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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Who are the five greatest athletes of all time? Who's
the worst player to ever deliver an iconic sports moment?
Who's the least athletic looking athlete in history. It's time
to rank the best and the worst that sports has
to offer. Let's dive in to lists with Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here we go. It's time for a list with Chris,
Randy Kennedy, Craig Stevenson, and Chris Beckham. As we do
every week, counting down some crazy list, and this week
it is in honor of that awesome final four that
we just experienced out in San Antonio, the Florida Gators
emerging victorious. That will certainly be something we'll remember for
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years and decades to come, but maybe even more so,
we'll remember what happened in the semifinals with the Duke
Blue Devils, the favorite to win the National Championship going
down to Houston and after having incredible leads that you
know where they were like ninety eight percent to win
the game, and it just seemed like they were going
to win as the favorite team, and Houston just kept
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battling and battling and battling, and next thing you know,
Duke's eliminated and Houston wins, and at the end, all
the Duke fans were saying, man, we thought we had
that one. So that is the motivation they clearly. Now
they might have said it with a North Carolina accent
or a New Jersey accent, but they were saying, man,
I thought we had that one. That is the theme
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of this week's Listard, Chris Man, I thought we had
that one. All right, Chris, I think there are a
lot of good candidates. Who are you going to start
us off with?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, yeah, there are a lot of good candidates. I
think in honor of this week, I'll go back to
nineteen ninety six when Greg Norman had a six shot
lead swung into the final round of Augusta. And Greg
Norman was at the time one of the best offers
in the world, obviously, and so you figure, boy six
shot lead final rounds, let's take a victory lap. Let's
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part of the thing out, you know, not get crazy
and get the green jacket which had never gotten and
still it doesn't have one because he, uh, instead of
taking that victory lap, he shot at seventy eight. Nick
Faldo shot at sixty seven. Not did he not win
he had lost the lead of the twelfth hole. Was
how bad he was that day? He gaged five shots
behind Nick Valdo. So uh And but the quote that
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I remember from this was when it was over, Greg
Norman said, yeah, this is on me.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well it's my caddy. Maybe I mean whom gonna be on?
But you yeah, I mean he was in enough days,
I'm sure. But anyway, yeah, I mean he uh, you're
six shots up. I mean he DoF's crazy and stuff happens,
but usually not to somebody the caliber Greg Norman was
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at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Christ you know what he said when he got the
Butler Cavin?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What did he says?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I thought I had that one. I thought you might
actually say it when I ask you, But no, I
thought I had that one. See that's the thing this week,
all right, Greig, who thought they had that one?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
H In a game that probably broke a young Randy
Kennedy's heart. December twenty third, nineteen seventy two at the
Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh, Kenny Stabler runs thirty yards
for a touchdown with one seventeen left to give the
Oakland Raiders a seven to six lead on the Fitzburg
Steelers Oakland does not go to the Super Bowl. Spolo alert,
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of course, the immaculate reception. With twenty two seconds left
on fourth down, Terry Bradshaw throws to Frenchy Fuquay, who
has his head nearly taken off by Jack Tatum, with
the ball carems directly to Franco Harris, who takes the
them for the winning touchdown. Steelers won thirteen to seven,
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and that kind of launched their dynasty. The actually didn't
go to the Super Bowl that you're either. They lost
to the Dolphins, of course, but that was kind of
the kickoff victory for you know, seven or eight years
of dominance by the Steelers. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was gonna say that one for the next week's list,
which is going to be we got googed. So yeah,
I was APO a big Raidlar fan back then, a
big Raider fan, and boy I didn't get over that
one for a long time. You're right, Craig, You're you're
correct in pointing that one out for sure. All right,
So the inspiration for the category was the comeback by
the Houston Cougars over Duke. But I'm here to tell
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you that wasn't even their best comeback. This year, the
Houston Cougars. Remember the game they played at Kansas. They
were trailing Kansas ninety two to eighty six with eighteen
seconds left and Kansas was at the line shooting two
free throws Dewan Harris Junior. He misses them both Kansas.
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Houston gets the rebound, goes down and makes the three.
And then stop me if you heard this. Houston prevented
the other team from inbounding the ball, they steal it,
they hit another three pointer. It forces a second overtime,
and Houston beats Kansas, which I thought was gonna end
up being the best college basketball game of this season.
I don't think it was because of the Final Four,
but Houston beating Kansas at Kansas makes my list of
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man I thought we had this one, but we didn't.
All right, Chris, now we know what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What you got, well, I'll follow It was maybe the
patron saint that we thought we had this because it
happened famously twice. How about a man Leon left Well
score in the Super Bowl and here he comes. He's
kind of starts styling a little bit, John BB catching behind,
forcing to fumble. He does not know that I mean,
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the Cowboys won the Super Bowl easily, but still his
personal fame was not, Wow, what a great play for
a touchdown. Instead it was you got caught behind and
embarrassed yourself and so. And then, of course the one
that warrened my heart. Thanksgiving Day, Dallas beating Mammy fourteen
to third team Bames line up for field goal with Temp,
Leon blocks the field goal. Temp recovers it and then
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fumbles the ball. Dolphins get it back and then kick
the game winner v Seed. Most for just a brief
instant in both of those, leon Litt was probably thinking
to himself, probably.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Had that yeah ball, County, Leon Lit.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The second one was just so strange because the way
the field goal went. You know, if the field goal
clock crosses the line of scrimmage, which it did, it's
a day ball, all ye, leave it alone. But he
tried to jump on it and knocked it flying, and
then all of a sudden, like you said, the Dolphins
got another shot at it. That was also weird too
because it was at Texas Stadium, but it was snowing.
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The snow was blowing through the hole in the roof
and yeah, that's right. Made it a really weird setup anyway.
All right, well, I talked about the Immaculate reception last round.
This happened three weeks before the Immaculate reception. Uh. In
the iron Ball, Alabama has a sixteen to three all right,
excuse me, a sixteen to nothing lead with ten minutes
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left in the game. Auburn kicks a field goal. The
next possession, Alabama has to punt. Auburn's Bill Newton runs
in and blocks it. David Langner scoops it up, runs
it back for a touchdown. A few minutes later, Alabama
is lined up to punt. Mean, if you've heard this before,
Bill Newton runs through and blocks it, and David Langner
returns it for a touchdown. Auburn wins seventeen sixteen stunning
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come from behind win obviously known as Punt Vama punt.
Auburn had less than one hundred yards of total offense
in the game, and they won seventeen sixteen, knocked off
undefeated Alabama. It was the only SEC loss for Alabama
between nineteen seventy one and nineteen seventy six. You know,
just an incredible victory. And I believe who is at
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the inside of the Auburn Tigers. Randy, if you call
their phone number the last four digits or seventeen sixteen, Yes,
because of that game.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yep, this is true. This is true. All right. This
is the most remarkable, memorable and I thought we had
this in the history of Alabama high school football. This
is Thompson High School against Auburn High School at Brandenney Stadium.
This is the most remarkable thing that that could ever happen.
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So Auburn was leading twenty eight to nineteen. They were
up nine with eighteen seconds left, and Auburn had the
ball up nine, with the ball with eighteen seconds left,
and somehow they got a pump blocked. It had to
be returned for a touchdown. If the punt had just
been blocked, it would have been fine. But they get
the pump block for a touchdown, and then they go
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get the on side kick, and then they kick a
field goal and they end up winning with four seconds
to go. It was the most unlikely possibility ever, and
that was with eighteen seconds left. But with like forty
seconds left, Auburn had the ball first down on like
the Thompson twenty up nine, and they just kept taking
a knee but losing fifteen yards every time they would
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take a knee for some reason and then got the
punk blocked and run strow of touchdown. It was crazy,
and Thompson beats Auburn, and from the Auburn perspective, I
thought we had that one. There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah. I remember watching that and I was like, man,
somebody's gonna get fired over this.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and then the coach did leave.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Man, all right, Chris, what you got?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, the only reason Randy at that game and that ending,
which was I mean, that was a That was a
huge story in Georgia. We all a lot of people
talking about it the day after it happened. The only
reason is probably not more famous is they didn't have
somebody going at a baby at a baby. Everybody on
your way home right now, you're nasty, snarly, but you
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sorry though. From John Tyler and no Oh No Sick,
the famous nineteen ninety four early ninety ninety four. Yeah,
John Tyler plan No East, John Tyler forty one seventeen
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three consecutive on side kicks, twenty seven points in the
final three minutes three seconds and then with twenty four
seconds left, plane the East took the lead of forty
four to forty one, and boy, they were celebrating, and
they think, boll I thought we had this one, because
they did. They thought they were celebrating. He was touching out.
People was already driven away with their sorry butts in
their cars, and low and behold, John Tyler returns the
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gig for a touchdown, and just I mean it went
from high to.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Low in a heartbeat, because that was a double We
thought we had it, right, you know, the first team
thought they had it and then they fell behind.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, so yeah, he's got a crease.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah. Oh no, it was.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
In the stadium too, by the way, just likely less.
Oh oh that's right. Yeah, good cause, all right, this
one was just a few months ago, you know, as
the hell Mary in an NFL game, which happened. It's
not that big a deal during the regular season, but
makes this different the Commanders throwing a game winning touchdown
against the Bears. Is that Bears cornerback Tyreek Stevens in
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no relations, really thought he had this one because he
was walking over taunting the Washington fan. Then all of
a sudden he sees the ball snap and the ball
flying in the air, toward him and he goes, I
think I'm better get over there, and he actually tipped
the ball to the receiver, Noah Brown for the touchdown.
I mean, just an unbelievable lack of awareness on his part,
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and you know they lost any you know, an all
time embarrassing moment for him, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I love how Craig has to distance the Stevenson family
from that young man.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, that was the quickst no relation I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He's not us, different different guy, different family. That's not us.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That's us.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So a lot of people might want to see just
the kick six for this category, but I don't think it.
I don't think it fits because you know, as they
like as Alabama lined up for the last what they
hope was the game winning field goal, it was over
fifty yards. So it wasn't like, oh, this is a gimme,
we're about to win. You know, it was a it
was a tie game. Yeah, yeah, So it wasn't like,
all right, we're probably going to overtime. So that really
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doesn't fit. But what happened two weeks earlier on that
same field certainly does qualify. And here is the clip
from that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
All right, here we go fourth and eighteen for the Tigers.
Here's your ball game. Nick Marshall stands in, steps out.
It's gotta throw down field. Just a home run ball
and its tipped off.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Hey, let's go on.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Lewis's got a star, Lotris, that's got a star.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Lotus's got a star. Cuts down, over, cuts down, over.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh, Mirac gonna turn the hair, not miraor gonna turn
the hair. Seventy three yards by the Tigers for twenty
five seconds to go main forty three to thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
All right, Well, first of all, the call was Lewis
is gonna score about seven times. Trust me, he was
in the end zone by that time, so it wasn't
gonna score. He did score, that's the first thing. But uh,
the prayer at Jordan Hare certainly qualifies. The Georgia Bulldogs
thought we were going to win that one, and then
they just throw it up and score the touchdown.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I had never heard that call before, Randy. I had
seen the I mean I've heard the kick six a
million times. Yeah, never actually heard that one. I've heard
the Veron Longquist, Gary Daniels the one, but I've never
heard the Rod Bran one was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, Rod Brandley. I mean clearly he wasn't like holding
out much hope. As the as the ball was delivered,
you know, you could just tell his voice drop and
he's like, oh, wait a minute, he's gonna cutch, just
like all of us watch in the game. So sorry
about that one, Chris, but uh, it certainly had to
be part of this category, A right, Chris, No, I agree, Chris,
we thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
What you got, well, I'll go with the teams that
probably thought they had it a lot. But the Boss
Red Sox the eighty six World Series famous This may
be one of the most famous interest in the category.
Leading New York Mets three to in the series and
had a five three League Shay Stadium, two outs, bases empty,
bottom of the tenth and one out. That was all
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you need for the first World Series championship since nineteen eighteen.
And then uh, fate and Bill Buckner h stepped in
and uh, the next thing, you know, everything just falls apart.
Muty Wilson. His ball goes through Buck's legs right night,
scores whole nine yards and then of course then the
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Mets came back in the over became a deaf sit
in Game seven to win. So, uh, yeah, that was
just you know, the Red Sow's luck. You feel like, Okay,
you're finally gonna turn on us here when we're finally
gonna get this thing done, and and uh just punched
everybody in the heart or in the hot I guess
that one. I had that one as well. On the
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the The anecdote I always remember is that Bob Costas
was doing TV for NBC and his uh, his job
was to be in the winning locker room at the
end of the game. And they had already set up
in the Red Sox locker room with the you know,
the the plastic over the lockers so they wouldn't get
champagne all over the place, and champagne there and they
had the Red Sox owner there and all that kind
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of stuff, and it all fell apart and they had
to break everything done get out of it before the
Red Sox got in there. Good so crazy. A lot
of these, I guess all of them that we have
done so far have been within one game. I thought
we had that, but this one's within a season. Nineteen
sixty four, the Philadelphia Phillies are in first place by
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six and a half games with twelve remaining. They then
lose ten in a row and wind up losing the pennant.
Actually finished in third place behind Saint Louis Cardinals, an
Cincinnati Reds, the famous Phillies flop of nineteen sixty four,
you know, and they were a team that had never
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won the World Series up until that point won one
in nineteen eighty finally, but yeah, probably the worst end
season collapse for any one team in baseball history.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's good, no doubt about it. I got one. This
is not as famous, but I was just gonna mention
it anyway because it's recent. Alabama baseball this year, they
were playing in one of those you know, neutral site tournaments.
They were playing Ohio State. They fell behind ten to
nothing to Ohio State. I mean, if this was Dixie youth,
they would have just ended it right there. But they didn't.
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Alabama came back and won twelve to ten after trailing
ten to nothing, which is just going to show you that
whole ten run rule to heck with that, you too
got time to come back. So Bama beats Ohio State
and baseball this year. All right, Chris, I thought we
had that one once.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You got was that the Youth World Series?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah? Yeah, was it in Andalusjah? Yeah, sure was.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I also had a season that I'm gonna mention Craig
talked about as well, and what I had was more
heartbreaking for me, and that was the Brave in twenty
eleven when they had a the second best record in
the National League, but they led Saint Louis by eight
and a half games the wild card race in early
September and then they finished eight and eighteen. Cardinals finished
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strong and then even worse kind of double season. In
a game they need to get a winning the season
finale to force a one game playoff against Saint Louis,
and then then they blew that one the ninth evening
lead and then they lose to the Phillies in thirteen innings.
So they had a season. Well I thought we had that,
and okay, now in the nineteen I thought we had
that and they didn't have either one of them. Of course,
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Saint Louis got in and wins the World Series. Yeah,
that was that was crazy. That was the same year
the Red Sox blew a huge lead too in the
American League that year and didn't make the playoffs. If
Greg Norman. It is might the most famous collapse in
golf history than John Vanderbilt at the nine British Open
certainly is virtually unknown. Ranked number one fifty two in
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the world, go into the Open Championship at car Newstin.
He has a three shot lead when he gets to
the eighteenth t and he only needed a six, which
would have been a double bogie to win, and obviously
didn't happen. He ends up shooting what is it, a
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triple bogie seven, which means he goes to a playoff
with Justin Leonard and Paul Lawry and he ended up
losing in the playoffs. And that was that for Jean Vanderbilt.
And I don't know that he's ever been heard from again,
to be honest with you. You know, never won a
PGA event, certainly. And what makes him worse is that
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visual that we remember him with his pant rolled up,
wading through that creek in a hurry right here, man.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And the TV commentary is like, don't do it, take
a drop, don't do it? What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
What I remember too, you know, is that the movie
Tim Cuff had come out a few years earlier, and
you know, the ending of that is Kevin not laying up, refusing,
you know, to lay up and try and drive the
ball all the way to the grain and keep hitting
them in the water. And I was like, there's no
way this would happen in real life. And that was
Jo Vandeveld. It's almost exactly what happened. Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh man. You know he was drinking a pine or
pint or twelve afterwards and told his caddy, what I
thought we had that one? All right, that's the category.
Here's the clip, which obviously you guys had it on
the list. Everybody listening had this one. Is when you
heard the category of we thought we had that one.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Gosh, he's a decepted at the fuller, a Moustam fuddler.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm real and I'm sorry, but I can't believe the call. Neither.
I cannot believe the call. You've got Marshawn Lynch in
the backfield.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
You've got a guy that's been borderline unstoppable in this
the field.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I can't believe the call. There you go, Malcolm Butler
from University of West Alabama with the interception at the
goal line when for all the world it looked like
the Seahawks were gonna win another Super Bowl and really
kind of put their franchise on a different plane. But
Malcolm Butler steps in front, makes the interception and the Vicksburg,
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Mississippi native in West Alabama grad is the hero with
twenty seconds left at the goal line against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah for stuff, Yeah, I'll do one more NFL one.
That well, I'll tell you what. Actually we'll stayed with
the week before that one, the kind of same thing
happened when Green Bay in the NFC Championship against the Seahawks.
Green Bay thought they were going to be the ones
to have that chance in the Super Bowl. They had
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a huge lead. They led night well not a hugely,
but they led nineteen to seven, and the only touchdown
Seattle had scored was on a fake field goal kick
place their offense had done nothing against Green Bay. They
scored with two minutes left to make it nineteen fourteen.
But even then, again Packers think, okay, all they just
get the on that kick. Well that's statements, last words,
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they didn't get the on that kick. Seattle Covers scored
went overtime. Seattle wins twenty eight, twenty two, and that
put them in the Super Bowl against New England. So
although they you know, they thought they had it in
the championship game, you know, that didn't work out for
him the Super Bowl. So they saw both sides that
within consecutive weeks or fire than three weeks, I guess
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for the Super Bowl. Yep. Again not a single game,
but a series more than a season. But twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, Golden State Warriors go seventy three and nine
at the NBA single season record for best you know,
for best records. They creishe the playoffs, they meet up
against the Cleveland Cavaliers and the finals and you know,
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we're just gonna win this and then we'll be corn
you know, crowned as the greatest team of all time.
The Warriors go three games to one, but then amazingly,
Cleveland wins at Golden State in game five, Game six,
Cleveland wins in Cleveland, and then in Game seven, Cleveland
wins at Golden State again to claim the title four
games to three and mar what was to that point
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one of the great team seasons, and then beia history.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Craig, here's what you know more about than me, But
I gotta tell you. This is probably the most disappointed
I've ever been in a South Alabama football loss, and
that was the trip in twenty twenty two out to
the Rose Bowl to play UCLA. The Jags led thirty
one to twenty three entering the fourth quarter, and it
was not in any way fluky. South Alabama was the
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better team. It was gonna make South Alabama a top
twenty five team the following week. Almost certainly they would
have been ranked. They're up thirty one to twenty three
entering the fourth quarter. They end up losing thirty two
to thirty one on a field goal on the last
play of the game. But even more than that, they
had a fake punt that didn't work, and it just
it felt like South Alabama was absolutely the superior team
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and they lose that one. So, Craig, that's my disappointing boy.
I thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah. It was actually a fake field goal, Yeah yeah, right,
just a fake field goal. It was a fake field
goal with the third string quarterback. It wasn't just a
fake field goal with the third string quarterback. It's a
fake field goal with third string quarterback thrown to the
third string tight end. Amazingly it didn't work. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it was just awful. And Kane Walmitt, who
was said coaching time of course, admitted, yeah, I'd like
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to have that one back. Yeah, you know, would have
probably called something different there. They were trying to They
wanted to score touchdown because they knew UCLA would would
probably be able to drive for touchdown if they even
if they made the field goal, and obviously it didn't happen.
But yeah, that was that was a rough one, man.
That was a chance to really establish themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yep. So that was one where boy, I thought we
had that one. Chris got we thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I'm gonna go a double, Uh, I thought we had
that one. On the same play, I say, it's uh.
I think the Cubs thought they had it and Steve
Bartman thought he had it and neither one of them
had it. And yeh yeah, exactly. Everybody knows scored the Cubs,
who had not won you know forever. They lead the series,
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uh three to two, and they led the game three
nothing of eight. Fitting if Alu catches the ball, they're
four outs away from the World Series.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
In the inner Steve Bartman, who also thought he had it. Well,
I don't know. Steve Barton had never caught a ball
in my life, but Carlos, uh, he just took a
shot at it, and uh instead Marlin's great runs when
and then uh uh you never you never know what's
gonna you hate to say, well that costs you don't
know if I mean, you still have four hours to
get but uh yeah, nobody was nobody want to take
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that point in Chicago for sure. So uh we'll get
to the Cubs, Moissey Loo and Steve Bartman. Yeah, I hate,
I hate that Bartman took all the blame for that
because if you look at the video of it's like
seven other fans trying to catch it.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah, he's just the one that happened to touch it.
You know, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Hey, on an unofficial entry here, can I add Mookie
Betts playing at Yankee Stadium in right field and he
went into the stands to make it catch it. Yeah,
the guy tried to take his arm off, you know, started.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
To twisting his arm. He did catch it.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I thought he did catch it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
They were trying to take the ball.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, well yeah, well the fan I thought I had
arm I mean, you know, he's.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Trying to twist his arm out of his socket.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And then remember Gronkowski came forward, robed. Gron Catch said, Hey,
I know those guys. I went to college with those
guys who were doing the No.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
One oh Man.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
So anyway, I didn't have that one as an official one,
but when you mentioned the Bartman thing, I just thought
of Mookie Bets and like, hey, give me my arm back.
So okay, all right, sorry, right that Greig at you.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Twenty twenty two, the largest comeback in NFL history. The
Vikings are down thirty three to nothing at home against
the Indianapolis Colts. They come back to win thirty nine
thirty six. They score, they outscore the Colts twenty two
to nothing in the fourth quarter, the force overtime, and
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then the kick a field going overtime to win it
thirty nine thirty six. You're not gonna believe this. Jeff
Saturday was the coach for the Colts, but you know
it was the largest come back in NFL history, and
the Vikings pulled it off that year, And Kirk Cousins
probably said, what does he always say, Randy? You like that?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
There you go. That was the same day Craig if
you remember, that was the going on at the same
time or finishing it up just as we were kicking
off the sixty eight Ventures Bowl or whatever it was
called at the time, because I was watching it in
the press box like, oh, it was over when I
left home, and by the time I get here, it's like,
wait a minute, what's happen? So yeah, that was That
was a crazy one. That definitely was a crazy one.
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All right, well, we got to do this one. Every
Alabama fan had this one. And it was the Iron Bowl.
Fourth and thirty one, Jaylen Milroe to Isaiah Bond and
of course he did the Crimson Crane and all that.
The crazy part was fourth and thirty one on the
last play of the game in Auburn decides, I tell
where well to do here, let's rush too, and then
also have another guy as a spy. Spy what's that
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doing for us? And then Milroe had time to throw
to Bond and he makes the catch and Alabama wins.
It was it was the ultimate for Auburn of thought.
We thought we had that one, and Alabama came back
to win it somehow in that Ironbol at Jerdan here,
all right, Chris, you're up.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean, I gotta do this one. Although I'll
be honest with you, if you're on land a Falcons fan,
I don't know that you ever really think. Boy, I
thought we had that one. I just I mean, I
think history has called us just to never think that.
But you know, in twenty seventeen Super Bowl fifty one,
unfortunately we did. We were fold again. Falcons and Patriots.
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You know, Falcons from twenty two three lead, and you're thinking, Okay,
we know it's Tom Brady, we know it's Bill Belijack,
we know where the Falcons. I thought we got this well,
you know, uh, it's just all uh you Dan Quinn
said we ran out of gas. I think you trashed.
I think you ran out of gas. There's a difference.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Patriots got hot and of course came back to score
in nineteen unanswered, went overtime, Patriots win. Uh. And it's
you know, it's it's probably not statistically the worst collapse,
and if you're a Falcons fan, it's you know, it's
the biggest example, but it's just another example of you know,
don't ever get your hopes up. You know, everything from
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Bill Belichick to Eugene Robinson, the just Fate's never gonna
smile on us when it gets to the big moment,
And and that was the biggest example.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I think, Wow, sounds like God giving up well the Falcons, Craig,
what you get.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Twenty eighteen December verst of twenty eighteen Deontay Wilder versus
Tyson Fury at the Staples Center in La Great Fight.
In the twelfth round, wild Lands, a huge punch on Fury,
who had never been down in his professional career to
that point, knocks him flat on his back with his
hands above his head, and everybody says, wow, you know,
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somebody has finally beating Fury. Wow, there's going to be
the you know, retain the championship. And then like three
seconds later, Tyson Fury is on his feet. It was
just the most unbelievable get up from a knockdown, almost
like the Undertaker in the professional wrestling. And it was
at that point that I said, I don't think he
has this one, and I don't think anyone is ever
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going you know, it was unbelievable. I have said this
many times, and I think he maybe even thought about it.
When George Foreman died a few weeks ago that I
don't think there's any person who has ever lived who
could not tye some fury out if Deontay Wilder did
not do it at that moment.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I've got for my entry here the second most
famous play in any high school sports event in Alabama history,
right behind that Auburn Thompson High School state championship game
at Bright Denny Stadium. This is the twenty twenty one
Class six to A state championship game. We come down
to one game between Hertzell and Faith Academy. Now you
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talk about we thought we had that one. Oh, this
is this is not good. So Hertzell was tied up
in the bottom of the last inning. They had a
runner on third and one out and they hit a
fly ball to center field. Center fielder catches it, but
the guy attacked from third and scores easily. The Hertzel
team runs onto the field and does the traditional dog pile.
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They're rolling around. They have won the championship, and the
coach for facaid, Hey, Matt Seymour, said, Hey, let's appeal
that play. They throw the ball to third and the
umpire calls the guy leaving the base too early. So
after they they did the dog pile, they sent them
back to the dugout to keep playing the game. Faith
wins it in extra innings to win the state championship.
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They went fourteen to seven in eight innings. You could
understand how at that point Faith would be, like, you know,
they would be fired up in Heartzell. After they've already
done a dog pile, it's hard to get up again.
So Heartzell, we thought we.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Had that one. I remember watching the video of that one,
and it's hard to tell from where the camera was,
you know, from the press spot. I think it may
have been the video that been Tom shot. But man,
that's a tough call to make in that situation because
it was not at all obvious that the winner left.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, after you've had the dog pile. I mean, clearly
we thought we had that when we dog piled, uh,
I mean, that fits this category as good as any
possibly could.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I mean I was for Faith Academy clearly, but boy,
heartbreaking for heartsal at that point. And they when it
was over, they were channing, like when they were handing
out the trophy, like you know that they were channing
stuff or whatever. They were not happy. They thought they
had that one, all right, Chris, I thought we had
that one.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
What you got?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well? One of my favorite quotes I've ever heard, and
I'll give you the high school version of the Georgia one,
and that's nineteen ninety four in a state semifinal game
in the old Georgia Dome as Southwest to Cab an
incredibly loaded Southwest to Cab played at Valdosta High school
team that was not incredibly loaded. They had one kid
go to a major conference a school Southwest Cab had
everybody and go on to I mean at Coachy Coleman.
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They had Quincy Carter, They had the old Goss, the
kid who ran the Olympics. You can't remember his name.
He is the fastest high school guy I've ever seen, though,
And they just were so much talent and had a
huge lead, and Valdosta just caught a touchdown here and
recovered the final one, called another touchdown there. Next thing
you know it, they're down with about a minute left.
And for some reason, Quincy Carter like it's third and
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twenty or something, but you know, it's like a minute left.
He drops back to pass Valosta saxon the N's on
for a safety, gets kicked, get a couple of first downs,
still go to win at forty to thirty seven. And
as I got on the elevator and this elevator to
go down to the field, Uh, there's a little guy
in the Valdosta High cap on and all the Southwest coaches, Uh,
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the Cat coaches were on the same elevator, and they
were obviously frustrated. And the guy has turned to me,
the little old man, and said, we knew we had
him when we saw him. Danson clearly Southwest cab by
the fact that they were dancing, they thought they had it,
but they did not have it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Sir oh Man, that's good, Chris. We read that game.
You're not read that game? Yes, absolutely, I remember that.
Say y'all don't start with me. Yes, Craig, what you got?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
November nineteen thousand and two, Commonwe Upstadium and Lexing Konskentucky.
The Wildcats think they have it, Their fans think they
have it. The walk Ons and human Victory cigars on
the sideline think they had it because.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
They give Don Wallrice a get right back after.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Twenty seven lead with eleven seconds left in the game. Obviously,
LSU gets the kickoff their pen at their nine yard line.
They throw a pass from Marcus Randall to Michael Clayton
to get the ball out to the thirty five two
seconds left. Hail Mary Geffrey Henderson, Bluegrass miracle touchdown. Great victory,
one of the great victories of Nick Saban's career when
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he was at LSU. And my favorite part of this
story is that Pat Forty, who networks where Sports Illustrated
was working at the Louisville Courier Journal at the time
cover the game. He quoted Kentucky fans hanging off the
goldpost in his story saying, wait, did we just lose
that game?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I remember it? And then ls you came back and
lost the next week, And Nick Saban said, yeah, it's
because of that game we lost the next week. I
don't know if that's true, but what a crazy outcome
that was. Here's when you guys will certainly know. Well,
nineteen hundred and seventy two USSR or basketball against the USA,
they won the gold medal like five times, and they.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Kept are we googed?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Next week?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, well we got goog but yeah, so the USA
won the gold medal and they celebrated. Oh wait, wait
the clock didn't start. Let's do it again. And then
they stopped them again. Oh wait, the clock didn't start.
And they just kept doing it until eventually they did
score and the USSR was awarded the victory. And I mean,
you talk about we thought we had it, and of
course yes, they cheated us. There's just no question about it.
(35:27):
That was That was Doug Collins and all those guys
in nineteen seventy two, and it was, uh, it just
fit the category. We thought we had it because we did.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I know, Doug Collins and I think maybe the
rest of the team as well refused to take their
silver medals. They have never accepted the silver medals because
of that.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, they got. There's no question there was a lot
of cheating going on there, no doubt, all right, Chris, but.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
You got uh yeah. I don't know if there's any
other instance in sports that can take you from the
extreme high to the extreme low light this one. And
this was the what they call the New Orlands the
River City Relay with the Saints and the Jacksonville Jags
December two thousand and three. Saints score h just then
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you know Jack think they got it. And the Saints
scored an incredible touchdown Aaron Brooks the Stalworth and they
did all the laterals and they lateral back and I
think duced McAllister was in there. I can't remember who
else was in all that. Anyway, they scored this incredible
touchdown that you never thought they would score. And uh
and then so you know, extra point ties that goes overtime.
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John Carney had not missed the next point all year,
thirty six, thirty six, He misses the extra point. So,
I mean, you go from just the I can't not
believe we're gonna tie and take this thing to overtime.
So the jack I guess in this case, the Jacks
thought they had it and they did have it. I
guess the Saints thought they had thought their heads overtime
and did not have it as he as he missed
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ditch to the point. So that was the Saints were
really bad at that point, and it was like what
what more can happen? You know, at that point, it's
just how do you mess that up? How do you
get such an incredible play and then you know, miss
the extra point? Just crazy? Yeah, this is another heartbreaking one.
For me personally, I know Chris as well. The nineteen
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ninety six World Series, the Braves go up two games
to none. They win the first two games in Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees do win Game three, but the Braves have
the lead. They were up six to nothing in Game four,
so they got a chance to go up three games
to one at home, you know, right, you know, basically
on the verge of a second straight World Series championship.
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And then in the eighth inning, Jim Layrettz HiT's a
game time home run off of Mark Waller's the Braves closer.
Wallers threw probably his third best pitch he threw instead
of he had a great split finger, basketball, had a
great pass ball, but he threw a slider. Labot hit
it out. Yankees going to win the game nine to six,
and then they win Game five, and then they win
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Game six and instead of it being a Bridge dynasty,
as the Yankees dynasty and it's just brutal.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
We all remember that one. We all remember that one.
All right, I gotta go to uh, I gotta go
to Alabama Georgia football again. This was the famous to
a tongue of Ialloa off the bench all the freshmen
come in off the bench, Evan Neil, Davante Smith, Na
Jay Harris, and most notably to a tongue of Iloa.
They come in off the bench. We go to overtime
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for the championship, Alabama versus Georgia. Georgia gets the field
goal and then Alabama's turning on first down they get
sacked and it's second in twenty eight and the party
is about to start. And then it was to a
tongue of Ialoa to DeVante Smith. But for Georgia after
getting that sacked, and for Alabama fans as well, it
certainly fits the category of boy. I thought we had
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that one, so I had to do it. Chris, I
waited late in the process, but I had to do it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You realize my life as the four same as Black now,
the Falcons and the dog I mean of.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
These, oh man, there has been an an ordering number
of these that involved your teams. I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, well, that's welcome in my life. Yeah, this is us.
I thought we had it. We mentioned, you know, we've
had some as games and some of the seasons, and
this is one team suffering from both of those. Nineteen
fifty one Brooklyn Dodgers in the New York Giants. The
Dodgers that are thirteen game lead in August, and the
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Giants won thirty seven of the last forty four. You
talk about a finish thirty seven last forty four games
to catch the Brooklyn Dodgers, and so then they get
into in the playoffs, and of course the shot her
around the world Bobby Thompson's home run against the Dodgers
Ralph Branca to give New York the five four win
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independent racist to say, so, Yeah, just kind of just
unblo believable that the Dodgers had a thirteen game lead
in August and then they finally got to this and
so they thought they had a den and didn't. And
then that in that game where they thought they were
going to have it again a full one leading night
and Bobby Thompson gets it to him again. So how
about in back to back home games having a I
(40:19):
thought we had that one happen to you? That's what
happened to the nineteen eighty four Miami Hurricanes. November sixth,
November tenth, they lead Maryland thirty one. Thing at half time.
Maryland famously puts Frank reich In off the bench and
he leads the comeback forty two to forty. Maryland wins it.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And then.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
I think it's two weeks later. Not actually it was
back to back games, but not back to back weeks.
They lose to Boston College on the Flutey Hill, marrit
You know, back to back home games for the defending
national champions and Jimmy Johnsons first year as head coach,
but they lost back to back heartbreakers at home.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
You mentioned the Miami Hurricanes, and we're doing I thought
we had this one in honor of Duke losing to
Houston in an unlikely fashion in the final four. What
about the Miami Hurricanes where they won a national championship.
They were celebrating, the confetti was falling out in Arizona,
and then after all that, the ref decided to call
interference in Ohio State got another shot and they end
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up winning it over Miami. But the all the Miami
guys were like, look, after the confetti fell and we
were hugging each other, we were in no condition to
go back out there and play after that official called
that penalty so late in the process. So I'll take
those Miami Hurricanes. For well, we thought we had that one.
So there we go, Chris, what did you got?
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I gotta get this. Some of this is a little
known one. But January fifth, nineteen seventy one, in Martin, Tennessee,
home of all the great sports history in the world,
Mark to the Sea, seventy one, the Washington Generals Beatoke
t other got be taken.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
We thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
They had them all. They had not walked in three
timing mets. It turns out the Globe Trottters were messed
around so much they lost track of the time and score,
and all of a sudden, there's two minutes left and
they're down twelve, Like holy crap, it was too late.
And uh Curly Neil was out that game, by the way,
he did not make the trip in the morning. But
(42:24):
uh Meadow Larker m and missed a shot that would
have given the win back to the Globe Trotters. Uh
and uh there you go, and there's uh Medelote Limba said,
eBay's happy about this as happy with somebody kill Santa Claus.
That's little much much.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
We should let else take the last shot. Maybe we'd
have won. You're the one that cost us to lose.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
You know what it was.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
You know what the generals will do? Yes, I talked
about a Kentucky Lach football game a little while ago.
I'm going to do a Kentucky basketball game against LSU
this time. What's the opposite result? LSU leading my thirty
one points with fifteen thirty four left in the game
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in nineteen ninety three, or excuse me, nineteen ninety four,
February fifteen, the nineteen ninety four Kentucky hits eleven three
pointers in the final fifteen minutes, outscores at LSU sixty
two to twenty seven to win ninety nine ninety five,
biggest comeback in SEC basketball history.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
And Kentucky was wearing those awful uniforms that they wore
sometimes back in the day. I remember that one very well.
I've got my last one here is related to one earlier.
You know, everybody talks about when the Seahawks should have
just given the ball to Moreshawn Lynch on the goal
line and they would have beaten the Patriots. Instead, they
throw their interception. I'm going back to nineteen hundred and
eighty nine when the Alabama Crimson Tide visited Penn State.
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Penn State drove all the way down the field. They
were about to win. In the last second. They could
have just handed the ball to Blair Thomas, but instead
they get down to the one yard line. Inside the
one and Joe Perturno sends in the field goal kicker
and his seventeen yard field goal attempt is blocked by
Thomas Raham in a play called desperation block, and Alabama wins.
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If you're a Penn State fan, you're definitely like I thought,
we had that one. Blair Thomas could have gained one
yard if we had just given him the ball. So
there you go.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
The amateur psychologists always figured that Paturno was thinking about
the goal line standing the Sugar Bowl when he goes
up for that fieah goal. He didn't want to get
stopped on the one yard line. Again.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, but if you were watching that game, which I
know you were, Blair Thomas was not getting stopped. I
mean there was there was little hope of that. Chris,
you got anything else?
Speaker 3 (44:46):
No, that's good, I'm good. Great.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Do you think all right, there we go, that's gonna
wrap it up. Then what do you think is the winner?
There are a couple that are like could easily just
be the hands down winner of boy. I thought we
had that one.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
What y'all want to go with he Yeah, I kind
of like the Greg Norman and the Masters Man, or
even John Vanderbilt in the British because that was going
in the last hole.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Yeah, Vanderbil's a good one. Vanderbil's a good one. Yeah,
I thought we had that one. I thought we had
that one. All Right, there we go, We'll make that
the winner. Craig Stevenson, Chris Beckham, Guys appreciate you always
lists with Chris. We do it every week. One of
our favorite segments here on the Randy Kennedy Show on
Sports Talk ninety
Who are the five greatest athletes of all time? Who's
the worst player to ever deliver an iconic sports moment?
Who's the least athletic looking athlete in history. It's time
to rank the best and the worst that sports has
to offer. Let's dive in to lists with Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here we go. It's time for a list with Chris,
Randy Kennedy, Craig Stevenson, and Chris Beckham. As we do
every week, counting down some crazy list, and this week
it is in honor of that awesome final four that
we just experienced out in San Antonio, the Florida Gators
emerging victorious. That will certainly be something we'll remember for
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years and decades to come, but maybe even more so,
we'll remember what happened in the semifinals with the Duke
Blue Devils, the favorite to win the National Championship going
down to Houston and after having incredible leads that you
know where they were like ninety eight percent to win
the game, and it just seemed like they were going
to win as the favorite team, and Houston just kept
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battling and battling and battling, and next thing you know,
Duke's eliminated and Houston wins, and at the end, all
the Duke fans were saying, man, we thought we had
that one. So that is the motivation they clearly. Now
they might have said it with a North Carolina accent
or a New Jersey accent, but they were saying, man,
I thought we had that one. That is the theme
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of this week's Listard, Chris Man, I thought we had
that one. All right, Chris, I think there are a
lot of good candidates. Who are you going to start
us off with?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, yeah, there are a lot of good candidates. I
think in honor of this week, I'll go back to
nineteen ninety six when Greg Norman had a six shot
lead swung into the final round of Augusta. And Greg
Norman was at the time one of the best offers
in the world, obviously, and so you figure, boy six
shot lead final rounds, let's take a victory lap. Let's
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part of the thing out, you know, not get crazy
and get the green jacket which had never gotten and
still it doesn't have one because he, uh, instead of
taking that victory lap, he shot at seventy eight. Nick
Faldo shot at sixty seven. Not did he not win
he had lost the lead of the twelfth hole. Was
how bad he was that day? He gaged five shots
behind Nick Valdo. So uh And but the quote that
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I remember from this was when it was over, Greg
Norman said, yeah, this is on me.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well it's my caddy. Maybe I mean whom gonna be on?
But you yeah, I mean he was in enough days,
I'm sure. But anyway, yeah, I mean he uh, you're
six shots up. I mean he DoF's crazy and stuff happens,
but usually not to somebody the caliber Greg Norman was
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at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Christ you know what he said when he got the
Butler Cavin?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What did he says?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I thought I had that one. I thought you might
actually say it when I ask you, But no, I
thought I had that one. See that's the thing this week,
all right, Greig, who thought they had that one?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
H In a game that probably broke a young Randy
Kennedy's heart. December twenty third, nineteen seventy two at the
Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh, Kenny Stabler runs thirty yards
for a touchdown with one seventeen left to give the
Oakland Raiders a seven to six lead on the Fitzburg
Steelers Oakland does not go to the Super Bowl. Spolo alert,
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of course, the immaculate reception. With twenty two seconds left
on fourth down, Terry Bradshaw throws to Frenchy Fuquay, who
has his head nearly taken off by Jack Tatum, with
the ball carems directly to Franco Harris, who takes the
them for the winning touchdown. Steelers won thirteen to seven,
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and that kind of launched their dynasty. The actually didn't
go to the Super Bowl that you're either. They lost
to the Dolphins, of course, but that was kind of
the kickoff victory for you know, seven or eight years
of dominance by the Steelers. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was gonna say that one for the next week's list,
which is going to be we got googed. So yeah,
I was APO a big Raidlar fan back then, a
big Raider fan, and boy I didn't get over that
one for a long time. You're right, Craig, You're you're
correct in pointing that one out for sure. All right,
So the inspiration for the category was the comeback by
the Houston Cougars over Duke. But I'm here to tell
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you that wasn't even their best comeback. This year, the
Houston Cougars. Remember the game they played at Kansas. They
were trailing Kansas ninety two to eighty six with eighteen
seconds left and Kansas was at the line shooting two
free throws Dewan Harris Junior. He misses them both Kansas.
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Houston gets the rebound, goes down and makes the three.
And then stop me if you heard this. Houston prevented
the other team from inbounding the ball, they steal it,
they hit another three pointer. It forces a second overtime,
and Houston beats Kansas, which I thought was gonna end
up being the best college basketball game of this season.
I don't think it was because of the Final Four,
but Houston beating Kansas at Kansas makes my list of
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man I thought we had this one, but we didn't.
All right, Chris, now we know what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What you got, well, I'll follow It was maybe the
patron saint that we thought we had this because it
happened famously twice. How about a man Leon left Well
score in the Super Bowl and here he comes. He's
kind of starts styling a little bit, John BB catching behind,
forcing to fumble. He does not know that I mean,
(05:45):
the Cowboys won the Super Bowl easily, but still his
personal fame was not, Wow, what a great play for
a touchdown. Instead it was you got caught behind and
embarrassed yourself and so. And then, of course the one
that warrened my heart. Thanksgiving Day, Dallas beating Mammy fourteen
to third team Bames line up for field goal with Temp,
Leon blocks the field goal. Temp recovers it and then
(06:06):
fumbles the ball. Dolphins get it back and then kick
the game winner v Seed. Most for just a brief
instant in both of those, leon Litt was probably thinking
to himself, probably.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Had that yeah ball, County, Leon Lit.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The second one was just so strange because the way
the field goal went. You know, if the field goal
clock crosses the line of scrimmage, which it did, it's
a day ball, all ye, leave it alone. But he
tried to jump on it and knocked it flying, and
then all of a sudden, like you said, the Dolphins
got another shot at it. That was also weird too
because it was at Texas Stadium, but it was snowing.
(06:42):
The snow was blowing through the hole in the roof
and yeah, that's right. Made it a really weird setup anyway.
All right, well, I talked about the Immaculate reception last round.
This happened three weeks before the Immaculate reception. Uh. In
the iron Ball, Alabama has a sixteen to three all right,
excuse me, a sixteen to nothing lead with ten minutes
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left in the game. Auburn kicks a field goal. The
next possession, Alabama has to punt. Auburn's Bill Newton runs
in and blocks it. David Langner scoops it up, runs
it back for a touchdown. A few minutes later, Alabama
is lined up to punt. Mean, if you've heard this before,
Bill Newton runs through and blocks it, and David Langner
returns it for a touchdown. Auburn wins seventeen sixteen stunning
(07:27):
come from behind win obviously known as Punt Vama punt.
Auburn had less than one hundred yards of total offense
in the game, and they won seventeen sixteen, knocked off
undefeated Alabama. It was the only SEC loss for Alabama
between nineteen seventy one and nineteen seventy six. You know,
just an incredible victory. And I believe who is at
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the inside of the Auburn Tigers. Randy, if you call
their phone number the last four digits or seventeen sixteen, Yes,
because of that game.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yep, this is true. This is true. All right. This
is the most remarkable, memorable and I thought we had
this in the history of Alabama high school football. This
is Thompson High School against Auburn High School at Brandenney Stadium.
This is the most remarkable thing that that could ever happen.
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So Auburn was leading twenty eight to nineteen. They were
up nine with eighteen seconds left, and Auburn had the
ball up nine, with the ball with eighteen seconds left,
and somehow they got a pump blocked. It had to
be returned for a touchdown. If the punt had just
been blocked, it would have been fine. But they get
the pump block for a touchdown, and then they go
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get the on side kick, and then they kick a
field goal and they end up winning with four seconds
to go. It was the most unlikely possibility ever, and
that was with eighteen seconds left. But with like forty
seconds left, Auburn had the ball first down on like
the Thompson twenty up nine, and they just kept taking
a knee but losing fifteen yards every time they would
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take a knee for some reason and then got the
punk blocked and run strow of touchdown. It was crazy,
and Thompson beats Auburn, and from the Auburn perspective, I
thought we had that one. There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah. I remember watching that and I was like, man,
somebody's gonna get fired over this.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and then the coach did leave.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Man, all right, Chris, what you got?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, the only reason Randy at that game and that ending,
which was I mean, that was a That was a
huge story in Georgia. We all a lot of people
talking about it the day after it happened. The only
reason is probably not more famous is they didn't have
somebody going at a baby at a baby. Everybody on
your way home right now, you're nasty, snarly, but you
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sorry though. From John Tyler and no Oh No Sick,
the famous nineteen ninety four early ninety ninety four. Yeah,
John Tyler plan No East, John Tyler forty one seventeen
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three consecutive on side kicks, twenty seven points in the
final three minutes three seconds and then with twenty four
seconds left, plane the East took the lead of forty
four to forty one, and boy, they were celebrating, and
they think, boll I thought we had this one, because
they did. They thought they were celebrating. He was touching out.
People was already driven away with their sorry butts in
their cars, and low and behold, John Tyler returns the
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gig for a touchdown, and just I mean it went
from high to.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Low in a heartbeat, because that was a double We
thought we had it, right, you know, the first team
thought they had it and then they fell behind.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, so yeah, he's got a crease.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah. Oh no, it was.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
In the stadium too, by the way, just likely less.
Oh oh that's right. Yeah, good cause, all right, this
one was just a few months ago, you know, as
the hell Mary in an NFL game, which happened. It's
not that big a deal during the regular season, but
makes this different the Commanders throwing a game winning touchdown
against the Bears. Is that Bears cornerback Tyreek Stevens in
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no relations, really thought he had this one because he
was walking over taunting the Washington fan. Then all of
a sudden he sees the ball snap and the ball
flying in the air, toward him and he goes, I
think I'm better get over there, and he actually tipped
the ball to the receiver, Noah Brown for the touchdown.
I mean, just an unbelievable lack of awareness on his part,
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and you know they lost any you know, an all
time embarrassing moment for him, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I love how Craig has to distance the Stevenson family
from that young man.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, that was the quickst no relation I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He's not us, different different guy, different family. That's not us.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That's us.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So a lot of people might want to see just
the kick six for this category, but I don't think it.
I don't think it fits because you know, as they
like as Alabama lined up for the last what they
hope was the game winning field goal, it was over
fifty yards. So it wasn't like, oh, this is a gimme,
we're about to win. You know, it was a it
was a tie game. Yeah, yeah, So it wasn't like,
all right, we're probably going to overtime. So that really
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doesn't fit. But what happened two weeks earlier on that
same field certainly does qualify. And here is the clip
from that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
All right, here we go fourth and eighteen for the Tigers.
Here's your ball game. Nick Marshall stands in, steps out.
It's gotta throw down field. Just a home run ball
and its tipped off.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Hey, let's go on.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Lewis's got a star, Lotris, that's got a star.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Lotus's got a star. Cuts down, over, cuts down, over.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh, Mirac gonna turn the hair, not miraor gonna turn
the hair. Seventy three yards by the Tigers for twenty
five seconds to go main forty three to thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
All right, Well, first of all, the call was Lewis
is gonna score about seven times. Trust me, he was
in the end zone by that time, so it wasn't
gonna score. He did score, that's the first thing. But uh,
the prayer at Jordan Hare certainly qualifies. The Georgia Bulldogs
thought we were going to win that one, and then
they just throw it up and score the touchdown.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I had never heard that call before, Randy. I had
seen the I mean I've heard the kick six a
million times. Yeah, never actually heard that one. I've heard
the Veron Longquist, Gary Daniels the one, but I've never
heard the Rod Bran one was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, Rod Brandley. I mean clearly he wasn't like holding
out much hope. As the as the ball was delivered,
you know, you could just tell his voice drop and
he's like, oh, wait a minute, he's gonna cutch, just
like all of us watch in the game. So sorry
about that one, Chris, but uh, it certainly had to
be part of this category, A right, Chris, No, I agree, Chris,
we thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
What you got, well, I'll go with the teams that
probably thought they had it a lot. But the Boss
Red Sox the eighty six World Series famous This may
be one of the most famous interest in the category.
Leading New York Mets three to in the series and
had a five three League Shay Stadium, two outs, bases empty,
bottom of the tenth and one out. That was all
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you need for the first World Series championship since nineteen eighteen.
And then uh, fate and Bill Buckner h stepped in
and uh, the next thing, you know, everything just falls apart.
Muty Wilson. His ball goes through Buck's legs right night,
scores whole nine yards and then of course then the
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Mets came back in the over became a deaf sit
in Game seven to win. So, uh, yeah, that was
just you know, the Red Sow's luck. You feel like, Okay,
you're finally gonna turn on us here when we're finally
gonna get this thing done, and and uh just punched
everybody in the heart or in the hot I guess
that one. I had that one as well. On the
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the The anecdote I always remember is that Bob Costas
was doing TV for NBC and his uh, his job
was to be in the winning locker room at the
end of the game. And they had already set up
in the Red Sox locker room with the you know,
the the plastic over the lockers so they wouldn't get
champagne all over the place, and champagne there and they
had the Red Sox owner there and all that kind
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of stuff, and it all fell apart and they had
to break everything done get out of it before the
Red Sox got in there. Good so crazy. A lot
of these, I guess all of them that we have
done so far have been within one game. I thought
we had that, but this one's within a season. Nineteen
sixty four, the Philadelphia Phillies are in first place by
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six and a half games with twelve remaining. They then
lose ten in a row and wind up losing the pennant.
Actually finished in third place behind Saint Louis Cardinals, an
Cincinnati Reds, the famous Phillies flop of nineteen sixty four,
you know, and they were a team that had never
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won the World Series up until that point won one
in nineteen eighty finally, but yeah, probably the worst end
season collapse for any one team in baseball history.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's good, no doubt about it. I got one. This
is not as famous, but I was just gonna mention
it anyway because it's recent. Alabama baseball this year, they
were playing in one of those you know, neutral site tournaments.
They were playing Ohio State. They fell behind ten to
nothing to Ohio State. I mean, if this was Dixie youth,
they would have just ended it right there. But they didn't.
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Alabama came back and won twelve to ten after trailing
ten to nothing, which is just going to show you that
whole ten run rule to heck with that, you too
got time to come back. So Bama beats Ohio State
and baseball this year. All right, Chris, I thought we
had that one once.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You got was that the Youth World Series?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah? Yeah, was it in Andalusjah? Yeah, sure was.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I also had a season that I'm gonna mention Craig
talked about as well, and what I had was more
heartbreaking for me, and that was the Brave in twenty
eleven when they had a the second best record in
the National League, but they led Saint Louis by eight
and a half games the wild card race in early
September and then they finished eight and eighteen. Cardinals finished
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strong and then even worse kind of double season. In
a game they need to get a winning the season
finale to force a one game playoff against Saint Louis,
and then then they blew that one the ninth evening
lead and then they lose to the Phillies in thirteen innings.
So they had a season. Well I thought we had that,
and okay, now in the nineteen I thought we had
that and they didn't have either one of them. Of course,
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Saint Louis got in and wins the World Series. Yeah,
that was that was crazy. That was the same year
the Red Sox blew a huge lead too in the
American League that year and didn't make the playoffs. If
Greg Norman. It is might the most famous collapse in
golf history than John Vanderbilt at the nine British Open
certainly is virtually unknown. Ranked number one fifty two in
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the world, go into the Open Championship at car Newstin.
He has a three shot lead when he gets to
the eighteenth t and he only needed a six, which
would have been a double bogie to win, and obviously
didn't happen. He ends up shooting what is it, a
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triple bogie seven, which means he goes to a playoff
with Justin Leonard and Paul Lawry and he ended up
losing in the playoffs. And that was that for Jean Vanderbilt.
And I don't know that he's ever been heard from again,
to be honest with you. You know, never won a
PGA event, certainly. And what makes him worse is that
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visual that we remember him with his pant rolled up,
wading through that creek in a hurry right here, man.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And the TV commentary is like, don't do it, take
a drop, don't do it? What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
What I remember too, you know, is that the movie
Tim Cuff had come out a few years earlier, and
you know, the ending of that is Kevin not laying up, refusing,
you know, to lay up and try and drive the
ball all the way to the grain and keep hitting
them in the water. And I was like, there's no
way this would happen in real life. And that was
Jo Vandeveld. It's almost exactly what happened. Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh man. You know he was drinking a pine or
pint or twelve afterwards and told his caddy, what I
thought we had that one? All right, that's the category.
Here's the clip, which obviously you guys had it on
the list. Everybody listening had this one. Is when you
heard the category of we thought we had that one.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Gosh, he's a decepted at the fuller, a Moustam fuddler.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm real and I'm sorry, but I can't believe the call. Neither.
I cannot believe the call. You've got Marshawn Lynch in
the backfield.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
You've got a guy that's been borderline unstoppable in this
the field.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I can't believe the call. There you go, Malcolm Butler
from University of West Alabama with the interception at the
goal line when for all the world it looked like
the Seahawks were gonna win another Super Bowl and really
kind of put their franchise on a different plane. But
Malcolm Butler steps in front, makes the interception and the Vicksburg,
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Mississippi native in West Alabama grad is the hero with
twenty seconds left at the goal line against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah for stuff, Yeah, I'll do one more NFL one.
That well, I'll tell you what. Actually we'll stayed with
the week before that one, the kind of same thing
happened when Green Bay in the NFC Championship against the Seahawks.
Green Bay thought they were going to be the ones
to have that chance in the Super Bowl. They had
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a huge lead. They led night well not a hugely,
but they led nineteen to seven, and the only touchdown
Seattle had scored was on a fake field goal kick
place their offense had done nothing against Green Bay. They
scored with two minutes left to make it nineteen fourteen.
But even then, again Packers think, okay, all they just
get the on that kick. Well that's statements, last words,
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they didn't get the on that kick. Seattle Covers scored
went overtime. Seattle wins twenty eight, twenty two, and that
put them in the Super Bowl against New England. So
although they you know, they thought they had it in
the championship game, you know, that didn't work out for
him the Super Bowl. So they saw both sides that
within consecutive weeks or fire than three weeks, I guess
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for the Super Bowl. Yep. Again not a single game,
but a series more than a season. But twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, Golden State Warriors go seventy three and nine
at the NBA single season record for best you know,
for best records. They creishe the playoffs, they meet up
against the Cleveland Cavaliers and the finals and you know,
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we're just gonna win this and then we'll be corn
you know, crowned as the greatest team of all time.
The Warriors go three games to one, but then amazingly,
Cleveland wins at Golden State in game five, Game six,
Cleveland wins in Cleveland, and then in Game seven, Cleveland
wins at Golden State again to claim the title four
games to three and mar what was to that point
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one of the great team seasons, and then beia history.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Craig, here's what you know more about than me, But
I gotta tell you. This is probably the most disappointed
I've ever been in a South Alabama football loss, and
that was the trip in twenty twenty two out to
the Rose Bowl to play UCLA. The Jags led thirty
one to twenty three entering the fourth quarter, and it
was not in any way fluky. South Alabama was the
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better team. It was gonna make South Alabama a top
twenty five team the following week. Almost certainly they would
have been ranked. They're up thirty one to twenty three
entering the fourth quarter. They end up losing thirty two
to thirty one on a field goal on the last
play of the game. But even more than that, they
had a fake punt that didn't work, and it just
it felt like South Alabama was absolutely the superior team
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and they lose that one. So, Craig, that's my disappointing boy.
I thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah. It was actually a fake field goal, Yeah yeah, right,
just a fake field goal. It was a fake field
goal with the third string quarterback. It wasn't just a
fake field goal with the third string quarterback. It's a
fake field goal with third string quarterback thrown to the
third string tight end. Amazingly it didn't work. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it was just awful. And Kane Walmitt, who
was said coaching time of course, admitted, yeah, I'd like
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to have that one back. Yeah, you know, would have
probably called something different there. They were trying to They
wanted to score touchdown because they knew UCLA would would
probably be able to drive for touchdown if they even
if they made the field goal, and obviously it didn't happen.
But yeah, that was that was a rough one, man.
That was a chance to really establish themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yep. So that was one where boy, I thought we
had that one. Chris got we thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I'm gonna go a double, Uh, I thought we had
that one. On the same play, I say, it's uh.
I think the Cubs thought they had it and Steve
Bartman thought he had it and neither one of them
had it. And yeh yeah, exactly. Everybody knows scored the Cubs,
who had not won you know forever. They lead the series,
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uh three to two, and they led the game three
nothing of eight. Fitting if Alu catches the ball, they're
four outs away from the World Series.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
In the inner Steve Bartman, who also thought he had it. Well,
I don't know. Steve Barton had never caught a ball
in my life, but Carlos, uh, he just took a
shot at it, and uh instead Marlin's great runs when
and then uh uh you never you never know what's
gonna you hate to say, well that costs you don't
know if I mean, you still have four hours to
get but uh yeah, nobody was nobody want to take
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that point in Chicago for sure. So uh we'll get
to the Cubs, Moissey Loo and Steve Bartman. Yeah, I hate,
I hate that Bartman took all the blame for that
because if you look at the video of it's like
seven other fans trying to catch it.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah, he's just the one that happened to touch it.
You know, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Hey, on an unofficial entry here, can I add Mookie
Betts playing at Yankee Stadium in right field and he
went into the stands to make it catch it. Yeah,
the guy tried to take his arm off, you know, started.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
To twisting his arm. He did catch it.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I thought he did catch it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
They were trying to take the ball.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, well yeah, well the fan I thought I had
arm I mean, you know, he's.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Trying to twist his arm out of his socket.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And then remember Gronkowski came forward, robed. Gron Catch said, Hey,
I know those guys. I went to college with those
guys who were doing the No.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
One oh Man.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
So anyway, I didn't have that one as an official one,
but when you mentioned the Bartman thing, I just thought
of Mookie Bets and like, hey, give me my arm back.
So okay, all right, sorry, right that Greig at you.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Twenty twenty two, the largest comeback in NFL history. The
Vikings are down thirty three to nothing at home against
the Indianapolis Colts. They come back to win thirty nine
thirty six. They score, they outscore the Colts twenty two
to nothing in the fourth quarter, the force overtime, and
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then the kick a field going overtime to win it
thirty nine thirty six. You're not gonna believe this. Jeff
Saturday was the coach for the Colts, but you know
it was the largest come back in NFL history, and
the Vikings pulled it off that year, And Kirk Cousins
probably said, what does he always say, Randy? You like that?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
There you go. That was the same day Craig if
you remember, that was the going on at the same
time or finishing it up just as we were kicking
off the sixty eight Ventures Bowl or whatever it was
called at the time, because I was watching it in
the press box like, oh, it was over when I
left home, and by the time I get here, it's like,
wait a minute, what's happen? So yeah, that was That
was a crazy one. That definitely was a crazy one.
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All right, well, we got to do this one. Every
Alabama fan had this one. And it was the Iron Bowl.
Fourth and thirty one, Jaylen Milroe to Isaiah Bond and
of course he did the Crimson Crane and all that.
The crazy part was fourth and thirty one on the
last play of the game in Auburn decides, I tell
where well to do here, let's rush too, and then
also have another guy as a spy. Spy what's that
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doing for us? And then Milroe had time to throw
to Bond and he makes the catch and Alabama wins.
It was it was the ultimate for Auburn of thought.
We thought we had that one, and Alabama came back
to win it somehow in that Ironbol at Jerdan here,
all right, Chris, you're up.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean, I gotta do this one. Although I'll
be honest with you, if you're on land a Falcons fan,
I don't know that you ever really think. Boy, I
thought we had that one. I just I mean, I
think history has called us just to never think that.
But you know, in twenty seventeen Super Bowl fifty one,
unfortunately we did. We were fold again. Falcons and Patriots.
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You know, Falcons from twenty two three lead, and you're thinking, Okay,
we know it's Tom Brady, we know it's Bill Belijack,
we know where the Falcons. I thought we got this well,
you know, uh, it's just all uh you Dan Quinn
said we ran out of gas. I think you trashed.
I think you ran out of gas. There's a difference.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Patriots got hot and of course came back to score
in nineteen unanswered, went overtime, Patriots win. Uh. And it's
you know, it's it's probably not statistically the worst collapse,
and if you're a Falcons fan, it's you know, it's
the biggest example, but it's just another example of you know,
don't ever get your hopes up. You know, everything from
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Bill Belichick to Eugene Robinson, the just Fate's never gonna
smile on us when it gets to the big moment,
And and that was the biggest example.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I think, Wow, sounds like God giving up well the Falcons, Craig,
what you get.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Twenty eighteen December verst of twenty eighteen Deontay Wilder versus
Tyson Fury at the Staples Center in La Great Fight.
In the twelfth round, wild Lands, a huge punch on Fury,
who had never been down in his professional career to
that point, knocks him flat on his back with his
hands above his head, and everybody says, wow, you know,
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somebody has finally beating Fury. Wow, there's going to be
the you know, retain the championship. And then like three
seconds later, Tyson Fury is on his feet. It was
just the most unbelievable get up from a knockdown, almost
like the Undertaker in the professional wrestling. And it was
at that point that I said, I don't think he
has this one, and I don't think anyone is ever
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going you know, it was unbelievable. I have said this
many times, and I think he maybe even thought about it.
When George Foreman died a few weeks ago that I
don't think there's any person who has ever lived who
could not tye some fury out if Deontay Wilder did
not do it at that moment.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I've got for my entry here the second most
famous play in any high school sports event in Alabama history,
right behind that Auburn Thompson High School state championship game
at Bright Denny Stadium. This is the twenty twenty one
Class six to A state championship game. We come down
to one game between Hertzell and Faith Academy. Now you
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talk about we thought we had that one. Oh, this
is this is not good. So Hertzell was tied up
in the bottom of the last inning. They had a
runner on third and one out and they hit a
fly ball to center field. Center fielder catches it, but
the guy attacked from third and scores easily. The Hertzel
team runs onto the field and does the traditional dog pile.
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They're rolling around. They have won the championship, and the
coach for facaid, Hey, Matt Seymour, said, Hey, let's appeal
that play. They throw the ball to third and the
umpire calls the guy leaving the base too early. So
after they they did the dog pile, they sent them
back to the dugout to keep playing the game. Faith
wins it in extra innings to win the state championship.
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They went fourteen to seven in eight innings. You could
understand how at that point Faith would be, like, you know,
they would be fired up in Heartzell. After they've already
done a dog pile, it's hard to get up again.
So Heartzell, we thought we.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Had that one. I remember watching the video of that one,
and it's hard to tell from where the camera was,
you know, from the press spot. I think it may
have been the video that been Tom shot. But man,
that's a tough call to make in that situation because
it was not at all obvious that the winner left.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, after you've had the dog pile. I mean, clearly
we thought we had that when we dog piled, uh,
I mean, that fits this category as good as any
possibly could.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I mean I was for Faith Academy clearly, but boy,
heartbreaking for heartsal at that point. And they when it
was over, they were channing, like when they were handing
out the trophy, like you know that they were channing
stuff or whatever. They were not happy. They thought they
had that one, all right, Chris, I thought we had
that one.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
What you got?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well? One of my favorite quotes I've ever heard, and
I'll give you the high school version of the Georgia one,
and that's nineteen ninety four in a state semifinal game
in the old Georgia Dome as Southwest to Cab an
incredibly loaded Southwest to Cab played at Valdosta High school
team that was not incredibly loaded. They had one kid
go to a major conference a school Southwest Cab had
everybody and go on to I mean at Coachy Coleman.
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They had Quincy Carter, They had the old Goss, the
kid who ran the Olympics. You can't remember his name.
He is the fastest high school guy I've ever seen, though,
And they just were so much talent and had a
huge lead, and Valdosta just caught a touchdown here and
recovered the final one, called another touchdown there. Next thing
you know it, they're down with about a minute left.
And for some reason, Quincy Carter like it's third and
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twenty or something, but you know, it's like a minute left.
He drops back to pass Valosta saxon the N's on
for a safety, gets kicked, get a couple of first downs,
still go to win at forty to thirty seven. And
as I got on the elevator and this elevator to
go down to the field, Uh, there's a little guy
in the Valdosta High cap on and all the Southwest coaches, Uh,
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the Cat coaches were on the same elevator, and they
were obviously frustrated. And the guy has turned to me,
the little old man, and said, we knew we had
him when we saw him. Danson clearly Southwest cab by
the fact that they were dancing, they thought they had it,
but they did not have it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Sir oh Man, that's good, Chris. We read that game.
You're not read that game? Yes, absolutely, I remember that.
Say y'all don't start with me. Yes, Craig, what you got?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
November nineteen thousand and two, Commonwe Upstadium and Lexing Konskentucky.
The Wildcats think they have it, Their fans think they
have it. The walk Ons and human Victory cigars on
the sideline think they had it because.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
They give Don Wallrice a get right back after.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Twenty seven lead with eleven seconds left in the game. Obviously,
LSU gets the kickoff their pen at their nine yard line.
They throw a pass from Marcus Randall to Michael Clayton
to get the ball out to the thirty five two
seconds left. Hail Mary Geffrey Henderson, Bluegrass miracle touchdown. Great victory,
one of the great victories of Nick Saban's career when
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he was at LSU. And my favorite part of this
story is that Pat Forty, who networks where Sports Illustrated
was working at the Louisville Courier Journal at the time
cover the game. He quoted Kentucky fans hanging off the
goldpost in his story saying, wait, did we just lose
that game?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I remember it? And then ls you came back and
lost the next week, And Nick Saban said, yeah, it's
because of that game we lost the next week. I
don't know if that's true, but what a crazy outcome
that was. Here's when you guys will certainly know. Well,
nineteen hundred and seventy two USSR or basketball against the USA,
they won the gold medal like five times, and they.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Kept are we googed?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Next week?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, well we got goog but yeah, so the USA
won the gold medal and they celebrated. Oh wait, wait
the clock didn't start. Let's do it again. And then
they stopped them again. Oh wait, the clock didn't start.
And they just kept doing it until eventually they did
score and the USSR was awarded the victory. And I mean,
you talk about we thought we had it, and of
course yes, they cheated us. There's just no question about it.
(35:27):
That was That was Doug Collins and all those guys
in nineteen seventy two, and it was, uh, it just
fit the category. We thought we had it because we did.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I know, Doug Collins and I think maybe the
rest of the team as well refused to take their
silver medals. They have never accepted the silver medals because
of that.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, they got. There's no question there was a lot
of cheating going on there, no doubt, all right, Chris, but.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
You got uh yeah. I don't know if there's any
other instance in sports that can take you from the
extreme high to the extreme low light this one. And
this was the what they call the New Orlands the
River City Relay with the Saints and the Jacksonville Jags
December two thousand and three. Saints score h just then
(36:09):
you know Jack think they got it. And the Saints
scored an incredible touchdown Aaron Brooks the Stalworth and they
did all the laterals and they lateral back and I
think duced McAllister was in there. I can't remember who
else was in all that. Anyway, they scored this incredible
touchdown that you never thought they would score. And uh
and then so you know, extra point ties that goes overtime.
(36:31):
John Carney had not missed the next point all year,
thirty six, thirty six, He misses the extra point. So,
I mean, you go from just the I can't not
believe we're gonna tie and take this thing to overtime.
So the jack I guess in this case, the Jacks
thought they had it and they did have it. I
guess the Saints thought they had thought their heads overtime
and did not have it as he as he missed
(36:52):
ditch to the point. So that was the Saints were
really bad at that point, and it was like what
what more can happen? You know, at that point, it's
just how do you mess that up? How do you
get such an incredible play and then you know, miss
the extra point? Just crazy? Yeah, this is another heartbreaking one.
For me personally, I know Chris as well. The nineteen
(37:15):
ninety six World Series, the Braves go up two games
to none. They win the first two games in Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees do win Game three, but the Braves have
the lead. They were up six to nothing in Game four,
so they got a chance to go up three games
to one at home, you know, right, you know, basically
on the verge of a second straight World Series championship.
(37:39):
And then in the eighth inning, Jim Layrettz HiT's a
game time home run off of Mark Waller's the Braves closer.
Wallers threw probably his third best pitch he threw instead
of he had a great split finger, basketball, had a
great pass ball, but he threw a slider. Labot hit
it out. Yankees going to win the game nine to six,
and then they win Game five, and then they win
(37:59):
Game six and instead of it being a Bridge dynasty,
as the Yankees dynasty and it's just brutal.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
We all remember that one. We all remember that one.
All right, I gotta go to uh, I gotta go
to Alabama Georgia football again. This was the famous to
a tongue of Ialloa off the bench all the freshmen
come in off the bench, Evan Neil, Davante Smith, Na
Jay Harris, and most notably to a tongue of Iloa.
They come in off the bench. We go to overtime
(38:28):
for the championship, Alabama versus Georgia. Georgia gets the field
goal and then Alabama's turning on first down they get
sacked and it's second in twenty eight and the party
is about to start. And then it was to a
tongue of Ialoa to DeVante Smith. But for Georgia after
getting that sacked, and for Alabama fans as well, it
certainly fits the category of boy. I thought we had
(38:50):
that one, so I had to do it. Chris, I
waited late in the process, but I had to do it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You realize my life as the four same as Black now,
the Falcons and the dog I mean of.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
These, oh man, there has been an an ordering number
of these that involved your teams. I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, well, that's welcome in my life. Yeah, this is us.
I thought we had it. We mentioned, you know, we've
had some as games and some of the seasons, and
this is one team suffering from both of those. Nineteen
fifty one Brooklyn Dodgers in the New York Giants. The
Dodgers that are thirteen game lead in August, and the
(39:31):
Giants won thirty seven of the last forty four. You
talk about a finish thirty seven last forty four games
to catch the Brooklyn Dodgers, and so then they get
into in the playoffs, and of course the shot her
around the world Bobby Thompson's home run against the Dodgers
Ralph Branca to give New York the five four win
(39:55):
independent racist to say, so, Yeah, just kind of just
unblo believable that the Dodgers had a thirteen game lead
in August and then they finally got to this and
so they thought they had a den and didn't. And
then that in that game where they thought they were
going to have it again a full one leading night
and Bobby Thompson gets it to him again. So how
about in back to back home games having a I
(40:19):
thought we had that one happen to you? That's what
happened to the nineteen eighty four Miami Hurricanes. November sixth,
November tenth, they lead Maryland thirty one. Thing at half time.
Maryland famously puts Frank reich In off the bench and
he leads the comeback forty two to forty. Maryland wins it.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And then.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
I think it's two weeks later. Not actually it was
back to back games, but not back to back weeks.
They lose to Boston College on the Flutey Hill, marrit
You know, back to back home games for the defending
national champions and Jimmy Johnsons first year as head coach,
but they lost back to back heartbreakers at home.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
You mentioned the Miami Hurricanes, and we're doing I thought
we had this one in honor of Duke losing to
Houston in an unlikely fashion in the final four. What
about the Miami Hurricanes where they won a national championship.
They were celebrating, the confetti was falling out in Arizona,
and then after all that, the ref decided to call
interference in Ohio State got another shot and they end
(41:21):
up winning it over Miami. But the all the Miami
guys were like, look, after the confetti fell and we
were hugging each other, we were in no condition to
go back out there and play after that official called
that penalty so late in the process. So I'll take
those Miami Hurricanes. For well, we thought we had that one.
So there we go, Chris, what did you got?
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I gotta get this. Some of this is a little
known one. But January fifth, nineteen seventy one, in Martin, Tennessee,
home of all the great sports history in the world,
Mark to the Sea, seventy one, the Washington Generals Beatoke
t other got be taken.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
We thought we had that one.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
They had them all. They had not walked in three
timing mets. It turns out the Globe Trottters were messed
around so much they lost track of the time and score,
and all of a sudden, there's two minutes left and
they're down twelve, Like holy crap, it was too late.
And uh Curly Neil was out that game, by the way,
he did not make the trip in the morning. But
(42:24):
uh Meadow Larker m and missed a shot that would
have given the win back to the Globe Trotters. Uh
and uh there you go, and there's uh Medelote Limba said,
eBay's happy about this as happy with somebody kill Santa Claus.
That's little much much.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
We should let else take the last shot. Maybe we'd
have won. You're the one that cost us to lose.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
You know what it was.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
You know what the generals will do? Yes, I talked
about a Kentucky Lach football game a little while ago.
I'm going to do a Kentucky basketball game against LSU
this time. What's the opposite result? LSU leading my thirty
one points with fifteen thirty four left in the game
(43:14):
in nineteen ninety three, or excuse me, nineteen ninety four,
February fifteen, the nineteen ninety four Kentucky hits eleven three
pointers in the final fifteen minutes, outscores at LSU sixty
two to twenty seven to win ninety nine ninety five,
biggest comeback in SEC basketball history.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
And Kentucky was wearing those awful uniforms that they wore
sometimes back in the day. I remember that one very well.
I've got my last one here is related to one earlier.
You know, everybody talks about when the Seahawks should have
just given the ball to Moreshawn Lynch on the goal
line and they would have beaten the Patriots. Instead, they
throw their interception. I'm going back to nineteen hundred and
eighty nine when the Alabama Crimson Tide visited Penn State.
(43:56):
Penn State drove all the way down the field. They
were about to win. In the last second. They could
have just handed the ball to Blair Thomas, but instead
they get down to the one yard line. Inside the
one and Joe Perturno sends in the field goal kicker
and his seventeen yard field goal attempt is blocked by
Thomas Raham in a play called desperation block, and Alabama wins.
(44:18):
If you're a Penn State fan, you're definitely like I thought,
we had that one. Blair Thomas could have gained one
yard if we had just given him the ball. So
there you go.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
The amateur psychologists always figured that Paturno was thinking about
the goal line standing the Sugar Bowl when he goes
up for that fieah goal. He didn't want to get
stopped on the one yard line. Again.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, but if you were watching that game, which I
know you were, Blair Thomas was not getting stopped. I
mean there was there was little hope of that. Chris,
you got anything else?
Speaker 3 (44:46):
No, that's good, I'm good. Great.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Do you think all right, there we go, that's gonna
wrap it up. Then what do you think is the winner?
There are a couple that are like could easily just
be the hands down winner of boy. I thought we
had that one.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
What y'all want to go with he Yeah, I kind
of like the Greg Norman and the Masters Man, or
even John Vanderbilt in the British because that was going
in the last hole.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Yeah, Vanderbil's a good one. Vanderbil's a good one. Yeah,
I thought we had that one. I thought we had
that one. All Right, there we go, We'll make that
the winner. Craig Stevenson, Chris Beckham, Guys appreciate you always
lists with Chris. We do it every week. One of
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