Sports are about moments.
For the fans who’ll never get to score a game-winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs or make that tide-turning save on an odd-man rush, we live for the instances where the games we love consume our entire being, to the point the universe’s existence outside of this place is merely a rumor. Nothing else matters.
The catch is, though, that moment is never fully realized until it’s gone. While the events are unfolding, the all-consuming nature of the moment prevents the understanding that this moment is one that will be revisited countless times in the future, frequently when fans of the same team pull up next to each other on a barstool, with one turning to the other and starting a sentence with, “Do you remember .