Most Bizarre Thing You Ever Saw in Sport?

[bijanc]

Things like:

Oliver McCall crying in ring.

Tonya Harding getting to skate again after a broken shoelace

Clemens tosses broken bat part

(by this I mean unusual, something on the order of)

Morgana the Kissing Bandit


Shy-Metcalf back-to-back kickoff return TD's

Clay-Liston I, Clay Liston II

Derek Richmond and dad

No mas

the snowplow field goal

Fosbury when you first peeped him

Piersall running the bases backwards after 100th homer

Ali-Frazier wrestle live in ABC studio

Jim Marshall's wrongway TD

The pine tar incident

Willis Reed whupping LaRusso and half the Laker bench

Tyson bites Holyfield

Fake marathoner in Munich Oly's

fan attacks Seles

Rosie Ruiz runs

Steve Hamilton's folly floater

You get the general idea- what's the oddest thing you ever saw?

BCB

[Honusonthesound]

Boy, you've pretty much covered the ground. Those're great examples! I'm not sure I can top those. You've managed to dredge-up some ugly memories! Damn your hide!

[tafnut]

That STOOOPID Cal vs. Stanford Band play!!!

Maradona's 'Hand of God' goal.

An MLB pitcher (Nolan Ryan?) hitting a bird with his pitch and feathers everywhere.

Franco's Immaculate Reception.

Flutie's Hail Mary.

Franz Klammer's outta-control-all-the-way-down-the-hill Downhill Oly victory.

The Miracle on Ice.

Peter Warwick making 12 (!) people miss on a punt return.

[bijanc]

Weirdest

North Korean boxer refuses to leave ring after losing '88 Oly bout

Sammy's bat shatters to expose super balls

McNamara inserts Buckner for late inning defense

Clay-Liston weigh-in

Secretariat wins a TC race by 28-30 lengths

Larsen hurls a perfect game

BCB

[malmo]

"I just caught fire" Jason McElwain goes wild

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcF7DsaGTg8


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[Half Miler]

An MLB pitcher (Nolan Ryan?) hitting a bird with his pitch and feathers everywhere

Randy Johnson.

[Half Miler]

"I just caught fire" Jason McElwain goes wild

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcF7DsaGTg8

Thanks for including the clip. Brought me to tears.

[malmo]

"I just caught fire" Jason McElwain goes wild

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcF7DsaGTg8

Thanks for including the clip. Brought me to tears.

Here's the slick, polished version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RaOy3d ... ed&search=

[doug091463]

some guy parachuting into the ring during the evander hollyfield vs riddick bowe fight.
did not see it, but tanya harding having a goon hit nancy kerrigan in the knee to try to eliminate her competition.
roy jones being robbed of gold in the olympic finals.
mike tyson biting holyfields ear in twice in the ring.
werknesh kidane running 3019 for 10k by herself.
and just recently wrestler chris benoit having a 3 hour tribute to him on usa network the day he committed suicide, the day after he murdered his autistic and/or mentally retarded son and 2 days after he murdered his wife.

[doug091463]

not in a sporting event, but former football and track star o.j. simpson leading cops on a freeway car chase, with the tv helicopters following the whole chase and all the people pulled over to the side of the road getting out of their cars, some even had signs like go o.j. go. at the time o.j. was considered a fugitive for failing to turn himself in as he was supposed to, in a double murder case. simpson was found to be innocent and vowed to catch the real killers, he has yet to find them, but i heard he is looking for them on golf courses all over the world.

[runforlife]

Franz Klammer's outta-control-all-the-way-down-the-hill Downhill Oly victory. .

That one was fantastic!! If there was such a thing as my favorite downhiller, it would diffently be Klammer.

Strange thing I saw this year in a HS girls 4*8, the lead off runner walked the last 100m before the hand off. Then she stood at the edge of the track with her arms crossed for the rest of the race. Can we say, Attitude!!

[EPelle]

An MLB pitcher (Nolan Ryan?) hitting a bird with his pitch and feathers everywhere

Randy Johnson.

Dave Kingman hitting a boll up which never came down!
HR off Jose Canseco:s head!

[bad hammy]

John Drummond laying on the track outside Paris . . .

[cullman]

Re: Most Bizarre Thing You Ever Saw in Sport?

Things like:

Oliver McCall crying in ring...

You get the general idea- what's the oddest thing you ever saw?

BCB

Oliver McCall also had some sort of huge growth sticking out of his forehead after taking a couple of right hands from Evander Holyfield.

Also watched a boxer's mother jump into the ring and beat her son's opponent with her shoe.

Is bullfighting a sport? I loved watching that bull de-pants this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcjDwio4G0

cman

[dukehjsteve]

There have been more than a few collapses near the end of a race, but the 2 most riveting ones I remember are Jim Peters in the 1954 Empire Games Marathon, and Bob Soth in the 1959 US-USSR 10K.