SportsDystopia

Since there was no baseball on tonight, no World Series preview to be written, and no part of me that felt like chiming in on the “will they or won’t they collapse?” debate swirling around the Rays at the moment, I decided to do something a little different.  The Denny Green tirade I included in yesterday’s game 5 recap got me hungry for some more classic coaching meltdowns, so I decided to track down a few more of the better ones.

We’ll start off with a Jim Mora classic that’s a favorite of mine, and I’m sure it’s one of yours as well.  Mora resigned as head coach of the Saints following the loss to the Carolina Panthers that sparked this one, back in 1996.

Thanks, coach.

Our next meltdown might be the only one on this list in which physical injury actually resulted.  It’s from Hal McRae of the Kansas City Royals back in 1993.

“Now…put that in your f***in’ pipe and smoke it!”  Russell Crowe and Naomi Campbell would both later draw inspiration from the ‘phone as projectile’ method of assault displayed here.

Up next is Jim Boeheim of Syracuse getting uncomfortably close to the microphone and inventing the word “unanamous”.  He’s at least relatively calm, but not calm enough to remember the word he’s looking for is “anonymous”.

This next one isn’t exactly a coaching meltdown, but I’ll never get tired of seeing Jim Rome get tossed by Jim Everett.  He deserved it.

To close out the list we have 3 minutes of high comedy.  Inspired by an article brought to Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy by a mother.  Of children.  He’s a man.  He’s 40.

That article had to have been written by a person that doesn’t have a child.  Gundy’s rant also inspired some fantastic spoofs by Chicago sports radio personalities Boers & Bernstein, in the form of Mike Gundy book reviews.  They did one for Moby Dick and another for Harry Potter .

Well, that’s all the ranting this post can take.  I hope you enjoyed the stroll down coaching tirade memory lane.

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