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Most Important Sporting Occasion?

Discussion in 'Colosseum' started by Barmy Army, Jan 1, 2006.

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  1. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    What is the biggest sporting occasion for you personally? What really get's your cockles going and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up?

    For me, it has to be the football World Cup. There is absolutely NOTHING like it in sport. It makes a tingle go down my spine just thinking about it. It's so special.

    What's yours?
     
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  2. DarkStrider

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    For me it's a toss-up between 3 The Ashes in cricket is always special especially when we win, the football World Cup and the rugby World Cup.

    All of them bring out my passionate side and my proud declaration of being an englishman.
     
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    Female mudwrestling. :D
     
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  4. Harbourboy

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    1. Rugby World Cup
    2. Cricket World Cup
    3. NZ NPC Rugby final
    4. NZ Rugby Ranfurly Shield Challenge
    5. Bledisloe Cup rugby test
    6. Olympic games if NZ has chance of a medal
    7. Any other NZ international cricket match
    8. Any other NZ international rugby test
    9. Super 12 rugby final
    10. NPC rugby match featuring North Harbour
    11. Super 12 match featuring The Blues
    12. Hong Kong Rugby Sevens
    13. Ashes cricket test series
    14. Any other cricket test series
    15. Soccer World Cup
     
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    1. Tournament of Hearts
    2. Intrastate football game of Iowa vs. Iowa State
    3. Sugar Bowl :yum:
    4. High school's homecoming game
    5. March Madness[tm]
     
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  6. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    I just love my footy. Any England match really gets me in frenzy. As does any Chesterfield match, w're **** but we're the Town! :lol:
    I love my cricket as well so the Ashes is up there as is the cricket world cup.
    Rugby world cup is great to watch as well, but I don't know as much about it as I do the footy and rugby.
    I also love watching the darts world championship. Really gets you watching it.

    Thinking about it, where would my life be without sport?? Especially football, I don't think I'd be able to live my life if I couldn't watch my team every Saturday.
     
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    Super Bowl XXX. None of the more recent ones even come close. ;)
     
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    - Super Bowl.
    - World Series.
    - I remember those March Madness games with Dick Vitale, baby! I love those games.
    - Nascar races.
    - Fifa World Cup.
     
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    World Cup, the only other thing which even comes remotely close is the Olympic games.

    Football of course.
     
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    Hockey
     
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    Female jellowrestling. :shake:
     
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    World Series.
     
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    Any Horse Show. Rodeos.
     
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    Why, le Tour de France, mais bien sur!

    The other might be more surprising - College football bowl season, especially whatever game PENN STATE is playing, and watching Notre Dame get their butts kicked.

    March Madness is fun, but I can't say it sets my heart a-twitter.
     
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    World Jr. Hockey Tournement. There are not alot of things that I skip out on sleep, work, and sex for but Team Canada games are one of them.
     
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    Benan, why "Junior" hockey and not the senior game?
     
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    Because:

    a) the Juniors are where we're going to find the hockey superstars of tomorrow,
    b) there's a hint less of the raw commercialism that pervades through professional sports (and the NCAA), and
    (*sigh* here comes the Inner Cynic :( )
    c) Canada actually has a hope in aitch-eee-double-hockey-sticks of winning this one...

    Bleah, I *hate* my Inner Cynic.

    But what gets me going? not much...maybe some moments out of the Olympics, and when I was in the US, Dicky V made March Madness™ worth putting up with. :)
     
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    Football World Cup :) Football is the best :cool:
     
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    Hehe, last time we sugggested we hold an SP female jellowrestling contest, we got turned down. But I agree, nothing like women in jello. Except maybe in melted chocolate.


    Super Bowl, hands down.
    Or any World Series with the Sox in it.
     
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    I'd be tempted to say the Super Bowl...but in hindsight there are too many times its failed to live up to the hype. That being the case, I'd have to go with the NCAA mens basketball tournament...March Madness.

    I think in a way it captures the feel that the World Cup fans talk about, except with, IMO, a much more vibrant sport. Soccer, to me (or football) has always seemed a bit like bad hockey on grass.

    There's always a Cinderella team, last second heroics and heartbreaking defeats. A field of 64 teams of amateur athlete college students...the vast majority of whom are playing for school pride and the love of the game. Can't beat it.
     
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