Brag away, your greatest most memorable sports moment.

longduckdong · April 4

“Hello everybody nice to see you again”
Shout out to Ed Whelan.

Some of you shared your personal grief in sports and all of your failures. Lets roll back the Al Bundy Machine and see where you peaked.

I’ll go first.

Three Rivers League football, rainy shitty night, field was a muddy mess. Weird now kids all play on turf. Kicked a 40+ yard field goal as time expired to beat our hated rivals. I got carried away on shoulders of teammates who didn't even like me.

Bonus points: Up until that time 40 yards was longest i ever made even in practice.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover · April 4

Gym basketball at the Y. I’m in the corner, on the baseline calling out of bounds and throw up the most beautiful shot of my life. I had the worst angle possible and somehow, it went in.

Flag football in the Army, playing DE. QB goes to throw, I jump and tip the ball. I fall to the ground while the QB catches it. I bounce back up and grab his flag for a loss.

My personal favorite was in Rugby. I had a guy tell me, “it takes about a year to be good at Rugby and about 10 years to be great.” At about the year mark, I see the action in my mind before it happened and scored. I felt Neo in the Matrix when he stops the bullets in mid-air. Never made it to the 10 year mark but that as an amazing moment for me.

Quietcowskee · April 4

I busted a half court buzzer beater to win an IMA game in ‘95. Looked over and locked eyes with Olin Kreutz who was sitting on a nearby bench.

He nodded in approval.

DerekJohnson · April 4

I played for the Sammamish Bengals in my early teens. On my birthday we beat Newport 13-0 and I had six quarterback sacks.

When I was 14 our basketball team (Braves) was 8-1 and took on the Bulls 9-0 for the regular season finale at the Bellevue Boys Club. Our only loss was to them in week #5, 34-10. But in this game we beat them 34-32. I scored 16 points. Just a great memory of my youth. My dad was the head coach to boot.

(We won our two playoff games and faced the Bulls again for the championship. Our starting center was Mormon and couldn't play because it was a Sunday. One of our other top players was out with the flu. We lost 35-28 and I scored 8 or 10 points.)

haie · April 4

Probably just making the playoffs every year of high school and one of those years we played Locker and Ferndale.

Played this weird as fuck District "playoff game" where you had us, Black Hills, and North Thurston and you had to do this weird "2 quarter" game elimination shit. Anyways we beat both and didn't have to look like fags that lost a 2 quarter district playoff game.

Fishpo31 · April 4

A 3 run walk off oppo jack off the best pitcher in the league to win our LL championship, then being severely depressed when I didn’t make all stars. I was 11, and the rule was it was all 12’s for AS…but, still.
In Colt League, bottom 7, up one, laid out full in RF with sacks drunk to end game and win title.

HS: 4 innings in relief, 4 rbi including the game winner against top ranked team in AAA (we were #2).

As an adult, shot 74 at Indian Canyon…

dirtysouwfdawg · April 4

JV soccer, freshmen yr. Scored 4 goals against Juanita. Pretty sure I smoked a bowl before getting on the bus that game. Had a goal against Roosevelt where I kicked the goalie in the chest with one leg while scoring with the other. #mykangs

JH JV football, freshmen yr. Intercepted a pass for a pick six. Final play of the game, we? threw the only pass of the entire game and I caught it and scored. Kicked both of the fields goals and we won 14-7. #myroyals

I peaked early thanks to drugs. Oh, well.

BleachedAnusDawg · April 4

Ask me after I finish transitioning…

I keeeeed, I keeeeed. TITTT

Not many after age 12 or so because that was the age when I mostly quit playing organized sports as everyone else got taller, and I did not until about 17. Baseball was my best sport and I should've stuck with it since you can get away with not being freakishly large to play at a high level.

I remember being rather impressed with myself for hitting a couple of monster homeruns in a church softball league, game one of the season. This was at the MLT pavilion fields and was the moment where I realized that grown man strength is some real shit.

Threw down a one-handed jam with a mini ball in PE - I used to be able to jump. Realizing that explosive movements no longer exist in your 40's is kinda depressing.

Buried a 35 foot hole in one on 18 at Interbay mini-golf with $5 skins on the line. Had no clue it was a miss and lose, make and tie scenario, until after the fact.