Embarrassing sports admissions

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

When the Sabres first came into existence, the play by play man was Ted Darling.  I was astounded that he had a seat map and good enough eyesight to proclaim "There's a shot over the glass, into the crowd, and a souvenir for a young boy from Crystal Beach, Ontario".  This naiveté has served/cursed me well into my golden years.

 

You're next.

[Steve O]

Had trouble sleeping Saturday nite, got up at 6, drove to the game from Rochester. Admit I slept through Jacksonville's first touchdown and woke up just in time for their second. Hey, at least I was awake for the comeback game and didn't leave early!!

[ChevyVanMiller]

1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

When the Sabres first came into existence, the play by play man was Ted Darling.  I was astounded that he had a seat map and good enough eyesight to proclaim "There's a shot over the glass, into the crowd, and a souvenir for a young boy from Crystal Beach, Ontario".  This naiveté has served/cursed me well into my golden years.

 

You're next.

Not sports related, but when I was a kid in the 1970s there was a Corner Store about to open in our neighborhood. The sign went up with the slogan, "Open 7 days 'til Midnight."

 

I actually asked my dad, "Why would they go through all of that trouble to build a store that is only going to be open for a week?"

[KD in CA]

I was once late gaining admission to a game and missed 3 TDs in the first 5 minutes.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

23 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

I was once late gaining admission to a game and missed 3 TDs in the first 5 minutes.

Particularly embarrassing when you're a starting QB...

Edited November 26, 2018 by Ridgewaycynic2013

[Punching Bag]

Of course we all know about our QB Billy Joe Hobert who when inserted for injured Todd Collins stated he barely looked at play diagrams for plays against P*ts.  Real good recap.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971017&slug=2566549

 

"The Bills didn't care that Hobert swore on the airwaves. They didn't even care that he played poorly in his first relief action, completing 17 of 30 passes with two interceptions.

"But when Hobert admitted that he barely studied for the Patriots, didn't know what receivers to look for on certain plays - the very job he is paid to perform - their question was answered: `We can't win with this flake as our No. 2 quarterback.'

"Strictly speaking football, Hobert's honesty was refreshing. But honesty doesn't exonerate guilt."

[Marv's Neighbor]

3 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

When the Sabres first came into existence, the play by play man was Ted Darling.  I was astounded that he had a seat map and good enough eyesight to proclaim "There's a shot over the glass, into the crowd, and a souvenir for a young boy from Crystal Beach, Ontario".  This naiveté has served/cursed me well into my golden years.

 

You're next.

Since the Aud was on the smallish side, he didn't have to see that well.

[Gray Beard]

I once went to a football game in the Carrier dome... Syracuse versus UConn. We got really, really cheap seats in the UConn visitor section, which was in a corner of the end zone.  Whenever Syracuse made a good play, my father-in-law would stand up and cheer, and the UConn fans would give us a death glare. I didn’t really care, but my high school age son was pretty embarrassed. 

[IDBillzFan]

May not be what you're after, but...

 

A few years back I coached a youth flag football team. It wasn't a league in which you tried out. You just got put on a team.

 

Our team was terrible, but everyone got to be involved and get hands on the ball as a running back or receiver. We had one kid who was meant to keep the water chilled. Jumbo and simply unable to understand his role in any capacity. We always gave him a running play, and his flag inevitably was pulled at the moment he realized a football was in his hand.

 

Our last game of the season, after calling Jumbo's number in a running play, the coach from the other team came over and said to run the play again and his guys would give Jumbo a chance to, y'know, feel like he could play. So we run the play, Jumbo lumbered up the middle like Fat Albert on meth, and the entire opposing team turn into the keystone cops as Jumbo ran the length of the field for a TD. Everyone cheered and celebrated and high-fived, and it was just one of those feel good moments to end the season.

 

At the post-game party, Jumbo's mom came up and wanted know why we didn't realize how good Jumbo was and waited until the last game to let him show his stuff.

 

I thought she was joking. She wasn't. I shouldn't have laughed, but I did, and when I realized she was serious, well...y'know...kind of embarrassing.

[Buftex]

I am man enough to admit, I actually rooted for the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2002...Bradys rookie year.  I thought it was a great story, hated the Rams, and had no earthly idea that it would usher in the most miserable years in my 45+ years rooting for the Bills.?

Edited November 27, 2018 by Buftex

[Buffalo716]

9 minutes ago, Buftex said:

I am man enough to admit, I actually rooted for the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2002...Bradys rookie year.  I thought it was a great story, hated the Rams, and had no earthly idea that it would usher in the most miserable years in my 45+ years rooting for the Bills.?

Brady wasn’t a rookie in that SB

[Buftex]

3 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Brady wasn’t a rookie in that SB

Oh yeah, you're right...second year.

Edited November 27, 2018 by Buftex

[Augie]

It wasn’t me, but it was hysterical.....and a family classic! When I met my now wife her sister came to visit. Ballet was her thing, and she had no clue about sports. She went to watch my wife’s bank softball team play and it turned out a few people had conflicts. They needed ONE more person, and through some crazy power of persuasion, she agreed to fill in so they didn’t have to forfeit. 

 

They hid her out in right field, but eventually she had to step up to bat. Through some minor miracle, she eventually managed to make contact with the ball. She knew enough to begin running towards first base so she lumbered in that direction. Well before she arrived she stumbled a bit, which caused her to appear to attempt a head first slide into first base. She came to a screeching halt about 2 feet before arrival......and waited there on her belly until someone arrived to tag her out. 

[Gugny]

2 hours ago, Buftex said:

I am man enough to admit, I actually rooted for the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2002...Bradys rookie year.  I thought it was a great story, hated the Rams, and had no earthly idea that it would usher in the most miserable years in my 45+ years rooting for the Bills.?

 

I've rooted for Brady in most of his Super Bowls.  Zero shame.  I always want the most deserving team to win and they usually were.

[plenzmd1]

9 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

I've rooted for Brady in most of his Super Bowls.  Zero shame.  I always want the most deserving team to win and they usually were.

where is @DC Tomwhen we need him?

Edited November 27, 2018 by plenzmd1

[Teddy KGB]

- I tried to break up an Alley Oop and got teabagged.  

 

- I though James Hardy was gonna dominate 

[Cripple Creek]

13 hours ago, Gray Beard said:

I once went to a football game in the Carrier dome... Syracuse versus UConn. We got really, really cheap seats in the UConn visitor section, which was in a corner of the end zone.  Whenever Syracuse made a good play, my father-in-law would stand up and cheer, and the UConn fans would give us a death glare. I didn’t really care, but my high school age son was pretty embarrassed. 

Another Carrier dome story...My wife graduated from Syracuse and was there at the time the dome was built.  She told me about some birds who got trapped inside and survived.  When she told me that they migrated from the north end to the south every winter I said "wow, that's cool!"

[row_33]

13 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

May not be what you're after, but...

 

A few years back I coached a youth flag football team. It wasn't a league in which you tried out. You just got put on a team.

 

Our team was terrible, but everyone got to be involved and get hands on the ball as a running back or receiver. We had one kid who was meant to keep the water chilled. Jumbo and simply unable to understand his role in any capacity. We always gave him a running play, and his flag inevitably was pulled at the moment he realized a football was in his hand.

 

Our last game of the season, after calling Jumbo's number in a running play, the coach from the other team came over and said to run the play again and his guys would give Jumbo a chance to, y'know, feel like he could play. So we run the play, Jumbo lumbered up the middle like Fat Albert on meth, and the entire opposing team turn into the keystone cops as Jumbo ran the length of the field for a TD. Everyone cheered and celebrated and high-fived, and it was just one of those feel good moments to end the season.

 

At the post-game party, Jumbo's mom came up and wanted know why we didn't realize how good Jumbo was and waited until the last game to let him show his stuff.

 

I thought she was joking. She wasn't. I shouldn't have laughed, but I did, and when I realized she was serious, well...y'know...kind of embarrassing.

 

excellent story, always good to participate

 

my worst stories were reffing church tournies, most games ending with the losing team surrounding me and threatening to knock my block off

 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

10 hours ago, Augie said:

It wasn’t me, but it was hysterical.....and a family classic! When I met my now wife her sister came to visit. Ballet was her thing, and she had no clue about sports. She went to watch my wife’s bank softball team play and it turned out a few people had conflicts. They needed ONE more person, and through some crazy power of persuasion, she agreed to fill in so they didn’t have to forfeit. 

 

They hid her out in right field, but eventually she had to step up to bat. Through some minor miracle, she eventually managed to make contact with the ball. She knew enough to begin running towards first base so she lumbered in that direction. Well before she arrived she stumbled a bit, which caused her to appear to attempt a head first slide into first base. She came to a screeching halt about 2 feet before arrival......and waited there on her belly until someone arrived to tag her out. 

Ballet? "Lumbered" "Screeching halt?" What company did she dance with?

 

 

And those that wanna argue... Stripping is TOTALLY sport.

 

And yes, this is on topic.  That's Beerball & His good buddy @ 3:52.

 

LMAO...

 

[row_33]

1 hour ago, Teddy KGB said:

- I tried to break up an Alley Oop and got teabagged.  

 

- I though James Hardy was gonna dominate 

 

i dove out of bounds to save the ball in a hoops game and hurled it good and hard... right into the sac of a team mate 8 feet away

 

he was a big guy, he took about 10 seconds to react and crumble to the ground in stages of pain

 

it was in front of 1,000 students who reacted properly as if this was the funniest thing they would ever see in a million years

 

 

[DC Tom]

10 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

I've rooted for Brady in most of his Super Bowls.  Zero shame.  I always want the most deserving team to win and they usually were.

 

You're not just an idiot.  You're not even two idiots.  You're more like four idiots.. or two gugnys.

 

But if gugny is, in fact, two gugnys, then we ultimately achieve a divergent infinite series, where you are infinite gugnys.  Hence, infinite idiots.

 

You're an infinidiot.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

21 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

You're an infinidiot.

This is no reflection on Gugny, but this is 'Post of the Week'.  I don't care what else is posted to the forums.

 

 

Edited November 27, 2018 by Ridgewaycynic2013

[Not at the table Karlos]

2 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

excellent story, always good to participate

 

my worst stories were reffing church tournies, most games ending with the losing team surrounding me and threatening to knock my block off

 

 

I had to ref basketball games at a local community center. I don't like basketball and think it's stupid, ballet with a ball. I don't know any of the rules and have no interest in learning. Had 8 year olds playing prison ball. The parents would yell and flip out. Kept asking how a grown man doesn't know basketball. 

[row_33]

20 minutes ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

I had to ref basketball games at a local community center. I don't like basketball and think it's stupid, ballet with a ball. I don't know any of the rules and have no interest in learning. Had 8 year olds playing prison ball. The parents would yell and flip out. Kept asking how a grown man doesn't know basketball. 

 

 

i'm kinda spectrummy so i drift off sometimes, not a good thing for reffing, might explain some of the work of pro refs though

 

 

[Not at the table Karlos]

1 minute ago, row_33 said:

 

 

i'm kinda spectrummy so i drift off sometimes, not a good thing for reffing, might explain some of the work of pro refs though

 

 

Yeah I have problems drifting off and not paying attention as well. They had to take the scoreboard controls away from me because I would keep hitting the horn. 

[row_33]

9 minutes ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

Yeah I have problems drifting off and not paying attention as well. They had to take the scoreboard controls away from me because I would keep hitting the horn. 

 

the trick when the play has stopped and they are looking at me, to take the whistle out of my mouth and stare at it like Andy Reid looks at that laminated chart in two minute drills

 

then it starts working again and i've figured out what the right call should have been

 

i botched a few clock duties for high school hoops because of drifting off.

 

a friend's father landed a golden job as timekeeper for a stadium in Southern Ontario, with the proviso that he was fired the first time he made a mistake, lasted many years, I would have been done after a few games.

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

1 hour ago, row_33 said:

i botched a few clock duties for high school hoops because of drifting off.

Many years ago, a fellow 'hockey dad' and I ended up running the clock and scoreboard for a house league game for our sons.  It wasn't long until the chant "DON'T SCREW UP!  DON'T SCREW UP!" was reverberating off the rafters, as clock and scores were anything but correct.  Once rectified, fellow 'hockey dad' and I were quietly chanting "Don't stop play!  Don't score a goal!" until game's end.

[Gordio]

I coached my sons little league team one year.  His house team, not the travel team he played on.   They were 11 years old.  I told everybody at the first practice everybody will get a chance to pitch as long they could show me in practice that they could throw strikes on a semi consistent basis.  This one kid, who was by far the worst player on the team(he had a decent arm) but couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, his mom kept bugging me every game for him to pitch even though I knew if I put him in there it would be a disaster.  I told her bring him 45 minutes before each game & I will work with him pitching & if he shows improvement I will throw him in there.  Sure enough he would get there 2 minutes before every game.  Finally I had enough of her bitching & moaning & the last game of the season I started him just to shut her up.  His first pitch he hit a kid, his second pitch he hit another kid & they kicked him out of the game.  I walked over to the mother & said "see I told you, he is not ready."  She told me to go f*ck myself in front of all the other parents & pulled her kid from the dugout & took off.  Me & my two assistant coaches couldn't stop laughing the entire game.  

Edited November 27, 2018 by Gordio

[shrader]

I was somehow lucky during my youth and only had two big sports injuries.  Unfortunately, both were during practice.

[US Egg]

Still can't understand why Japanese sensation Taro Tsujimoto snubbed the Sabres.

[row_33]

45 minutes ago, Gordio said:

I coached my sons little league team one year.  His house team, not the travel team he played on.   They were 11 years old.  I told everybody at the first practice everybody will get a chance to pitch as long they could show me in practice that they could throw strikes on a semi consistent basis.  This one kid, who was by far the worst player on the team(he had a decent arm) but couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, his mom kept bugging me every game for him to pitch even though I knew if I put him in there it would be a disaster.  I told her bring him 45 minutes before each game & I will work with him pitching & if he shows improvement I will throw him in there.  Sure enough he would get there 2 minutes before every game.  Finally I had enough of her bitching & moaning & the last game of the season I started him just to shut her up.  His first pitch he hit a kid, his second pitch he hit another kid & they kicked him out of the game.  I walked over to the mother & said "see I told you, he is not ready."  She told me to go f*ck myself in front of all the other parents & pulled her kid from the dugout & took off.  Me & my two assistant coaches couldn't stop laughing the entire game.  

 

?

[Doc]

Not sure if it's an "admission" but probably the most embarrassing sports gaffe I've seen happened after the Bulls won their first championship.  Bob Costas was interviewing Jordan in the lockerroom and after a few questions pointed to a woman near him and asked "is this your mother?" to which "Jordan wryly smiled and said "no, she's my wife."  Ouch!

[row_33]

34 minutes ago, Doc said:

Not sure if it's an "admission" but probably the most embarrassing sports gaffe I've seen happened after the Bulls won their first championship.  Bob Costas was interviewing Jordan in the lockerroom and after a few questions pointed to a woman near him and asked "is this your mother?" to which "Jordan wryly smiled and said "no, she's my wife."  Ouch!

 

is there film of this?  Bill Simmons mentions it in his book...

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

28 minutes ago, Doc said:

...the most embarrassing sports gaffe I've seen happened after the Bulls won their first championship.

I immediately thought UB Bulls.  Although it might be embarrassing for me, it shows UB sports coming of age.

[bbb]

16 hours ago, Augie said:

It wasn’t me, but it was hysterical.....and a family classic! When I met my now wife her sister came to visit. Ballet was her thing, and she had no clue about sports. She went to watch my wife’s bank softball team play and it turned out a few people had conflicts. They needed ONE more person, and through some crazy power of persuasion, she agreed to fill in so they didn’t have to forfeit. 

 

They hid her out in right field, but eventually she had to step up to bat. Through some minor miracle, she eventually managed to make contact with the ball. She knew enough to begin running towards first base so she lumbered in that direction. Well before she arrived she stumbled a bit, which caused her to appear to attempt a head first slide into first base. She came to a screeching halt about 2 feet before arrival......and waited there on her belly until someone arrived to tag her out. 

 

 

[Chef Jim]

I used to follow the Bills............

[Bullpen]

5 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

This is no reflection on Gugny, but this is 'Post of the Week'.  I don't care what else is posted to the forums.

 

 

Agreed... I don't post often anymore, but when I read Tom's post I actually "did el oh el" in my office.

 

As far as embarrassing admissions: 

I didn't see the M and B in the brewers logo until long after I was an adult, but I somehow saw the M E and B in the old Expos logo.

As a child I thought the National League New York team was the Mitts, because you play baseball with a mitt, not a met. I thought everyone but me pronounced it wrong.

In 1976 I became a Buccaneers fan strictly because I liked "Bucco Bruce."  (I always was and still am a uni-geek)

There's many show-boaty things I did as a HS athlete that completely embarrass me now. I'm glad the films have been destroyed. 

I threw a bat after a strike out in Babe Ruth baseball and my father said, "Oh "young bullpen" if that bat hits the ground your on the bench for the rest of the game." I later found out he borrowed that line from some other coach.  

 

 

[row_33]

and the light blue bird in the top of the Blue Jays logo?

 

 

 

[Bullpen]

1 minute ago, row_33 said:

and the light blue bird in the top of the Blue Jays logo?

 

 

 

Whoa... never saw that either.  Looks like the Partridge Family bird!!!! 

[Doc]

47 minutes ago, row_33 said:

is there film of this?  Bill Simmons mentions it in his book...

 

 

 

At 8:58 mark.