What are you biggest sporting regrets?

Its a slow Monday...NOTHING else going on...so I thought this might be a fun topic.



Can be ANY sporting regrets - things you wish you'd done or seen, games you wish you had attended, etc. No rules - as long as its sporting related.



I have three:



1. I was THISCLOSE to buying tickets to the BYU/ :utard: bball game at the Huntsman center, but didn't end up going. And I missed the best 1/2 of bball by any player in BYU history. Wish I had gone.



2. I never saw Michael Jordan play live. Never went to a Bulls game at the Delta Center. So even though I was an adult for about 1/2 of his playing career, AND I live in an NBA town, I never saw the greatest BBall player ever play live. Wish I had.



Your turn.

My biggest BYU sport regret is this:

I was invited by my best friend to go to Lavell Edwards final game at Cougar Stadium the one where they renamed the Stadium and had all the fanfare for Lavell.It happened that I had to work that day and felt some loyalty to the job so I declined the invite. That was a big mistake .A week later they canned me and just recently my friend passed away so this has always been a regret.Maybe they have Cougarcorner in heaven and maybe my friend will see this.

1-Moving to Big 12 country in a tiny place with a tiny tiny fanbase (no not TCU), but Texas Tech.



2-Not going to Oklahoma 2009. But I am going to TCU on friday.

Not getting tix for last year's South Padre Island invitational. Could've watched Jimmer up close and personal.

mizzoucoug wrote:
Not getting tix for last year's South Padre Island invitational. Could've watched Jimmer up close and personal.

Dude, thats my regret as well! I was in SP that day, but felt like I shouldn't leave my parents that visited from Germany, I should have gone...

cougarsunited wrote:

Not getting tix for last year's South Padre Island invitational. Could've watched Jimmer up close and personal.

Dude, thats my regret as well! I was in SP that day, but felt like I shouldn't leave my parents that visited from Germany, I should have gone...

No kidding! Parents are a dime a dozen, but there's only ONE JIMMER!

Only one I can think of right now--



I wish I would have gone to the 2007 USA versus Mexico Gold Cup final in Chicago. A free one hour flight from MSP and I could have seen one of the most exciting, meaningful matches in US soccer history that culminated in this game-winning golazo:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGA2W4d5_E

Mingjai wrote:
Only one I can think of right now--



I wish I would have gone to the 2007 USA versus Mexico Gold Cup final in Chicago. A free one hour flight from MSP and I could have seen one of the most exciting, meaningful matches in US soccer history that culminated in this game-winning golazo:

Shoot, I guess I didn't make the rules clear enough. I meant to say anything sporting related...except for soccer! ;)

Y 4 Ever wrote:

Only one I can think of right now--



I wish I would have gone to the 2007 USA versus Mexico Gold Cup final in Chicago. A free one hour flight from MSP and I could have seen one of the most exciting, meaningful matches in US soccer history that culminated in this game-winning golazo:

Shoot, I guess I didn't make the rules clear enough. I meant to say anything sporting related...except for soccer! ;)

Well, you did cite an NBA-related regret, so I figured anything was fair game...

Mingjai wrote:

Mingjai wrote:
Only one I can think of right now--



I wish I would have gone to the 2007 USA versus Mexico Gold Cup final in Chicago. A free one hour flight from MSP and I could have seen one of the most exciting, meaningful matches in US soccer history that culminated in this game-winning golazo:

Shoot, I guess I didn't make the rules clear enough. I meant to say anything sporting related...except for soccer! ;)

Well, you did cite an NBA-related regret, so I figured anything was fair game...

Yes, but that was a pre-2000 NBA-related event. So its exempt! :lol:

Mingjai wrote:
Only one I can think of right now--



I wish I would have gone to the 2007 USA versus Mexico Gold Cup final in Chicago. A free one hour flight from MSP and I could have seen one of the most exciting, meaningful matches in US soccer history that culminated in this game-winning golazo:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGA2W4d5_E

Similarly, I didn't go to the RSL MLS Cup final two years ago. If RSL makes it this year, I'm going.

I have two - one as a fan, the other as a participant:



Fan - I didn't stay after the game when I attended the BYU-Drake game last year. I only found out later that the players came out and thanked and greeted the BYU fans. It was a great game to watch, but I missed the meet & greet!



Participant - Letting myself get talked into gymnastics instead of baseball in High School. I did OK in gymnastics, but ended up with some injuries that have haunted me ever since. (I landed on my head too many times!)

I have 2:



The first is I never saw Jimmer play. I coulda shoulda gone to the T&M in Vegas, but never did. I regret that one.



The second. I had tickets to BYU vs Miami in 1990, but didn't want to watch BYU get creamed. My cousin went and said it was the BEST game he's ever been to. We all know what happend. I was at my cabin just outside of Solitude in Big Cottonwood canyon listening to it on the radio. My Dad and I screamed so loud you could hear the echoes accross the canyon. Fun day, but I wish I would have been there.

Being born after 1984.

I. The pitch out I missed as a freshman halfback (ya, it was that long ago). It looked like a clear path to the endzone.



2. This last and the last few Utah games. I miss the days when we blew the _______ (fill in your favorite body waste) out of them.

1. Not understanding what hard work really was until after my senior year of football.

2. Not pushing harder to play a zone defense in the MCLA national championship game.

Missing the BYU-Utah game in 1998 to work a minimum wage job. I still have not seen this game. I always check KBYU to see if it is going to be on. Now that BYUtv.com has the games on demand and it is not included I assume that we do not own the rebroadcast rights to the game. I guess I will never see the doink.



What I learned since then: Never take a job that requires you to work on Saturdays. I haven't missed a BYU game since.

1. Had tickets to go to the BYU Miami game in Provo and my dad decided not to take the drive up from Las Vegas. I also ended up going to a church dance of all things that night and didn't even watch the game live. Haunts me to this day. No wonder the Prophet says not to have a girlfriend in high school....



2. Not sure if this counts as a "regret" but UNLV losing to Duke in the final four in 1991 has to be one of the worst sports experiences I have ever endured.

1.Not punching out that ute fan during the 05 game.



2. Not walking on at the Y. Had an invite to walk on to the football team, but went somewhere else and played. I had no connection to that other school and as a result missed most of Staley's awesome 2001 season.



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trueblue72 wrote:
1.Not punching out that ute fan during the 05 game.

I'm sensing a story here somewhere...