Share your favorite sports memory...

lovin_bobby42 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 11:26 AM

I remember my first sports memory at 5 years old in 1983. During the NFL season, every Sunday my dad would make chili and peanut butter & pickle sandwiches [!] & we would sit in front of the tv & watch football all afternoon--but I remember mostly watching Browns & Bengals. It's one of my most treasured memories. It wasn't too long after this that OSU football was introduced to me!

ScarletInMyVeins · #2 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 11:35 AM

My favorite sports memory was when my little brother scored his first touchdown in pee wee football. He played tight end and we had a TE end around that we designed for him. On the first play of the game he took it 80 yards to the house. on the next drive he went 40 yards. It was amazing. The best part about it was that he was playing for the same little league team that I did when I was a kid, and I was one of the coaches for his age group. The bad part was that I told him that if he scored a touchdown I would give him 20 bucks.... I had to shell out $40 that day! That was going to be my drinking money for the night, but it was worth it.

JonathanXC · #3 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 11:37 AM

Is this first or favorite? My favorite memory is going to have to be Ohio State beating Michigan in 2002. I know I know, the National Championship meant more...but when I remember that Michigan game...actually BEING there, with my father, and finally for the first time in my life being able to beat Michigan when going into the game undefeated...that was amazing.

My first memories of sports...and also up there with my favorites, was my dad taking me to Riverfront Stadium to see the Reds play...I remember walking into the stadium every time, and I would get so excited when we would see the actually field and the players...the place was so big...when I was a kid...that was heaven. Riverfront Stadium. When they tore it down, they tore down my heaven.

I never thought that i'd be working my way to being on fields that hopefully are making kids and their fathers feel the same way my dad and I did back then.

lovin_bobby42 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 11:43 AM

^This is first or favorite memories...doesn't matter.

I was at the tailgate for the OSU/UM game the year we went undefeated so I feel you on that one!! The magic was in the air that day... or rather ALL season long!
I too remember the first time I was taken to my first baseball game ever in Cincinnati. To me, Riverfront seemed like the biggest thing I had ever seen! Great times! I'm sad they tore it down too but I really dig Cinergy Field.

barlow1802 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 11:52 AM

My favorite sports memory was scoring a try(like a touchdown) to force overtime over the summer in a rugby tourny. We went on to win in sudden death.

Favorite ohio state memory was..i know its MoC but.. in 95 when eddie had his name chanted i recall it but i was only 8. Chanting "Maurice, Mauice" in the shoe was awesome. Also the ramp entrance for the texas game. Why do all my memories have shitty endings?

barlow1802 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 11:54 AM

Actually I changed mine, dammit.

98 beating michigan and being on the field with my dad and pulling up a piece of the endzone. I planted it in the endzone of our football field we played on in the sideyard when I was still a kid.

Zurp · #7 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 12:03 PM

Mine's probably a tie between the National Championship game (does that count as the 2002 Fiesta Bowl or the 2003 Fiesta Bowl?) and the 2004 Michigan game. The NC game is for obvious reasons, but the Michigan game in 2004 was great for me, personally, because Ohio State had a terrible record against Michigan when I was at the game. Check this out:

1986 Ohio State lost. I don't remember what the score was, but I seem to remember Matt Frantz kicking a last-second field goal that would have won the game. I may have that fact confused with another game, but I know the Bucks lost that game.

1988 Ohio State lost. Cooper's first year. The Bucks were 4-5-1 at that time. They were down something like 24-0 at halftime. They came back and made it a game. They took the lead, and the two teams traded leads a couple times, before Michigan decided to win.

1990 Ohio State lost. I don't remember much about it. Is that the game when Greg Frey attempted an option on fourth down on the winning or tying drive?

1992 Tie game. Michigan had already clinched the Rose Bowl with a tie the week before (to Illinois, maybe). Ohio State was down 13-6 when Herbstreit threw a touchdown pass. They forced Michigan to punt, then OSU had to punt. The Michigan returner muffed the punt and it looked like it was going right for the Ohio State player. Tovar, maybe? But Michigan got it back. They ran a couple times to run the clock out before trying a hail mary. Ohio State intercepted with no time left, and returned it a long way. There was some call that I remember thinking the refs missed - some penalty that should have let the Bucks have one last play with no time on the clock. But it wasn't called, and the game ended.

2000 Ohio State lost. The score was pretty close, but I don't think the game was all that close.

2004 Ohio State won (finally). 18 years after seeing my first Ohio State loss in the 'Shoe, they won one.

BuckNutty · #8 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 12:28 PM

A couple years ago my father had to have coronary bypass graft surgery. His LAD(which is referred to as the "widow maker") was completely blocked. After seeing the cardiac cath my father's cardiologist was amazed my Dad was alive. He was scheduled for surgery immediately. While sitting in the hospital lobby at Riverside while my Dad was in surgery my mind was racing. I thought of everything my Dad had meant to me over the years. I thought about how much we loved watching sports together, football in particular. It was the longest three hours of my life.

My favorite sports memory is being at the Horseshoe with my father for the Bowling Green game in 2003. Not exactly a marquee match up by any means but it was only a few months earlier that I was sitting in that hospital wondering if I would ever get to watch another football game with him. Watching him get emotional when the band marched down the ramp, getting to see a Buckeye victory and singing Carmen Ohio next to him following the game is something I'll never forget. I've seen better games but none will be as memorable.

Go Bucks!

lovin_bobby42 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-30-2005, 12:30 PM

^Hey Crab Man! LOL

Great story!