By Kyle Garlett

In 1919, the Boston pink Sox traded Babe Ruth to the recent York Yankees to finance a Broadway express. In 1968, NBC grew to become off the Jets-Raiders online game with basically seconds left to teach the made-for-TV motion picture Heidi. In 1994, Tonya Harding made up our minds the right way to win Olympic gold used to be via casting off Nancy Kerrigan's kneecap. In all of those events, and lots of, many extra, there's only one query lovers can ask: What have been they thinking?!

In those pages, sportswriter and fellow fan Kyle Garlett recounts the pinnacle activities error that made you tear out your hair, beat your chest in soreness, and yell on the television till your friends referred to as the police officers. no matter if it really is boneheaded coaches, idiotic common managers, or briefly insane avid gamers, each fan has noticeable his crew cross from the edge of victory to overall defeat for no logical cause. even if it truly is baseball, soccer, golfing, hockey, or the other recreation, you will find what relatively occurred in the course of those painful moments and why they ended up the unimaginable approach they did.

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But that isn’t the half of Mornhinweg’s madness by a long shot. During the Bears’ drive, with the ball at the Detroit 35, Chicago threw an incomplete pass on 3rd-and-8, and was also called for holding on the play. Since the incompletion set up a 4th-and-long, and the wind that was strong enough for Mornhinweg to value it over possession of the football was blowing in Chicago’s face, making a 52-yard field-goal attempt next to impossible, it was an obvious time to decline the penalty and take the play.

Oilers There have been a lot of famous punches thrown in sports, celebrated and otherwise. At the top of the list will always be the “phantom punch” that knocked out Sonny Liston in his 1965 rematch with Muhammad Ali. Just as famous, for a much more recent generation of fight fans, was the actual punch that left Mike Tyson’s mouthpiece dangling and his heavyweight championship belt in the possession of 42-to-1 long shot James “Buster” Douglas. In a very different context, the 1977 punch thrown by the Lakers’ Kermit Washington that shattered several bones in the face of Rockets player (later coach) Rudy Tomjanovich will be remembered forever.

They had a rotation anchored by future Hall of Famer Jim Bunning, who threw a perfect game earlier that season. 20 by season’s end). The stunning collapse started with the Reds in town and a heartbreaking 1–0 loss on September 21. Then the next night, with Short on the hill, the Phillies got rocked, 9–2, with Short giving up 6 earned runs in less than five innings. And that was followed up with losses by lefty Dennis Bennett, completing the Cincinnati sweep, and Bunning to open up the series with Milwaukee.

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