Best Sports Finals

istewart · #1 02-07-2005, 05:09 PM

For hockey, basketball, baseball, and football, list each best championship game that you were alive for (NOTE: keep it to games you actually were old enough to "understand" -- i.e. don't say the 1975 World Series if you were born in 1974).

I only started watching the Stanley Cup playoffs regularly 5 years ago, so I won't do hockey.

Bulls vs. Suns, 1993
Yankees vs. Diamondbacks, 2001
Rams vs. Titans, 2000 (Pats/Rams is up there)

The Armchair · #2 02-07-2005, 10:56 PM

Game 6 of the 1986 WS is #1 in my book, as it would have been a title game had the Mets lost. Although the NLCS -- especially games 5 and 6 -- were much better. If that does not qualify, as it was not a game 7, I am at a loss.

I, too, do not watch hockey. And pro basketball sucks. College basketball, the Fab Five phantom time out was a great game, with the accident just proving the human condition. The Duke/UNLV semifinal in... whatever year it was -- that was the best game I ever watched, though. And this coming from a UConn fan who still remembers the Tate George turnaround jumper after Scott Burrell went the length of the court with his throw.

Superbowl: A toss up between the Norwood/Giants SB and Titans/Rams. Titans/Rams was probably the better game, but I cannot remember the last time I was so interested in a game than the Bills/G'ntz, and there was no disappointment from this Armchair QB.

Jack of Arcades · #3 02-07-2005, 10:57 PM

95 WS. I'm biased.

Schneids · #4 02-07-2005, 11:12 PM

MLB -- 1991 Twins vs. Braves

I'm a biased Minnesotan.

mmbt0ne · #5 02-07-2005, 11:13 PM

Do we have another ATLien in OOT?

1998 NCAA Final 4

holeplug · #6 02-07-2005, 11:28 PM

1998 NBA Finals: Jordan's last 'real' game

1999 NCAA: Duke vs. UCONN....great game plus I made a shitload on UCONN that game

2001 WS: Yankees lost! plus a great series

Super Bowl 32: Elway's helicopter spin game

DontRaisePlz · #7 02-07-2005, 11:28 PM

2003 Fiesta Bowl, Ohio St vs. Miami
2002 World Series, Angels vs. Giants (just to see SFers suffer)
1988 World Series, Dodgers vs. A's

Jack of Arcades · #8 02-08-2005, 08:22 AM

Rigged.

Jack of Arcades · #9 02-08-2005, 08:22 AM

Nah. Louisiana. Grandfather became a Braves fan because of TBS and it stuck.

sfer · #10 02-08-2005, 10:25 AM

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2001 WS: Yankees lost! plus a great series

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I think that was the best World Series of my conscious lifetime.