N/S Biggest choke artists of all-time (#1 on page 8) (1 Viewer)

[sammymvpknight]

#3

Tony Romo’s botched snap, Cowboys vs Seahawks, 2007 NFC Wild Card




This is sort of the zenith of Romo's chokeworthy career. Enormous modern moment that displayed yet another example of Romo coming up short. The truth is that I don't think that this moment makes it if it is most other starting QBs in the league. It had to have proper precedent to work. Romo sitting on his butt with his hands on his knees is one of the most iconic pictures in NFL history.

 

[HouseCall]

#3

Tony Romo’s botched snap, Cowboys vs Seahawks, 2007 NFC Wild Card




This is sort of the zenith of Romo's chokeworthy career. Enormous modern moment that displayed yet another example of Romo coming up short. The truth is that I don't think that this moment makes it if it is most other starting QBs in the league. It had to have proper precedent to work. Romo sitting on his butt with his hands on his knees is one of the most iconic pictures in NFL history.
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I edited my response. I had forgotten that the FG was for the win.

The crazy thing about that play is the that he picked up the bobble and almost ran it in for a TD. Literally just a couple feet away.

He scores that TD and that play would be widely considered one of the greatest of all time but he didn’t make it and it’s one of the greatest chokes of all time.

That’s the difference between the penthouse and the outhouse in the NFL —couple feet, sometimes inches.

 

[sammymvpknight]

The crazy thing about that play is the that FG attempt was to send it to OT and he picked up the bobble and almost ran it in for a TD. Literally just a couple feet away.

He scores that TD and that play would be widely considered one of the greatest of all time but he didn’t make it and it’s one of the greatest chokes of all time.

That’s the difference between the penthouse and the outhouse in the NFL —couple feet, sometimes inches.

Very similar to Dyson's near TD reception. Truly a game of inches.

 

[HouseCall]

Very similar to Dyson's near TD reception. Truly a game of inches.

Yeah, it was close.
I’d actually remembered it incorrectly. Apparently the FG would have won it for them. But still the almost TD was insane.

 

[faceman]

Yeah, it was close.
I’d actually remembered it incorrectly. Apparently the FG would have won it for them. But still the almost TD was insane.

The tackler came from behind. If the kicker had just stood in the way, I believe Romo scores a Td on that play.

 

[DadsDream]

Worth an Honorable Mention in a choke thread.

In 1979, the Saints still had not managed to put up a winning season . . . ever.

On Monday Night Football, they entered the 4th quarter, leading the Raiders 35 to 21 with a chance at their first winning season . . . and then . . .

"They just don't know how to win." Howard Cosell

Oakland Raiders at New Orleans Saints - December 3rd, 1979 | Pro-Football-Reference.com

Oakland Raiders 42 at New Orleans Saints 35 on December 3rd, 1979 - Full team and player stats and box score

www.pro-football-reference.com

 

[DadsDream]

For those who didn't get to experience it at the time:



Dig those white pants and the big fleur on the helmets!

 

[Loose Cannon]

The tackler came from behind. If the kicker had just stood in the way, I believe Romo scores a Td on that play.

Yep. All he had to do was delay the backside pursuer for about a quarter of a second and Romo scores. He just had to stand there instead of going fetal, and the Cowboys win that game.

 

[DMaestro]

Yep. All he had to do was delay the backside pursuer for about a quarter of a second and Romo scores. He just had to stand there instead of going fetal, and the Cowboys win that game.

Looked to me like the kicker jumped in surprise to keep his legs from getting clipped by the diving defender (who might've gotten a hand on the ball even if Romo hadn't botched the snap; the play was poorly blocked), then barely had time to attempt a whiffed block on a much larger backside pursuer who already had a full head of steam going. Asking much more from little Martin Gramatica is a bit much.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Looked to me like the kicker jumped in surprise to keep his legs from getting clipped by the diving defender (who might've gotten a hand on the ball even if Romo hadn't botched the snap; the play was poorly blocked), then barely had time to attempt a whiffed block on a much larger backside pursuer who already had a full head of steam going. Asking much more from little Martin Gramatica is a bit much.

I've seen players in worse situations get called out for not allowing themselves to be destroyed.

 

[ironhead]

So is Tyreek Hill going to make the list? Or is that too literal a choke job?

 

[cajunman9]

I remember an unfortunate SAINTS performance on I believe was our first appearance on Monday Night Football back in the 1980's.
I think we had Tony Galbreath at Fullback and Chuck Muncie at Tailback. We went into half time with like a 32 point lead over the Raiders. Muncie and Galbreath ran up and down and around the Raiders. The Dome was rocking. We were going to win our first MNF game on the first outing with dominance.
SAINTS came out in the second half and laid flat on their faces. Annoucers could not believe the second half could be a flop for the SAINTS. Howard Cosell was dumbfounded laughing at the SAINTS inability to do anything right in the second half and we lost 40ish to 32. Old Dandy Don Meredith sang "Turn out the lights the party's over" early in the 4th quarter.
Embarrassing second half from what was so completely different from the first half.

 

[DMaestro]

I've seen players in worse situations get called out for not allowing themselves to be destroyed.

Think it was less a lack of heart and more a lack of physical ability. There was the initial shock of seeing the snap botched, followed by the instinctive leaping to protect his lower extremities from the very large bodies diving all around his knees. Then, just as his feet hit the ground, he catches a glimpse of the larger, stronger, and vastly more athletic human being making a playoff-saving beeline towards his quarry. He had no time to really gather himself, and if by some superhumanly quick-twitch self-sacrificial reflex he had managed to interpose anymore of his body between Romo (the one who screwed up) and the defender he would've gotten his ish pushed in worse than Brett Favre against Bobby McCray.

It was too much of a bang-bang play and too much of a physical disadvantage against a mercenary midget kicker for me to make a value judgement on his heart.

 

[KiwiSaint]

I remember an unfortunate SAINTS performance on I believe was our first appearance on Monday Night Football back in the 1980's.
I think we had Tony Galbreath at Fullback and Chuck Muncie at Tailback. We went into half time with like a 32 point lead over the Raiders. Muncie and Galbreath ran up and down and around the Raiders. The Dome was rocking. We were going to win our first MNF game on the first outing with dominance.
SAINTS came out in the second half and laid flat on their faces. Annoucers could not believe the second half could be a flop for the SAINTS. Howard Cosell was dumbfounded laughing at the SAINTS inability to do anything right in the second half and we lost 40ish to 32. Old Dandy Don Meredith sang "Turn out the lights the party's over" early in the 4th quarter.
Embarrassing second half from what was so completely different from the first half.

Refer to post #105 to relive that nightmare...:-(
I was in 8th grade in Pennsylvania and we never got to see the Saints on TV. I was super-excited as this was a MNF game and my parents let me stay up to watch the game. The second half collapse is still embedded in my mind...terrible trauma for a 14 yr old!