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Never forget the costliest choke in sports history, the own goal scored by Colombian player Andrés Escobar in the 1994 World Cup that led to his team's elimination, shortly after which he was “coincidentally” murdered
Yeah they found him and shot him for every time Brazil scored and yelled, Goal!, sick people Edit: apparently I’m not correct if you find @danielmoreno2964 in the replies he has the correct story
24:02 This is the story of the penalty of Roberto Baggio's, the man who died standing. Year 1970 Ferido Baggio, father of Roberto, couldn't hide his sad face after the defeat in the World Cup final, a painful 4 to 1 to that Brazil of Pele, Jairzino and Jerson, caused the tears of a man who had to be consoled by His son, just 3 years old, Robby, as they called him, then hugged his father's leg and said, "Calm down dad, I'll beat Brazil. I'll win a world cup for you." And we don't know if it was God or just random, but In 1994 fate put Baggio in a world cup final and coincidentally it was against Brazil. the match ended up going to penalties after a timid 0-0. Brazil scored 3 of the first 4, Italy only 2, the fifth and last It was for him, Roberto Baggio, who had just won the Ballon d'Or that same season, and who had reached the final in an almost Maradona-like World Cup, the man who had promised his father to win a World Cup against Brazil, the eyes of the whole planet were on him, he was Italy's last hope. He took 2 steps back, he took a deep breath, but he ended up sending the ball to the clouds. silence invaded all the houses of Italy, on the field, Roberto Baggio looked at the ground with his arms on his hips, it was not a simple image of defeat, it was as if that prodigy had lost his soul, never before had such a bleak image been seen on a football field, infinite sadness could be seen in his eyes, the representation of a frustrated dream, the broken promise of a child who swore to one day give his father something that he could never give him. nothing and no one could comfort him for more than 5 years, he even had nightmares with that penalty for a long time, and it is that, after that game, in Italy a phrase began to become popular that says: "Socrates died poisoned, but Baggio died standing".
Douglas’ story is really beautiful. He promised his dying mother that he was gonna beat Tyson. And a few days before the fight, his mother died and he used that as motivation to defeat him. That is some rocky balboa shit right there.
@@harveyp1120 Everyone who has played baseball for any significant length of time has experienced it. The opposite side of a two out rally. You spend what feels like years in the field, unable to get the last out. Somehow 0-2 counts turn into walks. Easy ground balls turn into errors. Pop-ups drop in no man's land. The elusive third out seems impossible as the other team racks up run after run. And you stand there dwelling in your own incompetence making error after error until eventually you finally get the last out, but in such adeep hole and so mentally defeated that the game is essentially over.
@@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649 I am glad you have a clear head to not treat a single bad moment as what defines someone. I sincerely wish more people would stop that.
A few historic chokes that have happened after this video 1 - The 22-23 Bruins, who broke the record with 65 wins, blew a 3-1 lead to the 8th seed Florida Panthers 2 - The Colts blowing a 33-0 lead in 25 minutes to the Vikings, the largest blown lead in NFL history 3 - The 8 seed heat beating the 1 seed bucks in historic fashion
"No matter how good you are, everyone has to lose eventually" Reminds me of Mercedes in F1 right now, currently a distant 3rd in the standings and set to lose their 8 year long championship winning streak
@@user-jq5ub1jb6s tbh, mercedes' situation rn is less about "will they win this year?" and more of the "will ferrari fuck up enough this year?" red bull practically already won, verstappen's already has chances to be champion as early as singapore, and their challenge mostly resides on if checo is able to beat leclerc on the standing for a symbolic wdc 1-2, since checo's good enough to give them a constructor's championship as well. unironically, the battle for 2nd stands between merc and ferrari, the only thing that changed from last year was merc and rb changing roles. seeing max lap lewis in imola was kinda funny tho.
As a New Zealander, the moment you mentioned an 8-1 lead I literally started to say "no, no, NO" out loud. 2017 and 2021 hasn't fully erased that trauma it seems
Oh god. I was in high school when this happened, everyday we would hear from our maths teacher the score. And everyday for 8 days it was "They lost again". It was excruciating
As an athlete myself, watching Jean desperately try to salvage the hole was the most painful one. Having a huge lead only to inexplicably be unable to do everything that got you there is one of the worst things imaginable for an athlete. The thought process of "it's just one point it doesn't really matter, ok thats two i got this, now its 3 i gotta correct this" with the desperation increasing each time until you're now tied or even losing is stomach churning. On top of that I'm in a solo sport, so I got no team to back me up so if I lose it is solely my fault.
"Life is like a game of Tetris, your achievements disappear while your mistakes keep piling up" AND "One mistake is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of great achievements" 2 quotes that are beyond painfully true for not just sports
I met Bill Buckner before he died. He was the perfect gentleman. I told him I think he was a Hall of Fame player (and he is). He shrugged and said, "Well, thanks, I appreciate that". And then he signed a ball for me and was great to chat with. We talked about hunting and his home in Idaho for 10 minutes. I still keep the ball he signed for me on my desk to remind me that character is how you deal with adversity.
as a Sox fan, yes what he did caused generational pain, but everything happens for a reason. 2004 wouldn’t be as special without him, and he was still a great player. I wish he could’ve lifted the trophy in 2004 just like how Bartman got to with the Cubs.
my grandpa was a huge Boston Red Sox fan. He even had the newspaper front page when they won the World Series in 2004 framed on his wall. I was too young to know a lot about baseball at the time, but this video made me feel a lot closer to him now that I understand more about his favorite baseball team. It makes me bittersweet knowing how excited he was when they won and how hard it was to get there. He passed away almost seven years ago and I’m sad i can’t talk to him about it now that this video taught me about it. But I loved this video and thank you ❤
Everywhere At The End of Time was the perfect music choice for when you showed the 2003 Cubs NLCS footage, that song perfectly sums up how I felt about watching that inning for years and years. However, ever since 2016, I haven't felt that way again. It's like a weight has been lifted. Maybe it even worked out for the better that it went the way it did. One day your Jags will win and you'll know how I feel.
Hearing that song triggered flashbacks of listening to that album first time... I don't think anyone comes back from listening to that whole album the same.
Not always. The most legendary clutches come from executing the seemingly impossible when it counts the most, when so many of the chokes shown here are a result of falling short of what's expected.
An honorable mention for the Inconceivable is Brazil vs. Germany in the 2014 World Cup semi-final. The tournament was in Brazil and home favorites should have gone all the way (at least to the final), but ended up losing 1-7 to Germany. Watching it unfold live was a surreal experience.
most of my friends here in brazil unironically recount crying watching that game, we were 9 at the time but im sure some adults were left traumatized too lmao
@@campbell9825 it does since Brazil lost at home, and had won 5 cups already so most assumed it had the most chance of winning that day, but loosing it isn't the worst part, its the 6 points difference
Amazing how emp is able to take the viewer on such a roller coaster of emotions, from chuckling at the bloopers to the heartache of the inconceivable only to flip the narrative on its head with a foreshadowed best comeback in baseball history (possibly sports history). Perfect storytelling, and it's why I've been subscribed for so long :)
@@TheSimplicated123 no it wasn't. Emp releases the videos days in advance on his patreon. That's why there's comments on here that RUclips says were posted _BEFORE_ the video came out. It's not a glitch, it's just the video was private for patreon supporters to watch early (because that's one of the perks of supporting a youtuber on patreon), and then eventually the general public gets to watch it too a few days later. But yeah this video didn't come out today, it probably came out a week ago, but the fate under the video says it came out today but that's only because that date and time is the indicator for when the video was published to the public, not for when it was uploaded to the site. So many people watched it long before the video eventually became viewable to all. Someone could have watched it 3 or 4 days ago. That's how RUclips works, because creators want to avoid copyright strikes, and so they'll release a video that's delisted so only they can see it, well then and RUclips's contentID bots anyway. So if the video had violating material in it, the youtuber can simply delete the video, go back into their editing software, and edit out the 2 seconds of footage or however long it is, and upload this new version to RUclips as yet another unlisted private video. They keep repeating this process until it's been like a week and they've had no copyright strikes yet, and so by that point it's mostly safe and so they can release it publicly for everyone to watch
Watching this video made me realize how much of Jon Bois's content is based off chokes. Dave Stieb, the Falcons, the river city relay, the rockets missed shots ... it just goes to show that choking is probably the most fascinating aspect of sports. Great video as always, Emp
Right? I think what's even more special about his content is that you still want the people in the videos to find relief. You want every dork in Dorktown to find a happy ending, but if you weren't a true dork, you wouldn't be living in Dorktown.
Yeah, I found it a little eerie how many of these moments I’d seen before just because they’d been featured in a Bois video. Glad to know I’m not crazy
@@janakel i'd argue there's several creators on par, but they mainly focus on their specific niches- jon bois for sports oddities, summoning salt for speedrunning. internet historian. definitely some others that slip my mind. emp definitely has the advantage on topic variety, though, and every single video's a banger
My grandfather was in that Brazil vs Uruguay world cup final in 1950. I've heard that story numerous times and it's even hard to imagine because he says that everyone was just quiet, you could only hear people dragging their feet on their way out and the occasional cry.
@@deborahhmendes He did say a bunch of people had heart attacks there but never said anything about people throwing themselves off but then again I was quite young when I heard it so I imagine he would skip that part.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
40:42 The reveal that the person who's simplistic quote opening the video is also the person who capitalized on the biggest blunder in American football is so masterfully done, you can always trust EmpLemon videos to come full circle somehow.
I know that this probably wouldnt reach an American audience, hence why its not in the video, but the South African cricket team is without a doubt the biggest choker in the history of sport. Never even made it to a world cup final despite being far and away the best white ball team during the late 90s, and having decent squads in the early to mid 2010s too.
I know cricket like this (as a person who doesn’t really follow it at all - tell me how I did!) Canada (my country) - yeah we are here, we win we lose and we drink maple syrup Bangladesh: The losing-est team ever England: Lol we win, but not all the time South Africa: basically the St Louis Cardinals Australia: we’re number two in our continent Pakistan: chokers India: also chokers but also the best; pretty neutral all in all USA: We may suck, but we don’t SUCK suck Netherlands: Hey look we’re top ten all the time and have a championship Portugal: hey look we are a lower tier playing in top tier
My dad doesn't enjoy modern media all that much, but he's been a huge sports fan all his life. I showed him this video and he loved every minute of it. I could see the nostalgia in his eyes. Great video.
the crowd’s reaction to jean van de velde was really kind. they cheered him on at every turn and acted like he won the whole tournament when he finally made it in, i love them
I remember watching this play live at home with my dad when i was like 11 years old (38:10). We jumped up and down and I went outside to scream for joy, and half my neighbors joined me. I’m glad this play got brought up, cause it definitely was the biggest sports fumble I’ll personally remember.
I remember my dad accepting Michigan's victory just as I was about to head downstairs to start a game; right when I hit the bottom of the stairs, it happened and he just went NUTS. I didn't even know what was going on until I dashed back upstairs to check on him.
There are a ton of football moments that should be mentioned as well. Liverpool vs Barcelona 2019, Barcelona 6-1 PSG, I could go on. It’s a shame it was mostly just baseball and American football but It’s understandable because this person is from the us
The most heartbreaking choke is the own goal from Andres Escobar imo. Might have been to morbid to feature here, but his own goal in the World Cup group stages literally costed him his life. It deserves a spot in the inconceivable section just from what resulted from it.
it wasn’t as crazy bc they were already down. but if it was game 7 or game 5 with the yanks up 3-1 and then they lose, that would’ve been catastrophic. could’ve been like the bruins vs leafs 2013
I wait with Emp videos until I have a big fat meal ready. Just like with good movies/series. Cannot watch something amazing without good food. If I don't have any food in the house, I'm not watching my favorite channels (with high quality videos) at all. Basically: The lesser quality video, the lesser quality food I consume while watching. Idk if this is weird or if anyone can relate 😂
@@pass_ bro same I switched to a video critiquing Steven universe and added this to the watch later playlist I gotta munch on some good foods while watching this vid
It is absolutely amazing how some of these chokes forever change how an entire franchise or program is talked about. I live in Michigan and no matter how Michigan and Michigan State football are doing any given year, even if Michigan destroys MSU when they play each other, if the MSU fan just says "Appalachian State" or "Jalen Watts-Jackson," the conversation just... ends. Everyone knows. The Wolverines will always carry the weight of two of the biggest chokes in the history of sports, and no amount of future success can ever change that.
My old high school football coach is a huge Wolverines fan. I make sure to send him the game highlights of one of those two games. I’m an MSU fan, I’m required by law to do that
Wow it feels like the complete opposite to me - I went to Michigan and lived in Detroit for years, and I’ve grown to love the WOAH memes and the Appalachian State story, especially after last year. I’d trade a bunch more Jalen Watts Jacksons and stupid upsets for more moments like last year’s OSU game and Iowa game. Future success more than absolves past failures; it actually makes them more endearing (or hilarious) because they’re part of a narrative that has changed in victory - look how Bill Buckner was received when he threw out the first pitch in 2008. I grew up in the New York area, and as wild as the Red Sox upset in the 2004 ALCS was (the first time a team came back from 3-0), that’s not what Yankees fans think about when they look back on that era - they reminisce about the championships they won before and after that year, and the amazing players who were there during that era. The upset and the choke is part of a larger story, rather than the narrative itself. However, if you never win, the choke is the narrative - look at the Mets since their last WS win, or the Atlanta Falcons since 28-3, or the Cubs general existence for 108 years. But if you win eventually, that narrative changes. So that’s kind of how those moments from Michigan sports feel for me
I was at the Indy 500 in 2011 when Hildebrand hit the wall on the last lap. We were getting ready to make the 2 mile walk back to the car when on the Screen in-front of us I watched his car slide up turn 4 into the wall. Everyone around me was silent for a few seconds while they tried to process what happened. I was happy for Dan To win because he was my favorite driver at the time but I couldn’t help but to feel bad for Hildebrand to miss out on such a historic win.
I think that JR Hildebrands race team folded after their devastated loss in the Indy 500 that year in 2011... and we lost Dan 5 months later at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Indycar Championship... that was a gut wrenching sad October day....
The Boston Bruins, who set an NHL Record in 2023 with 65 wins, would take a 3-1 lead over the Florida Panthers in the first round. Needing only one more win to clinch the series against the much lower seeded Panthers, they would go on to lose the next 3 games in a row losing the final game in overtime 4-3. It keeps the odd streak mentioned at 46:48 where each of the best performing teams in the big 4 American sports leagues would fail to win the championship.
So which was worse, Boston in 2023 or Tampa in 2019? Ngl the amount of 3-1 series comebacks in the NHL compared to the NBA and other sports is interesting. Just so much parity and luck make it so unpredictable
@@ColonizerChan For now, I'd go with Boston. While 3-1 chokes are relatively common in the NHL, Boston wasn't any normal 1 seed, they earned the best regular season record ever. The Panthers barely made the playoffs. Not to mention the Bruins were winning in game 7 until about 1 minute left. Lightning didn't really choke any games, rather they got the beat down. It also helps that the Lightning went on to win two Stanley Cups. If Boston repeats their season next year and dominates the playoffs then they might be more equal in my opinion.
a really obscure and entertaining choke i recommend people looking up and reading about is the Tribes 4chan vs Reddit 5-game series. Reddit's team trained together for a few months, and 4chan's team wasn't even formed because they forgot about the series until the day-of. 4chan ended up winning the series 3-2, carried by a sniper who had a 140 ping
The real choke was in game 3. Reddit was already up 2-0 in the series, and was on track to win the final game 4-3 with 30 seconds left and control of 4chan's flag. They made a critical mistake when in their attempt to deny the tying point, all bundled together defending DavidBowie who had 4chan's flag. 4chan player Seph dropped a huge orbital strike and wiped out then entirety of Reddit's team, allowing the equalizer cap at 20 seconds, sending the game into a "first team to score wins" overtime. Reddit had no chance to regroup and by the time they knew what was happening, Skolfypaws was already en route for the game winning flag cap, dodging a last ditch orbital strike and winning game 3. With that, the momentum had totally swung, and 4chan proceeded to reverse sweep, winning the series 3-2.
/v/ back in those days was insane. nowadays you never really see that sort of spontaneous organization for multiplayer since it all got split off into places like /vg/ and /vm/.
17:50 As a Brazilian, the 1950s episode of "Maracanazo" was shock for anyone who believed in an easy win, but not for those who stood down to earth. It's said that Paulo Carvalho (the coach who brought us the '58 and '62 World Cup titles later on) tried to warn the leaders of the national team that so many cheers before the game would make them over-confident, thus giving the Uruguaians the breech they needed to win; obviously nobody cared, so he just told his child son to wait for the news of a "BIG defeat". Aside from our lack of awareness about chanting victory before the time, the coach and captain of Uruguay later said that despite everyone's disbelief that they could win, they studied hard to "find a crack" in our strategy. Our team kept using the same tatics game after game, but they found that the Swiss used a different one that made our team struggle like heck in the very 1st game of the competition, so they pushed for that in the field; the rest is history. Anyway, great video; keep up the good job.
@@pedrotoldi5594 That wasn't a choke, it was a complete m4ssacre, we never had a choice against them, specially with a laid back team so dependant of Neymar's performance.
Well I am Colombian and tbh this is somewhat relatable to how my home team won against Argentina and we just rub it on their faces daily with no end, after the tables turn after some years, my country has been in some kind of denial in some way, it goes to show that no one is perfect and everyone is vulnerable to anything.
You perfectly organized this video and its idea. The way you laid it out, in the pyramid style fashion, categorizing from less painful to even more painful. It’s excellent. When you think the worst has arrived, it gets even more heartbreaking. And the editing on the 3-0 comeback was great, seeing how the Red Sox came back, and having to pay attention to the little details with newspaper articles and fan signs. Good work as always.
It's a great video, very Bill Simmonsy, which coincidentally, Simmons had an old article on the "13 Levels of Losing" back when ESPN was still decent and which I think was probably referenced for this video.
That ending monologue during the final choke in the video is just poetry. But so is everything you do honestly, I haven't missed a single one of your long-form uploads since you first started making them--yes, starting with your BehindTheMeme video. That was over 5 years ago now. In the time it's taken for me to finish highschool, go through university, and secure a full-time job, I'm still sitting here and watching all of your uploads. You're the only RUclipsr I've been subbed to for this long without losing at least some interest along the way. There's just something about your videos that just click with me like nothing else on this platform, especially since you started the Never Ever series. You have this magical ability to make the most uninteresting topics (at least to me) fascinating and your videos all have insane rewatch value. I've probably watched your video on the Cold War like 7 times over by now. This was a long comment I know, I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate what you do, Emp. There will Never Ever be another RUclipsr like you.
You're not alone feeling this. EmpLemon is the best RUclipsr out there. And that in a time when RUclips is getting infested by low-effort and low-quality content. I hope Lemon can inspire people to do the same.
Gotta say, the end part with the Red Sox's score incrementing throughout was one of the best video watching experiences I've had. Like bloody hell you keep outdoing yourself every video. You just have some formula that nonsensically makes your videos more entertaining than other commentaries, I don't know how you do it, but I'm glad you did.
@@pedrofranck6014 I mean if you're not a sports person than I get it. Not only is terminology lost on those who aren't sports-savvy, but the weight of it is too. If you don't follow any particular teams or understand the history, they're just simple tales of someone('s team)'s ego getting the better of them. But it's to be expected. If Emp explained the backgrounds and weight of every event covered in this video, we'd be here all day (not that I'd mind). With his Nascar videos for example, he has the whole video to set up the story so you feel the full impact of the final arc. Whereas he couldn't really do that here.
@@bugjams As someone who has never even watched one full game of sports. This video was not only incredibly entertaining, but also easy to follow for someone with almost no sports knowledge. I think in some ways sports represent the human spirit on a micro level. The struggle, the victories and loses, constantly trying for that one win that could change anything. A person could go their whole life not watching one game of baseball and feel an immense feeling of kinship and the Red Sox snatch a victory that in all ways seemed impossible. I mean, isn't every single person working hard to make it in this world playing those exact same odds?
@@crassweller11 YES. Sports, and competition, are a microcosm of the entirety of the human condition. I think this gets lost on people who see sport as ‘just a game’ - they’re not wrong per se as this might be their experience, but they certainly are missing out on what’s so appealing to so many of us in the first place.
Here after Matt Ryan played for a Colts team that managed to blow a 33-0 lead at half to the Vikings. He has now blown the biggest lead in Super Bowl history and regular season history
I remember both those races but never put two and two together recently: Same sponsor Same turn Same lap Same day Both with the letters "J.R." in their names
@@Derpbag707 not really. The player who wins from a choke doesn't normally deserve it. If your opponent fumbles an easy catch you didn't clutch you got lucky. And if you make an amazing catch you clutched but the opponent didn't choke they just got beat
Amazing video. A couple suggestions for what I'd put in there as an F1 fan: 1982 Monaco GP: Five different fumbles from leaders or potential leaders in the last 3 laps, with one of them able to recover and take the W. I'd have loved to see Max Verstappen's lap at Jeddah featured. Like yeah, he's still WDC. But damn did it take some *circumstances*
As a Falcons fan, when you got through the three inconceivable football chokes, I really thought I might have somehow been spared the suffering. I should have known better
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
I feel like you missed the point in the end with the duality of a choke. One mans trash is a another mans treasure. Everytime a team suffers a stunning choke, another sees their team triumf in the most unimaginable way. Its really great.
It depends. You’d never call the daigo parry a choke. That was everyone making the right decisions. But the Indians losing to the cubs was pathetic. That was triumph off the back of failure.
watching sports is for losers. "My team triumphed." So fcking pathetic. Bread and circuses to keep the loser class from revolting. A truly advanced practice employed by the ruling class
when I played my little league semi finals game it was 3-4 we were loosing and the pitcher struck out the two batters before and then struck me out and it was a sad feeling but in the end improved my game
I know the kind of deep frustration a creator feels when the content they love is sidelined in favor of content they work hard on, even if it's not what they necessarily want to make. You put out banger content though and I honestly couldn't be prouder to have someone who's still got a deep passion on such a broad range of what too many label as inane, boring and even uninteresting trivia. You turned my utter disregard for Nascar into a reminder of why my mom took me to see races when I was still too young to know how to walk without falling over. You took my shrugging indifference at the world's highest jump and made me see the significance of Baumgartner's rise and plummet. You broke the walls down of _why_ me and my brother played WWE games on our Xbox and the good times we had visiting our grandparents. You recontextualized an entire stretch of my life I can hardly remember half the time in a series of bangers that knocked any of my skepticism- forged of osmium and pure cynicism- right into a black hole, never to escape again. Do not ever let someone tell you these videos are pretentious/needless/boring/unfounded. tl;dr this is that *_GOOD_* shit.
As someone that doesn't care about physical sports at all, I can attest that Emp does a really good job of making it accessible and also just plain interesting throughout.
People always forget that with many of those chokes, there were numerous plays and opportunities for the team to win before and after the fact. Especially considering in Buckners case there was still Game 7 to be played.
@@mattbernacki9282 Or Calvin Schiraldi having a complete meltdown and replaced by Bob Stanley, who's wild pitch tied the game, but somehow Buckner's error is what everyone talks about? And yes, there is also the fact that there was still a game 7, which the Red Sox of course blew a lead there too!
As a Mets fan. That wasn’t even the turning point. The wild pitch behind Wilson tied the game. I’m not gonna lie I too was under the assumption that grounder drove in two. Plus when Buckner went to ground it Mookie was a few steps to first. Unlikely would’ve beat him to the bag. Massive respect though to Bill. He signed a frame of that play along with Wilson and it’s on my wall. RIP
Indeed, I think Jon Bois' work has been an inspiration to EmpLemon too, which is why I found it awesome when he mentioned him at 43:31 regarding statistical stuff he reported on. c:
Please update this video and add the 5th inning of Game 5 during this 2024 World Series. One of the worst meltdowns not only ever in Yankee and baseball history, but in sports history overall. It hurts to be a Yankee fan at this point. I'm traumatized.
This is the longest car crash I couldn't stop myself from watching, and I enjoyed every minute of it. There's something about this topic that speaks to me on an existential level. Like these are the limits of humans that math and perfect strategy can never, ever account for, and it is a humbling reminder that you can never be too certain with anything you're doing, no matter how optimal the strategy is on paper. I can see a whole version of this for esports too. Great vid EmpLemon
"The one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually, they will hate you." ―The Green Goblin Granted this is a bit different but the quote definitely has a point we all like to see people fail it's just the truth the higher they are the more satisfying it is seeing them crash down.
“Art of the Choke” really feels like a book that the Green Bay Packers read just before going on to lose another championship game despite having a pretty good team that season
As a packers fan, I am glad that he didn't bring up any of our meltdowns.... the NFC champ game in Seattle is the one that really sticks out, but there has been so much heart break in the era of Rodgers.
The worst part about this for me is that instead of being a pretty good team, the Packers are often arguably the best team in the League when they choke in the NFC Championship Game.
I'm surprised Brazil's 7-1 loss against Germany in the 2014 World Cup Semifinals at their own home isn't mentioned here. Heartbreak for all Brazillians.
One of my favourite chokes was the 4-0 sweep of the Tampa bay lightning by the Columbus blue jackets. Maybe I’m biased because I’m a jackets fan, but that was so inconceivable. And it was their first playoff win In series history. You love to see it.
As a Lightning fan, that was brutal to watch. As much as it absolutely sucked to lose like that, it’s cool that your team was able to overcome the odds and do it.
I will never forget the out of town scoreboard at Nassau Coliseum showing the Jackets down and seemingly out in Game 1 getting a sizable chuckle out of the fans in the crowd before the next time it showed the score revealed Columbus had come back to win and received an arena wide “whaaaaaaaat?”. It was so bizarre to see an entire unaffiliated crowd be so shocked in unison at a stunning comeback
How ironic at 10:53 the Yankees came back in the 5th inning in 2012, but in the 2024 World Series the roles were reversed and the Dodgers came back in the 5th inning and won it 7-6.
I don't watch sports at all and I dont think I ever will, but some how, this weird fella with his green filter and simpson references always makes me genuinely engaged with the content.
Narratives, stakes, history, raw emotion, pride. A good sports moment is up there with the best pieces of media. You just need to give it a shot... Maybe by starting with RUclips videos of good storytellers like this weird fella or JxmyHighroller (basketball videos), and starting from the absolute best moments helps. Eventually, you just want to see new stories unfold in front of your eyes.
Growing up a Red Sox fan, the ‘04 sweep was one of the best sports memories of my childhood. The Sox managing to pull out some insanity now and again is what keeps baseball my preferred sport and is why I’ll suffer through their bad seasons.
@@iananderson3425 yup. Took my dad to the game against the Cardinals on Father’s Day this year and lucked out seeing one of the better games I’ve gotten to watch at Fenway in a while.
I mean, it was the comeback against the Yankees preceding the sweep that was so awesome. The World Series was obviously necessary, but bearing the Yankees was the deal
Secret Base (it's "SB Nation's" RUclips Channel) _JUST_ released a retrospective "Rewinder" video about the end of 2004 Red Sox Vs. Yankees, Game 4. Which is where the beginning of the series comeback started. Since, that is generally an underappreciated, but extremely important, aspect of the series.
15:47 I was living just off campus taking classes at UMBC when this happened. I'll never forget it. People screaming, cars honking, everyone out of their houses celebrating. It was a night of euphoric chaos in what was usually a quiet small town in Baltimore County. UMBC started building a new and improved basketball stadium the very next year..
Another Choke update from the world of Rugby! In the 2023-24 NRL Grand Finals (National Rugby League in Australia), the Brisbane Broncos were leading 24 - 8 with a little over 20 minutes to play - and they choked it away to the Penrith Panthers who scored 3 improbable tries and converted the final one to take a two point lead with 2 minutes left. It has been the largest comeback in the NRL finals EVER; even crazier is that this resulted in a 3-peat for the Panthers.
As a UMBC student, I knew we'd get a mention as soon as you said upset. The feeling of full euphoria from that win was almost undescribable. I'd been watching games since I was like 5 and then when I was a freshman we had the most talked about upset in the history of March Madness
that game was during spring break so there were not as many people on campus. But it was surreal going to a lobby room with a tv and just seeing with a few other students watching the game with looks of shock
I’m not even a Boston fan, but got damn was that emotional. Just the win against the Yankees to the call of them being world champions. From Moneyball, how can you not be romantic about baseball?
it did the same to me, not even as a boston fan, not even as a yankees fan, but kind of just as a new york state citizen in general. i don't know whether to feel mad or proud of you guys, honestly
44:26 That reminds me of the Super GT 2020 season, with Super GT being a Japanese motorsport series. The championship was decided not even on the last corner but on the start/finish straight. A Toyota team could have won the championship with 6 seconds in the lead but ran out of fuel in the finish straight just so that a Honda team could pass them - they won the championship with this. It was kinda emotional too as the main sponsor for the Honda team, Raybrig, was in its last season. This choke of the century in the series was possible because it was also on Fuji Speedway which has a massive straight so running out of fuel there is more than a nightmare.
Add to that all of this happened at Toyota's Home Track (Because they own Fuji Speedway) AND on the return year of the Toyota Supra to Super GT Racing after the retirement of the dominant LC500.
I remember jumping up when I saw the #37 car slow down because I had basically given up hope that Yamamoto could close that gap on the last two laps. I couldn’t process what had just happened for the next 30 or so minutes. The #100 not even finishing the cool down lap showed how hard he was pushing as well which made it all the sweeter
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
Although not really championship deciding race, GT300's GSR's would-be first win this season by an 11-second gap this year was ruined by a punture on left front which iirc was a fresh set
to cap ryo hirakawa's miserable 2020 season, hirakawa also lost 2020 super formula title decider to naoki yamomoto 3 weeks later by 2 points, finishing the race behind yamomoto by 1.2 seconds we could make an argument that ryo hirakawa's 2018-2020 season was the most grueling to watch (especially as hirakawa/toyota fan) and deserves to be one of the inconcievable chokes in the whole world of sport. it's one thing to see chokes drawn out over a set, a round or even a match, but hirakawa endured 3 straight years of chokes plus that super formula choke. there's no time to breathe, you HAD to watch him choking one final round at a time in defense of hirakawa's career, he won 2022 24 hours of le mans in his 1st try. good for him
Dude, as unbelievable as this may seem, I originally subscribed for your YTPs. When I saw your video style change, you were very clear about how you had been treated. I understood and stayed subscribed as a supporter to you, even though you said multiple times to unsubscribe. Through the good times, through the bad times, through the ups and downs, I've stayed with this channel. I've not said much on your videos over the years, but I really like who you have grown into. You're very strong-minded, Emp. You don't cave into demands from others. You are your own person. You are confident in yourself. You're an inspiration. Keep being amazing. Keep up the content.
I like how this video is a good starting point for those who want to learn more about sports. This video doesn't teach you every great detail, nor does it spoil every great choke. Many all time greats from 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning or 2009 Brett Farve are left unmentioned. Yet this video provides a basic level of information that can spur life long love for sports.
Watching this vid on June 21st, 2024. The Stanley Cup is going on, with the Edmonton Oilers on the verge of an incredible reverse sweep. They lost 3 straight games and as of today, won 3 straight games. Will they make history and take the cup next Monday? Or will Florida buck up and nab the last win? Either way, it'll be one worthy of this vid.
More updates to chokes: The Boston Bruins entered the playoffs with the most points and best record in NHL history and choked a 3 - 1 series lead against the Florida Panthers; who made the playoffs by 1 point over the Buffalo Sabres (tied for the longest active playoff drought in major NA pro sports) and finished 47 points behind Boston. The only other series to have a more lopsided margin was The Miracle of Manchester series where Edmonton finished 49 points ahead of the LA Kings and lost. Highlighting this series was overtime in game five where Bruins Goalie Linus Ullmark gives Matthew Tkachuck a gift turnover and he gets beat after falling on his back trying to get back to his crease. In the NBA, ONE WEEK EARLIER, the Milwaukee Bucks face the 8 seed Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs. Miami is looking for redemption after last year they lost on a mistake by Jimmy Butler with under half a minute to play and no timeouts. However the Bucks finished the season as the best team in the NBA and had the best home record as well - gunning for a championship. The Bucks get EMBARRASSED at home both games losing by a combined score over 27 points. Moving to Miami the Bucks turn it around and win game 3. Unfortunately, the Bucks’ shots go cold late in game four as the Heat kept their feet on the gas and go up 3 - 1 in the series. Game five in Milwaukee is a tough match, trading leads as both teams refuse to let it run away from them. The game is decided by a single basket and the Bucks lose.
In the NBA playoffs there have also been a couple more big chokes just this year. Memphis (2) losing to LA (7) Kings losing to Warriors after being up 2-0 And in baseball, my Dodgers lost to the Padres in the 1st round after having one of the greatest regular seasons of all time AND after winning Game 1....
The chargers are up 27-0 against the Jacksonville jaguars, the chargers do exactly what everyone expects them to do, and lose anyway. The jaguars have won a playoff game after having the worst record in the league the last 2 seasons.
Surprised nobody mentioned this one yet. In the 2021-2022 season, Paris St. Germain acquired Lionel Messi, making their front 3 possibly the greatest ever assembled. People saw them as instant Champions League favorites. In the Round of 16, the faced off against Real Madrid in a two-legged tie. At home, Messi missed a penalty, but at the end, Kylian Mbappe scored to take a 1-0 lead. In the second leg, Mbappe would score again, and they would even get a few more goals that got ruled off due to offsides. Real Madrid score three unanswered, including a bad giveaway from the goalkeeper to lose 3-2 over two games.
@@will-eh3qt *next year. Have you seen this bullpen?
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The Ikeys comeback against Pukke was the best rugby comeback i have seen in my life... The score was 33-15 (If i remember correctly) with about 4 minutes to go and Ikeys won the game 38-33 and it was in the final aswell!
Immediately thought of this video after watching Game 5 of the '24 World Series. Yankees defense imploded on that 5th inning. Not among the absolute worst chokes but definitely ranks around the Nightmare tier in my mind.
It was statistically the worst defensive game in baseball not just this year, but in the last couple years. For it to happen to a World Series caliber team when they are not only facing elimination, but in the series for the first time in 15 years. Yeah, it’s among the worst chokes I have ever seen. Easily in the top echelon.
The Red Sox foreshadowing throughout the entire video just to roll in their '04 victory with the speech set to Bach at the very end... genuinely amazing work EmpLemon. Keep fighting the good fight out there!
One of the most inexplicable chokes in motorsport was Carlos Reutemann in 1981. That year, unexpectedly, he was leading the F1 championship for most of the season and on paper appeared to have the odds in his favour (he led the championship by 1 point going into the final round in Las Vegas). However, despite qualifying fastest, he dropped down the field almost immediately. He only needed to finish ahead of his closest challenger, Nelson Piquet. At first, despite dropping down the field, he was staying ahead of the Brazilian, but once Piquet got ahead, the Argentinean driver fell out of the points and even got lapped by his retiring team mate Alan Jones. In the end, with a fifth place finish, Nelson Piquet was the 1981 World Champion and Carlos Reutemann after (initially) staying in the sport for 1982, abruptly retired from the sport after less than a handful of races in 1982 and instead became one of the best who never won the title
@@krzie18 well, that was a one off race and in my view he simply stalled the engine and was unable to restart it. In a way though it could be seen as a longer term choke job because those 10 points (for a win) lost probably cost him later in the year owing to every race matters in a season long points battle like F1. Having said that, as Ayrton Senna finished the year with 96 points to Mansell's 72, that 9 point swing wouldn't change the outcome of the championship With Reutemann, it was the championship that was on the line and his choke in that Finale left him with the title slipping through his fingers
@@Bopnan yeah, it came out of the blue when I heard last year that he died. What's for sure though is that after retiring from racing, he gave something back to his country by becoming a politician in Argentina
I think it shouldn’t even go to a driver Should go to Micheal Masi for panicking during 2021 Abu Dhabi and causing one of the most controversial and ridiculous ends to a brilliant world championship
NBA had a massive crossroads of choke. Eastern Conference leaders Boston (23-6 entering) fell behind dead-last Detroit (2-28) by as far as 21. The Pistons then melted down, choked that lead away, and lost in OT. This tied the all-time record for longest NBA losing streak. They already secured the single-season record when that skid hit 26 in a row.
Note: The Minnesota Vikings recently broke the record for largest comeback in NFL History on December 17th, 2022 vs. the Indianapolis Colts. The Vikings were down 33-0 with 8:27 left in the 3rd quarter. They won the game 39-36.
if I recall correctly, that was the date of a family Christmas. Even though our own team is a rival of the Vikings, by God that was one hell of a watch hahaha
Only a minute in, and I’m hearing quotes I remember from my childhood watching SportsCenter: “The band is out on the field!” “You play to win the game!” I know I’m going to enjoy this. Thank you, Emp. I did enjoy it, and each stage was more and more painful! That’s life.
@@shlay9753 nope. Emp made a tweet the other day about how he's worried his videos take too long to make, and so is mulling over the idea of having more casual videos in between the documentaries, like a podcast or something that doesn't require tons of research and scripting and recording and editing. But Emp is worried it'd dilute the rest of the content on his channel. And most people agreed with that assessment. We'd rather wait for really good videos every time than wait a bit less but his content becomes hit or miss.
@@duffman18 Honestly I’d be down for an Emp podcast on maybe a second channel. Dude comes up with the most interesting content on the platform, I’m sure he has a lot to say about just a lot of current day stuff.
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I have been a Toronto Maple Leafs fan since I could walk. All I know is chokes and pain.
Well at least we can root for Montreal after our boys come home early ☹️
And that probably means you’re Canadian too, you have my condolences.
Well you've got 1942 at least 🤷♂
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Never forget the costliest choke in sports history, the own goal scored by Colombian player Andrés Escobar in the 1994 World Cup that led to his team's elimination, shortly after which he was “coincidentally” murdered
Yeah they found him and shot him for every time Brazil scored and yelled, Goal!, sick people
Edit: apparently I’m not correct if you find @danielmoreno2964 in the replies he has the correct story
Just like his team, he was eliminated
@@JackDeSilverdisgusting honestly
A choke of the blunder type
@@rafael123loekcolombia moment
Every EmpLemon video ends with me punching the air and ready to do something violent, I love it. This video was fantastic as always, great work dude
Wendigoon proving a man of taste as always
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24:02 This is the story of the penalty of Roberto Baggio's, the man who died standing. Year 1970 Ferido Baggio, father of Roberto, couldn't hide his sad face after the defeat in the World Cup final, a painful 4 to 1 to that Brazil of Pele, Jairzino and Jerson, caused the tears of a man who had to be consoled by His son, just 3 years old, Robby, as they called him, then hugged his father's leg and said, "Calm down dad, I'll beat Brazil. I'll win a world cup for you." And we don't know if it was God or just random, but In 1994 fate put Baggio in a world cup final and coincidentally it was against Brazil. the match ended up going to penalties after a timid 0-0. Brazil scored 3 of the first 4, Italy only 2, the fifth and last It was for him, Roberto Baggio, who had just won the Ballon d'Or that same season, and who had reached the final in an almost Maradona-like World Cup, the man who had promised his father to win a World Cup against Brazil, the eyes of the whole planet were on him, he was Italy's last hope. He took 2 steps back, he took a deep breath, but he ended up sending the ball to the clouds. silence invaded all the houses of Italy, on the field, Roberto Baggio looked at the ground with his arms on his hips, it was not a simple image of defeat, it was as if that prodigy had lost his soul, never before had such a bleak image been seen on a football field, infinite sadness could be seen in his eyes, the representation of a frustrated dream, the broken promise of a child who swore to one day give his father something that he could never give him. nothing and no one could comfort him for more than 5 years, he even had nightmares with that penalty for a long time, and it is that, after that game, in Italy a phrase began to become popular that says: "Socrates died poisoned, but Baggio died standing".
LMAOO U TRANSLATED IT
@@dirtyglasses7578he actually did translate Iker Ruiz's narration
Douglas’ story is really beautiful. He promised his dying mother that he was gonna beat Tyson. And a few days before the fight, his mother died and he used that as motivation to defeat him. That is some rocky balboa shit right there.
Meanwhile tyson was in a Japanese brothel getting fucked up and not training
Holy damn
but what if he didnt beat him..
@@JebQuin bro idk he would be disappointed af probably
@@JebQuin He would have been sad. Luckily, he’s clutch as fuck.
"Baseball is one of the only sports with no time limit; meaning that the potential for suffering is theoretically...infinite"
Absolute Poetry
If you're a fan of a bad team or played for a bad team, this is the most factual baseball statement ever.
@@harveyp1120 Everyone who has played baseball for any significant length of time has experienced it. The opposite side of a two out rally. You spend what feels like years in the field, unable to get the last out. Somehow 0-2 counts turn into walks. Easy ground balls turn into errors. Pop-ups drop in no man's land. The elusive third out seems impossible as the other team racks up run after run. And you stand there dwelling in your own incompetence making error after error until eventually you finally get the last out, but in such adeep hole and so mentally defeated that the game is essentially over.
how can you not be romantic about baseball?
@@WrangleMcDangle It takes a long time and it's fucking boring. So with great ease.
@@MediHusky it's a movie quote
24:02 there is a saying in Italy, ''Socrates died poisoned, Nietzsche died hallucinating, and Baggio died Standing''
😂 beautiful
Poor Baggio. Amazing player and stellar career forever marred by 1 missed penalty.
@@Nomihc not for me. how can baggio or anyone be reduced to one moment? i hate this world.
@@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649 I am glad you have a clear head to not treat a single bad moment as what defines someone. I sincerely wish more people would stop that.
A few historic chokes that have happened after this video
1 - The 22-23 Bruins, who broke the record with 65 wins, blew a 3-1 lead to the 8th seed Florida Panthers
2 - The Colts blowing a 33-0 lead in 25 minutes to the Vikings, the largest blown lead in NFL history
3 - The 8 seed heat beating the 1 seed bucks in historic fashion
Miami football not kneeling against Georgia Tech
28-3
oh and the poverty bears blowing a 21 point lead to the poverty broncos who just got 70 dropped on them
Adesanya vs Strickland in MMA was a massive choke on Adesanya’s part as well
The 2023 Eagles starting 10-1 and getting bounced by 9-8 Tampa Bay in the Wild Card
I DEMAND you make an ART OF THE CLUTCH.
This was a FANTASTIC video, Emp.
[The Paltry]
The Fluke
The Inspired
The Oddity
[The Unforgettable]
The Upset
The Dream
The Stride
[Heaven]
The Indescribable
Half of that video will be just this video from the perspective of the winners lol
@@tim.noonan not really. You know, Cinderella stories and lucky shots.
and if it doesn't have Sergio Aguero winning Manchester City the English title with one of the last kicks of the entire season then I demand a refund.
If you are playing a zero sum game every clutch is someone elses choke and vice versa
"No matter how good you are, everyone has to lose eventually"
Reminds me of Mercedes in F1 right now, currently a distant 3rd in the standings and set to lose their 8 year long championship winning streak
Mercedes at Hockenheim 2019 was a mega choke
They lost already last season. About to lose again this season unless Red bull & Ferrari super choke haha
@@user-jq5ub1jb6s I think he means there constructors championships because they won that one last year
@@timothylewis2309 ah makes sense
@@user-jq5ub1jb6s tbh, mercedes' situation rn is less about "will they win this year?" and more of the "will ferrari fuck up enough this year?"
red bull practically already won, verstappen's already has chances to be champion as early as singapore, and their challenge mostly resides on if checo is able to beat leclerc on the standing for a symbolic wdc 1-2, since checo's good enough to give them a constructor's championship as well.
unironically, the battle for 2nd stands between merc and ferrari, the only thing that changed from last year was merc and rb changing roles.
seeing max lap lewis in imola was kinda funny tho.
As a New Zealander, the moment you mentioned an 8-1 lead I literally started to say "no, no, NO" out loud. 2017 and 2021 hasn't fully erased that trauma it seems
all blacks moment
Can you timestamp this part? I don't remember it in the video.
@@BMJ1999 47:04
Oh god. I was in high school when this happened, everyday we would hear from our maths teacher the score. And everyday for 8 days it was "They lost again". It was excruciating
@@Bonald9056 Oh my GOD
As an athlete myself, watching Jean desperately try to salvage the hole was the most painful one. Having a huge lead only to inexplicably be unable to do everything that got you there is one of the worst things imaginable for an athlete. The thought process of "it's just one point it doesn't really matter, ok thats two i got this, now its 3 i gotta correct this" with the desperation increasing each time until you're now tied or even losing is stomach churning. On top of that I'm in a solo sport, so I got no team to back me up so if I lose it is solely my fault.
At the same time, your teammates can't get mad at you because you have none.
@@f5tornado831 Yet you also can't say it's anyone's fault but your own
"Life is like a game of Tetris, your achievements disappear while your mistakes keep piling up" AND
"One mistake is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of great achievements" 2 quotes that are beyond painfully true for not just sports
yes
That's dummy thinking, though
**cough cough** Chris Benoit
@@SpiralPolias a long time wrestling fan, this comment hurt me in a spiritual level
@@vladimiradidas1945 Yeah. It doesn't feel very Radical to hear something like that.
I met Bill Buckner before he died. He was the perfect gentleman. I told him I think he was a Hall of Fame player (and he is). He shrugged and said, "Well, thanks, I appreciate that". And then he signed a ball for me and was great to chat with. We talked about hunting and his home in Idaho for 10 minutes. I still keep the ball he signed for me on my desk to remind me that character is how you deal with adversity.
as a Sox fan, yes what he did caused generational pain, but everything happens for a reason. 2004 wouldn’t be as special without him, and he was still a great player. I wish he could’ve lifted the trophy in 2004 just like how Bartman got to with the Cubs.
“Oh the band is OUTONTHEFIELD” is my favorite college football call of all time. The delivery is perfect for how absurd the situation is.
That is iconic
The dude absolutely freaked out and panicked. I love it.
such a stupid moment that it can’t help but be iconic
@u know me air fryer potato wedges? not what i expected, but these do look good
@u know me ip grabber
my grandpa was a huge Boston Red Sox fan. He even had the newspaper front page when they won the World Series in 2004 framed on his wall. I was too young to know a lot about baseball at the time, but this video made me feel a lot closer to him now that I understand more about his favorite baseball team. It makes me bittersweet knowing how excited he was when they won and how hard it was to get there. He passed away almost seven years ago and I’m sad i can’t talk to him about it now that this video taught me about it. But I loved this video and thank you ❤
Everywhere At The End of Time was the perfect music choice for when you showed the 2003 Cubs NLCS footage, that song perfectly sums up how I felt about watching that inning for years and years. However, ever since 2016, I haven't felt that way again. It's like a weight has been lifted. Maybe it even worked out for the better that it went the way it did. One day your Jags will win and you'll know how I feel.
i agree with everything except the jags winning lmao
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Hearing that song triggered flashbacks of listening to that album first time... I don't think anyone comes back from listening to that whole album the same.
you know that’s an actual song not just the remixed version
@@squirq
What song is that? I thought all the music featured in the project was original.
Another masterpiece, will never miss an emp upload
I get dumbshit silly stupid excited every time I see that Emplemon notification
He doesn't understand sports though. Once you start loosing, it's hard to overcome that mental barrier.
an empload?
his genius.. its almost frightening
Woah didn’t expect to see you here
These uploads are moments where the world stands still and everything must be dropped to watch
Never forget: When Legolas blew a 17-2 lead at Helm's Deep
lmaoooo
You're a legend, friend.
Haven’t seen Two Towers in a while. What was Gimli’s final tally?
@@axejpg Wa 😊q
@@hourlardnsaver362 43
The fact that a few months after this video, the jaguars choked an 8-3 record away and missed the playoff is extraordinary.
"The truth is, outside of the sports world, most of us are losers."
Truer words have never been spoken.
Never change EmpLemon.
Sports takes the place of me raiding your village and taking your stuff. Hypothetically ofcourse
@@commiehunter733 "Sports takes the place of me raiding your village and taking your stuff. Hypothetically ofcourse"🤓🤓
@@waltertownshend5662 if you didn’t do it I was 😂😂 how can say that shit and be dead ass serious
@@waltertownshend5662 Boy, he's not wrong those emojis are for you not him.
remind leToxic and kyrie and KD
The main thing to know about competition, is that whenever you hear about a heartwarming clutch, that also creates a soul crushing choke :(
Thanks bean :)
Not always. The most legendary clutches come from executing the seemingly impossible when it counts the most, when so many of the chokes shown here are a result of falling short of what's expected.
@@ThatWolfArrow u like arguing huh?
@@hugoehhh lmaoo
Not always sometimes you can have an epic clutch and your opponent doesn't choke you just managed to eek it out
An honorable mention for the Inconceivable is Brazil vs. Germany in the 2014 World Cup semi-final. The tournament was in Brazil and home favorites should have gone all the way (at least to the final), but ended up losing 1-7 to Germany. Watching it unfold live was a surreal experience.
That was an extremely surreal game but does it deserve the highest tier if Germany was also a favorite to win the cup?
That was such a great match to watch. I went to the bar during work and was just losing my mind cheering for Germany
most of my friends here in brazil unironically recount crying watching that game, we were 9 at the time but im sure some adults were left traumatized too lmao
@@campbell9825 it does since Brazil lost at home, and had won 5 cups already so most assumed it had the most chance of winning that day, but loosing it isn't the worst part, its the 6 points difference
@@campbell9825 Yes, losing was conceivable, but losing 7-1 was not.
Kyle Shanahan has now blown a 25 point lead in Super Bowl 51, 10 point lead in Superbowl 54, 10 point lead in Superbowl 58...
Kyle Shanahan and a double-digit lead in the Super Bowl
what a combo
Amazing how emp is able to take the viewer on such a roller coaster of emotions, from chuckling at the bloopers to the heartache of the inconceivable only to flip the narrative on its head with a foreshadowed best comeback in baseball history (possibly sports history). Perfect storytelling, and it's why I've been subscribed for so long :)
you still got like 20 minutes left of the video calm down
@@bwtrickster Wut?
Oh back when the Red Sox were the underdogs you wanted to see win
@@brettvv7475 The comment was posted at a point where the video had been out for less time than the video's duration.
@@TheSimplicated123 no it wasn't. Emp releases the videos days in advance on his patreon. That's why there's comments on here that RUclips says were posted _BEFORE_ the video came out. It's not a glitch, it's just the video was private for patreon supporters to watch early (because that's one of the perks of supporting a youtuber on patreon), and then eventually the general public gets to watch it too a few days later. But yeah this video didn't come out today, it probably came out a week ago, but the fate under the video says it came out today but that's only because that date and time is the indicator for when the video was published to the public, not for when it was uploaded to the site.
So many people watched it long before the video eventually became viewable to all. Someone could have watched it 3 or 4 days ago. That's how RUclips works, because creators want to avoid copyright strikes, and so they'll release a video that's delisted so only they can see it, well then and RUclips's contentID bots anyway. So if the video had violating material in it, the youtuber can simply delete the video, go back into their editing software, and edit out the 2 seconds of footage or however long it is, and upload this new version to RUclips as yet another unlisted private video. They keep repeating this process until it's been like a week and they've had no copyright strikes yet, and so by that point it's mostly safe and so they can release it publicly for everyone to watch
Watching this video made me realize how much of Jon Bois's content is based off chokes. Dave Stieb, the Falcons, the river city relay, the rockets missed shots ... it just goes to show that choking is probably the most fascinating aspect of sports. Great video as always, Emp
Right? I think what's even more special about his content is that you still want the people in the videos to find relief. You want every dork in Dorktown to find a happy ending, but if you weren't a true dork, you wouldn't be living in Dorktown.
Yeah, I found it a little eerie how many of these moments I’d seen before just because they’d been featured in a Bois video. Glad to know I’m not crazy
Jon Bois is Emp’s biggest influence in how he makes videos. He says as much in his Dale Earnhardt video
I felt like I was waiting for Jon to be mentioned! What a lovely crossover.
Don't forget that video about the Browns, who crawled their way out of hell in 2020, out of all years to do so.
Emp is one of the best storytellers on the platform.
Who else?
@@janakel i'd argue there's several creators on par, but they mainly focus on their specific niches-
jon bois for sports oddities, summoning salt for speedrunning. internet historian. definitely some others that slip my mind.
emp definitely has the advantage on topic variety, though, and every single video's a banger
@@steatopigeon ok, thank you!
@@steatopigeon Gonna throw LazerPig in there for history lol always re-watch his stuff like the rest on that list!
💯
My brother's a Rocket's fan and he was genuinely not the same after that game for at least a few weeks .. absolutely wild
My grandfather was in that Brazil vs Uruguay world cup final in 1950. I've heard that story numerous times and it's even hard to imagine because he says that everyone was just quiet, you could only hear people dragging their feet on their way out and the occasional cry.
Have a question did he say something about multiple people jumping off? because I never heard this before and it sounds so out of place horrific
@@deborahhmendes He did say a bunch of people had heart attacks there but never said anything about people throwing themselves off but then again I was quite young when I heard it so I imagine he would skip that part.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
did soccer fans really kill themselves at the stadium?
40:42 The reveal that the person who's simplistic quote opening the video is also the person who capitalized on the biggest blunder in American football is so masterfully done, you can always trust EmpLemon videos to come full circle somehow.
I know that this probably wouldnt reach an American audience, hence why its not in the video, but the South African cricket team is without a doubt the biggest choker in the history of sport. Never even made it to a world cup final despite being far and away the best white ball team during the late 90s, and having decent squads in the early to mid 2010s too.
I know cricket like this (as a person who doesn’t really follow it at all - tell me how I did!)
Canada (my country) - yeah we are here, we win we lose and we drink maple syrup
Bangladesh: The losing-est team ever
England: Lol we win, but not all the time
South Africa: basically the St Louis Cardinals
Australia: we’re number two in our continent
Pakistan: chokers
India: also chokers but also the best; pretty neutral all in all
USA: We may suck, but we don’t SUCK suck
Netherlands: Hey look we’re top ten all the time and have a championship
Portugal: hey look we are a lower tier playing in top tier
Colts vs Vikings, Dec 17 2022.
A game worthy of this video.
Yes!
yes sirreee
And the Chargers-Jags playoff choke
As a Vikings fan I will cherish the greatest comeback in history
@@jailcatjones3250 as a colts fan i do not cherrish the worst blown lead
My dad doesn't enjoy modern media all that much, but he's been a huge sports fan all his life.
I showed him this video and he loved every minute of it. I could see the nostalgia in his eyes.
Great video.
the crowd’s reaction to jean van de velde was really kind. they cheered him on at every turn and acted like he won the whole tournament when he finally made it in, i love them
I remember watching this play live at home with my dad when i was like 11 years old (38:10). We jumped up and down and I went outside to scream for joy, and half my neighbors joined me. I’m glad this play got brought up, cause it definitely was the biggest sports fumble I’ll personally remember.
thats sweet. hearing the different reactions to notable moments in sports is so sick
I was rooting for state, my uncle was rooting for Michigan, we were watching together. It’s a top 3 sports moment I’ve ever seen live
I remember my dad accepting Michigan's victory just as I was about to head downstairs to start a game; right when I hit the bottom of the stairs, it happened and he just went NUTS. I didn't even know what was going on until I dashed back upstairs to check on him.
I remember that play like it was yesterday that one and the msu Baylor game where the punter got pounded
I remember that play. Funny that I was also around 11 watching it with my dad
The iconic 7-1 of the 2014 FIFA Semifinals also deserves a mention, especially since it gave Brazil another national trauma after 1950
that wasn’t a choke tho that was just dropping dead
It's made it's way to all sports and even esports. Getting 7-1'd is forever known as getting Brazil'd
There are a ton of football moments that should be mentioned as well. Liverpool vs Barcelona 2019, Barcelona 6-1 PSG, I could go on. It’s a shame it was mostly just baseball and American football but It’s understandable because this person is from the us
The most heartbreaking choke is the own goal from Andres Escobar imo. Might have been to morbid to feature here, but his own goal in the World Cup group stages literally costed him his life. It deserves a spot in the inconceivable section just from what resulted from it.
Greatest moment of my life right there. They have never recovered as country
Welp, game 5 of the 2024 World Series, Yankees choke is added to “The Meltdown” category
Game 5 inning 5 is going to be burned into yankees fans minds for the entire 2025 season at least
it wasn’t as crazy bc they were already down. but if it was game 7 or game 5 with the yanks up 3-1 and then they lose, that would’ve been catastrophic. could’ve been like the bruins vs leafs 2013
The Cubs-Marlins game with “It’s just a Burning Memory” over it actually made me really sad. Excellent video Emp.
Yep, it was great placement
33:21
That entire inning alone was so painful to watch! The music itself makes me think these professional athletes just forgot how to play baseball!
@@danielvakser9993 😂😂😂
Feel sad for Bartman. Cubs fans completely ruined his life to scapegoat him as the sole reason of the loss that fateful day.
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A 50 minutes emp video is just what I needed to watch while looking after dinner
Same
dinner is pretty easy to sit, he usually goes to sleep at 8 after his dinner and milk
I wait with Emp videos until I have a big fat meal ready. Just like with good movies/series. Cannot watch something amazing without good food. If I don't have any food in the house, I'm not watching my favorite channels (with high quality videos) at all.
Basically: The lesser quality video, the lesser quality food I consume while watching. Idk if this is weird or if anyone can relate 😂
@@pass_ bro same
I switched to a video critiquing Steven universe and added this to the watch later playlist
I gotta munch on some good foods while watching this vid
@our hero same
It is absolutely amazing how some of these chokes forever change how an entire franchise or program is talked about. I live in Michigan and no matter how Michigan and Michigan State football are doing any given year, even if Michigan destroys MSU when they play each other, if the MSU fan just says "Appalachian State" or "Jalen Watts-Jackson," the conversation just... ends. Everyone knows. The Wolverines will always carry the weight of two of the biggest chokes in the history of sports, and no amount of future success can ever change that.
Kinda like how you always hear the "Seahawks shoulda ran the ball"
WHOA HE HAS TROUBLE WITH THE SNAP
My old high school football coach is a huge Wolverines fan. I make sure to send him the game highlights of one of those two games.
I’m an MSU fan, I’m required by law to do that
Hell yeah, go green. Was so pleasantly surprised to see the trouble with the snap play at the top tier.
Wow it feels like the complete opposite to me - I went to Michigan and lived in Detroit for years, and I’ve grown to love the WOAH memes and the Appalachian State story, especially after last year. I’d trade a bunch more Jalen Watts Jacksons and stupid upsets for more moments like last year’s OSU game and Iowa game.
Future success more than absolves past failures; it actually makes them more endearing (or hilarious) because they’re part of a narrative that has changed in victory - look how Bill Buckner was received when he threw out the first pitch in 2008.
I grew up in the New York area, and as wild as the Red Sox upset in the 2004 ALCS was (the first time a team came back from 3-0), that’s not what Yankees fans think about when they look back on that era - they reminisce about the championships they won before and after that year, and the amazing players who were there during that era. The upset and the choke is part of a larger story, rather than the narrative itself.
However, if you never win, the choke is the narrative - look at the Mets since their last WS win, or the Atlanta Falcons since 28-3, or the Cubs general existence for 108 years.
But if you win eventually, that narrative changes. So that’s kind of how those moments from Michigan sports feel for me
I've watched this video about 5 times, and the editing, the visual gags, the background music are all so effective
I loved “That’s Life” being played at the end. A perfect encapsulating cherry atop a monumental sundae of misfortunate events.
It was an extremely well done conclusion
I was at the Indy 500 in 2011 when Hildebrand hit the wall on the last lap. We were getting ready to make the 2 mile walk back to the car when on the Screen in-front of us I watched his car slide up turn 4 into the wall. Everyone around me was silent for a few seconds while they tried to process what happened. I was happy for Dan To win because he was my favorite driver at the time but I couldn’t help but to feel bad for Hildebrand to miss out on such a historic win.
RIP Dan.
Yea man that shit is rough. RIP Dan Weldon. He seemed like a really good dude
I think that JR Hildebrands race team folded after their devastated loss in the Indy 500 that year in 2011... and we lost Dan 5 months later at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Indycar Championship... that was a gut wrenching sad October day....
The Boston Bruins, who set an NHL Record in 2023 with 65 wins, would take a 3-1 lead over the Florida Panthers in the first round. Needing only one more win to clinch the series against the much lower seeded Panthers, they would go on to lose the next 3 games in a row losing the final game in overtime 4-3. It keeps the odd streak mentioned at 46:48 where each of the best performing teams in the big 4 American sports leagues would fail to win the championship.
They were up by 1 with less than a minute in game 7 too. 🥲
It’s better this way
So which was worse, Boston in 2023 or Tampa in 2019?
Ngl the amount of 3-1 series comebacks in the NHL compared to the NBA and other sports is interesting. Just so much parity and luck make it so unpredictable
@@ColonizerChan For now, I'd go with Boston. While 3-1 chokes are relatively common in the NHL, Boston wasn't any normal 1 seed, they earned the best regular season record ever. The Panthers barely made the playoffs. Not to mention the Bruins were winning in game 7 until about 1 minute left. Lightning didn't really choke any games, rather they got the beat down. It also helps that the Lightning went on to win two Stanley Cups. If Boston repeats their season next year and dominates the playoffs then they might be more equal in my opinion.
Like when the CBJ swept the red hot Lightning.
You forgot about Andres Escobar, the Colombian Football defender who was killed after he scored an own goal
a really obscure and entertaining choke i recommend people looking up and reading about is the Tribes 4chan vs Reddit 5-game series.
Reddit's team trained together for a few months, and 4chan's team wasn't even formed because they forgot about the series until the day-of. 4chan ended up winning the series 3-2, carried by a sniper who had a 140 ping
4chan has a habit of doing that sort of thing
The real choke was in game 3.
Reddit was already up 2-0 in the series, and was on track to win the final game 4-3 with 30 seconds left and control of 4chan's flag.
They made a critical mistake when in their attempt to deny the tying point, all bundled together defending DavidBowie who had 4chan's flag.
4chan player Seph dropped a huge orbital strike and wiped out then entirety of Reddit's team, allowing the equalizer cap at 20 seconds, sending the game into a "first team to score wins" overtime.
Reddit had no chance to regroup and by the time they knew what was happening, Skolfypaws was already en route for the game winning flag cap, dodging a last ditch orbital strike and winning game 3.
With that, the momentum had totally swung, and 4chan proceeded to reverse sweep, winning the series 3-2.
Had not heard about this until now. Truly a hilarious choke.
A *BR* with 140 ping, no less.
/v/ back in those days was insane. nowadays you never really see that sort of spontaneous organization for multiplayer since it all got split off into places like /vg/ and /vm/.
17:50 As a Brazilian, the 1950s episode of "Maracanazo" was shock for anyone who believed in an easy win, but not for those who stood down to earth.
It's said that Paulo Carvalho (the coach who brought us the '58 and '62 World Cup titles later on) tried to warn the leaders of the national team that so many cheers before the game would make them over-confident, thus giving the Uruguaians the breech they needed to win; obviously nobody cared, so he just told his child son to wait for the news of a "BIG defeat".
Aside from our lack of awareness about chanting victory before the time, the coach and captain of Uruguay later said that despite everyone's disbelief that they could win, they studied hard to "find a crack" in our strategy. Our team kept using the same tatics game after game, but they found that the Swiss used a different one that made our team struggle like heck in the very 1st game of the competition, so they pushed for that in the field; the rest is history.
Anyway, great video; keep up the good job.
As a brazillian, im just happy he didn't go over the infamous 7x1....
@@pedrotoldi5594 As a german, hehehe
@@pedrotoldi5594 That wasn't a choke, it was a complete m4ssacre, we never had a choice against them, specially with a laid back team so dependant of Neymar's performance.
correction: paulo carvalho was the chief delegate of the brazillian team, the coach of 1958 was vicente feola and the coach of 1962 was aymore moreira
Well I am Colombian and tbh this is somewhat relatable to how my home team won against Argentina and we just rub it on their faces daily with no end, after the tables turn after some years, my country has been in some kind of denial in some way, it goes to show that no one is perfect and everyone is vulnerable to anything.
"In a world where victories are hard-fought, fear those who can win effortlessly" - Luigi
Damn, Luigi's eloquent
Champ of winning by doing nothing
@u know me shut up
Is that the guy who said "fuck" in Mario Tennis?
@u know me Damn bots!
Man, I'm sorry.
Your Jags, uhh... yeaaaaah.
> 8-3 start (so close to #1 seed!)
> Lost 5 of 6 to miss playoffs
😳
That sounds like the inverse of the Lions last year, just with them still also going 9-8 to miss the playoffs
"The potential for suffering is theoretically infinite."
It's tough being a cubs fan.
See you in 2124 for the next win.
Try being a Maple Leafs fan!
@@Outta-hz1ej props to Dangle for continuing to be a fan after all of those chokes
Potention? That’s not even an autocorrect fail my dude that’s not a word
@@peterroberts4415 I've been a leafs fan since before I came out the womb and I can not stand steve dangle. hes unfunny and can't skate
You perfectly organized this video and its idea. The way you laid it out, in the pyramid style fashion, categorizing from less painful to even more painful. It’s excellent. When you think the worst has arrived, it gets even more heartbreaking. And the editing on the 3-0 comeback was great, seeing how the Red Sox came back, and having to pay attention to the little details with newspaper articles and fan signs. Good work as always.
oh dylan, give a smoochie smooch
@@murppyisdurppy1816 😳
Thanks Dylan, your kind words make all the hard work worth it! Thanks for watching!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the “Cleveland Indians” called the guardians now for a reason? Idk, just expected that to be considered in 2022
It's a great video, very Bill Simmonsy, which coincidentally, Simmons had an old article on the "13 Levels of Losing" back when ESPN was still decent and which I think was probably referenced for this video.
That ending monologue during the final choke in the video is just poetry. But so is everything you do honestly, I haven't missed a single one of your long-form uploads since you first started making them--yes, starting with your BehindTheMeme video. That was over 5 years ago now. In the time it's taken for me to finish highschool, go through university, and secure a full-time job, I'm still sitting here and watching all of your uploads. You're the only RUclipsr I've been subbed to for this long without losing at least some interest along the way. There's just something about your videos that just click with me like nothing else on this platform, especially since you started the Never Ever series. You have this magical ability to make the most uninteresting topics (at least to me) fascinating and your videos all have insane rewatch value. I've probably watched your video on the Cold War like 7 times over by now.
This was a long comment I know, I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate what you do, Emp. There will Never Ever be another RUclipsr like you.
hope the man sees this
You're not alone feeling this. EmpLemon is the best RUclipsr out there. And that in a time when RUclips is getting infested by low-effort and low-quality content. I hope Lemon can inspire people to do the same.
Not to one up you, but I been subbed to the guy since The Uncredibles, and I don't even know how long ago that was
It's Love man. Most powerful thing in the universe. If you wanna see something done to near perfection, find someone who loves doing it.
YES SIR!!
Botafogo FR is beyond a Level 7 choke. It may even be beyond a theoretical Level 8 choke.
Biggest choke in the history of football. Not even joking at this point.
@@misterdeefour Honestly, as a fan of Flamengo, their rivals, even I felt bad for them. That was a choke beyond measure.
Gotta say, the end part with the Red Sox's score incrementing throughout was one of the best video watching experiences I've had. Like bloody hell you keep outdoing yourself every video. You just have some formula that nonsensically makes your videos more entertaining than other commentaries, I don't know how you do it, but I'm glad you did.
this was a chore to watch i kept expecting to actualy get entertained but nothing. i guess to each theyre own
@@pedrofranck6014 thank you for your input!
@@pedrofranck6014 I mean if you're not a sports person than I get it. Not only is terminology lost on those who aren't sports-savvy, but the weight of it is too. If you don't follow any particular teams or understand the history, they're just simple tales of someone('s team)'s ego getting the better of them.
But it's to be expected. If Emp explained the backgrounds and weight of every event covered in this video, we'd be here all day (not that I'd mind). With his Nascar videos for example, he has the whole video to set up the story so you feel the full impact of the final arc. Whereas he couldn't really do that here.
@@bugjams As someone who has never even watched one full game of sports. This video was not only incredibly entertaining, but also easy to follow for someone with almost no sports knowledge.
I think in some ways sports represent the human spirit on a micro level. The struggle, the victories and loses, constantly trying for that one win that could change anything. A person could go their whole life not watching one game of baseball and feel an immense feeling of kinship and the Red Sox snatch a victory that in all ways seemed impossible. I mean, isn't every single person working hard to make it in this world playing those exact same odds?
@@crassweller11 YES. Sports, and competition, are a microcosm of the entirety of the human condition. I think this gets lost on people who see sport as ‘just a game’ - they’re not wrong per se as this might be their experience, but they certainly are missing out on what’s so appealing to so many of us in the first place.
Here after Matt Ryan played for a Colts team that managed to blow a 33-0 lead at half to the Vikings.
He has now blown the biggest lead in Super Bowl history and regular season history
serial choker matt ryan 😭
Man it hurts being a Colts fan nowadays…😢
And that will be his legacy. Rip.
Didn't his defenses blow it? In both games, the offenses scored enough for a decent chance to win.
@@joeski734 And then proceeded to not keep up the points
Seeing Dale Earnheart JR lose from gas running out hurts my soul the most out of this whole video
I love it emp!
Hopefully we get one about Clutches!
I was there and it was painful
Are chokes and clutches not complimentary to each other? The yin to yang
I remember both those races but never put two and two together recently:
Same sponsor
Same turn
Same lap
Same day
Both with the letters "J.R." in their names
@@Derpbag707 I was thinking. This video could be about the greatest comebacks if it was framed slightly differently
@@Derpbag707 not really. The player who wins from a choke doesn't normally deserve it. If your opponent fumbles an easy catch you didn't clutch you got lucky. And if you make an amazing catch you clutched but the opponent didn't choke they just got beat
Amazing video. A couple suggestions for what I'd put in there as an F1 fan:
1982 Monaco GP: Five different fumbles from leaders or potential leaders in the last 3 laps, with one of them able to recover and take the W.
I'd have loved to see Max Verstappen's lap at Jeddah featured. Like yeah, he's still WDC. But damn did it take some *circumstances*
As a Falcons fan, when you got through the three inconceivable football chokes, I really thought I might have somehow been spared the suffering. I should have known better
As a patriots fan I was starting to get nervous he wouldn’t mention it lmao
@@toospicytg Same
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
Bro you got off light. I was expecting a breakdown like Marlins vs Cubs
@@julianbell9161 Absolutely lol, but I suppose 28-3 was more of a long decay for another plausible win for the Super Patriots.
Truly an amazing sports video. Bravo EmpLemon 🙌
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@KTO could you make a vid on Jim Thorpe please. He’s my favorite athlete and I’d like to see you make a vid on him.
Glad to see you here. The App State-Michigan game is one of the first videos I watched on your channel
I feel like you missed the point in the end with the duality of a choke. One mans trash is a another mans treasure. Everytime a team suffers a stunning choke, another sees their team triumf in the most unimaginable way. Its really great.
It depends. You’d never call the daigo parry a choke. That was everyone making the right decisions. But the Indians losing to the cubs was pathetic. That was triumph off the back of failure.
watching sports is for losers. "My team triumphed." So fcking pathetic. Bread and circuses to keep the loser class from revolting. A truly advanced practice employed by the ruling class
you make a very good point
when I played my little league semi finals game it was 3-4 we were loosing and the pitcher struck out the two batters before and then struck me out and it was a sad feeling but in the end improved my game
As a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, I know all about choking.. Another masterpiece, will never miss an emp upload.
go Brus 🐻!
I know the kind of deep frustration a creator feels when the content they love is sidelined in favor of content they work hard on, even if it's not what they necessarily want to make. You put out banger content though and I honestly couldn't be prouder to have someone who's still got a deep passion on such a broad range of what too many label as inane, boring and even uninteresting trivia. You turned my utter disregard for Nascar into a reminder of why my mom took me to see races when I was still too young to know how to walk without falling over. You took my shrugging indifference at the world's highest jump and made me see the significance of Baumgartner's rise and plummet. You broke the walls down of _why_ me and my brother played WWE games on our Xbox and the good times we had visiting our grandparents.
You recontextualized an entire stretch of my life I can hardly remember half the time in a series of bangers that knocked any of my skepticism- forged of osmium and pure cynicism- right into a black hole, never to escape again. Do not ever let someone tell you these videos are pretentious/needless/boring/unfounded. tl;dr this is that *_GOOD_* shit.
I like your style of writing
As someone that doesn't care about physical sports at all, I can attest that Emp does a really good job of making it accessible and also just plain interesting throughout.
This literally brought me to tears, I don't know if it was the beautiful way you write or how relatable your comment was thanks for sharing!
Well said, I appreciate the time and effort you put in your message, and I wholeheartedly agree.
The creator didn't make his high-school team and was probably a band geek
I feel bad for Bill Buckner, dude had a hall of fame case, but his career was overshadowed by that missed grounder. May he rest in peace
Who i don’t feel bad for is gibson he deserved to be fired and forgotten he caused his own team to lose and made fans very mad
Just watching the way he grabs his head man 😪
People always forget that with many of those chokes, there were numerous plays and opportunities for the team to win before and after the fact. Especially considering in Buckners case there was still Game 7 to be played.
@@mattbernacki9282 Or Calvin Schiraldi having a complete meltdown and replaced by Bob Stanley, who's wild pitch tied the game, but somehow Buckner's error is what everyone talks about? And yes, there is also the fact that there was still a game 7, which the Red Sox of course blew a lead there too!
As a Mets fan. That wasn’t even the turning point. The wild pitch behind Wilson tied the game. I’m not gonna lie I too was under the assumption that grounder drove in two. Plus when Buckner went to ground it Mookie was a few steps to first. Unlikely would’ve beat him to the bag. Massive respect though to Bill. He signed a frame of that play along with Wilson and it’s on my wall. RIP
One of my favorite sport documentaries on RUclips. You have a real talent for what you do. This is almost Jon bois level stuff
Fr jon is the goat of sports essays
At least three of these stories come from Jon as well lol
Indeed, I think Jon Bois' work has been an inspiration to EmpLemon too, which is why I found it awesome when he mentioned him at 43:31 regarding statistical stuff he reported on. c:
@Fries he cited Jon again in the Dave Stieb segment.
Please update this video and add the 5th inning of Game 5 during this 2024 World Series. One of the worst meltdowns not only ever in Yankee and baseball history, but in sports history overall. It hurts to be a Yankee fan at this point. I'm traumatized.
This is the longest car crash I couldn't stop myself from watching, and I enjoyed every minute of it. There's something about this topic that speaks to me on an existential level. Like these are the limits of humans that math and perfect strategy can never, ever account for, and it is a humbling reminder that you can never be too certain with anything you're doing, no matter how optimal the strategy is on paper.
I can see a whole version of this for esports too.
Great vid EmpLemon
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face .
Mike Tyson
"The one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually, they will hate you."
―The Green Goblin
Granted this is a bit different but the quote definitely has a point we all like to see people fail it's just the truth the higher they are the more satisfying it is seeing them crash down.
shoutout to faze clan for choking against c9 on the last map of the 2018 boston major
"WOSHIGE, WHAT ARE YOU STANDING UP FOR!"
“Art of the Choke” really feels like a book that the Green Bay Packers read just before going on to lose another championship game despite having a pretty good team that season
Rodgers thought he bought “Art of War” 😂
More like a book for the Atlanta Falcons.
I’m from Georgia, and you will trigger fans PTSD if you mutter the phrase “28-3”
@@Kaiserboo1871 we packers have similar reactions when you bring up the game we blew in Seattle.
As a packers fan, I am glad that he didn't bring up any of our meltdowns.... the NFC champ game in Seattle is the one that really sticks out, but there has been so much heart break in the era of Rodgers.
The worst part about this for me is that instead of being a pretty good team, the Packers are often arguably the best team in the League when they choke in the NFC Championship Game.
I'm surprised Brazil's 7-1 loss against Germany in the 2014 World Cup Semifinals at their own home isn't mentioned here. Heartbreak for all Brazillians.
0:53
I mean i wouldn't call it a choke they didn't have that much of an advantage to begin with
It wasn’t a choke. It was full total European domination.
Oh please, you guys are like the winning-est country in the whole world cup.
Let it go.
@@generaljackripper666 I ain't Brazillian bruv 💀
The 2023 Lions vs 49ers NFC Championship is a Meltdown for sure
jags win their first playoff game in 6 years by coming back from a 27-0 deficit. congrats Emplemon
wait I thought it was five years (2018 - 2023)
Jinx?
The Chargers chargered harder than the Chargers have ever Chargered before.
It’s Chargin’ time
just seen the colts lose from 33-0 at the half to 36-39 f/ot and i thought of this video
Me too
@@adamhoran3831 seems i aint the only one who thinks lemon needs a part 2
One of my favourite chokes was the 4-0 sweep of the Tampa bay lightning by the Columbus blue jackets. Maybe I’m biased because I’m a jackets fan, but that was so inconceivable. And it was their first playoff win In series history. You love to see it.
If the lightning didn’t win two in a row after that, it might’ve been the biggest in USA history
As a Lightning fan, that was brutal to watch. As much as it absolutely sucked to lose like that, it’s cool that your team was able to overcome the odds and do it.
I will never forget the out of town scoreboard at Nassau Coliseum showing the Jackets down and seemingly out in Game 1 getting a sizable chuckle out of the fans in the crowd before the next time it showed the score revealed Columbus had come back to win and received an arena wide “whaaaaaaaat?”. It was so bizarre to see an entire unaffiliated crowd be so shocked in unison at a stunning comeback
I watched that series unfold as a fan of neither, I watched all 4 games thinking how generational that meltdown was until the next season
You love to see it because it woke the Lightning up and willed them to two straight cups and three straight finals appearances.
Watching this after the disastrous 5th inning of the Dodgers vs Yankees WS game
How ironic at 10:53 the Yankees came back in the 5th inning in 2012, but in the 2024 World Series the roles were reversed and the Dodgers came back in the 5th inning and won it 7-6.
I don't watch sports at all and I dont think I ever will, but some how, this weird fella with his green filter and simpson references always makes me genuinely engaged with the content.
him and Jon bois
Watch golf.
Narratives, stakes, history, raw emotion, pride. A good sports moment is up there with the best pieces of media.
You just need to give it a shot... Maybe by starting with RUclips videos of good storytellers like this weird fella or JxmyHighroller (basketball videos), and starting from the absolute best moments helps.
Eventually, you just want to see new stories unfold in front of your eyes.
You should nerd
Growing up a Red Sox fan, the ‘04 sweep was one of the best sports memories of my childhood. The Sox managing to pull out some insanity now and again is what keeps baseball my preferred sport and is why I’ll suffer through their bad seasons.
Straight facts
Like this season
@@iananderson3425 yup. Took my dad to the game against the Cardinals on Father’s Day this year and lucked out seeing one of the better games I’ve gotten to watch at Fenway in a while.
I mean, it was the comeback against the Yankees preceding the sweep that was so awesome. The World Series was obviously necessary, but bearing the Yankees was the deal
Secret Base (it's "SB Nation's" RUclips Channel) _JUST_ released a retrospective "Rewinder" video about the end of 2004 Red Sox Vs. Yankees, Game 4. Which is where the beginning of the series comeback started. Since, that is generally an underappreciated, but extremely important, aspect of the series.
15:47 I was living just off campus taking classes at UMBC when this happened. I'll never forget it. People screaming, cars honking, everyone out of their houses celebrating. It was a night of euphoric chaos in what was usually a quiet small town in Baltimore County.
UMBC started building a new and improved basketball stadium the very next year..
That's wild, lmao
Another Choke update from the world of Rugby!
In the 2023-24 NRL Grand Finals (National Rugby League in Australia), the Brisbane Broncos were leading 24 - 8 with a little over 20 minutes to play - and they choked it away to the Penrith Panthers who scored 3 improbable tries and converted the final one to take a two point lead with 2 minutes left. It has been the largest comeback in the NRL finals EVER; even crazier is that this resulted in a 3-peat for the Panthers.
As a UMBC student, I knew we'd get a mention as soon as you said upset. The feeling of full euphoria from that win was almost undescribable. I'd been watching games since I was like 5 and then when I was a freshman we had the most talked about upset in the history of March Madness
As a UVA student I knew it was coming too, I can still remember that game like it was yesterday
that game was during spring break so there were not as many people on campus. But it was surreal going to a lobby room with a tv and just seeing with a few other students watching the game with looks of shock
As a Boston fan, the final minutes of this video actually make me tear up
Same.
I’m not even a Boston fan, but got damn was that emotional. Just the win against the Yankees to the call of them being world champions. From Moneyball, how can you not be romantic about baseball?
it did the same to me, not even as a boston fan, not even as a yankees fan, but kind of just as a new york state citizen in general. i don't know whether to feel mad or proud of you guys, honestly
Don't mention Bruins
Same, buddy
44:26
That reminds me of the Super GT 2020 season, with Super GT being a Japanese motorsport series. The championship was decided not even on the last corner but on the start/finish straight. A Toyota team could have won the championship with 6 seconds in the lead but ran out of fuel in the finish straight just so that a Honda team could pass them - they won the championship with this. It was kinda emotional too as the main sponsor for the Honda team, Raybrig, was in its last season.
This choke of the century in the series was possible because it was also on Fuji Speedway which has a massive straight so running out of fuel there is more than a nightmare.
Add to that all of this happened at Toyota's Home Track (Because they own Fuji Speedway) AND on the return year of the Toyota Supra to Super GT Racing after the retirement of the dominant LC500.
I remember jumping up when I saw the #37 car slow down because I had basically given up hope that Yamamoto could close that gap on the last two laps. I couldn’t process what had just happened for the next 30 or so minutes. The #100 not even finishing the cool down lap showed how hard he was pushing as well which made it all the sweeter
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
Although not really championship deciding race, GT300's GSR's would-be first win this season by an 11-second gap this year was ruined by a punture on left front which iirc was a fresh set
to cap ryo hirakawa's miserable 2020 season, hirakawa also lost 2020 super formula title decider to naoki yamomoto 3 weeks later by 2 points, finishing the race behind yamomoto by 1.2 seconds
we could make an argument that ryo hirakawa's 2018-2020 season was the most grueling to watch (especially as hirakawa/toyota fan) and deserves to be one of the inconcievable chokes in the whole world of sport. it's one thing to see chokes drawn out over a set, a round or even a match, but hirakawa endured 3 straight years of chokes plus that super formula choke. there's no time to breathe, you HAD to watch him choking one final round at a time
in defense of hirakawa's career, he won 2022 24 hours of le mans in his 1st try. good for him
9:45 It's Leon Lett!! NOOOO!!!
He was genuinely pained. Not annoyed, angry, or disappointed. Just straight up sad for Lett
The instrumental of "That's Life" at the end ties this whole thing into a beautiful bouquet of 51:23 of bliss. Thank you, senior lemon
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I wholeheartedly agree
He's not that old. He's no senior. He's only in his 20s.
@@duffman18 Maybe he meant Señor?
Dude, as unbelievable as this may seem, I originally subscribed for your YTPs. When I saw your video style change, you were very clear about how you had been treated. I understood and stayed subscribed as a supporter to you, even though you said multiple times to unsubscribe.
Through the good times, through the bad times, through the ups and downs, I've stayed with this channel. I've not said much on your videos over the years, but I really like who you have grown into. You're very strong-minded, Emp. You don't cave into demands from others. You are your own person. You are confident in yourself. You're an inspiration. Keep being amazing. Keep up the content.
I like how this video is a good starting point for those who want to learn more about sports. This video doesn't teach you every great detail, nor does it spoil every great choke. Many all time greats from 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning or 2009 Brett Farve are left unmentioned. Yet this video provides a basic level of information that can spur life long love for sports.
Watching this vid on June 21st, 2024. The Stanley Cup is going on, with the Edmonton Oilers on the verge of an incredible reverse sweep. They lost 3 straight games and as of today, won 3 straight games.
Will they make history and take the cup next Monday? Or will Florida buck up and nab the last win? Either way, it'll be one worthy of this vid.
More updates to chokes:
The Boston Bruins entered the playoffs with the most points and best record in NHL history and choked a 3 - 1 series lead against the Florida Panthers; who made the playoffs by 1 point over the Buffalo Sabres (tied for the longest active playoff drought in major NA pro sports) and finished 47 points behind Boston. The only other series to have a more lopsided margin was The Miracle of Manchester series where Edmonton finished 49 points ahead of the LA Kings and lost. Highlighting this series was overtime in game five where Bruins Goalie Linus Ullmark gives Matthew Tkachuck a gift turnover and he gets beat after falling on his back trying to get back to his crease.
In the NBA, ONE WEEK EARLIER, the Milwaukee Bucks face the 8 seed Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs. Miami is looking for redemption after last year they lost on a mistake by Jimmy Butler with under half a minute to play and no timeouts. However the Bucks finished the season as the best team in the NBA and had the best home record as well - gunning for a championship. The Bucks get EMBARRASSED at home both games losing by a combined score over 27 points. Moving to Miami the Bucks turn it around and win game 3. Unfortunately, the Bucks’ shots go cold late in game four as the Heat kept their feet on the gas and go up 3 - 1 in the series. Game five in Milwaukee is a tough match, trading leads as both teams refuse to let it run away from them. The game is decided by a single basket and the Bucks lose.
March Madness: FDU defeat Number 1 Purdue
In the NBA playoffs there have also been a couple more big chokes just this year.
Memphis (2) losing to LA (7)
Kings losing to Warriors after being up 2-0
And in baseball, my Dodgers lost to the Padres in the 1st round after having one of the greatest regular seasons of all time AND after winning Game 1....
and now the heat are in the nba finals
The chargers are up 27-0 against the Jacksonville jaguars, the chargers do exactly what everyone expects them to do, and lose anyway. The jaguars have won a playoff game after having the worst record in the league the last 2 seasons.
Surprised nobody mentioned this one yet.
In the 2021-2022 season, Paris St. Germain acquired Lionel Messi, making their front 3 possibly the greatest ever assembled. People saw them as instant Champions League favorites. In the Round of 16, the faced off against Real Madrid in a two-legged tie. At home, Messi missed a penalty, but at the end, Kylian Mbappe scored to take a 1-0 lead. In the second leg, Mbappe would score again, and they would even get a few more goals that got ruled off due to offsides. Real Madrid score three unanswered, including a bad giveaway from the goalkeeper to lose 3-2 over two games.
As a Red Sox fan, this was painful until the end. It's poetic, and I can't help but feel romantic.
thankfully the Sox are back where they belong this year ;)
@@will-eh3qt *next year. Have you seen this bullpen?
The Ikeys comeback against Pukke was the best rugby comeback i have seen in my life... The score was 33-15 (If i remember correctly) with about 4 minutes to go and Ikeys won the game 38-33 and it was in the final aswell!
That’s so exciting!
Immediately thought of this video after watching Game 5 of the '24 World Series. Yankees defense imploded on that 5th inning. Not among the absolute worst chokes but definitely ranks around the Nightmare tier in my mind.
It was statistically the worst defensive game in baseball not just this year, but in the last couple years. For it to happen to a World Series caliber team when they are not only facing elimination, but in the series for the first time in 15 years. Yeah, it’s among the worst chokes I have ever seen. Easily in the top echelon.
My heart goes out to all those poor souls who messed up their entire career in the matter of seconds.
20:05 And now the Jags have gone from worst to first and won their division AND made the playoffs. Shine on you crazy fucking diamond.
27 point comeback! 1 out 3 florida teams. 2 more.
8:06 honestly respect, though. Worth it for the style points. Imagine how sick it would've been if it landed.
This is unironically my favorite video ever like it’s genuinely perfect in every way
The Red Sox foreshadowing throughout the entire video just to roll in their '04 victory with the speech set to Bach at the very end... genuinely amazing work EmpLemon. Keep fighting the good fight out there!
One of the most inexplicable chokes in motorsport was Carlos Reutemann in 1981. That year, unexpectedly, he was leading the F1 championship for most of the season and on paper appeared to have the odds in his favour (he led the championship by 1 point going into the final round in Las Vegas). However, despite qualifying fastest, he dropped down the field almost immediately. He only needed to finish ahead of his closest challenger, Nelson Piquet. At first, despite dropping down the field, he was staying ahead of the Brazilian, but once Piquet got ahead, the Argentinean driver fell out of the points and even got lapped by his retiring team mate Alan Jones. In the end, with a fifth place finish, Nelson Piquet was the 1981 World Champion and Carlos Reutemann after (initially) staying in the sport for 1982, abruptly retired from the sport after less than a handful of races in 1982 and instead became one of the best who never won the title
I'd argue a bigger choke was Nigel Mansell handing Piquet victory on a silver platter in Canada 1991
@@krzie18 well, that was a one off race and in my view he simply stalled the engine and was unable to restart it. In a way though it could be seen as a longer term choke job because those 10 points (for a win) lost probably cost him later in the year owing to every race matters in a season long points battle like F1. Having said that, as Ayrton Senna finished the year with 96 points to Mansell's 72, that 9 point swing wouldn't change the outcome of the championship
With Reutemann, it was the championship that was on the line and his choke in that Finale left him with the title slipping through his fingers
RIP Reutemann
@@Bopnan yeah, it came out of the blue when I heard last year that he died. What's for sure though is that after retiring from racing, he gave something back to his country by becoming a politician in Argentina
I think it shouldn’t even go to a driver
Should go to Micheal Masi for panicking during 2021 Abu Dhabi and causing one of the most controversial and ridiculous ends to a brilliant world championship
I just think EmpLemon's channel is too good right now...
hope he doesnt choke lol
Man you can't just drop a UTree reference like that
PEKKA RINNE?!
*Yinzer jinxing intensifies*
Pekka Rinne was so good we need to hang some fucking banners.
NBA had a massive crossroads of choke. Eastern Conference leaders Boston (23-6 entering) fell behind dead-last Detroit (2-28) by as far as 21. The Pistons then melted down, choked that lead away, and lost in OT.
This tied the all-time record for longest NBA losing streak. They already secured the single-season record when that skid hit 26 in a row.
Note: The Minnesota Vikings recently broke the record for largest comeback in NFL History on December 17th, 2022 vs. the Indianapolis Colts.
The Vikings were down 33-0 with 8:27 left in the 3rd quarter.
They won the game 39-36.
that was hilarious
the Vikings are so unpredictable that you know their games are gonna be interesting one way or another
@@lilacdragon44I think that's more of a testament to how bad the Colts were/are.
@@artistwithouttalent Matt Ryan just can't catch a break
if I recall correctly, that was the date of a family Christmas. Even though our own team is a rival of the Vikings, by God that was one hell of a watch hahaha
just like they planned it
Only a minute in, and I’m hearing quotes I remember from my childhood watching SportsCenter:
“The band is out on the field!”
“You play to win the game!”
I know I’m going to enjoy this. Thank you, Emp.
I did enjoy it, and each stage was more and more painful! That’s life.
I was nervous when Emp said he was going to be doing "different" content.
Worries gone, shit was fire, phenomenal job.
He's been doing documentary type videos for some years now. All have been phenomenal.
@@coochie8670 Nah hes talking about the fact that he made a sports video which is rare.
@@shlay9753 Not really? He's done more than a few NASCAR, WWE, etc videos. I'm definitely down for more sports stuff if it's as good as this.
@@shlay9753 nope. Emp made a tweet the other day about how he's worried his videos take too long to make, and so is mulling over the idea of having more casual videos in between the documentaries, like a podcast or something that doesn't require tons of research and scripting and recording and editing.
But Emp is worried it'd dilute the rest of the content on his channel. And most people agreed with that assessment. We'd rather wait for really good videos every time than wait a bit less but his content becomes hit or miss.
@@duffman18 Honestly I’d be down for an Emp podcast on maybe a second channel. Dude comes up with the most interesting content on the platform, I’m sure he has a lot to say about just a lot of current day stuff.