I used to be able to dunk. Now the mere thought of it causes back pain.
There are a lot of athletic things I was able to do back in the day that I can't do now, but the memories are fine...they have all been replaced or morphed into other things that I never could have done back then
The first time I dunked in competition (wasn't a "game", it was in practice, but while being defended)...my first home run as a tyke, my first home run in college, my first touchdown in high school...those are all pretty good memories.
Played a few innings of a baseball game in the Kingdome when I was a kid and went 3-3, pitched an inning with three strikeouts, and turned a double play on the shittiest astroturf ever known to man.
The first day I rowed a "real" river...Mill Drift on the Sauk without ever having been on the sticks ever before
Watching sports? I guess there are a few I remember that stand out, though not much. Watching Brian Holman in 1990 lose a perfect game with two outs in the ninth by giving up a home run to Ken Phelps...it's baseball season so I always remember that one in the summer, along with watching the 1995 Mariners improbable run.
Watching the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl against the Steelers...I was overseas and had to get up in the middle of the night to watch it, with soccer announcers who nothing about American football doing the commentating. That was a rough few hours.
Some of the ones I really remember of the Seahawks were back when they sucked...mostly some awesome trick plays, like Efren Herrera catching a pass on a fake field goal, or recovering his own onsides kick.
Watching the Sonics win the championship when I was a little kid after losing in the finals the year before...I recall very clearly seeing DJ throw the ball straight up in the air as time expired in the winning game.
Not too many of those...that's about it off the top of my head.
Fish on...
Todd