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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 22, 2020 17:35:00 GMT
I played football (Soccer) from 16 till my knees gave up on me when I was 32. Yet my left foot was only good for standing on, so I went over the local park every week working on my left foot, one of my greatest pleasures in sporting life was netting a semi-final winner, with my leftie - it's indelible how I was swamped by all my team mates - I was only 22 at the time. I hate these one footed over paid players these days, work on your weakness, don't hide behind one foot. I achieved my target of scoring 100 goals for my team - a team of mates, it's personal of course, but before my Knees collapsed I was so proud to help them to the first league title in their history. I also played cricket for Four Oaks Saints, fouroakssaints.play-cricket.com/ sadly it was short lived as I was a wicket keeper, and then the knees kicked in - and the captain and I had a major disagreement... I responded by taking 5 dismissals and plundering 36 runs in 2 overs in my last game for them. So, wherever you are in the world, share your personal sporting joys. Be it Home Runs, Six Hits, great goals, Kabaddi, Aussie Rules etc etc - Share peeps Share the joy of your memories  |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 22, 2020 17:42:35 GMT
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Post by sdm3 on Oct 22, 2020 17:46:45 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 22, 2020 18:06:18 GMT
The primary school i went to had a floorball tournament every year when i was in 5th grade the class i was in got second place, when i was in the 6 grade my class won the floorball tournament. I guess being part of the class that won the floorball tournament is the greatest moment for me playing sport. There where 2 teams from each class so all in all there where 12 teams taking part in the tournament. If talking about induvial its getting 5th place out of 50 players in a regional table tennis tournament |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 22, 2020 18:07:26 GMT
Too many to list.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 22, 2020 18:17:30 GMT
3 sacks against Fairfield high school, including on their potentially game tying drive where I instead ended the game.
I also dunked on a guy in a rec basketball game. Don't think I ever dunked again, even just practicing.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 22, 2020 18:18:20 GMT
I entered a big 9 ball tournament when I was 19. The kicker was that it was hosted by a big name pro, Nick Varner. If you won, you got to play Varner. The game was supposed to be more of "I did it" moment, no teen could beat a player like Varner in his prime. I won the tournament then kicked Varner's ass. Ran the table on the one game we were supposed to play. He racked again, I whupped him again. And again. And again. Granted, I was loose (been shooting for three hours) and Varner had been sitting for hours, but it was still fun.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Oct 22, 2020 18:59:24 GMT
I played in a coed recreational volleyball league with some co-workers maybe 15 years ago. I’m just average height so I couldn’t spike it but otherwise it was one of the few sports I was any good at. The one season when I was captain, we won the league tournament. That season though consisted of only 4 teams, one of which was mostly over 55 year old women. But someone’s gotta win, and that someone was me. That was my Al Bundy moment.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Oct 22, 2020 19:35:56 GMT
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 22, 2020 20:10:24 GMT
I.....really don't think I have any. I entered a local tennis tournament (single set matches) once and I killed the dude who everyone thought would win in a relatively early round. His name was Sahresh, and he was flat out awesome but I played, by far, the best game I've ever played. My serve was low, my returns were straight fire, I got to everything.
Next match, I guess my adrenaline wore off and it was over pretty quickly as I lost to some doofus.
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Post by 尺ロㄈにモイ州凡几 on Oct 22, 2020 20:10:58 GMT
I once made an Odell Beckham Jr.-like catch in a football game with some of my friends. And when I say Odell Beckham Jr.-like catch, I don't mean some ordinary one-handed catch. I mean, laying out, full-extension, catching the ball with the tips of my fingers. And I didn't even have gloves on. I make a lot of sick one-handed catches, but never ones that are as difficult to pull off as that one was.
Dunked on a guy after jumping from near the top of the key in a game of "sign-out" in high school gym class. Wasn't really trying to dunk, and wasn't expecting to get as high as I did. Was going in at a bit of an angle and was trying to get a layup, but ended up getting more height on my jump than I expected and noticed I was eye-level with the rim and slammed the ball through the hoop.
Another one would've been when I was little and playing catcher in little league. This kid was trying to run home after the kid at bat hit a grounder straight to second base on a fielder's choice. First base threw the ball to me in time to make an attempt, and the kid heading home was planning to run through me to get there. Unfortunately for him, I wasn't as scrawny as I appeared and he bounced right the fuck off me and fell to the ground and was tagged out. The kid was crying a lot and had to get helped off the field by his coaches and I just got back into position for the next batter like nothing happened.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Oct 22, 2020 20:27:51 GMT
Game winning homerun.
Only happened once.
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Post by Aj_June on Oct 22, 2020 20:30:37 GMT
I remember a cricket game I played at circuit house ground in my small hometown for more than one reason.
I witnessed cheating and disgust of being cheated probably for the first time in my life. I witnessed bullying very closely.
We were about 12 years old school boys and decided to bunk the school and play cricket that day. May have been Friday but don't remember that. We were a bunch of classmates so of nearly the same age. We went to this ground and decided to play a match on a bet of 100 rs against a local group of bigger boys. Yeah, 100 rs is no big deal but that was enough to buy for each of us a glass bottle of coke and one samosa. So we were excited.
We batted first and it was a 20 overs game (it was 1997). I scored a half century and raised my bat to acknowledge my 50. I scored a total of 57 and almost 50% of our total. As the game progressed the big boys started behaving aggressively. When we got first 2 wickets in the 2nd innings we thought we will win the game. Suddenly the umpire started giving no-balls. After 2 or 3 times it happened I decided to look at the landing feet of our bowler to see if he was indeed bowling no-balls. To my amazement I found our bowler was at least 8 inches behind the line and yet the umpire gave no ball. I and my friends protested but they said we were lying. We decided to call off the match and then suddenly one of my friends was beaten up. The guy who beat up my friend later told another guy that he was asked to actually beat me because of how I had celebrated my half century. Some other bunch of guys came to mediate and stop us from fighting (which was good because if the fight continued then we would all have been beat up badly because we were 12 and our opponents were 14 on average). Then we returned home. That was my 2nd favourite batting memory but not entirely happy ending.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Oct 22, 2020 20:49:36 GMT
Great moment #2: when I was a kid in summer camp I loved playing but sucked at baseball. But one day while playing I hit the ball as hard as I could directly at the third baseman. He Bill Bucknered it though and it rolled all the way to the woods behind left field. I got all the way to third base, driving in the go ahead run. The camp counselor picked me up and threw me in the air and for one brief second I was Mike Schmidt.
Great moment #3: at the same camp during our color war days we were playing basketball. My friend and I were on opposite teams. If you thought I sucked at baseball, you should have witnessed this putrescence. During that game all the members of both teams except for my friend and I were fucking around and acting like assholes. So the counselor banned all 8 of the players except me and my friend, turning it into a 1 on 1 sudden death first basket wins it battle. It was like that Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon is playing basketball. Ten minutes go by and neither of us could score. Finally on one trip up the court by some miracle I sank a layup, winning the game and getting points for my color war team. For one brief second I was Mo Cheeks.
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Post by Xeliou66 on Oct 22, 2020 20:56:54 GMT
I’ve never really played sports - I play golf and swim, and so I guess my best sporting achievement would be some nice shots on the golf course, I’ve chipped it in from the bunker a couple of times.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 22, 2020 20:59:49 GMT
Great moment #2: when I was a kid in summer camp I loved playing but sucked at baseball. But one day while playing I hit the ball as hard as I could directly at the third baseman. He Bill Bucknered it though and it rolled all the way to the woods behind left field. I got all the way to third base, driving in the go ahead run. The camp counselor picked me up and threw me in the air and for one brief second I was Mike Schmidt. Great moment #3: at the same camp during our color war days we were playing basketball. My friend and I were on opposite teams. If you thought I sucked at baseball, you should have witnessed this putrescence. During that game all the members of both teams except for my friend and I were fucking around and acting like assholes. So the counselor banned all 8 of the players except me and my friend, turning it into a 1 on 1 sudden death first basket wins it battle. It was like that Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon is playing basketball. Ten minutes go by and neither of us could score. Finally on one trip up the court by some miracle I sank a layup, winning the game and getting points for my color war team. For one brief second I was Mo Cheeks.
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Post by millar70 on Oct 22, 2020 22:02:07 GMT
Winning the IMDb2 NFL Pick-em 2019 Playoff Edition pool. What was even more amazing was that I was something like a 25 seed after a mediocre regular season, yet much like a Jack Morris or a Joe Montana, I do my best work when it really matters.
Granted, my victory was helped by the suspension of AHFan, who was ahead of me and had the same picks as me when he was booted, but that's his problem, not mine.
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 22, 2020 22:28:07 GMT
I played softball for the city growing up. Various local businesses would sponsor teams. My team won 1st place when I was 12. We were the Pizza Hut team. It was pretty exciting winning that 1st place trophy.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Oct 23, 2020 1:37:38 GMT
Wait, do video games count?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 23, 2020 2:34:47 GMT
Let's just say that I am very lucky that I am somewhat intelligent, because if I had to depend on athletic ability to get ahead in life I would probably be living on the streets.
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