Biggest Individual sports chokes (1 Viewer)

[grateful zed]

todd brooker

 

[Eephus]

Jimmie Foxx

Foxx died in 1967 at age 59 in Miami, Florida. He became ill while eating dinner with his brother and was taken to a hospital, where resuscitative efforts failed. An autopsy showed that Foxx had choked on a piece of food. The year before, Foxx's second wife, Dorothy, had also died of choking.

 

[avoiding injuries]

Jim Joyce

 

[Limp Ditka]

Jimmie Foxx

Foxx died in 1967 at age 59 in Miami, Florida. He became ill while eating dinner with his brother and was taken to a hospital, where resuscitative efforts failed. An autopsy showed that Foxx had choked on a piece of food. The year before, Foxx's second wife, Dorothy, had also died of choking.

 

[comfortably numb]

Sasha Grey

 

[Guest]

All we need is 1 pin Rodney.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

 

[avoiding injuries]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

He admitted as much in an interview at some point.

 

[The General]

Sasha Grey

More of a gag really.

 

[simsarge]

Derrick Coleman at the freethrow line with 28 seconds left in the 1987 NCAA Championship.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

He admitted as much in an interview at some point.

I agree it was a bad choke.I don't doubt it haunted him the rest of his career.

The argument to make is Anderson got scared of shooting free throws and changed his game to stand out on the perimeter and shoot more threes, driving to the hoop less and getting fouled less. But he was never that good a free throw shooter before the Finals misses, and he wasn't that much worse after them.

 

[avoiding injuries]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

He admitted as much in an interview at some point.

I agree it was a bad choke.I don't doubt it haunted him the rest of his career.

The argument to make is Anderson got scared of shooting free throws and changed his game to stand out on the perimeter and shoot more threes, driving to the hoop less and getting fouled less. But he was never that good a free throw shooter before the Finals misses, and he wasn't that much worse after them.

I wasn't being serious

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

He admitted as much in an interview at some point.

I agree it was a bad choke.I don't doubt it haunted him the rest of his career.

The argument to make is Anderson got scared of shooting free throws and changed his game to stand out on the perimeter and shoot more threes, driving to the hoop less and getting fouled less. But he was never that good a free throw shooter before the Finals misses, and he wasn't that much worse after them.

I wasn't being serious

I know.Just posting an exit thought on the topic.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Trey Junkin - long snapper of the 2002 NY Giants in the wild card game vs the 49ers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlUnW7yL8Pc

He should have gotten a reprieve since the big fat Giants lineman was interfered with at the end of the attempted throw by the holder.

This and your Fred Brown ones are very good. Just incomprehensible actions in the context of professional athletes doing something so commonplace with horrific results.

 

[Zow]

Mama cass

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Greg Norman in the 1996 Masters is the worst I've ever seen.

This one. Drawn out over many holes. Painful to watch.

He just crushed the course on Thursday, leader after all three rounds, led by six going into Sunday, 7th place was 10 shots back. It was setting up as an epic wire-to-wire destruction of Augusta and the opposition.And then Sunday happened. Faldo shot 67 in Norman's group, but it wasn't a flurry of early birdies tightening the score. On holes 9-12 where the wheels came off for Norman bogey-bogey-bogey-double, Faldo was par-par-par-par.

Six shots up going into Sunday, and lost by five. Norman shot 78, and that was with birdies on three of the par-5s.

And then there's the backstory to Norman's Masters drought. In '86, Jack Nicklaus shot a 30 on the back 9 on Sunday to finish one shot ahead of Norman (and Kite) despite Norman's 4 birdies on 14-17...and a bogey on 18. Then the following year Larry Mize hit the most amazing shot to ever win the event in a playoff vs. Norman (

That history (which is plenty without even mentioning Bob Tway holing out from the bunker on hole-72 to steal the PGA from him) is why Norman's stand out above van de Velde's to me. Norman is a HOFer and was one of the top players in the world for over a decade while van de Velde was pretty much a flash in the pan.

 

[matuski]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

.692 prior

.564 after including 2 years under .500

No player struggled to recover more from that game than Nick Anderson.

“It affected the way I played,” he said. “It affected the way I lived. It played in my head like a recorder – over and over again.”

Nick “The Brick” Anderson went from a 74 percent free throw shooter to a 40 percent free throw shooter. He played a few more mediocre years including a very forgettable stint with the Kings and Grizzlies.

SOUL CRUSHING

 

[SIDA!]

Ray Finkle

/endthread

 

[Brock Middlebrook]

Nick Anderson.

Those 4 free throws in the Finals. They crushed him for the rest of his career. Top of my head - 80% FT shooter before, like 30% FT after.

Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.

Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

.692 prior

.564 after including 2 years under .500

No player struggled to recover more from that game than Nick Anderson.

“It affected the way I played,” he said. “It affected the way I lived. It played in my head like a recorder – over and over again.”

Nick “The Brick” Anderson went from a 74 percent free throw shooter to a 40 percent free throw shooter. He played a few more mediocre years including a very forgettable stint with the Kings and Grizzlies.

SOUL CRUSHING

Would it have been easier if his name didn't rhyme with brick? Perhaps....

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats.

.657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

.692 prior

.564 after including 2 years under .500

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[NewlyRetired]

Here is an out of the box one.

Biggest sports marketing choke ever?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJkfE1M9wA

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Might be the winner. Coast to victory. Nothing to it.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Anyone mention Lindsey Jacobellis yet?

 

[Ghost Rider]

Rahim Moore.

Also, who was the player in hockey who fell down and missed an empty netter, and then the Oilers went down and tied it with seconds left, and then won in OT?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Rahim Moore.

Also, who was the player in hockey who fell down and missed an empty netter, and then the Oilers went down and tied it with seconds left, and then won in OT?

Patrick Stefan?

 

[ghostguy123]

Lebron in the series vs the Celtics before he bounced out of Cleveland

 

[Tom Skerritt]

Anyone mention Lindsey Jacobellis yet?

Saw that live. That was awful, but she deserved to lose for it.

 

[Gr00vus]

As a Charger fan I humbly submit Marlon McCree's 4th quarter interception then fumble in the 2006 playoffs vs. the Patriots. There were many chokes by the Chargers in that game - dropped passes, muffed punts, missed field goals, stupid challenges, not getting Tomlinson enough touches, etc. - but I think that one was the worst. All he had to do was take a knee and they had the game.

 

[matuski]

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats. .657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

.692 prior

.564 after including 2 years under .500

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X

I admire the shtick of making up numbers to support a position, especially after accusing the other side of cherry-picking. Bonus brazen hypocrisy points there. Well done.

Wrong makes ya bitter.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Rahim Moore.

Also, who was the player in hockey who fell down and missed an empty netter, and then the Oilers went down and tied it with seconds left, and then won in OT?

Patrick Stefan?

Ah yes, that's him. I still remember seeing that live.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats. .657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

.692 prior

.564 after including 2 years under .500

X

X

I admire the shtick of making up numbers to support a position, especially after accusing the other side of cherry-picking. Bonus brazen hypocrisy points there. Well done.

Wrong makes ya bitter.

The last time we went this multiple rounds, you were so wrong you literally scratched out your work, so at this point I'm not too concerned that you think I'm wrong.

I am curious about how you came up with those percentages, though. Mind showing what numbers you used? Because I'm having trouble figuring out what version of the truth your numbers are supposedly telling.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

As a Charger fan I humbly submit Marlon McCree's 4th quarter interception then fumble in the 2006 playoffs vs. the Patriots. There were many chokes by the Chargers in that game - dropped passes, muffed punts, missed field goals, stupid challenges, not getting Tomlinson enough touches, etc. - but I think that one was the worst. All he had to do was take a knee and they had the game.

Someone mentioned the other day about the GB DB not trying to score on that last INT and I offered that it was probably because every coach's nightmare is the McCree play. I imagine they've been drilling into their players' heads the last 9 years to fall down in that type of situation.

 

[Tom Servo]

Ray Finkle

/endthread

Who?

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Ray Finkle

/endthread

Who?

Einhorn.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

2004 ALCS: Red Sox comeback over the Yankees down 3 games to 0 to win in 7.

For some reason this always just gets noted as one of the greatest comebacks in sports history (as it was), but wherever there's a comeback there's a choke, right?

 

[matuski]

Go for it. Here's Anderson's career stats. .657 college

.667 pro regular season

.678 pro playoffs

.692 prior

.564 after including 2 years under .500

X

X

I admire the shtick of making up numbers to support a position, especially after accusing the other side of cherry-picking. Bonus brazen hypocrisy points there. Well done.

Wrong makes ya bitter.

The last time we went this multiple rounds, you were so wrong you literally scratched out your work, so at this point I'm not too concerned that you think I'm wrong.

I am curious about how you came up with those percentages, though. Mind showing what numbers you used? Because I'm having trouble figuring out what version of the truth your numbers are supposedly telling.

The guy wakes up crying and wets the bed when he dreams about free throws.

Pretty obvious to all I am right.

 

[El Floppo]

I think you're both wrong.

 

[matuski]

I think you're both wrong.

It is an objective argument, and based on empirical evidence I am right.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

For Nick Anderson, I got the following numbers from that page linked

1989-1995: 1170/1681 (69.6%)

1995-1996: 166/240 (69.2%)

1996-2001: 306/540 (56.7%)

so, the first year after it happened, his numbers didn't drop off.

if you include that year in the comparison, his POST numbers are 472/780 (60.5%)

seems he had a 9 point drop in FT percentage after missing those shots, but the drop didn't really show up until a full year + after the "incident"

 

[Godsbrother]

Surprised no Steelers fan have mentioned Neil O'Donnell's 2 picks in the second half of Super Bowl XXX.