Greatest Games

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

You've seen, either live or on TV.

I feel lucky, as I've got to experience a number of great games, both watching and playing.

Oddly enough, two of the greatest games I've ever seen were both in the past 5 months.
I don't believe I have EVER seen two college football teams as good as USC and Texas playing each other like they did in the 2006 Rose Bowl. It was the best college football game I've ever seen.

The other was the UCLA / Gonzaga basketball game in the 2006 NCAA tournament. There was NO WAY the Bruins should have come back and won that game, yet they did in one of the most dramatic and thrilling finishes I have ever seen to a basketball game, especially one with so much at stake.

Of course, the number one game of all time, and it will never change in my mind, a game etched permanently in my brain, a moment forever immortalized so that I remember every detail perfectly. "There's a high drive to right field, a waayyy back, SHE IS . . . GONE! The fist pumps rounding second . . . Lasorda running out of the dugout, a crowd, a neighborhood, a city gone wild with joy. I still remember hearing the shouts coming out of the houses in the neighborhood. All over Los Angeles there was cheering coming from everywhere. No matter what street you were driving down, you could hear it. The city just became one big joyful noise that, at least for a bit, filled the night and eased the souls of all of us.

[Penfold]

The greatest game I ever saw was Duke/UNLV in 1991, in the Final Four. This was back before Duke was public enemy number one in college basketball...they didn't get that until they beat Kentucky in 1992. But for the entire game, Duke and the undefeated Running Rebels kept it close. It was tied at 77 with 12 seconds left when Christian Laettner, Mr. Clutch, drained two free throws to take the 79-77. At the other end of the court, Larry Johnson had an open look at a three-pointer, and passed the ball to Anderson Hunt, who missed spectacularly, giving Duke the game and sending us fans into hysterics.

Now, I do consider Duke/Kentucky in 1992 to be the greatest college game in history, but I didn't actually see it. So, of the actual great games I've seen, Duke/UNLV takes it. But then, I'm a bit biased. :)

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

The greatest game I ever saw was Duke/UNLV in 1991, in the Final Four. This was back before Duke was public enemy number one in college basketball...they didn't get that until they beat Kentucky in 1992. But for the entire game, Duke and the undefeated Running Rebels kept it close. It was tied at 77 with 12 seconds left when Christian Laettner, Mr. Clutch, drained two free throws to take the 79-77. At the other end of the court, Larry Johnson had an open look at a three-pointer, and passed the ball to Anderson Hunt, who missed spectacularly, giving Duke the game and sending us fans into hysterics.

Now, I do consider Duke/Kentucky in 1992 to be the greatest college game in history, but I didn't actually see it. So, of the actual great games I've seen, Duke/UNLV takes it. But then, I'm a bit biased. :)

Biased? No problem, biases are good in here. That is the point, after all, what YOU think is the greatest game. I like to see what everyone else thinks so I can either be reminded of great games I forgot about, or never knew about.

Oh, and in 1992? I already believed Duke was public enemy number 1, and had for many years before that, and still do (we UCLA fans tend to resent Duke, for obvious reasons). :)