Best Sounds in Sports...

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

Catcher's mitt popping on a fastball (particularly in the echoing bullpen).

Wooden bat hitting a baseball with the sweet spot.

A basketball shot going in swish.

Hockey skates on the ice .

Hockey sticks making contact with the ice.

The wind breaking on a pretty golf shot (I wouldn't know anything about it).

The golf ball hitting the cup (again, I wouldn't know anything about it).

Basketball shoes squeaking on the wood.

The fog horn in hockey (different kind of pleasant sound).

Bowling pins getting knocked over.

The snow kicking up when a skier changes directions.

Linemen pads colliding in football.

Tennis racking squarely hitting the ball (though I can't stand the grunting or the shoe squeaking on a hard court).

Someone hitting the matt perfectly in pro wrestling (powerbomb, body slam, suplex off the ropes, etc.). Sweet chin music ain't bad, either.

What else?

 

[steelcurtain55.]

The sound of the practice field at 7am...


1. Catchers mitt

2. Indy cars going thru the gear box

 

[rmf05]

When an Olympic high diver perfectly executes one of those no splash entries.

When an expert pool player smashes home an easy shot.

 

[RaleighPittFan]

Thoroughbred horses hooves hitting the track.

Top fuel dragsters at idol.

Two stroke motocross engines.

Spontaneous crowd eruption of cheers (at any big venue).

 

[cruzer]

The sound of Pitt fans "greeting" the WVU team as they come out of the tunnel at Acrisure Stadium.

The sound of the starters pistol going off for the 100M Olympic final.

 

[_Goldenboy_]

Furious brushes against ice in curling. I could listen to it all day.

 

[Burgh15]

Crowd pop after a big moment.

 

[steelcurtain55.]

I saw both of these and they sounded like gun shots..

 

[steelcurtain55.]

How about that sound?

 

[pittdan77]

I'm always struck by the sound of the crowd during a big play in football. There is that loud exuberance when the crowd realizes something big is happening and then it somehow amplifies when a player caps it off with a score. Just a beautiful sound when it's your team. WVU game last season was the perfect example.

 

[The Ole Six-Fiver]

I'm always struck by the sound of the crowd during a big play in football. There is that loud exuberance when the crowd realizes something big is happening and then it somehow amplifies when a player caps it off with a score. Just a beautiful sound when it's your team. WVU game last season was the perfect example.

Ha, that was exactly what I was going to post, right down to referencing the Devonshire pick 6 example. The groundswell of noise from a big crowd when a huge play occurs. Being there for something like that when it is happening around you real time is unlike most anything else.

 

[RaleighPittFan]

I'm always struck by the sound of the crowd during a big play in football. There is that loud exuberance when the crowd realizes something big is happening and then it somehow amplifies when a player caps it off with a score. Just a beautiful sound when it's your team. WVU game last season was the perfect example.

The sound at the end of 13 - 9 was a beautiful silence.

 

[The Ole Six-Fiver]

You have to be off a certain age (aka old) and from WPA to understand this … but one if the sweetest sounds of when I was a little kid and an avid Pirates fan was hearing Bob Prince exclaim “you can kiss it goodbye!” over the radio for a Pirates HR. (Summers in my little WPA town usually involved nearly everyone on the street sitting on their porches in the evening, and everyone had their transistor radios on and tuned in to the Pirates game so you often would hear it in dodecaphonic…)

 

[jivecat]

The echo of the basketball being dribbled at a WNBA game.

 

[OH Pete]

The sound at the end of 13 - 9 was a beautiful silence.

As was the sound of the singing of Hail to Pitt by our players through the walls of WVU's media room as DickRod talked about the nightmare that just unfolded.

 

[OH Pete]

The grunting of Maria Sharapova during a forehand smash.

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[YourPittDanceTeam]

The sound of the Pitt Cheerleaders yelling..."LET'S GO PITT!!"

 

[NTOP]

Catcher's mitt popping on a fastball (particularly in the echoing bullpen).

Wooden bat hitting a baseball with the sweet spot.

A basketball shot going in swish.

Hockey skates on the ice .

Hockey sticks making contact with the ice.

The wind breaking on a pretty golf shot (I wouldn't know anything about it).

The golf ball hitting the cup (again, I wouldn't know anything about it).

Basketball shoes squeaking on the wood.

The fog horn in hockey (different kind of pleasant sound).

Bowling pins getting knocked over.

The snow kicking up when a skier changes directions.

Linemen pads colliding in football.

Tennis racking squarely hitting the ball (though I can't stand the grunting or the shoe squeaking on a hard court).

Someone hitting the matt perfectly in pro wrestling (powerbomb, body slam, suplex off the ropes, etc.). Sweet chin music ain't bad, either.

What else?

"penn state sucks" in the Victory Song

 

[TFloss]

Crowd pop after a big moment.

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This was a good one but I think the Taysir Mack 4th down catch against Clemson was more fun. Everyone saw him break wide open at the same time and let out a gasp.

 

[Burgh15]

This was a good one but I think the Taysir Mack 4th down catch against Clemson was more fun. Everyone saw him break wide open at the same time and let out a gasp.

 

[Ray-Ray]

Catcher's mitt popping on a fastball (particularly in the echoing bullpen).

Wooden bat hitting a baseball with the sweet spot.

A basketball shot going in swish.

Hockey skates on the ice .

Hockey sticks making contact with the ice.

The wind breaking on a pretty golf shot (I wouldn't know anything about it).

The golf ball hitting the cup (again, I wouldn't know anything about it).

Basketball shoes squeaking on the wood.

The fog horn in hockey (different kind of pleasant sound).

Bowling pins getting knocked over.

The snow kicking up when a skier changes directions.

Linemen pads colliding in football.

Tennis racking squarely hitting the ball (though I can't stand the grunting or the shoe squeaking on a hard court).

Someone hitting the matt perfectly in pro wrestling (powerbomb, body slam, suplex off the ropes, etc.). Sweet chin music ain't bad, either.

What else?

A great sound that you don't hear anymore is that crack from a persimmon driver when you hit the golf ball on the screws. A metal driver sends the ball much further and is more forgiving, but that sound from a persimmon driver was a thing of beauty.

 

[Las Panteras]

The sound of Mike Lange's voice.

 

[Las Panteras]

What about the worst sounds in sports?

Sneakers on a basketball floor.....

 

[YourPittDanceTeam]

What about the worst sounds in sports?

Sneakers on a basketball floor.....

Hearing the Pitt AD announce that there was 40.000 people at a home football game, when there is clearly less then that total.

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

Balls clanking together like maracas when Lia Thomas does the backstroke.

#SoSoothing

 

[The Ole Six-Fiver]

What about the worst sounds in sports?

Sneakers on a basketball floor.....

Ron Cooks disgusting voice

 

[DT_PITT]

Crowd pop after a big moment.

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I could watch this 1,000 times. (I just did about 10)