Yes, many times. I love a big moment.

 

Awesome! Thanks for your input. I almost teared up just reading your post. :clap:

97 UK/Arizona. I was 9 years old, broke my heart. :lol:

Yes, December 5, 2003

 

Belfry 33, Elizabethtown 27, OT

 

It is very hard to describe how much the community is vested in Belfry football, and how the pride and devotion to the program is a part of the Belfry fabric. It probably sounds crazy to a lot of people, but there are thousands of Pond Creekers who understand completely. It is a great place to live and I imagine there are fewer and fewer places remaining like that. Playing for and supporting the Pirates is a generational thing and is built on traditions that are long standing and almost sacred.

 

Belfry football had been around for 75 years and had been very good for a long time, but seemed to always get very close without grabbing a title. When they won that first championship, the emotion of it overtook me. For all of the players, coaches and fans who have shed blood and sweat and tears on the field and off for this program over three quarters of a century, it was redemption. I was in a state of disbelief and pure joy at the same time. After the game I saw guys like my dad and his buddies, who had longed for this for many years. I saw guys I played with and folks from every age in between and I really didn't know how to feel.

 

My breaking point came when I hugged Steve Mickey, long time Belfry assistant coach who had been there for 30 years + and we both just cried. It was a very surreal moment that I won't ever forget.

Twice:

 

1. After Kentucky/Duke in 1992. I was 10 years old and was deeply invested in UK, just like many others. Since they had just came off probation that year, I had no memories of postseason success, considering I was 7 when they lost to Villanova in their last tournament appearance in 1988. My bedroom was right next to our living room and when Laettner hit the shot I remember walking into my bedroom and laying down on my twin bed and just bawling. My twin sister, who wasn't a sports fan, came in a patted me on the back and told me she loved me. I'll never forget it.

 

2. After I got home from the Garrard/Belfry state semifinal in 2011. I was probably way too old to cry about this, considering I was almost 30. But I had taught nearly all of the kids on that team in 8th grade and had basically watched them grow up. While sad about the loss, I didn't cry because of that. The tears were more about how proud I was for those kids and how they had represented our community so well.

2. After I got home from the Garrard/Belfry state semifinal in 2011. I was probably way too old to cry about this, considering I was almost 30. But I had taught nearly all of the kids on that team in 8th grade and had basically watched them grow up. While sad about the loss, I didn't cry because of that. The tears were more about how proud I was for those kids and how they had represented our community so well.

Being there as an opposing fan, I could feel the emotion throughout the game from both fan bases. You could tell that the Garrard fans were all very attached to that team, and the same goes for the Pirate fans.

 

I've said it before, but that was one of the best atmosphere's I have been to for a high school game in a long time. Huge crowd, stakes were high, and two evenly matched teams laid it all on the line. Win or lose, it was a great night for football. When it was over, I genuinely felt bad for the GC players and fans, and even though it is cliche', it was one where it was a shame either team had to lose.

Never over any sporting event. Can't think of any reason why I would.

Here is a new candidate to make us all cry:

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/indy-leaguer-tears-acl-after-hitting-home-run--hops-around-bases-on-one-leg-075232784.html

I've come really close but no tears. I think Kobe's last game may get me though.

I cried when Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500.

Watching my daughter and son starting their first varsity games as sophomores, fastpitch and football respectively. At their last games for each that resulted in playoff losses. It was hard to hold back.

Oh, as a kid, I definately cried when the Redlegs traded Robbie.

Tiny Hickory High School v. Muncie

 

Nice mix of Fiction and Non-Fiction there...:lol2:

 

Fictional...Hickory Huskers defeated South Bend for the title in the Movie Hoosiers

Non-Fiction...Real Life, Milan Indians defeated Muncie Central for the title in 1954.

I cried a tear or two one cold night in Belfry.

I cried a tear or two one cold night in Belfry.

That was a battle and I know it had to be hard to see that season end JD. I thought Somerset had the better team too.

Never over any sporting event. Can't think of any reason why I would.

 

Same here. Never did, never will.

 

Mason County's first state basketball championship was typical in that it galvanized a small town. But I didn't cry about it. Heck, I was happy.