List the top 10 best championship moments that your professional and or amateur team(s) were part of in your life time.
10. Michael Schumacher winning the 2000 F-1 Drivers Championship for Ferrari - The first of many for Schumacher (however not with Ferrari previous to '00, yet with rivals Benetton Ford) and in my life time and although I do not follow the sport closely anymore my entire family was joyed when this championship took place...this one ended 20 years of misery for Ferrari fans!
9. Syracuse winning the 2004-2005 Big East Championship after a 12 year hiatus - Don't remember much of the 1992 championship win, but this one again was long awaited for...
8. New York Yankees winning the 1996 World Series down 0-2 and coming back on 4 straight wins to win it in New York - After going through grueling years as a young Yankee fan, this win was one of the sweetest.
7. Chicago Bulls winning the 1996 NBA Championship with the Return of MJ - A sigh of relief and fulfillment when this championship took place.
6. Chicago Bulls winning the 1993 NBA Championship with John Paxon's shot in Phoenix in the closing seconds of game 6 - Were on the brink of loosing and going into a game 7 which they quite possibly could have lost and my brother and I never screamed more when they won!
5. New Giants winning Superbowl 26 with a Scott Norwide FG miss - 1st championship moment of my young life.
4. New York Yankees Winning the 2003 ALCS vs. Boston - One of the greatest games and spectacles in sports that I have ever witnessed.
3. New York Yankees Winning the 2000 World Series vs. the Mets - Shut up all Mets fans that I lived with while at Iona for a long time.
2. Syracuse winning the 2003 NCAA Championship - A life time waiting for, and when this monumental win took place I was the happiest I have ever been when one of my teams won. No greater win than this one better utters the words "we finally got one!!!"
1. Italy winning the 2006 World Cup - Long awaited and it means more when you only get to play for this championship of the world every 4 years.
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Salati...normally you count backwards, I guess you like to state your most favorite item first. I will do this the traditional way.
10. New York Knicks win the 1994 Eastern Conference - Michael Jordan finally retired and the Knicks decided to man up and finally beat the Bulls in the playoffs.
9. New York Yankees win the 1999 World Series. Easy sweep of the pathetic Braves and Roger Clemmons first World Series ring was delivered to him in pinstripes.
8. New York Giants win the 2000 NFC Championship - Giants defeated the Vikings 41-0, and it left me shocked as I thought they would get rolled over by Randy Moss and company.
7. North Carolina wins the 2005 NCAA National Championship - Coach Roy Williams, Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton, Sean May, Jackie Manuel, Juwad Williams.... enough said
6. New York Yankees win the World Series in 1998. Best overall team the Yankees have had since 1927. 114-48 regular season record and an easy sweep of the Padres in the World Series.
5. New York Giants win Super Bowl XXI in 1986. Phil Simms was named the Super Bowl MVP. He finished the game completing 22 of 25 passes for 268 yards and three touchdowns. His 22 out of 25 (88%) completion percentage not only set a Super Bowl record, but also an NFL postseason record.
4. New York Yankees win the 2000 World Series. Subway Series which brought alot of hype. Even though the Yankees won the series handily at 4 games to 1, it was still huge becsaue I refuse to acknowledge a Mets victroy in that series.
3. New York Giants win Super Bowl XVI in 1990. Salati has already said it all.
2. New York Yankees win the 1996 World Series. First win of this new dynasty, and at the time I hated the Braves more than any other team. Down 0-2 and win 4 straight.
1. New York Yankees win the 2003 ALCS. By far the best post season series I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. I will never forget Aaron Boone as long as I live. I don't care that they lost the World Series that year, because the Red Sox series was a huge victory to me.
10. '94 Rangers (just so all the hockey losers would shut up finally)
9. '85 Villanova (simply cause Georgetown lost)
8. '01 Syracuse Law School Flag Football Championship (So Fresh and So Clean defeats 2 year undefeated unscored upon Sausage in a Box)
7. '00 Yankees (subway series)
6. '98 Yankees (most wins ever)
5. '05 Syracuse Beast Championship(after 12 year hiatis)
4. '06 Syracuse Beast Championship (first team to win 4 straight games to win it)
3. '90 NY Giants win over Bills (wide right)
2. '96 Yankees Championship
1. '03 Syracuse NCAA
Davols...
Care to extrapolate more on these choices???
HM Roy Jones Jr. defeating previously unbeaten James “Lights Out” Toney to win the IBF Super Middleweight Championship [Nov. 18, 1994] - RJJ is probably my favorite boxer of all-time and this was clearly his finest moment; plus, I’ve always rooted against the cocky Toney.
HM Affirmed winning the 1978 Triple Crown – Figures the first set of Triple Crown races I watch, and actually have a rooting interest in (17 year old phenom jockey Stevie Cauthen and my all-time favorite race horse, Affirmed), results in the very last Triple Crown winner.
HM 1990 Giants winning SB XXV – 1990 was the first year I watched EVERY Giant game with my uncle at the “Sloan Dome”, so watching that kick go wide-right was a pretty cool moment.
HM 1986 Amazins winning the World Series – Went from being what would have been the most heartbreaking loss I could remember since the ’Boys lost SB XIII to being the most exhilarating victory since the ’78 Yanks took home the crown. Fuck the Sawx.
HM 1986 Kansas Jayhawks winning the NCAA Basketball Tourney – Outside of MANY Syracuse triumphs over the years, this was by far the sweetest victory for me and my father; not so much because we liked “Danny and the Miracles”, but rather because of our complete disdain for the cocky, big-mouthed, punk of a Sooner coach, Billy “Fuckin’” Tubbs (asshole).
(10) 1985 Sooners winning the Orange Bowl and the National Championship – This was essentially the last time I rooted harder for the Sooners than I did for the Orange in college football, and was also the first time my favorite team ever won a college title in one of the big two college sports (its only happened twice).
(9) 1978 Yankees – Too young to remember ’77, but very conscious of this series; represented the first time I ever saw one of my favorite teams win a championship.
(8) 1998 Yankees winning the World Series – I rank this one higher than ’78 because of the fact that this 125-50 club was arguably the greatest team in the history of baseball, rivaled only by another great team from the Bronx, the ’27 Murderers’ Row Yanks.
(7) 1996 Yankees winning the World Series – 18 years was too long to wait, and this was the first Yankee championship that I was completely (not just “very”) conscious of.
(6) Johnny Mac beating Bjorn Borg 7-6, 6-1, 6-7, 6-7, 6-4 to win the 1980 U.S. Open – I was a fucking fanatical McEnroe fan, and this was the greatest match I had, or have, ever seen.
(5) 1992 Cowboys winning SB XXVII - Aside from maybe the ’78 Steelers and the ’85 Bears, this was the best team I have/had ever seen, and this was the first Cowboy Super Bowl win that I remember watching (only remember the post game of ’77 team’s victory).
(4) Team USA Hockey winning gold at the 1980 Olympics - I was going ape-shit jumping around screaming “Do you realize what we just did?!?!?!?”; particularly sweet after I had just watched the same Soviet team beat up on a team full of NHL all-stars at the ’79 Challenge Cup.
(3) 1994 Rangers winning the Stanley Cup - I’m not sure my heart rate has ever been higher than it was during the waning moments of game seven (130+ beats per minute).
(2) 2003 Orange winning the National Championship – I rank this one ahead of the Rangers Staley Cup vic because, while my father, who was pretty sick at the time, was never a big hockey fan, he was/is a massive Syracuse basketball fan, and this was the absolute, fuckin’ best; plus my puppy, Moose, was right by my side during the whole thing.
(1a) 2005 Spring Southern Tier Dodgeball League Championship - Cementing the notion that we were/are the finest dodgeball players that have ever lived.
(1) 1989 Chenango Valley Jr./Sr. game – The 30 point underdogs, lead by yours truly, shocked the world.
Marcus I like the last three...some questionable HM's and a few in the latter of the top 10 but all around good stuff.
Number 1 for me would and should have been 2002 Iona College Flag Football Championship (however since we lost I cannot include it in any top 10 list of any sort ever) which to this day it pains me to talk much about. As they "Midnight Muraders" tied the game 6-6 on an errant cover scheme by one of our lesser-talented corners, we went into overtime and on there possession they scored on 4th and goal on one of the biggest hoes jobs I have ever been apart of, or for that matter, witnessed....In my mind us "Crosby Crew" won that year but the free nike duffle bags that those assholes won and are probably still carrying around shows otherwise...mother b*t*h I am still extremely pissed off about that!!! The man should be down where you rip his flag off...stupid work study refs!!!
Oh and I will also add that number 2 should have been the 1999 CYO league championship but again we lost and just ask schof, him and I are still extremely upset about it!!! We had the best forward in Broome County and a Div. 1 talent and we lost...ugh god that is a tough one too...I think my next post will be top 10 most dissappointing losses...
"Marcus I like the last three...some questionable HM's and a few in the latter of the top 10 but all around good stuff."
What the fuck are you talking about? You put Michael Schumacher in your top 10 AND the Italians winning the f'n World Cup as No. 1 . . . you are an American you sonofabitch . . .
I am of Italian heritage and background...
Did you not read the post...I specifically state "YOUR" teams, the Amazins were one or YOUR teams??? If so, you are a dirty front running scum b*t*h!!!
Aaron this category is right in your wheelhouse.
Just to clear this up...my #1 being '03 Cuse is so far #1 that the others are not even in the same ballpark. That '03 cuse title was literally a dream come true. I thought there was a pretty good chance that I would not see that in my lifetime and to have it happen while a student and out on Marshall street that night was by far and away the most gratifying sports moment of my life. I can still get chills just thinking about being in Harrys and as Heinrick's shot misses the rim jumping in the air and it being so crowded that I didn't come all the way back down to the ground, then stampeeded the furniture, and trashed marshall street. Nothing could ever compare to that again.
I did not include the Boone homerun series because I didn't think that qualified as a "championship" but if the list was most gratifying sports moments that would be in the top 5, just cause of how heated that series was with pedro being an ass hole, and how bad I wanted to beat the sox that year, and how they had to come back from 3 down against pedro and won in that dramatic fashion. So great watching the sox walk off the field disappointed again. God I could watch the looks on their faces all day as boone's ball came of the bat.
If this isn't bookmarked on your computer do so now and never lose it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1UitCaewQ8
Salati is Italian? Haha . . . you idiot . . . I'm half Russian, you don't see me rooting for Moscow Dynamo do you? And an Italian car company???? Unorthodox, yes, but I can respect that . . .
I am still a New York fan at heart - not one of those fans that can't root for the Mets cause I'm a Yankee fan . . . never understood that dilemna . . .
Yeah Yeah Yeah...agent orange can you think of a time you rooted for the Met's??? I actually, if I could remember, would have rooted for the Amazin's in '86 because I hate Boston of course, but outside of that...sorry!!!
why dont you idiots get a life!!
OK "BJ FAY" AKA Anonymous!!!
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