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Friday, November 07, 2008
“I was there”
There are few sports games that I have attended that transcended the sports world. While I like to say “I was there” when recounting Games 2 and 5 of the 1993 Stanley Cup, that was a euphoric feeling that was completely within the sports world. “I was there” for Patrick Roy’s last game, a game that goes down in infamy. It sort of transcended the sports world, in that the whole province was talking about what would happen, and the long-term effect of a franchise. “I was there” at the closing of the Forum (and opening of the new Forum), and the crowd, most of whom have never seen Rocket Richard skate, gave him the longest ovation of the night, some five minutes long. I think that transcended the sports world.
Curtis Pride however is another story. On Friday, September 17, 1993, PH Curtis Pride hit his first MLB hit, a two-run double, as he eventually scored the tie-ing run, of a game the Expos won in extra innings. The 45,757 in attendance that day gave the most rousing ovation I have ever heard as he was standing on second base. It lasted as long as that Rocket moment, but it was far louder. Pride, a deaf person, said he couldn’t hear a thing, but he felt the vibrations through the ground.
I was there.
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