What's the Single Worst Call You've Ever Seen?

It's a rather obscure inconsequential choice, but I nonetheless might mention Toledo getting screwed out of an upset over Syracuse by refs somehow concluding this went through the uprights:

 

Jim Joyce ruined perfect game

 

Jeffrey fucking Maier

 

Denkinger, fifth down, et al. were terrible calls. Truly terrible one-shot calls.

Only the 1972 gold medal basketball game is an example of the refs doggedly making the wrong call over and over until they run out the clock.

 

The Baron is correct -- NOTHING will ever match the 1972 Olympic fiasco.

 

Doug Eddings creating a dropped 3rd strike on the Angels when AJP ran to first in 2005 ALCS.

 

I'm still sore about Hugh Dallas missing Torsten Frings' handball on the goal line against the US, but that's also a good shout.

 

MLB: '85 Series. Perfecto gone wrong.
NFL: Coin flip. If you can't get that right, who cares about the game?
NHL: '80 Stanley Cup offside play or '99 Brett Hull in crease
College football: 5th down.
Olympics: '72 hoops.

If tonight was the worst you've seen, turn off your TV and take it out with the trash. You've been blessed to not see a lot of wrongs.

 

Lots of good ones already mentioned, so I'll toss out another one -- Jerry Meals in the 19th inning last year in Braves-Pirates. Julio Lugo still hasn't touched the plate.

 

Kordell Stewart's phantom touchdown catch [/coltsfan]

 

Jim Joyce's missed call at first was heartbreaking, not only for the pitcher but for Joyce as well. You could see how much he felt for Galarraga and knew what his call cost him.

But for me personally, it's Denkinger. Fuck you, Donnie. 27 years later, I still can't believe what a colossal fuckup that was in such a critical situation.