In ages, yeah. The best ever...? It's basically right up there, but it's SO hard to choose a single one from the leagues of games and happenings I've seen. Off the top of my head...?
The recent Federer/Roddick Wimbledon final and last year's Federer/Nadal final were literally the best tennis played in the modern era. Unbelievable. I actually think that the tennis was better, this year. I would've shot myself if you told me that I'd be saying that last year's final was anything but the best match ever, a year ago. Unreal shit.
That Bills/Oilers game, when the Bills (starring FRANK FUCKING REICH!!!) came back from 1200 points down to win the game on that outlandish kick. Jesus, that was wild. Seriously wild.
Super Bowl XLII, as NSW said--easily the "biggest" Super Bowl (the most on the line, historically, of all time--that's an easy statement to make, I think) ever played, this game was brutal to watch. I cried--actual, legitimate tears--in joy, at the end of the game, and lost my voice...while watching it at 7:00 in the morning, in Japan. I called in with "food-poisoning. Yeah, that's right, Mr. Tachino. It was that damned Subway by the Keisei stop. I'm dying, over here." I lived and died with every single play of the game. Spectacular. "The Helmet Catch" was easily the best football play I've ever seen, and right up there with the next one as the best play of all time (when you factor in the intangibles)...
The Shot. Michael Jordan. The one wherein he
does not push off. There is contact, obviously, as there always is. But when you push, you're not limp-wristed. That was the best single basketball play I've ever seen (at least that I can remember). This, my friends, is a push:
YouTube - Reggie Miller game winner vs Bulls
Of course, there are so many basketball plays and games...that's a dark hole to crawl down, for me. I was also watching that Pistons/Pacers brawl game as it happened, and while that wasn't at all the "greatest" moment, it was definitely one of the more historic ones. I remember Chris Webber's phantom time-out, too. That was insanity!
Baseball, too, just has too many. I was watching all of the home run record games, and I saw the back half of yesterday's perfect game. That Yankees/Red Sox series (where Boston came back and won the whole thing, on the brink of elimination) was more historic than technically impressive...I think that it gets kind of blown out of proportion, simply because of how blatantly the Yanks rolled over and died. Still, in the moment...? That was fantastic. Ugh. Too many memories now flooding back...!!!
Oh, and a special mention for what
was my fave of all time, for several years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnAr4I3-Z48
I will NEVER forget that, as long as I live. Never.
