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  • The GIGGAS
    Timbers - Jags - Hokies
    • Mar 2003
    • 28474

    #1

    Untrue Sports Myths

    John Kincaid, filling in for Colin Cowherd on the Herd, brought up a great idea. He wanted people to call in and share an untrue sports myth. He came up with the myth that the Bears are unbeatable in Chicago Bear-weather (January at Soldier Field).

    Mine is the November collapse of Virginia Tech. This year, we lost once in September and once in October, then won our final 6 games. Last year, we only lost to Miami in November, then we went to the ACC Title game and lost to FSU. In 2004, we lost to the National Champion USC Trojans in the first game of the season, and then lost to NC State on a FG miss. That was in September. In fact, a large collapse late in the season hasn't happened since 2003, when VT went 3-2 in November.

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  • Chief Illinimac
    Gimme the Oscar, Friendo.
    • Dec 2004
    • 2365

    #2
    Re: Untrue Sports Myths

    I'll say the Cubs not being able to win a World Series.





    Oh wait, that isn't a myth.
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    • MassNole
      Banned
      • Mar 2006
      • 18848

      #3
      Re: Untrue Sports Myths

      Originally posted by The GIGGAS
      John Kincaid, filling in for Colin Cowherd on the Herd, brought up a great idea. He wanted people to call in and share an untrue sports myth. He came up with the myth that the Bears are unbeatable in Chicago Bear-weather (January at Soldier Field).

      Mine is the November collapse of Virginia Tech. This year, we lost once in September and once in October, then won our final 6 games. Last year, we only lost to Miami in November, then we went to the ACC Title game and lost to FSU. In 2004, we lost to the National Champion USC Trojans in the first game of the season, and then lost to NC State on a FG miss. That was in September. In fact, a large collapse late in the season hasn't happened since 2003, when VT went 3-2 in November.

      If this isn't the right forum, please move it. Thanks.
      It seems you are looking at that with too narrow of a scope personally. In 2005 VaTech went from a potential MNC team to getting hammered by Miami at home and then losing to a FSU team who was 1-3 in their previous 4 games. That is a collapse however you cut it.

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      • Uhfan
        Pro
        • Jun 2003
        • 539

        #4
        Re: Untrue Sports Myths

        Wasn't there a myth about Cal Ripken, a famous Hollywood actress, and a blackout in Baltimore? I hear it on Colin Cowherd's show but they wouldn't give any specific details but supposedly it really did happen. Anyone heard of this myth before or tall tale?

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        • cjonesfan921
          UGH, next year
          • Jan 2005
          • 20081

          #5
          Re: Untrue Sports Myths

          How 'bout the fact that people still don't think WVU is the best team in the nation. I mean they beat Georgia in THE SUGAR BOWL for goodness sakes.

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          • TerpsJunkie
            Pro
            • Apr 2003
            • 792

            #6
            Re: Untrue Sports Myths

            Originally posted by Uhfan
            Wasn't there a myth about Cal Ripken, a famous Hollywood actress, and a blackout in Baltimore? I hear it on Colin Cowherd's show but they wouldn't give any specific details but supposedly it really did happen. Anyone heard of this myth before or tall tale?
            The Baltimore Orioles did not deliberately create a lighting malfunction before a 1997 game to keep Cal Ripken's consecutive game streak intact.

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            • ehh
              Hall Of Fame
              • Mar 2003
              • 28962

              #7
              Re: Untrue Sports Myths

              Wade Boggs drinking 100 beers on a six-hour flight or whatever the number is.
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              • SPTO
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                • Feb 2003
                • 68046

                #8
                Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                Babe Ruth calling his Home Run in (I believe) his last World Series.

                It's certainly not 100% true. I think the last time I looked it up (a long time ago) on snopes it was deemed undetermined. I think it's too much of an iconic moment to have actually happened.
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                • Tomahawk
                  MVP
                  • Feb 2005
                  • 1593

                  #9
                  Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                  The ball going through Bill Buckner's legs cost the Red Sox the 1986 World Series. Even if Buckner caught the ball he wouldn't have beaten Mookie Wilson to the bag and the pitcher wasn't making an effort to get over there either.
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                  • CMH
                    Making you famous
                    • Oct 2002
                    • 26203

                    #10
                    Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                    Derek Jeter is clutch.
                    "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

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                    • Nivek
                      H*ll *f F*m*
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 7999

                      #11
                      Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                      Originally posted by Tomahawk
                      The ball going through Bill Buckner's legs cost the Red Sox the 1986 World Series. Even if Buckner caught the ball he wouldn't have beaten Mookie Wilson to the bag and the pitcher wasn't making an effort to get over there either.
                      Plus, wasn't it game six?
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                      • Nivek
                        H*ll *f F*m*
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 7999

                        #12
                        Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                        Chris Rix was a bust.

                        Certianly not true, one of the biggest scapegoats in college football history.
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                        • BGarrett7
                          All Star
                          • Jul 2003
                          • 5890

                          #13
                          Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                          Originally posted by Nivek
                          Plus, wasn't it game six?
                          Yep, it was game six. The game was also already tied at 5 at that point -- thanks to Bob Stanley's wild pitch a few pitches before the infamous groundball was hit -- another common misconception. The most Buckner could've possibly done was keep it on the infield and have runners on the corners in a tie game. That error is the single most overrated play, in terms of importance, in sports history.

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                          • Psyblast
                            2023 National Champions
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 42584

                            #14
                            Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                            Jim Tressel owns Lloyd Carr and Michigan.

                            Untrue. People just buy into it because Tressel guaranteed a win in 2001 at Michigan and got it done. Impressive, but overrated. Credit to Tressel for having the best player in the history of the OSU-UM rivalry, but that does not mean Tressel "owns" Michigan. It means Troy Smith does.

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                            • BGarrett7
                              All Star
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 5890

                              #15
                              Re: Untrue Sports Myths

                              John Schuerholz is a great GM.

                              Some key gambles make his resume look a lot better than it should given the number of crappy decisions he's made over the years.

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