The Dumbest Calls in sports history
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Not football, but Cleveland Indians/sports fans related...
How about Mike Hargrove taking out Jaret Wright, on a pitch count, in game 7 of the World Series?
The kid was 21 years old, didn't have to pitch until the following April, had a 2-hit shutout going....and people blamed Jose Mesa.
Not football, but Cleveland Indians/sports fans related...
How about Mike Hargrove taking out Jaret Wright, on a pitch count, in game 7 of the World Series?
The kid was 21 years old, didn't have to pitch until the following April, had a 2-hit shutout going....and people blamed Jose Mesa.
Certainly possibly. Of course, Mesa had been a killer closer all year...and he was being asked to do the role he had done successfully all season. He mesaed up though.
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How about playing prevent defense and allowing eltooth to engineer the drive?
"And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve." -
Popovich removing Tim Duncan in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals against Miami with a 5 point lead and 29 seconds to go AND choosing not to foul and allowing Lebron to get off a 3 point shot which was rebounded (because no bigs were on the floor) and passed back to James who nailed a three to cut the lead to 2. Ray Allen later tied the game which went into overtime and the Spurs lost the game and game 7 and the series. Total failure of coaching that gave away a championship.
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One that comes to mind is the Tampa Bay-Oakland Super Bowl which the Bucs destroyed the Raiders. If you recall Gruden was traded to the Bucs before the season and for some crazy ass reason the Raiders kept nearly all of the calls from Gruden's playbook. It even included the same hand signals for audibles and cadence markers, etc. Gannon threw 5 int's that game and 3 were returned for TD's. It's arguably the biggest d'oh! moment from the SB era.
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It wws the same ballsy move that they succeed with at the end of the first half. Pete Carroll, god love him, rolled the dice once too often. He was counting on them to sell put to stop lynch. If it had worked people would be calling him a god damned genius.
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How about playing prevent defense and allowing eltooth to engineer the drive?
Worse was when Butch Davis went into the prevent defense in the middle of the third quarter, up by 17 points vs Pisstown in a playoff game.....over the objections of his DC.
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Nov. '09
Bellichick went for a 4th and two from his own 28 vs. P. Manning's Colts.
At the time the Pats were ahead 34-28 with 2:08 left in the game... yes.. they were AHEAD!
They did not make it.
Even if you think Carroll's call was a bad one, and I do not, Carroll's call does not come close, IMO...
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
One more...Jean Van deVelde at the British Open 1999...ouch.
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One more...Jean Van deVelde at the British Open 1999...ouch.
Van deVelde might be 3 more in itself...
I've played that hole... and tied his melt down with a lost ball.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
One more...Jean Van deVelde at the British Open 1999...ouch.
That would fall under the Mt. Rushmore of all time choke jobs, yes.
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Nov. '09
Bellichick went for a 4th and two from his own 28 vs. P. Manning's Colts.
At the time the Pats were ahead 34-28 with 2:08 left in the game... yes.. they were AHEAD!
They did not make it.
Even if you think Carroll's call was a bad one, and I do not, Carroll's call does not come close, IMO...
Nov. '09
Bellichick went for a 4th and two from his own 28 vs. P. Manning's Colts.
At the time the Pats were ahead 34-28 with 2:08 left in the game... yes.. they were AHEAD!
They did not make it.
Even if you think Carroll's call was a bad one, and I do not, Carroll's call does not come close, IMO...
Regular season games though don't have quite the same....oomph for all time stupid as a Super Bowl...or playoff game.
Not that it wasn't a dumb move.
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That would fall under the Mt. Rushmore of all time choke jobs, yes.
I still can't believe his caddie didn't rip the 2 iron out of his hands.
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Popovich removing Tim Duncan in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals against Miami with a 5 point lead and 29 seconds to go AND choosing not to foul and allowing Lebron to get off a 3 point shot which was rebounded (because no bigs were on the floor) and passed back to James who nailed a three to cut the lead to 2. Ray Allen later tied the game which went into overtime and the Spurs lost the game and game 7 and the series. Total failure of coaching that gave away a championship.
Popovich removing Tim Duncan in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals against Miami with a 5 point lead and 29 seconds to go AND choosing not to foul and allowing Lebron to get off a 3 point shot which was rebounded (because no bigs were on the floor) and passed back to James who nailed a three to cut the lead to 2. Ray Allen later tied the game which went into overtime and the Spurs lost the game and game 7 and the series. Total failure of coaching that gave away a championship.
Ironically, some argue that Popovich is the best coach in the history of the NBA.
Of course, they also forget about or ignore Red Auerbach.
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By far the dumbest call in super bowl history if nothing else. Wilson last pass should have went down in history as the the craziest play in a good way. Lynch gets 6 yards on 1st down to the goal line and they elect to pass. Granted they run that play 10 times they score a TD on 9 of em. Worst case scenario lynch fumbles 1 outta 100 carries there. Passing from the 1 yrd line is my football pet peeve unless on 4th down. It's was the right play call but overall was the bad decision. Read option qb run is a wiser option there.
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I agree - worst call in my books ... Perhaps in the history of a sports given the significance and probability of success. Also the Patriots should have called a time-out to preserve the clock - so two screw-ups (one by each team) on that play. Also, I don't blame Wilson as it's a timing throw, but I do blame the receiver. He has to make that collision so that an interception is not possible.
I remember watching a CFL playoff game on TV. Doug Flutie playing for Calgary in -40 degrees in a semi-final to the Grey Cup game. Calgary needs a final drive TD and Flutie drives to the one yard line with about 2 seconds on the clock and they call a time out. Then Flutie takes himself out of the game? He is apparently so frozen solid that he doesn't have another play in him (and we know Flutie's a competitor so it had to true). In comes the "cold" back-up QB, last play of the game, do you run? Nope, they pass and it's incomplete. Maybe it's not as obvious as in the Super Bowl last night but I would have taken my chances on the ground and not expected my back-up QB to perform a pass play under those conditions.
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I agree - worst call in my books ... Perhaps in the history of a sports given the significance and probability of success. Also the Patriots should have called a time-out to preserve the clock - so two screw-ups (one by each team) on that play. Also, I don't blame Wilson as it's a timing throw, but I do blame the receiver. He has to make that collision so that an interception is not possible.
I remember watching a CFL playoff game on TV. Doug Flutie playing for Calgary in -40 degrees in a semi-final to the Grey Cup game. Calgary needs a final drive TD and Flutie drives to the one yard line with about 2 seconds on the clock and they call a time out. Then Flutie takes himself out of the game? He is apparently so frozen solid that he doesn't have another play in him (and we know Flutie's a competitor so it had to true). In comes the "cold" back-up QB, last play of the game, do you run? Nope, they pass and it's incomplete. Maybe it's not as obvious as in the Super Bowl last night but I would have taken my chances on the ground and not expected my back-up QB to perform a pass play under those conditions.
I agree - worst call in my books ... Perhaps in the history of a sports given the significance and probability of success. Also the Patriots should have called a time-out to preserve the clock - so two screw-ups (one by each team) on that play. Also, I don't blame Wilson as it's a timing throw, but I do blame the receiver. He has to make that collision so that an interception is not possible.
I remember watching a CFL playoff game on TV. Doug Flutie playing for Calgary in -40 degrees in a semi-final to the Grey Cup game. Calgary needs a final drive TD and Flutie drives to the one yard line with about 2 seconds on the clock and they call a time out. Then Flutie takes himself out of the game? He is apparently so frozen solid that he doesn't have another play in him (and we know Flutie's a competitor so it had to true). In comes the "cold" back-up QB, last play of the game, do you run? Nope, they pass and it's incomplete. Maybe it's not as obvious as in the Super Bowl last night but I would have taken my chances on the ground and not expected my back-up QB to perform a pass play under those conditions.
Don't they play the Grey Cup final in a neutral site? They should. And given that it is Canada they should always play it in one of their domes. The BC dome, or the Skydome....and do they still play games in the Big O in Montreal? Is that where the Alouettes play?
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Chris Webber's timeout still boggles my mind.
Dustin Johnson not realizing he was in a bunker at the U.S. Open a couple years ago...though he was probably fucked up.
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Screw the call at the goal line. I think weve already learned that the coin toss pretty much decides it. Bullychick screwed up the whole thing by calling heads, but then Pete Carroll double blew it and lost the game as soon as he deferred.
Everything else that happened after that matters not.
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