Biggest Chokes in sports history?

[Bennyboy]

Big Brown today? 07 Mets? 18-0 Patriots in the Super Bowl?

[bigwillq]

1. Not Big Brown

I think his injury affected him more than his owner/trainer/whoever that guy was, was letting on.

Maybe the Patriots! :bounce:

Yeah GIANTS! :bounce: SB42 champions! :bounce:

[MrCoffee]

20. He was fine, he just wasn't much of a horse to start with.

None of this year's crop of 3-year olds is.

[MrScorpio]

2. The 86 Bosox!

Man, that was sweet!

[SallyMander]

3. 2004 Yankees

Done!

[TZ]

5. heh.

Great minds think alike Sally...see below

[SallyMander]

6. Hell yeah!

Best baseball series EVAH!!!! :woohoo:

(I'm from Bawstun)

:D

:hi:

[TZ]

4. 04 Yanks?

Up 3-0 and LOSE to their hated rivals the Red Sox....

[Tektonik]

7. Last year's Pats

[Mojambo]

11. Absolutely top of the list. n/t

[devilgrrl]

8. 1997 Cleveland Indians, 1986 Red Sox

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. '64 Phillies

Six and a half up with 12 left, you print the Series tickets.

They lost 10 straight and finished tied for second.

[uberllama42]

16. I had a history professor two years ago

Who wrote a book about the '64 Phillies. The subtitle was "The story of baseball's most memorable collapse."

[sasquatch]

10. No because an athlete has to be a human being

Hence Big Brown doesn't qualify for a sports choke.

[WinkyDink]

12. Jean Van de Velde, 1999 British Open~~~

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/19605552/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dR1pkCGY80

[uberllama42]

13. Clinton, Dem primary '08 n/t

[Fox Mulder]

14. 1998 Minnesota Vikings vs Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship game.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[lost-in-nj]

15. no choke

that horse should not have run

an injured hoof is nothing like a broken fingernail


the jockey saved him from being lame

he has no say in whether or not the horse should run

but he knows the horses stride and gait

and felt something was wrong

I commend the jockey



lost

[TZ]

19. Actually no

The jockey and the trainer have both said the horse is not lame and the problem WAS not the cracked hoof.
Apparantly-the race horse owners on this board think the horse lacked conditioning. I was told that the winner of the Belmont a few years back Touch Gold had hoofs in worse shape.
BB was just tired.

[GOPisEvil]

23. Horses run with cracked quarter hooves all the time. And win.

Touch Gold won the Belmont with hooves worse than Big Brown's.

The horse lacked the proper conditioning because of the lack of training due to the injury.

I do wish people would search for posts by "Old Broad" when it comes to horse racing. She is a thoroughbred trainer. She knows her stuff.

[Lyric]

17. No mas! No mas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPoWrWwwi8M

[insanity]

18. Yankees Dropping 4 in a row in the ALCS to Boston was great

But for my money the greatest choke in sports history was Tyson on Holyfield's ear.

[sasquatch]

21. Also any of the losses by the Atlanta Braves in the 1990's

[SoxFan]

22. There's only one real choice