Tag Archives: fail
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Celebration Fail: Korean Baseball Player Prematurely Celebrates Home Run, Watches in Horror as it Turns into Pop Fly (Video)
I’m not one of those stuffy old baseball types who thinks celebrations should be reserved for the clubhouse. However, I do believe that there is a time and a place for everything, and that certain types of celebrations are just uncool. Consider, for example, the home run celebration. It’s natural to be excited when you [...]
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This Might Be the Worst Ceremonial First Pitch Ever (Video)
We’ve seen some pretty awful ceremonial first pitches in recent years. Some of them came from rather attractive women, in which case everyone pretty much got the results they expected. Others came from elite athletes who you would have thought could do better. But none of these, however, really merited consideration for “worst ceremonial first [...]
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Dangerous Winds Cause Soccer Net To Steamroll a Fan in Norway (Video)
When I was a kid playing soccer, the most exciting thing about playing in championship games was getting goals with nets on them. We never had that luxury during league games because, yes, it was a pretty pitiful league. But for interleague championship games they pulled out all the stops, and we felt like pros. [...]
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Behold the Worst Penalty Kick of All-Time…For Real This Time (Video)
On several occasions, we here at TotalProSports have shown you a truly awful soccer penalty kick and called it the worst PK of all-time. However, every single time we were lying right to your face. None of those were the worst penalty kick of all-time. This is the worst penalty kick of all-time. It comes [...]
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Parenting Fail: Mom Drops Kid to Catch Hockey Stick at Kings Game (Video)
Sporting events present a lot of challenges to parents. Pretty much everywhere you look there’s a way for your kid to get injured or into trouble, and there just so happens to be a huge distraction—i.e., the game—right in front of you the whole time. That being said, a lot of parenting fails at sporting [...]
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27 Baseball Fail GIFs
The 2013 Major League Baseball season is upon us, which means you can once against savor the smell of hot dogs and the crack of the bat. It also means we can once again feast our eyes on towering home runs, diving catches, and crisp double plays. However, you’ll be seeing none of that here. [...]
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Brandon Knight Sucks at Layups (Video)
The Detroit Pistons went into Boston last night and lost a tight game to the Celtics that went down to the wire. The final score was 98-93, after Jason Terry sealed the deal by making both of his free-throws with just nine seconds remaining in the game. But if Pistons fans were looking for one [...]
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Diamondbacks Fan Dodges Home Run Ball, Lets It Hit His Girlfriend in the Head (Video & Gif)
We’ve already shown you one example today of how baseball fans are still a little rusty just a few games into the season. How about another? At last night’s Diamondbacks-Cardinals game at Chase Field in Arizona, Redbirds shortstop Pete Kozma blasted a home run off Heath Bell into a picnic area in the top of [...]
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Jays Fan Makes a Terrible Attempt at a Foul Ball (Video)
Major League Baseball players go through six long weeks of spring training, and they still show up on opening day a little rusty, booting grounders and misreading fly balls. The fans? They don’t get spring training. Well, actually, I guess they do if they take a vacation to Florida or Arizona and take in a [...]
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Pistons’ Jose Calderon Almost Walks Into the Wrong Locker Room During His Return to Toronto (Video)
When an athlete spends a long time playing in one city, you know it has to feel weird when he returns to that place for the first time as a member of another team. I mean, if it’s strange for the fans to see that guy in another uniform, imagine what it must feel like [...]
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Tuukka Rask Tries to Smash Stick on the Boards After Loss to the Habs, Falls on His Butt (Video)
Without a doubt, the biggest surprise of the abbreviated 2013 NHL season is the Montreal Canadiens. Nobody really knew Chicago would be as good as they are, and the Ducks are somewhat surprising, but with their talent, observers certainly thought they both had a chance to be good. But the Canadiens? They were supposed to [...]
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23 Funny Gatorade GIFs
When it comes to equipment and apparel, no single brand dominates the world of sports. Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Puma, Umbro, Under Armour, Majestic—they’ve all got pieces of the lucrative pie. But when it comes to sports drinks, there is Gatorade, and then there is everyone else. In the U.S., the Pepsi-owned “Thirst Quencher” has 75% [...]
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Here’s Why You Don’t See Many Gatorade Showers at Basketball Games (Video)
Most people give the 1985 New York Giants credit for popularizing (if not inventing) the Gatorade shower—that great American victory celebration in which a team dumps a cooler of the beverage on their coach. The Giants did it to coach Bill Parcels in ’85 after a big win over the Redskins, and ever since then [...]
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Hooters Ball Girl Picks Up Fair Ball, Gives it to a Fan (Video)
It seems as though every year, you can count on us to provide our readers with at least one update on the Hooters ball girls that can be seen patrolling the foul grounds during Philadelphia Phillies spring training contests. For the first few years, it seemed as though everyone was impressed with these ball-chasing beauties, [...]
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Watch Russell Westbrook Get Rejected by the Rim (Video)
How often does an NBA player miss an uncontested layup or dunk? Like, once every fifty chances—or something like that? That’s just a guess. I don’t know the numbers, but I know it is rare. So that makes the clip you’re about to see very special. Last night, the mighty OKC Thunder stopped by Madison [...]
