The Worst Chokes in NFL History
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What sparked the idea to rank the biggest NFL chokes?
Okay, so we're we're in the midst of the off season. Things are still pretty quiet. The Combine happened, but not much is going on in the NFL still. It's it's it's a bit of a dead zone and um Yeah, I'm just you know, I like football. Did you know that? You you aware that fact? And uh if you watch this video, you y you probably do too and something I like to do is just browse like certain NFL topics. I'll just like search things up and see if certain ideas that I have actually exist out there. And part of me was just wondering, I think I was also doing research on like a TikTok or just uh a YouTube short or something like that. And I was like, you know what? What are some of the biggest chokes in NFL history?
And then I went down another rabbit hole and I was like, well, how do we quantify what the biggest chokes are? Does it go by just total point difference? Does it go by vibes or something, you know, stage is the Falcons choke worse than another choke uh in the Super Bowl, even though the point total isn't isn't as big. You know what I'm trying to say, right? It's a lot of words. But then I stumbled upon this website and I just I don't know. I feel like I want to share it with you guys because what it does or is w well actually let me let me pull it up on the screen here. So it's sorta difficult to put onto the screen here, but Basically it's coming from this guy whose last name is Parham, uh specifically, but he basically watched his team choke a game and decided that he wanted to find a way to measure how bad a choke is, and he's using this this specific formula of you know the the piss formula of course, which um you're you're obviously familiar with.
But yeah, if if you really wanna I I think that's like a matrix thing. I don't know. I barely passed math. But there's a lot of math that goes into this. I'm not even gonna try to pretend that I understand anything that he's He's he's showing me here, but What it effectively does is it it it prints out this number here. So for example he used this Titans Bears game where the Titans had a seventeen to zero lead and then ended up losing twenty-four to seventeen. And this produ produced, excuse me, a choke score uh of about two ninety. And what he did is he charted this for every single game since 2000 and came up with the worst chokes of all time. And I j I don't know, I feel like that'd be fun to go through.
I actually haven't looked at this list There's a lot of games that I probably, you know, either didn't watch or didn't remember, but I feel like this'll just be fun to go through. This was peak off season uh activities. So I've got it pulled up here, and right away, what what the hell with a choke score of six hundred and thirty-two It's the Titans versus the Browns in twenty fourteen? Bro, there was no one watching this game. Um so yeah, if you if you pull this up, it it shows you all the information here. So we can look at the look at the choke score, which got to six thirty two.
How does the Parham “choke‑score” formula quantify a collapse?
So it looks like the Titans ended up having a twenty eight to three lead at one point. Oh god. Oh no, not twenty eight to three. So you can see here, this is Justin Hunter from Charlie Whitehurst. Alright, if you say so, dude, Kendall Wright was my guy. Love Kendall Wright. Love Jake Locker too. Oh, they were wait, what happened? I guess uh Jake Locker got injured in this game? I don't remember. But yeah, Travis Benjamin from Brian Hoyer just went nuclear. They were down. Um wow, th there was like no scoring at all. The Titans just never scored again after the The second quarter. Dude, I gotta see some of these highlights. Oh god, it's actually on NFL throwback. It says the original twenty-eight to three. What are we doing here?
Yeah, alright, for copyright reasons I'll just keep it up there for a second. But the comments actually say this is the biggest comeback ever on the road, which is which is pretty crazy, man. I actually did not know about this game. This was posted two months ago by NFL Throwback. That's crazy. Yeah, just an absolute choke, but I guess um it gets worse because I do remember this game well.
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