# Football - Is This The Miss Of The Century?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 3, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847 "2009-12-03T14:32:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/1 "2009-12-03T14:32:04Z")

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Rocky Baptiste for Harrow Borough against Waltham Abbey ([Link](http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/6535094/16964012) - Video 50 sec).

If it isn’t, what is?

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/2 "2009-12-03T14:38:29Z")

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I thought the miss of the century involved the Bills’ Scott Norwood, in Super Bowl 25-the winner of the championship hinged on said kick.

Edit: Oh, that was last century. Sorry.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/3 "2009-12-03T14:44:19Z")

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It would be hard to top that.

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/4 "2009-12-03T14:50:30Z")

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He made up for it with that later effort though.

Still, pretty amazing miss.

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/5 "2009-12-03T14:50:49Z")

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Chris Iwelumo for Scotland against Norway. The live commentary on this clip is worth a listen.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hoOgNbYFNM4/hqdefault.jpg "Iwelumo miss with real radio commentary (funny)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoOgNbYFNM4)

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/6 "2009-12-03T16:31:24Z")

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the first one is much worse, if much less important. In the Scots one he’s running at pace and lots of people could screw that up somehow. My mother could make the shot in the first clip (not that she’d ever get that wide open at her age).

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-is-this-the-miss-of-the-century/519847/7 "2009-12-03T17:39:02Z")

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The one in the OP is simply incomprehensible. You can hear the astounded voice of the person taping the game. With at least 90 degrees of shot angle available, he still misses (though I believe he does hit the far post).

Might be a reason he’s still only semi-pro. \<lol\>