Your most memorable sports failure: Spinoff

[funKYcat75]

My three strikeout t-ball game. As with most of my sporting endeavors, I was slightly below average compared to my peers. I wasn't the kid eating dirt or throwing rocks, but I wasn't lighting the field on fire either. So one day I really wanted to go to a birthday party instead of the game, and I just wasn't having it. Head was not in the game whatsoever. Three times up, three times struck out (I think we got four chances and if they were all strikes and/or fouls, you had to sit). I believe that was when mom and dad realized what they were dealing with athletics-wise. I still played ball until about age 13, but expectations were the lowest of low.

That movie Inside Out is dead on, by the way. I have dozens of core memories, both good and bad, banging around in the noggin that I will never forget.

 

[J_Dee]

In high school, I helped Tim Couch set some of his football records, by playing against him.

 

[Glenn's Take]

We had runners on second and third. I was the one on third. The batter walked and for whatever reason, I thought the bases were loaded so I started trotting home. Technically it went down as a caught stealing. I was so embarrassed.

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

Accidentally set the dugout in fire during beer league softball

 

[WildcatFan1982]

It's pretty much a tie, between all of them

 

[FtWorthCat]

I was playing CB in a high school varsity game, and fell down in pass coverage, giving the other team (Calloway County, then coached by Sam Harp) an easy TD.

 

[GrandePdre]

I rode the bench in 8th grade basketball mostly. But I got in a game once in scrub time and proceeded to foul out in less than 3 minutes.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Freshman football I was a severely undersized reserve defense end. I was tall, slow and had bad hands. I stood 6’1” and weighed 137 pounds. I couldn’t bench my own body weight. Pure beanpole.

Our team was up three TDs in the fourth quarter and I got to go in. Running play comes to my side and I went to make the tackle. I ended up grabbing the running back’s cleat. He drug me about 12 yards before more teammates showed up to help make the tackle.

I retired from football after that season.

 

[KingOfBBN]

Hmm I may have blacked out some but here’s a few I can remember.

Getting into a fist fight in an AAU game (Early days of AAU) in middle school as my mom scolded me from the stands and yelled my first and middle name out.

Missed a fly ball in little league that hit me right in the face.

After taking a really bad shot as a sophomore, my coach said way too loudly in the huddle, “You’re not going to get any ***** taking shots like that.”

 

[vhcat70]

I struck out an entire summer baseball league season except when they told me to bunt. I bunted a lot. But never did get on base. Coach started "batting" lineup with the 9 spot & it could only get better from there. I got to play though because no one could steal on my arm. Fact.

 

[Tskware]

3 up with 4 to play in match play tournament against a friend who finished in the top ten in the city championship a few times, 3 putted 16, lost 17, he doubled 18. But I missed a GD 2 footer to triple bogey.

Then in extra holes. I made a BOMB for birdie . . . But he canned a 15 footer to tie me and I lost on the 20th hole. Just f ing gave it away.

The next round was against a college golfer who would have creamed me anyway but still . . . That would have been a sweet upset

 

[Chuckinden]

Threw 3 interceptions in one game against our biggest rival.

 

[KingOfBBN]

Threw 3 interceptions in one game against our biggest rival.

Any interceptions you could blame on the wide out?

 

[vhcat70]

Threw 3 interceptions in one game against our biggest rival.

Those must have been the guys on the street over.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

I missed what could have been my first birdie from a foot away.

Pure luck. I was in I believe 5th grade. Playing my home course of Hillcrest. #4 dogleg left with that big ole water tower on the left. Normally we would aim at the water tower to make that big noise but I was being serious. Hit a solid drive up the hill. Hit my next shot right of the green but it hit a rock and bounced up onto the green about a foot from the hole. I got so excited that I missed the putt.

 

[cawoodsct]

About a minute left in the half, guys on the opposing bench started yelling 5,4,3,2 as I was bringing it up. I proceeded to heave a one handed 3/4 court laser shot that hit the backboard almost breaking it. Of course there was still a minute left to play.

 

[812scottj]

Tried to go high and hard against a guy that had been drafted by the Texas Rangers…pretty sure that ball is still flying

 

[UpstateNYCat]

Made All-Stars in LL and even made a nice no look snag of a line drive out in RF early in the game, then later on, batter hit one down the line and ran to get it and proceeded to do a Timmy Lupus with the greased ball while trying to throw in back in.

 

[JamesIII]

I only played basketball my senior year. In the district semifinals we ended up losing 71-65 or some ****…our team went 3-27 from 3, I was just a 6th man and didn’t take any of the 3’s.

However, after our game, the esteemed journalists at The Harlan Daily Enterprise stated: “jcrow10 had an intentional foul at 1:19 to all but end Harlan’s hopes of ever winning the game.”

 

[UpstateNYCat]

Another LL shining moment for me was playing SS and had a grounder come to me, proceeded to tag the runner out between 2nd and 3rd, forced the other runner at 2nd and then rocketed a throw that's probably still orbiting the Earth along with Albert Puhols' shot he hit against the Astros. It would've been a Triple Play had I not FUBARed the throw to first.

 

[HagginHall1999]

Failure is fairly unique.

Was playing bball at LAC in Lex about 15-20 years ago (god I am getting old, unbelievable)...anyhow, we had held court like 5+ games in a row. There were 6+ teams waiting for next. I missed a relatively easy layup (contested)...other team got the rebound and this guy made a stupid 3 with a guy in his face. I was under the goal when the ball went through the net and I kicked it all the way to the rafters...it hit a light cage and shattered glass to the court. Relatively embarrassed...surprisingly the gym was cool about it.

 

[HagginHall1999]

Non Failure...

Have a hole in one on a legit par 3. Came within a rotation of a 2nd on a par 4. Once Eagled holes back to back.

Stole home plate off Derek Smith (old UK TE).

 

[TruBluCatFan]

Non Failure...

Have a hole in one on a legit par 3. Came within a rotation of a 2nd on a par 4. Once Eagled holes back to back.

Stole home plate off Derek Smith (old UK TE).

We have a different thread for good things. LOL.

 

[TruBluCatFan]

Playing Babe Ruth. Our field was next to a creek. The fence between field and creek extended about 50 feet past 3B. I was playing 3B and guy hits a fly ball down left field line. Short and drifting out of play. I’m running full speed into LF foul territory. Tracking the ball over my shoulder the whole time. Just as I was about to catch the ball….. that last step was a doozy. Was past the fence and stepped right off the field and landed in the creek about 5 feet below. Crawled back up soaking wet.

 

[TheBlueCat]

Youth league basketball. It was a tie game and I got fouled on a three point attempt at the buzzer. Missed all three free throws. Took me hitting a buzzer beater three a few years later in a game to finally get past it.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I was supposed to play in our collegiate softball intramural championship game, but went to a girls dorm and got a handski instead. I guess they lost the game, but it was very close. My roommates and friends hate on me to this day over it. They showed up at the dorm I was in and threw rocks at the windows for like an hour.

I was TERRIBLE at baseball.. I can't hit, I can't catch. I'm not great at sports, but I can hold my own in basketball/football etc... but Baseball is a mess for me. So I feel like I did them a favor. And I got a favor, as well.

EDIT: Her name for about 20 of us, to this day, is Hand Job Katie.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I got recruited for a traveling basketball team. I was decent, only about 11 or 12 years old.. but what they liked was that I won a free throw contest in like 4th grade. I went 10 for 10 multiple times and smoked the competition. I could also make it rain from the corners like PJ Tucker.

Turns out, they were all MUCH better during an ACTUAL game. I was all the way down on the bench before long, and off the team in 2 years. I did a little bit better in modified and college intramurals... but my basketball career peaked in that CYO basketball league.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

When I worked for a software company, our CEO loved to carry around a nerf-esque football, and pass it to people to try and be cool. The guy was a total nutsack, and most of the software devs dont know how to even catch a football.

But anyways.. I'm walking with my coworker, who was a D1 O-Lineman.. big dude, scary.. and he gets the pass, no problem. The CEO then passes it to me through a doorway.. so I catch it, I throw it back..

*BONK* doesn't even make it through, hits the door frame.

"Hey, my IT skills are a lot better, let me try again"

*BONK*

He picked the ball up, half looked at me, and just went down a different part of the office