# Super Star Athlete's Worst Last Performance **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 26, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503 "2010-01-26T13:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/61 "2010-01-28T14:53:21Z")
Even this Seppo knows who Don Bradman was. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/62 "2010-01-28T15:05:24Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Like WTF? You are kidding, right? > _AM Archive - Friday, 2 March , 2001 00:00:00 > Reporter: Anne Barker > COMPERE: Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Adelaide last night to farewell Don Bradman. Family and friends, including the Prime Minister and Governor General, attended the private funeral, while the public were invited to pay their respects as the funeral cortege wound its way through the city. > …_ > > [AM with Sabra Lane - ABC listen](http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s253641.htm) No, not Don Bradman as the almost-forgotten cricketer, it was Chuck Fleetwood-Smith who was almost forgotten. I could have phrased that better… ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/63 "2010-01-28T15:09:50Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > But as I said, I don’t know if Marino’s performance was particularly awful. He went 11-25 with a TD & 2 INTs. It wasn’t terrible, but the Dolphins were down 24-0 in a blink. He was also pulled in the second half, which also seemed to add to the insult. I’m a Jets fan and spent years hating Marino, but I remember feeling bad for him during that game. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/64 "2010-01-28T15:36:50Z")
> [@Chicagojeff](#): > > How about Carl Yastremski being noiticeably late on that goose gossage fastball.. but not sure if that was his last ab.. No, Yaz retired in 1983, five years later. [QUOTE= astorian] Willie Mays is often cited as a guy who did, but he didn’t commit any errors in the 1973 World Series. [/QUOTE] He was credited with an error in Game 1, per the [box score](http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK197310130.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Elk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Anne\_Elk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Elk)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/65 "2010-02-01T01:45:41Z")
In my fuzzy memory, I recall all-pro football player Howie Long playing maybe the worst game of his career on his last game. I do remember the guys calling the game on tv felt bad for him. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/66 "2010-02-01T02:38:23Z")
Hall of Fame QB Y.A. Tittle’s final game, in December 1964, was nothing to write home about. Playing just the first half he was intercepted twice, one of which was run back for a TD, as Cleveland routed Tittle’s New York Giants, 52-20. Cleveland led at the half 24-7. [Cite.](http://www.cleveland.com/brownshistory/plaindealer/index.ssf?/browns/more/history/19641212BROWNS.html) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/67 "2010-02-01T05:29:33Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Nolan Ryan’s last performance was a disaster. He gave up 5 runs on 2 hits (1 HR) and 4 walks, and retired no one. This is the one I was going to say. I was at the game and he was horrible. His last pitch was a grand slam HR to Dan Howitt. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/68 "2010-02-01T20:07:32Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Two things about this: > > 1. Zidane won player of the tournament (I can never remember if that’s ball or boot, ball I think) > 2. That was freaking awesome. Yes, Zidane’s long-term infamy for the headbutt was definitely mitigated by Italy being the opponent. The collective soccer world has been wanting to headbutt Italy for decades, most fan reactions to Zidane that I’ve seen have been “Damn straight!” ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/69 "2010-02-01T21:57:03Z")
> [@ColonelDax](#): > > He was credited with an error in Game 1, per the [box score](http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK197310130.shtml). He also lost a couple of balls in the sun in Game 2, although as usual in such cases he wasn’t charged with an error. (After losing one of the balls he compounded the embarrassment by falling down.) Of course this was under the high daytime sky in Oakland, which can give any outfielder fits. And he did drive in the lead run in extra innings, so on the whole it wasn’t that bad of a game or series. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/70 "2010-02-02T21:12:39Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > He also lost a couple of balls in the sun in Game 2, although as usual in such cases he wasn’t charged with an error. (After losing one of the balls he compounded the embarrassment by falling down.) Of course this was under the high daytime sky in Oakland, which can give any outfielder fits. And he did drive in the lead run in extra innings, so on the whole it wasn’t that bad of a game or series. I’m not dissing Willie Mays in any way, (like anybody could) but if memory serves the go-ahead RBI single WAS a twelve-bounce ground ball that just squeaked through the center of the infield. It wasn’t a dying quail like Luis Gonzalez’s in game 7, 2001, and it did the job, but impressive, it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503/71 "2010-02-02T21:49:08Z")
I have a feeling every game from here on out has the potential to be Ladanian Tomlinson’s worst last gasp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-star-athletes-worst-last-performance/526503.md?page=3)