The 12 Greatest (or Worst) Goats in Sports History
Submitted by podizz on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 09:56
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- Bill Buckner
- Steve Bartman
- Scott Norwood
- Andrés Escobar
- Mitch Williams
- Fred Merckle
- Chris Webber
- Grady Little
- Ralph Branca
- Fred Brown
- Don Dekinger
- Zinedine Zidane
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comments welcome...
Forgive, please. In sports, what it a goat?
a scapegoat...someone who gets sacked with all the blame for a catastrophic loss...
What, no Fred Merkle?
good one. i dont know how that slipped my mind....God the Cubs suck
I don't think Zidane was a goat, he got injured during the game, and was not playing well, the headbutt was just the icing on the cake, even if he was playing i think France would have lost anyway.
Also have you noticed that in the Bartman picture he was not the only fan going after the ball?
How can you say that it was the icing on the cake...the game was tied. France had to play the rest of the game without their leader. Whats more, the game was decided in a shootout and Zidane was their most reliable penalty kick taker. France had to replace their best guy with their 6th best. The only way you can argue that this guy wasnt a scapegoat was how much he was beloved by France; he had already given so much to the team over the years that he was almost beyond reproach. But either way, Zidane's "moment of madness cost him a second World Cup title," Jonathan Stevenson, BBC Sport.
Did you see the game? he wasn't a difference maker, he was injuted.