Liquid Lunch – Cheaters Edition

by Sculptor?!? on November 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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So, the theme of the day, inspired by my irate co-Publicans, is cheating.

Handball, indeed.

Handball, indeed.

Let’s roll with this, shall we?  Discuss your most hated moments of sports wherein cheating occurred.  And it doesn’t need to be Hand of God level cheating (although the PED discussion is a bit tired, that is still fair game). I’m talking Bill Belichick stealing plays/signs and others of that ilk. Of course, let’s REALLY have fun with this, and open the floor to speculative bitching. Ever suspect someone of cheating? Have a method by which you’re certain someone could cheat and get away with it? Have something entirely ridiculous like the dartboard scene in Young Frankenstein?

Go for it.  Amuse each other, enjoy a cathartic rant, have at it. Comment section is now open, folks!

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  • MrRedDevil
    November 19, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    FSU @ UF, 1993, Charlie Ward throws a pass to the left, Warrick Dunn deliberately blocks Anthone Lott in the back, the receiver houses it (Vanover?), and the Criminoles win.

    But that’s ok. See Sugar Bowl, 1997.


    • MrRedDevil
      November 19, 2009 at 1:20 pm

      My mistake, apparently Dunn scored the TD and some other asshole threw the clip. EITHER WAY, FUCK YOU.


  • RATL
    November 19, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    The Big East refs are the biggest attention whoring refs ever created.

    Example one: In the 2006 double OT game with Marquette, Tim Higgins managed to piss off both our fans and the Marquette somehow. He was so bad people started throwing shit on the court, and not just the students.

    Example two: The refs in the 2007 Backyard brawl that called all those bullshit holding penalties that tried to get the mountainqueers into the BS Championship Game. Thankfully it didn’t work. 13-9 Baby.

    What cheaters.

    I’ll also throw in Barry Lamar Bonds. He might be the biggest cheater ever.


  • Pam
    November 19, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    RATL, Tim Higgins is the only ref I can recall by name in the NCAA! Must not be a coincidence!

    On a different subject, I assume Jimmy Johnson is a cheater in NASCAR. How could he possibly be so much better than everyone else? His car is illegally better methinks.


    • lowercase
      November 19, 2009 at 2:20 pm

      While it’s certainly possible, his team really is at a whole different level of professionalism and tactics, unlike a lot of the other good ol’ boy teams out there, even today. He and his team are some cold blooded mercenaries who devote every ounce of energy to the goal- not commercials, not mugging for cameras, not XM radio shows- only winning.

      But they could be cheating too.


    • Rob in WI
      November 19, 2009 at 2:56 pm

      I tend to lean towards not cheating, but only because Nascar as a sanctioning body is usually not-as-far-behind-the-curve as in other sports.

      Johnson has had his cars torn apart by Nascar R&D at least 4 times this season alone, that have been publicized, and I’d imagine his tech checks are probably the longest in the series (if someone kept track of that).

      //nascar nerd


  • Old King Clancy
    November 19, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Jeffrey Maier. Has anyone else become a national “celebrity” specifically FOR cheating? 13 years later, I still hope he gets taint-punched daily.