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When I was in College swimming. It was my team members. We were doing a relay, but one of the swimmers had another 2 laps to go. The next swimmer was on the block and thought they were done. So they jumped in as the other swimmer went back and landed right on top of them.
The 2015 NRL grand final where Ben Hunt(Brisbane Broncos)dropped the ball in the extra time kickoff leading to a North Queensland field goal to win the game
@@teamsteed1He was on the Colombian national team and they were really good, and really tight with Pablo Escobar. He accidentally scored an own goal in a championship and he was subsequently murdered by Pablo. Assumption is Pablo placed large bets as Columbia was heavily favored. Escobar was killed in his car during a night out - shot to death.
Gerrard's slip is even more ironic given how he screamed at his own players the words 'This does not f***ing slip!' a few weeks earlier when they beat eventual champions Manchester City.
I remember a book I had as a kid saying that on the plane ride home Jim's teammates asked him to take over as pilot. Jim said "They thought I would land them in Hawaii."
I remember hearing about that "5th down" game at the time it went down. That Colorado team sure lived a charmed life in 1990! The Buffaloes managed to win a piece of the national title even with a tie (Tennessee in the Pigskin Classic in Anaheim) and a loss (at Big Ten co-champ Illinois) while Georgia Tech never lost (tied at UNC).
Thank you so much for including the 5th Down game on the list. I feel like it gets overlooked a lot when discussing the greatest blunders in sports. However, you all should have included Game 6 of the 1985 World Series.
@melissagrant4178 In game 6 of the series, the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Kansas City Royals 3 games to 2. In the bottom of the 9th inning, the Cardinals had 1 to 0 lead and were 3 outs away from winning the series. The first batter for the Royals hit a chopper into play. The Cardinals fielded it and got it to first base before the runner reached, but the umpire, whose view of the play was obscured, incorrectly ruled the runner safe. The Cardinals proceeded to collapse, and the Royals went on to win the series in 7 games.
Buckner is so infamous one of the PS2 MVP Baseball games had the commentary line “Shades of Bill Buckner” if a ball got past a first baseman (those games had a TON of dialog for the time. Play a game at Shea, the dialog would randomly be interrupted by a loud jet flying overhead.)
I remember watching the NCAA national championship game between Michigan and North Carolina when Chris Webber called a time out late in the game. The ref did miss the traveling.
Bartman's "mistake" shouldn't be on here. That was not a mistake. Fans will reach for a foul ball if it's coming toward them, and if the ball is in the stands, it's fair game for the fans to catch it. Instead, Zidane's headbutt should be up high. That happened in the World Cup final, and it cost France a World Cup championship.
Besides that, it would have been just the second out had the ball been caught, and the Cubs gave up multiple runs in the rest of the inning. So the Bartman mishap was not as crucial to knocking the team out of the series as many think.
@lunixcaptain why was he the only one singled out? A bunch of fans went for the ball. And no right? This is something that happens in games all the time
Early in the 1987cseason, the Red Sox came to Shea Stadium for an exhibition game. Buckner was introduced and got a standing ovation from the Mets fans ( including yours truly)
What is almost never said about the Bill Buckner error is that, yes it was an error. However, Buckner shouldn’t have even been on the field that night. He played with two very bad ankles. I remember that pregame he was gimping around. There was a debate about his playing. I was very surprised when he did. I know, it was the big game and any player would’ve said they could play, but in my opinion he shouldn’t have been allowed to do so. I wasn’t surprised by the error and felt terrible for him. It’s to his credit he never tried to explain away his error, but always took the blame.
That whole treatment of Steve Bartman was asinine. Trying to blame him on the Cubs eventual collapse, losing 2 home games to lose the series, is why Chicago is one of the worst cities in America.
15:40 -- What about those other guys reaching for the ball? You know one of them could've just as easily gotten the same fate had the ball went just an inch or two in another direction.
Wide right. Not giving marshawn lynch the ball in the Super bowl vs Patriots. Browns RB fumbling on near the goal line and Broncos recovering the ball. Miracle at the Meadowlands part 1 and 2.
I agree. It wasn’t a player mistake, it was the coach’s. Lynch was at his peak and had been kicking butt all day. Lynch and the OL were pounding it down the field, basically unstoppable. He was why they got so close to scoring on this last drive. Then Pete Carroll in his infinite stupidity calls for a two yard up the middle pass play and the Cheatriots look like heroes. Just so you know, I’m not a Seahawks fan. This play was when I realized that some games, including big ones, just might be rigged. I don’t watch much NFL nowadays. Peace. Out.
It happened again this past season in the NFL on a Monday night game between Denver and Buffalo. The Bills held a 22-21 lead with 35 seconds remaining, but gave up 28 yards on a pass interference call. The Broncos have no timeouts remaining and have to hurry to the line to get the FG attempt off, which they do, but miss on a 41-yard attempt by Will Lutz. But the Bills were flagged for 12 men on the field, giving the Broncos a 36-yard 2nd attempt, which they capitalized on.
My favorite part of that is they had all offseason to stew on their mistake. Then the very first game of the next season, they repeated the mistake of having too many men on the field to overturn a missed field goal that turned into a made field goal that lost them the game.
Losing your life for a GAME, even if it is the championship game, is just pathetic. I don't know how anyone could be that concerned about losing that they would kill an innocent man, as if that changes anything. Just mind boggling.
6:15 A lot of people dont address the fact that the ref lost track of the downs because he was helping someone undergoing a HEART ATTACK on the sideline! Look up KTO's video on the subject, the entire story is wild.
I can clearly count 4-5 fans reaching for the ball during the Cubs “Bartman” play. Yet only ONE got all the shit for it. Someone please explain how that works.
I will stand up for Fred Merkle for the rest of my life. It was common practice for the fans to storm the field and as the video said, exit the stadium via the field. The fans were running onto the field and the ball was gone. Cubs Infielder Joe Tinker literally found a random ball well after the game, stepped on second and claimed it was an out. The game was over, in no world should they have replayed that game
Lol they'll have said premier league for people watching the video that don't follow football so wouldn't necessarily know the premier league only formed in 92 and it was the old top flight LFC dominated - or they just didn't know it the top league was called division 1 back then themselves 😂
Bartman is not an issue in that game. Fans reach for balls all the time. The cubs collapsing after this is the cause of the loss. Were they so "fragile" as professionals and as a team that one fan could "break" them in this way? If they were, then that is one more reason bartman was not the issue.
Mark Martin Bristol 1994. The thing that makes him coming to pit road one lap before the race ends so shocking, is that it’s Mark Martin, widely regarded as one of the smartest racers of all time
I worked as a sports reporter for newspapers for 12 years and I saw a player in the Indiana high school basketball final 4 (the greatest show in U.S. high school basketball) on Marion High School's team call time out when his team tied the game on a basket with 2 seconds left. There was no need for a time out, but he thought his team was down by 1 point. The opposing team, Broad Ripple High School of Indianapolis (David Letterman's old school, btw) had no time outs left and the final 2 seconds would have ticked off and the game gone into overtime, but a free time out was given them via the Marion player's mistake, and when they came out, Broad Ripple hit a 57-foot shot (17.4 meters) to win the game. Marion was the great powerhouse in Indiana boys basketball, winning five state titles between 1975 and 1987, by far the greatest run by any high school boys team in the state's history. But that game in 1980 was the one that got away.
Pi$$ off with pointing out Buckner while ignoring ALL the other mistake by the redsux throughout that game. If the other players had done their jobs, the game would have already been over.
I’d say this list needs a redo. Games where the team won should be lower, Mistakes that lead to actual physical issues or trauma should be higher. Bill Buckner might’ve messed up, but he got to live A LIFE after his. Escobar’s life was taken OVER A GAME. I’d say that’s more shocking but that’s just me
Bartman was overblows. There were several fans reaching for the ball it just happened to touch him first. No guarentee Cubs were winning a WS. Same with Buckner, if he makes the play it's tied. No guarentee Boston wins.
I offer a counterpoint to #20. David Ragan was very much the class of the field in the 2011 Daytona 500. However before restarting he changed lanes. He was black flagged and lost.
I don't think missing a penalty kick(Baggio) can ever be called a shocking mistake, no matter if it's in a World Cup final or not. 25% of penalties were missed back then.
Daytona 500 finishes should be next: 1959: Petty and Beauchamp 2001: Mikey wins, we lost #3 1998: Dale finally wins after 20 years of trying 1989: Jaws wins in his 17th try Dale and Dale show and so on
Steve Bartman should NOT be on this list. -Even without all the fans there, Alou still might not have caught the ball. -Prior on the same at bat threw a wild pitch which allowed the batter to get on 1st (which should have been a red flag to the pitching staff he was wearing down) -2 batters later, they could have gotten out of the inning on a double play, if their all-star Shortstop didn't pick a horrible time to bobble the ball on the hit. -And later in the inning, a Marlins player who had been terrible all NLCS got a 3-run RBI to basically ice the game Bartman isn't the reason the Cubs failed to execute when it mattered the most.
I think any fan that seen a baseball heading towards them would try to grab it to remember that day. I know I would without thinking. He acted in the moment. If someone else was sitting there I believe they would of done the same thing.
Absolutely! At the very least, they could have mentioned his name and highlighted his effort in this video, instead of only blaming Lett for his lapse of judgment.
I mean you could maybe argue that the Falcons not kicking a field goal at the end of Super Bowl 51 could be considered one of the bigger sports blunders in NFL championship history for sure
I’m surprised Ben Hunt’s knock on at the beginning of golden point in the 2015 NRL grand final wasn’t mentioned. Gave North Queensland perfect field position to win the game in that set and Brisbane still haven’t won a premiership since 2006
In 1994 at Bristol Motor Speedway at a Nascar Busch Series race. Mark Martin while leading, pulled down pit lane on the last lap. The race was under caution at the time anf Mark mistakenly thought the race was over. He needed to stay on the track for another 150 feet to finish. He wad credited with seventh I believe.
I think Fred Merkle gets a bit of a bad rap and didn't deserve the nickname. Technically, that was the rule, but the crowd was all over the field. The ball re-appeared from the crowd, and nobody was entirely sure it was the real ball that he was thrown out with.
How does the BUTT FUMBLE not make the list? In a Thanksgiving night game between the New York Jets and their division rivals the New England Patriots, quarterback Mark Sanchez ran into his offensive lineman's ass and fumbled the ball, which was returned for a touchdown. Jets lost the game, and Sanchez is forever known as '"Butt Fumble" as a result.
What about Cody Parkey double doink that would have given the bears their first win in the playoff, or Tyler Bass miss field goal against the Chiefs, he was reciving death threathen
Bartman should have got a pass cause it was at least two or three other people tryna catch the ball with him. Group think is a hell of a drug I tell ya 🤦🏾♀️
13:48 -- Well this loudmouth jinxster didn't help either! Seriously it drives me CRAZY when the announcers/commentators mention a no-hitter/perfect game in progress!! You know, during the play Armando's back was completely away so I don't think he knew at first the call was blown and hence why he didn't seem too upset...as he probably figured the runner beat the throw fair and square and though it was cool he at least got this chance. One thing's for sure, his first baseman's reaction was like, "Oh why couldn't I have picked it up quicker and/or thrown it a little harder!?!?"
Why isn't Don Denkinger's blown call at first base (where he called Jorge Orta safe even though the television replays showed that he was obviously out) in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals on this list?
I actually felt a little bad after but I went to a Lakers game against the Kings and sitting behind the backboard every time Webber was shooting free throws I held up a huge sign that read "CALL A TIMEOUT CHRIS!!!", and a few times I could see him shaking his head... 😂
Chris Phillips of the Ottawa Senators scored the Stanley cup winning goal for the Anaheim Ducks. June 6th 2007. Luckily for him the game ended as a 6-2 blowout the Duck were going to win the Cup that game anyway
18:17: Bill Buckner's error did not allow the Mets to eventually win the 1986 World Series. I don't know why people such as those at WatchMojo like to use revisionist history like that. For one thing, it wasn't Bill Buckner's fault that in Game 6, the Red Sox ultimately blew a three run lead despite previously needing just one more out to win the game and the World Series. That's on the pitchers, Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley. Secondly, even had Buckner cleanly fielded the ball, the game still would've been tied going into the top of the 11th inning and who knows what would've happened after that? And are we forgetting that in Game 7, the Red Sox actually had a 3-0 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning? The Mets of course, managed to again, rally back and win the game 8-5, but it wasn't like the Red Sox were down for the count after Bill Buckner's error from the previous game. How come nobody wants to blame the Red Sox's relief pitching (particularly, Calvin Schiraldi, who was the losing pitcher in Game 7 and was the losing pitcher in three games in the 1986 World Series for the Red Sox) and their manager, John McNamara, who kept Buckner in there late in Game 6 (he during the postseason, would normally replaced Buckner at first base with Dave Stapleton) despite knowing that he was injured his and mobility was compromised.
Number 11 is just like when Golden State Warriors in the 2019 NBA Finals had the same mistake made in game 6 against my favourite team which is the Toronto Raptors
The Leon Lett play the Cowboys were already up 52-17 so that didn't matter. The one in the snow DID cost the Cowboys the game since Miami had another shot at the field goal. Still didn't matter. The Cowboys won back to back Super Bowls and Leon Lett redeemed himself in the Super Bowl by causing a fumble and a run back for a touchdown to tie the game.
IMO you picked the wrong Leon Lett game. That strip by Don Beebe, while embarrassing, had absolutely no effect on a blowout game. The Thanksgiving Day game where he tried and failed to recover what would have been a dead ball actually cost the Cowboys the game, and made their title run a lot more dramatic than it had to be.
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When I was in College swimming. It was my team members. We were doing a relay, but one of the swimmers had another 2 laps to go. The next swimmer was on the block and thought they were done. So they jumped in as the other swimmer went back and landed right on top of them.
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The 2015 NRL grand final where Ben Hunt(Brisbane Broncos)dropped the ball in the extra time kickoff leading to a North Queensland field goal to win the game
I'm surprised Andres Escobar's own goal isn't number one. He literally was killed because of that mistake. Netflix made a show about it
America🤷🏼♂️
@@GoldenBear01wasn’t american or shot in america 🤷🏽♀️
@@daniellemiller9266 wasn't he Columbian? Isn't that in the Americas?
@eifelitorn in South America. Colombia 🇨🇴
@@daniellemiller9266 🤦🏼🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼🤦🏼♂️😡😡😡I was saying that it's no suprise that the no.1 was baseball as it's an American channel, rather than a murder!
You should have included the Seattle Seahawks Superbowl final play. Talk about bone headed!
That was a dumb call. No one made an actual mistake.
My first thought when that happened was that Andy Reid had somehow called the play.
YAAASSSSSS!!
Shout out to JR Smith being so bad he made LeBron abandon Cleveland 😂
Again
LeBron didn’t need any motivation to leave Cleveland
Then brings him to LA for another ring 🤔
again
Escobar should it be #1, since he's the only one who had died from his mistake
Bruh Medellin is their own entity, its more than likely tht there's 100 Andre Escobars dwb there
What happen to him?
@@teamsteed1He was on the Colombian national team and they were really good, and really tight with Pablo Escobar. He accidentally scored an own goal in a championship and he was subsequently murdered by Pablo. Assumption is Pablo placed large bets as Columbia was heavily favored. Escobar was killed in his car during a night out - shot to death.
@@BiologyBabe Thanks for telling me. :(
Humility and communication are a must in sports.
You can’t have a team without either.
Even if you're not the one doing the engaging (aka, robot combat, which is definitely a sport, imo).
Good video love the sports video's great list 👌
Karius mistakes occured after a concussion he took at minute 51. I think it would be fair to mention these kind of details!
Gerrard's slip is even more ironic given how he screamed at his own players the words 'This does not f***ing slip!' a few weeks earlier when they beat eventual champions Manchester City.
Came to the comments to post this exact thing. You could make steel with all that irony.
still great player so bite
Karius was suffering from a concussion after a horrible clash in that Champions League final. The fact he wasn't substituted is an infamy.
Jim Marshall's running the wrong way! Marshall's running the wrong way! 🤣
Loved how everyone was just like "eh, just let him go" in that clip.
Besides that play, Jim Marshall should be in the Hall of Fame.
I remember a book I had as a kid saying that on the plane ride home Jim's teammates asked him to take over as pilot. Jim said "They thought I would land them in Hawaii."
I remember hearing about that "5th down" game at the time it went down. That Colorado team sure lived a charmed life in 1990! The Buffaloes managed to win a piece of the national title even with a tie (Tennessee in the Pigskin Classic in Anaheim) and a loss (at Big Ten co-champ Illinois) while Georgia Tech never lost (tied at UNC).
Thank you so much for including the 5th Down game on the list. I feel like it gets overlooked a lot when discussing the greatest blunders in sports. However, you all should have included Game 6 of the 1985 World Series.
What happens during that world serise
@melissagrant4178 In game 6 of the series, the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Kansas City Royals 3 games to 2. In the bottom of the 9th inning, the Cardinals had 1 to 0 lead and were 3 outs away from winning the series. The first batter for the Royals hit a chopper into play. The Cardinals fielded it and got it to first base before the runner reached, but the umpire, whose view of the play was obscured, incorrectly ruled the runner safe. The Cardinals proceeded to collapse, and the Royals went on to win the series in 7 games.
@@noahharris6724 That call was Angel Hernandez level bad
Buckner is so infamous one of the PS2 MVP Baseball games had the commentary line “Shades of Bill Buckner” if a ball got past a first baseman (those games had a TON of dialog for the time. Play a game at Shea, the dialog would randomly be interrupted by a loud jet flying overhead.)
Andres Escobar story is so sad he lost his life over a stupid game and never got a chance to redeem himself
I remember watching the NCAA national championship game between Michigan and North Carolina when Chris Webber called a time out late in the game. The ref did miss the traveling.
Bartman's "mistake" shouldn't be on here. That was not a mistake. Fans will reach for a foul ball if it's coming toward them, and if the ball is in the stands, it's fair game for the fans to catch it.
Instead, Zidane's headbutt should be up high. That happened in the World Cup final, and it cost France a World Cup championship.
Besides that, it would have been just the second out had the ball been caught, and the Cubs gave up multiple runs in the rest of the inning. So the Bartman mishap was not as crucial to knocking the team out of the series as many think.
Um... he had no right to the ball and it became a life-threatening situation that was very highly publicized.
@lunixcaptain why was he the only one singled out? A bunch of fans went for the ball. And no right? This is something that happens in games all the time
Early in the 1987cseason, the Red Sox came to Shea Stadium for an exhibition game. Buckner was introduced and got a standing ovation from the Mets fans ( including yours truly)
What is almost never said about the Bill Buckner error is that, yes it was an error. However, Buckner shouldn’t have even been on the field that night. He played with two very bad ankles. I remember that pregame he was gimping around. There was a debate about his playing. I was very surprised when he did.
I know, it was the big game and any player would’ve said they could play, but in my opinion he shouldn’t have been allowed to do so. I wasn’t surprised by the error and felt terrible for him. It’s to his credit he never tried to explain away his error, but always took the blame.
That whole treatment of Steve Bartman was asinine. Trying to blame him on the Cubs eventual collapse, losing 2 home games to lose the series, is why Chicago is one of the worst cities in America.
15:40 -- What about those other guys reaching for the ball? You know one of them could've just as easily gotten the same fate had the ball went just an inch or two in another direction.
It’s just so embarrassing to watch an own goal unfold.
Wide right. Not giving marshawn lynch the ball in the Super bowl vs Patriots. Browns RB fumbling on near the goal line and Broncos recovering the ball. Miracle at the Meadowlands part 1 and 2.
Ernest Byner did not fumble. He was stripped. Semantics, yes. But as far as the play on the field, a big difference.
none of these are blunders...
I agree. It wasn’t a player mistake, it was the coach’s. Lynch was at his peak and had been kicking butt all day. Lynch and the OL were pounding it down the field, basically unstoppable. He was why they got so close to scoring on this last drive. Then Pete Carroll in his infinite stupidity calls for a two yard up the middle pass play and the Cheatriots look like heroes. Just so you know, I’m not a Seahawks fan. This play was when I realized that some games, including big ones, just might be rigged. I don’t watch much NFL nowadays. Peace. Out.
Allouettes-Eskimos Grey Cup. Duval misses field goal but Sask had too many men on the field so he got a re-kick and won the Cup.
Roughriders actually
@@24quorthonschuldiner62 Thanks, it's been a few years.
I don't follow football but even I remember that game. A classic case of D'oh!
It happened again this past season in the NFL on a Monday night game between Denver and Buffalo. The Bills held a 22-21 lead with 35 seconds remaining, but gave up 28 yards on a pass interference call. The Broncos have no timeouts remaining and have to hurry to the line to get the FG attempt off, which they do, but miss on a 41-yard attempt by Will Lutz. But the Bills were flagged for 12 men on the field, giving the Broncos a 36-yard 2nd attempt, which they capitalized on.
My favorite part of that is they had all offseason to stew on their mistake. Then the very first game of the next season, they repeated the mistake of having too many men on the field to overturn a missed field goal that turned into a made field goal that lost them the game.
My blood was boiling before you even finished introducing the 5th down game. 🤬
For me it's just hearing, bucky f***'n dent
Losing your life for a GAME, even if it is the championship game, is just pathetic. I don't know how anyone could be that concerned about losing that they would kill an innocent man, as if that changes anything. Just mind boggling.
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series! Stop making Steve Bartman’s life miserable! Move on!
How is Super Bowl 49 Russell Wilson’s 1 yard line INT not on this list?
Wilson's Super Bowl interception and Carrol's terrible call belongs on this list.
6:15 A lot of people dont address the fact that the ref lost track of the downs because he was helping someone undergoing a HEART ATTACK on the sideline! Look up KTO's video on the subject, the entire story is wild.
Really disrespectful to put Escobar's mistake on 2nd because you wanted an American game to be on top.
The fan who threw the drink that caused the “Malice at the palace?”
I can clearly count 4-5 fans reaching for the ball during the Cubs “Bartman” play.
Yet only ONE got all the shit for it.
Someone please explain how that works.
The Bartman game deserved to be this high since the Cubs pennant drought lasted 13 more years and most importantly, it ruined someone’s life.
Alot of people said it was his fault, but there was no way the player would have catch it anyway, and other fans were reaching for the ball too
@@melissagrant4178 they had their scapegoat
It was the fans fault. Don’t contribute to your team fcking up yo🤷🏾♂️. That whole incident sucked all around for everyone involved.
Bartman didn’t miss a double play ball that I could have fielded
@@christopherlapp4553Bartman also didn't leave the starting pitcher to get drubbed by the Marlins
I will stand up for Fred Merkle for the rest of my life. It was common practice for the fans to storm the field and as the video said, exit the stadium via the field. The fans were running onto the field and the ball was gone. Cubs Infielder Joe Tinker literally found a random ball well after the game, stepped on second and claimed it was an out. The game was over, in no world should they have replayed that game
(Pushes glasses up nose) Very impressive for Liverpool to dominate the Premier League in the 70s and 80s considering its first season was 1992.
yea wasent untill they won 3 years ago that they could say winner of premier league
Lol they'll have said premier league for people watching the video that don't follow football so wouldn't necessarily know the premier league only formed in 92 and it was the old top flight LFC dominated - or they just didn't know it the top league was called division 1 back then themselves 😂
John Terry vs Manchester United
Gonzalo Higuain vs Germany
Marcus Rashford vs Italy
Oliver Kahn vs Brazil
That Higuain miss was brutal.
Bartman is not an issue in that game. Fans reach for balls all the time. The cubs collapsing after this is the cause of the loss. Were they so "fragile" as professionals and as a team that one fan could "break" them in this way? If they were, then that is one more reason bartman was not the issue.
Mark Martin Bristol 1994. The thing that makes him coming to pit road one lap before the race ends so shocking, is that it’s Mark Martin, widely regarded as one of the smartest racers of all time
"I've been pulling for David Green to win really hard, but not like that."
Why I hate Cubs fans…to blame a devoted fan for their team’s failure is the worst thing done to fans since overpaid ticket and parking.
I worked as a sports reporter for newspapers for 12 years and I saw a player in the Indiana high school basketball final 4 (the greatest show in U.S. high school basketball) on Marion High School's team call time out when his team tied the game on a basket with 2 seconds left. There was no need for a time out, but he thought his team was down by 1 point. The opposing team, Broad Ripple High School of Indianapolis (David Letterman's old school, btw) had no time outs left and the final 2 seconds would have ticked off and the game gone into overtime, but a free time out was given them via the Marion player's mistake, and when they came out, Broad Ripple hit a 57-foot shot (17.4 meters) to win the game. Marion was the great powerhouse in Indiana boys basketball, winning five state titles between 1975 and 1987, by far the greatest run by any high school boys team in the state's history. But that game in 1980 was the one that got away.
Pi$$ off with pointing out Buckner while ignoring ALL the other mistake by the redsux throughout that game. If the other players had done their jobs, the game would have already been over.
I’d say this list needs a redo. Games where the team won should be lower, Mistakes that lead to actual physical issues or trauma should be higher. Bill Buckner might’ve messed up, but he got to live A LIFE after his. Escobar’s life was taken OVER A GAME. I’d say that’s more shocking but that’s just me
Bartman was overblows. There were several fans reaching for the ball it just happened to touch him first. No guarentee Cubs were winning a WS. Same with Buckner, if he makes the play it's tied. No guarentee Boston wins.
I offer a counterpoint to #20.
David Ragan was very much the class of the field in the 2011 Daytona 500. However before restarting he changed lanes. He was black flagged and lost.
2:50 I usually say "DAMN IT, J.R.!" In the 2k games but I never thought I would eventually say it in the actual game on TV
The first thing a little kid is taught in hockey is never put the puck in front of your own goal lol
Bill Buckner also got a 2004 World Series Championship ring. Well deserved. Never deserved the hate should have been replaced in the game.
I was all of 7 years old when Kevin Smith scored on his own net but I still remember it.
I don't think missing a penalty kick(Baggio) can ever be called a shocking mistake, no matter if it's in a World Cup final or not. 25% of penalties were missed back then.
Daytona 500 finishes should be next:
1959: Petty and Beauchamp
2001: Mikey wins, we lost #3
1998: Dale finally wins after 20 years of trying
1989: Jaws wins in his 17th try
Dale and Dale show and so on
2011 Indy 500 finish should be here.
Hildebrand must have nightmares all these years, he never won the 500 or any indicar race.
Steve Bartman should NOT be on this list.
-Even without all the fans there, Alou still might not have caught the ball.
-Prior on the same at bat threw a wild pitch which allowed the batter to get on 1st (which should have been a red flag to the pitching staff he was wearing down)
-2 batters later, they could have gotten out of the inning on a double play, if their all-star Shortstop didn't pick a horrible time to bobble the ball on the hit.
-And later in the inning, a Marlins player who had been terrible all NLCS got a 3-run RBI to basically ice the game
Bartman isn't the reason the Cubs failed to execute when it mattered the most.
I think any fan that seen a baseball heading towards them would try to grab it to remember that day. I know I would without thinking. He acted in the moment. If someone else was sitting there I believe they would of done the same thing.
Don Beebe deserved the MVP just for that run alone!
Absolutely! At the very least, they could have mentioned his name and highlighted his effort in this video, instead of only blaming Lett for his lapse of judgment.
I mean you could maybe argue that the Falcons not kicking a field goal at the end of Super Bowl 51 could be considered one of the bigger sports blunders in NFL championship history for sure
I laughed so hard at this question @ 3:47 and then again at the headline @ 4:29. Fred Merkle is my favorite entry.
I’m surprised Ben Hunt’s knock on at the beginning of golden point in the 2015 NRL grand final wasn’t mentioned. Gave North Queensland perfect field position to win the game in that set and Brisbane still haven’t won a premiership since 2006
In 1994 at Bristol Motor Speedway at a Nascar Busch Series race. Mark Martin while leading, pulled down pit lane on the last lap. The race was under caution at the time anf Mark mistakenly thought the race was over. He needed to stay on the track for another 150 feet to finish. He wad credited with seventh I believe.
What about the Super Bowl interception?
I think Fred Merkle gets a bit of a bad rap and didn't deserve the nickname. Technically, that was the rule, but the crowd was all over the field. The ball re-appeared from the crowd, and nobody was entirely sure it was the real ball that he was thrown out with.
How does the BUTT FUMBLE not make the list? In a Thanksgiving night game between the New York Jets and their division rivals the New England Patriots, quarterback Mark Sanchez ran into his offensive lineman's ass and fumbled the ball, which was returned for a touchdown. Jets lost the game, and Sanchez is forever known as '"Butt Fumble" as a result.
The dropped touchdown pass was turned into the Movie The Man who dropped the ball when his own town turned their back on him its only a game people
What about Cody Parkey double doink that would have given the bears their first win in the playoff, or Tyler Bass miss field goal against the Chiefs, he was reciving death threathen
Joe Pisarcik's muffed handoff against Philadelphia in 1978. My dad didn't get over that for years!
Bartman should have got a pass cause it was at least two or three other people tryna catch the ball with him. Group think is a hell of a drug I tell ya 🤦🏾♀️
It was the biggest mistake that costs the Giants the 1908 National League Pennant & the Cubs the 1908 World Series.
13:48 -- Well this loudmouth jinxster didn't help either! Seriously it drives me CRAZY when the announcers/commentators mention a no-hitter/perfect game in progress!! You know, during the play Armando's back was completely away so I don't think he knew at first the call was blown and hence why he didn't seem too upset...as he probably figured the runner beat the throw fair and square and though it was cool he at least got this chance.
One thing's for sure, his first baseman's reaction was like, "Oh why couldn't I have picked it up quicker and/or thrown it a little harder!?!?"
#2 should have been NUMBER ONE easy! We're talking about murder over a SOCCER GAME! tHAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING i'VE SEEN ALL DAY. R.i.p.
Why isn't Don Denkinger's blown call at first base (where he called Jorge Orta safe even though the television replays showed that he was obviously out) in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals on this list?
I actually felt a little bad after but I went to a Lakers game against the Kings and sitting behind the backboard every time Webber was shooting free throws I held up a huge sign that read "CALL A TIMEOUT CHRIS!!!", and a few times I could see him shaking his head... 😂
the premier league wasn't a thing in the 70's 80's, there was also a lot more this year which cost the title, "offside" goal vs city a title decider
Someone on the Michigan Bench Coach from 1993 telling Chris Webber to call Time Out. It was documented on ESPN 30 on 30: The Fab Five
LOL snow boarding thing I thought he was screaming "FREEDOM"
Don Bradman only needed 4 runs in his last innings to have a career average of 100 but was out for zero to finish with an average of 99.94
Most recently, people say 49ers should've opted to kick instead of receive the ball first in OT of super bowl 58
How you didn’t even mention Brandon Bostics onside kick blunder is absolutely insane, packers were so good that year and 1 dude ruined it all
Chris Phillips of the Ottawa Senators scored the Stanley cup winning goal for the Anaheim Ducks. June 6th 2007. Luckily for him the game ended as a 6-2 blowout the Duck were going to win the Cup that game anyway
Don’t forget Vontez Burffect, hitting Antonio Brown costing Cincinnati their first playoff win in years lol
The fact that Patrick Stephan is not on here is concerning
I was wondering about that too, but I think it would've made had it happened during a playoff game and not a game during the regular season.
"you would rather look good first and win second"
Billy Hoyle
The Chris Webber Time Out was a shocking mistake,the second is Bill Buckner's World Series error.
I was a cowboys fan in the late seventies and Jackie Smith’s drop was one of the worst moments of my life
That Jim Joyce fumble should be top 3 easily because it was history on the line. Us Detroiters still cant stand that man.
Cowboys still ended up winning the super bowl so that fumble didn't hurt them at all.
- New York Knicks….Patrick Ewing….Game 7….That’s All Ima Say 😂😂😒
Don Denkinger missing the final out call in the 1985 World Series should be in the top 5 at least here
The Patriots with their failed lateral situation against the Raiders should have been there.
18:17: Bill Buckner's error did not allow the Mets to eventually win the 1986 World Series. I don't know why people such as those at WatchMojo like to use revisionist history like that. For one thing, it wasn't Bill Buckner's fault that in Game 6, the Red Sox ultimately blew a three run lead despite previously needing just one more out to win the game and the World Series. That's on the pitchers, Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley. Secondly, even had Buckner cleanly fielded the ball, the game still would've been tied going into the top of the 11th inning and who knows what would've happened after that?
And are we forgetting that in Game 7, the Red Sox actually had a 3-0 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning? The Mets of course, managed to again, rally back and win the game 8-5, but it wasn't like the Red Sox were down for the count after Bill Buckner's error from the previous game. How come nobody wants to blame the Red Sox's relief pitching (particularly, Calvin Schiraldi, who was the losing pitcher in Game 7 and was the losing pitcher in three games in the 1986 World Series for the Red Sox) and their manager, John McNamara, who kept Buckner in there late in Game 6 (he during the postseason, would normally replaced Buckner at first base with Dave Stapleton) despite knowing that he was injured his and mobility was compromised.
10:30... seriously? What shot does he have here??
Number 11 is just like when Golden State Warriors in the 2019 NBA Finals had the same mistake made in game 6 against my favourite team which is the Toronto Raptors
The Leon Lett play the Cowboys were already up 52-17 so that didn't matter. The one in the snow DID cost the Cowboys the game since Miami had another shot at the field goal. Still didn't matter. The Cowboys won back to back Super Bowls and Leon Lett redeemed himself in the Super Bowl by causing a fumble and a run back for a touchdown to tie the game.
When the Red Sux sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
Big blunder on Bostons end right there, but a win for New York
I'd also throw in Buffalo bills giving KC Patrick mahomes by trading away their no 10 pick.
Mike Gregory 6 missed darts to give Taylor the title the gerrard moment
If Steve Smith's attempted clearance went in off the keeper, then it's an own goal by the keeper, not by Smith!!
They need to do a Top 10 for celebrating too early
#15 I've always been a die-hard Cowboys fan, but that sucks.
What about the Saints Vs Vikings playoff game with Diggs scoring the TD or the Saints Vs Rams no call PI
How was Bottlegate not even a Dishonorable Mention? It nearly caused a riot.
4:29 - "Merkle Pulls Boner." Tee hee hee!
IMO you picked the wrong Leon Lett game. That strip by Don Beebe, while embarrassing, had absolutely no effect on a blowout game. The Thanksgiving Day game where he tried and failed to recover what would have been a dead ball actually cost the Cowboys the game, and made their title run a lot more dramatic than it had to be.