No sports to watch or discuss. What's your greatest sports memory?
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Paul Henderson’s winning goal in the 72 Russia/Canada series.
Zinedine Zidane‘s famous head butt in the 2006 World Cup final.
The fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston.
Women’s and Men’s waterpolo championships 2005 in Montreal.
Hungarian women won gold, men silver.
Had both teams over with a friend of mine for BBQ lunch, the amount of alcohol they consumed was insane and the women kept pace with the men. The women’s coach was a good friend of my buddies who won a few Olympic gold medals ( I saw final of the one he won in 1976 in Montreal) at one time he was considered the best in the world.
There were two women on that team that were total knockouts. They both played professionally in Italy.
Zinedine Zidane‘s famous head butt in the 2006 World Cup final.
The fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston.
Women’s and Men’s waterpolo championships 2005 in Montreal.
Hungarian women won gold, men silver.
Had both teams over with a friend of mine for BBQ lunch, the amount of alcohol they consumed was insane and the women kept pace with the men. The women’s coach was a good friend of my buddies who won a few Olympic gold medals ( I saw final of the one he won in 1976 in Montreal) at one time he was considered the best in the world.
There were two women on that team that were total knockouts. They both played professionally in Italy.
That reminds me of a story.
I was in Montreal for the '76 Olympics. One evening we are downtown and it is one big party. Drinking and mingling for blocks.
We start talking to a few people and one guy was wearing a Great Britain training jacket. It turns out that he was a British swimmer who had finished his event. I ended up negotiating with him to buy his jacket. It ended up costing me $50 and 1 gram of hash. The next few days, as I was wearing it around town, I must have had a dozen people approach me thinking I was a British athlete. One guy even asked me to fix him up with some girl on the British team. I still have the jacket. Shockingly, it doesn't fit so well anymore.
And the kicker: I had told the story to my kids, including the guy's name which I remembered, and one night we are watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and Guy Fieri intros a restaurant in the American northwest run by a former British swimmer by the name of ____ and it was the same guy.
Since we are reliving stories:
Same Montreal 1976 Olympics:
I met a friend of mine at the Hungarian club on St Laurence Blvd for dinner as he was a childhood friend of one of the boxers on the Olympic team.
The club invited the whole team for dinner that night and after dinner my buddy and I went upstairs to the strip club in the same building with them.
As the night wore on and more and more alcohol was consumed some of these olympians got very familiar with the strippers as at that time it was very new to them to be in such an establishment.
I have never seen bouncers so docile in a strip club, but then again how do you forcibly remove an entire Olympic boxing team.
Same Montreal 1976 Olympics:
I met a friend of mine at the Hungarian club on St Laurence Blvd for dinner as he was a childhood friend of one of the boxers on the Olympic team.
The club invited the whole team for dinner that night and after dinner my buddy and I went upstairs to the strip club in the same building with them.
As the night wore on and more and more alcohol was consumed some of these olympians got very familiar with the strippers as at that time it was very new to them to be in such an establishment.
I have never seen bouncers so docile in a strip club, but then again how do you forcibly remove an entire Olympic boxing team.
Great story Eddie!!
Have to ask though.......Was the Hash Lebanese? Smoked a ton of that in High School,lol.
Nope. Unlike with women, I was not a fan of blonde (blonde Leb). The blacker and gooier, the better for me.
I don't think he got any shmeer (Kashmiri), but it might have been a nice nep (Nepalese).
Here is a memory that has bothered me for over half a century. It was a sunny afternoon on October 10, 1968. I remember the date because my birthday was the day before. Bob Gibson was throwing bullets as was his custom in his career year of 1968. It happened in the the top of the 7th inning. With the Tigers batting, there were two outs when Norm Cash and Willie Horton each singled to put two men on. Jim Northrup came up and hit a line drive to centre field to Curt Flood. Flood was a club house lawyer and was active in the free agent movement that was gaining traction in the major leagues at that time. He came in on the line drive and then realized that it was over his head, sloppy fielding. It dropped in for a triple. Cash and Horton scored when Northrup settled in at third. Bill Freehan then whacked a double to Flood. Three runs came in and the Tigers had all but won the World Series. With their punchless lineup, the Cards weren't able to overcome the three run deficit, losing the game 4-1 and giving the Tigers their first World Series since the 1940s.
Flood, after his gaffe, had the gall to demand free agency after the season ended. After playing one more year for the Cards, he was out of baseball a couple of years later at 33.
Flood, after his gaffe, had the gall to demand free agency after the season ended. After playing one more year for the Cards, he was out of baseball a couple of years later at 33.
Curt Flood was one of the most important players in the history of major league baseball.
A fine player, a 3 time all-star, 7 time Gold Glove winner, lifetime .293 b.a., over 1,800 hits.
Played all or parts of 15 seasons in MLB. career W.A.R. of 41.9.
He may have misjudged that fly ball, but so what, that happens, even to the best.
A clubhouse lawyer? Or, a man who stood up for what he believed was right and just?
A fine player, a 3 time all-star, 7 time Gold Glove winner, lifetime .293 b.a., over 1,800 hits.
Played all or parts of 15 seasons in MLB. career W.A.R. of 41.9.
He may have misjudged that fly ball, but so what, that happens, even to the best.
A clubhouse lawyer? Or, a man who stood up for what he believed was right and just?
Well he signed a $110,000 with the Senators after sitting out a year but he just walked away after 13 games. So was he really blackballed? That's a sizeable contract in 1971.
Maybe not blackballed in the strict sense of the word, but I was of the impression his stance made things more difficult for him.
Regardless, he was a pioneer in the efforts for players to not be treated like chattel.
I was incorrect in stating that it was a line drive that Flood misplayed. He misplayed a hign fly ball by Jim Northrup that he overran, stumbled and then, realizing that it was behind him, tried to recover, but it dropped in for a triple.
Mark Spitz's 7 gold medals in 7 races at the '72 Summer games in Munich.
The games were over shadowed by the deaths of 11 Isareli athletes by Black September terrorists.
The games were over shadowed by the deaths of 11 Isareli athletes by Black September terrorists.
I don't know squat about football/soccer but I remember watching this dude Rossi get 3 goals in the world cup final one year.
I thought at the time that was pretty exceptional. Don't know if it's been repeated since.
I thought at the time that was pretty exceptional. Don't know if it's been repeated since.
Yeah that's a good one....He had about as dominant an Olympics as you can get.
There was also Nadia's performance in gymnastics in Montreal.
The only dif is that gymnastics judging is subjective. Winning a race is winning a race. BTW, not saying that NC's performance was not outstanding.
