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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on June 20, 2009, 10:13:32 AM
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Which one would be more exciting?
Hitting a three at the buzzer to win a game 7 in the NBA finals?
Walk off homerun in the bottom of the 9th to win the World Series?
A last second touchdown catch or pass to win the Superbowl?
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Im a big Basketball fan, played all my life. And an even bigger Football fan. Not into Baseball as much these days. BUT, id have to say a walk off homer to win the World Series would be crazy. Just being up there by yourself, knockin it out the park, and rounding the bases with everybody cheering...shit would crazy.
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Im a big Basketball fan, played all my life. And an even bigger Football fan. Not into Baseball as much these days. BUT, id have to say a walk off homer to win the World Series would be crazy. Just being up there by yourself, knockin it out the park, and rounding the bases with everybody cheering...shit would crazy.
exactly how i feel
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All three of those would be pretty even for me so I can't really vote on it.
The one that would get me the most would be bottom of the ninth, down by 1 run, no outs and the bases loaded and it's game 7 of the World Series. A new pitcher comes in from the bullpen and 9 pitches later he strikes out all three batters and saves the Series. If I had to pick any feat in sports I day dream of doing the most it would be that. You'd be remembered forever.
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i'll hit the walkoff. 8)
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Hitting a game winning HR would be awesome but I think I'd rather hit a game winning fadeaway
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Walkoff HR!!
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is it just me or is a game winning 3 not as hard to as a walk off HR?
you see guys just chucking up half court shots & they fall & it has nothing to do with skill; 3 pointers are different but still anyone could just be like "GOD, PLEASE LET THAT DROP!" & even Shaq could hit a game winning 3 on complete luck.
hitting a homerun can be lucky too; but it takes more pure talent.
plus, you have to be home to hit a walk off homerun, so you would have your fans behind you goin' insane; whereas in basketball you can win a game with a 3 at the buzzer home or away.
in the NFL, you're getting paid to catch the ball; so you better catch it lol; but i also think the QB would get most of the credit anyway.
all three would be a crazy & awesome feat; but like i said, i'll hit the walk off homerun. 8)
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is it just me or is a game winning 3 not as hard to as a walk off HR?
you see guys just chucking up half court shots & they fall & it has nothing to do with skill; 3 pointers are different but still anyone could just be like "GOD, PLEASE LET THAT DROP!" & even Shaq could hit a game winning 3 on complete luck.
hitting a homerun can be lucky too; but it takes more pure talent.
plus, you have to be home to hit a walk off homerun, so you would have your fans behind you goin' insane; whereas in basketball you can win a game with a 3 at the buzzer home or away.
in the NFL, you're getting paid to catch the ball; so you better catch it lol; but i also think the QB would get most of the credit anyway.
all three would be a crazy & awesome feat; but like i said, i'll hit the walk off homerun. 8)
a walk off homerun is a lot harder to do. A homerun in general is a lot harder to hit then a 3 is to make in the nba. Think of it like this, even a poor three point shooter in the NBA might shoot at least 30% from three. Imagine hitting a homerun on 30% of your at bats lol
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is it just me or is a game winning 3 not as hard to as a walk off HR?
you see guys just chucking up half court shots & they fall & it has nothing to do with skill; 3 pointers are different but still anyone could just be like "GOD, PLEASE LET THAT DROP!" & even Shaq could hit a game winning 3 on complete luck.
hitting a homerun can be lucky too; but it takes more pure talent.
plus, you have to be home to hit a walk off homerun, so you would have your fans behind you goin' insane; whereas in basketball you can win a game with a 3 at the buzzer home or away.
in the NFL, you're getting paid to catch the ball; so you better catch it lol; but i also think the QB would get most of the credit anyway.
all three would be a crazy & awesome feat; but like i said, i'll hit the walk off homerun. 8)
a walk off homerun is a lot harder to do. A homerun in general is a lot harder to hit then a 3 is to make in the nba. Think of it like this, even a poor three point shooter in the NBA might shoot at least 30% from three. Imagine hitting a homerun on 30% of your at bats lol
that's why i'd prefer to hit a walk off in game 7 of the world series. ;D
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is it just me or is a game winning 3 not as hard to as a walk off HR?
you see guys just chucking up half court shots & they fall & it has nothing to do with skill; 3 pointers are different but still anyone could just be like "GOD, PLEASE LET THAT DROP!" & even Shaq could hit a game winning 3 on complete luck.
hitting a homerun can be lucky too; but it takes more pure talent.
plus, you have to be home to hit a walk off homerun, so you would have your fans behind you goin' insane; whereas in basketball you can win a game with a 3 at the buzzer home or away.
in the NFL, you're getting paid to catch the ball; so you better catch it lol; but i also think the QB would get most of the credit anyway.
all three would be a crazy & awesome feat; but like i said, i'll hit the walk off homerun. 8)
It's definitely harder..I just like basketball more lol..
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i would take the TD
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walk off homer. you would be immortalized FOREVER by those fans. like kirk gibson..and his wasnt even in game 7! :D
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Aaron Boone even made a name for himself & that was an ALCS. :P
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Aaron Boone even made a name for himself & that was an ALCS. :P
Joe Carter :raisetheroof:
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Aaron Boone even made a name for himself & that was an ALCS. :P
to this day i get chills thinking about that homerun
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Scoring a Knockout on the final minute/seconds of a championship fight. (That You are losing)
(Like Chavez vs. M.Taylor or Froch Vs. J.Taylor.....Danm!! What's up w/Taylor's?)
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Aaron Boone even made a name for himself & that was an ALCS. :P
to this day i get chills thinking about that homerun
i have a dope framed picture of him hitting it, you see Wakefield turning his head looking at it.
it was such a shot! ;D 8)
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As per the thread Q tho..
Gimme the "Walk Off HR" ala Kirk Gibson in '88 anyday.
(Was game 1, But that one HR shattered the A's)
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i'm going to just have to say all of the above, because all of them are exciting as fuck
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Scoring a Knockout on the final minute/seconds of a championship fight. (That You are losing)
(Like Chavez vs. M.Taylor)
In other words, have your opponents victory stolen from him by the ref in the final 10 seconds of a fight he dominated lol
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Voted walk off homer
baseball> insert ur favorite sport
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all depends if that 3 pointer is at home or not..... but hitting a Walk Off at home in a game 7 ... i think has my vote... but it would be tough between those 2... i am swaying more towards the walk off tho.....
get to round those bases with the Stadium erupting at home... i think would be AMAZING!
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^i talked to a guy who said he was at the Yanks/Redsox ALCS game 7 & he was telling me when Boone hit the walkoff, the stadium was louder than imaginable.
he said you could literally feel the ground shaking it was going that crazy.
imagine being Aaron Boone & it wasn't even the World Series.
it would be the greatest thing you could ever do in sports.
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TD Pass/Catch
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touchdown for sure! 99 yards, 22 people on the field
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id love to get a late 3rd rd tko in mma. kind of like leben vs martin 8)
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id love to get a late 3rd rd tko in mma. kind of like leben vs martin 8)
Especially if you're way behind on points. Like losing the first 11 rounds of a boxing match 10-9 or 10-8 and then KOing the guy with 30 seconds to go in the 12th.
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is it just me or is a game winning 3 not as hard to as a walk off HR?
you see guys just chucking up half court shots & they fall & it has nothing to do with skill; 3 pointers are different but still anyone could just be like "GOD, PLEASE LET THAT DROP!" & even Shaq could hit a game winning 3 on complete luck.
hitting a homerun can be lucky too; but it takes more pure talent.
plus, you have to be home to hit a walk off homerun, so you would have your fans behind you goin' insane; whereas in basketball you can win a game with a 3 at the buzzer home or away.
in the NFL, you're getting paid to catch the ball; so you better catch it lol; but i also think the QB would get most of the credit anyway.
all three would be a crazy & awesome feat; but like i said, i'll hit the walk off homerun. 8)
yo your are fuckin stupid.. hmmm in baseball your getting paid to hit the ball, so you better hit it. hmm in basketball you're getting paid to hit that shot so you better hit it. like what the fuck? aint no difference.
first off, eye would rather hit that 3. with basketball you got shit running through your mind. you got to keep your eye and mind on the remaining time left. you got to be worried about the defender playing tough ass D and then you got pressure but thats for all of them
now baseball, you are up there. cruising relaxing at the plate. now running down clock. all you got to do is concentrate on hitting that ball.
man three point shot, then catching a end zone catch and then eye guess baseball
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is it just me or is a game winning 3 not as hard to as a walk off HR?
you see guys just chucking up half court shots & they fall & it has nothing to do with skill; 3 pointers are different but still anyone could just be like "GOD, PLEASE LET THAT DROP!" & even Shaq could hit a game winning 3 on complete luck.
hitting a homerun can be lucky too; but it takes more pure talent.
plus, you have to be home to hit a walk off homerun, so you would have your fans behind you goin' insane; whereas in basketball you can win a game with a 3 at the buzzer home or away.
in the NFL, you're getting paid to catch the ball; so you better catch it lol; but i also think the QB would get most of the credit anyway.
all three would be a crazy & awesome feat; but like i said, i'll hit the walk off homerun. 8)
yo your are fuckin stupid.. hmmm in baseball your getting paid to hit the ball, so you better hit it. hmm in basketball you're getting paid to hit that shot so you better hit it. like what the fuck? aint no difference.
first off, eye would rather hit that 3. with basketball you got shit running through your mind. you got to keep your eye and mind on the remaining time left. you got to be worried about the defender playing tough ass D and then you got pressure but thats for all of them
now baseball, you are up there. cruising relaxing at the plate. now running down clock. all you got to do is concentrate on hitting that ball.
man three point shot, then catching a end zone catch and then eye guess baseball
Well, hitting a homerun with no ressure is harder than catching a TD pass with no pressure or hitting a 3 with no pressure. So I'd assume that with pressure the homerun would still be the hardest. Down by 1, bottom of the ninth, game 7, 2 outs, man on first, the count is 0-2, and you now have tie to think about the nxt pitch. You know that if you swing and miss the series is over. If you don't swing and it's a strike you're fucked. If you swing and swing for the fences you risk striking out of hitting and easy pop out. If you swing for contact you risk a fielders choice. You're fucked in so many ways. So when you decide at the plate that this next pitch you're going for a homerun you better make sure you hit the shit out of it because there willbe no one else to bail you out and no matter what it's all on your shoulders.
In football or basketball the play can be drawn up for you but a lot is out of your control. If another guy gets open you're off the hook, if you get fouled or interfered with the team gets another chance. The most presssure is on that batter in that position and the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a homerun so factoring everything in it's homerun, so I guess I'll vote on that.
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^thank you, lmao.
JOB is too busy hatin' on baseball because it has the lowest percentage of black players.
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
if the QB hits your hands, you better make the catch.
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^thank you, lmao.
JOB is too busy hatin' on baseball because it has the lowest percentage of black players.
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
if the QB hits your hands, you better make the catch.
its funny because eye didnt even bring up race. eye am just flowing with the love that eye have for playing and watching sports.
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, EYE WANT SOMEONE TO VERIFY THIS FOR ME, BECAUSE IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME. SO IS THIS HOW CONTRACTS AND YOUR INCOME IS BASED ON:
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
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^thank you, lmao.
JOB is too busy hatin' on baseball because it has the lowest percentage of black players.
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
if the QB hits your hands, you better make the catch.
its funny because eye didnt even bring up race. eye am just flowing with the love that eye have for playing and watching sports.
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, EYE WANT SOMEONE TO VERIFY THIS FOR ME, BECAUSE IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME. SO IS THIS HOW CONTRACTS AND YOUR INCOME IS BASED ON:
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
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you didn't have to bring up race, it's obvious that's why you dislike it.
LMAO, look at what you said to me & tell me it doesn't make sense! :laugh:
i said you get paid just to catch so you better catch & you came in like you get paid to hit & paid to shoot too.
yeah, you do get paid to hit & shoot too, but the demand for success isn't their.
when they pay you your millions to be a reciever all you have to do it catch the ball (& sometimes block) & the basic stat for the rest of the league in "dropped passes" is about 20-25% of the time that means catching the ball when your open is almost 80%, you better make the play.
take 10 at-bats, shoot 10 shots & catch 10 passes.
if you fail 70% of the time in baseball, your hitting solid; if you only hit 4 of the 10 shots, you're basically a starter, but go and drop more than 2 passes in football & your ass is getting released lol.
you can front like you don't understand, but it's obviously due to the fact you look like a moron right now.
if you pop out in the bottom of the 9th with two outs, people will say it was weak; but will forget it by the start of the next year; you miss the game winning 3 people will be upset, but again, it will be forgetten; you miss the game winning catch in the superbowl with time winding down you will get shitted on for the rest of your career.
why? because it's so much harder to hit a homerun or even just get a hit with the pressure on or be expected to hit the final shot in the NBA Finals than being a professional NFL player & dropping a pass.
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^thank you, lmao.
JOB is too busy hatin' on baseball because it has the lowest percentage of black players.
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
if the QB hits your hands, you better make the catch.
its funny because eye didnt even bring up race. eye am just flowing with the love that eye have for playing and watching sports.
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, EYE WANT SOMEONE TO VERIFY THIS FOR ME, BECAUSE IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME. SO IS THIS HOW CONTRACTS AND YOUR INCOME IS BASED ON:
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
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you didn't have to bring up race, it's obvious that's why you dislike it.
LMAO, look at what you said to me & tell me it doesn't make sense! :laugh:
i said you get paid just to catch so you better catch & you came in like you get paid to hit & paid to shoot too.
yeah, you do get paid to hit & shoot too, but the demand for success isn't their.
when they pay you your millions to be a reciever all you have to do it catch the ball (& sometimes block) & the basic stat for the rest of the league in "dropped passes" is about 20-25% of the time that means catching the ball when your open is almost 80%, you better make the play.
take 10 at-bats, shoot 10 shots & catch 10 passes.
if you fail 70% of the time in baseball, your hitting solid; if you only hit 4 of the 10 shots, you're basically a starter, but go and drop more than 2 passes in football & your ass is getting released lol.
you can front like you don't understand, but it's obviously due to the fact you look like a moron right now.
if you pop out in the bottom of the 9th with two outs, people will say it was weak; but will forget it by the start of the next year; you miss the game winning 3 people will be upset, but again, it will be forgetten; you miss the game winning catch in the superbowl with time winding down you will get shitted on for the rest of your career.
why? because it's so much harder to hit a homerun or even just get a hit with the pressure on or be expected to hit the final shot in the NBA Finals than being a professional NFL player & dropping a pass.
now this devil putting words in my mouth now. where did eye say eye didnt like baseball? eye guess eye aint the only nigga on here that race concerns. because eye sure ass hell didnt bring it up. eye thought we were talking about the degree of pressure between the three options. clown
bottom line you get paid to do your job. EYE HOPE IF EYE AM A WR EYE AM GETTING PAID TO CATCH. like miss me with that shit.
you not even breaking it down
second. well eye would hope your ass would get release because THATS YOUR JOB (not me, but as in profession)! like eye dont know where you going with this.
third you cant even make your mind up on what you arguing for. first you talking about the pressure on WR now you talking about it has the least pressure
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^thank you, lmao.
JOB is too busy hatin' on baseball because it has the lowest percentage of black players.
you get paid in baseball to hit the ball 30% of the time; in basketball (depending on the postion) you get paid to make 40% of your shots; but in the NFL, if you're a reciever you better catch at least 80% of the passes thrown to you (obviously i mean open ones).
if the QB hits your hands, you better make the catch.
And that's 30% just to make contact with the ball in fair territory. If you can hit a homerun 5% of the time your up to bat your a clean up slugger. 10% of the time you're the best ever. So hitting somethingthe best hitters of all time couldn't dream of doing 10% of the time with no pressure, and doing it in the bottom of the 9th with the championship on the line is insane. Joe Carter did it in game 6 and no one in Toronto will forget that. He does that in game 7 and it's automatic hall of fame.
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To put in my 2 cents, TD because to me it seems like a finish. To be honest, I've done all of these in my back yard... so I know first hand the difference... lmao
In baseball a home run is a great thing, very final, a climax if you will, but unless the set up is great it can be kind of dull. You'd have to have a rally, load up the bases and have your best guy smash the ball for it to be on a touchdown level.
3Pointers, well unless they are game winners, or heart breakers for a team trying to catch up, they are the least climatic one list.
Touchdown, touchdowns by nature are the finish of a drive. It doesn't matter one play or 14 plays, 1 yard or all 100 yards. In baseball, it's one on one with a pitcher, in basketball it's usually one on one and MAYBE one on two. But in football it's a complete team effort, your guys against the other team, and it's you vs. a secondary. One top of 2, sometimes three guys breaking on you the moment that QB throws the ball in your direction, you better catch that ball and you better get your feet down. Once that ball is released you become alone in the endzone, and you have a team ready to hit you so that ball cracks loose before you hit the ball. Not an easy task.
And it's very telling that in national commercials, Dwight Clarks catch gets more plays that Joe Carters walk off, unless you are Toronto... lol.
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To put in my 2 cents, TD because to me it seems like a finish. To be honest, I've done all of these in my back yard... so I know first hand the difference... lmao
In baseball a home run is a great thing, very final, a climax if you will, but unless the set up is great it can be kind of dull. You'd have to have a rally, load up the bases and have your best guy smash the ball for it to be on a touchdown level.
3Pointers, well unless they are game winners, or heart breakers for a team trying to catch up, they are the least climatic one list.
Touchdown, touchdowns by nature are the finish of a drive. It doesn't matter one play or 14 plays, 1 yard or all 100 yards. In baseball, it's one on one with a pitcher, in basketball it's usually one on one and MAYBE one on two. But in football it's a complete team effort, your guys against the other team, and it's you vs. a secondary. One top of 2, sometimes three guys breaking on you the moment that QB throws the ball in your direction, you better catch that ball and you better get your feet down. Once that ball is released you become alone in the endzone, and you have a team ready to hit you so that ball cracks loose before you hit the ball. Not an easy task.
And it's very telling that in national commercials, Dwight Clarks catch gets more plays that Joe Carters walk off, unless you are Toronto... lol.
Well many here would argue that it's because it was Toronto. Roy Halladay is the best pitcher of the decade but gets very little exposure outside his market. If Roy Halladay pitched the way he pitched as a Yankee he'd be Roger Clemens. Clark's catch was the beginning of a dynasty in America's newly crowned favorite sport. If the 9ers lose the next game, or don't win any more Superbowls "Tha Catch" becomes "The Nothing" because no one would care. And if a bottom on the ninth series ending homerun comes from an American historical team like the Cubs, Yanks, or Red Sox you better believe it'd get the coverage.
Just look at Ruth's called homerun from the 33 series or whatever. Everyone is sports knows about it and there isn't even any real video of it what happened. And that was in the third inning I think. Imagine game 7, bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, 1 man on, down by one, and Babe Ruth points to the stands and hits the series winning dinger, and we had it on tape like we have anythig from the late 70s onward. "The Catch", "The Drive", and Manning to Tyree combined would not be able to compare to the coverage that play would still be gettting today.
Coming from Toronto and talking to baseball fans acros the US I'm always shocked to find out how little everyone else knows about one of the greatest teams ever assembled in MLB history. It's a simply a Canadian team and the US market can't sell it.
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To put in my 2 cents, TD because to me it seems like a finish. To be honest, I've done all of these in my back yard... so I know first hand the difference... lmao
In baseball a home run is a great thing, very final, a climax if you will, but unless the set up is great it can be kind of dull. You'd have to have a rally, load up the bases and have your best guy smash the ball for it to be on a touchdown level.
3Pointers, well unless they are game winners, or heart breakers for a team trying to catch up, they are the least climatic one list.
Touchdown, touchdowns by nature are the finish of a drive. It doesn't matter one play or 14 plays, 1 yard or all 100 yards. In baseball, it's one on one with a pitcher, in basketball it's usually one on one and MAYBE one on two. But in football it's a complete team effort, your guys against the other team, and it's you vs. a secondary. One top of 2, sometimes three guys breaking on you the moment that QB throws the ball in your direction, you better catch that ball and you better get your feet down. Once that ball is released you become alone in the endzone, and you have a team ready to hit you so that ball cracks loose before you hit the ball. Not an easy task.
And it's very telling that in national commercials, Dwight Clarks catch gets more plays that Joe Carters walk off, unless you are Toronto... lol.
But according to my question, they were ALL a finish. I wasnt referring to just any old TD, Three pointer, or Homer. I was talking game winning situations.
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walk-off homers are the shit...
but a 3-pointer at the buzzer is also insane...
I can't choose ;D