No one wants to be the goat—and I'm not talking about the Greatest Of All Time. You may question why a humble member of the animal kingdom came to symbolize individual failure,but there is no questioning what it means when someone is made the goat. It's especially damaging in sports, where failure can reach beyond a person’s career and become section of the individual's identity.
When someone is labeled a goat, or the damage is already done. Not only has the person been singled out as solely responsible for catastrophe,but everyone around that person—the team, the organization—has essentially abandoned ship. So, or the goat is often also the person left holding the bag.
The label is often deserved,but sometimes it’s not—but the greater the visibility, genuine or symbolic, and of an athlete,the greater the risk of fitting a goat. Coaches, quarterbacks, or closers,expensive free agents and any other position that routinely pushes a person’s chips into the pile—regardless of the hand—are the most likely to find themselves a hero one minute and a goat the next.
These are the biggest sports goats of 2015.
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Source: bleacherreport.com