Thursday Thought Provoker: Biggest Blunders

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In case you missed it, the Spurs blew a monumental first half lead and lost in the waning moments of Game 4 of the NBA Finals. There were several questionable actions – a flurry of missed 3 pointers that were needlessly taken, choosing to attempt a layup when the Spurs player should’ve dribbled out the clock – just to lose in a very painful manner on a last second tip in.

Sir Charles with the summary:

And that’s an understatement.

So that brings us to today’s Thought Provoker: what’s the biggest sports blunder you’ve been witness to? Was it Bobo’s playcalling on the goalline against Carolina? The Falcons 28-3 implosion in the Super Bowl? Pete calling a pass play for Seattle when they could’ve just run it in against the Patriots?

Discuss.

51 thoughts on “Thursday Thought Provoker: Biggest Blunders”

    • Maybe Jim Marshall returning a fumble 66 yards…the wrong way. Once he gets to the wrong endzone he celebrates by throwing the ball out of bounds, resulting in a safety for SF.

      • Playing Bauta wasn’t necessarily wrong. Playing Bauta without any plays that took advantage of his particular abilities was wrong.

        • Exactly. I recall that the news he would likely start was leaked the week of the game, with the understanding that it was to utilize his unique skillset (read: legs) and then promptly hit the field as a drop back, pocket passer. Sometimes, it seems like it was intentional.

    • Specifically the coaches not reminding the players to knock the ball down during the timeout right before the play. Richt admitted no coach did this to the ABH. Thats when I was ready for a change.

    • First thing that popped in my mind. Dumbest play I have ever seen on a football field.

  2. Not the biggest blunder but throwing the ball on 3rd down near the goal line in New Orleans last season.

  3. Perhaps my all time fav is when the fly ball bounced off Canseco’s head and over the fence for a HR.

  4. Anytime Kirby calls off the Dawgs and doesn’t put 228 on Tech’s poverty arses.

  5. Red Sox leaving Pedro in the game.

    Not handing off to Marshawn.

    Playing cover-0 against a freshman QB who was torching the secondary.

    Hiring Fredi Gonzalez

  6. Until a team blows a 26+ point lead in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, it will always be the Falcons. I’m a Falcons fan, this is our lot in life. I’m in too far to ever find another team, and I fear I’ve corrupted my daughter and my nephew. But that’s how it is. But I’d say the Yankees blowing the 3-0 series lead against the Red Sox is up there.

  7. This is easy:

    Fake punt vs Bama.

    I’ve seen a lot of stupid. Nothing approaches that.

  8. Throwing the ball up 28-3 when all you needed was a field goal to put the game virtually out of reach or you grind out more clock after a first down.

    Just stupid.

  12. As a Saints fan, the worst was in 1980 when Archie Manning led the Saints to a 28 point (35-7) 3rd quarter lead over the 49ers. Joe Montana, who was relatively unproven at this point in his career, led the Niners to a 38-35 victory in OT. Some people associate this game with the rise of Joe Montana.

  13. The pooch kickoff that allowed Tech to tie the game and ultimately win it in overtime. It was a great example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

  17. Maybe not the biggest but the one I saw in person was Bill Battle, hc of TN, calling a fake punt against the Dogs. Sylvester Boller blocked it. Battle lost his job. I have likely seen some that others will post.

    • Yes! At UT in October 1973! I listened to it in Athens. OH MY GOD GEORGIA’S BEATEN TENNESSEE IN KNOXVILLE!

    • Bill Battle was my neighbor for a few years before he lost his fight with cancer. He and his wife were very nice. After coaching TN, he made his biggest money being the first or one of the first to license college merchandise. His first contract was his college head football coach, Bear Bryant.

  18. Not sure why everyone likes to relive the biggest UGA pain moments.

    I’ll go with Doug Dickey’s “4th and Dumb” that help Ray Goff and the Dawgs whip that Gator ass yet again in 1976 Cocktail Party.

    • On that note, Tech’s fumbling away of a commanding lead against Georgia in 2024 that resulted in 8 OTs could possibly be one of the biggest meltdowns ever witnessed.

      Helping the Nerds was Miami’s decision to not kneel and run out the clock that resulted in the Hurricanes losing a locked up game. Cristobal at his finest.

  19. Some of these comments are triggering. The recent good memories must have clouded my memory of all of these terrible ones. Now I am getting mad all over again about the Prayer at JH.

    • I’ve long said if I had the chance to throat punch Chuck Knoblach, or however you spell his name, I’d take it over doing the same to the devil. Bastard.

    • Yeah, yjat has been a complaint for 34 plus years. The unanswered question is who should Cox have brought into the game to pitch instead of a 15 game winner?

  21. That time a team blew a late lead by giving up a 93 yard touchdown pass in the waning seconds.

  22. I don’t know if it was the stupidest play ever but George Foster humping that Gator defender in plain sight certainly was one of them.

  23. Whatever the gameplan was against Florida in 2014. Florida was playing with a backup QB and a coach that lost by 29 to a Missouri team that only gained 119 yards. That might have been the game where my own support of Richt started to wane.

  25. Not the biggest blunder, not by a long shot, but one of the funniest I’ve ever seen.

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