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Ever choked up during a sporting event?

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Have you ever gotten choked up during a sporting event?

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Something about a live singing of the Star Spangled Banner chokes me up everytime... I'm not talking about shit like Aaron Neville and Urethra Franklin at the super bowl... I'm talking about someone singing the anthem how it is supposed to be sung.
As sad as it may sound, it has only been that way for me since 9-11...

I can remember, I was a Sophomore in college in 2001, and on 9-22 I was driving to work listening to the pre-game of the OSU/UCLA game on the radio... They aired the playing of the National Anthem on the radio, and Tears started streaming.
 
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Singing Carmen Ohio in the shoe sends chills up and down my spine.


Also, Something about the team taking the field for the texas game this past year really choked me up. It was probably the atmosphere. Perfect Weather, nightfall, flashbulbs galore, the massive anticipation...
 
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Everytime I fly back to Ohio to watch a game with my dad. Something is very different about being back in Ohio to watch a game with family. You truly appreciate the culture growing up in a family of Buckeye fans. Out of all that I left behind, this is what I miss most, watching the band take the field with my dad.
 
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I just saw the 1992 Duke-Kentucky Elite Eight game. This is the game that defines college basketball at its best for me. With all the intensity and emotion surrounding that game, and the quick turnarounds... It was just an incredible game and every time I watch Laettner hit that shot and seeing Tyrone Hill with tears of overwhelming joy pouring down his face, barely able to breathe, it just sums up the meaning and the passion of all of sports. Not a time goes by where chills don't go up and down my spine when I see that play.
 
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BCSBust said:
I just saw the 1992 Duke-Kentucky Elite Eight game. This is the game that defines college basketball at its best for me. With all the intensity and emotion surrounding that game, and the quick turnarounds... It was just an incredible game and every time I watch Laettner hit that shot and seeing Tyrone Hill with tears of overwhelming joy pouring down his face, barely able to breathe, it just sums up the meaning and the passion of all of sports. Not a time goes by where chills don't go up and down my spine when I see that play.
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I find it hard to get emotional about games that I am not even old enough to remember, especially about teams I don't care about.
 
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BCSBust said:
I just saw the 1992 Duke-Kentucky Elite Eight game. This is the game that defines college basketball at its best for me. With all the intensity and emotion surrounding that game, and the quick turnarounds... It was just an incredible game and every time I watch Laettner hit that shot and seeing Tyrone Hill with tears of overwhelming joy pouring down his face, barely able to breathe, it just sums up the meaning and the passion of all of sports. Not a time goes by where chills don't go up and down my spine when I see that play.
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FYI, you mean Thomas Hill. Tyrone was at Xavier.
 
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2005 Michigan game, watching the team sing Carmen Ohio after the game. If I'd been alone the tears would've been streaming down my face. As it was it was a struggle to hold 'em back.

Oh, and like Craig, I get choked up by the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, at least when it isn't being butchered.
 
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hoyalawbuck said:
Oh, and like Craig, I get choked up by the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, at least when it isn't being butchered.
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What do you mean?

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