Most famous game you attended

I got my tickets to the '82 game through the lottery but I got my '87 tickets because I won an award in the USBWA writing contest. They presented the awards at their meeting during the Final Four and I wanted to go, but I didn't have a credential. So I asked the association if they could get me a pair of tickets -- they did, but they were obstructed view. Go figure.

 

The final game of the '88 series, also game 3 when McGwire homered to end it. I wasn't cheering Game 5. And even though he beat my A's, I was lucky enough to see a Nolan Ryan no-hitter - his sixth I think. I'd never seen him pitch live before.
Other games, the pre-season game when Darryl Stingley was paralyzed in a hit from Jack Tatum. The game when Oregon State clinched a non-losing season for the first time in 29 years and ending a 35 year bowl drought.

 

Saw Jordan Zimmerman throw the first no-hitter in Nats history on the final day of that season. 2014 maybe?

Also, Mason def UConn in the 2006 Elite Eight.

 

Saw Mantle hit hr 500, still have my score sheet. Stu Miller on a 3-2 count.

 

I notice you left out FSU's 51 points they hung on the 'Rines in 1991. I was there for that one. The last TD for FSU was an interception by a defensive tackle, Todd McIntosh, who weighed 290 and out-ran the entire Michigan defense for about a 50-yarder.
If there was ever a more glaring example of Southern speed against Big Ten oafs, I haven't seen it.

 

I've seen moments, but not milestones.

The biggest would be Mike Schmidt's 400th home run. I think I've told the story here before. I was working as an usher in the bleachers at Dodger Stadium that night in 1984 and we were told to chase down the ball if he hit it. I get to the guy who caught it and escort him to the press box. He met Schmidt after the game and traded the ball for some goodies and tickets to a future game.

The next day, a co-worker tells me there is someone outside the turnstile asking for me. It's the guy who got the ball. Apparently, Schmidt said something to him like, "I hope to see you again" and the guy, who did not speak English as a first language, just showed up without tickets thinking we would let him in to see Schmidt.

 

Cal Ripken's 2,131st consecutive game in 1995. By far the most famous I've attended, I think.

 

Went to Mike Schmidt's last MLB game - I went to the 'Stick with some friends. Schmidt retired the next day after booting a couple of balls. He was my dude as a kid.

 

Fred Brown, not Sleepy Floyd. But a great game. Always remember Ewing goaltending on a bunch of early UNC possessions, supposedly to intimidate. I think he just gave away points.

 

Wasn't it the first three shots?

 

That sounds right.

 

Of course I was there for that one. If I recall correctly, Terrell Buckley got a pick-6 on one of Michigan's first plays from scrimmage. It's one I choose to forget, except that Michigan still somehow managed to score 31 points on the FSU defense. That Michigan team still had good year on paper -- they went on to run the table in the Big Ten and go to the Rose Bowl. And then they couldn't do a damn thing against a loaded Washington team, which was Don James's last great squad -- which goes back to prove your original point about Big Ten oafs.