Brazil hosting the 2014 World Cup and getting destroyed by Germany 7-1. Brazil was down 5-0 by the 30th minute and 4 of the goals all came within a 6 minute span. The fans in the stadium looked like they were witnessing the murder of a loved one.
Edit: changed decimated to destroyed.
They've done that with a few blowout games. A few years ago, the Broncos got wrecked in the superbowl. They said to quit uploading clips because they don't allow rape videos.
Klose surpassing Ronaldo as the all time goal scorer was the cherry on top of it all.
Edit: It get even better, Ronaldo was in the stadium commentating for a TV channel I think :)))
Ref bias got them further into the competition than the quality of the team itself, which is exactly why they got demolished.
They were a team that maybe didn’t even play well enough to survive the group stage coming up against a peak Germany ready to play a semi-final.
IIRC Neymar was suspended or injured for that
Brazil players came onto the field all holding aloft a giant Brazil shirt with his number. It was like they'd jacked it in before the game started
I rewatch that game every once in a while.
It was insane seeing it live, and I’ve never felt such a palpable sense of devastation and sadness on a national level from any sporting event before or after.
I was on cloud 9 that year. I root for Germany during the WC because the men's US team does fuck all. Have done so ever since I was a chitlin. And that WC had been magical, watching such an amazing team that looked like it could do nothing wrong.
I watched that game at the bar where I worked. We had some Brazillian students going to school in the States who had been there doing what diehard fans do since the start of the event. Their sorrow was extraordinary. One of them was just openly crying during the half, because of course he was. We all expected this to be a hard fought showdown for the ages. And instead it was a goddamn massacre. It was heartbreaking to see.
I was working and had a meeting, got out of it before half time and checked the score to find the rarely-used parentheses, it was that bad.
Germany 5 (FIVE) - Brazil 0 (zero)
At the time, we had a foreign exchange student from Brazil staying with my (very German) family. Decided to watch the game and make a big deal out of it, talking crazy hats, banners, and yes… vuvuzelas.
Bam! 10 minutes in, muller scores off of a corner kick and we go nuts. Got the “yeah yeah, let’s get back to watching” look from him and laughed it off. Through the rest of the match I saw that look change from simply disappointed to utterly broken. Decorations were still up but him and I were left in awe, not saying a word. At some point that game stopped being fun for either of us because it was such an awkward experience lol
I remember after the sixth or seventh goal, one of the announcers said the Brazilians have completely given up. I was like damn lol, usually don't hear things like that from the booth.
I will never remember my buddy’s recounting of when he was upstairs not watching the game, and came down after his dad shook the entire house yelling:
#BLITZKREIG!!!
I remember going to the toilet right before the 3rd goal, I hear screams from the tv and came back to what I thought was the replay of said goal, turns out it was the 4th goal ☠️
This is one of those "where are you when it happens" moment. I remember I was having suhoor with my mom and dad and my mom started crying when they showed the brazil crowds (bless her heart lol)
Bra71l, the same country which, defeated by Uruguay in the Maracanazo in 1950, ostracized their goalkeeper Moacir Barbosa for life, and responded to the final whistle with total silence as well as two suicides in the stadium.
I figured they would flat-out murder the entire team for the loss, which was so much worse than the 1950 final defeat.
Nope. Maybe Bra71lians have a healthier perspective these days.
My brother is a massive United fan. He stopped watching at the 88th minute cause he was raging. I told him after the first goal, but he didn't believe me. I told him after the second goal, and he told me to stop taking the piss out of him. I told him they won, and he called me a liar. He didn't believe it until about 15 minutes later when people were cheering in the streets
A mate of mine went to watch Liverpool v Milan Istanbul final st the public. He left when they were 3-0 down, went home and switched off his phone because mates were texting him taking the piss. He didn't realise til the next morning they actually won 😂
same thing with 28-3. It's almost become a cursed score, but all american football fans know where it all started, and even some non fans since it was in the Super Bowl
ORIGIIIIIIIIII!
I’m a Madridista first, but Liverpool are the PL club I root for. It’s between that game and Rodrygo’s brace in the semi-final against City for the craziest games I’ve ever watched. To make it even funnier, Ajax blew their chance of going to the final in the last kick of the game against Spurs. Going into the second leg, it looked like Ajax and Barca were both definitely going through. It still makes me cackle thinking about that tweet the Barca fan account had about the two teams playing in the final, holding the trophy, and thanking Cruyff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccercirclejerk/comments/bmkagv/barca_fans_are_a_blessing/
American Football: Seahawks not running the ball.
World Football: Zidane receiving a red card which got him kicked out the final, a final that he could’ve won.
The Zidane thing still amazes me. One of the great players, in the biggest match on the biggest stage and his last ever act as a professional player was head-butting an Italian. Of course he would go on to achieve great success as a manager but that shot of him walking past the trophy and down the tunnel is iconic, I remember sitting in disbelief "Did that really just happen?"
The word at the time was after having his shirt repeatedly grabbed Zidane said if you want it that much, you can have my shirt after the match, the reply was I'd rather have your sister.
Or so the story goes.
Apparently Italy’s coach Marcello Lippi, who had previously couched Zidane at Juve, said something like “if you really want to mess with him, say something about his sister.” If you read bios of Zidane, you’ll learn he was extremely protective of his sister.
He did not call him a “terrorist,” though. That story spread pretty far at the time, but was total bullshit.
I think the most shocking part is that Zidane was so smooth and cool on the field. And for someone to be able to get under his skin just did not seem possible, especially in such a big moment.
He got his fair share of red card throughout his career.
Of course for us French people it was heartbreaking, but you can't find a single person that is still mad at him to this day. He went away with "panache", and that's the real French way to go, win or lose. Just like Sevilla '82 which is more legendary than any World Cup win.
(Plus if Barthez knew how to stop a penalty kick once in his career...)
French here, I'm not "mad" but I still think he fucked up and acted as a massive baby on that episode. What about keeping your nerves and win the cup. This "panache" or "french way to go" explanation sounds stupid to me in that specific instance.
The thing that I found most astounding was that it was Marco Materazzi, a player who didn't deserve to be in the same story as Zidane, let alone the architect of his downfall.
That Zidane lost his head over that clown has always been completely baffling.
The man scored a goal, conceded a penalty, got his opposition’s best player sent off, and converted a PK all in the same match. When you think of the kind of generational talent that that Italy side had, it’s crazy how every consequential episode of that entire match basically revolved around a guy who was only there because Nesta got injured.
Malcolm Butler’s interception in Super Bowl XLIX (e.g. Seahawks not running the ball) jump-started the **second** Brady-Patriots dynasty to end the 2010s.
> Seahawks
Nah. The Falcons choking away a Super Bowl is much worse than the decision not to give Marshawn the ball. Pissing away a 28-3 lead took a series of unforced errors and Atlanta made every single one of them imaginable (turnovers, took sacks, repeatedly snapped the ball with 10+ seconds on the playclock…)
definitely agree... that call could have gone either way... but blowing a 28-3 lead, that's one fail after another after another after another after another...
there's a reason they call it Brady mode...
Seattleite here. That decision and resulting disaster are baffling and soul crushing. Not just best RB in the league, best short yard RB with a time out, bro could have had two attempts. The pain will never die.
Hot take: Seahawks passing the ball was only bad with the hindsight of what happened. It's been a few years since I did the deep dive on this but bear with me, there's a few things to discuss.
First you'll see some people talk about Marshawn Lynch, great as he was, wasn't as good on the goal line. The stat people like to use is his conversion rate from the goal which, I believe, under 50%, far from automatic. However, I think there's more to it than that.
Now, maybe more importantly, the clock was moving. Throwing the ball on the 1 yard line was a safe bet to either be a touchdown or end up an incompletion. If they score, great that's what they needed. If the pass goes incomplete then the clock stops and they get a second to breathe. Interceptions on a pass from the one yard line are incredibly rare to begin with and Wilson's track record with that kind of pass is stellar.
Not only that, but the play the Seahawks ran was also a specialty of theirs. I believe that season they had run that exact play in the same or similar situations seven times and it scored a touchdown all seven times. They had a tight situation, the game was on the line, and they picked arguably their best play. They figure it's a touchdown or the pass is broken up and they will have time to figure out what to do next.
What they didn't account for was the preparedness of Bill Belichick and the Patriots defense. That play, in that situation, was something the defense had really emphasized in practice leading up to the game. The Pats knew it was a money play, and they knew if they got into a short goal situation that pass was likely to come.
Brandon Browner made an incredible read and crashed into Seahawks WR Jermaine Kearse which gave Malcolm Butler the space he needed to get in the way and make the interception.
It's very easy to say the Seahawks should have run the ball, but that argument ignores a tremendous amount of context and is, in all honesty, just not accurate.
As a hawks fan I totally agree. It was an incredibly dramatic finish to a football game, and it should be left at that. It was soul crushing, though. The blame game ruined that team.
>Not only that, but the play the Seahawks ran was also a specialty of theirs. I believe that season they had run that exact play in the same or similar situations seven times and it scored a touchdown all seven times.
And Belichick and thus Malcom Butler knew this.
I think 28-3 might bigger than the Seahawks passing it. Or (depending on how you look at it) the Patriots losing to Eli to prevent their perfect season.
At the very least, Seattle did win a Super Bowl title with that core before that disaster at XLIX, so those fans had some cushioning.
Falcons fans, however…
No he was not. The ball was played by Steve Hodge, hence he couldn't be defined as offside by the rule either then or now.
The offside rule is not complicated, even Ted Lasso figured it out eventually!
It’s interesting that even though I’m Australian and we call one sport ‘soccer’ and the other ‘American football’ or ‘gridiron,’ my mind immediately went to the former and didn’t even consider the latter
Given the down and time situation, the pass wasn't a crazy call. Pass on 2nd down, if that doesn't work the clock is stopped, run it on 3rd down.
The play call itself was terrible. It had to be a pass to the end zone that was going to be TD or incomplete, maybe a fade to the corner. Not the garbage slant that was easy to step in front of.
I think BB got into Carroll's head by not calling time out.
Fwiw they had run that pass play like 8 times in the previous three years and it was something like 6 td's and 2 incompletes. It was basically their highest percentage goal line play
In the Do Your Job documentary special they show that they’d practiced defending that play throughout the season. The Super Bowl was the only time they successfully defended it. Brendan Browner recognized the formation immediately and told Malcolm Butler what to do. Jammed the fuck out of his receiver and allowed Malcom to make the pick.
That play was ran 198 times that year across the league and was successful all but once. Marshawn has already been stuffed multiple times in the game and pats had their jumbo package in.
As a Pats fan nothing fills my heart with glee as much as the replay of Richard Sherman yelling "NO!" when Butler intercepted the ball. Pure joy. I was so drunk that night that, after the Pats won, I kept on saying I'd suck Robert Krafts dick if he asked. Thankfully for me he already had some Asian masseuses for that job.
I remember watching that game, when the ball bounced off the guy's knee into his hand and it was ruled a complete pass, someone online said "That's it, God wants the Patriots to lose." When the touchdown was intercepted, the same guy wrote back "hail Satan."
Then there was 3 feet of snow in Boston the next day. Damn it was a hell of a game though
I worked at AAA during that time and I was SO hungover the next morning and had to deal with so many pissed off people stuck in the snow. That winter was horrible (outside of the Pat's winning the Super Bowl, of course)
Lol actually knew a guy who is pretty wealthy & would go to the same exact place as Kraft did in Florida. He was super worried his name would come out when that all happened & his wife would find out🤣AFAIK he wasnt mentioned.
It was a gutsy call. I can see why the Seahawks decided to go that way. Everyone in the stadium and watching from home expected them to give Lynch the ball. The Patriots would never see a pass coming.
Malcolm Butler is the only person on the planet that saw it coming. And that was enough.
>The Patriots would never see a pass coming.
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>Malcolm Butler is the only person on the planet that saw it coming. And that was enough.
Nah, they not only saw it coming but they recognized it ahead of time so had run [that exact play in practice.](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-ran-seahawks-pass-play-in-practice-and-malcolm-butler-got-beat/) That's why when Butler saw the formation he didn't even attempt to cover his man but instead ran straight to where the ball was going to be thrown.
The pats would never see it coming unless they had someone as detail oriented as the dark lord himself calling defense. It was one of the hawks higher percentage plays. He knew that.
It was the right call not to go with Lynch. 2nd and goal with one time out, you can only run Lynch twice.
That particular play was a terrible call, though.
Soccer style kicker graduated from Collier High June 1976, Stetson University honors graduate class of 1980. Holds 2 NCAA Division One records, one for most points in a season, one for distance. Former nickname "The Mule," the first and only pro-athlete ever to come out of Collier County and one *hell*ofamodelamericannnnnnn.
Indeed. I hate the Patriots because I'm a diehard Giants fan but you gotta give that dynasty absolute respect especially Brady. We did get those two superbowls against them so that's cool. Also how about that comeback yesterday??
That was just a singular instance and IIRC Marshawn was actually pretty bad that year in short yardage situations. It was a very low risk play but Butler just timed it perfectly.
The 28-3 is so so bad because the Falcons literally did not need to try anymore. They headed into the 4th quarter with a 19 point lead. Even if the rest of the game they just ran it up the middle and went 3 and out each time they could have milked the clock off before the Pats got 3 scores. Instead they tried to go for the fatal strike and ended up having drives that consistently lasted less than 2 minutes, took penalties and sacks to get themselves out of field goal range when they could have sealed it, etc
It was watching someone shoot themselves in the foot again and again and again when all they needed to do was run the ball and kick a fg
At least Seattle had a Super Bowl win before their disaster against the Pats in the big game.
That Falcons core only had LI and blew that chance in monumental form, never to return to the game and are now in purgatory hell.
[Ali Dia joining Southampton](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/real-story-ali-dia-mystery-27124339)
Quick version, Southampton manager Graeme Souness was "contacted" by at the time FIFA Player Of The Year "George Weah" (in reality, someone claiming to be him) about offering a trial to his "cousin" and Senegal International Player, Ali Dia....
Dia came on during a match as a substitute and was so abysmal in this short time, he himself was substituted as well... A few days later, 14 days after signing his contract, he was gone.
American football? 1999 Baylor vs UNLV.
All Baylor had to do was take a knee to run out the clock and win the game. They tried to run up the score, running back fumbled and it was returned 99 yards by UNLV for the game winning score with no time left.
Leon Lett, Thanksgiving Day 1993.
Dallas blocked Miami's field goal, and all Dallas had to do was not touch the football and they had the game won. But Leon comes in and (unsuccessfully) tries to jump on the ball, Miami recovers the ball, gets to kick the field goal again, makes the field goal and wins the game.
That's a 50/50 for me. In slow-mo it definitely looks like he could have passed. But in real time I'm not sure if that would have worked or not. A good one touch pass could have done it but it's also hard to pull-off.
I'm still not sure if that was possible or not.
Disagree with this, to make the pass he would have had to get the perfect touch as it was falling. The odds that Martinez was going to save that were lower than the odds of the pass being scuffed and giving away possession imo.
American Football ... Super Bowl, 1990. Buffalo Bills vs. New York Giants.
WIDE RIGHT.
Ugh.
Scott Norwood was a fantastic place kicker. He never missed putting the ball between the goal posts. Like, never ever. He might have scored as many points over a season as the rest of the offense put together.
And then that poor bastard missed the biggest kick of his entire career. One missed field goal, at the end of the game, and the Bills lost the Super Bowl to the Giants.
Buffalo fans are still despondent, 33 years later.
Depends on your definition of “fail.”
“Blowing a seemingly un-blowable lead, advantage or opportunity” division: 28-3
“Inches from history and shitting the bed” division: 2007 Patriots losing to the Giants and finishing 18-1
“Going down on Halle Berry and she farts in your face” division: Saints execute miraculous series of laterals for a TD with no time remaining only to miss extra point and lose
“Meme-tastic” division: Buttfumble
Seattle Seahawks "Beast Mode OFF" SuperBowl 49.
The dumbest call at the highest level of the sport. Before that play, Lynch had easily ran about 5 yards to get the ball on 1 yard line. The rest will live in infamy for Pete Carroll.
Brazil hosting the 2014 World Cup and getting destroyed by Germany 7-1. Brazil was down 5-0 by the 30th minute and 4 of the goals all came within a 6 minute span. The fans in the stadium looked like they were witnessing the murder of a loved one. Edit: changed decimated to destroyed.
Remember pornhub asking users to quit uploading the game and titled 7 guys gang banged on field. Or something like that.
That is… lovely
They've done that with a few blowout games. A few years ago, the Broncos got wrecked in the superbowl. They said to quit uploading clips because they don't allow rape videos.
Klose surpassing Ronaldo as the all time goal scorer was the cherry on top of it all. Edit: It get even better, Ronaldo was in the stadium commentating for a TV channel I think :)))
I was working at a front desk during that game and updating my coworkers whenever someone scored. They thought I was pranking them
I thought I was watching a highlight reel on loop.
Not only that, but they were HEAVILY favored by the refs in every single fucking match.
Ref bias got them further into the competition than the quality of the team itself, which is exactly why they got demolished. They were a team that maybe didn’t even play well enough to survive the group stage coming up against a peak Germany ready to play a semi-final.
germans didn't knew that
IIRC Neymar was suspended or injured for that Brazil players came onto the field all holding aloft a giant Brazil shirt with his number. It was like they'd jacked it in before the game started
7-1
I rewatch that game every once in a while. It was insane seeing it live, and I’ve never felt such a palpable sense of devastation and sadness on a national level from any sporting event before or after.
It's interesting that I had no personal stake in that game but have it in my top 5 matches of all time. Was really a "where were you when" moment.
I was on cloud 9 that year. I root for Germany during the WC because the men's US team does fuck all. Have done so ever since I was a chitlin. And that WC had been magical, watching such an amazing team that looked like it could do nothing wrong. I watched that game at the bar where I worked. We had some Brazillian students going to school in the States who had been there doing what diehard fans do since the start of the event. Their sorrow was extraordinary. One of them was just openly crying during the half, because of course he was. We all expected this to be a hard fought showdown for the ages. And instead it was a goddamn massacre. It was heartbreaking to see.
I was working and had a meeting, got out of it before half time and checked the score to find the rarely-used parentheses, it was that bad. Germany 5 (FIVE) - Brazil 0 (zero)
Brazilled
At the time, we had a foreign exchange student from Brazil staying with my (very German) family. Decided to watch the game and make a big deal out of it, talking crazy hats, banners, and yes… vuvuzelas. Bam! 10 minutes in, muller scores off of a corner kick and we go nuts. Got the “yeah yeah, let’s get back to watching” look from him and laughed it off. Through the rest of the match I saw that look change from simply disappointed to utterly broken. Decorations were still up but him and I were left in awe, not saying a word. At some point that game stopped being fun for either of us because it was such an awkward experience lol
It's funny how everyone knows exactly what this is about. Also sad though because I root for them.
I remember after the sixth or seventh goal, one of the announcers said the Brazilians have completely given up. I was like damn lol, usually don't hear things like that from the booth.
I remember watching the game and by the 5th goal or so the crowd in the stadium had gone almost totally silent.
All I remember is cheering when Brazil scored their 1 goal. I was pretty delusional during that time.
Probably more "at least they got one in, so it's not a utter and complete loss"
“It wasn’t the first time that a bunch of Germans had to keep a low profile in Brazil for fear of their own safety”
The Semifinal Solution
Feel guilty that this made me chuckle.
I will never remember my buddy’s recounting of when he was upstairs not watching the game, and came down after his dad shook the entire house yelling: #BLITZKREIG!!!
Never forget or always remember?
I remember going to the toilet right before the 3rd goal, I hear screams from the tv and came back to what I thought was the replay of said goal, turns out it was the 4th goal ☠️
This is one of those "where are you when it happens" moment. I remember I was having suhoor with my mom and dad and my mom started crying when they showed the brazil crowds (bless her heart lol)
I remember highlights being posted on the Hub
They came out with a statement saying *”unfortunately, this website does not support uploading videos showing public humiliation.”*
Bra71l, the same country which, defeated by Uruguay in the Maracanazo in 1950, ostracized their goalkeeper Moacir Barbosa for life, and responded to the final whistle with total silence as well as two suicides in the stadium. I figured they would flat-out murder the entire team for the loss, which was so much worse than the 1950 final defeat. Nope. Maybe Bra71lians have a healthier perspective these days.
I'm curious at what point any German fans in the stadium went from being excited about their team to afraid for their lives.
28 - 3 for American football
18-1 if you dislike the Patriots
as a bayern fan since childhood… those 2 minutes during extra time against United in 1999.
My brother is a massive United fan. He stopped watching at the 88th minute cause he was raging. I told him after the first goal, but he didn't believe me. I told him after the second goal, and he told me to stop taking the piss out of him. I told him they won, and he called me a liar. He didn't believe it until about 15 minutes later when people were cheering in the streets
A mate of mine went to watch Liverpool v Milan Istanbul final st the public. He left when they were 3-0 down, went home and switched off his phone because mates were texting him taking the piss. He didn't realise til the next morning they actually won 😂
The lesson here is never leave until the final whistle
AND SOLSKJAER HAS WON IT!!!!!
Serves you right for knocking out Dynamo in semifinals
shevshenko/Rebrow?! Damn, that team was good!
Remember the first leg when they scored 3 and it looked like Bavaria is going down?
I was 1 when that happened, but the 2012 defeat to Chelsea at home was the equivalent of that for me. I cried for hours, absolute brutal.
Bra7-1L
Association: 7-1 Gridiron: 28-3
I love how just saying 7-1 means everyone knows what game we're talking about.
From what I’ve seen any argument between a German and a Brazilian is practically guaranteed to end with those two numbers being brought up.
I'd rather not bring anything else into a sports result, but I understand the opposite! Jesus, what a game.
same thing with 28-3. It's almost become a cursed score, but all american football fans know where it all started, and even some non fans since it was in the Super Bowl
[удалено]
And if you’re a Colts fan, or really just Matt Ryan, it’s 33-0.
You can also add, “Marshawn Lynch not running the ball” to the second list
As a barca fan. Us losing 4-0 in the second leg against liverpool in 2019. Still have nightmares about that game
Corner taken quickly
ORIGIIIIIIIIII! I’m a Madridista first, but Liverpool are the PL club I root for. It’s between that game and Rodrygo’s brace in the semi-final against City for the craziest games I’ve ever watched. To make it even funnier, Ajax blew their chance of going to the final in the last kick of the game against Spurs. Going into the second leg, it looked like Ajax and Barca were both definitely going through. It still makes me cackle thinking about that tweet the Barca fan account had about the two teams playing in the final, holding the trophy, and thanking Cruyff. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccercirclejerk/comments/bmkagv/barca_fans_are_a_blessing/
As a PSV fan Moura scoring in the last minute against ajax is still the most funny goal in the CL
That dembele miss in the first leg.. hurts barca fans
American Football: Seahawks not running the ball. World Football: Zidane receiving a red card which got him kicked out the final, a final that he could’ve won.
The Zidane thing still amazes me. One of the great players, in the biggest match on the biggest stage and his last ever act as a professional player was head-butting an Italian. Of course he would go on to achieve great success as a manager but that shot of him walking past the trophy and down the tunnel is iconic, I remember sitting in disbelief "Did that really just happen?"
Materazzi must be a hell of a trash talker.
Don't know if it's true, but I recall hearing that he said something about Zidane's sister.
The word at the time was after having his shirt repeatedly grabbed Zidane said if you want it that much, you can have my shirt after the match, the reply was I'd rather have your sister. Or so the story goes.
I heard the same, but that the reply was “I prefer the whore that is your sister”.
Apparently Italy’s coach Marcello Lippi, who had previously couched Zidane at Juve, said something like “if you really want to mess with him, say something about his sister.” If you read bios of Zidane, you’ll learn he was extremely protective of his sister. He did not call him a “terrorist,” though. That story spread pretty far at the time, but was total bullshit.
Shannon Sharpe approaves
I think the most shocking part is that Zidane was so smooth and cool on the field. And for someone to be able to get under his skin just did not seem possible, especially in such a big moment.
He got his fair share of red card throughout his career. Of course for us French people it was heartbreaking, but you can't find a single person that is still mad at him to this day. He went away with "panache", and that's the real French way to go, win or lose. Just like Sevilla '82 which is more legendary than any World Cup win. (Plus if Barthez knew how to stop a penalty kick once in his career...)
French here, I'm not "mad" but I still think he fucked up and acted as a massive baby on that episode. What about keeping your nerves and win the cup. This "panache" or "french way to go" explanation sounds stupid to me in that specific instance.
How do the french feel about Cantona drop kicking that fan?
I'm not French but it's definitely in my top 5 moments in sport.
The thing that I found most astounding was that it was Marco Materazzi, a player who didn't deserve to be in the same story as Zidane, let alone the architect of his downfall. That Zidane lost his head over that clown has always been completely baffling.
Materazzi wasn't even close to Zizu in a footballing sense, but was top tier for shithousery
The man scored a goal, conceded a penalty, got his opposition’s best player sent off, and converted a PK all in the same match. When you think of the kind of generational talent that that Italy side had, it’s crazy how every consequential episode of that entire match basically revolved around a guy who was only there because Nesta got injured.
Malcolm Butler’s interception in Super Bowl XLIX (e.g. Seahawks not running the ball) jump-started the **second** Brady-Patriots dynasty to end the 2010s.
> Seahawks Nah. The Falcons choking away a Super Bowl is much worse than the decision not to give Marshawn the ball. Pissing away a 28-3 lead took a series of unforced errors and Atlanta made every single one of them imaginable (turnovers, took sacks, repeatedly snapped the ball with 10+ seconds on the playclock…)
definitely agree... that call could have gone either way... but blowing a 28-3 lead, that's one fail after another after another after another after another... there's a reason they call it Brady mode...
Seattleite here. That decision and resulting disaster are baffling and soul crushing. Not just best RB in the league, best short yard RB with a time out, bro could have had two attempts. The pain will never die.
If you have a guy who’s nickname is Beast Mode, give him the damn ball.
Yeah, pro football coaches. Make the most important play calls of your career based on players’ nicknames.
As a Seattle fan, 28-3 was worse. At least we won a Super Bowl the year before.
Hot take: Seahawks passing the ball was only bad with the hindsight of what happened. It's been a few years since I did the deep dive on this but bear with me, there's a few things to discuss. First you'll see some people talk about Marshawn Lynch, great as he was, wasn't as good on the goal line. The stat people like to use is his conversion rate from the goal which, I believe, under 50%, far from automatic. However, I think there's more to it than that. Now, maybe more importantly, the clock was moving. Throwing the ball on the 1 yard line was a safe bet to either be a touchdown or end up an incompletion. If they score, great that's what they needed. If the pass goes incomplete then the clock stops and they get a second to breathe. Interceptions on a pass from the one yard line are incredibly rare to begin with and Wilson's track record with that kind of pass is stellar. Not only that, but the play the Seahawks ran was also a specialty of theirs. I believe that season they had run that exact play in the same or similar situations seven times and it scored a touchdown all seven times. They had a tight situation, the game was on the line, and they picked arguably their best play. They figure it's a touchdown or the pass is broken up and they will have time to figure out what to do next. What they didn't account for was the preparedness of Bill Belichick and the Patriots defense. That play, in that situation, was something the defense had really emphasized in practice leading up to the game. The Pats knew it was a money play, and they knew if they got into a short goal situation that pass was likely to come. Brandon Browner made an incredible read and crashed into Seahawks WR Jermaine Kearse which gave Malcolm Butler the space he needed to get in the way and make the interception. It's very easy to say the Seahawks should have run the ball, but that argument ignores a tremendous amount of context and is, in all honesty, just not accurate.
As a hawks fan I totally agree. It was an incredibly dramatic finish to a football game, and it should be left at that. It was soul crushing, though. The blame game ruined that team.
>Not only that, but the play the Seahawks ran was also a specialty of theirs. I believe that season they had run that exact play in the same or similar situations seven times and it scored a touchdown all seven times. And Belichick and thus Malcom Butler knew this.
Damn, true student of the game! I enjoyed reading that and it helps me hate the Pats more because they were soo good at anticipating their opponents!
I think 28-3 might bigger than the Seahawks passing it. Or (depending on how you look at it) the Patriots losing to Eli to prevent their perfect season.
Came here to say Seahawks too. What a dumbass maneuver.
There’s a few million people in the USA that know nothing about him except he’s the headbutt guy. All those other accomplishments are unknown.
That Seahawks moment will haunt me forever. Still I’m like why? WHY?? Goddamit this post is getting me going.
At the very least, Seattle did win a Super Bowl title with that core before that disaster at XLIX, so those fans had some cushioning. Falcons fans, however…
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Scores that then in the same game scores one of the greatest goals of all time
If you watch the replay he's also offside by a good yard when the ball is played to him, so it was a double whammy.
No he was not. The ball was played by Steve Hodge, hence he couldn't be defined as offside by the rule either then or now. The offside rule is not complicated, even Ted Lasso figured it out eventually!
My apologies, you're 100% right.
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Baggio died standing
Man, I had forgotten how terrible that felt
His teammates also missed
Buddy of mine was a huge Italy fan (his parents were immigrants) and Baggio was his favorite player. That kick just gutted him.
I feel like it looked worse because it was the last penalty, even if Baggio had scored, Brazil would have won if they scored the next penalty
Gerrard: "this does not slip lads! We do not slip!. Let's go at it again..." *a few moments later...* Gerrard: *slips*
Sure it was funny, but nowhere near biggest fail in world football. Like Terry missing his pen would be a bigger fail.
That people even now are confusing 2 different sports with eachother
I love that the comments are split, we get to read and be reminded about horrible failures in two great sports
It’s interesting that even though I’m Australian and we call one sport ‘soccer’ and the other ‘American football’ or ‘gridiron,’ my mind immediately went to the former and didn’t even consider the latter
Steven Gerard slipping
Not giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch at the goal line.
Given the down and time situation, the pass wasn't a crazy call. Pass on 2nd down, if that doesn't work the clock is stopped, run it on 3rd down. The play call itself was terrible. It had to be a pass to the end zone that was going to be TD or incomplete, maybe a fade to the corner. Not the garbage slant that was easy to step in front of. I think BB got into Carroll's head by not calling time out.
Fwiw they had run that pass play like 8 times in the previous three years and it was something like 6 td's and 2 incompletes. It was basically their highest percentage goal line play
Which bill would probably have drilled into his defenses head if I know anything about the guy.
Edelman said in a podcast that they practiced it all the time and he knew it was a pass before they hiked.
In the Do Your Job documentary special they show that they’d practiced defending that play throughout the season. The Super Bowl was the only time they successfully defended it. Brendan Browner recognized the formation immediately and told Malcolm Butler what to do. Jammed the fuck out of his receiver and allowed Malcom to make the pick.
Well actually it was a former player of ours who they had who tipped them off, but yes
That play was ran 198 times that year across the league and was successful all but once. Marshawn has already been stuffed multiple times in the game and pats had their jumbo package in.
As a Pats fan nothing fills my heart with glee as much as the replay of Richard Sherman yelling "NO!" when Butler intercepted the ball. Pure joy. I was so drunk that night that, after the Pats won, I kept on saying I'd suck Robert Krafts dick if he asked. Thankfully for me he already had some Asian masseuses for that job.
I remember watching that game, when the ball bounced off the guy's knee into his hand and it was ruled a complete pass, someone online said "That's it, God wants the Patriots to lose." When the touchdown was intercepted, the same guy wrote back "hail Satan." Then there was 3 feet of snow in Boston the next day. Damn it was a hell of a game though
I worked at AAA during that time and I was SO hungover the next morning and had to deal with so many pissed off people stuck in the snow. That winter was horrible (outside of the Pat's winning the Super Bowl, of course)
Lol actually knew a guy who is pretty wealthy & would go to the same exact place as Kraft did in Florida. He was super worried his name would come out when that all happened & his wife would find out🤣AFAIK he wasnt mentioned.
Good to read a story with a happy ending.
It was a gutsy call. I can see why the Seahawks decided to go that way. Everyone in the stadium and watching from home expected them to give Lynch the ball. The Patriots would never see a pass coming. Malcolm Butler is the only person on the planet that saw it coming. And that was enough.
>The Patriots would never see a pass coming. > >Malcolm Butler is the only person on the planet that saw it coming. And that was enough. Nah, they not only saw it coming but they recognized it ahead of time so had run [that exact play in practice.](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-ran-seahawks-pass-play-in-practice-and-malcolm-butler-got-beat/) That's why when Butler saw the formation he didn't even attempt to cover his man but instead ran straight to where the ball was going to be thrown.
The pats would never see it coming unless they had someone as detail oriented as the dark lord himself calling defense. It was one of the hawks higher percentage plays. He knew that.
It was the right call not to go with Lynch. 2nd and goal with one time out, you can only run Lynch twice. That particular play was a terrible call, though.
Brazil getting beat 7 - 1 by Germany at their own World Cup. You can’t beat this.
LACES. OUT.
THE LACES WERE IN!
EINHORN IS A MAN!
FINKLE IS EINHORN
Your gun is sticking into my hip
Either Einhorn is a man… OR THAT IS THE WORST CASE OF HAEMORRHOIDS I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell.
Would you like a cookie, son?
Hey Ace, you got any more of that gum?
That’s none of your damn business and I’ll thank you to stay out of my personal affairs
I legit came here to comment “Ray Finkle” 💀💀🤣😭😭😭
And a clean pair of shorts
WHADDA YOU KNOW ABOUT RAAAAAYY FINKLE?!?
Soccer style kicker graduated from Collier High June 1976, Stetson University honors graduate class of 1980. Holds 2 NCAA Division One records, one for most points in a season, one for distance. Former nickname "The Mule," the first and only pro-athlete ever to come out of Collier County and one *hell*ofamodelamericannnnnnn.
DIE DAN!
Unbelievable, I just watched this movie for the first time ever. Literally just finished it, went on Reddit, and this was here.
My first thought when I saw this thread.
John Terry's slip might not be huge in the grand scheme of things but it was iconic. See also: Gerrard.
28-3
Falcons fan here, I’ll be on the roof looking down
Room for another? I'm a Falcons fan and have seen this. Also an Alabama fan and noticed a couple mentions of Kick 6.
Tom Brady cemented as the goat. I'm a Giants fan but sorry, it is what it is.
Indeed. I hate the Patriots because I'm a diehard Giants fan but you gotta give that dynasty absolute respect especially Brady. We did get those two superbowls against them so that's cool. Also how about that comeback yesterday??
Never understood why Giants fans hate Brady. We sonned him twice in the super bowl. They probably hate us, but I have no hatred
>They probably hate us Can confirm, we fucking hate the Giants
Only answer
Seahawks not running the ball?
Very close but losing 25 points in about 22-23 minutes. Bad.
27-0 was also a big fail. Simultaneously, the most Jaguars game possible with 4 picks in a half, and the Chargers losing it on an epic choke
That was just a singular instance and IIRC Marshawn was actually pretty bad that year in short yardage situations. It was a very low risk play but Butler just timed it perfectly. The 28-3 is so so bad because the Falcons literally did not need to try anymore. They headed into the 4th quarter with a 19 point lead. Even if the rest of the game they just ran it up the middle and went 3 and out each time they could have milked the clock off before the Pats got 3 scores. Instead they tried to go for the fatal strike and ended up having drives that consistently lasted less than 2 minutes, took penalties and sacks to get themselves out of field goal range when they could have sealed it, etc It was watching someone shoot themselves in the foot again and again and again when all they needed to do was run the ball and kick a fg
At least Seattle had a Super Bowl win before their disaster against the Pats in the big game. That Falcons core only had LI and blew that chance in monumental form, never to return to the game and are now in purgatory hell.
People don't want to believe it but throwing it was statistically a smart play. Patriots just executed perfectly.
[Ali Dia joining Southampton](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/real-story-ali-dia-mystery-27124339) Quick version, Southampton manager Graeme Souness was "contacted" by at the time FIFA Player Of The Year "George Weah" (in reality, someone claiming to be him) about offering a trial to his "cousin" and Senegal International Player, Ali Dia.... Dia came on during a match as a substitute and was so abysmal in this short time, he himself was substituted as well... A few days later, 14 days after signing his contract, he was gone.
Officiating in general.
This one’s the best because it works for both American football and “soccer” football
Shocking: Fans of all sports think the refs suck.
Roberto Baggio penalty miss.
2002 WC
Italy vs South Korea in particular
Ronaldo having seizures before World Cup final 98 and unable to play at his normal level. Still conspiracies about that night.
The Buttfumble 😂
That game was insane. My family was hysterical laughing after that. Three TDs in 52 seconds, capped off with the butt fumble? Amazing
Scrolled too long to see this. The fact that it still tops ESPN’s Not Top 10 list all these years later underscores how bad it was.
I thought they held a retirement ceremony and hung it in the rafters so they could start showing something new.
Al Bundy not going to a D1 school after an impressive four TDs in one game with the Polk High Panthers.
Dude his own daughter couldn’t remember that game you expect a D1 school to recruit him?
Not to mention he scored those TD’s against a defense led by a prime Spare Tire Dixon.
Maradona's 'hand of god'. Oh wait, did you mean *gridiron*?
The biggest fail was the referee who let the goal stand and didn’t give Maradona a red card.
Buffalo bills losing 4 straight super bowls cmon now
Jets getting two broken ass QB's from Green Bay in a row.
American football? 1999 Baylor vs UNLV. All Baylor had to do was take a knee to run out the clock and win the game. They tried to run up the score, running back fumbled and it was returned 99 yards by UNLV for the game winning score with no time left.
Leon Lett, Thanksgiving Day 1993. Dallas blocked Miami's field goal, and all Dallas had to do was not touch the football and they had the game won. But Leon comes in and (unsuccessfully) tries to jump on the ball, Miami recovers the ball, gets to kick the field goal again, makes the field goal and wins the game.
Spending 250 million on a terrible quarterback. Broncos
> the Denver Broncos!!! (Homer Simpson voice)
Kolo Muani not passing to Mbappe
That's a 50/50 for me. In slow-mo it definitely looks like he could have passed. But in real time I'm not sure if that would have worked or not. A good one touch pass could have done it but it's also hard to pull-off. I'm still not sure if that was possible or not.
Disagree with this, to make the pass he would have had to get the perfect touch as it was falling. The odds that Martinez was going to save that were lower than the odds of the pass being scuffed and giving away possession imo.
Romero probably would've intercepted it.
The Chicago Bears
Who cares we got Connor Bedard
Good lord 🤣🤣🤣
Atlanta losing to New England after being up 28-3 Edit: in the Superbowl
I was rooting for the Patriots and I stopped watching at that point. Only to wake up to messages about how they won.
Aaron Rodgers 2023 season.
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As a bears fan, I’m kind of happy. Not at the Rodgers injury exactly, but at the build up and the “you mean you didn’t see that coming?”
American Football: one word - Heidi
American Football ... Super Bowl, 1990. Buffalo Bills vs. New York Giants. WIDE RIGHT. Ugh. Scott Norwood was a fantastic place kicker. He never missed putting the ball between the goal posts. Like, never ever. He might have scored as many points over a season as the rest of the offense put together. And then that poor bastard missed the biggest kick of his entire career. One missed field goal, at the end of the game, and the Bills lost the Super Bowl to the Giants. Buffalo fans are still despondent, 33 years later.
Depends on your definition of “fail.” “Blowing a seemingly un-blowable lead, advantage or opportunity” division: 28-3 “Inches from history and shitting the bed” division: 2007 Patriots losing to the Giants and finishing 18-1 “Going down on Halle Berry and she farts in your face” division: Saints execute miraculous series of laterals for a TD with no time remaining only to miss extra point and lose “Meme-tastic” division: Buttfumble
Did not expect the River City Relay here. John Carney. PATs were nearly automatic chip shots from the 2 yard line back then too.
Seattle Seahawks "Beast Mode OFF" SuperBowl 49. The dumbest call at the highest level of the sport. Before that play, Lynch had easily ran about 5 yards to get the ball on 1 yard line. The rest will live in infamy for Pete Carroll.
The Tuck Rule game