The worst on-field cheap shot you've ever seen...
Doesn't have to be Michigan-related, or even football-related, as cheap shots happen in other sports as well. But what in your opinion was the most egregious in-play cheap shot you've ever seen, especially (but not exclusively) one that made you scream at the officials whether or not they needed their vision checked?
I'll be honest: I've seen baseball pitchers who have sent fastballs toward batters that looked pretty deliberate. One of those was a guy named Eric Gagne for the Milwaukee Brewers who threw head shots at the Cubs one game. The ump eventually ejected him, but it seemed as if he threw a LOT of them at players before anything was done (this was about 9-10 years ago). On a broader scale, I wonder whether or not more pitchers get away with this than are actually caught.
Anyway, have at it, gentlemen.
Basically MSU under Dantonio is a pretty robust collection.
I don't disagree, but any one in particular?
Denard getting his head twisted at the bottom of the pile was brutal.
Yep Gholston slugged a lineman away from the play that game as well.
The Panasiuk brothers come to mind too.
Any of these really worse than Woody hitting a Clemson player!? I mean, that is top 3 cheap shots in all of sports history in my book. Period.
Really? A 65 year old man taking a swing at a fully padded up football player is the most egregious cheap shot? Charlie Baumann (the Clemson player) was soooo upset about it that he became one of Woody's greatest supporters for the rest of Haye's life.
I know we are supposed to hate all things Buckeye, but when you really read about what Hayes was about, I think you have to have respect and admiration for the guy,
Any 65 year old man hitting a kid, knowing full well the kid cannot respond in like kind, is if not a tremendous cheap shot, an epic act of cowardice and loss of emotional control.
Anyone else lose their job / get kicked off their teams for their cheap shots?
Just a massive DB move.
I know we are supposed to hate all things Buckeye, but when you really read about what Hayes was about, I think you have to have respect and admiration for the guy,
Right, like when he was a football banquet, and started talking about the My Lai Massacre saying that the Vietnamese Men in the village deserved to die, and that "I wouldn't be so sure those women were innocent either."
Don't worry, Woody thought the children should've been spared from being murdered, as long as they were under 5.
Definitely someone worthy of respect and admiration.
Wow, Woody Hayes said something controversial about the Vietnam War back in 1969......Stop the presses. People saying and doing these kinds of things about Vietnam back then was absolutely unheard of.
Everyone knows it was a war that united the nation and didn’t cause millions of people, from both pro and anti war camps, to act in regrettable ways because of the passions it inflamed in America.
A coach hitting an opposing player, not in defense of his own player, but as a reaction to the opponent making a play is indefensible. I can only imagine what he did in practice to his own team.
I Had an interesting conversation with a member of the 1968 OSU team. He told me Woody used switches against his players in practice.
While you can certainly defend Woody Hayes’ career as a whole, punching Charlie Bauman was completely indefensible. That Bauman forgave Woody doesn’t make it any more acceptable.
You might also recall that Ohio State fired Woody a couple of days after this. Frankly, it’s embarrassing they didn’t do it immediately after the game. There is literally no excuse for punching any player during a game, much less a player on the opposing team.
Certainly, it was the stupidest cheap shot in history.
It was clearly going to be disastrous for the perpetrator's own career/legacy and it was also obvious that the victim would barely notice the attack. He was undoubtedly hit much harder by teammates congratulating him after a good play.
Again, it was certainly the stupidest cheap shot ever but it was hardly worse than cheap shots intended and likely to severely injure an opposing player.
Dunno, the Zidane head-butt in the World Cup final has to be up there too for stupidest cheap shot in history...Yeah the defender made it look far worse than it was, but given the game situation at the time, it's as dumb as the Woody Hayes one, if not dumber.....
LeGarrette Blount's cheap shot on Byron Hout was pretty bad
Oh Christ, gimme a break. Charlie Bauman didn’t even feel it. It was a shit thing to do and Hayes deserved to get canned for it, but let’s stop with the false outrage pretending it was some horrible cheap shot that inflicted major injury on the young man.
Gholston slugged Lewan, went knees first onto Denard's back while he was on the ground and then tried to break his neck by twisting his helmet off while again lying on the ground. Big ten office suspended Gholston for the next week. Dbagtonio/Narduzzi = scumbags ??
and wasn't that the same game where Narduzzi proudly proclaimed they had "60 minutes of unnecessary roughness today!"
I remember that and also the fallout with MSU players saying that Lewan and maybe others had done some things/said some things they shouldn't have. Say what you will about Harbaugh but this doesn't happen now. And no spikes into the field with half-baked apologies either.
The whole Lewan said something racist was a bs claim made by a poster on RCMB. The mods there at the time tried to shut it down because it never came from any player or anyone associated with the team. They knew it was an obvious invention by POS poster. After awhile, the mods quit even trying to set the record straight and it just kept getting repeated over and over.
Especially when Dantonarduzzi coached the MSU defense in the early 2010's. That was some brutal shit going on both before and especially after the whistle.
Agreed. When Bush speared that dude in the head, I thought it was great.
Chris Frey was more than deserving of that one. I am fairly confident the refs didnt call targeting because of that fact.
Big Ten officiating is up there.
this one:
if i was scotty bowman i would've told the guys to use full-extension decapitation with a stick on lemieux after that.
Lemieux eventually got his.
Sent straight to the turtle club
The retaliation is hardly justice for what happened to Draper
you see some bad ones in hockey, this being one of them. mcsorley v brashear, bertuzzi v moore are 2 others that come to mind
So many hockey ones. Had to spend a few minutes on youtube reliving some sports. Man I really miss sports.
That MSU player should have been suspended for the remainder of the year minimum for coming in and just taking a slapshot to his mid-section.
That player?
Both of them. One gave the guy a round house from over the shoulder and behind him and the other FYS guy put the blade of his stick into the guys neck while he was on the ice.
Both of those hacks were suspended for season by Rick Comley.
I was thinking of the FYS incident when I saw the post but didn't know if ice was considered on the field.
For a cheap shot by a Michigan player, I would have to include Cutler Martin's shot at the Buckeye's head during the scrum while the Buckeye was pinned down by the zebra. He had a two game suspension.
https://twitter.com/thecauldron/status/688886186685902848?lang=en
Personally I think a cheap shot that injures another player should result in a suspension for the period of time that the injury keeps the other player off the field and a career ending cheap shot should result in a lifetime ban from the game.
i'm guessing you never played juniors or college hockey. hit with a gloved hand unto a full facemask and helmet, and the ohio kid saw it coming. i know our guy got a 2 game sit, but that'd be 2 min for roughing in some leagues.
I'll never forget Tropp and Conboy. Kampfer hat like just come back recently from some kind of injury and those two dbags pull that. I'm still disappointed that apparently none of our guys really saw it happen because everyone reacted sort of passively. Those two should've taken a beating for that
The Bertuzzi one was the one that immediately jumped into my mind. Ugly stuff.
Bertuzzi should have been thrown out if the league for that shit.
This one immediately came to mind for me as well. Absolutely the most dastardly moment (from my admittedly biased point of view).
Dale Hunter's hit on Pierre Turgeon after he scored came immediately to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_R3jFWWx48
I didn't watch this game but I heard about the video clip later and had to check it out for myself. Just brutal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UywRu8QPXA
The player that delivered the cheap shot I believe was expelled from college.
He should have been expelled from society for a few years. That's some bullshit right there.
I don't disagree. If I did that to someone at Meijer I'd be looking at possible hard time (and rightfully so).
This one came outta left field
Some of the worst offenders are low level college sports. I'll always remember this one from a DIII basketball game that got a player kicked off his own campus as well.
https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2018/11/14/18095302/college-basketball-cheap-shot-d3-fitchburg-state
Ty Domi slipped off his glove during a stoppage in play, skated by an unsuspecting opponent who was just standing still, and cold-cocked him. i thought that was thw dirtiest play I ever saw.
Though you can find a Spartan football player cheap-shotting one of our guys after the whistle from every game over the past 30 years.
The Tie Domi headhunting elbow to Scott Neidermeyer in the '01 playoffs (Neider being one of the most sportsmanlike players in the game, and widely respected) is among the cheapest shots I ever witnessed.
Sickens me that Domi has any sort of visibility 20 years after his clown show in the NHL. One of the absolute worst ass cracks in all of hockey.
Domi’s hit on Niedermayer was even more reprehensible when you realize it wasn’t in retaliation for anything he’d done to Domi.
Instead it was payback for the multiple times Scott Stevens had absolutely leveled him with open ice hits and Domi was too chickenshit to try and go after Stevens because he knew he’d get his fucking ass kicked. So he hit Niedermayer instead when Stevens was in the penalty box.