Most exciting play in sports:

john m · Post by **john m** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:35 pm

The sport is the real question; the plays listed are examples/reminders. Specification of your choice would be appreciated.

<font size="1">Omitted sports include:

- Golf (hole in one) and bowling (strike) because their qualifications as a sport are doubtful (and they don't compare to the aforementioned anyway)
- Rugby, cricket, and Australian rules football because I completely do not understand them (please feel free to vote other and enlighten me, I am a bit curious)
- Tennis, proper motor racing, horse racing, track and field, etc, because they do not have any key exciting plays
- NASCAR because it isn't a sport and fuck NASCAR anyway</font>

blue · Post by **blue** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:43 pm

Lacrosse: Terrorizing strippers

<- he made me do it.

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:20 pm

I have voted for Soccer, though golf is a real sport with much more exciting big spots than these. Motor racing is a good one too if you count crashes.

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:12 pm

I voted Baseball

Even though it's the single most boring sport next to golf or soccer, there are individual plays that are pretty kewl to watch.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:11 pm

i don't really like basketball (i know, it's a sin to be from indiana and not like basketball), slam-dunks rule.

john m · Post by **john m** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:15 pm

Thank you.

I don't see how you can not vote dunk.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:19 pm

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john m · Post by **john m** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:34 pm

That poll is coming later.

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:55 pm

ballet's not a sport.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:58 pm

i went with hockey because we loves it and the playoffs are starting.
just saw some good play the other day. fast!
basketball is boring because there is too much scoring.
go sabres!
-bill

john m · Post by **john m** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:15 pm

For the record, the question regards the excitement of one single play. If you think the home run is the most exciting thing in all sports, vote baseball; if you think dunk, vote basketball; etc. Anyway.

furrypedro · Post by **furrypedro** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:08 am

nothing beats a good ol' cheese rollin'

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:16 am

john m wrote:For the record, the question regards the excitement of one single play. If you think the home run is the most exciting thing in all sports, vote baseball; if you think dunk, vote basketball; etc. Anyway.

if that refers to mine, yeah, i know - there were some darn good breakaways & shorthanded opportunities in that last game.
-bill

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:54 am

john m wrote:Thank you.

I don't see how you can not vote dunk.

i know! nothing is cooler than slam dunking right on some guy's face.

SHAQ ATTACK!!!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:09 am

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Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:24 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote: basketball is boring because there is too much scoring.

Yes - exactly. Basketball is very dull.

A lot of fun to play of course - but as a spectator sport it is very dull.

Australian Rules football suffers from the same problem. No real tension is ever built when the whole game just consists of running back and forwards putting the ball in and out of the goals

I like baseball. I've played a bit of baseball and softball, and the bases-loaded bits can be very exciting. I've never actually seen a professional baseball game on telly or anything - but I would imagine that that would be pretty good.

I don't really understand what you mean by "the excitement of a single play" - but I would think that some of the greatest excitement in sport comes from Test Match cricket. Though a Test goes for 5 days, is usually terminally boring and more often than not ends in a hugely unsatisfying draw - when a real competition develops, the drama is incredible and each single ball becomes a life or death moment. The last Ashes series was a good example - stretching that drama over a period of about 3 months for the full 5 Test series.

For mine though the greatest "single play" in sport ever was Darren Albert scoring a try with seconds to go the 1997 Rugby League Grand Final giving the Newcastle Knights their first ever Premiership. Still brings a tear to my eye (though I am also aware that my passion for Rugby League has a cultural and historical context and that I would be the first to admit that it is probably an inferior game in many ways to it's close cousin Rugby Union and other team sports)

mo · Post by mo » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:40 pm

i wrote a long thing that got deleted when the computer crashed, but i just had two real points, amid a great deal of sports memories.

what's memorable about a play or event in sports is the situation. down 0-3 in a 7 game series to your hated rivals who seem to have always beaten you by miracle or fiat rather than actual prowess, down 0-2 to the best (by far) closer in postseason history, and you get a walk. A pinch runner comes in. Everyone knows he's going to steal. Somehow, on the first pitch to the plate, he takes second. An agonizing at-bat follows, but it ends with a simple single.

that sequence of events leads to the greatest comeback in a team sports playoff series ever. that was like a week of incredible highs and lows. that's exciting. so sports is really about context. a dunk is a dunk is a dunk, but there's a difference between a 2-handed 360 in the preseason and a ferocious jam in a close playoff game from the matrix over the great wall and two other defenders that sends them reeling. home runs by themselves are cool, but kirk gibson off the eck, hobbling along while he's pumping his fist; jordan's flu-riddled 38 point game against utah in the finals; havilicek steals the ball; bird steals the ball; rice catching a little montana flare in the flat and then suddenly burning past defenders for a 30-yard gain and the game tying td - these are exciting moments because of how special they are and what they mean in the course of competition.

most of the rest of the time, who cares?

secondly, my call for the most exciting play on a categoric basis is the straight steal of home. by nature (as all things in baseball), it happens because it's dictated by situation, so stealing home is almost always very relevant to the competition (unlike an a-rod homer in another blowout). it's the cleverness of the runner against the speed of the pitch. it takes you unaware until the moment it happens, and it's so rare that if you see one, you'll remember it for the rest of your life.

i had a whole thing about how i'm a baseball fan (or cultist, if you will) and perhaps other sports have such plays as well, but i think basketball, hockey, tennis, soccer, are a lot more about individual creativity than actual plays per se. football perhaps--the hail mary, the goal-line stand, clutch field goals--someone like blue who cares about the sport should say their piece about football.

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:48 pm

bill buckner.

Post by **Spud** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:12 pm

Boxing. Take that. Whadya mean it's not a sport? I'm not talking about wrestling.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:49 am

Quadruple Axel. (Still yet to be hit in competition. The day someone hits that the skating world will explode.)

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:23 am

GO FLAMES!!!!

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