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This is a favourite topic of mine... sporting losers, underachievers, and runners-up. A few of my favourites:
Looking to hear other great examples of sports people or teams hopelessly out of their depth... DNQ has a new favorite as of 07:17 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Here's a couple cool videos from a channel I wish would post more stuff. The worst pitcher in baseball history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSrEPe5XBwc The worst baseball teams ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjz5WKfFl6M
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Sep 5, 2014 08:19
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300lb Samoan sprinter, Trevor The Tortoise. Actually a hammer thrower, but competed due to a team emergency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpjigCffIX8
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Sep 5, 2014 09:07
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This one's a classic. Businessman-turned rally driver Samir Thapar needs a little more practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl3uBNmpf10 Samir's pretty bad, but admittedly it's hard to tell how bad. Pay driver Vadim Kogay has the benefit of his numerous mistakes being filmed from every angle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HSpx3aBq8
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Sep 5, 2014 17:52
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DNQ posted:Eddie the Eels (Swimming) - The slowest swimmer in Olympic history actually won his heat after the other 2 swimmers were disqualified. He had reportedly never seen a swimming pool before the Games. Are you talking about Eric "The Eel" Moussambani? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqI8xwXVac I can't help but cheer for the guy. He just won't give up! EDIT: Also, I believe, he set an Equatorial Guinea national record at that Olympics. That's something, right? Techno Remix has a new favorite as of 18:13 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Sep 5, 2014 18:05
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The Casualty posted:Here's a couple cool videos from a channel I wish would post more stuff. Like, the guy doing the video is the worst? Because Roy Halladay was p cool. Certainly better than Ty Cobb (bigot), John Rocker (bigot, arguably less so) or Josh Leuke (rapist).
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Sep 5, 2014 18:26
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Antifreeze Head posted:Like, the guy doing the video is the worst? Because Roy Halladay was p cool. Certainly better than Ty Cobb (bigot), John Rocker (bigot, arguably less so) or Josh Leuke (rapist). Did you watch the whole thing, though? He had a moral to the story, that you can be the worst at something and still break through into becoming one of the best. edit: Also you're judging him against those other guys based on their behavior, whereas he is only evaluating these pitchers on their objective statistics.
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Sep 5, 2014 18:45
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In 2001, the American Samoa national football/soccer team set the record for worst defeat in an international match, losing 31-0 to Australia in a World Cup qualification match. This is why Australia plays in the Asian confederation instead of Oceania. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wg9ox9F7Vw
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Sep 5, 2014 18:48
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Here I thought the Cubs were bad with their last championship in 1908. 31-0 sounds like a cupcake FBS meets FCS game poo poo.
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Sep 5, 2014 21:14
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DemeaninDemon posted:Here I thought the Cubs were bad with their last championship in 1908. 31-0 sounds like a cupcake FBS meets FCS game poo poo. The senior Samoan team was unable to play because of passport issues or the timing of Samoan final exams. The average age of the Samoan team that did take the field was 18, and included a few 15-year-olds. There's also the massive talent pool discrepancy, as there are 2 million soccer players in Australia. American Samoa is tiny - there are fewer people there than the number of students at Australia's largest university. The match led to new rules in international soccer tournaments because it was clearly unnecessary to have tiny island nations play against Australia. Another great example of a talent pool discrepancy is the 1992 US Olympic Basketball Team,ys after a rule change allowed professional basketball players into the Olympics. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, et cetera combined to crush the many countries around the world without millionaire basketball stars. They beat Angola 116-48, and their closest game was the 117-85 win against Croatia for the gold medal. Should I post more stories about teams hopelessly outclassing their opponents, or is that the wrong thing for this thread? The most lopsided soccer match ever was 149-0, when a coach decided to protest a referee's decision by telling his players to repeatedly kick the ball into their own net. The most lopsided match between two teams that were actually trying was 36-0, in 1885, when a cricket team entered a tournament open to any Scottish soccer team and showed up in everyday wear instead of cleats and uniforms.
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Sep 8, 2014 11:07
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In Australia, the top-level Australian Rules football league is the AFL, and one of the teams is the Richmond Tigers. They competed in the AFL grand final (and lost) in 1982. In the following thirty years, they only made the finals twice. Now, to put this into context, the AFL is a very socialist competition - there is a draft system in place where the picks are giving in reverse ladder order to ensure struggling teams get the best access to top talent. There is a salary cap in place so no teams can buy the best players, and over the course of those 30 years there was no free agency system in place either. The way the AFL system is set up, each club plays every other club at least once in a season but will play some clubs twice - clubs who finish out of the finals one season play the weaker clubs twice the following season. Richmond has had an extremely strong fan base over that time and never had any money issues. Eleven head coaches have been sacked over the thirty years. Over thirty years the competition is set up that you should expect to have made the finals roughly 50% of the time. Making it twice in thirty attempts in a fair system is literally a one in a million shot. Richmond finishing ninth (one position out of the finals) has become a national joke, and hilariously, upon their return to the finals in 2013, they were immediately eliminated immediately by a team that finished ninth but were allowed into the finals when another team was disqualified. Somehow after all of this they still have the third-highest membership figures of the 18 teams in the league. cmndstab has a new favorite as of 14:37 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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Sep 14, 2014 14:31
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DNQ posted:[*]Eddie the Eagle (Skiing) - The infamous British down-hill skier so bad that the IOC introduced stricter qualifying rules to stop people like him from going to the Winter Olympics in future.  He later released a single that, apparently, was pretty popular in Finland (he performed it in Finnish for some reason). As if there was any doubt that my countrymen have the worst taste in music this side of Germany and the UK. DNQ posted:[*]Andrea Moda Formula 1 (Motorsport) - Arguably the worst motor racing team of all time. Once reportedly turned up to a Grand Prix with no engines. Missed another race because they got caught up in a truck blockade (which every other team managed to avoid). Their Italian playboy shoe-designing team owner was once shot at while escaping a burning nightclub. Also got arrested for forging invoices. Unfortunately for McCarthy, Sassetti didn't even bother giving him a proper chance with the car and put all the resources into running Moreno's car (The fact Bertaggia had managed to find a million dollars and was looking to buy back his seat but couldn't because Sassetti had used up all his driver changes probably didn't help). His was basically used as a rolling spare and only given the bare minimum of track time, and when they did something usually went wrong. In Britain the team put wet tires on the car despite the track being dry, and in Belgium (which was where Sassetti was arrested and the team got thrown out of the sport for being too poo poo) they almost killed him by putting a broken steering arm in his car and he only barely managed to avoid having a massive accident at the most dangerous part of the track. When he asked the team about it, they said "oh yeah, we know, that's the duff one we took from Roberto's car". DMorbid has a new favorite as of 15:12 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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Sep 14, 2014 14:46
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My favorite sports team is the Detroit Lions, and they are also terrible. Some lowlights for those of you who don't follow American football: -Became the first team to ever go 0-16 during the 2008 season, a year after starting 6-2 and finishing 7-9 -Needed to win two of their last six games last season to make the playoffs in a division where the other two decent teams had injured quarterbacks. They went 0-6. -Have not won a championship since 1957, which is also the last championship game they went to. -Their only playoff win since then was in 1991. I was born in 1992. -Have not hosted a playoff game since the 1993 season. Have those playoff losses been competitive? Rarely. 1970: Cowboys 5, Lions 0 1982: Redskins 31, Lions 7 1983: 49ers 24, Lions 23 1991: Redskins 41, Lions 10 1993: Packers 28, Lions 24 1994: Packers 16, Lions 12 1995: Eagles 58, Lions 37 1997: Buccaneers 20, Lions 10 1999: Redskins 27, Lions 13 2011: Saints 45, Lions 28 -The best player in franchise history, Barry Sanders, retired abruptly before the 1999 season. When your offensive line is so bad that you have over 1,000 career yards lost despite being arguably the greatest running back of all time, is it any surprise? -Part of the reason his line was bad is because one lineman was paralyzed and another was killed when a car drove into his house. -Spent six years under the management of Matt Millen, the consensus worst GM of all time. I don't even know where to start with his draft picks. -Millen's first coaching hire, Marty Mornhinweg, once elected to kick the ball after winning the coin toss in sudden death overtime in order to have the wind at the team's back. The tired defense had just given up a long drive to send the game into OT in the first place, and they were promptly scored on. -Millen and Mornhinweg once abruptly ended a practice on the grounds that players weren't working hard enough and then rode their motorcycles off into the sunset. -Have not had a head coach (not counting interim guys) with a winning record since Joe Schmidt from 1967-72. -Have not had a head coach successfully land another coaching gig since George Wilson left in 1964 and took over the Dolphins in 1966. -Promising wide receiver Titus Young legitimately went insane -Have the only player to ever die on the field in an NFL game, Chuck Hughes.
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Not to self promote, but I've been running a douche of the year thread over in TFF for the last few years. This years tournament just concluded, and the winner was Richie Incognito Here is a link if you want to learn about the worst people that America's favorite sport has to offer: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3631289
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