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worst performance in career record setting game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:44 pm
by John Grasso
Has anyone else in any sport ever had a worse performance in a career record-setting game
than Peyton Manning the other day?
Re: worst performance in career record setting game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:52 pm
by oldecapecod11
Does it matter? Of course not!
If it did, the predominant entry in every record book would be the asterisk - if simply for length of season.
Re: worst performance in career record setting game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:06 pm
by ChrisBabcock
Does it matter? Of course not!
Well, it sort of does. It makes for interesting conversation.
Re: worst performance in career record setting game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:07 pm
by oldecapecod11
by ChrisBabcock ยป Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:06 pm
"
Well, it sort of does. It makes for interesting conversation. "
Perhaps you are right - for those who like to dwell on the negative aspects of accomplishment simply because they have
a more favored horse in the race.
For years, the battered and bleeding Y.A. on his knees was the end-all of negative photojournalism.
Tittle grew to like it - so much so that he used it on the cover of his book.
Manning's legacy will live long after the naysayers have thrown their spiteful barbs and faded to oblivion.
Re: worst performance in career record setting game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:14 pm
by John Grasso
I guess I didn't phrase my opening statement well. I didn't mean to criticize Peyton
I just thought it very ironic that in possibly his worst game ever he set a significant
positive record and wondered if a similar situation had ever happened.
Re: worst performance in career record setting game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:48 pm
by conace21
I don't think you phrased it poorly, and I don't think of it as excessively negative. There are lots of interesting conversations here, and some of them include negative parts of the game.
On the old website, I started a thread entitled "Worst ending to a career." My choice was my boyhood hero, Jim Kelly. On his final play, Jim fumbled (twice!) losing the second one (which set up the Jacksonville go-ahead FG) and he suffered a concussion.
Regarding your post, I really can't think of a worse record-breaking performance. Peyton's day was really bad. Which does nothing to diminish his legacy. I think of all the sports legends who went to a new team after 30 (Mays, Ruth, Jordan, Rice, Emmitt, Unitas, Montana,) Peyton had the most successful stint with his new team. Even if you took out his MVP season, the two surrounding seasons were still excellent.