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Nice list!lakers. Just wanted to point out:
That was 2016 - the Warriors won 4-2 in 2015.
Thought I would start this thread since there's been a couple of massive sports failures this year that are already infamous. Let's see where they rank.
Note: A sports failure is something that is completely unexpected, and not tied to seeding or even Vegas odds. I don't consider the 2007 Dallas Mavericks loss to the Warriors a catastrophic failure since everyone knew the Warriors were a bad matchup. Also, the failure needs to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (or jaws of expectations). Chris Webber's infamous timeout was a failure, but Michigan was down when he called it. Same with the Russell Wilson interception. Even Scott Norwood's missed FG wasn't a really a choke, since he wasn't very good from that distance anyway.
- 10. Jean Van De Velde at the 1999 British Open.
9. Buster Douglas handing a seemingly invincible Mike Tyson the first loss of his career.
8. The San Antonio Spurs blowing a 5 point lead with 28 seconds left in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals.
7. Atlanta Falcons blowing a 25 point 3rd quarter lead in Superbowl 51.
6. The 1980 USSR Olympic hockey team, a team that beat an NHL All Star team in a friendly, losing to an American team made up of college kids.
5. The 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning, who entered the post-season with the best regular season record in NHL history, getting swept by an 8th seed.
4. The 2011 Texas Rangers twice blowing 2 run leads with 1 strike away to lose Game 6 of the World Series.
3. The New York Yankees blowing a 3-0 series lead in the 2004 ALCS to their hated rival the Boston Red Sox.
2. The New England Patriots quest for a perfect season ended by Eli Manning and the 10-6 Wild Card New York Giants.
Some honorable mentions:
- The 2015 Golden State Warriors blowing a 3-1 series in the Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Greg Norman squandering a 6 stroke lead at the 1996 Masters.
- The Steve Bartman Game.
- The Minnesota Vikings losing the 1999 NFC Championship game after a miss late Gary Anderson (who hadn't missed all season) failed to seal the game.
- The 2006 Dallas Mavericks essentially being half-a-quarter away from the le, but blew a double digit lead to the Miami Heat.
- The "this is going to be fun" 2012-2013 Los Angeles Lakers. 4 Hall of Famers on the team, first round sweep.
Now on to number 1. Drum roll...……………….
1. The 2018-2019 Los Angeles Lakers.
After the huge FA splash the Lakers made by signing Lebron, expectations of 2nd seed were common, dark horse contender was labeled. This is the NBA, a star driven league, and having a top 3 player in the league basically guarantees a playoff berth. Any organization would have to be massively incompetent to not at the very least sneak into the playoffs with in' Lebron James. Not only did the Lakers fail to make the playoffs, they only managed to win 35 games, and they HAD LEBRON JAMES! How is that even possible? Laker fans will cite injuries, but losing Lonzo was addition by subtraction, and Lebron still played 55 games (in an era where superstars of his age will play only about 70 games anyway. He only played 69 on the le winning 2015 Cavs). Furthermore, Lebron's record in those games was 28-27. A winning percentage not good enough to get into the post-season.
To fail to even play .500 basketball when you have Lebron for 55 games represents a total organization failure from top to bottom, from training to scouting to developing to front office decision making to on-court morale. It's not a choke like the other examples, just an embarrassing ins utional meltdown we've never seen in the NBA or any other sport. Compare their season to the team across the hall. The Clippers took two games from the Warriors with Lou Williams as their best player
Lakers fans will spin this, but again, YOU HAD LEBRON JAMES! And once more, to put things into perspective, the team you share a building with had Lou Williams (who the Lakers once had
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Nice list!
That was 2016 - the Warriors won 4-2 in 2015.
Last edited by Arcadian; 04-30-2019 at 12:47 PM.
I didn’t know the Tampa Bay Devil Rays played in the NHL
Good catch.I didn’t know the Tampa Bay Devil Rays played in the NHL
San Jose States Ray Norton was the Worlds Fastest Human in 1960. At those Olympics he failed to medal in the 100 and 200 and got the USA 4x1 DQed.
Dan O'Brien, 1992 U.S. Olympic trials
That's a good one. You're an 80s/90s kid as well. Remember the build up going into that with the Dan and (other guy, who was also a flop) ad campaigns?
Edit: Dan and Dave!
Oh yah. That is when I realized the major difference between Olympians and professional athletes in the Big 4.
Poor Reebox
Olympians are always going to be better pure athletes than any ball sport athlete, soccer included. They don't have to learn any skill sets beyond rough (compared to ball sport athletes) throwing, jumping, and running techniques.
Thunder history of team. Having 3 League MVPs on the same roster, on the floor at the same time quite often, never winning a ing thing. Even today only one of them has won anything and that one had to get on a bus that was going there already.
NBA has become a ty, stat afflicted league where guys make corporation level pay to put up empty stats night after night. Winning has become a RS thing, the post season is almost an afterthought.
It's a failure but probably not even the biggest Lakers failure tbhThought I would start this thread since there's been a couple of massive sports failures this year that are already infamous. Let's see where they rank.
Note: A sports failure is something that is completely unexpected, and not tied to seeding or even Vegas odds. I don't consider the 2007 Dallas Mavericks loss to the Warriors a catastrophic failure since everyone knew the Warriors were a bad matchup. Also, the failure needs to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (or jaws of expectations). Chris Webber's infamous timeout was a failure, but Michigan was down when he called it. Same with the Russell Wilson interception. Even Scott Norwood's missed FG wasn't a really a choke, since he wasn't very good from that distance anyway.
- 10. Jean Van De Velde at the 1999 British Open.
9. Buster Douglas handing a seemingly invincible Mike Tyson the first loss of his career.
8. The San Antonio Spurs blowing a 5 point lead with 28 seconds left in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals.
7. Atlanta Falcons blowing a 25 point 3rd quarter lead in Superbowl 51.
6. The 1980 USSR Olympic hockey team, a team that beat an NHL All Star team in a friendly, losing to an American team made up of college kids.
5. The 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning, who entered the post-season with the best regular season record in NHL history, getting swept by an 8th seed.
4. The 2011 Texas Rangers twice blowing 2 run leads with 1 strike away to lose Game 6 of the World Series.
3. The New York Yankees blowing a 3-0 series lead in the 2004 ALCS to their hated rival the Boston Red Sox.
2. The New England Patriots quest for a perfect season ended by Eli Manning and the 10-6 Wild Card New York Giants.
Some honorable mentions:
- The 2015 Golden State Warriors blowing a 3-1 series in the Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Greg Norman squandering a 6 stroke lead at the 1996 Masters.
- The Steve Bartman Game.
- The Minnesota Vikings losing the 1999 NFC Championship game after a miss late Gary Anderson (who hadn't missed all season) failed to seal the game.
- The 2006 Dallas Mavericks essentially being half-a-quarter away from the le, but blew a double digit lead to the Miami Heat.
- The "this is going to be fun" 2012-2013 Los Angeles Lakers. 4 Hall of Famers on the team, first round sweep.
Now on to number 1. Drum roll...……………….
1. The 2018-2019 Los Angeles Lakers.
After the huge FA splash the Lakers made by signing Lebron, expectations of 2nd seed were common, dark horse contender was labeled. This is the NBA, a star driven league, and having a top 3 player in the league basically guarantees a playoff berth. Any organization would have to be massively incompetent to not at the very least sneak into the playoffs with in' Lebron James. Not only did the Lakers fail to make the playoffs, they only managed to win 35 games, and they HAD LEBRON JAMES! How is that even possible? Laker fans will cite injuries, but losing Lonzo was addition by subtraction, and Lebron still played 55 games (in an era where superstars of his age will play only about 70 games anyway. He only played 69 on the le winning 2015 Cavs). Furthermore, Lebron's record in those games was 28-27. A winning percentage not good enough to get into the post-season.
To fail to even play .500 basketball when you have Lebron for 55 games represents a total organization failure from top to bottom, from training to scouting to developing to front office decision making to on-court morale. It's not a choke like the other examples, just an embarrassing ins utional meltdown we've never seen in the NBA or any other sport. Compare their season to the team across the hall. The Clippers took two games from the Warriors with Lou Williams as their best player
Lakers fans will spin this, but again, YOU HAD LEBRON JAMES! And once more, to put things into perspective, the team you share a building with had Lou Williams (who the Lakers once had
but nice try ...
This is the first thing that came to mind as far as soccer goes. A 3-0 halftime lead in soccer is like being up 30 in an NBA playoff game after two quarters.
The Mike Tyson loss to Buster Douglas came after he spent the entire night before the fight hanging out with Bobby Brown, drinking tequila and having sex with with a room full of Japanese girls
Interesting how for Americans, the USA hockey victory over the USSR in 1980 is the biggest upset, but for Russians it's the USSR's upset over the USA in basketball in 1972.
That's why I don't understand why people want the Spurs to blow it up. The best a mid market team can hope for is playoffs. Tanking doesn't work at all and we're one season away from setting one of those "never will be broken" records like Stock's assists record or DiMaggio's 56 hit game streak. 23+ seasons of playoff basketball will never be broken and is a great thing to be remembered in this WWE-lite era of the NBA.
Damn, I just read about that game on wikipedia. Sounds like it was rigged.
That whole sequence was shady as , but all the USA team had to do was keep the Soviets from going 94 feet in three seconds, and they couldn't do it. Not having 7'4" Tom Burleson or Bobby Jones, one of the all-time great defensive players, on the floor at the end was a massive fail on the part of Hank Iba and his staff.
Don't forget about the 2007 1-seed Dallas Mavericks getting upset (in embarrassing fashion) by the 8-seed Warriors.
#WeBelieve
Yeah, but it sounds like they were just in shock that the game was even continuing at that point. They had already celebrated the gold medal for 2 minutes, and then they were told that the last 3 seconds had to be replayed. They were ready to walk out of the arena, and only begrudgingly took the court again.
And the buzzer going off during the American's free throw
Agreed but losing a match in stoppage time (3 minutes) in which you led is lower odds?
What is more likely -
A) scoring 3 after failing to get even 1 in 45 minutes
B) 2 goals in 3 minutes after failing to get on the board in 90 mins
My German friend (anti Bayern) said he watched this live and they were sure the 2nd goal was just a replay of the first
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