Best choke jobs of all time(Any sport)

[fhmesq44]

Van de Velde #1

personally, Ryan Pflugner's missed XP in OT for the 35-34 Bama loss to Michigan in 2000 Orange Bowl would be #2

Dude, I remember that game like it was yesterday. Was in Vegas that weekend (NYE, turn of the millenium). Buddy of mine had Bama HUGE in that game. They had a pretty big lead if I remember correctly and ended up not only blowing the lead, but then him missing the XP in OT to send it to a 2nd OT.

One (a few) everyone has forgotten to mention, FSU/Miami, wide right, wide right II, wide left - been so many now I forget how many and which direction they missed.

 

[quantumleap]

tommy lasorda led dodgers who blew a huge 9th inning lead. i think i remember the phils scoring like 9 runs in the top of the ninth to steal the win.

Every decent Dodgers fan will never forget that.

 

[quantumleap]

Dan Gable. Went 99-1 in his 3 years of college wrestling at Iowa State losing only his final college match.

 

[STONER]

Latrell Sprewell(P.J. Carlesimo)

pure genius. thanks for the laugh. :toast:

 

[Gaz]

You are the perfect example of people who have revisionist memory, and it's so ingrained that you clearly didn't read my post: the Series was NOT history if Buckner made the play, that's the whole point, the Red Sox would merely have gone to the top of the next inning TIED, with all the momentum on the Mets' side.

Right, right, right you are. It would have been tied.

Ok so Buckner did cost them the series. That A-hole!

 

[TomBrady#1]

1. In 86 Sox were down 3 games to 1 and down two runs in the ninth to Gene Mauchs Angels (the same Gene Mauch that teams always choked as in 64 up 7 with 13 to play before blowing it) in game 5 with two outs and nobody on. Henderson hit a two run HR of Moore to tie it. In extra innings the Angels had great chances to score and failed. Sox won. Never in my life was I so sure that the Sox would win game 6 and 7 which they did with ease.


2. Any playoff series AFRAUD has been in. (I am stealing this from other posters because it is so true).

 

[5teamparlay]

No need to be nice....Buckner, 1918, 26 World Championships.

No need to be nice....Buckner, 2011 month long choke completed by a crazy final night of baseball, 1918, 26 World Championships.

 

[Betallsports]

No need to be nice....Buckner, 2011 month long choke completed by a crazy final night of baseball, 1918, 26 World Championships.

If you going to Update it, do it Right ! 27 World Championships

just saying ................ :drink:

 

[Ricboff]

city of Boston goes from an unexpected win of Lord Stanley (the Bruins? seriously?) to a remarkable, embarassing collapse of their beloved Red Sox

talk about extremes

 

[HuskerFan1]

you hit the nail on the head "remarkable, embarassing collapse"

lets not forget NE on sunday up 21-0 in the blink of an eye and they blew it vs buffalo

been an awful week for boston sports...

luckily the bruins raise the banner next thursday...looking forward to it....

 

[Betallsports]

you hit the nail on the head "remarkable, embarassing collapse"

lets not forget NE on sunday up 21-0 in the blink of an eye and they blew it vs buffalo

been an awful week for boston sports...

luckily the bruins raise the banner next thursday...looking forward to it....

The Pats IMHO are still one of the best teams in the NFL
Don't let that Choke job make you think any different..... That's why they say........

On Any Given Sunday

 

[HuskerFan1]

im telling ya right now the patriots arent going anywhere in the playoffs if they dont make MASSIVE improvements on defense throughout the course of the season....

i think they are a top 5 team without quetion but i dont think they would scare many in the playoffs b/c of that defense

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

If you going to Update it, do it Right ! 27 World Championships

just saying ................ :drink:

How many were you alive for?

By the way, I have been alive for 2 Philly Baseball Championships..lol

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

This year's Braves really spit it up...poor Choptalk...

 

[LeoM]

Not as bad as your backgammon

 

[Fishhead]

Dan Gable. Went 99-1 in his 3 years of college wrestling at Iowa State losing only his final college match.

He was 118-1 at IOWA STATE.................losing his final match to Larry Owings.



In Gable’s final 21 Olympic qualification and Olympic matches, he scored 12 falls and outscored his nine other opponents, 130-1. The single point being scored by Larry Owings, who defeated Gable in his final collegiate match.

 

[Willie99]

Texans vs Colts a few years ago

I'm still counting that money that was stolen from me

 

[hosnatcher]

I don't buy this whole Red Sox choke job. having a losing month at the end of the season and getting run down by a hot team happens almost every year in baseball. Didn't the Padres blow it in the final month last season and the year before that the Twins ran down the Tigers? Was the Red Sox collapse any worse than the Braves this year or the Angels losing that big lead against the Mariners in the 90's?

If the Red Sox would have had a bad month in July instead of in September and ended up missing the wild card by one game it would have netted the same result. At least the Red Sox were in contention on game 162. Unlike the White Sox of last year who had two separate 15 game win streaks during the season and still got owned by the Twins and finished 6 games back.

A true choke job IMO was the 2004 Yankees finding ways to lose 4 straight after building a 3-0 series lead. Another true choke was the 1998 Vikings steam rolling everybody all season and when the stakes got too high they played their worse game. The 2009 Vikings was a choke job too but of a lesser degree because they weren't expected to win that game. I give the 2007 Patriots team a pass on the choke because that team peaked too early and played a lot of close games as the season wore on and the Giants got a second crack at them in the post season and made some spectacular plays.

 

[gynecologist]

TTinCO posts as Co80002 @ another forum.. pure scum

 

[paftraft]

Floyd Giebell was supposed to be a sacrificial lamb. The Indians were beginning a three-game series at home against Detroit for the AL Pennant – the final series of the year – and were two back of the Tigers with three games to play. The Indians started 27-game winner Bob Feller. Del Baker, the manager of the Tigers, didn’t want to waste an ace pitcher in this game, started Giebell, who spent most of the year in Toledo with the Mud Hens.

It was obvious Baker was giving the first game to (Bob) Feller, and hope to win one of the next two. Tiger first baseman Rudy York smacked a two-run homer while the cool and calm Giebell threw a 2-0 shutout sending his team into the World Series against Cincinnati. Feller had a three-hitter, but was bested by an unknown rookie pitcher from Pennsborro, West Virginia who never won another game.