Last week I grossed some people out when I posted the Most Graphic Sports Injuries. I think I’ll continue the gross factor this week and go into a subject that you don’t hear about every day with sports vomiting. To pay homage to Junior Miller’s 27 year no-vomit streak coming to an end and mine going strong at 18+ years, I proudly present to you my Top 10 Most Glorious Sports Vomits. This list unlike my last one, isn’t necessarily counting down the most graphic, but the best manly performance given by the puker.
10. Jahvid Best – Best had a pretty good little career for Cal collecting 2,668 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns in 3 years and going on the be the 30th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. This moment against Maryland where Best gets absolutely destroyed and is laying on Maryland’s Bermuda grass vomiting and looking near death, isn’t his finest.
9. Cade McNown – During this incident in 1998, the refs had to stop play before the snap and McNown left the game for a play to rehydrate. The next play was a run up the middle. I guarantee you the running back never had more motivation to gain more than one yard so he wouldn’t fall in the future first round bust’s stomach content.
8. Alvin Gentry – Gentry’s Suns were defeated by the Lakers in six games in the 2010 NBA Playoffs. In a losing effort in Game Five at the Staples Center, Coach Gentry lost his pre-game dinner in a trash can on the Suns bench. In the video it looks like Gentry says “duck” or something like that at 0:03 mark in the video.
7. Fat Philly Fan – This has to be the worst fan ever. He got the beat down he deserved.
6. Donovan McNabb – I’ve always been anti-McNabb and this moment against the Tampa Bay Bucs is one of my favorite moments of his career. He also puked in the Super Bowl.
5. Riley Cooper – The current Eagle spare had an outstanding game for the Gators against Charleston Southern (who?) in 2009 tallying five catches for 105 yards. After catching three passes in a row in the first half, Cooper jogged over to the sideline and puked then tried to act like nothing happened. He didn’t fool anyone though as it was caught on national television.
4. Matt Ryan – Matty Ice rallied his 2007 Boston College Eagles to defeat Virginia Tech throwing two touchdowns in the final 2:11 of the game. With eight seconds remaining, Ryan let out a nice victory vomit on the Eagles sideline.
3. Sean Williams – Williams was in beast mode during some garbage minutes of the Dallas Mavericks loss to Denver on December 26, 2011 scoring 12 points and picking up five fouls in only 11 minutes of play. The Crab Man took himself out of the game late in the fourth and as the great Mark Followill described during the Mavs broadcast, “A lot of the fuel that was in the tank came back up.” Despite playing some aggressive minutes and leaving it all on the court that night, it wasn’t enough to keep Williams on the team; he was demoted to the Texas Legends on January 6th.
2. Pete Sampras – After playing four hours of exhausting tennis in the 1996 US Open, Sampras was drained. At 1-1 in the fifth set tiebreak, Sampras walked to the back of the court and barfed which resulted in a time delay warning by the ref. After the rally-puke, Sampras went on to defeat Alex Corretja in this quarterfinal and ultimately winning the US Open.
1. Riley Dodge – With Southlake Carol tied with Austin Westlake with 7:43 remaining in the fourth quarter of the 2006 Texas 5A Division 1 State Championship game, Riley Dodge lined up in the shotgun formation, removed his mouth-guard, hurled, then threw a 30 yard touchdown pass, then hurled again, and finally ended up winning the State Championship. A puke for the ages.
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