Worst call in sports history

[DAntae]

this time put your teams aside and think of the worst call in a sporting event. it can be a regular season game but think bigger. for me it will always be the 91 orange bowl. colorado being handed a title after notre dame was screwed by a bullshit clipping penalty. Rocket scored dammit. mccarthy next time instruct your punter to kick it out of bounce you dick.

[gravymaster]

this time put your teams aside and think of the worst call in a sporting event. it can be a regular season game but think bigger. for me it will always be the 91 orange bowl. colorado being handed a title after notre dame was screwed by a bullshit clipping penalty. Rocket scored dammit. mccarthy next time instruct your punter to kick it out of bounce you dick.
Ah, that was a horrid call. I saw a show about that on FSN a few years back. Fucking brutal.

This one was REALLY bad.
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/10/13/PH2005101300123.jpg

[:bang:]

hand of god

[thecapecoddah]

someone better keep kuumuus away from this thread


anyway, I'd say the extra time being put on the clock during the 1972 olympics gold medal game, giving the soviets the victory.

that or some silly tuck rule.

[DAntae]

yeah I was going to gowith the us olympic team being screwed but that had to do with people above the refs...if memory serves.

was hoping danno was going to mention something about a certain player at home plate.

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you said keep your team out of it

[DAntae]

well I meant in regards to bullshit stuff, like calls that you as a fan dont agree with but might be legit. however yours is allowed.

[box elder]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Jeffmaier.jpg

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well I meant in regards to bullshit stuff, like calls that you as a fan dont agree with but might be legit. however yours is allowed.
-bettis calling heads
-polamalu's interception against the colts
-SID BREAM OUT AT THE PLATE :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

[huh?]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Jeffmaier.jpg
" " and don deckinger calling that guy safe during game 6 of the '85 series.

[doyle]

pass interference, super bowl xiii.
larry barnett.

[Spartan]

the fifth down

[CMQ]

England's third and fourth goal in the 1966 World Cup Final.

[:bang:]

the fifth down
good one

[Spartan]

good one

it was interesting how not only did the GW touchdown come on the 'fifth' down, but even that wasn't a touchdown.

coming at a time when the SWC was being revealed as having the most corrupt officials in the game, and the collapse and exodus to the big eight that followed.

[thecapecoddah]

Page2's list: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/worstcalls/010730.html

[Dead Nigga Storage]

2002 giants playoff game against the 49ers. the fucking referee didn't even KNOW what the rule was on the play, and called the game. inexcusable.

also, we all know i was gonna bring up the call gravy mentioned above...and the steve finley/pierzynski catcher's intereference 2 games later. etc., etc.

i also remeber something about fred mcgriff striking out in the world series on a foot about 90 feet off home plate.

[Homer Jay]

Roughing the passer on Sugar Bear Hamilton.

Although had they not changed the calls. The ARod slap and the Belhorn home run would be high up on the list as well.

[thecapecoddah]

2002 giants playoff game against the 49ers. the fucking referee didn't even KNOW what the rule was on the play, and called the game. inexcusable.

oh definitely, that was horrible

[Veryjammy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmBtubEZSE&mode=related&search=hand%20of%20god

[Adamm R)))]

^That and this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/jyeung/carroll_gaffe.jpg

[mike_donnelly]

2005 AFC Divisional playoff : Patriots @ Denver was pretty bad

[Curtis]

2003 Fiesta Bowl, the horrible passing interference call in OT. Complete bullshit

[Cow Milk?]

2002 giants playoff game against the 49ers. the fucking referee didn't even KNOW what the rule was on the play, and called the game. inexcusable.


That was terrible

[Mayor Quimby]

I think I had repressed this damn memory until ESPN brought it up

-Michael Jordan pushes Bryon Russell on the final shot of his career in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals, which lifts the Bulls over the Jazz for their sixth NBA championship.

I don't really know if it was anyone else I would be so pissed, but Jordan always got away with shit like that and it bothered me.

The fifth down was probably the worst call of all time. Not knowing what the down is for the football game is absolutely inexcusable.

Bringing up biased calls, Nebraska played Penn State in 1982, the game came down to a last second touchdown. The play before the touchdown the Penn State tight end caught a pass out of bounds, and the officials ruled it a catch. The catch set up the eventual score. The tight end now even admitted he was out of bounds. The loss cost Nebraska the National Championship, and gave one to greasy Joe and the Nittany Lions.

[kevin]

I think I had repressed this damn memory until ESPN brought it up

-Michael Jordan pushes Bryon Russell on the final shot of his career in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals, which lifts the Bulls over the Jazz for their sixth NBA championship.

I don't really know if it was anyone else I would be so pissed, but Jordan always got away with shit like that and it bothered me.

superstarts get calls. it's just the way it is. besides, he would have made that shot with five hands in his face.

and if they would have called a foul, everyone would have complained on how they should have let them play in the final seconds, me included. i never see them call stuff like that even when it's not michael jordan, and when it's just a regular nba game. to refer to it as one of "the worst calls in sports history" is just wrong. it is not even close.

[:bang:]

totally correct call

[DAntae]

at penn state your allowed to play out of bounds. nebraska eventually got a couple. yeah it was a bad call but with no benefit of replay and in such a big game...with so much going on, its understandable.

[:bang:]

ya lost me. what year?

[Mayor Quimby]

For danno: refer to this http://www.huskerpedia.com/games/1982/pennstate82.html

at penn state your allowed to play out of bounds. nebraska eventually got a couple. yeah it was a bad call but with no benefit of replay and in such a big game...with so much going on, its understandable.

I don't understand the first thing you say about being allowed to play out of bounds, the joke seems kind of dumb.

Nebraska eventually got a couple of? National Championships? Like 13 years later. The 'Sker teams of the early 1980's were some of the best of college football. Three superstar players in Turner Gill at QB, Irving Fryar at wingback, and Heisman winner Mike Rozier at I-Back. It is just a shame I guess that they never won a National Championship, and they would have without this call.

I don't think the call is understandable, because quite simply the officials job was to check his feet and he failed at his job. I just think its a blown call and a very costly one at that.

However what goes around comes around for Penn State, with Michigan's clock keeper this year, and the 'Skers being named national champs over Penn State in 1995 when both finished unbeaten.

As far as MJ is concerned it doesn't belong on a list of the top ten worst calls, I was simply referring to ESPN reminding me of that play. I also don't buy the you can't make a call in the final seconds of the game because that takes away from the game being played stuff either, if the call needs to be made it needs to be made at any point of the game. However thats a different subject for a different thread at a different time.

[DAntae]

quimby it was a line used by former psu defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. it was in reference to a question he was asked following preseason workouts several seasons back. I think he retired in 1999. not so much a joke but a reference to him.

also I will say it again, nebraska got a couple. no question they had one of the greatest rushing offenses for seasons on end. shit happens, it was a bad call...no question there.

[Mayor Quimby]

My bad, didn't know the reference.

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i see nothing about a bad call there ;)

penn state has ALWAYS been whored by the polls, karma had nothing to do with it. they would have throttled nebraska in 95

the michigan game was all on the defense. blaming the refs is a cop out

[DAntae]

I dunno 95 lions were balanced by nebraska was nasty on both lines that year.

[Mayor Quimby]

95 Penn State vs. 95 Nebraska and 98 Michigan vs. 98 Nebraska are the two games I would have loved to seen played out.

Experts would have taken both Penn State and Michigan but the Blackshirts would have eaten their offenses alive.

[:bang:]

penn state had the stronger schedule and a higher margin of victory. played plenty of good defenses and no one showed a hint of slowing them down. win by three touches easy

[Mayor Quimby]

The world will never know, but the Sears Trophy sure looks nice. As an added bonus, we got to shut Warren Sapp up, if only because he wasn't able to breathe for most of that bowl game.

[DAntae]

at least you guys have tasted victory as fans...va tech and uva. always, and I mean always break my heart. if shawn moore cant win a title then no one can at qb for uva.

[:bang:]

vtech? hope you dont believe in karma :-X

anyway. polls suck, playoffs rule :)

[Mayor Quimby]

As a Husker fan I've been spoiled, but like the Yankees in baseball you always want more. 2004 was an absolute travesty, the first losing season of my entire life. Hopefully this year they reclaim the Big 12 North.

Continuing on college football some Miami friends of mine still bitch about the pass interference call, and they might be right on that one.

[Orange-Neck]

This year's Superbowl had horrible calls. They won the game for the Steelers.

[kevin]

no, they didn't. no ref ever "wins a game for the other team." it bugs the shit out of me when people say that.

[gravymaster]

This year's Superbowl had horrible calls. They won the game for the Steelers.
Please.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

no, they didn't. no ref ever "wins a game for the other team." it bugs the shit out of me when people say that.if they haven't won games for other teams, they sure the fuck have toed the line and damn near crossed it many, many times. something about a referee saying "the game is over, san francisco wins" seems like handing the game to a team incorrectly to me.

[Spartan]

it was a vastly unfair call, but whose fault was it to choke on a huge lead.

point is, winning teams put themselves in position to win.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

that's a bullshit cop-out though. not to mention, it doesn't matter, because i can name plenty of examples where calls did directly cost teams the game...like the '85 world series call at first base with the cards/royals. it is in every team's right to blow leads or give away an entire game to the other team and not have to lose because of GROSS mismanagement of the game by an official who didn't even know the rule of the game. if that call had occurred in a game in which the game had been a back-and-forth nail-biter the entire way, and then the ref fucked up the ending, that one point goes out the window, and the only thing that stands is that the referee COMPLETELY fucked up.

[DAntae]

yeah the refs blew a 24 pt lead in just a little over 1 qrtr, then had a botched snap on a short field goal attempt. those fucking refs.

[Spartan]

yeah, as dan pointed out, not to mention a horrible excuse for a FG. the holder (if he was the passer, i don't quite recall now) was not going to score in way, shape or form.

refs love the niners. who knew.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

wow, you've still completely fucking gone around the point. and what the fuck is this "refs love the niners" shit, aside from some attempt to completely subvert a legitimate argument. i never said, or even implied it...i just said the referee was incompetent. and i don't see how it was a "horrible excuse for a FG"...he had a legit chance at making it if the snapper didn't botch it, they weren't exactly 60 yards out.

every team should have the right to cough up a lead without the game deciding call (and sorry, that's what it was) being missed by a referee. it doesn't matter how many points were scored in a comeback. like i said, if the game had been a tie for almost the entire game, what would you be saying right now? that the referee was the deciding factor in the game, and he was. you can't fucking avoid that fact, regardless of how big of a choke there was.

[Spartan]

ain't saying the giants couldn't make the chipper, but they didn't. horrible snap (again, whose fault), and a all-or-nothing pass at a downfield lineman. he was interfered, but that's illegal too, for him to be more than 3 yards past the LOS

[gravymaster]

refs love the niners. who knew.
Fuck you.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

ain't saying the giants couldn't make the chipper, but they didn't. horrible snap (again, whose fault), and a all-or-nothing pass at a downfield lineman. he was interfered, but that's illegal too, for him to be more than 3 yards past the LOSit comes down to this, fool: A GAME CANNOT END ON A DEFENSIVE PENALTY, PERIOD. referee made the INCORRECT CALL, and said the game was over. he was WRONG. line it back up, snap again, giants have a perfectly legit. chance of making the field goal on a second try. referee cost them that chance. all the blown leads in the world DON'T matter, because the referee didn't know what he was doing.

cue danno with a refsrefsrefs post.

[gravymaster]

That game was the worst day of my life. Worst day of my life.

[kuumuus]

at least it didn't happen in SUPER BOWL XL :-X

by the way, holmgren's still cracking jokes about the refs during training camp, and fans have been booing them and telling them to go back to pittsburgh. even i think it's pathetic at this point.

[gravymaster]

at least it didn't happen in SUPER BOWL XL :-X

by the way, holmgren's still cracking jokes about the refs during training camp, and fans have been booing them and telling them to go back to pittsburgh. even i think it's pathetic at this point.
Ew, what a fucking asshole. I DESPISE Holmgren.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

i still think he's a prick for that shit he pulled about the calls in the seahawks/giants game. what a bitch.

and i'm not being a hypocrite for once...fans can be whiny bitches, coaches look like babies when they do it.

[gravymaster]

and i'm not being a hypocrite for once...fans can be whiny bitches, coaches look like babies when they do it.
100% agree. When you become a coach you lose your right to whine about shit like that.

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at least it didn't happen in SUPER BOWL XL :-X

by the way, holmgren's still cracking jokes about the refs during training camp, and fans have been booing them and telling them to go back to pittsburgh. even i think it's pathetic at this point.
coach gives the team a cop out. no wonder they are so fucking soft. have a good superbowllosercurse season, motherfuckers

[DAntae]

waah giants lose a playoff game...I mean that how it usually goes for the giants. they lose playoff games. I understand as a fan feeling cheated, but I wouldnt hold a grudge if my sorry ass defense couldn't make a few stops, and the offense could pick up a first down. did the ref fuck up? of course. did the giants implode and blow the game, of course.

[Spartan]

coach gives the team a cop out. no wonder they are so fucking soft. have a good superbowllosercurse season, motherfuckers

aww, dannos' back. :-$

[Dead Nigga Storage]

waah giants lose a playoff game...I mean that how it usually goes for the giants. they lose playoff games. I understand as a fan feeling cheated, but I wouldnt hold a grudge if my sorry ass defense couldn't make a few stops, and the offense could pick up a first down. did the ref fuck up? of course. did the giants implode and blow the game, of course.blah, blah, blah. we all already KNOW that the giants blew the game. but that isn't what matters, because the end result of the game should be a result of the game being played according to league rules, and the giants should have been given a chance to salvage their game, and they were deprived of that chance by a referee who didn't just merely get a call wrong or midjudge a judgement call...he flat out didn't know the rule.

oh yeah, and brunell sucks cock, redskins are gay, etc., etc.

[blueguy]

Isn't the worst of all, but in the 91 World Series at the Metrodome and Kent Herbek pulled Ron Gant's leg off of first base and was called out.

Fans may remember him best, however, from his altercation with Ron Gant in Game 2, when it appeared that Hrbek had pulled Gant off the bag as Gant was returning to first base without a slide. The umpire called Gant out, citing forward progress would have caused Gant to step off the bag, even though most Atlanta fans claimed Hrbek's move was deliberate.

[The lesson is never try]

England's third and fourth goal in the 1966 World Cup Final.

what?????????? third maybe but the fourth was clean, people also forget there was a clear handball by a german player in the build up to the equaliser to take the game to extra time.

Anyway id have to agree with maradonna handballing it into the net against england, though the decision to disallow campbells goal which effectively would have sent england into the semi finals of euro 2004 was also a really bad call - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ORP_Gv5Rs&search=england%20goals

[DAntae]

dns 2 things. while I understand this thread is about opinions of "worst calls", the giants/niners game doesn't even come close to gaining recognition as a horrible call. a mistake but it did not decide the outcome of that game. game was over and the better team won, because they made plays and put points on the board. secondly how do you "salvage" a game in which a team self destructs and does not deserve to win?

this is mostly just me fucking around with you. I understand you are able to see that.

brunell's all about the pussy, heard he had shockey's mom for thanksgiving. then tiki's wife for breakfast the next day.

how is jeremy "I love cock in my ass all day" Shockey doing?

[Adamm R)))]

what?????????? third maybe but the fourth was clean, people also forget there was a clear handball by a german player in the build up to the equaliser to take the game to extra time.
It was on the news a while ago that the 3rd never crossed the line and it has now been proved using high definition pictures. Not like it matters... And also, the goal that sent Chelsea out of the Champions League finals in 2005. That was also around 4.5cm away from being over the line (as proved by high definition pictures)

Anyway id have to agree with maradonna handballing it into the net against england, though the decision to disallow campbells goal which effectively would have sent england into the semi finals of euro 2004 was also a really bad call - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ORP_Gv5Rs&search=england%20goals
Also, the similar (pretty much identical actually) incident with Sol Campbell in France '98 against Argentina.

[The lesson is never try]

It was on the news a while ago that the 3rd never crossed the line and it has now been proved using high definition pictures. Not like it matters... And also, the goal that sent Chelsea out of the Champions League finals in 2005. That was also around 4.5cm away from being over the line (as proved by high definition pictures)


Also, the similar (pretty much identical actually) incident with Sol Campbell in France '98 against Argentina.

to be fair in 98 shearer did elbow the playe, here nothing happened the goalkeeper ran into terry.

Also i know the 3rd never crossed the line but he said the fourth wasnt a goal, also the germans handballed it leading up to their equaliser.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

dns 2 things. while I understand this thread is about opinions of "worst calls", the giants/niners game doesn't even come close to gaining recognition as a horrible call. a mistake but it did not decide the outcome of that game. game was over and the better team won, because they made plays and put points on the board. secondly how do you "salvage" a game in which a team self destructs and does not deserve to win?alot of times in discussion, i see ESPN mention it as a bad call. and i don't see how you can say flat out that it "didn't cost them the game", because that's exactly what it could have done. if officiated correctly, the giants would have one more shot at kicking that field goal, and therefore, one more chance to win the game. it is a BAD call becauseit was a call against the rules of the game. worst call ever? no. a bad call that might have cost them a chance to come back and win a game that they had (obviously) blown? hell yes. bringing up the fact that they blew the game is basically an irrelevant, seperate matter all together. they perhaps deserved to lose the game because of how poorly they played in the final 17 minutes, but they did not deserve to lose because an official just plain didn't know the rules of the game.

shockey is fine. he called me yesterday...told me to tell you that your wife left her panties over.

[DAntae]

nice try gibbs was busy with her. ummmmm

giants would have missed anyway...norwood was in attendance and was blowing really hard against the kick.

[vinceq]

Brett Hull's Stanley Cup stealing goal in OT.

[Eart]

Although this is from my team, this is one of the worst NON-calls I've seen recently..

In the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season in Game 3 with Hurricanes visiting the Canadiens, Habs captain Saku Koivu skates towards the opposing net (wears a visor) and Canes forward Justin Williams tries to lift up his stick, missed and gets Koivu in the eye. Koivu is out for the rest of the playoffs and is still recovering to this date. No penalty was called on the play. In the same game, there was a questionable penalty called against the Habs in overtime which allowed the Canes to score and go undefeated for the rest of the series beating the Habs 4 games to 2. The Hurricanes would go on to defeat the Devils 4-1, the Flyers 4-3, and eventually the Oilers 4-3 to win the Stanley Cup. What could have been..

BS

[sacrelicious]

1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Gold Medal Game --
U.S. leading by 1 point with 1 second left in the game, soviets (boy does that date it) have the ball out of bounds under the US hoop. They toss the ball in shoot and miss. Game over US wins the gold! But hold on, the officals forgot to start the clock, so they get another chance. Soviets throw a cross court pass, one of their players puts it up and in.

The US team was so pissed they refused their silver medals. The soviets probably should have conceeded to the US, but during the Cold War no one did anything sportsman-like.

[Dewey Finn]

2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics

Dong-Sung Kim (Korea) got robbed his gold medal to Anton Onho (USA) just because Onho's fake action that Kim tried to push him really decieved umpires' eyes (Onho got several death threats... I was mad at him but now I just feel sorry).