'I got hit in the junk two years in a row': Your best, most embarrassing sports moments

Joe Rivera

'I got hit in the junk two years in a row': Your best, most embarrassing sports moments image

We need to talk through this.

Sports are gone for a long, long time, unfortunately. The only thing we have right now is each other — and our cringey, embarrassing, awkward sports memories. So let's keep this train rolling.

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Most of the people on this planet have played sports at some point or another, whether recreationally, organized or semi-pro. More people have not played professional sports, which is why most of us sit here and tweet and write about them.

Earlier in the week, I posed this question on Twitter:

Needless to say, there were plenty of hilarious responses that reminded us why we don't play pro sports and earn large, sexy contracts.

Here are some of the best responses from the Twitter roundup:

Basketball

Which hurt worse: the busted nose, or the bruised ego?

This is worse than the GIF of Swaggy P missing the 3-pointer.

Baseball

He left? Did he go to find the ball and never came back?

At least arm strength isn't a problem.

Well, if nothing else, at least you got a really good jump.

Uh … no balls, two strikes?

"You miss 100 percent of the home plates you don't touch." — Babe Ruth — Wayne Gretzky — Michael Scott — Joe Rivera

Is it time to stop celebrating in sports? My column:

Might be the genesis of all the Yankees' injury issues these days.

Well, now other people are going to pee themselves, too. By laughing, probably.

First thing that comes to mind was a baseball game in probably 6th-7th grade. I somehow lost a contact and had to play 2B. Ball is hit to me and I run the opposite way trying to guess where it is. I’m sure I looked foolish. — Anonymous Twitter user.

You probably looked better in the field than José Canseco did that one time.

I hope she loved you for your baseball acumen.

Senior year of high school I had a hemorrhoid and I was in excruciating pain when I ran. I was shagging fly balls during BP and I just had to shut it down. I told my coach I pulled my hamstring. I was too embarrassed to tell him what it really was. I’m in the trainers room getting my leg messaged and s—, feeling like an a—hole because there’s nothing wrong with it. A week goes by and I still have this thing. I told my buddy the truth and I should’ve known better because he had a big mouth. Long story short, because the only way I could sit comfortably during the game was on the ball bucket, my buddy blabs it to my coach and the entire team. After the game my coach calls me over and here I’m thinking "I’m gonna get screamed at for lying about an injury" but he spends the next 10 minutes telling me how he gets them chronically and how he deals with them. — Anonymous Twitter User No. 2

A literal pain in the ass. Way to go.

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Football

Not cool, but definitely hilarious.

Wow, so you played for the New York Jets?

Now I see why you play flag football and not two-hand touch.

We have a chance to become the second JV football football team ever to go undefeated in the history of our high school. Last game of the season (no playoffs for JV), against one of our biggest rivals. We're in overtime, and we get the ball first. We score a touchdown. I, the long-snapper for the PAT, send the ball flying over the holder's head. We don't convert. Other team gets the ball. Scores a touchdown. Kicks the PAT. We lose because of my bad snap. — SN's Tadd Haislop

Thank God you're better at writing about football than playing it.

Soccer

"An absolute FIRECRACKER!"

See, usually in soccer, you want to kick the ball.

Hockey

There are worse things than Bobby Orr telling you you stink.

At least you tried to cut down the angles.

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Miscellaneous

Knocked your teeth loose in karate? Someone get this guy a DAZN contract, quick!

Only thing that would have made this better is if you followed it up with, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, I AM?!"

Smooth.

I … don't have anything witty to say about this.

Time to wake up, Cody. This has all been a dream, and Iowa still lost.

Joe Rivera