Lupin the Third
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jul 23, 2015 21:58:27 GMT -5
So going for 2 to claim the National Title on your own is worse than going for the tie and sharing a National Title....
Yeah, f*** you, Dimengo.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jul 23, 2015 22:31:17 GMT -5
As a Packer fan, I can add in, "WE WANT THE BALL AND WE'RE GONNA SCORE!" As well as Brett Favre inexplicably throwing the interception to Tracy Porter in the 2010 NFC Championship Game. Favre would be put in that position if the refs weren't on the take letting the Saints cheap shot Favre
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Post by nm on Jul 23, 2015 22:48:31 GMT -5
number 8 was a good move
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Post by Sam Punk on Jul 23, 2015 23:58:18 GMT -5
I have no problem with 8, 2 and 1. With the first two, as Herm Edwards famously said, "you play to win the game". If your offense can't gain 2 yards then you don't deserve to win. With Seattle, only reason that play didn't work is the DB made an outstanding play. Not really into Baseball, so I just wanna know why its considered a bad move to keep Buckner at first base? From what I read about it he was a talented player who had one major error. Buckner was in rough shape physically. Their typical play was to have Dave Stapleton replace him at first in the late innings when they were ahead.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 24, 2015 0:30:38 GMT -5
The thread title is "worst decisions" yet the list is about "worst plays". Two entirely different things.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 24, 2015 1:54:46 GMT -5
That list is laughably American-centric As if the "Nebraska Cornhuskers" (whoever the hell they are) would be anywhere near a list of best/worst anything involving the history of sport. They were, for a while, a big deal in American college football. American college football doesn't belong anywhere near any list that is open to include entries every sport on the planet. NFL, sure, as its the top tier of that particular sport. College football? Not a chance.
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Post by Danimal on Jul 24, 2015 2:15:30 GMT -5
So going for 2 to claim the National Title on your own is worse than going for the tie and sharing a National Title.... Yeah, f*** you, Dimengo. I don't think it would have been a shared national title. IMO it would be close but we probably take both polls. What's annoying about that play is that it should have worked. Fryar forgot his assignment and the guy that should've been screened-off was free to bat the pass away.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 2:56:52 GMT -5
I would say:
Leeds selling Eric Cantona to Manchester United is a pretty big mistake. I don't know the details as I didn't watch football back then. But from the first he was a winner and he was the main reason Man Utd started winning titles. If Leeds had kept him, they might have won at least a few titles and be THE team in England now instead of forgotten in the championship.
Newcastle Utd selling Andy Cole. Newcastle didn't need the money. And for a guy who scores 30+ goals you ask for more than 7 million. All Newcastle did there was make themselves weaker and their rivals Manchester United stronger. It did cost them the title in the end and who knows how many other tropheys.
Crystal Palace selling Ian Wright and Nigel Martyn. By selling these two Palace just made themselves weaker and other teams stronger, resulting in them barely keeping their heads above water and ending up relegated. If they had kept both players, it would have improved them completely and while Im not saying that they would be Premier League winners, they would be a top team in my view.
The Real Madrid "Galacticos" By buying all the top players Real went from the best team in Europe to nothing special and killed any further discussion of "all time teams" as we saw first hand, that instead of great football we got ego's arguing over who would take a free kick.
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Post by Scott on Jul 24, 2015 3:09:52 GMT -5
The Belichick one was mid November. It was their biggest rival, but out of division and not really much on the line yet.
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Post by Reflecto on Jul 24, 2015 4:01:37 GMT -5
Because he had really bad knees at that point. As a matter of fact, in-depth analysis suggests that, even if he did catch the ball, he was far away from the first base bag that maybe he doesn't even beat the runner to tag the bag to get the out! There's no maybe, Mookie could fly, he was beating Buckner to the bag no matter what. It's those reasons that usually around Boston fans, the same result is slowly but surely being changed over to "the Red Sox relievers had been terrible all season, and they crapped the bed at the worst possible time." By the same token, if you needed a goat beyond Buckner, you could argue the real worse decision was "Roger Clemens is taken out of the game after the seventh inning"- Clemens claimed he had a blister on his finger, McNamara claims that Clemens asked out after the inning- and either way in that time, it's likely if Clemens gutted out the last two innings, the Red Sox win. (Either way, it's more romantic for the "Curse of the Bambino" to say it was "the ball going through Buckner's legs" and not the much more logical "The Red Sox traditionally tried using how small Fenway Park was to build around power hitters who could attack the Green Monster and rarely had the pitching to win titles. When they did have great starting pitchers, they rarely had the relief pitching to counteract it, and lost heartbreaking World Series due to the relief corps shutting down on them. Finally, when the team had good pitching, good hitting, AND reliable relief pitching- suddenly they win three World Series in 10 years and the Curse is shattered. Funny how that happens...")
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 24, 2015 5:16:00 GMT -5
There's no maybe, Mookie could fly, he was beating Buckner to the bag no matter what. It's those reasons that usually around Boston fans, the same result is slowly but surely being changed over to "the Red Sox relievers had been terrible all season, and they crapped the bed at the worst possible time." By the same token, if you needed a goat beyond Buckner, you could argue the real worse decision was "Roger Clemens is taken out of the game after the seventh inning"- Clemens claimed he had a blister on his finger, McNamara claims that Clemens asked out after the inning- and either way in that time, it's likely if Clemens gutted out the last two innings, the Red Sox win. (Either way, it's more romantic for the "Curse of the Bambino" to say it was "the ball going through Buckner's legs" and not the much more logical "The Red Sox traditionally tried using how small Fenway Park was to build around power hitters who could attack the Green Monster and rarely had the pitching to win titles. When they did have great starting pitchers, they rarely had the relief pitching to counteract it, and lost heartbreaking World Series due to the relief corps shutting down on them. Finally, when the team had good pitching, good hitting, AND reliable relief pitching- suddenly they win three World Series in 10 years and the Curse is shattered. Funny how that happens...") Don't forget one key thing in the Red Sox turning it around, they played smart. Look at 2003 and Game 7, the Yankees knew that the Sox pen wasn't the greatest, and while a couple had some success in the postseason they had also been poor at times during the regular season. What do the Yankees do in that game? They take pitches, even when down big, they take pitches and tire out Pedro trying to get to the pen. Of course Little leaves Pedro in, and the Yankees know they can go off on a tired Pedro. Meanwhile the following year in Game 6, with Schilling hurt and noticeably limping, the Yankees don't f***ing bunt. Make him run on his one good leg, get him out of the game, and get to the pen. The Yankees elect to play like they would against a healthy Schilling.
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Post by Speedy Cerviche on Jul 24, 2015 5:27:02 GMT -5
Apparently Americans are world leaders at screwing up in sports.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 24, 2015 5:38:34 GMT -5
Apparently Americans are world leaders at screwing up in sports. Hey, when we f*** up in sports, we do it in spectacular fashion. We may everyone else's f*** ups look like nothing. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jul 24, 2015 16:51:45 GMT -5
I think "worst decision" would have to be making a decision with 0% chance of success, or done for a braindead reason. As bad as Carrolls play call was he would have been praised forhinking outside the box and if not for a great play by Butler Seattle would be champs for a second time running. #15 in my opinion is even worse You have to take the stakes at hand into account. The Miracle in the Meadowlands cost the Giants a regular season victory. Russell Wilson's interception cost the Seahawks a Super Bowl championship. Even if it succeeded and Seattle scored a touchdown and won the game, there would still be a decent amount of people who would have wondered why even risk it with the pass. Few, if any, would have praised the call as some sort of genius maneuver. I disagree, the topic is worst decisions in sports history, not costliest. As dumb a decision as Carrolls call was it had potential to pay to off. Running a play when you could have taken a knee has potential only for failure
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Post by Hurbster on Jul 24, 2015 17:29:44 GMT -5
Right, it was Zidane's last ever match, like he gave any f***s.
I have no idea who 90% of the teams or players are. Seems to be pretty US-centric.
I can think of one that tops most of those right off the bat...
Fergie allowing Pogba to go. He's worth about 60 million quid now.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 24, 2015 19:42:44 GMT -5
For me, the worst ever decision in sport was Avery Brundage's speech after the Munich massacre. He compared the killings to overcommercialisation of the Olympic Games and whined because Rhodesia (an openly racist state at the time) had been excluded by the IOC.
It was completely sickening, insane and delusional.
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Post by thetower52 on Jul 24, 2015 19:54:54 GMT -5
Just happy the Blazers avoided the list
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 24, 2015 20:24:01 GMT -5
Never been proven as far as I'm aware, but the theory has always persisted that Ronaldo had suffered a seizure of some sorts before the 1998 World Cup final and wasn't going to play, but Nike pressured Brazil to play him because he was Nike's poster boy at the time, and to no one's surprise, he was shit all through the match, and France pissed it 3-0.
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Post by ibdude on Jul 24, 2015 23:52:47 GMT -5
This doesn't get talked about a lot, but how about Mike Martz choosing to play for overtime in the 2003 Divisional Playoffs against the Carolina Panthers. The St. Louis Rams had 2 of the best receivers in the league at the time in Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce and the best running back in the league in Marshall Faulk, but he chooses to wait until 3 seconds left in regulation to kick a field goal and play for overtime. The Rams ended up losing in double overtime and the Panthers ended up going to the Super Bowl. To this day I don't know what he was thinking.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Jul 24, 2015 23:57:09 GMT -5
Newcastle Utd selling Andy Cole. Newcastle didn't need the money. And for a guy who scores 30+ goals you ask for more than 7 million. All Newcastle did there was make themselves weaker and their rivals Manchester United stronger. It did cost them the title in the end and who knows how many other tropheys. Not true. Even though Cole was a great goalscorer for us, Newcastle weren't close to winning the title when he was in the team. The team we had the season after selling Cole (with Ferdinand, Ginola, Asprilla etc.) came much closer, but it never happened due to us throwing away a 12 point lead, and due to the phenomenal run of results Man United went on at the end of that season.
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