Friday, November 30, 2012

YouTube's 18 Most Epic Sports Meltdowns

1. Handball Player Drops His Shorts and, Uh, Does Other Things Too

This Italian handball player instantly entered the pantheon of all-time sports meltdowns recently when he, shall we say, overreacted to a sarcastic peck from an antagonistic opponent.

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Freak-outs, meltdowns, tantrums, hissy fits -- call 'em what you want, but sports figures losing their cool in public is highly entertaining. From thrown chairs to ejected players, head-butts to grabbed nuts, other people's indignation never fails to draw a laugh.

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Thanks to YouTube, we get to relive classic moments over and over again. That means we'll never be without John McEnroe calling a line judge a jerk, or Mike Gundy being a man who is 40, or Brian Wilson taking a bat to a Gatorade cooler in the San Francisco Giants' dugout. It's the small mercies that make being a sports fan in the digital age so worthwhile.

So, without further ado, here above, and presented in no particular order, are 18 of the funniest sports freak-outs we could find on YouTube. Check them out, then add your favorites in the comments below.

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This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/youtubes-18-most-epic-sports-meltdowns-175415460.html

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