Top Three Plays/moments in your favorite team's history.

[ChrisLong]

With the Angels, I feel I need to have a separate list for 2002, and another list for all the other years.

2002:
Darin Erstad make the last out to clinch the World Series title.
Scott Spiezio's home run in Game 6 (Game 7 doesn't happen without it)
Adam Kennedy hits his third homer of the game to put the Halos ahead to stay in the ALCS clincher

Non-2002:
Clinching the first division title and playoff berth in 1979
Vlad Guerrero's two-out single for the tying and winning runs in the 2009 ALDS to clinch the sweep against the Red Sox. Angels had a bad postseason history against Boston up until then, and it was nice to get one back, although they lost to the Yankees in the ALCS
Nolan Ryan's no-hitter against Detroit in 1973 (he had three other with the Angels, but I've read this one was the most dominant)

Honorable mention: I'll always remember the regular season game in the 1986 season when the Angels were down 12-5 against the Tigers going into the bottom of the 9th. They whittled the deficit down to 12-9, and the Tigers brought in reigning AL MVP and Cy Young winner Willie Hernandez to close it out. Bases full, shortstop deck Schofield up, and Hernandez quickly goes 0-2 on him, and Schofield sends the next pitch into the left-field bullpen to give the Angels an improbable 13-12 win. Result didn't mean much in the long run, but it was a heck of a moment.

I loved that one game against Boston when the announcers spent 2 innings talking about how the Red Sox would set up their pitching rotation for the next series. In the midst of that discussion, the Angels got runners on and Vlade hit a grand slam.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Norm Green sucks

Spleen for Green

 

[Spartan Squad]

I'm realizing my knowledge of Sharks history is wanting, but the ones that pop into my head

1. Upset of Detroit. Taking down the best team in the conference in 7 is going to be told by grandfathers to grandchildren sitting around a table drinking boba tea.
   
2. Beating Calgary
3. The 5 minute major and OT win over Vegas. Say what you will about whether that should have been a major, in San Jose, it is the stuff of legend
4. The first Stanley Cup Final appearance clincher. Even losing the Stanley Cup, it was probably one of the few times you can't say the Sharks underachieved/choked in the playoffs.

 

[Songbird]

There was a Kings-Flames game at the Forum in '93.

I spent all day into night covering a game at Stanford then driving home.

Got stoned, turned off the lights, turned up the volume, sunk into the recliner, and got lost in the action.

Other than the crack of the bat in baseball, there really isn't another sport that sucks you in thru its sounds like hockey.

In the 2nd period, IIRC, the Kings and Flames played 11 straight minutes (possibly longer) of whistle-free hockey. It was glorious.

I've looked for video of that game over the years to no avail. I would love to see that again.

 

[Machine Head]

Were you the one who dumped a beer on him at the L.A. Forum?

Last game was against the Kings. The press box was in the middle of the stands and Green was sitting in the back row. Just before the game ended, some guy stands up and shouts: "NORM GREEN, I HATE YOUR forkING ASS." And he dumped a whole beer over Green's head. Green just took it, didn't react.

Not me.

I've posted about this before.

Norm needed a financial bailout. His commercial real estate holdings.

He got it in Texas and then they moved him out of ownership once the franchise landed.

The whole story of the North Stars from start to finish is a sad tale.

 

[Machine Head]

Spleen for Green

There's a lot more that went on.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Not me.

I've posted about this before.

Norm needed a financial bailout. His commercial real estate holdings.

He got it in Texas and then they moved him out of ownership once the franchise landed.

The whole story of the North Stars from start to finish is a sad tale.

Kind of like how I'd love to do a book on the rise and fall of the George Shinn Charlotte Hornets, who went from toast of the town to "GTFO and don't come back" in a decade.

 

[Machine Head]

There was a very strange atmosphere in the arena that night once that game got underway and it became a blowout. It was as if both the North Stars players, and all 15,000 fans, realized at the same time "oh yeah, we're not actually any good and barely made the playoffs this year" after that two-month magic carpet ride ended.

Was it raining when we came out of the Met that night?

Honest question.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Were you the one who dumped a beer on him at the L.A. Forum?

Last game was against the Kings. The press box was in the middle of the stands and Green was sitting in the back row. Just before the game ended, some guy stands up and shouts: "NORM GREEN, I HATE YOUR forkING ASS." And he dumped a whole beer over Green's head. Green just took it, didn't react.

Remember when the Flyers fan fell into the penalty box trying to fight Tie Domi? I was dating his cousin when it happened. After the incident was settled out of court, Domi put the family up, including my gf, in Toronto for a few days to catch a game.

In case you don't remember:

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Mets. First two seem obvious.

1. Game 6, 1986 World Series
2. Winning 1969 Series
3. For me, the out-of-nowhere run to the 2015 Series

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Colts (only Indy)

1. Far and away the best, coming from 18 down to finally beat the Patriots in the playoffs to win the 2006 AFC Championship Game

2. Beating the Bears in the Super Bowl

3. Playoff run that just fell short of the Super Bowl in 1995

Honorable mention: coming from 21 down with 4 minutes left to beat the Bucs on MNF.

HM2: Trading for Eric Dickerson in 1987.

 

[HanSenSE]

Were you the one who dumped a beer on him at the L.A. Forum?

Last game was against the Kings. The press box was in the middle of the stands and Green was sitting in the back row. Just before the game ended, some guy stands up and shouts: "NORM GREEN, I HATE YOUR forkING ASS." And he dumped a whole beer over Green's head. Green just took it, didn't react.

The first home game after the Dallas deal was announced happened to be against the Sharks, who were televising the game back here. All I a sudden one side of the arena chant "fork" and the other side responds "Norm!" Sharks announcer Jos Starkey say the fans are expressing their displeasure about the move "Something about Norm and the Mighty Ducks."