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O.T.-What is the most amazing thing you've ever seen in person?(Keep it clean!)

i can add this to the thread.... i was 19 and driving solo from cali back here to the shore along i-80... 5 days... i can say in the high desert completely straight roads for 10's of miles .. a trip i'll never forget

other trips i'll never forget... LSD, shrooms, 5-meo-dmt, dxm, ketamine... yea.. hehehe:D
 
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North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Pictures don't do it justice.

The first heart transplant that I participated in. Taking the old ugly heart out and watching it still beat a little bit on the back table before it finally gave up and then watching the surgeon attach the new heart to the patient and seeing it beat for the first time.

the first time I stepped out of our car in Tuscany and looked over the countryside. I wept.

Louisville v RU. I watched grown men weep at the end of that game.
 
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1. Standing and watching the lion enclosure at the Philadelphia zoo a few years ago, the lion was laying down, lazily wagging his tail. A large bird landed about 20 feet from him. Without standing up, the lion kept directly onto the bird and ate him. Feathers everywhere. Little kids crying. Utterly amazing.
2. Watching the sun rise over the clouds from the top of Mt Haleakala on my honeymoon. Breathtaking.
3. The first time I saw boobs close enough to touch. Summer between 8th and 9th grade. It was magical.
 
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RUtix4me said:
Most amazing thing I ever saw, 1996 Al CS, game 1, Derek Jeter at the plate, puts one to right field, the ball looks like it has no chance to leave the park, but suddenly is in the stands and the umps are signalling Home Run. I saw it live. Bought the tickets that morning by calling the box office and some how they had seats.

Also August 11, 1973, Mickey Mantles' final home run in Yankee Stadium, live again.

I guess a 3rd would be working Tom Young's camp with the likes of John Battle Roy Hinson, reffing Dematha vs St. Anhony's (Dehere, & Hurley) in the final. A certain Bridgewater Raritan West player was there too....was a ton of fun for a rising senior at RU to participate in.
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What year were you working the camp?
 
A few that come to mind:

My wife sunbathing topless in Nice, France on our honeymoon. Still the most perfect woman I've ever seen. When I die, that will be the last memory to go through my head, and I will pass with a smile on my face.

The sheer size and beauty of St. Peter's in Rome. Especially inside, it's just overwhelming. Same with the Eiffel Tower. You don't really understand how big it is until you stand underneath it with the four bases all around you.

At the Titanic exhibition at the Liberty Science Center, they had the bell from the crow's nest that Frederick Fleet rang when he spotted the iceberg and phoned the bridge, "Iceberg right ahead!" As a Titanic historian and, to be honest, fanatic, it gave me chills. I just stared at it for several minutes, overcome with emotion.
 
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oldman87 said:
I was actually picturing yesrutgers01 shaking and crying. :joy:

In all seriousness, this is a serious claim that warrants serious scrutiny, I'm no DNA but we need to see some proof. Teddrick Hunt got Amy Schumer to confirm via twitter, your move yesrutgers01.
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Ahhh- come on now, I'm sure I can find an old Jagyars or Chargers roster with his name in it. Lol
 
Keeping it to sports:

1. Willis Reed hobbling out onto the court against the Lakers in Game 7 in 1969.
2. Giants/Jets1st meeting in Yale Bowl.
3. Joe Pisacrcik fumble against the Eagles.
4. Rutgers comeback against Vanderbilt.
5. Rutgers/Louisville game 2006.
 
RUtix4me said:
Most amazing thing I ever saw, 1996 Al CS, game 1, Derek Jeter at the plate, puts one to right field, the ball looks like it has no chance to leave the park, but suddenly is in the stands and the umps are signalling Home Run. I saw it live. Bought the tickets that morning by calling the box office and some how they had seats.

Also August 11, 1973, Mickey Mantles' final home run in Yankee Stadium, live again.

I guess a 3rd would be working Tom Young's camp with the likes of John Battle Roy Hinson, reffing Dematha vs St. Anhony's (Dehere, & Hurley) in the final. A certain Bridgewater Raritan West player was there too....was a ton of fun for a rising senior at RU to participate in.
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Mantle retired several years before 1973. Could it be 1968, or could you be thinking of Willie Mays (who did retire in 1973, and who was with the Mets)?
 
Sports:
  • 2006 Rutgers/Ville, storming the field and tapping Ray Rice's shoulder pad
  • 2008 Cowboys at Eagles (g/f-now wife bought me tix for x-mas. They had been heavily discounted because the birds were practically eliminated from the playoffs. Yet, week by week, the stars began to align in the standings, so much so that by game day we had a legit shot to make it, but we needed a lot of help. We were tailgating in the parking lot when the Bears and Bucs both lost their games guaranteeing the playoffs. The beat down handed to the Boys and T.O. (who was only about a year removed from his epic season as an Eagle) was just icing on the cake.
Non-sports related: Watching my sons enter the world.
 
ok, here goes
A Patriot Missle launch, detection, and destruction of a SCUD Missile
A night time launch of an f-15 in full afterburner, after fixing it.
The Pyramids of Egypt
The Normandy Battlefields
Grand Canyon
Bryce Canyon
Arches National Park
Hawaii
A F-2 Tornado in Texas
the best memory is the birth of my Children.
 
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You Grand Canyon folk.. and especially those who have not visited/hiked.. Google Maps "Streetview" has 360 degree photos of the trails down..

Other than not having a couple feet of snow at the top like on my first visit.. it is pretty cool.

The above link is to the head of the Bright Angel trail... we took the South Kaibab down and came back up Bright Angel. And the next week I climbed the Eiffel tower and Notre Dame's spire. Pretty amazing week... and work took me to both locales... so it was essentially free! Amazing.

Here's a pretty good spot on South Kaibab where you can see the river below and juts how far you have come. I had a hard time controlling the viewpoint on this google trailview.. probably because that trail is very steep in spots. Still remember the steak dinner at Phantom Ranch at the bottom. And the moonlight on the canyon walls.. eeriely beautiful.
 
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Standing on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach in Normandy and looking up at the defensive positions, walking the scarred landscape of Point Du Hoc, and then visiting the American Cemetery, where I had the honor of participating in the flag-folding ceremony as Taps played. Been all over the place on many adventures, great and small. Normandy just is a holy, haunting, astonishing place. And, yes, "amazing" given the exploits of our fighting troops who hit and took that beach.
 
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MoobyCow said:
Amazing stuff, I think they have something similar for a few Yosemite hikes as well. I love the GC, have been there 4 times and rafted through it, but nothing compares to Yosemite for me.
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Sadly, that is still a bucket list item for me... as is Jellystone. I have to say the dryer places do make me a little sad. I need big trees and greenery to be happy.
 
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GoodOl'Rutgers said:
Sadly, that is still a bucket list item for me... as is Jellystone. I have to say the dryer places do make me a little sad. I need big trees and greenery to be happy.
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Thanks for the link though, I've been taking "walks" through multiple National Parks this morning. I could happily take all my vacations to our NPs,
 
camdenlawprof said:
Mantle retired several years before 1973. Could it be 1968, or could you be thinking of Willie Mays (who did retire in 1973, and who was with the Mets)?
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Nope he hit it in an old-timers game! Watch it on Youtube, great at bat Whitey Ford on the mound no less!
 
RUtix4me said:
Nope he hit it in an old-timers game! Watch it on Youtube, great at bat Whitey Ford on the mound no less!
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Thanks for clarifying. Mantle and Ford were close friends and drinking mates, so my guess is that Ford threw it right down the middle.

I should add that I think the announcer is the great Mel Allen, who did Yankees games for years. By the time I started listening at 7, he was paired with Phil Rizzuto and Red Barber.
 
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December 17 1983,
Watching fellow firefighters risk thier lives trying to save/rescue a brother firefighter, only in the end trying to find and recover him.
 
I was driving with my family on Interstate 820 in Fort Worth one morning. It had just started to rain. The car in front of us in the far left lane began to fishtail. The car began to spin out and moved to the far right lane, where it flipped over at least five times before landing on it's top. It was a sight to behold.
 
Bones131 said:
Pink Floyd at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in 1987 as a high school freshman
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Pink Floyd at McCarter Theater in Princeton in 1971 as a college senior.
Very intimate setting . . . sitting in the balcony with friends near the sound mixing board . . . during a lull between songs, one of the tube amps picked up a radio signal - it was Bob Dylan singing, David Gilmour stood grooving along for a while, just listening - it was as if one of the music gods just presented himself during a religious service !
 
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keeping with the sports theme ... Being in hte stands when Cal Ripken tied Lou Gehrigs record. There was such a buzz in the stadium before, during and after the game, it was the loudest outdoor sporting event I ever attended. I have been at all the RU home games since 1992 that were loud but they did'nt match this.

RU vs Lou in 2006. I had brought my son who was in high school .. ended up on the field ... what a great night

Being at the game in Philly when Laetner hit the buzzer beater to defeat Kentucky.
 
1974--at CSNY concert..hearing Neil Young announce that Nixon had resigned
1975--at CSNY concert...hearing Neil Young announce that the Vietnam War was over
 
On our annual trip to the Reno Air races in 2011, race plane crashed 100' in front of us killing 11 and injuring 70. Never forget that.
 
RedSpartan said:
A few that come to mind:

My wife sunbathing topless in Nice, France on our honeymoon. Still the most perfect woman I've ever seen. When I die, that will be the last memory to go through my head, and I will pass with a smile on my face.
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Before one of you pervs ask, no, it is not acceptable to ask for a pic.
 
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The day after Sandy, seeing the Atlantic Ocean from the top of the Mantaloking Bridge where there were dozens of Million $ homes just the day before and then turning around and seeing one of the home in the middle of the Barnegat Bay...still floating.
 
As for other things- I was in Manhattan at the time the planes hit the towers. Had just crossed the Williamsberg bridge coming into the city with full view of both- just dropped my then GF off at work in Gramercy Park when I heard the report of the first hit. I was just at the corner of 24th and about to turn on to the HH when I so the fireball of the 2nd tower. I didnt see the plane but saw the fireball.

In 1969, I was in 2nd grade- Ms. Leverage let the entire class sit in the AV room to watch the start of game 5 of the world series. We got home in time to see the final out.
 
Let me add one more.It's how amazed she was many years ago when she was about 5 or 6.We walked down a very cold and windy street ,heading for Rockefeller Center.She had her head down fighting the wind and all of a sudden we were near enough to see that unbelievably huge ,magnificent Christmas tree.She looked up and her eyes opened wide and her mouth even wider. Totally entranced.She's in my apartment as I write this.Age 54 and just as beautiful as she was that day.I am going to read this to her as soon as I finish posting it.
 
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I've seen some cool things in my life (though not as cool as some of you), the birth of my children, sunrise at summit of Haleakala, Grand Canyon at sunset, watched Dolphin pods play next to our boat in open water, saw the towers come down, watched the ships come in during Fleet Week, peered through the crown of the Statue of Liberty (back when you could climb into the crown), Pandemonium in Piscataway (storming the field with my 5 year old twins and staying on it until after midnight) but the thing that sticks with me most vividly...

I was in 8th grade. The entire school was pulled into an assembly to watch the historic launching of a teacher into space. We all sat in the school auditorium watching the live NBC news feed on a huge screen. I distinctly remember watching in awe thinking it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen as the Space Shuttle Challenger rose majestically into the air ... then exploded. Did I just see what I thought I saw? We watched the replay and listened to the Brokaw (I think it was Brokaw) explain about solid rocket boosters. Saw the damn thing blow up about a dozen times before they finally sent us back to class.
 
A few that stand out for me:

-Having tickets in the first few rows to the final performance of Movin' Out on Broadway and watching Billy Joel play at the end of that show in a relatively intimate setting

-RU vs. Louisville. A bird crapped on me when I left work to go to the game.
-Taking my family to Niagara falls. The Canadian side is very touristy but the falls are so impressive. If you visit, i recommend a stop on the NY side.
-Scuba diving in Hawaii. No one site stood out above the rest but my favorite memory was seeing a sea turtle.
-Scuba diving the St. Lawrence Seaway and seeing and entering some of the shipwrecks. It was amazing to be 100' underwater looking at shipwrecks from the 1700s and up.
-Hiking in Arizona and seeing a mountain lion in its natural habitat. I won't lie, I was nervous but it was pretty awesome.
-Spending the night at the Philadelphia zoo and seeing the king cobra actually active, eating its dinner
-Witnessing the destruction of a portion of the sarin gas from Syria
-Witnessing the destruction of the ebola waste that was generated in the US during the ebola incident last year.

Looking forward to: scuba diving (in a cage) with a great white shark
 
Not the greatest thing I've seen perhaps but the most memorable would be the first time I saw the bright emerald green grass of Yankee Stadium as a child. Many years later when I took my then 8 year old son to Yankee Stadium for the first time and I watched as he gasped at the bright green grass inside the Stadium. There's something wondrous about seeing a major league baseball field for the first time.
 
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This is a tough question but I'll throw out a few in no particular order:

-watching a motorcade in DC, and it doesn't matter who the official or head of state is. It's a very impressive sight especially the police motorcycles leading it. When a motorcade comes down a wide avenue like Independence Ave towards Capitol Hill, it's a modern day version of chariots and a Roman emperor among them. Very imperial.
-Watching a number of Republican governors who have been very successful with implementing conservative agendas in their respective states run for President in 2015/16 and drop out because no one would vote for them in the primaries opting for you-know-who instead.
- Looking up to see fighter planes above New Brunswick on 9/11/01, knowing why they were up there.
-Standing on the floor on the House of Commons on a tour of Parliament two weeks before 9/11. There's just something about that lawmaking forum that Congress is no match for in history and lore and drama.
-Going to Gettysburg and walking Pickett's Charge on a hot day. It amazes that anyone in the Confederate Army in that charge survived that day.
-Rutgers/Louisville 2006
-Rutgers/Alabama 1980, not only the game itself but seeing Bear Bryant trotting out of the tunnel in his houndstooth hat.
-Witnessing a launch at Kennedy Space Center, even if they scrub it.
-Cahokia Mounds outside of St. Louis. The remnants of an ancient city that had more people than London in the 1100s. My K-12 education never prepared me for the fact that the Native American ancestors of a thousand years ago actually built structures that can last for centuries and that there are similar sites across the South and Midwest. Sorta like a reverse Panem of Hunger Games.

Not amazing- going to the top of Haleakala at sunrise and seeing nothing but fog with a slight pinkish hue. That was a major wha-wha-whaaaa.
 
Armor and Sword said:
This is a tough question but I'll throw out a few in no particular order:

-watching a motorcade in DC, and it doesn't matter who the official or head of state is. It's a very impressive sight especially the police motorcycles leading it. When a motorcade comes down a wide avenue like Independence Ave towards Capitol Hill, it's a modern day version of chariots and a Roman emperor among them. Very imperial.
-Watching a number of Republican governors who have been very successful with implementing conservative agendas in their respective states run for President in 2015/16 and drop out because no one would vote for them in the primaries opting for DONALD TRUMP instead.
- Looking up to see fighter planes above New Brunswick on 9/11/01, knowing why they were up there.
-Standing on the floor on the House of Commons on a tour of Parliament two weeks before 9/11. There's just something about that lawmaking forum that Congress is no match for in history and lore and drama.
-Going to Gettysburg and walking Pickett's Charge on a hot day. It amazes that anyone in the Confederate Army in that charge survived that day.
-Rutgers/Louisville 2006
-Rutgers/Alabama 1980, not only the game itself but seeing Bear Bryant trotting out of the tunnel in his houndstooth hat.
-Witnessing a launch at Kennedy Space Center, even if they scrub it.
-Cahokia Mounds outside of St. Louis. The remnants of an ancient city that had more people than London in the 1100s. My K-12 education never prepared me for the fact that the Native American ancestors of a thousand years ago actually built structures that can last for centuries and that there are similar sites across the South and Midwest. Sorta like a reverse Panem of Hunger Games.

Not amazing- going to the top of Haleakala at sunrise and seeing nothing but fog with a slight pinkish hue. That was a major wha-wha-whaaaa.
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Very Bad - I watched the space shuttle Challenger lift off in person. We were in Orlando about to get in a van taking us to play golf at Cypress Gardens. It was unseasonably cold that day. We stood outside staring up at the lift off and watched the explosion. We thought it was fireworks or a bad joke. When we got to the proshop it was all over the news. The debris and smoke hung in the sky all day while we played golf. Definitely the most depressing round of golf I've ever played.
 
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