I'm A Total Jinx
I was thinking about this last night, as I watched a repeat of the 50 Greatest Moments at Madison Square Garden on MSG. I've been at two of the most gut-wrenching losses in New York sports history.
May 21, 1995, Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 7, Indiana Pacers at New York Knicks. Pacers 97, Knicks 95.
Admittedly, this loss wasn't as bad the Game 1 loss, where Reggie Miller scored 8 points in the last 17 seconds of the game to beat the Knicks. However, the vision of Patrick Ewing missing a finger roll at the buzzer (which would have sent the game into overtime) and Reggie Miller running across the floor and kissing it, while his teammates mobbed him is burned into my memory forever.
October 19, 2004, ALCS Game 6, Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees. Red Sox 4, Yankees 2.
The bloody sock game. End of story.
And those are just two big examples. But I've also been at a Yankee World Series win (1998), a Super Bowl (2003), a Yankee ALCS clincher (1998), several Ranger playoff victories (1994, 1996, 2007), two championship parades down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan (1994 Rangers, 1996 Yankees).
I'll take it.
May 21, 1995, Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 7, Indiana Pacers at New York Knicks. Pacers 97, Knicks 95.
Admittedly, this loss wasn't as bad the Game 1 loss, where Reggie Miller scored 8 points in the last 17 seconds of the game to beat the Knicks. However, the vision of Patrick Ewing missing a finger roll at the buzzer (which would have sent the game into overtime) and Reggie Miller running across the floor and kissing it, while his teammates mobbed him is burned into my memory forever.
October 19, 2004, ALCS Game 6, Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees. Red Sox 4, Yankees 2.
The bloody sock game. End of story.
And those are just two big examples. But I've also been at a Yankee World Series win (1998), a Super Bowl (2003), a Yankee ALCS clincher (1998), several Ranger playoff victories (1994, 1996, 2007), two championship parades down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan (1994 Rangers, 1996 Yankees).
I'll take it.
Labels: jinx factor, New York sports
posted by G.Wo @ 7:52 AM
2 Comments:
Werent you also at the Aaron Boone game? That makes up for the bloody sock game (which never really happened anyway).
No, I was sitting and watching that one at home. I was at a 1999 Game 1 ALCS game that Bernie won in extras against the Red Sox.
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