As we gear up for the chat room and the numerous ref frustrations, what would you submit as the worst call ever made in Sports?
How about submit this gem:
As we gear up for the chat room and the numerous ref frustrations, what would you submit as the worst call ever made in Sports?
How about submit this gem:
As we gear up for the chat room and the numerous ref frustrations, what would you submit as the worst call ever made in Sports?
How about submit this gem:
1972 Mens Basketball Olympic Finals. A series of blown calls by the refs and dirty play by the Russians. I, along with the rest of the country, was in disbelief the way the game ended. The USA team members refused their Silver Medal because of the way they were screwed.
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Anyway, I wanted to include Denkinger's call above as that one basically decided a World Series, but only one vid per post.
The '85 World Series call | 01/23/2020
Birds of a Different Game: The '80s Cardinals highlights how Don Denkinger's infamous blown call changed the course of the 1985 World Serieswww.mlb.com
As we gear up for the chat room and the numerous ref frustrations, what would you submit as the worst call ever made in Sports?
How about submit this gem:
I dunno. The Cardinals still could have lost that game a thousand different ways even if the call wasn't blown. In the other case, the umpire's blown call singularly and decisively nullified a perfect game.This is what immediately came to mind.
The Galarraga one is slightly worse, but World Series > perfect game.
Is there evidence that the Immaculate Reception was a bad call?That was fixed. The worst blown call was the PI in 2018 NFC Championship Game, Saints v Rams.
A case can also be made for the Immaculate Reception and Maradona's Hand of God in the 1986 World Cup. Both were epically bad per the rules but easily missed in the days before replay, but neither was made at a point in the game where the victimizes team (Saints) were seconds from winning a very important game, not a final, but as close as it gets in US sports.
I dunno. The Cardinals still could have lost that game a thousand different ways even if the call wasn't blown. In the other case, the umpire's blown call singularly and decisively nullified a perfect game.