Sporting event ever make you cry?
 

I was thinking about Tony Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons, who cried "like a baby" after winning his first playoff game in his 16 year career.

I could only think of one time when I got that emotional. It was when Edgar Renteria hit a 3-run homer in the clinching game of the Giants' 2010 World Series against the Texas Rangers. The homer, while not the walk-off variety, pretty much iced it for the Giants. I thought back on the lifetime of futility and all the games my Dad brought me to back in the 60s, watching Willy Mays, et al, and dreaming of this moment since I was 5. My wife and kids thought I was crazy when I couldn't speak and had to leave the room.

What about you?

Well, there's a big difference between being a fan and crying after a sporting event, and being a participant in a sporting event.

No, but both my brothers are Raider fans. They cried a lot this season.

Miracle On Ice 1980 US VS USSR Olympic Hockey Game.

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For some reason, the name "Buckner" seems to have an effect on sox fans.:D

Watching a game has made me cuss, but never cry.

Waching Ray Lewis play another game.:(

I can think of many times when one of my kids was playing a sport and made me so proud things got a little blurry .......

I don't bet; no reason to cry.

Everytime i watch the friggin ironman triathlon i end up crying.

80 year old ladies, cancer survivors, the participant who collapses 5 feet from the finish line.

Its insane.

Senna crashing at Imola - I was just a kid and was used to seeing drivers walk away from accidents that looked way worse.

I cried when we lost the Pee Wee football championship when I was ten. Crying for millionaire pro ballers? Not so much.

I cried once.

Some friends and I agreed on and placed bets with a bookie and were up quite a bit over the course of several weeks. Unbeknownst to anyone, one of the group bet everything and then some on a college football game and lost.

I do have to admit, i got a bit misty watching this game....
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+1 on the Kirk Gibson... don't think I cried thou... love the shot from behind home base when he hits the ball out... you can see a car in the parking lot that left the game early slam on the breaks.

Okay, this, for sure, plus Earnhardt, and Greg Moore. Those three ripped my guts out.

My first time on a track when I passed a Cayman S w/ my 3.2L T after a day of having my a$$ handed to me by a GT3RS, Ferrari Scuderia and an a group of Evos..... Cried like a baby......

Loosing at beer pong

If movie sporting events count, Brian's Song, Rudy and Remember the Titans:)

When Brandi Chastain tore off her shirt.

Never cried but I have almost thrown something at the TV.
I remember going to a Chicago Bull playoff game during the Jordan years. My son and I screamed so much my voice was horse for a day and my ears were ringing for hours.

I was 16 years old playing midget AA hockey, in the midst of a split save and the puck was deflected. Up under my cup, solid rubber disk,60+ mph...7 stitches in the scrotum.....YOU BET I CRIED!!!!!!

Uh, no.

The final run of "The World's Fastest Indian" with Anthony Hopkins did choke me up. Great movie if you haven't seen it.

You've got to be kidding right?

Sporting events are just games. Of course I don't really cry for much of anything anyway so maybe I'm just a cold-hearted SOB but I think it's pretty stupid to cry for a sports team, or even to get too emotionally wrapped up in a sports team in any case.

Entertainment, fun to watch, even more fun to play but that's it.

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Sappy music was not needed for this finish

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You're right, they're just games. It's not like we're watching ancient Roman gladiators. But at the same time, they're more than just a game of Connect Four. And IMO there's difference between a fan crying at the end of a game versus one of the players doing so. I can respect a football player crying after winning his first playoff game in a 16 year career. Over the past 2+ decades he's put a lot of blood, sweat and tears leading up to that one game.

You were in LA when the Sox won in 2004. I grew up in LA but was living in Boston. You grew up in New England but were living in LA. But had you been able to see how the entire geographic region of New England came together and had something to share--across all walks of life and socioeconomic strata--during the run up to that victory... I can see why a die hard fan might cry after something like that.

The Miracle on Ice in 1980.

I broke down after finishing the Paris marathon in 2008. I knew it would be my last.

Yea I get what you're saying. Growing up out here especially everyone always sort of lived and died by the sports teams. I got into it for a while and followed the RS in particular pretty closely in 2004 (I remember listening riveted to the radio play-by-play in my garage in Long Beach for the ALCS games that went into extra-extra-extra late innings while I was working on my 951, stunned) Honestly since moving back to Boston my interest has really waned in pro sports mostly because I see it as very silly that grown men still walk around with ball caps and team "schwag" as if they never outgrew the 6th grade. It's laughable actually and kind of sad. It's also as if this area has a sense of entitlement with respect to championships and gives no credence to the enormous amount of talent that exists elsewhere in the country and world. I guess it just doesn't resonate with me.

Don't get me wrong, I still think it's fun to play a ball game occasionally or watch one or listen to one (whether baseball or football), I enjoy watching an F1 race or even a bike race or marathon but I just don't understand the crazy obsession with it. I won't even try to understand hockey beyond "those guys are aiming for that net and the other guys are aiming for the other net", or basketball (has turned too thuggish).

All in all though, whatever floats yer boat. I'm glad I got to see something that the past few generations didn't - a Red Sox championship (twice) and got to go to a playoff game (ALDS against the Angels in 2007). Kinda' cool, but that's sort of where it ends for me. I can't get too emotional about such things.

Greg LeMond, 1989, hoisting his son on the podium

That guy that pulled,carried and pushed his son through the Ironman gets me choked up.