Craziest Crowd Moments in Sports

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This past week brought on the mark of the one-year anniversary since the last time the world has been able to witness a live, soldout sporting event.

Fans and the crowd, in general, provide so much more than just an impact on the game being played in front of them and an advantage for the home team. They just as much influence the cinematics and enhance the drama of what is transpiring.

You probably try to mute it out as much as you can, but if you have been consuming sporting events on television since they made their return in the summer of 2020, it is quite noticeable how large the void is in the overall entertainment aspect of sports without the fans.

For many people around the world, attending a sporting event is the ultimate privilege. Some may save their money to go to their favorite team’s game, others may be given tickets by a friend or coworker and go to witness something they don’t get to on a regular basis, the great concept of sport.

The factor the matter is, it really doesn’t mean much whether you’re there all the time or just once in a blue moon, every time feels like a new, out-of-world experience.

I can still feel the different brush of air from walking up the steps at Rogers Arena and looking down at the ice surface or the rush of deafening noise being projected from the 72,000 strong in attendance during a Seahawks game.

To put an extraordinary feeling into a short perspective, I hope and wish everybody gets to have the same feelings and experience these times again, not only for what it does to the game, but also what it does for the people.

The crazy chants, or the wave, even getting smacked over the head with something from the opposing teams’ mascot… Every single little memory made in a stadium is one that will last in the heads of a fan for life and will make you want to relive it over and over again.

I wanted to put together a little mashup of all the funny, emotional, and insane moments I could think of when it comes to live, sold-out crowds at a sporting event.

In an attempt to make light of a brutal year it has been, I hope these short clips can help remind people of the beauty and privilege it is to be inside a skeptical like these and to hopefully never take advantage of it again.

Craziest Crowd Moments in Sports –

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Minneapolis Miracle in Minnesota:

Probably the loudest unofficially tracked crowd there has ever been, this was a signature moment for the NFL and the city of Minneapolis.

When Stefon Diggs took the Case Keenum pass down the right sideline and to the endzone against the New Orleans Saints in the playoffs and the roof came off the brand new stadium in downtown Minny, it was bone-chilling, but in a good way.

A play that should have never happened, and wouldn’t if the Saints could run it back 100 more times. When a miracle occurred on the field at US Bank Stadium, the home fans made it count.

Kawhi Leonard Wins Game 7:

Ahh, yes, a classic.

Something I could watch on repeat again and again until eventually reciting every word of the broadcast call myself. The biggest shot in Toronto Raptors history also brought probably the craziest fan moment as well.

Those who were lucky enough to be in the building probably didn’t know how to calm down for a good 10 minutes, while the people watching on TV around the world couldn’t help but be hyped up themselves.

Overall, this is the definition of what sports are all about. The multiple bounces off the rim, Kawhi goes into a full-depth squat while his teammates and the other 20,000 plus watched the basketball.

A tale that will be told through generations, but one only we were lucky enough to see first-hand.

The Sedin Twins Walk-Off Performance:

You thought I wouldn’t be a homer with this one? Not a chance.

I select this moment to put into the list because I was actually blessed enough to be in the building this night. What seemed like a lackluster regular-season finale at home for the Vancouver Canucks against Arizona quickly turned into a lifetime memory for me.

I had been gifted the tickets for Christmas, $45 per seat sitting in the upper level, in the very front row. Not too shabby for what ended up being the final time Henrik and Daniel Sedin played in a game on the ice at Rogers Arena.

The atmosphere was epic, like something out of a movie. The way the twins were serenaded with cheers every time they touched the puck, hell, every time they touched the ice!

Skip to 1:25 in the video below –

They were cheered so much and so extremely loud on this night at some points they just tried to ignore it, mostly in the warmup.

Yet, they ended in a way that you could only write out in a fictional story, calling curtains on two careers of legends.

Jose Bautista and the Seventh Inning for the Ages:

More homer stuff, this time going to the diamond where everyone knows about this crazy dinger.

Skip to 1:00 of the video below – 

More-known for the bat flip that came after, the massive series-winning home run by Jose Bautista brought a crowd reaction so loud there were rumblings that it set off a small earthquake in the greater Toronto area.

I’m not sure how on Earth any player could manage to pitch through this moment, and it was evident that Rangers pitcher Sam Dyson had been going through a psychological battle to pitch to Joey Bats.

In the end, the home run initiated this insane moment for Blue Jays fans, and it is something to hope for in what should be an interesting era of Toronto baseball on the horizon.

Evan Power, Evolution 107.9

 

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