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re: What is the worst sports moment of your life?
Posted on 1/7/09 at 4:07 am to Kafka
Posted on 1/7/09 at 4:07 am to Kafka
Being a Saints fan means you have too many worst moments to list. But there's one that will always stand out in my mind, perhaps because it was first taste of Saints disappointment.
In the 70s, Howard Cosell would show highlights of Sunday's games on MNF. In those days there was no internet, no ESPN, no sports talk radio really. So Cosell's highlight reel took on a (perhaps overblown) importance, especially to a kid like me.
Well, Cosell spent most of the 70s constantly knocking the Saints. Considering how bad they were, he could hardly have done otherwise, but it still rankled. The Saints got blown out in the few MNF games they played, and Cosell publicly said that he was always happy to see the year's MNF schedule and find out the Saints weren't on it.
Finally, in 1979, the Saints seemed on the road to success with Archie coming off his NFC MVP season, running backs Chuck Muncie and Tony Galbreath (who led the NFL in receptions one season) and WR Wes Chandler. The defense was what you'd expect from the Saints, but the offense was so potent it made up the slack.
The Saints got a MNF game that year, late in the season against the Raiders. NO seemed on the way to respectability and then some, leading 35-21 at the half. NO's first MNF win and momentum for a playoff push.
Well, you can guess the rest... Kenny Stabler and the Raiders scored 3 unanswered TDs to win 42-35. I almost cried after the game. As a Saints fan it was a feeling I would become accustomed to.
The next season the Saints went 1-15. Cokeheads Muncie and Chandler would be traded to SD and become part of Air Coryell. The Saints would not recover for almost a decade.
There may have been bigger losses in the Saints' history, but none has ever quite affected me as much as that Raiders game.
In the 70s, Howard Cosell would show highlights of Sunday's games on MNF. In those days there was no internet, no ESPN, no sports talk radio really. So Cosell's highlight reel took on a (perhaps overblown) importance, especially to a kid like me.
Well, Cosell spent most of the 70s constantly knocking the Saints. Considering how bad they were, he could hardly have done otherwise, but it still rankled. The Saints got blown out in the few MNF games they played, and Cosell publicly said that he was always happy to see the year's MNF schedule and find out the Saints weren't on it.
Finally, in 1979, the Saints seemed on the road to success with Archie coming off his NFC MVP season, running backs Chuck Muncie and Tony Galbreath (who led the NFL in receptions one season) and WR Wes Chandler. The defense was what you'd expect from the Saints, but the offense was so potent it made up the slack.
The Saints got a MNF game that year, late in the season against the Raiders. NO seemed on the way to respectability and then some, leading 35-21 at the half. NO's first MNF win and momentum for a playoff push.
Well, you can guess the rest... Kenny Stabler and the Raiders scored 3 unanswered TDs to win 42-35. I almost cried after the game. As a Saints fan it was a feeling I would become accustomed to.
The next season the Saints went 1-15. Cokeheads Muncie and Chandler would be traded to SD and become part of Air Coryell. The Saints would not recover for almost a decade.
There may have been bigger losses in the Saints' history, but none has ever quite affected me as much as that Raiders game.
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Posted on 1/7/09 at 9:22 am to Kafka
i was a sophomore catcher playing JV baseball. we were doing some drills working on relaying the throw in to the plate from the OF in our final practice before our first game -- and what would have been my first game of my illustrious high school baseball career. there were a handfull of guys running the bases from second to provide a live aspect for the drill also.
so it's the final play of practice, one of my good friends is the runner heading home. there's a perfect throw relayed in from center. i catch it, but make the tag and feel a pop in my left hand. i figure it can't be a big deal since there was no violent collision or anything. coach calls everyone in, yadayadayada, we head to the locker room. by the time i get to the locker room my hand is so swollen i can barely get my catcher's mit off. i go to the hospital and my left thumb and the bone below it in my hand are shattered. i spent about a year with my left hand in a variety of casts and splints.
that, and a pretty glaring lack of talent, effectively ended my high school athletic career.
so it's the final play of practice, one of my good friends is the runner heading home. there's a perfect throw relayed in from center. i catch it, but make the tag and feel a pop in my left hand. i figure it can't be a big deal since there was no violent collision or anything. coach calls everyone in, yadayadayada, we head to the locker room. by the time i get to the locker room my hand is so swollen i can barely get my catcher's mit off. i go to the hospital and my left thumb and the bone below it in my hand are shattered. i spent about a year with my left hand in a variety of casts and splints.
that, and a pretty glaring lack of talent, effectively ended my high school athletic career.
Posted on 1/7/09 at 9:46 am to Meursault
Acie Law missing the layup against Memphis in the elite eight. Could not even watch the next game. Went straight back to the riverwalk and proceeded to defile myself.
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