Sport Incidents Which Shocked You?

[ONEDUNME]

Yes I see what you mean Swoops about it not being live. What happened was, that Grandstand (or whatever it was) went over live to the ground to show the bit of a fire thing (I think it was around the time that the half time round ups were due but I could be wrong). Then they went back to the studio, then they kept going back as it got worse until it became obvious that it was a serious job. Then the camara just stayed on the ground.

The twin towers thing was surreal. Like watching a film.

[all_funkt_up]

twin towers was mad. we flew from rome to stanstead that morning and heard something had happened in the airport after we landed. bet the pilot was shittin himself - bet they were on high alert and he was shit scared incase it happened to him....

anyway, we drove to our m8s in colchester and were sat in a pub, everyone gobsmacked watching it over and over and over again..... the whole day was surreal and even when I look back at the newspapers from the 12th - it doesnt seem real. Maybe some events are too huge for us to contemplate....

[Swooperman]

Totally agree with that. Generally people find the dark side of even anything, but that day was unbelievable. I drank with quite a hard crowd in those days in this particular pub but everybody was transfixed....& i dont think its over the top to say the world changed that day.
Other ones outside of sport were Tianemen Square...that bloke stopping the tank was unreal, simply breathtaking, & the fact that the tank commander wouldnt crush him probably took some sand as well.
Yeltsin on top of that tank when it kicked off in Russia, figuring in the cameras eyes was the only place he might be safe...I remember thinking 'man, thats strong vodka!!'

In sport again, Benn v Eubank shocked me in its severity, also the McClelland fight, & Michael Watson. Watching Eubank fight after that was surreal, wanting to win everything on points & not putting people away....a bloke I'd thought was a pompous twat had turned human for me.

[zonker84]

I'd been to the top of the Twin Towers about 5 days before it happened, and also flew into Logan Airport in Boston the day before it happened, where two of the planes were hijacked from.

I was staying with a couple of people at the time who were in the US Navy, and just watched it live on TV there that morning. The guy I knew had family in New York, so he didn't quite know if they were safe, although they didn't work in the Twin Towers and turned out to be fine. I was a lot closer to it than most people I know, and ended up stranded in America for a week as I was due to fly home the next day.

[Winrew]

Sometimes tradegy has humour also.
Getting back to the twin towers , a mate at work was going to Graceland the home of Elvis , it was this lads 50th birthday so his wife booked it.

They had just got half way over the Atlantic when the twin towers started falling , they were diverted to Goose Bay airforce base in Canada where they had to stay on the plane for 14 hours , when they got off they spent three days in the barracks before going to Chicago for four days then flying back to england
Poor sod was gutted....

[Peter Orchard]

I'm not so sure about that Winrew.
Sometimes humour is the only way we can dealwith it, I think that's fairly certain.

The Bradford tragedy always makes me think about my own mortality when I consider those people in the stand who couldn't move even though the melted tar was pouring down on them.
That's an horrific picture and one I can relate to rather than the 9\11 pictures.
They were just too surreal to take in.

[Swooperman]

I think in the company were in here....ie mostly football fans, something like the Bradford fire disaster is all too real, as weve all been at these grounds & any of us could very easily have been in there. Hillsborough was closer to Bradford in terms of unintentional, but obviously Heysel was brought on by trouble, so cant really be empathised with in the same way.
The twin towers was just something unbelievable, as though people only want to think about it only so deeply, so as not to scare themselves even more. The media plays its part, in this day & age of 24 hour news we watched 9/11 unfold before our eyes, & we can all remember where we were, like JFK, (apparently....). The 3 sporting disasters, although televised, were not broadcast in the same way so really are incomparable IMO

[zonker84]

Originally Posted by Winrew

Sometimes tradegy has humour also.
Getting back to the twin towers , a mate at work was going to Graceland the home of Elvis , it was this lads 50th birthday so his wife booked it.

They had just got half way over the Atlantic when the twin towers started falling , they were diverted to Goose Bay airforce base in Canada where they had to stay on the plane for 14 hours , when they got off they spent three days in the barracks before going to Chicago for four days then flying back to england
Poor sod was gutted....

I don't know about you Win, but I've been to Graceland and Chicago, and I can tell you he didn't miss anything at Graceland, Chicago is far better

[PTDSEI]

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