Top 10 Crazy Moments in Sports

you never know what might happen when it comes to physical competitions welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 crazy moments in sports though sometimes it means unbelievable or good for this list we're defining crazy as shocking and bad right about here we're Lambert grav Shumway and now we're focusing on displays of bad behavior violence and accidents that simply made our jaws drop the events could have happened during or after sporting events as well as

away from play number 10 the World Series earthquake this tremor struck the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 to 15 seconds and was caught live on TV because of the ongoing World Series the MLB's Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants were warming up for the third game when the quake hit and had announcers scrambling for an explanation [Applause] measuring six point nine on the Richter scale the Loma Prieta earthquake caused over 60 deaths and thousands of injuries it's been a frightening scene

here as you can see just below me is where this crack in the Bay Bridge occurred a 50-foot section number nine Tim Donaghy and the NBA betting scandal it was in 2007 that this basketball referee with a gambling problem shocked the NBA associating himself with multiple individuals who were tied to the mob Tim Donaghy was charged for fixing games to pay off his debts the gambling scandal resulted in Donaghy receiving a 15 month prison sentence for his involvement and the revision of behavior guid

elines for NBA referees number 8 Clint Millar Chuck's neck is sliced by a skate luck was on this alberta native side the day the st. Louis Blues faced off against the Buffalo Sabres on March 22nd 1989 that is the after blues player Steve Tuttle accidentally slashed the goaltender's neck with his skate team trainer Jim Pitts @le rushed to his rescue and pinched off the bleeding until doctors arrived 300 stitches and multiple sickened fans and players later Millar Chuck came out alive that's right

it's part of the game all right Clint thanks very much for joining us and good luck thanks you're number seven on court attack of Monica Seles tennis is seen as a civilized sport where fans are pretty close to the action sometimes maybe too close after defeating Steffi Graf in the Australian Open Monica Seles was stabbed by one of her rivals obsessed fans during a quarterfinal match in Hamburg Celes didn't return to the sport competitively for two years after the incident a tennis match when th

is happened I was doing something that I loved and I never ever expected something like this to happen number six over the edge with Owen Hart wrestling is part competition part entertainment so when Owen Hart fell to his death during this pay-per-view event many fans wondered if it was part of the storyline this is not a part of the entertainment here tonight their shock and confusion turned to disbelief and sadness when it became clear it wasn't before we were going to walk out I just heard th

em screaming saying it's not a fake and a real amputee back here he's not breathing the ripcord fail broke or something I don't know when the safety harness malfunctioned Hart's chest first plunge into the top rope had EMTs come running no footage of the tragedy has ever been officially released number five the punch up in pious Donny during the final game of the 1987 Junior Championship between Canada and the Soviet Union in experienced referee Hans runing failure to make several calls triggere

d tension this resulted in a post faceoff fight between two players that turned into a violent battle between both teams to stop it officials were forced to turn off the arena lights [Applause] the players and coaches involved in the 20-minute bench clearing brawl received suspensions from the International Ice Hockey Federation number for the 1994-95 MLB strike it was because of this work stoppage that the first World Series in 90 years was cancelled and Major League Baseball lost its entire 19

94 postseason after salary negotiations between players and team owners took a turn for the worse the players felt compelled to strike and the season came to an abrupt end after several weeks though a Supreme Court decision 230 two days later stopped the strike early low attendance for the 1995 season revealed fans anger I already know what I'm gonna start doing I'm gonna start rereading Dante's Inferno cuz that's where I think they should send the whole lot of them back to you number three the

play after future Hall of Famer John Elway led the Stanford Cardinals offense to what appeared to be a game-winning touchdown California's Golden Bears managed to return the kickoff down the field meanwhile the Stanford band was storming the field while the play was still going on Kali was ultimately given the victory albeit a highly disputed one and to this day the incidents regarded as one of the sports most memorable plays ever number two the Limbaugh disaster because of auto Racing's dangero

us nature car crashes come with the territory this is huge because you go hit on that TV does not do that justice that is an incredible impact hit on those are the kind of accidents that absolutely are frightening about the watching however they seldom have spectator fatalities unfortunately the 1955 24 hours of namah' was the site of both Pierre Levesque died after his Mercedes crashed into Lance Macklin's car taking over 80 spectators with him those that weren't killed by flying debris likely

perished in the fire that erupted when the fuel tank burst wipes out whole families lhave is killed before his wife's eyes and some 70 spectators with him among the bodies frantic survivors seek their friends before we unveil our number one pick here are a few honorable mentions [Applause] he's out cold if you can bear to watch to take a look but it's a terrible looking injury [Music] Moises is unhappy with the pans but voices went into the seats he could have had that ball a fan interfered with

him number one the hand of God goal it was in 1986 that the FIFA World Cup was the stage of the world's biggest game with the world's biggest football star Argentina and England faced off in a match that went down in history because Diego Maradona scored not one but two of the sport's most famous goals ever first was the hand of God goal which he appeared to score with his hand that controversial goal was let through because the refs had not seen it four minutes later the Argentine footballer l

anded the goal of the century when he dribbled the ball past several English players by himself [Applause] do you agree with our list what do you think is the craziest moment in sports if you didn't see a moment you think should be on here be sure to check out our video of the top 10 on sportsmen like moments in sports and subscribe to watchmojo.com [Music]