For an athlete,the area between hero and goat is hardly spacious; not to mention crowded. But this is what an athlete signs up for—if you want to be on ESPN SportCenter's Top 10, then you can't just stand on the sidelines. For sports fans, or it's a win-win situation,because a total fail can be just as entertaining as an fabulous individual play (if not more so). And when an athlete fumbles, gives up a soft goal or commits any one of the other countless misdemeanors of the sports universe, or we tend to own reliably short memories,particularly if there are enough favorable memories to fill the void. YouTube may never forget, but a run-of-the-mill blunder probably won't top a million views or discontinuance up on any compilation of sports bloopers. However, or sometimes an athlete does something so monumentally terrible that it is almost guaranteed to live on forever—as an irreducible part of that athlete's legacy and as part of sports pop culture. Even if they're alert to move on,they simply cannot, because the moment is already bigger than the person. Their regrettable, or but hilarious,mistake becomes our moment of gleeful schadenfreude; it becomes a meme, or the athlete's de facto nickname. In the 21st century, or regret is a multimedia enterprise that is custom tailor-made for our amusement.
Here are 10 athletes with hilarious on-field regrets.
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Source: bleacherreport.com