
Football - Steve Largent
Basketball - Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, or Michael Jordan

Favorite TV moment: Watching Steve Largent hit the living crap out of Mike Harden after Harden intercepted a pass. Three things about that incident:

1. Harden had dislocated Largent's shoulder with a cheap shot earlier in the season, putting him on the IR for the only time in his career (back then, you could come off it after 6 weeks).
2. Largent said after the game that he wasn't looking to clock Harden, but just make a play. Yeah, right.
3. Harden never played a down of pro football after that hit. I like to think that Largent was responsible.

Least favorite TV moment involving sports: Dikembe Mutombo falling on the basketball court and cheering after the Denver Nuggets became the first #8 seed to knock a #1 out of the playoffs in NBA history (you can guess which basketball team I'm a fan of).

John Craven

Tarin · 01-17-2004, 02:28 PM

Baseball - Will Clark
Football - really hard to say, as a fantasy football player I love the ones that happen to be on my team at the time.

Hockey - Modano
Basketball - bleh

Favorite TV moment - Sid Bream Running his heart out around third base running the braves into their first world series.

Favorite moment in person - 1996, week 17 of the NFL season I was at the Jags Falcons game when Morten anderson missed what would have been a game winning short field gold which vaulted the jags into the playoffs. There is nothing like celebrating with 60,000 of your closest friends. gives me chills just thinking about it.

Tarin · 01-17-2004, 02:29 PM

ooh. add Carl Crawfords extra inning walk off home run on opening day last year to my tv favorites it was like 1:30 in the morning when it ended and I woke up the neighbors... all of them

Jason Moyer · 01-17-2004, 02:36 PM

Baseball - Mike Schmidt
Basketball - Julius Erving
Football - Reggie White
Hockey - Ron Hextall
Tennis - Michael Chang
Auto Racing - Gilles Villeneuve
Favorite moment - Randy Johnson pitching to John Kruk in the 93 all-star game.

Jason

AnotherAlias · 01-17-2004, 02:43 PM

Baseball - Ernie Banks
Football - Walter Payton
Basketball - Michael Jordan (met him once-only NBA player I've met)
Hockey - Bobby Hull (met him once, too.)
Boxing - Jack Dempsey (my fourth cousin)
Auto Racing - Quinn McCabe (an acquaintance of mine)
Soccer - Pele

Bluenoser · 01-17-2004, 02:57 PM

Baseball - Carl Yastremski
Football - Kenny Stabler
Basketball - Magic Johnson/Larry Bird
Hockey - Yvan Cournoyer/Henri Richard
Boxing - Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Auto Racing - Mario Andretti

(Not hard to tell what generation I'm from

)

Paul Henderson scores with just over a minute left in game 8 of the Summit on Ice Series to give Canada an incredible 3 wins on Russian soil for a 4-3-1 series win.

Modern Relic · 01-17-2004, 03:01 PM

Baseball - Billy Williams
Football - I'm not a fan
Basketball - I'm not a fan
Hockey - I'm not a fan
Boxing - Muhammad Ali
Auto Racing - I'm not a fan
Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - Check back with me when the Cubs actually win something besides the occasional playoff game.

The Professor · 01-17-2004, 03:27 PM

Baseball - (tossup) Rich 'Goose' Gossage & Jack Clark
Football - Dave Krieg
Basketball - Kevin McHale
Hockey - Luc Robitaille
Boxing - Muhammad Ali (or, for a while, Roberto Duran)
Auto Racing - Cale Yarborough (I'm not really a fan of racing)

Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - Hard to pick! May well be the 1991 World Series game 7 performance by Jack Morris...I was spellbound.

tim_uwrf · 01-17-2004, 03:31 PM

Baseball - Kirby Puckett (scandal didn't hurt at all, actually made me like him more because I know he didn't do it (don't try and convince me otherwords)
Football - Randy Moss (scandal did hurt him, i still like him lots)
Hockey - Bret Hull (getting his golfball was really cool)
Basketball - Kevin Garnett (I'm a Minnesota fan, KG is awesome and he has so much energy)
Boxing - Rocky

Favorite Moment in sports history - Seeing Cal Ripken Jrs. 3000 hit LIVE and in person or Seeing Cal Ripken Jr. beat the consecutive record or Marlins winning WS against the Yankees
Least Favorite Moment in Sports History - Seeing Kirby Puckett retire

Recent Favorite Moment in Sports History - Seeing The Colts beat the Bucs in OT
Recent Least Favorite Moment in Sports History - Seeing the Yankees go to another World Series

Operation Shutdown · 01-17-2004, 03:34 PM

Baseball - Barry Bonds, even though he seemed like a jerk to the fans and media, especially in Pittsburgh, he is truly a great player
Football - right now I'd have to say Marvin Harrison, he's fun to watch
Hockey - without a doubt Mario Lemieux, even at 37, he could still dominate the game, if he had a hip, can you give a brotha a hip please
basketball - not much of a fan, but Jordan was great to watch

Favorite moment - 1995 AFC Championship game, I was there sitting in an endzone seat about midway up, not in the nosebleeds, but yet not in the lower level seats either. Anyway I was in the endzone that the Colts were driving towards at the end of the game and the fourth down pass into the endzone from my vantage point looked like it was caught. I was so pissed, as I thought yet again the Steelers are gonna fall just short of making it to the Superbowl, remembering the year before how Foster was just a couple yards short of making the endzone against the Chargers. My aunt and I both had our heads turned in disgust, screaming, NOOOOOOO, when all of a sudden I heard my brother yell, it's incomplete. Of course, I thought he was just in denial, but sure enough I turned around and the ball was on the ground and the ref was signalling incomplete pass. Never before have my emotions gone from being soo upset to being so elated. A close second was watching the Penguins finally win their first Stanley Cup in 1991, nothing like an 8-0 game to clinch the Cup.

Least favorite moment: A tie between Neil O'Donnell inexplicably changing teams (or going color blind) in Super Bowl XXX against the Cowboys and Tarin's favorite moment of Bream chugging around third to score the winning run against the Pirates, squashing Bucco hopes once again.

LiftTheCurse · 01-17-2004, 03:55 PM

Baseball: Ted Williams
Basketball: Michael Jordan
Football: Barry Sanders
Auto: Ricky Craven
Hockey: Ray Bourque

LiftTheCurse · 01-17-2004, 03:57 PM

On the twist side, my most hated are...

Baseball: George Steinbrenner
Basketball: Charles Barkley
Football: OJ Simpson
Auto: Jeff Gordan
Hockey: Mark Messier

Long_Long_Name · 01-17-2004, 04:45 PM

Baseball - Marquis Grissom, Kirk Rueter
Football - Zinedine Zidane
Basketball - none
Hockey - Michael Bossy
Boxing - none
Auto Racing - Ukyo Katayama
Live - Vladimir Guerrero hitting for the cycle
TV - Dennis Martinez' perfect game (Cone's one a distant 2nd)

Jason Moyer · 01-17-2004, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Operation Shutdown
Baseball - Barry Bonds, even though he seemed like a jerk to the fans and media, especially in Pittsburgh, he is truly a great player

When I moved here in 96, I was genuinely surprised to find that nearly everyone I met seemed to like Bonds.

Jason

Tarin · 01-17-2004, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Operation Shutdown
Baseball - Barry Bonds, even though he seemed like a jerk to the fans and media, especially in Pittsburgh, he is truly a great player
Football - right now I'd have to say Marvin Harrison, he's fun to watch
Hockey - without a doubt Mario Lemieux, even at 37, he could still dominate the game, if he had a hip, can you give a brotha a hip please
basketball - not much of a fan, but Jordan was great to watch

Favorite moment - 1995 AFC Championship game, I was there sitting in an endzone seat about midway up, not in the nosebleeds, but yet not in the lower level seats either. Anyway I was in the endzone that the Colts were driving towards at the end of the game and the fourth down pass into the endzone from my vantage point looked like it was caught. I was so pissed, as I thought yet again the Steelers are gonna fall just short of making it to the Superbowl, remembering the year before how Foster was just a couple yards short of making the endzone against the Chargers. My aunt and I both had our heads turned in disgust, screaming, NOOOOOOO, when all of a sudden I heard my brother yell, it's incomplete. Of course, I thought he was just in denial, but sure enough I turned around and the ball was on the ground and the ref was signalling incomplete pass. Never before have my emotions gone from being soo upset to being so elated. A close second was watching the Penguins finally win their first Stanley Cup in 1991, nothing like an 8-0 game to clinch the Cup.

Least favorite moment: A tie between Neil O'Donnell inexplicably changing teams (or going color blind) in Super Bowl XXX against the Cowboys and Tarin's favorite moment of Bream chugging around third to score the winning run against the Pirates, squashing Bucco hopes once again.

God, is my memory that bad? I don't remember the colts being anywhere near the playoffs in'95. I thought it was the steelers and chargers.

Jason Moyer · 01-17-2004, 06:24 PM

Championship Game: Indianapolis Colts 16, Pittsburgh Steelers 20

billycola · 01-17-2004, 07:09 PM

Baseball - Kirk Gibson
Football - Bo Jackson
Basketball - Magic Johnson
Wrestling - Goldberg
Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - Gibby's homer in '88.

01-17-2004, 02:14 PM	#2
twins15 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Area 51 Posts: 4,792	Baseball - Kirby Puckett (though his scandal kinda hurt) Basketball - Michael Jordan Football - Cris Carter Favorite Moment I saw on TV - end of the Raiders/ Patriots game, seeing Viniatieri kick those FG in snow was classic. Also the hit by LuGo to beat the Yankees. Last Favorite Moments I saw on TV - Antonio Freeman catch vs. Vikings on MNF. Cardinals comeback vs. Vikings. Gary Anderson missing the kick vs. the Falcons in NFC Championship Game. __________________ "Ah man we're just hungry man" - Dovonte Edwards Bismarck Boy Scouts of the OTBL - league yes-man Ross Gload at baseball-reference.com Book Quotes and Book Lists

01-17-2004, 02:20 PM	#3
Teddyballgame Major Leagues Join Date: May 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 332	Baseball--Ted Williams Football--Craig James Hockey--Cam Neely Basketball--Kevin McHale Favorite Moment I've seen on T.V.--Either Vinaterri kicks against Raiders or the Rams So ends my post of favorite white guys. __________________ The roads in America are paved with cheese

01-17-2004, 02:28 PM	#5
Tarin Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: J-Ville Posts: 325	Baseball - Will Clark Football - really hard to say, as a fantasy football player I love the ones that happen to be on my team at the time. Hockey - Modano Basketball - bleh Favorite TV moment - Sid Bream Running his heart out around third base running the braves into their first world series. Favorite moment in person - 1996, week 17 of the NFL season I was at the Jags Falcons game when Morten anderson missed what would have been a game winning short field gold which vaulted the jags into the playoffs. There is nothing like celebrating with 60,000 of your closest friends. gives me chills just thinking about it. __________________ T

01-17-2004, 02:29 PM	#6
Tarin Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: J-Ville Posts: 325	ooh. add Carl Crawfords extra inning walk off home run on opening day last year to my tv favorites it was like 1:30 in the morning when it ended and I woke up the neighbors... all of them __________________ T

01-17-2004, 02:36 PM	#7
Jason Moyer Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 5,108	Baseball - Mike Schmidt Basketball - Julius Erving Football - Reggie White Hockey - Ron Hextall Tennis - Michael Chang Auto Racing - Gilles Villeneuve Favorite moment - Randy Johnson pitching to John Kruk in the 93 all-star game. Jason __________________ "I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses." -- Tom House "I was very fortunate to have a pitching coach by the name of Tom House...Tom, I really miss those days that we spent in the weight room and out on the field working together." -- Nolan Ryan's HoF Induction Speech

01-17-2004, 02:02 PM	#1
Rasmuth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Upstate Western NY Posts: 1,760	Alltime personal favorites I'm curious....list your favorite person from each of the following(active or retired). Don't use your head...use your heart...It will be interesting to see all the variations of the members here. I'll start: Baseball - Steve Garvey Football - Steve Largent Basketball - Patrick Ewing Hockey - Miroslav Satan Boxing - Gene Tunney Auto Racing - Johnny Rutherford Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - The Bucky Dent homer that killed the BoSox. It was incredible. Just for fun everybody...no ganging up on anybody. __________________ http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...?bandID=250426

01-17-2004, 02:24 PM	#4
Johnny Slick Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,012	I can already see that we've got one repeat on the list... Baseball - Randy Johnson Football - Steve Largent Basketball - Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, or Michael Jordan Favorite TV moment: Watching Steve Largent hit the living crap out of Mike Harden after Harden intercepted a pass. Three things about that incident: 1. Harden had dislocated Largent's shoulder with a cheap shot earlier in the season, putting him on the IR for the only time in his career (back then, you could come off it after 6 weeks). 2. Largent said after the game that he wasn't looking to clock Harden, but just make a play. Yeah, right. 3. Harden never played a down of pro football after that hit. I like to think that Largent was responsible. Least favorite TV moment involving sports: Dikembe Mutombo falling on the basketball court and cheering after the Denver Nuggets became the first #8 seed to knock a #1 out of the playoffs in NBA history (you can guess which basketball team I'm a fan of). John Craven

01-17-2004, 02:43 PM	#8
AnotherAlias Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I'm back...for now Posts: 4,190	Baseball - Ernie Banks Football - Walter Payton Basketball - Michael Jordan (met him once-only NBA player I've met) Hockey - Bobby Hull (met him once, too.) Boxing - Jack Dempsey (my fourth cousin) Auto Racing - Quinn McCabe (an acquaintance of mine) Soccer - Pele

01-17-2004, 02:57 PM	#9
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 14,494	Baseball - Carl Yastremski Football - Kenny Stabler Basketball - Magic Johnson/Larry Bird Hockey - Yvan Cournoyer/Henri Richard Boxing - Marvelous Marvin Hagler Auto Racing - Mario Andretti (Not hard to tell what generation I'm from ) Paul Henderson scores with just over a minute left in game 8 of the Summit on Ice Series to give Canada an incredible 3 wins on Russian soil for a 4-3-1 series win.

01-17-2004, 03:01 PM	#10
Modern Relic All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,266	Re: Alltime personal favorites Baseball - Billy Williams Football - I'm not a fan Basketball - I'm not a fan Hockey - I'm not a fan Boxing - Muhammad Ali Auto Racing - I'm not a fan Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - Check back with me when the Cubs actually win something besides the occasional playoff game. __________________ American Folklore Baseball League (closed): Commissioner/GM - Mudville Nine (ruled!) Former member of Boys of Summer: GM - St. Louis Browns (doormats!) Former member of the OTBL: GM - Gashouse Gorillas (also ruled!) "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby

01-17-2004, 03:27 PM	#11
The Professor Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: East of East Posts: 3,020	Baseball - (tossup) Rich 'Goose' Gossage & Jack Clark Football - Dave Krieg Basketball - Kevin McHale Hockey - Luc Robitaille Boxing - Muhammad Ali (or, for a while, Roberto Duran) Auto Racing - Cale Yarborough (I'm not really a fan of racing) Favorite moment in sports history you witnessed live or on TV - Hard to pick! May well be the 1991 World Series game 7 performance by Jack Morris...I was spellbound. __________________ History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are."

01-17-2004, 03:31 PM	#12
tim_uwrf Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Field of Dreams Posts: 1,998	Baseball - Kirby Puckett (scandal didn't hurt at all, actually made me like him more because I know he didn't do it (don't try and convince me otherwords) Football - Randy Moss (scandal did hurt him, i still like him lots) Hockey - Bret Hull (getting his golfball was really cool) Basketball - Kevin Garnett (I'm a Minnesota fan, KG is awesome and he has so much energy) Boxing - Rocky Favorite Moment in sports history - Seeing Cal Ripken Jrs. 3000 hit LIVE and in person or Seeing Cal Ripken Jr. beat the consecutive record or Marlins winning WS against the Yankees Least Favorite Moment in Sports History - Seeing Kirby Puckett retire Recent Favorite Moment in Sports History - Seeing The Colts beat the Bucs in OT Recent Least Favorite Moment in Sports History - Seeing the Yankees go to another World Series

01-17-2004, 03:34 PM	#13
Operation Shutdown All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Pittsburgh PA Posts: 912	Baseball - Barry Bonds, even though he seemed like a jerk to the fans and media, especially in Pittsburgh, he is truly a great player Football - right now I'd have to say Marvin Harrison, he's fun to watch Hockey - without a doubt Mario Lemieux, even at 37, he could still dominate the game, if he had a hip, can you give a brotha a hip please basketball - not much of a fan, but Jordan was great to watch Favorite moment - 1995 AFC Championship game, I was there sitting in an endzone seat about midway up, not in the nosebleeds, but yet not in the lower level seats either. Anyway I was in the endzone that the Colts were driving towards at the end of the game and the fourth down pass into the endzone from my vantage point looked like it was caught. I was so pissed, as I thought yet again the Steelers are gonna fall just short of making it to the Superbowl, remembering the year before how Foster was just a couple yards short of making the endzone against the Chargers. My aunt and I both had our heads turned in disgust, screaming, NOOOOOOO, when all of a sudden I heard my brother yell, it's incomplete. Of course, I thought he was just in denial, but sure enough I turned around and the ball was on the ground and the ref was signalling incomplete pass. Never before have my emotions gone from being soo upset to being so elated. A close second was watching the Penguins finally win their first Stanley Cup in 1991, nothing like an 8-0 game to clinch the Cup. Least favorite moment: A tie between Neil O'Donnell inexplicably changing teams (or going color blind) in Super Bowl XXX against the Cowboys and Tarin's favorite moment of Bream chugging around third to score the winning run against the Pirates, squashing Bucco hopes once again. __________________ "And Shepherds we shall be, For thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, And teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti."

01-17-2004, 03:55 PM	#14
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01-17-2004, 03:57 PM	#15
LiftTheCurse Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Maine Posts: 633	On the twist side, my most hated are... Baseball: George Steinbrenner Basketball: Charles Barkley Football: OJ Simpson Auto: Jeff Gordan Hockey: Mark Messier __________________ http://lotg.christianbaseball.com Philadelphia Phillies/ NL President(1901)23-16 Best Record in the League http://www.ulb.simleaguecentral.com Baltimore Orioles 2004 AL EAST CHAMPION 2005:13-5:1st in AL East

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Long_Long_Name Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Montréal Posts: 7,065	Baseball - Marquis Grissom, Kirk Rueter Football - Zinedine Zidane Basketball - none Hockey - Michael Bossy Boxing - none Auto Racing - Ukyo Katayama Live - Vladimir Guerrero hitting for the cycle TV - Dennis Martinez' perfect game (Cone's one a distant 2nd) __________________ Beta Baseball. Join it!

01-17-2004, 06:24 PM	#19
Jason Moyer Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 5,108	Championship Game: Indianapolis Colts 16, Pittsburgh Steelers 20 __________________ "I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses." -- Tom House "I was very fortunate to have a pitching coach by the name of Tom House...Tom, I really miss those days that we spent in the weight room and out on the field working together." -- Nolan Ryan's HoF Induction Speech

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