Your Worst Sports Predictions?

[Songbird]

I was still mesmerized and deep in love with everything Boise State was doing ...

... so why couldn't undefeated Hawaii beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl?

 

[JC]

I thought Kobe Bryant was ruining his career by entering the draft after high school.

And LeBron would have been a better player had he gone to college. Devil 93

 

[Slacker]

I thought Tim Tebow was Jesus.
It was on all the damn sports sites!

 

[mpcincal]

I didn't think Bill Belicheck would be anything special for the Patriots. At the time, I couldn't believe any team would give up draft picks for him.
Wasn't necessarily a prediction, but I thought the Chargers blew it when they picked Joey Bosa with the third overall pick in the draft.
And it wasn't me, but I was talking baseball with relatives at a family gathering, and my uncle, who's a bit of a blowhard, suddenly turns to me and said, "Wait, you're an Angels fan?!" (Duh, anyone who knows me a little bit should know that). When I answered in the affirmative, he said "Give it up, mpc. They'll always be losers!" This conversation happened in June 2002. Four months later, the "losers" won their first World Series.

 

[DanOregon]

I was stunned that the Patriots hired "re-tread" Bill Belichick. Thought he wouldn't last two years.

As has been pointed out on some threads, I'm still convinced several back-up QBs who were "top tier" in pre-draft write-ups and didn't get much of a chance or were mismanaged as a starter will find a coach/team that will make them All-Pro, if they only get a chance.

Sonics would never leave Seattle.

 

[Cosmo]

I tweeted after Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season, after the Bucs lost to the Saints, including a Brady pick six: LOL Tampa, Brady is done and Blaine Gabbert is your backup. Good luck.

Ugh.

 

[maumann]

I picked another kid for Area Football Player of the Year over Julius Peppers. (He had won the award as a freshman, and I thought he was a better basketball player.)

 

[Michael_ Gee]

In 1993 covered a I-AA playoff game between BU and Northern Iowa. High-scoring affair BU won. My column did not once mention Northern Iowa QB -- Kurt Warner. All-time great scouting blunder.

 

[Hermes]

"Eli Manning will never win a Super Bowl" to my Giants fan co-worker.

After he won his first, I maintained this stance. After he won his second, I maintained that stance.

I still maintain that stance. Reality will not sway me.

 

[Hermes]

"The Ravens will rue the day they left Cleveland."

Nothing but good things have happened to them since.

 

[BTExpress]

Pete Carroll sucks . . . and now he's going to have to recruit, too? What a mistake by USC.

 

[DanOregon]

I figured Leinart and Reggie Bush were can't miss pros.