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Lou's first game. My senior year. Right in front of me. Unquestionably a TD. If replay existed, we win that game.
Pisses me off to this day.
Edit: John Carney, who went on to a 50 year career in the NFL, missed a 45 yarder as time expired that would have won it.
Wayne Gretzky highsticks Doug Gilmour in the face (draws blood!), in overtime of the Game 6 Stanley Cup semi-finals and referee Kerry Fraser doesn't call the penalty. At the time if a player highsticked another player in the face and drew blood it was an automatic 5 minute penalty and a game misconduct. As the game's highest profile player and with a league mandate to build the NHL profile in the US, Fraser refuses to call a penalty on Gretzky, even after conferring with his linesmen, and shortly after not calling the penalty and kicking Gretzky out the game, of course, Gretzky scores in OT to win the game for LA and deny the Leafs a chance to play Montreal in the Stanley Cup finals.
The 1993 Stanley Cup finals were the only time I've ever cheered for the Montreal Canadiens.
The single greatest play, given the circumstances, I've ever seen in football. It was all on the Rocket to pull that off and dum-dum McCartney actually kicked it to him and the Rocket actually pulled it off, only to have a ref decide the game. I was gutted for days.
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I couldn’t watch sports for months after.
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Fuck Stan Kroenke and the NFL
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This one probably wins.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Olympic_Men%27s_Basketball_Final
While the flouncy French ref looked on
The Maple Leafs one hurts.
The referee's call that disallowed team USA's third goal is not his genuine mistake. He just wanted to rob team USA. There is no way, no chance and no angle to see the U.S. player offside. The game otherwise would be a classic of victory from coming back in U.S. soccer history.
The worst referee call, I think, should be those calls that referees saw the play, but still decided to make call or non-call, i.e. make a bad call. And this bad call changed the result of the game. I understand that sometimes referees truly didn't see the play and therefore make wrong calls.
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How any ref could think that a 5'3" Maradona could out jump a 6'1" Peter Shilton's outstretched arms to head in that ball is beyond me. The rest of the Argentina team barely celebrated with Maradona because they all saw the hand ball.
It still hurts because when you look back, those English teams of the 80s were really really good. Knocked out of the '82 World Cup without losing a game. Knocked out in '86 by eventual champs Argentina in the 1/4s on that hand ball and then knocked out by eventual champs Germany in '90 on penalty kicks in the semis. Then they didn't even qualify in '94 and didn't make it back to the semis until 2018.
If England had won at least one of those World Cups from 1982 to 1990 it would have lessened the pain, but they didn't so it feels like Maradona cheated them out of their chance in 1986.
Now I'm fired up again.
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US.
five penalty kicks a side where the goalie has no chance unless he guesses which way the kicker is going to kick it. What a joke!!!!