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Since this is an ATL sports board, lets flush this topic out : Worst Atlanta sports moment
Posted on 8/3/17 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 8/3/17 at 2:52 pm
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Braves
- Puckett off Leibrandt in 1991 Game 6
- Lonnie Smith slipping in 1991 Game 7
- Leyritz off Wohlers in 1996
- Brooks Conrad's NLDS in 2010
- The September collapse of 2011
- The Infield Fly game in 2012
- Fredi leaving Kimbrel in the bullpen in 2013
Hawks
- Bogus Jordan win over Nique in the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest
- Nique's 47 pts for naught in Game 7 in Boston in 1988
- All of the terrible draft picks
- 60 wins only to have everyone get hurt and get swept in the Eastern Conference Finals by the Cavs
Falcons
- 14 pt 3rd quarter lead vs Dallas in 1981 Divisional Round
- Eugene Robinson and all of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999
- Vick and Petrino
- blwoing a 17 pt lead at home in the 2012 NFC Championship game
- Super Bowl 51
General Atlanta
- Olympic Park Bombing in 1996
- The ice of the 2000 Super Bowl
- Losing 2 NHL franchises
- US Soccer loses to Jamaica in Atlanta in 2015 in it's first home loss to a Caribbean opponent since 1968
Atlanta United - I look forward to you letting me down in the most awful and gut wrenching way ever real, real soon!
Obviously I'm not including local college teams because not all of us like the local teams, but if you like the local team especially the SEC one oh my gosh bless your heart.
Braves
- Puckett off Leibrandt in 1991 Game 6
- Lonnie Smith slipping in 1991 Game 7
- Leyritz off Wohlers in 1996
- Brooks Conrad's NLDS in 2010
- The September collapse of 2011
- The Infield Fly game in 2012
- Fredi leaving Kimbrel in the bullpen in 2013
Hawks
- Bogus Jordan win over Nique in the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest
- Nique's 47 pts for naught in Game 7 in Boston in 1988
- All of the terrible draft picks
- 60 wins only to have everyone get hurt and get swept in the Eastern Conference Finals by the Cavs
Falcons
- 14 pt 3rd quarter lead vs Dallas in 1981 Divisional Round
- Eugene Robinson and all of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999
- Vick and Petrino
- blwoing a 17 pt lead at home in the 2012 NFC Championship game
- Super Bowl 51
General Atlanta
- Olympic Park Bombing in 1996
- The ice of the 2000 Super Bowl
- Losing 2 NHL franchises
- US Soccer loses to Jamaica in Atlanta in 2015 in it's first home loss to a Caribbean opponent since 1968
Atlanta United - I look forward to you letting me down in the most awful and gut wrenching way ever real, real soon!
Obviously I'm not including local college teams because not all of us like the local teams, but if you like the local team especially the SEC one oh my gosh bless your heart.
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 2:59 pm
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Posted on 8/3/17 at 2:55 pm to SummerOfGeorge
For me.......
1. 1996 World Series (about to go up 3-1 and become a dynasty, instead, NYY become one and we never get that close again)
2. 2017 Super Bowl (worst loss in sports history on the biggest stage)
3. Puckett off Leibrandt in 1991 Game 6 (I cried the entire day the next day, then watched Game 7 and cried the entire next week)
4. 2012 NFC Championship (we confirmed all the nonsense people said about us not being tough and could have 100% beaten the Ravens)
5. Hawks 60 wins and swept (fvck Delly)
6. Kimbrel in the bullpen (we were about to beat Clayton Kershaw with Fredi Garcia and Jose Constanza and come back to Atlanta for a Game 5 and FVCK YOU FREDI)
1. 1996 World Series (about to go up 3-1 and become a dynasty, instead, NYY become one and we never get that close again)
2. 2017 Super Bowl (worst loss in sports history on the biggest stage)
3. Puckett off Leibrandt in 1991 Game 6 (I cried the entire day the next day, then watched Game 7 and cried the entire next week)
4. 2012 NFC Championship (we confirmed all the nonsense people said about us not being tough and could have 100% beaten the Ravens)
5. Hawks 60 wins and swept (fvck Delly)
6. Kimbrel in the bullpen (we were about to beat Clayton Kershaw with Fredi Garcia and Jose Constanza and come back to Atlanta for a Game 5 and FVCK YOU FREDI)
Posted on 8/3/17 at 3:16 pm to SummerOfGeorge
It's hard to compare 96 Braves and the 2017 Super Bowl because I know how it all ended up for the Braves. I believe if we win that game to go up 3-1, then we would have won the series. Had we won the series then I think you see the Braves have a run like the late 90s Yankees did. I don't think you see the Braves trade for Lofton (which I firmly believe was the catalyst for the Braves failures after 97).
With the Falcons, I feel like they are actually on the rise and have a chance for a sustained run of success with a decent chance at getting back. With the Braves, that one game, that one pitch, changed the Cox era dramatically.
91 hurt (I was only 5 or 6 so it didn't really hurt me at all, but I've seen enough on the subject to have an idea), but I look at that team like I look at last years Falcons. It clearly is the start of something and no one was expecting it at the beginning of the year.
The various Fredi Gonzalez-led Braves fowl ups hurt at the time but aren't terribly meaningful as I don't think the Braves would have done anything significant even if those moments were reversed.
With the Falcons, I feel like they are actually on the rise and have a chance for a sustained run of success with a decent chance at getting back. With the Braves, that one game, that one pitch, changed the Cox era dramatically.
91 hurt (I was only 5 or 6 so it didn't really hurt me at all, but I've seen enough on the subject to have an idea), but I look at that team like I look at last years Falcons. It clearly is the start of something and no one was expecting it at the beginning of the year.
The various Fredi Gonzalez-led Braves fowl ups hurt at the time but aren't terribly meaningful as I don't think the Braves would have done anything significant even if those moments were reversed.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 3:25 pm to SummerOfGeorge
28-3 and it is not close.
ETA:
The whole Twins WS was a inside job and it sucked. The strike in '94 taking a title from the Braves. Liberty Media. I also think Blank being shafted out of buying the Braves set us back.
ETA:
The whole Twins WS was a inside job and it sucked. The strike in '94 taking a title from the Braves. Liberty Media. I also think Blank being shafted out of buying the Braves set us back.
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 8/3/17 at 3:29 pm to VinegarStrokes
To follow up on the 96 Braves comment I made...
For whatever reason we felt we a game changer at the leadoff spot and traded Justice and Grissom to the Indians for 1 year of Lofton. Justice had a couple of monster seasons with Cleveland.
Keep Justice and Grissom, and you wouldn't have needed Michael Tucker to play right, which meant we wouldn't have needed to trade Dye at the time and would have never had Keith Lockhart on the team.
Now you have a 97 outfield of Klesko/Dye, Jones/Grissom, and Justice. You could have traded 1 or 2 of Klesko/Dye/Grissom for something more significant down the road once you determine where your weaknesses lie. Maybe a really good second baseman?
Instead, we have Lockhart getting the majority of time at 2B in 1998, which led to Bret Boone which led to Veras/Sanders, etc.
There was so much turnover in the lineup year to year which I feel was a direct result of that desire to get Lofton which I feel was an overreaction to losing in the World Series.
Or maybe I am the one that is overreacting and we make the trade regardless of whether we win or lose the 96 series?
For whatever reason we felt we a game changer at the leadoff spot and traded Justice and Grissom to the Indians for 1 year of Lofton. Justice had a couple of monster seasons with Cleveland.
Keep Justice and Grissom, and you wouldn't have needed Michael Tucker to play right, which meant we wouldn't have needed to trade Dye at the time and would have never had Keith Lockhart on the team.
Now you have a 97 outfield of Klesko/Dye, Jones/Grissom, and Justice. You could have traded 1 or 2 of Klesko/Dye/Grissom for something more significant down the road once you determine where your weaknesses lie. Maybe a really good second baseman?
Instead, we have Lockhart getting the majority of time at 2B in 1998, which led to Bret Boone which led to Veras/Sanders, etc.
There was so much turnover in the lineup year to year which I feel was a direct result of that desire to get Lofton which I feel was an overreaction to losing in the World Series.
Or maybe I am the one that is overreacting and we make the trade regardless of whether we win or lose the 96 series?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 3:30 pm to AUCE05
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The strike in '94 taking a title from the Braves
Eh, not sure we were catching Les Expos that season.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 3:31 pm to VinegarStrokes
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To follow up on the 96 Braves comment I made...
Agree. It was one of the only "non-Braves way" moves I can ever remember us making, and it almost seemed like we immediately regretted it.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 3:31 pm to AUCE05
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The strike in '94 taking a title from the Braves.
I'm willing to bet that the strike saved the Braves division championship streak. The Expos were STACKED and we were 6 games back when the league went on strike. That might have been the catalyst which broke up that Expos team to help the Braves settle in as the best in the East.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 4:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Atlanta United
Greg Garza dislocating his shoulder 5 minutes into the All-star game.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 4:51 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Super Bowl 51
This and there is not a close second
Posted on 8/3/17 at 7:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
That's a solid list and now I'm sad
Posted on 8/3/17 at 8:24 pm to DawgCountry
Man, this list makes me want to call my parents and tell them to go frick themselves
Posted on 8/3/17 at 8:35 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Add that countnugget Kent Krbek pulling Gant off first. And frick the umps for not fixing it.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 8:54 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Add that countnugget Kent Krbek pulling Gant off first. And frick the umps for not fixing it.
Fvck that fat fvck
Posted on 8/3/17 at 8:54 pm to tylerdurden24
This list makes me think of C&C doing THAT SUCKED from the weekend
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:17 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Super Bowl 51
This x infinity
Posted on 8/3/17 at 10:38 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Wow we suck as a city 
Posted on 8/4/17 at 5:13 am to SummerOfGeorge
Well I could add the '93 playoff loss to the Phillies.That team may have been the hottest and best team of the 90's.Had an amazing 2nd half record catching the Giants.
Absolutely NO EXCUSE for losing in that playoff series.
Absolutely NO EXCUSE for losing in that playoff series.
This post was edited on 8/4/17 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 8/4/17 at 9:15 am to SummerOfGeorge
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- The Infield Fly game in 2012
frick you Holbrook
Posted on 8/4/17 at 9:57 am to NorthGwinnettTiger
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frick you Holbrook
And frick Joe Torre for his holier than thou bullshite press conference after the game.
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