OT: Biggest sporting event you've been to

[dubey]

Game 1 of the 1993 World Series

 

[BonMorrison]

Not many - Wrestlemania 23 in Detroit in terms of sheer amount of people.

Still a terrible crowd though.

 

[Faltorvo]

91 Canada cup win in hamilton.

 

[Kelly]

Game 7 sens vs leafs

Forget which year tho.

 

[ACC1224]

Carters Home Run
Every Canadian game in 91, 2004 World Cup
Every Leaf playoff game since 99.
MLB, NHL All Star weekends.

Sure there's more.

 

[GordieHoweHatTrick]

First UFC event in Toronto

 

[parkdale lad]

Games 6 and 7 Leafs VS Sharks in '94 at MLG. AMAZING.

I was also at the Dome when the Jays broke the 4 million fan mark.

 

[Deebo]

Game 7 sens vs leafs

Forget which year tho.

Do you remember if it was Nieuwendyk or Mogilny who scored 2 goals?

 

[topched]

UFC GSP vs Shields @ Rogers Centre

Every Canada WJ game in 2009 vs. Ottawa

Every Canada Olympic game in 2010


Its tough for me to say what I enjoyed more... Eberle's OT goal in 09 vs. Russia or Sid's OT goal in Vancouver. They were both insane to see live.

 

[nsleaf]

2000 Memorial Cup Halifax vs Barrie
2003 WJC in Halifax Semi-final Canada vs USA

NY Mets @ Montreal Expos Gary Carter's first series back in Montreal after being traded to the Mets. Expos won series 3-0 and Tim Raines had 3 stolen bases in game 1 off of Carter. 55,000 fans in attendance. Those were the days!

 

[Al14]

1976 Grey Cup.

Still waiting to see Tony Gabriel catch that TD pass from Tom Clements. We had great seats for baseball, but bad seats to see the opposite end zone for football.

 

[bshaw]

Went to a beer league hockey game once.. It was pretty hype

 

[thatshype]

Canada vs. USA World Baseball Classic game at the Skydome. I think it was 2008?

Great crowd...fully packed Skydome all cheering for Canada.

 

[Bigleaf]

2002 Gold medal game in Salt Lake City. We had 6 seats together on the glass at the blue line in the US teams end. We purchased the 6 seats months earlier in 3 separate Ebay auctions put on by the the US Olympic committee. We paid BIG money to secure these seats (the bidding was crazy) and were happy and surprised when the Olympic Committee gave us the seats together when they sent us the tickets about a month later. We thought the seats would be in different locations. It was an awesome experience. We can be seen going crazy in the "Gold Rush 2002" DVD. One of our Canadian flags was carried around the ice after the game. We spent a couple of days in Vegas prior and had a flight booked for the morning of the game but decided to leave around midnight and drive to Salt Lake because the forecast was calling for sketchy weather. My cousins flew home to Toronto on the Air Canada flight out of Vegas the next day and Pat Quinn was on their flight. It was an amazing time. Goosebumps.
My 2 cousins, who are my best friends, and myself are seen at the far right of this picture jumping for joy when Sakic scores. My sister, nephew and mom cant be seen in the photo. All those seats behind us are Press and Damien Cox was about three rows up directly behind us.

 

[Mess]

Title says it all, just curious if anyone has been to any big sporting events. I don't know if it counts as a sport but I went to WrestleMania X8 at the skydome. The atmosphere was incredible, an event ill never forget.

I was in the crowd to watch Crosby score the golden goal for Team Canada winning the Olympic hockey event.

 

[ErnieLeafs]

Superbowl in Detroit, and the ALCS game when Ordonez hit the homer to put the Tigers into the WS in 2006

 

[Damisoph]

Game 2 of the Leafs/Sens 2nd round game back in 2002. Triple OT goal by Gary Roberts.

My father had tickets for him and I to go to game 7 of the 1993 World Series. I wasn't that upset we couldn't go.

 

[Damisoph]

I was in the crowd to watch Crosby score the golden goal for Team Canada winning the Olympic hockey event.

That is amazing.

 

[Deebo]

2002 Gold medal game in Salt Lake City. We had 6 seats together on the glass at the blue line in the US teams end. We purchased the 6 seats months earlier in 3 separate Ebay auctions put on by the the US Olympic committee. We paid BIG money to secure these seats (the bidding was crazy) and were happy and surprised when the Olympic Committee gave us the seats together when they sent us the tickets about a month later. We thought the seats would be in different locations. It was an awesome experience. We can be seen going crazy in the "Gold Rush 2002" DVD. One of our Canadian flags was carried around the ice after the game. We spent a couple of days in Vegas prior and had a flight booked for the morning of the game but decided to leave around midnight and drive to Salt Lake because the forecast was calling for sketchy weather. My cousins flew home to Toronto on the Air Canada flight out of Vegas the next day and Pat Quinn was on their flight. It was an amazing time. Goosebumps.
My 2 cousins, who are my best friends, and myself are seen at the far right of this picture jumping for joy when Sakic scores. My sister, nephew and mom cant be seen in the photo. All those seats behind us are Press and Damien Cox was about three rows up directly behind us.

As amazing as 2010 was, 2002 was my favourite, I loved that team.

So many top players from the era of hockey that I grew up watching

Sakic, Shanahan, Fleury Lindros, Nolan, Lemieux, Nieuwendyk, Yzerman, McInnis, Belfour, Cujo, Blake, Kariya, Niedermayer.

Sakic's breakaway goal to seal it was just awesome.

"it's going to be a break, IT'S JOE SAKIC.....SCORES!!!!!!!! THAT MAKES IT 5-2 CANADA, SURELY THAT'S GOTTA BE IT!!!!!!"

 

[topched]

I was in the crowd to watch Crosby score the golden goal for Team Canada winning the Olympic hockey event.

Mess just curious... where were you?

I was second last row just off centre ice. Funny enough Bobby Ryan's family was about one section away in the same row. Early on heard them complaining about how high up they were

 

[Deebo]

Game 2 of the Leafs/Sens 2nd round game back in 2002. Triple OT goal by Gary Roberts.

My story for that goal is awesome, not in the stands awesome, but still a great memory.

My buddies and I had just moved into a new place and we threw a big party and just as OT started, the contingent of sens fans buddies we have show up and it turned into a hostile environment.

Cold night, 14 inch TV with CBC on the rabbit ears, too many people to watch inside so we're sitting on the deck out back. It felt like I was going to get another beer every 7 minutes. 35-40 people 60/40 split leafs to sens fans and after Multiple Hossa breakaways stopped by Cujo, Robert Reichel wins the face off back to Roberts who puts it home.

Elation on one side of the deck, dejection on the other. Once the game was over, we were all friends again and more beer was flowing.

Fun times.

 

[Coatsy79]

England v Australia autumn international rugby match at Twickenham

82,000 of the worlds finest rugby fans all in one place..............we lost mind

Went to the world rugby 7's at the government stadium when I lived in Hong Kong, that was pretty big too

 

[Damisoph]

My story for that goal is awesome, not in the stands awesome, but still a great memory.

My buddies and I had just moved into a new place and we threw a big party and just as OT started, the contingent of sens fans buddies we have show up and it turned into a hostile environment.

Cold night, 14 inch TV with CBC on the rabbit ears, too many people to watch inside so we're sitting on the deck out back. It felt like I was going to get another beer every 7 minutes. 35-40 people 60/40 split leafs to sens fans and after Multiple Hossa breakaways stopped by Cujo, Robert Reichel wins the face off back to Roberts who puts it home.

Elation on one side of the deck, dejection on the other. Once the game was over, we were all friends again and more beer was flowing.

Fun times.

Ha nice. We were sitting in the blues behind the Leaf net when Roberts scored. High fiving complete strangers is always fun. That was a huge win after Ottawa ran us out of the rink in game 1, think the final score was 5-0 or 6-1 or something.

 

[KadoCH]

2003 WJC Gold Medal Game

Canada blew a 2-1 lead in the 3rd to the Russians. Was a long drive home, but still look back on the experience fondly.

 

[pucci2001]

F1 Canadian GP in Montreal, place was insane the whole town was buzzing all week! It was the year before they took it away, Hamilton hit Kimi in pit lane like a clown. Was about 100' from the start/finish line.