What is/are your best sporting moments??
pjfan31
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I am a massive sporting fan, I reckon there must be some ripper stories. It might be a goal, wicket, try shot something.
I will share 3 of mine
1) I played 2 seasons of soccer/football, I cracked a half volley from about 10m outside the box and got in the top left hand corner of the net.
2) played cricket for years. Fielding at mid off. A ball came low hard and well to my left, dived full length and just held on to it. In the huddle after the wicket, my fingers were already bruised from how hard hit was hit.
3) I was at an away ground playing cricket, and I was fielding on the boundary and I had a few of their locals start to abuse me, and making rude comments about my mum, and other things. I went on to bowl the next over and after I had finished my second over I had taken 3 wickets for about 2 runs and I ran back down there telling them to Fuck off you c**** (don't normally say that word but I was really angry) and how i was going to kick their arses after the days play if they were still hanging around. It was one of my more satisfying moments of my sporting days.
Please share your moments.
I will share 3 of mine
1) I played 2 seasons of soccer/football, I cracked a half volley from about 10m outside the box and got in the top left hand corner of the net.
2) played cricket for years. Fielding at mid off. A ball came low hard and well to my left, dived full length and just held on to it. In the huddle after the wicket, my fingers were already bruised from how hard hit was hit.
3) I was at an away ground playing cricket, and I was fielding on the boundary and I had a few of their locals start to abuse me, and making rude comments about my mum, and other things. I went on to bowl the next over and after I had finished my second over I had taken 3 wickets for about 2 runs and I ran back down there telling them to Fuck off you c**** (don't normally say that word but I was really angry) and how i was going to kick their arses after the days play if they were still hanging around. It was one of my more satisfying moments of my sporting days.
Please share your moments.
Sydney 11/02/2003
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
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i can't think of 3 but there was this one time playing footy in school p.e. where i wasn't the last to be picked, ooooh i remember it to this very day!

also a few classy/lucky golf shots ive played like chipping in from off the green or sinking a monster 40+ foot putt.
Blimey there's three right there! Although none as dramatic as yours im afraid
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Club football match. Our team seriously sucks. We stink up the joint. We were trailing 3-1 at half time in this match, and we'd brought some drinks with us to have a nice time after the match. We figured we may as well start early, so we went on the piss at half time.
Turns out we're so shit, we play better when we're pissed. We came back to win 4-3. Their goalie was absolutely useless, a fill in perhaps, and any half arsed attempt at goal either went in or made him look really stupid. Moreso than one of our guys who puked on the pitch.
Ok, that's 1.
2: Being the youngest guy in my school's football competition history to receive a red card, for going nuts with slide tackling in an under 9s match. Hmm. I idolised Dennis Wise as a kid. Made sense, really. My tackling managed to start a few mass push and shoves over the years.
3: Winning every game in a club season. (all my teammates then proceeded to play rep football the next season, leaving me with a bunch of newbies in a higher division next year. Our best result was a 8-0 loss. Goodbye club football career!)Binary solo..0000001000001111000011100 -
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Also have had several scary good snowboarding runs where I've looked back and said WTF have I just done
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Super Vedder wrote:i can't think of 3 but there was this one time playing footy in school p.e. where i wasn't the last to be picked, ooooh i remember it to this very day!

Haha, thats funny, made me laughSydney 11/02/2003
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
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Hinny wrote:Club football match. Our team seriously sucks. We stink up the joint. We were trailing 3-1 at half time in this match, and we'd brought some drinks with us to have a nice time after the match. We figured we may as well start early, so we went on the piss at half time.
Turns out we're so shit, we play better when we're pissed. We came back to win 4-3. Their goalie was absolutely useless, a fill in perhaps, and any half arsed attempt at goal either went in or made him look really stupid. Moreso than one of our guys who puked on the pitch.
hehe, the 4th choice rugby squad in my school used to have lots of cans on the sidelines instead of waterbottles....i can imagine the scenes
soccer - for me it was nutmegging my friend three times in a match we played a week or two ago....then had to fill in for our goalie and made six one-on-one saves....conceded one but overall a great day!
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Haha. I just realized I played soccer for 5 years, handball for 8 years, was on the swimming team for 4 years and I have not had a single great accomplishment that I can remember :rolleyes:.
I did play five games in seven hours in a handball tournament though, and the last one was finished half past midnight. That's the one thing I remember.Then we all got drunk (on three beers) and tried to hit on the hot players from the national team :cool:.0 -
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that time in high school gym class when the star pitcher for the softball team left one over the plate and I crushed it to straightaway center field and on to the street.Reading 2004
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I played one of my best softball games while barfing behind the backstop between innings.
It was an indoor softball tourney and the bathroom was behind the backstop in the gym and there were just the 8 of us (small gym, no right field, ergo 8 players). When it was my turn to bat, my teammates would come knock on the door and ask if I was still alive.
I was thinking more about finishing the damn game so I could go rest and barf some more afterwards, instead of the game itself.
The next day, my coach was disappointed that I was feeling better.0 -
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