If you could change the outcome of one play, what would it be? (1 Viewer)

[MC Gas Money]

Bo Jackson's hip injury play.

Didnt he have some rare degenerative bone condition?He would have been injured eventually

The dislocated hip caused avascular necrosis and the eventual replacement of his hip - it wasn't a degenerative condition he had before the injury.

Damn.Probably would be the best RB of all time if he had a full career

He moved like Barry Sanders and had fullback strength. I still have never seen anything like him. Unfortunately I will always wonder if he was a juicer because he was that much of a freak. Sorry Bo if you were not.

Did you see the 30 for 30 about him?

 

[Mister CIA]

Derek Fisher @ ###### ####### 0.4

Spurs probably go on to win the title. Could have had a three-peat.

 

[Zegras11]

Dave Henderson,,,

Loved the Gonzo bloop

Was at both...

 

[mr roboto]

Didn't read the thread. Either Anderson missed FG in 98 or Favre INT in 09. Sux being a Viking fan.

 

[Michael Brown]

Any play that would have given the Yankees a win in the 2004 ALCS. The Red Sox douchery that we know today would have been erased from existence. The world would be a better place.

So many options...

- Dave Roberts gets caught stealing

- Bill Mueller grounds weakly

- Tony Clark's hit doesn't bounce into the stands

- Matsui's screaming liner with the bases loaded gets down a half-second earlier instead of being caught

- Torre takes out Tom Gordon before putting guys on 1st and 3rd with nobody out in the 8th

I'd also add one more non-Sox one, that Tony Womack's double goes foul in 2001 OR that Scott Brosius turns the double play on the previous play

If Marlon McCree just went to the ground against the Pats!

If Charles Smith would've gone up strong!

If John Starks' 3-pointer from the corner hadn't been blocked by Olajuwon!

I hate this thread...

I say this in fun.

First bolded: No way. Dude was locked and loaded down to even his technique. Just an incredibly savvy mid-season pick up.

Second bolded: I don't know career numbers, but Billy Baseball had had success against Rivera in a big game that year. (The A-Rod fight game comeback)

Third bolded: Something was in the air on that one. Or, the low wall that has seemingly killed us for so many years comes back to bite the Yanks.

What was scarier is that Clark had the shot in Game Six to go yard against a hurting Foulke to win the ALCS. People forget that part of that game, though I'm sure you remember.

Anyway, if I have to change one play, I'm changing either the Seahawks pass this year or Grady Little slapping Pedro on the back in the 2003. Our bullpen was lights out in September that year, and Little was too mentally challenged to have figured it out.

Also, Claude Lemieux beating the Whalers in OT in Game Seven of the Adams Division finals in 1986. If the Whale wins, they probably win the Cup, and they're in Hartford forever.

Mueller owned Rivera. Him and Edgar Martinez were absolute terrors if memory serves. I remember the home run during the ARod fight game, a walkoff if I'm not mistaken.

Another thing I remember about Game 6 in that series...even after losing two in Boston, most Yankee fans were confident we'd grab one at home to end the thing. After all, to that point all we knew of the Red Sox was that they absolutely choked and made things as painful as possible for their fans. So there was no way we were losing TWICE at home to this team.

Early on, Mark Bellhorn blooped a ball to LF that somehow got caught up in the stiff right-to-left wind and got carried over the wall. Posada had a ball that he blasted to RF that was knocked down by that very same wind. Those were the first moments that I really felt like we were gonna lose the series.

 

[rockaction]

Any play that would have given the Yankees a win in the 2004 ALCS. The Red Sox douchery that we know today would have been erased from existence. The world would be a better place.

So many options...

- Dave Roberts gets caught stealing

- Bill Mueller grounds weakly

- Tony Clark's hit doesn't bounce into the stands

- Matsui's screaming liner with the bases loaded gets down a half-second earlier instead of being caught

- Torre takes out Tom Gordon before putting guys on 1st and 3rd with nobody out in the 8th

I'd also add one more non-Sox one, that Tony Womack's double goes foul in 2001 OR that Scott Brosius turns the double play on the previous play

If Marlon McCree just went to the ground against the Pats!

If Charles Smith would've gone up strong!

If John Starks' 3-pointer from the corner hadn't been blocked by Olajuwon!

I hate this thread...

I say this in fun.

First bolded: No way. Dude was locked and loaded down to even his technique. Just an incredibly savvy mid-season pick up.

Second bolded: I don't know career numbers, but Billy Baseball had had success against Rivera in a big game that year. (The A-Rod fight game comeback)

Third bolded: Something was in the air on that one. Or, the low wall that has seemingly killed us for so many years comes back to bite the Yanks.

What was scarier is that Clark had the shot in Game Six to go yard against a hurting Foulke to win the ALCS. People forget that part of that game, though I'm sure you remember.

Anyway, if I have to change one play, I'm changing either the Seahawks pass this year or Grady Little slapping Pedro on the back in the 2003. Our bullpen was lights out in September that year, and Little was too mentally challenged to have figured it out.

Also, Claude Lemieux beating the Whalers in OT in Game Seven of the Adams Division finals in 1986. If the Whale wins, they probably win the Cup, and they're in Hartford forever.

Mueller owned Rivera. Him and Edgar Martinez were absolute terrors if memory serves. I remember the home run during the ARod fight game, a walkoff if I'm not mistaken.

Another thing I remember about Game 6 in that series...even after losing two in Boston, most Yankee fans were confident we'd grab one at home to end the thing. After all, to that point all we knew of the Red Sox was that they absolutely choked and made things as painful as possible for their fans. So there was no way we were losing TWICE at home to this team.

Early on, Mark Bellhorn blooped a ball to LF that somehow got caught up in the stiff right-to-left wind and got carried over the wall. Posada had a ball that he blasted to RF that was knocked down by that very same wind. Those were the first moments that I really felt like we were gonna lose the series.

According to rotowire.com, Bill Mueller had a 1.227 OPS against Mariano.

Here's an off-topic but interesting article about guys who had success against Rivera. http://nypost.com/2013/09/19/batters-with-success-vs-rivera-use-terms-like-pure-luck/. Parphrased from the article: Edgar Martinez went .579 (11-for-19) with two homers, three doubles, three walks and 1.705 OPS -- easily the best of any opponent.

I've always wondered where Bellhorn got his power from that year, and that pop-up looking thing was no exception. The biggest memory I have of that is that they originally ruled it a double when it was clearly gone, and much like Yankee fans, I figured the umps would get calls wrong and cost the Sox if the Sox didn't cost themselves. I do not remember Posada's hit that got knocked down, though I'm sure if you were there you could probably see the wind carrying and knocking down balls.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Now there's a steal by Bird! Underneath to DJ, who lays it in!!...Right at one second left!! What a play by Bird! Bird stole the inbounding pass, laid it up to DJ, and DJ laid it up and in, and Boston has a one-point lead with one second left! OH, MY, THIS PLACE IS GOING CRAZY!!!

 

[BobbyLayne]

Actually if I had one do over for the Bad Boys, it would have been Zeke and Laimbeer walking down to Jordan to tell him to not be satisfied with finally getting past their nemesis. The ring is the thing; keep it going.

Because that's exactly what Mchale said to you at midcourt three years earlier. How could you forget that? If you wouldn't have been such an ####### sore loser, you make the Dream Team instead of Laettner.

 

[Keith R]

RIcardo Lockette makes the catch* and scores the winning touchdown for the Seahawks, making them the first back-to-back Super Bowl winners in ten years.

Sorry, but this is a terrible post.

I wanted the Seahawks to win that game as well. But we have the power to change any play we want! Let's make things more interesting.

Let the interception stand.

The play we want to change is the final kneel-down by Tom Brady. Let's have him fumble on that play and have Michael Bennett recover the ball in the endzone for a touchdown with no time remaining. Seahawks win 30-28.

That would have been way more exciting of a fluke than a touchdown to Lockette with 20 seconds left.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

The greased pig of a football Romo was given to hold on the Seattle playoff game.

Either give him a ball w/o the mirror finish or have him dive into the end zone.

I cant watch that play w/o screaming "DIVE, DIVE, DIVE YOU STUPID PEICE OF ####!!!!!!!"

But Im over it.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

I'd go back to a minor league baseball game we went to back in either '06 or '07. There is a section past the bleachers on the first base line where kids are allowed to play. It's a decent distance out of play and they usually have an usher monitoring the game to keep the kids safe. In this particular game, a foul ball was on its way into that area, and my son happened to be there. As most of the kids were getting out of the way, my son (7 or 8 at the time) had brought his mitt and started tracking the ball in an attempt to catch it. Unfortunately, he made the classic blunder by starting toward the ball instead of taking his first step back, and the ball sailed well over his head. Had he started going backwards first, he would have been in the right place catch the ball and forever have an amazing baseball story to tell for the rest of his life.

 

[pats3in4]

- Tony Clark's hit doesn't bounce into the stands

This is one of the forgotten underrated plays in that epic series. And it shows how in a close title run how much luck and opportunity matter.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Actually if I had one do over for the Bad Boys, it would have been Zeke and Laimbeer walking down to Jordan to tell him to not be satisfied with finally getting past their nemesis. The ring is the thing; keep it going.

Because that's exactly what Mchale said to you at midcourt three years earlier. How could you forget that? If you wouldn't have been such an ####### sore loser, you make the Dream Team instead of Laettner.

For the Pistons, I would say the phantom foul on Laimbeer not being called in Game 6 of the '88 Finals. That BS took away from one of the best performances in the Finals ever (since Isiah's effort came in a losing effort).

 

[BobbyLayne]

Actually if I had one do over for the Bad Boys, it would have been Zeke and Laimbeer walking down to Jordan to tell him to not be satisfied with finally getting past their nemesis. The ring is the thing; keep it going.

Because that's exactly what Mchale said to you at midcourt three years earlier. How could you forget that? If you wouldn't have been such an ####### sore loser, you make the Dream Team instead of Laettner.

For the Pistons, I would say the phantom foul on Laimbeer not being called in Game 6 of the '88 Finals. That BS took away from one of the best performances in the Finals ever (since Isiah's effort came in a losing effort).

I would say no to that, and here's why: pain fueled the run.

Bird stealing the ball in Game 6 of '87 (& Dantley getting concussed in Game 7) drove them to put away Boston the next year.

The pain of losing to the Lakers in 7 in '88 fueled the title run of '89.

Then the next year they ran through the whole league & were phenomenal in the playoffs (15-2.)

Those four years were such a linear progression, each year a step forward to a higher level.

The fifth straight conference final saw the Bulls make the same progression. They were the best team in the league and cruised past Detroit. It was so low rent to just walk off before the game ended. When we finally got by Boston they were classy in defeat. And Zeke & Laimbeer showed no class when MJ & Scottie finally got past their nemesis.

 

[Fat Nick]

That's a tough one for me, because a lot of them could've just been the same outcome on a later play...A bunch are hockey related, and I'd have loved for Iowa to have missed the FG that ended PSU's national championship run and undefeated season in 2008 but I'll go with an NFL one. I wish RGIII would've slid instead of taking the hit on the knee from Haloti Ngata...RGIII was playing with such confidence at that point, and it's been all down-hill since. I imagine he would've just gotten hurt a few weeks later, but I'd be curious how our fortunes would look if he stayed healthy.

 

[Deranged Hermit]

One of McMahon's or the Fridge's TD plunges goes to Sweetness.

My choice as well.

 

[FlapJacks]

Darryl Stingley