Bigger collapse?- Oracle/Gales/Anybody!

Originally Posted by Gander

I knew you couldnt just answer the question without somehow reverting back to the Red Sox blowing it this year. The difference is even if they had gone
2-3 or 3-2 in that series, who knows how long that would have kept them in it. Lets be real, the Yankees pulverized the Red Sox in those first 3 games then all they had to do is win 1 game in 4 chances, 2 being at home, and still could not get it done. I think 99% of all sports fans would agree with me that what transpired in the 2004 playoffs was way more of a choke then what the very mediocre Red Sox of 2006 did. Please.

I don't think all come from behinds are collapses Tim, thats where you and I differ.
I read all about "michigan St's collapse" this past weekend, and I read about the "eagles collapse" against the Giants. I didn't get those either. I watched both games, and I simply saw two teams who absolutely did everything right and badly outplayed their opponents in the last 1/4's. Same with the Buffalo-Houston playoff game where the Bills were losing like 35-3 at halftime. I mean Holy ****!! In the second half the Bills played every down on offense and defense perfectly!!!!! I'm sorry but that wasn't a Houston collapse, that was one team just kicking the **** out of the other one. Big difference to me.

Its an overused term, and a badly overused one at that. Greg Norman collapsed at the Masters, yes thats true. But thats a single man sport where the guy playing is not affected by how the other guy is, his fate is in his own hands.
The collapse the Sox put on AFTER losing to the Yanks is what I am referring to. They played the Yanks hard in that 5 game series, they narrowly lost 3 games to them and it easily could have been a difrefent story. Its how they pouted and played after that. And please, spare me the rationalizations of how mediocre the Sox were. LOL!! You must be kidding!! You explicity said that the Yanks would not even make the playoffs as late as August, I remember the post!!!!! So you thought the Sox were great then, but now that they are going home, they are mediocre. I'd say thats Monday morning quarterbacking at its finest.
The Cardinals haven't written the last chapter yet. If they do blow it, perhaps it will be a famous collapse.