17 years ago Bird stole the ball and fed a cutting D.J. as Detroit watched in agony!

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I saw this at a minor league site and thought it was worth mentioning....Did Larry Legend break your heart with that play?

Where were you when Bird pulled that one out of his ass?
 

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more than likely, I was doing homework, or perhaps playing soccer outside, dunno...
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i remember like it was yesterday.. I was sitting home on my bed watching the game and i had just turned 18 yrs old and I was wacking off on my bed, and I was just about to shoot my load and feeling so excited and thinking of Farrah Fawcett, then Larry Bird stripped the ball and totally distracted my jerk and then lost total concentration and couldn't get it up anymore because I was so astonished at the great play by Larry..

Come on Journey, how the hell am i supposed to remember where I was during a ball being stripped. I can't even remember what I ate last night.
 

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There is an underlying meaning behind the thread Sick.... am sure though many gamblers remember, as gamblers do not forget miracle endings.
 

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13 years old in basement. Ran upsairs in hysterics to tell my dad. One of my top sports moments ever. Up there with Flutie's pass, Hendu's homer off Moore and Tate George's buzzer beater versus Clemson in the early 90's. Bird is god.
 

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Don't know if anybody remembers the Celts gravelly voiced announcer Johnny Most but he went nuts when Bird stole the ball and fed it back to DJ.

Almost all my buddies in Mass did a Johnny Most imitation, but I picked the best one and had him record the whole sequence on my answering machine, "Bird steals the ball, etc...leave your message at the beep". Best answering machine message I ever had. Them were the days - every year it was Boston, Detroit and LA.
 

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Larry Bird is defended by Dennis Rodman in the "Larry steals the ball" game in the 1987 Eastern Finals (Really).

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No shots (that I can find) of the actual steal.

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I can still hear Most`s call in my head...I must have heard it 100 times over the years.
They use to say he was the ultimate "homer announcer"...was that true of Johnny Most?

I remember hearing a Johnny Most contest, and all the contestants were mocking him for always siding with the Celts...

Did he ever work with Tom Heihnson *spell?
 

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"Greer is putting the ball into play. He gets it out deep," Most intones, before his voices rises into a frenzy. "Havlicek steals it. Over to Sam Jones. Havlicek stole the ball! It's all over! Johnny Havlicek stole the ball!"
 

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Johnny Most was the biggest homer of all times when it came to favoring his team.

Some of my favorites:

Ruland and Mahorn he referred to as McFilthy and McNasty. Philadelphia was the City of Brotherly Hate.

When McHale scored a basket close-in it was "McHale...pumpkin".

Cowens was Big Red and Havlicek was always Hondo.

Just for entertainment, we would turn off sound on TV and listen to him on the radio. Even as a Celts fan, you would see how biased he was.

I know Heinsohn did TV but I don't remember that he ever worked side by side with Most. Wil would probably be the ultimate authority on that.
 

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HE SHOULD BE A HOMER........HE WAS THE CELTICS ANNOUNCER!!!!

Thats the way it should be!!!

One reason I will always respect Harry Carey over Vin Scully.
 

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scully thinks its 1985 and a big CBS deal is around the corner. . .i think that is why a lot of guys shy away from being a homer. they think they will make it big time like musberger or something
 

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I would have enjoyed him, I can imagine you guys must have had many times where you said the next day after a night game "did you hear what Johnny Most said"? lol

I bet him and Heinsohn would have been an absolute riot side by side...Johnny talking about the other team and Heinsohn threatening them.

Rob - thats pretty funny your take on Vin Scully...John Miller was shown the door in Baltimore for not showing enough home favoritism too (atleast thats what Peter Angelos thought)
 

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