The athlete and song threads got me to thinking about other "greatest ever..." topics.
What was the greatest game (any sport) you ever saw or participated in?
In 1970 my old man took me to the 7th game of the NBA Finals in Madison SQ Garden - Knicks vs Lakers. Now this was before criminals and asswipes took over what is now the NGBA* and the NBA was still a valid professional league. Willis Reed wasn't supposed to play and everyone pretty much figured the Lakers would walk away with the Championship. But with only a couple minutes left in the pregame warm-up Willis Reed walked out of the tunnel and The Garden erupted. The Lakers actually stopped shooting at their end of the court and Wilt Chamberlain started laughing and shaking his head...he said later that they should have got back on the bus at that moment because the game was over. The Knicks blew the Lakers out that night 115 - 99. Walt Frazier jumped center and beat Wilt on the tip-off every time. I still get goose bumps thinking about how my old man loved that night.
*NGBA - National Gangbangers Association (not to be confused with what was once a league that actually played basketball)
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