BEST "BAD-BEAT" STORY WINS RX GOLF SHIRT

CharlieMaxwell · Sep 11, 2003

Instead of doing our weekly quiz today, we will be giving away an RX GOLF SHIRT to the poster who posts the best "bad-beat" story. Keep these SHORT and we will publish some of the best on the RX home page. You will have all day today and tonight to post and we will announce the winner on Friday. Go to it guys!

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Fishhead · Sep 11, 2003

Nothing like a good sob story.

Mr.Jones · Sep 11, 2003

This sure isn't the worst but it is the worst of lask weekend for me. I got Colorado -2.5. They get the real late score then get the PAT blocked and win by two.

I thankfully forget them pretty quick. It's a defense mechanism I'm glad to have.

Last year there was a Carolina NFL game with a last play fumble recovery score. And the two consecutive Bears games with the interception returns the year before were both classic brutal bad beats. The second of those games may actually rate as an all-timer.

assassin · Sep 11, 2003

Years back

Florida St vs LSU. Had LSU as the dog, they are losing the game by 1 and are getting 2.5 or 3 (so I am covering). About 2 minutes left in the, 4th and 7 from the Florida State's own 38 yard line, Bobby Bowden calls a fake punt (what the F) and they run it down to the 1 LSU 1 yard line. They end up scoring the TD, LSU drives into FSU territoty, but can't score the tying TD.

I lose. I lose.

vinividivinci · Sep 11, 2003

Sunday December 1, 2002

Atlanta Falcons @ Minnesota Vikings. Falcons are -3 1/2, I need Minnesota in a HUGE way (straight & parlays). Game goes to overtime, so I'm looking good.

Game is almost to 2-minute warning of overtime, M. Vick drops back to pass, makes 3 defenders miss the sack, then proceeds to scramble for 46 yards for touchdown! Along the way every Viking player misses Vick at least once, most twice or more!

What a sick, sick feeling as Vick crossed the goal line!! Most evasive qb I have ever seen, made many miss just by standing still while they guessed wrong on which way he was going to move.

VVV

Mr.Jones · Sep 11, 2003

Yea that finish raised a lot of eyebrows as I recall.

PanchoSanza · Sep 11, 2003

Only idiots thought there was something fishy about that ending.

Yeah, were a 3.5 dog, lets fix the game but lets send it to overtime first.

jam · Sep 11, 2003

Great topic. Where to start? lol. Unfortunately, too many to remember.
I guess mine would have to be having the Leafs 3 regular seasons ago against the Blues.
It was a PK game, Leafs -140 or something. I don't care to reveal how much I had on it.
The Leafs are up 5-0 in the 3rd with just over 15 minutes to go and I'm laughing. In fact, I was watching a movie with my girlfriend and checking the game during commercials. She didn't know I had any action on the game but I was telling her about a Leafs game about 10 years earlier, around Christmas time when they were either leading or trailing Boston and one team came back to win 6-5... the team me and a buddy didn't have our tuition money on, lol.
Well you know what happens. The Blues come back to tie it 5-5 and we go to Overtime. I overrule the chick flick (with some back rub bribery) and get to watch the Leafs finish off the choke. Do you have any idea how hard it is to control your emotions so your babe doesn't know you're a sick gambler after a loss like that? And then to sit there and watch the rest of some mushy chick flick while you want to punch a hole in the wall? Damn, you got me all riled again 3 years later, lol.
Lost the bet... and the girlfriend several months later.
http://espn.go.com/nhl/2001/20001129/recap/stltor.html
PS - Having Bjorn at 80-1 this year at the Open and watching his Van de Veldian meltdown in the bunker still makes me ill.

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sidingman · Sep 11, 2003

Years ago Texas TCU in baskets i have TCU +5,TCU down 2 with 8 seconds left and the ball.they inbound shoot and texas all over him texas gets rebound with 1 second and tcu fouls.TV goes to commercial and comes back showing texas shooting free throws tcu coach got 2 technicals and brandy perryman makes 4-4.i lose by one when i had ball and down 2 points with 8 seconds left.

bunyon · Sep 11, 2003

Besides the Phillies blowing an 8-0 lead a couple of weeks ago, well lets see.

I still have to laugh when I think of this, but it sure wasn't funny at the time. This happened back in the 80's. I had the Cubs on the moneyline. They were playing in Atlanta. The Cubbies were up 4-3, 2 outs, runner on first, 0-2 count to Dale Murphy. A pop up behind the plate, Keith Moreland has plenty of room, I'm starting to celebrate. He drops it!!!! Next pitch he hits it 450 ft to left center. 5-4 Braves....game over. Harry Carray says "Holy Cow......Boy Oh Boy".

JJF · Sep 11, 2003

Last year during college football I wagered the second half of Utah vs New Mexico to go UNDER 24. Utah was up 28-21 at the half.

No scoring at all in the 3rd quarter.
No scoring in the 4th quarter until 45 seconds left when New Mexico socres a touchdown to tie the game, sending it into OT.

3 more touchdowns were scored in OT making the total for the second half 28 and I lose.

details1971 · Sep 11, 2003

OK this one hurt me both ways.

I went to Vegas several years back to watch the Superbowl and my alma mater(Marlyand) happened to be playing Duke in CBB. My thinking was that Duke was going to win the game but I would still cheer for Marlyand so I took Duke if I remember correctly at -4 or -3. If anyone has any memory I think you know what happens next. UMD is in control the entire game and is up 10 with a minute left. Duke scores 10 points to tie it up in less than a minute and pushes the game into overtime. Then Duke wins by only 2 points in overtime to beat me morally and financially. The only good part to the story is that the Ravens won the superbowl so I won my money back but what a beating!

D.T. · Sep 11, 2003

Details,

When did you graduate from UMCP? (I was class of 1994).

Sorry to hear you live in Bristol ... I spent one very long summer there about 10 years ago.

D.T.

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sds · Sep 11, 2003

Does Horse racing qualify?

Here goes anyway with a recent one! Last wknd I was betting harness at the local track both live & offtrack. It started with a 3 race disaster for me which capped with some sunshine

I had a trifecta going with 2 longshots. The race set up perfectly with the longs passing the fav in the stretch and nobody near the 3 horses for 6 lengths. As they neared the finish, the cart fell apart ! DQ'ed ! $1200 Trifecta gone!

I gathered myself for the very next race. I placed my bets 1 minute before post to make sure the odds stayed in line. The line was large and the people were hurried. I grabbed my ticket (trifecta box) and a big WPS bet and moved to my table with my wife. Sure enough, the horses come in...........but the woman never BOXED my bet AND I never noticed it!!!!!
$2100 trifecta.
After this fiasco, I had also purchased a ticket for Windsor raceway. I DID check my ticket to ensure the bet was accurate and then put it in my pocket until post. The race went off, my exactor came in nicely and I smiled knowing that I had $100 coming in finally! Any problems? SURE!!! She didn't key in Windsor, but Montreal!!!!! HOLY #^#)&%*#) !!!!!!
About this time I was searching for sharp objects in the dining room while glancing at the final race of the day to see if my night could become any larger of a mockery. I threw a $2 Tri box ..."YES DAMMIT!! BOX THAT ^#^($!! BET !! "

I caught $630 in the last race and left smiling and feeling stupid. A GREAT run like that and I never capitalized.

cheers
sds

HateTheRiverCard · Sep 11, 2003

Watching Leon Lett trying to perfect his slide still to this day haunts me!1993:

LETT IT SNOW

Miami Dolphins 16, Dallas Cowboys 14

Snowstorms anywhere in the lower 48 states on Thanksgiving Day are somewhat unusual. A snowstorm in Dallas on Thanksgiving Day is downright freakish, which just added to the odd milieu shrouding the Dolphins' trip to Texas Stadium.

Thanks to injuries suffered by Dan Marino and Scott Mitchell, Miami was down to its third quarterback, Steve DeBerg, a man who began the season as a starter — for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But that didn't keep the Dolphins from grabbing an early lead and keeping matters close against a Cowboys team that was on its way to a second consecutive world championship.

But what stands out from the game isn't DeBerg's heroic effort, or the Dolphins' blanket pass coverage that limited Michael Irvin to just 31 yards, or Keith Byars' impromptu flashback to childhood when he flopped to the frigid end-zone turf to make snow angels after a 77-yard touchdown run.

No, the man of the day, for the wrong reasons, was Leon Lett. Then a third-year player, Lett seemed to be a defensive lineman with a flair for the dramatic flaw, shown when a sure touchdown in Super Bowl XXVII was stripped away by the Bills' Don Beebe at the goal line as he held the ball out. On Thanksgiving 1993, he just couldn't keep himself away from a blocked Pete Stoyanovich field-goal attempt late in the fourth quarter with the Dolphins trailing by one.

Deflected by Jimmie Jones, the ball skipped to the Dallas 7-yard-line. As long as no Cowboy touched the ball, the Cowboys would have assumed possession, a mere kneel-down away from victory. But Lett wanted something more. He attempted to pick up the ball, but instead slid through the snow into it. When he touched the ball, it became live once again, and Miami's Jeff Dellenbach picked it up with three seconds left.

"I grabbed Troy (Aikman) and we were hugging, then they said they had the ball," Irvin told the media in the locker room after the game. "It was all so strange."

Given the second — and shorter — chance, Stoyanovich hammered home the game-winning points. Dallas was left with its most stunning loss in recent years; Miami with perhaps its unlikeliest win.

"Eleven guys didn't do what we really needed to do," special teams coach Joe Avezzano told the Dallas Morning News in the wake of the loss. "We had 10 guys getting away from the ball, and we had one who didn't. I'm not sure anyone can explain why."

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winkyduck · Sep 11, 2003

Jan. 1, 1997:

i was in vegas a few days earlier and put $40 on a 6-teamer that woulda paid about $1,700. i played 3 NHL and 3 bowl games. the 3 nhl games EASILY won. the 1st of the 3 bowl games won. all i have left is 2 more to go and i get a lot of dough!

i take Va. Tech +16.5 over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl

i also wanted to take Tech +10 in the 1st half - and this woulda won since they were down 3 @ 1/2.

with about 3+ minutes left, nebraska has a 3rd and 12 at about the tech 30, leading 34-21. no problem here. tech holds them - then nebraska kicks a FG to go up 37-21 and by the hook - i get a winner.

in a play i can still see today, scott frost rolls around the right side and dashes 30 yards for the TD putting NE up 41-21. i was in tears but Tech still had 3-minutes to get that backdoor score.

on the kickoff they run a gadget play and next thing you know the tech guy is running down the sidelines. i am gonna get my backdoor score. nope - he gets pushed out about the 20 yard line. but ya know what - i am now looking better than i was seconds ago. tech is 20 yards from paydirt. tech gets a 1st down at about the 8 with about 1:30 left - more than enough time to get that score.

1st down - incomplete pass

2md down - a draw to ken oxendine. there isn't a nebraska player within 10 yards of him. me, watching at home in L.A. is closer to him than any defender at the game. oxendine is gonna walk in the endzone! that is until he TRIPS over a tech lineman lying at about the 5. he failed to step over this lineman on what would have been a gimme score.

3rd down - incomplete pass

4th down - ditto

there went my $1,800 (parlay + original bet amount). i also was in a bowl pool and had tech as a very high rated game. if tech had covered - i would won 1st place and $600. by losing i finished 3rd and got $100.

this awful beat cost me $2,200 all totaled.

to this day the names ken oxendine and jim druckenmiller are bad words. i do feel great in knowing that Jim D's girlfriend for 3 years - as well as fiance, Julie Lynn Cialini is a Playboy Playmate of the Year and they broke up when he went back to Tech for something abd cheated on her. i have met Cialini - and trust me - make me her b/f and i ain't cheating on her AT ALL. she is tall, slim and GORGEOUS!

this is my awful beat - and very expensive one at that!

tsm123 · Sep 11, 2003

No "Bad Beat" compilation is complete without a Spurrier story.

Sept. 23, 2000

Florida -21' @ KENTUCKY

I have the Wildcats +21' / Florida up by 21 and have the ball on their own 47 / 3rd and two / 7 secs left in the game / Spurrier signals to his qb to call a time out / qb runs to the sideline to receive instructions from his HC, Dracula himself / Watching the qb return to the huddle, I remember saying, "This is the kiss of death". / next play - 53 yard bomb into the endzone.

BrianJames · Sep 11, 2003

Taylor vs Chavez 1
needed Taylor BIG, I think there was 7 sec. left in the fight when the ref waved it off. I cried that night, boyz! Was about to call the car dealer in the 10th, had my eye on a nice vette. I wanted to kill Richard Steal.

curt · Sep 11, 2003

This one was years ago. I had three parlays with the Houston Rockets being keyed in all three. The 3 other teams had all one and I needed Houston to win all my 3 parlays. They were getting 4.5 from the Knicks and had a 24 point lead going into the last quarter. The Knicks made a furious comeback and trailed by only 2 points. With 4 seconds to go,Moses Malone was at the fouline with 3 to make 2. All he had to do is make 1 as back then they had 3 to make 2 and no 3 point shot. Well,he missed all 3,Knicks tied it with a shot and the buzzer and then won by 5 in overtime. I lost all three parlays instead of winning all 3. I have to add that a week later Moses Malone was 19 for 19 from the foul line. I bet against Houston that game and lost my bet by 1/2 point.

details1971 · Sep 11, 2003

D.T I graduated in '93 from UMCP. Good to hear from another Terps fan. I haven't caught up with many of my friends from College for a while since I just moved to Bristol less than a year ago from Scottsdale, AZ.