What's the biggest sporting event you ever attended?

2015-05-01T19:43:16-04:00

Kentucky Derby? Superbowl ? World Series? World Cup? Final Four? Stanley Cup? Daytona 500? I don't mean simply 'attended' but was either a special guest, part of the event, or really was integrated with it somehow. Tell us your story ...

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 7:46 PM

2015-05-01T19:46:42-04:00

Arkansas vs Missouri in basketball in 1979

Response by SPC Carl K. made May 1 at 2015 7:54 PM

2015-05-01T19:54:42-04:00

While nothing really fancy, I got to experience m first live NFL game in Philadelphia, when my beloved Packers came to play them. My employer had a skybox which made it nicer. My Packers lost, but it was memorable, nonetheless.

Response by 1SG Steven Stankovich made May 2 at 2015 2:01 AM

2015-05-02T02:01:27-04:00

Sir, I've had the pleasure of being at the Indianapolis 500 in 1994 and the Kentucky Derby in 1995 and 1996. Took advantage of the Army assigning me at Fort Knox at the time.

Response by PO1 John Miller made May 2 at 2015 3:35 AM

2015-05-02T03:35:01-04:00

It's debatable whether or not one would consider it a sporting event but I have attended two Wrestlemanias. III in Pontiac, MI, where my boyhood hero Hulk Hogan body slammed and pinned Andre the Giant, and XVIII in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan "passed the torch" and lost to "The Rock."

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 28 at 2015 2:42 AM

2015-10-28T02:42:28-04:00

A San Francisco elected official had complimentary tickets and invited me to XIX. He sold the two good "seats" to a travel agency for half value. So I turned down sitting on a bench behind the end zone. Look where they are going to be on February 7, 2016. The 1980s make me sick. I'm glad there isn't a group for that.