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Biggest Individual sports chokes (1 Viewer)
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sbonomo
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I will never understand why people think he had anything to do with the cubs sucking. Get a life people.
Baloney Sandwich
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The Sox had already blown the lead before the Buckner play, the game was tied at that point.
Cjw_55106
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mquinnjr
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El Floppo
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The Gator
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El Floppo
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mquinnjr
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Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Huge blunder by Thomas. First everything was way too rushed, second all he had to do was throw it to the other end of the court. As best the Celtic would be launching a half court shot. Watch that play in slow mo..Bird looks like he stepped OB.
zamboni
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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.
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.
Lots of problems and not all Webber and not really a choke. Why was Webber even handling the ball? Yeah, it cost them a shot at having a prayer to win, but it was not like they had the game won at any point.
Gator Shawn
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Bruce Dickinson
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Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.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.
Mr. Mojo
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The Vikes made so many mistakes before the missed FG. Trying to score from deep in their own territory right before the half. Running out of bounds more than once on their last drive while trying to run out the time. Etc. It was a team choke and other than the Houston/Buffalo 35-3 game, the worst I have ever seen in the playoffs.
McGarnicle
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2006: Tony Romo botches a FG hold vs. the Seahawks in the NFC wildcard playoff, which loses the game for the Cowboys and leads to Bill Parcells retiring from coaching.
2007: Romo throws a pick in the end zone, sealing the Cowboys' loss vs. the Giants in the divisional round of the playoffs.
2008: Romo with 3 turnovers as Dallas loses to the Eagles 44-6, thus missing the playoffs.
2009: Romo again turns the ball over 3 times and takes 6 sacks in a humiliating 34-3 loss to the Vikings of all teams, in the divisional round of the playoffs.
2010: Romo again lets his team down, breaking his clavicle and gets placed on IR.
2011: In another win-and-in playoff scenario in week 17, Romo loses to the Giants 31-14. Romo fakes a hand bruise so that he would have an excuse. The Giants go on to win Super Bowl XXXXVII, and mockingly dedicate their season to Romo's ineptitude.
2012: Romo finishes 8-8, missing the playoffs again.
2013: At a time when his team needed him the most, Romo is placed on IR with a "back injury". The Cowboys go on to lose in week 17 to the Eagles, missing the playoffs for the 4th straight season.
2014: In the divisional round of the playoffs, Romo and the Cowboys were defeated by the Green Bay Packers 26-21. Romo played flat and uninspired football, taking two key sacks in the 4th quarter when he easily could have gotten rid of the ball. During the postgame press conference, Romo mocks the reporters in attendance, answering questions with both middle fingers extended, and at one point dons a sombrero and fake mustache, for reasons undetermined.
2007: Romo throws a pick in the end zone, sealing the Cowboys' loss vs. the Giants in the divisional round of the playoffs.
2008: Romo with 3 turnovers as Dallas loses to the Eagles 44-6, thus missing the playoffs.
2009: Romo again turns the ball over 3 times and takes 6 sacks in a humiliating 34-3 loss to the Vikings of all teams, in the divisional round of the playoffs.
2010: Romo again lets his team down, breaking his clavicle and gets placed on IR.
2011: In another win-and-in playoff scenario in week 17, Romo loses to the Giants 31-14. Romo fakes a hand bruise so that he would have an excuse. The Giants go on to win Super Bowl XXXXVII, and mockingly dedicate their season to Romo's ineptitude.
2012: Romo finishes 8-8, missing the playoffs again.
2013: At a time when his team needed him the most, Romo is placed on IR with a "back injury". The Cowboys go on to lose in week 17 to the Eagles, missing the playoffs for the 4th straight season.
2014: In the divisional round of the playoffs, Romo and the Cowboys were defeated by the Green Bay Packers 26-21. Romo played flat and uninspired football, taking two key sacks in the 4th quarter when he easily could have gotten rid of the ball. During the postgame press conference, Romo mocks the reporters in attendance, answering questions with both middle fingers extended, and at one point dons a sombrero and fake mustache, for reasons undetermined.
The General
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Brock Middlebrook
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Eephus
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The General
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At the broken clavicle bit.The botched snap would be the only one I'd put into this discussion.
George Jefferson Airplane
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Big Tony in my rec softball league. Down a run, bases juiced, one out, last of the 7th in the Championship game, and he bounced into the rare softball DP.
Getting ready to crank up another majorless season. Missing tooth and all.
Officer Pete Malloy
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Ditka Butkus
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Didn't Scott Norwood miss a field goal at the end of the game that cost them the game against the Giants in 1990?
ETA. went back thru thread and already mentioned earlier WIDE RIGHT
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D in the D
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I used to suspect that some sort of fix was in on this , but eventually I realized that Laimbeer would have had to been in on it too. I mean he backs away from the inbounds pass towards his own basket. Just dumb play all around by the pistions. I never noticed the Bird possibly stepping out of bounds things, but that just adds to my anger towards this event.
Tom Servo
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Mr. Mojo
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That happened right in front of me once.
I'm on deck, one out in the 7th, bases loaded, we're down by 2, the fence is ridiculously short (about 220 ft), I'm 3 for 3, and the guy in front of me hits into a weak double play to end it,
Dinsy Ejotuz
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1) Norman and 2) JvdV are the worst two I've ever seen. Golf exposes this in a way no other sport can IMO.
Norman gets the nod because he was actually one of the GOAT golfers.
Norman gets the nod because he was actually one of the GOAT golfers.
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TobiasFunke
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wdcrob said:
I don't even think of most of these as chokes, just normal unfortunate events happening at the worst possible time. People miss free throws and long-ish field goals all the time, they bobble catches and blow leads all the time. Watch enough sports and sometimes those normal events happen at the worst time possible. What you never ever see are professional golfers making triple bogeys when they could just play it ultra-safe off the tee and down the hole, three-putt and still win. Most weekend duffers could make a double-bogey on a par 4 most of the time, even one with water, if they knew that's all they needed and adjusted accordingly.
Norman's was a little more reasonable IMO, he didn't really screw the pooch until it became clear that Faldo was making a run and he couldn't just play for pars (he was only one over after 8, and if he'd parred out from there he would've ended up in a playoff). Still it was pretty clear this wasn't just a few bad shots happening at the worst possible time, it was a mental collapse.
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Eephus
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grateful zed
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Jean Van De Velde
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zamboni
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Parrothead
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Roberto Duran- no mas
pats3in4
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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 (link) as Norman watched on in despair. In '89 he needed a par to force a playoff or a birdie to win on the final hole and bogeyed the hole. After that he went into a funk for a few years, missing the cut. Then in '95 he came back strong, finishing 3rd. After 3 rounds in '96, it *finally* looked like Norman would break through and end his nightmares at Augusta.
That's what made the '96 final round collapse so amazing. Here was this golfer who was so snake-bitten at the Masters, leading by a half-dozen shots, so sure to win on a course of horrors for him. Just when you thought he had suffered the worst on Sundays at this course, he shows us all that we hadn't seen anything, yet.
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Uruk-Hai
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Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.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.
The General
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Gary Anderson missing the 38 yarder is on the list.
Tom Skerritt
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1982 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
grateful zed
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grateful zed
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1980 soviet union national hockey team.
Mr. Ected
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grateful zed
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like the packers?wdcrob said:
I don't even think of most of these as chokes, just normal unfortunate events happening at the worst possible time. People miss free throws and long-ish field goals all the time, they bobble catches and blow leads all the time. Watch enough sports and sometimes those normal events happen at the worst time possible.
matuski
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Nice cherry picking.. try the rest of his career.Anderson's FT% plunged all the way down from .704 the season of those Finals to .692 the season after.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.
He admitted as much in an interview at some point that he was never able to get it out of his head at the line.
Soul crushing choke.
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Dickie Dunn
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If the Memphis one is the one I am thinking of, I believe it was in the Conference-USA championship game, which meant an NCAA berth was on the line.
