Top 25 Biggest Choke Jobs in Sports History

Wrong board, jackasshole.

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23. Plano East (TX) and Tyler John Tyler (TX) – 1994 Playoff Semifinal

It was the evening of November 26, 1994, a Class 5A Division II Region II semifinal in Texas Stadium. The Plano East High School Panthers football team was trailing against John Tyler High 41-17 with only 3 minutes remaining in regulation. Plano East had possession of the ball at John Tyler's 20-yard line. With a quick touchdown pass from Jeff Whitley to Terrence Green, the drive began as the score closed to 41-23. On the ensuing onside kickoff, a member of John Tyler's team picked up the ball and fumbled it. Plano East was there to pick it up, so with the ball on John Tyler's 44, Whitley throws another pass to Terrence Green, taking them up to the 26-yard line with 2:24 left. On the next play, a hard blitz caused an errant pass from Whitley but the pass was still caught and taken to the 11-yard line. Three plays later, on 4th and 5 at the 5-yard line, Whitley completes a touchdown pass to John Braddick. The conversion was good, which took the score to 41-31. On yet another onside kick, Plano East yet again recovered possession when a John Tyler player let the ball bounce off him. With the ball on their own 45 and 1:24 left, a screen pass to Green took the ball to the John Tyler 12 yard line, where he took the ball out of bounds to stop the clock. On the next play, Whitley completed yet another touchdown pass to Braddick. The failed conversion left the score 41-37. Plano East recovered another onside kick following the attempted conversion, which left them at midfield. On 2nd and 10, facing a hard blitz from both sides, another screen pass to Green took the ball to the John Tyler 22 yard line. With 24 seconds remaining Plano East's Robert Woods, caught a 22yard touchdown pass from Jeff Whitley giving Plano East a 44-41 lead and an apparent victory. But Roderick Dunn returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown. With only 11 seconds left he fielded the ball at the John Tyler three, cut toward the left sideline at the 20 and ran 97 yards unscathed for the touchdown adding an unexpected twist to a remarkable game.

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Yes I'd call that remarkable at the very least

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22. Phil Mickelson – 2006 U.S. Open - Mickelson had a 1-stroke lead as he stood on the 18th tee. Despite hitting only two fairways all day, he pulled the driver again. And again, he missed - only this time badly, his drive hitting the roof of a hospitality tent and bounding into the spectator area. Mickelson had a decent lie, but a bad idea. Rather than advancing the ball a short distance but getting it back in the fairway - where he might make par the hard way, or, at worse, bogey to get into a playoff in which he'd be the heavy favorite - Mickelson attempted a huge slice under and around tree branches. It didn't work. The ball hit a branch and stopped 25 yards in front of him. He hit another big slice, but this one plugged in a back bunker, and not even Mickelson's short-game magic could save him from there. He double-bogeyed and finished one shot out of a playoff.

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Witnessed live...

1a) 2006 BCSNC. tOSU vs. Florida

tOSU was no question the best team in the nation. Led by a Heisman-winning QB, they had beaten the #2 team in the nation twice, something no other team has ever done. They faced a Florida team that had backed into the BCSNC, led by a qb who folded under pressure, and a backup qb who is a confirmed homosexual.

And then it went to hell. tOSU's best receiver was taken out of the game by a traitor in their ranks after running the opening kickoff in for a TD. Their 2nd-best receiver hadn't spoken to the qb for a month, until the day of the game, because the qb was nailing the receiver's gf.

Another traitor, tOSU's DC, convinced the coaching staff that sending the entire defense, including their roided-up, veiny-armed DE after Florida's qb was a bad idea. Zone coverage was the best way to contain their speedy receivers. And power running the ball with their steam-rolling TB against Florida's fast, but smallish defense was also a recipe for disaster.

Chaos ensued, and tOSU has yet to recover.

Jean van der Velde blowing a three stroke lead in the British Open by landing in the water

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tOSU was no question the best team in the nation

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Where is your trophy proving that? That is what I thought........you said Florida had to back in, well that team that backed in beat you. Shows you how good you were huh?

Thanks I just saw it.

Thanks for the Mets 2007 choking. still hurts.
Phillies 64 ha ha
My father lost $100 when Bobby Thomson hit the homer in 1951 (He was a brooklyn fan) and I heard about all my life.

Billy Buckner - By the way We named our dog Mookie

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West Virginia's lost to Pittsburgh was nice

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i knew someone would bring that up

When I was a kid, we had a 4-0 halftime lead in the soccer state playoffs. We joked around all halftime. The coaches couldn't keep our attention. We were already talking about where we would celebrate and who we played next. We lost 4-5. I was a defender. After the 3rd goal, I was 75% sure we were going to lose. We absolutely could not stop one of their forwards. He was just too fast. Our defense had carried us all year. It was the worst feeling. It broke up the team. About 1/2 the players on the team never played soccer competitively again.