First Football Memory?

So guys, what was your first ever NFL memory? What is the one thing that you'll always remember? Is it a Superbowl? a game? a player? a season? a statistic?

 

My first football memory is one play:

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I had to be about 5 when I saw that but the play is ingrained in my memory. I just remember wondering why people were going so crazy over some guy running. It was a love affair with football from there on out.

 

The Fumble. :icon_sad:

 

watching the 94 AFC Championship Game with my dad, Colts/Steelers he was getting mad on the last play when they were discussing the hail mary catch (no catch) and i didnt care lol

 

My first football memory was of the first game I watched. It was in September of 1976, I was seven. We had just moved back to the US a few months before and everyone was at my grandparents house to watch the Eagles season opener against the Cowboys.

I wondered why everyone was so excited and dressed in Eagles gear. I didn't understand what the big deal was over a game. I don't recall many details of the action, but I was hooked instantly.

 

When I was 6 I got into a flag football team in Tijuana. I fell in love with the game since the first practice.

The first NFL game I watched was Super Bowl XXV. I was 8 at the time. One year later I became a Cowboys fan because I liked their unis, and there was this team in the flag football league called The Cowboys which we could never defeat :moe:

 

My first vivid football memory came in 1983, I was five, and my Dad told me that we were going to a Bears game. And our opponents would be none other than the Denver Broncos. The significance of that would obviously be that in 1983, John Elway was a rookie. Our seats were even on the Denver side of the field.

So my first football memory was copycatting my Dad heckling John Elway as the Bears kicked his butt on their way to a 31-14 (I looked up the score, memory isnt that good.) victory.

Not bad huh?

 

I was five and I got hit in the head with a football during recess. I've been scared of schoolyards ever since.

 

Going to old Soldier Field to see a MLS game that featured the Chicago Fire and some other team and I remember seeing the big orange C faded in the middle of the field.

 

That game sucked. :glare:


I think my oldest football memory was in 1980 when the Bills beat the Dolphins in the season opener. We were 0 for the 1970s vs Miami and the fans tore down the goalposts after the game. I was young and I didn't quite understand what was going on and my Dad explained to me why that win meant so much to the team and the community. I've been a long suffering and proud Bills fan ever since.

 

Born in 1960. As a 7 year old went to Baltimore Memorial Stadium. Dad, his two brothers, and my Grand Father were season ticket holders. Grand Pop went to the warm games and I went to the cold games. When Jim O'Brien hit the game winning field goal in SB V I was hooked. I know, I am old. I am a 3 time Super Bowl Attendee. I just loves me some Championship Football.

 

Went to an Oilers game in '87. Beat the Steelers 23-3 :cowboy1: .

 

First real memories are the Steelers SB's of the 70's.......I never really loved the game or followed one particular team until the 81-82 OT playoff game between San Diego and Miami. I was hooked from that moment on.

 

My first football memory was '84; Raiders and Redskins in the Superbowl.

I watched that game and fell in love with the sport. My dad wasn't a big sports guy so I had to get it on my own.

 

Broncos/Cowboys Super Bowl. Parents had a SB Party and my dad was a Cowboys fan...the following season, I took a liking to the Steelers...the rest is history!!

 

My first football memory..........
The US soldiers here watching a game on AFN I didn't know, in a language I barely speak (at least back then in the late 70's) Don't ask me what game it was :icon_confused:

 

First football memory was when my Mom's boss brought back souvenirs from SuperBowl 3
I was just a kid and had some vague memories of the Colts before but was hooked after seeing that game and then seeing actual stuff from the game. My Mom used to help her best friend out tending bar in Westminster Md. where the Colts had their training camp and she once spilled a beer on Johnny Unitas....always thought that was amusing.

 

Wow, not many people can say that their Mom spilt a beer over Johnny Unitas. (Apart from you and any siblings you have obviously.)

 

That's awesome.

 

Was a different time then too....players used to hang together at a bar after practice and have a beer or two and play pool and amazing thing....people didn't harrass them or badger them and they were just normal people.....those were the days. John Macke used to go there and Johnny U and a few others. My mom would remember all of them better than me.