re: Most Overrated Moment in Sports History

"The catch".

Should have been called "the throw"

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For football, it's got to be the Catch

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this by a far margin

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That damn Kirk Gibson HR! Wasnt it like game 1????

And Micheal Jordon's push off against the Jazz! Call the damn foul!

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No way that catch is over-hyped. Jeter's on the dead run and he knows that if he catches the ball he's gonna go head first over the photographer's row and into the seats -- not into some padding -- straight into the chairbacks. If he pulls up at all, he doesn't make the catch.

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It was one great play but my favorite Jeter play is the backhand to home plate. Perfect!

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For football, it's got to be the Catch. Yes, it was a good play, but Jesus, the way people talk about it, it's like Montana was throwing the ball over the field goal posts and Clark made a world record leap to catch it.

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It was more about the moment and the opponent than the physics of the play.

I don't know how old you are so I can't assess whether your witness to it impacts your opinion, but the Dallas Cowboys were a formidable dynasty... the Catch was memorable because it was a David and Goliath moment.

ETA: IMO, any baseball play called "The Shot Heard Round the World" has got to be the height of overrated wishful thinking.

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Miracle on Ice.

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GTFO. It's only the greatest upset in sports history.

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Douge Flutie hail mary.




One of the greatist games Ive ever watched and it ends on a huge throw by Flute to win it. How is this over-rated?

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That play is EXTREMELY over rated. They play that thing every year like that catch won a national title or something. It was a big play in a meaningless game. That play was no more impressive than tons of other hail marys. It is certainly no better than the Kordel Stewart Hail Mary or the LSU Bluegrass Miracle. Both those hail marys are MORE impressive and spectacular. Both of those balls were tipped then caught and both were 70+ yard plays.

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Name a better throw AND catch and circumstance.

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The Immaculate Reception.

No one's saying the Catch wasn't a good play, but they make it sound like much more than it was. Montana threw to a guy in the back of the end zone. On third down. With still a minute to play. It's a big play, but someone just wrote a whole book about that one play. that's absurd.


I was going to avoid all Boston/NY moments as inherently overrated, but the Jeter thing is bothering me. He caught the ball at the friggin' foul line yet somehow ends up in the seats. Hell, Ray Wright's catch in the CWS was better. The "flip" was a much better play, aided by Giambi not knowing how to slide.

And the Gibson HR was legendary in my house, just for my dad calling it the worst move ever to use Gibson as a pinch hitter because, and I quote, "he'd have to hit a home run just to reach first base." Eck was unhittable that year and that HR just changed everything. The A's gave up, and it was just Game One.

The Miracle On Ice is much bigger in the US (obviously) than anywhere else. Remove the socio-political importance, and you have a point. Belarus beating Sweden in 2002 was probably a bigger upset and US-Canada 2010 and Canada-USSR in the Canada Cup 1972 were better games.

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aided by Giambi not knowing how to slide.

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+1 I will never understand why that dumbass decided he should try to score by jogging across home plate standing straight up.