101 things all sports fans must experience before they die

**Prophet** · 06-27-2007, 07:50 AM

[size=12pt]101 things all sports fans must experience before they die[/size]
By Jim Caple
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Updated: June 26, 2007

**NodakPaul** · 06-27-2007, 08:25 AM

How does Spring Training make it higher on the list than the NFL Conference Championships?
And no Superbowl on the list is crazy.
Superbowl week is one long party, and then there is the game itself!

**NodakPaul** · 06-27-2007, 08:26 AM

How does Spring Training make it higher on the list than the NFL Conference Championships?
And no Superbowl on the list is crazy.
Superbowl week is one long party, and then there is the game itself!

**Prophet** · 06-27-2007, 08:34 AM

I went through their list and have done the following, a long way to go.
I can't believe they don't have the SB on the list.
I was surprised at how many I had been too.
Gotta love sports.

4. The World Series
5. NCAA subregional
6. Spring training
7. NFL conference championship
20. The Stanley Cup playoffs
22. Cubs game in the Wrigley bleachers
25. A soccer game at Maracana Stadium
27. Tailgating in the SEC
35. MLB Opening Day
38. Auburn-Alabama football game
42. An NBA game from courtside
49. Lady Vols game
53. Golden Gloves tournament (regional).
54. Green Bay Packers game in the snow
62. Midnight Madness
64. Camp out for tickets (any event).
72. Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
76. Beach volleyball
80. Junior league hockey in small-town Canada
82. Minnesota high school hockey tournament
86. Iowa-Iowa State wrestling match
88. "Monday Night Football"
91. Little League game
100. A Harlem Globetrotters game

**Zeus** · 06-27-2007, 08:36 AM

I've done:

#6, #15, #20, #22, #35 (which was combined with #15 - and I took a Red Sox fan to Yankees Stadium), #86 and #88.

=Z=

**Mr-holland** · 06-27-2007, 08:45 AM

Why isn't the dutch championship of Nailpooping on there?
we could be in the Top 10!

**BadlandsVikings** · 06-27-2007, 08:48 AM

72. Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
91. Little League game

**Zeus** · 06-27-2007, 08:48 AM

"Prophet" wrote:

86. Iowa-Iowa State wrestling match

When did you do that?
I went to several, back in the early 80s when I wrestled in Jr. High and the first two years of HS.

=Z=

**Prophet** · 06-27-2007, 08:51 AM

"Zeus" wrote:

"Prophet" wrote:

86. Iowa-Iowa State wrestling match

When did you do that?
I went to several, back in the early 80s when I wrestled in Jr. High and the first two years of HS.

=Z=

Fairly recently, during the Cael Sanderson domination era.

**COJOMAY** · 06-27-2007, 09:02 AM

I've done 12 of them...
1. I've been to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City
2. Been to the World Series when the Twins played Atlanta
3. Been to an NCAA Sub-regional in Cincinnati
4. Been to the Stanley Cup playoffs watch the Colorado Avalanche played in Denver
5. Seen the Kentucky Derby (three times)
6. Been to an MLB Opening Day Game in Cincinnati
7. Been to the Frozen Four
8. I've played Pebble Beach (several years ago)
9. Been to Midnight Madness at the U of Kentucky
10. Lived in Sturgis for two years when the Motorcycle Rally was there.
11. Been to the MM HS Hockey Tournament
12. See the Harlem Globetrotters play a few times