I swear if I have to see Tim Duncan hugging that damn basketball again…
I’ve seen the Stanford Band Play more than enough times to last a lifetime. It’s not helped by Fox’s Best Damn Sports Show naming it the #1 everything play for every list they do.
I’m a Bills fan, so I would be a happy camper if I never had to see the Scott Norwood “Wide Right” missed field goal again. It’s always very high on any sort of countdown of “Worst Sports Moments Ever” and there are TWO feature films based on that one particular incident – Buffalo 66 and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. I think that is sort of excessive, two films? Is that really necessary?
If you’re a Giants fan, you probably don’t mind seeing it so much. However, I was especially thrilled with this last Superbowl, because now there’s a more awesome Superbowl victory for Giants fans to focus on.
John Elway getting spun around toward the end of Super Bowl XXXII.
Bartman.
“Refrigerator” Perry’s touchdown in Super Bowl XX.
Kirk Gibson’s home run.
The Bill Buckner error.
Not a Dodger fan, eh? 
That one never gets old.
For me, it used to be Christian Laettner sinking that last-minute jumper, but I hate Duke, so go figure. I’m not sure there’s anything currently that bugs me.
“…and it’s a steal by Bird!”
And nobody talks about the horrific pass Isaiah straight to Bird that enabled that to happen.
I also get a nasty shiver up my spine when I see the Stewart-Westbrook hail Mary pass enabling Colorado to beat Michigan.
Joe Theismann getting fragged. I could do without ever seeing that again.
Michael Jordan shoving Brian Russell out of the way for his game winning shot in the 1998 NBA Finals.
Michael Jordan sobbing on the floor and clutching the basketball upon winning the 1996 NBA Finals after returning from his gambling suspension, I mean first retirement.
Michael Jordan doing anything.
As posted above, Laettner hitting that final shot. Since it’s against Kentucky, and he shouldn’t have been in the game at that point anyway, and on and on and on and aaaaagh! Hate it.
And, Kevin Dyson coming up short of the goal line when the Titans lost the Super Bowl. HATE.
Hank Aarons 715.
I can tell what it is, by the BankAmericard “Use it like Cash” Billboard.
It got a lot of play about a month ago for some reason.
Dallas Cowboys vs. Seattle Seahawks - Playoffs - QB Tony Romo bobbles the field goal snap and tries to run the ball into the end zone on short yardage only to get tackled short of the goal line, perhaps costing Dallas the game.
Dallas Cowboys v. Pittsburgh Steelers - Super Bowl - TE Jackie Smith drops an easy TD pass from Staubach, casuing Dallas to settle for a field goal. Dallas goes on to lose by 4 points.
Dallas Cowboys v. Miami Dolphins - Dallas blocks a Miami field goal attempt at the last second, apparently sealing a Dallas home victory, but Cowboys defender Leon Lett then runs over and touches the loose ball. Miami gets possession and re-kicks the field goal for the win.
Dallas Cowboys v. Buffalo Bills - Super Bowl - Cowboys defender Leon Lett (again) takes the ball and runs it downfield. He begins to celebrate the apparent TD by holding the ball out at about the 3 yard line. A Buffalo player catches up to Lett and swats the ball out before Lett can score.
Dallas Cowboys v. San Francisco 49ers - NFC Championship - “The Catch”
However, there are some clips that never get old:
Tony Dorsett - 99 yeard run from scrimmage
Tony Romo - The snap goes over his head, he runs back 20 yards to pick it up and turns it into a 4 yard rushing gain
Marion Barber - Gets pushed back into his own end zone only to bounce around, break tackles, and emerge with a short gain
Risking a whoosh, he hit 715 in early April, 1974.
See, I can’t get enough of that one, if only for the fans that circle the bases with him and pat him on the back. How fucking cool is that? That could never happen anymore.
That highjump skiier wiping out - “the agony of defeat.” I cringe every time.
Really? I love that one! I even had the Mike Jones tackle as my wallpaper for a few years.Course I’m a Rams fan,I take it you aren’t.
I liked watching Carlton Fisk tag out two guys on the same play at the plate the first 100 times I saw it, but it’s getting a little old.
Doug Flutie’s “Flutie Magic.” Yes, it was a great play, but there have been many successful Hail Marys before AND since then that have been just as, if not MORE incredible than his.
Bill Buckner. Although the comeback in 2004 has lessened the pain of that one.
Now it’s that friggin David Tyree catch with the top of his head.
Buckner, mainly for making a colossal pitching choke job culminating in an error that led to the tying run (Isn’t that known as a blown save? Wouldn’t that be kind big?), the questionable decision to put an ailing Buckner in the game in the first place, the fact that the score was tied at the time, and the ENTIRE BLEEDIN’ DANGID RAZZAFRAKKIN GAME SEVEN completely vanish from memory.
The Lett Super Bowl fumble. Ye gods, doesn’t anyone remember that it was the 4th quarter and the Cowbows were up by 5 scores? This could not have been more irrelevant, meaningless, unimportant, insignificant, meager, piddling, tiny, teeny-weeny, or subatomic if it happened in the Pro Bowl. Ask the Bills fans what incredible, gut-busting laughs they get from it. Ditto the special teams screwup that a thousand other players would’ve made that ultimately didn’t make a dent in the Cowboys’ Super Bowl chances, although it was a friggin’ nuclear missile compared to the Super Bowl fumble.
Any of John McEnroe’s infamous tirades. Okay, the guy had anger issues and shocked the staid, country-club world of tennis, I get it. Can’t we start discussing his accomplishments sometime?
Second Michael Jordan. Enough is enough.
As for The Play, I don’t watch a lot of countdown shows, so I haven’t been overexposed to it. I don’t mind looking at it every so often, just to remind myself that this, this effin’ actually happened. Few things in any sport have matched it for sheer bizarreness. And it was completely unplanned, unscripted, and unexpected. And it never happened again. This was the one time the band started celebrating a few seconds too soon, with disastrous results.
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