a human being as plated with artisanal finesse at a Michelin-star restaurant, with a head as garnish

January 4, 2012 8:57 AM

The 50 Greatest Sports Gifs of 2011: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Explanation of page divisions from 2010's BASGs:

"The problem with animated GIFs is that if you view too many at once, they can make your browser cranky. As such, I've divided this list into a series of pages, with no more than five GIFs per page. In addition, we have it set up so that larger GIFs will only play when you click them."


Hall of Fame Entries: Chris Bosch, Jack Wilson, and Shane Victorino.

posted by Potomac Avenue (135 comments total)

I really wish what was happening in these was being explained instead of being captioned like a third-rate Far Side for those of us who didn't every sporting event in 2011.
posted by cmoj at 9:04 AM on January 4 [4 favorites]

I got as far as the horse race "example" gif and I can't go any further. I'm laughing so hard that people are going to come into my office to make sure I haven't gone off the deep end.
posted by Elly Vortex at 9:07 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I don't like sports, and I loathe excessive pagination, but these were fantastic.
posted by schmod at 9:07 AM on January 4

OK some of the later ones actually discussing the events. And I'm still watching.
posted by cmoj at 9:08 AM on January 4

natch! now i can make small talk about sports things that other people already knew about because they watch sports!
posted by chasles at 9:09 AM on January 4

The Jeff Van Gundy Extreme Close-Up is pretty great. Is that really him or a cardboard standee of him?
posted by Rock Steady at 9:10 AM on January 4

My public service of the day:

Direct links to the top 5:
1
2
3
4
5
posted by Think_Long at 9:14 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Anyone who likes the horse racing one should know the source of that GIF: it's from a promotional flash game which was released in 2010 by some Japanese horse racing federation. It's all in Japanese, but you should totally play it, because it is awesome.

I know about this flash game because a video from it was posted on Metafilter back in the day. Looks like the video is sadly gone from Youtube, but you can still play the game.

And the game, I will say, is much funnier than that GIF.
posted by koeselitz at 9:16 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

This guy knows how to internet.
posted by DU at 9:18 AM on January 4

No. 46 is on the fast track to winning the Springfield Film Festival.
posted by drezdn at 9:18 AM on January 4

Yeah, okay, these are pretty fantastic.

(I love it when the internet condenses hundreds of hours of television into the very best bits for me to enjoy!)
posted by Narrative Priorities at 9:18 AM on January 4

I wanted to hate the convoluted pagination, and even though I'm not much of a sports fan, damn that was good. I was laughing loudly out loud over several of them. Good show.
posted by mathowie at 9:19 AM on January 4

I jumped ahead to the Top 5, and quickly realized that I still find big deal sports to be excessively cruel. I don't want to SPOIL #1 for you but it's basically a young man's moment of extreme humiliation, which sucks.
posted by philip-random at 9:20 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

It looks like a human being as plated with artisanal finesse at a Michelin-star restaurant, with a head as garnish.
posted by griphus at 9:20 AM on January 4

The Bengal's catch at number 7 is my nominee for play of 2011.
posted by drezdn at 9:22 AM on January 4

Post is factually incorrect. This is the best sports gif.
posted by Edogy at 9:23 AM on January 4 [26 favorites]

This is a good time.
posted by box at 9:25 AM on January 4

I can't believe that woman stealing the ball from the little girl. That actually makes me all furious inside and it's too early for fury.
posted by neuromodulator at 9:26 AM on January 4 [8 favorites]

I don't want to SPOIL #1 for you but it's basically a young man's moment of extreme humiliation, which sucks.

SPOILER: FWIW, this one is barely this punter's fault. The snap is up at his head, approximately 1-1.5 feet too high. The expression is priceless.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 9:28 AM on January 4

38 made me cry.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:28 AM on January 4 [12 favorites]

That pacifist dude getting punched and not responding is certainly worthy of respect.
posted by CautionToTheWind at 9:29 AM on January 4

Also: Favorite soccer goal of 2011.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 9:29 AM on January 4 [6 favorites]

It's worth reading through the whole thing. The "Top 5" definitely aren't the best of the bunch.
posted by schmod at 9:30 AM on January 4

Oh yeah, the hockey player's upside bottle made tears come out of the wrong ends of my eyes.
posted by DU at 9:30 AM on January 4

I can't believe that woman stealing the ball from the little girl.

I LOL'ed all the way through 50-12, and was in good spirits until I saw that, and then was in such a black hole of rage that I could not see straight.

Then I resumed my lulz from 10 on down.

What's the story with that woman? So outrageous. I would lose all faith in the internet and the human search engine if she has not been excoriated and humiliated for all time. Stealing a baseball from a little girl? That's low.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 9:31 AM on January 4

These are all great, but the winner has to be the hockey player trying to drink out of the wrong end of the gatorade bottle.
posted by no regrets, coyote at 9:31 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Pretty sure this is the best Sports gif.

I'll let myself out.
posted by troika at 9:31 AM on January 4 [3 favorites]

Number 24 is the most complicated hand shake ever.
posted by drezdn at 9:31 AM on January 4

I am doing that silent-laughing-in-a-cubicle thing you hear about from the kids.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:32 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I can't believe that woman stealing the ball from the little girl.

I can't believe all the people around her giving her high fives! Booooooooo. That woman was lucky I wasn't standing there, I would've lost my damn mind on her.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:32 AM on January 4

That Marshawn Lynch stiff arm was fucking incredible. If you've never seen the entirety of that mind-boggling play, do yourself a favor and marvel at its beastly glory.
posted by saladin at 9:33 AM on January 4 [6 favorites]

#3! What the hell happened there? It's so good because it's a collaborative fuckup
posted by Hoopo at 9:35 AM on January 4

That Marshawn Lynch stiff arm was fucking incredible.

Everywhere else I've seen that, there was a big flash of light, then a voice from the heavens burst out with "MARSHAWN WINS!! FATALITY!!!!"
posted by eriko at 9:35 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Top 5 are OK. My personal ranking would be:

5 =#42
4 = #37
3 = #34
2= #10
1 = #Anything Chris Bosch does ever.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:38 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

#22 FTW. It has everything: fat mustache, ice hockey, tickling
posted by chavenet at 9:39 AM on January 4 [3 favorites]

This woman needs The Internet to find her and give her what for.
posted by bondcliff at 9:40 AM on January 4

3 = #34

Reminds me of Invisible High Fives.
posted by drezdn at 9:41 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

Incredibly surprised that there isn't a Rally Squirrel GIF anywhere in that list.
posted by mysterpigg at 9:41 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Re: the girl having the ball stolen and from here:

The story doesn’t end so poorly, though. Somebody posted this blurb about it on Reddit.com:

“This happened in Houston vs the DBacks. One of the Dbacks players tossed the balls into the stand and that ***** grabbed it. The play-by-play and color guy saw it, pulled some strings, and delivered the girl an autographed ball. The story had a happy ending, but would have been happier if that ***** caught a fly bat to the face the next inning.”

posted by griphus at 9:43 AM on January 4 [7 favorites]

These are great and Bois' commentary is priceless.
posted by muddgirl at 9:48 AM on January 4

To be fair, the friends of the women who stole that baseball from the little girl might not have had the same good viewing angle that the camera did so they might not have known that she was such a wretched sociopathic menace. On the other hand, they were her friends. That lady dodged a bullet by not getting doxed.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:49 AM on January 4

This is the only way to watch sports.
posted by orme at 9:51 AM on January 4 [3 favorites]

It's nice to see non-title moments crystallized in this form. Thanks for the link for it.
posted by skepticallypleased at 9:51 AM on January 4

Little girl story has semi-happy ending. No revenge though.
posted by chavenet at 9:53 AM on January 4

In my day I've seen a couple adults reach in front of a kid to take a ball or a hockey puck, or scramble on the ground with a bunch of kids, thinking that no one saw it. That lady was egregious but by no means abnormal.

Basically, everyone should stop being assholes and err on the side of giving the damned ball to a kid. Heck, if you fairly catch a ball, offer it to some kid sitting near you. You'll make her day.
posted by muddgirl at 9:53 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Did I miss something, or does this list not include this little bit of magic.

(Ryan Fitzpatrick took a rough hit, they cut to backup QB Tyler Thigpen just in time for....)
posted by troika at 9:54 AM on January 4

If this was a gif, it would be in the Top 10.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:56 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

That Marshawn Lynch stiff arm was fucking incredible.

Maybe this is simply a terminology thing but surely that's not a stiff arm? The whole reason for it's success is the bending of the arm in order to push the tackler and thereby give them too much momentum to stay on their feet.
posted by MUD at 10:00 AM on January 4

As far as I'm concerned, #7 should be #1. Nobody's going to be able to top that for a looooong time.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:03 AM on January 4 [3 favorites]

I am utterly not a sports guy, but I felt for the guy silently mouthing "WORST DAY EVER".
posted by JHarris at 10:05 AM on January 4

The one from the Intro to the 2010 set broke me.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 10:12 AM on January 4 [35 favorites]

In my day I've seen a couple adults reach in front of a kid to take a ball or a hockey puck, or scramble on the ground with a bunch of kids, thinking that no one saw it. That lady was egregious but by no means abnormal.

One thing worth noting is that it wasn't a random foul ball or homerun ball being caught, where adults routinely scramble to catch the ball themselves and the ball is generally fair game for everyone. It was a ball that was caught by a fielder and thrown directly to the little girl after the inning was over, which is a common thing that most baseball fans are aware of, and the lady more or less stole the ball that was thrown to the girl as she was catching it.
posted by burnmp3s at 10:12 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

The one from the Intro to the 2010 set broke me.

oh god the tail
posted by shakespeherian at 10:20 AM on January 4 [5 favorites]

Holy crap, the Rob Gronkowski one. I saw that play live, and I knew it was bad, but the freeze frame really does boggle the mind. How did he get up from that?
posted by Rock Steady at 10:21 AM on January 4

The one from the Intro to the 2010 set broke me.

GYAA GNARF RARF GRAWLF GRAA- SPLAT
posted by JHarris at 10:23 AM on January 4

Oh sweet merciful crap, that rollerblading raptor from the 2010 link slays me. Every. Time.
posted by the painkiller at 10:28 AM on January 4

The one from the Intro to the 2010 set broke me.

Every time I think about the Toronto Raptors, I am reminded that one of the team names that was on the final list of choices was "Toronto Saurus Rex."
posted by Mister Fabulous at 10:29 AM on January 4 [4 favorites]

oh god the tail

the tail makes it, but also good is the fact that he goes totally motionless like he's utterly defeated
posted by neuromodulator at 10:33 AM on January 4

far too much american football.

needs more Darlington Nagbe

As far as I'm concerned, #7 should be #1. Nobody's going to be able to top that for a looooong time.

Yeah, if you're gonna focus on the NFL, that's it. (It just happened last week, right?) The GIF itself could be better (stops too soon), but that's the play of the year, right?

Post is factually incorrect. This is the best sports gif.

Lots of competition there. I tend to prefer the Korean baseball hopping. Always gets a chuckle from me.
posted by mrgrimm at 10:34 AM on January 4 [6 favorites]

I am far from a true sports fan, but I love these so very much more than I thought I would. It really helps that Bois' commentary is often even funnier than the gifs.

One point of confusion: can someone explain why the guy in #4 is so upset?
posted by sundaydriver at 10:36 AM on January 4

> One point of confusion: can someone explain why the guy in #4 is so upset?

I think it's more incredulity that his pinpoint pass bounced off his intended receiver but then magically made it to another one further down the field.
posted by Burhanistan at 10:37 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I think it's more incredulity that his pinpoint pass bounced off his intended receiver but then magically made it to another one further down the field.

I'd go more with "God almighty, look at me, your most magnificent creature!"
posted by mrgrimm at 10:41 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

From Dec '10, but here's my favorite sports gif.
posted by specialagentwebb at 10:44 AM on January 4 [34 favorites]

"Toronto Saurus Rex" is of course an anagram for "Ox Tours Retro Anus."
posted by griphus at 10:44 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I'm in agreement that 22 is the best. The look on the hockey player getting flicked in the nose by the other hockey player who is sticking his tongue out at him is priceless, such a mix of disbelief and resignation.

This is a great collection of the small moments that makes sports so human.
posted by Fister Roboto at 10:46 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

...which I see is on the 2010 list. Well played, sir.
posted by specialagentwebb at 10:46 AM on January 4

I can't watch too many of these at once, I need to breathe.
posted by Curious Artificer at 10:46 AM on January 4

Ha, specialagentwebb, that has like a twist ending. I was all, "this is pretty good," then BAM.
posted by neuromodulator at 10:50 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

Burhanistan: "> One point of confusion: can someone explain why the guy in #4 is so upset?

I think it's more incredulity that his pinpoint pass bounced off his intended receiver but then magically made it to another one further down the field."

Thanks! That makes sense: I thought he was the guy who scored the touchdown.
posted by sundaydriver at 10:51 AM on January 4

As far as I'm concerned, #7 should be #1. Nobody's going to be able to top that for a looooong time.

I'm already sick of that flip-into-the-endzone play. Sure it's 'amazing' but I don't need to see it a million times. I prefer the catch at #8.

Also, I really like the runaway cart at #5. The only thing better would be a shot of the person responsible as they look on in horror.
posted by mullacc at 11:02 AM on January 4

I'm missing something. What's up with the one Think_Long linked to with Thome hitting a baseball? Looks like a guy hitting a baseball.
posted by ambient2 at 11:02 AM on January 4

Look in the background. And then look in your heart.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:04 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

> What's up with the one Think_Long linked to with Thome hitting a baseball? Looks like a guy hitting a baseball.

It's a guy smashing a baseball to Jupiter à la 'roided up McGwire, and the "dayyyyum" look of the player next to him.
posted by Burhanistan at 11:05 AM on January 4

I don't know why the runaway golf cart has me in tears, but it does. I am very thankful to have an office with a door that closes right now.
posted by mudpuppie at 11:08 AM on January 4

i love jeff van gundy.
his gif pleased me.
posted by liza at 11:08 AM on January 4

This one is my leader for Best of 2012.

I don't like sports, and I loathe excessive pagination, but these were fantastic.

Usually, I'd agree, but in this case, I think the pagination is keeping the gifs from eating our computers from the inside.

I'm missing something. What's up with the one Think_Long linked to with Thome hitting a baseball? Looks like a guy hitting a baseball.

Context on the Thome hit.
posted by prosthezis at 11:10 AM on January 4 [6 favorites]

I'm going to go with this one.
posted by Fnarf at 11:11 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

Gif collections are an abhorrent dumbing down of the internet.
posted by Frasermoo at 11:11 AM on January 4

Prosthezis: oh no you di'unt! One minute before me?
posted by Fnarf at 11:12 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Gif collections are an abhorrent dumbing down of the internet.

Tell me more!
posted by neuromodulator at 11:13 AM on January 4 [5 favorites]

Watch the wide angle shot of the runaway golf cart.
posted by drezdn at 11:17 AM on January 4

Messed-up link or satire: you decide.
posted by griphus at 11:18 AM on January 4 [3 favorites]

Wide angle golf cart. Sigh.
posted by drezdn at 11:22 AM on January 4 [2 favorites]

It was a ball that was caught by a fielder and thrown directly to the little girl after the inning was over, which is a common thing that most baseball fans are aware of, and the lady more or less stole the ball that was thrown to the girl as she was catching it.

Good point, but that opens up the possibility that the lady thought the ball was intended for her (which still makes her an idiot, sure, and since as I said above she didn't immediately give the ball to the girl, it also makes her an asshole).

My favorite part, after watching it 100 times, is her the guy in orange. He looks at the lady, then he looks at the girl, then he's like "WTF?" Classic.
posted by muddgirl at 11:32 AM on January 4

Watch the wide angle shot of the runaway golf cart.

OMG that's excellent. That big graceful arc and the stunning accuracy. Like a cruise missile. It's beautiful.
posted by mullacc at 11:37 AM on January 4

This is the greatest thing in the history of the internet today. Tomorrow there will other things but for today, this is greatest thing ever.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:43 AM on January 4

I'm going to go with this one [Wenger].

Start with that, add a bit of this and 2012's winner is born
posted by fullerine at 11:47 AM on January 4 [13 favorites]

No love for Taj Gibson's monster rebound dunk against the Heat in the 2011 playoffs? WHY!!

Goddamn, that was amazing to see.
posted by Edison Carter at 11:48 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Oh, man, fullerine. If you then had that one lead into McCarthy from Edogy's link above who then started singing a Duran Duran cover, you'd have the decade wrapped up before it's even three years gone.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:54 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

have the decade wrapped up before it's even three years gone.

The decade's only a little more than a year old.

Goddammit.
posted by Edison Carter at 12:04 PM on January 4

The decade's only a little more than a year old.

Eh?

I understand this argument when it's applied to centuries, but not decades. The current decade is the teens, i.e., years in which a '1' is in the tens position.
posted by Fnarf at 12:37 PM on January 4

The current decade is the teens, i.e., years in which a '1' is in the tens position.

NO
posted by Edison Carter at 12:46 PM on January 4

You seem agitated.
posted by Fnarf at 12:49 PM on January 4

You know how anti-teen-agers get.
posted by griphus at 12:50 PM on January 4

You seem agitated.

It's this decade. It's getting to me.
posted by Edison Carter at 12:51 PM on January 4

The new millennium started 1/1/01. The new decade started 1/1/11. What is so hard about that?

(Also, the "60s" were 1962-1973, the "70s" were 1974-1978, the "'80s" were 1979 to 1991, and the "90s" were 1992-1999.)
posted by mrgrimm at 12:55 PM on January 4 [4 favorites]

It's this decade. It's getting to me.

Look on the bright side -- only just under eight more years to go.

Arsene Wenger is a gif champion. Recall this masterpiece from 2010.
posted by Fnarf at 12:55 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Look on the bright side -- only just under eight more years to go.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
posted by Edison Carter at 12:59 PM on January 4

The new millennium started 1/1/01. The new decade started 1/1/11. What is so hard about that?

Explain to me the relationship between millenniums and decades. Better yet, explain to me how "the 20s" can include 1930, for example.

Then I will explain how your own nomenclature fails to support you. You are not grasping the difference between ordinal and cardinal numbers. Notice that I said "the 20s", not "the third decade". Similarly, although "the 20th century" did indeed run from 1901 to 2000, "the nineteen-hundreds" ran from 1900 to 1999.

The current decade of "the teens" will run from 2010 to 2019.
posted by Fnarf at 1:01 PM on January 4

How did Patrick Kane's shootout goal not get made into a top-50 animated GIF? Pfft... people.
posted by introp at 1:02 PM on January 4

A tiny, old part of my brain expected Dire Straits to autoplay every time a page loaded.
posted by COBRA! at 1:09 PM on January 4

How did Patrick Kane's shootout goal not get made into a top-50 animated GIF? Pfft... people.

Well, first, that's not a GIF. Second, Joonas Jokinen's penalty kick was 20x better.
posted by mrgrimm at 1:21 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I like this from the 2010 World Cup.
posted by Huw at 1:23 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

Well, first, that's not a GIF.

Right, the person you're responding to asked why no one has made a GIF of it.
posted by dfan at 1:25 PM on January 4

Well that's obvious. Making GIFs from YouTube videos is as easy as pooping in the woods. Hint: the play wasn't that good.
posted by mrgrimm at 1:28 PM on January 4

Michael Jordan wanting to play pogs made me die laughing.
posted by mightygodking at 1:29 PM on January 4

Also, yes, somone has made a GIF of Patrick Kane's shootout goal from 12/14/11. I'm sure MANY people have. Again, it's just not that good a play.

(Can you tell I'm a Red Wings fan? ;)
posted by mrgrimm at 1:29 PM on January 4

It was beautiful to watch as a Blackhawks fan though.
posted by garlic at 1:42 PM on January 4

This isn't sports related, but still.
posted by Burhanistan at 3:02 PM on January 4 [5 favorites]

I stared at that for an embarrassing amount of time before I realized it wasn't a mirrored surface that the box was on.
posted by neuromodulator at 3:40 PM on January 4

But on the plus side, you meditated on Infinite Cat Box.
posted by Burhanistan at 4:00 PM on January 4

I did! The best part is watching him get sucked back in at the bottom.
posted by neuromodulator at 4:06 PM on January 4

it's the way he tucks his paws in
posted by neuromodulator at 4:11 PM on January 4

Turn this into a gif and you have a contender for 2012! Love that with all the hoopla with Landon Donovan joining Everton on loan, it's Tim Howard that scores...
posted by robocop is bleeding at 5:03 PM on January 4

Brad Friedel scored first but Tim Howard's was cooler
posted by the painkiller at 5:20 PM on January 4

Maybe the rage faces disqualify it, but this one deserves mention. (Original video here)
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 5:59 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I'd just like to go on record as saying that Thome is one of the few sluggers that baseball insiders say is clean of 'roids. He's just naturally a beast.
posted by Ber at 6:25 PM on January 4

This one seems like it should have been somewhere in there.
posted by Bonky Moon at 6:38 PM on January 4 [2 favorites]

So, is the animated gif with the name ending in .jpg some weird meme I never got the memo about?
posted by Fnarf at 6:47 PM on January 4

Yeah I have no idea, I see them occasionally and they somehow manage to work correctly. It is a mystery.
posted by Bonky Moon at 6:49 PM on January 4

The Content-Type is still image/gif, so there's no reason it shouldn't work.
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 6:53 PM on January 4

Bonky Moon: That's hilarious, but is there some sort of context to make it more so?
posted by SomaSoda at 7:02 PM on January 4

How did Patrick Kane's shootout goal not get made into a top-50 animated GIF? Pfft... people.

Because fuck the Blackhawks is why.
/Wild fan

Kidding aside, it just isn't that awesome of a play. This one by Mikael Granlund would be a much better contender. Especially if you were to play it side-by-side with his brother, Markus Granlund's, goal.
posted by Demogorgon at 7:06 PM on January 4

SomaSoda:
It's from the Christmas Eve episode of NFL GameDay Morning. The person receiving the Tebow rocking horse is Michael Irvin, a former NFL player who is a huge Tim Tebow fan and one of the hosts of said show. One of the other hosts of the show, Steve "Mooch" Mariucci, gave him that rocking horse during a "Santa Mooch" segment.
posted by Bonky Moon at 7:21 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I love this one from a couple years ago. Especially funny if you're a Giants fan or know of Pablo Sandoval.
posted by ORthey at 7:49 PM on January 4

The current decade of "the teens" will run from 2010 to 2019.

Which is a terrible name for it, since really the teens should run from 2013 to 2019 and everybody is kind of embarrassed for 2019 for sticking around because christ, you graduated high school, get out of town already, be an adult.
posted by cortex at 10:06 PM on January 4 [3 favorites]

Only 6 more years till everything in the universe become pornography!
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:26 PM on January 4

George Parros clowning on Barret Jackman (#22 on the list) is classic. Gotta love George.
posted by ShutterBun at 2:38 PM on January 5

Some football (soccer) gifs from this thread:

Goalie blunder
Another goalie blunder
Mesut Özil airing out his chewing gum
posted by Anything at 4:34 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]

Untitled
posted by Anything at 4:54 PM on January 5

Well I guess there's no harm in that...
posted by Anything at 5:11 PM on January 5 [1 favorite]

Some football (soccer) gifs from this thread:

Fake Arsène Wenger doing the cabbage patch in the back of a jeep was definitely lulzy...
posted by the painkiller at 5:16 AM on January 6

Mesut Özil airing out his chewing gum

I was going to say #8 was the my favorite, but that was the best of all of them.
posted by thekiltedwonder at 9:08 AM on January 6

Goalie blunder #1 would have to be my pick for favorite so far. There's something so very warm and schadenfreudish about it. (Plus, there's nothing worse when a fucking goalie saves your (admittedly weak-ass) PK.)

It's also the perfect example for coaches to say "see! SEE! that's why you always run out groundballs/chase down the breakaway layup/watch the ball all the way out/don't stop until the whistle blows/celebrate too early/etc" ... you don't get often get such textbook example of bone-headedness.
posted by mrgrimm at 9:49 AM on January 6 [3 favorites]

(i only wished he'd crossed himself or pointed up at the sky ...)
posted by mrgrimm at 9:50 AM on January 6