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Tilt in Real Life
I've been thinking a lot about going on tilt recently, and wondered whether there are any classic examples of tilt in the "real world".
Can anyone think of a great example (in politics, business, etc.) when someone made a truly bonehead decision after a) learning that something unlucky/improbable happened to them or b) after someone got under their skin? |
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My first thought might not be a perfect fit...
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Would Howard Dean's famous "scream" count?
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A good one is probably a Baseball manager getting into a big argument with an umpire.
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Oh, I just thought of a good one!
Woody Hayes, Football coach for the Ohio State University Buckeyes. I remember a game that I watched where he grabbed one of the down markers snapped it in half and threw it out on the field. Even better example. I was in the Marching band there and went to the 1978/1979 Gator bowl vs. Clemson. Game is going badly for the Buckeyes. Late in the game Art Schliester has a pass intercepted and as the guy is returning the interception ho goes out of bounds and Woody clothslines him! OMG! I think we are all going to be killed by the very Clemson crowd and we figure out that Woody has finally totally lost it. Needless to say that was his last game as head coach! |
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Pretty surprising he hasn't been mentioned until now...
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isn't mike tyson also a prime example of going on tilt in real life?
also latrell sprewell. didn't he choke his coach? |
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I remember Bobby Night hurling a salad bowl or something at the chancellor during a dinner at an upscale restaurant a few years back, heh.
Another obvious one that comes to mind is John McEnroe. He made watching tennis much more entertaining. Good times. "You cannot be serious!" |
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Pretty surprising he hasn't been mentioned until now... [img]http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5xa4xOBECCAAsRKjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN 0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=122796t34/EXP=1155667512/**http%3a//stream.hoosier.net/natoa2000/knight.jpg[/img] Swede [/ QUOTE ] Classic Knight |
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As I have no idea who any of these Americans are and in an effort to wrassle this thread back into a discussion, how about some backstory on some of these?
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Woody was a great coach but he did have one hell of a temper (Tilt). It was really quite sad seeing his slide in his last year coaching. You could see him game by game losing it more and more. We talked about it in the MB all the time and then that incident happened and it was all over for him.
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Last season in the playoffs this team was beating us all game, and they were all quiet.
They brought in a reliever who threw nothing but "gas", lol. Anyway, we started hitting him and they made a couple errors. Their catcher, who thinks he's Paul LoDuca, started yelling at ALL the fielders. example: "COME ON GUYS! WE NEED TO TIGHTEN UP!! LETS GO!! RIGHT NOW!!" We started laughing in the dugout and I told my teammates that they were "on tilt". I don't think many/any of them knew what tilt is, but needless to say, we went on to win. I should also throw in that I drove in the game-tying RBI, and scored the go-ahead run. We won 8-7. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] They had no choice but to do themselves in. TILT BABY!!! |
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Last season in the playoffs this team was beating us all game, and they were all quiet. They brought in a reliever who threw nothing but "gas", lol. Anyway, we started hitting him and they made a couple errors. Their catcher, who thinks he's Paul LoDuca, started yelling at ALL the fielders. example: "COME ON GUYS! WE NEED TO TIGHTEN UP!! LETS GO!! RIGHT NOW!!" We started laughing in the dugout and I told my teammates that they were "on tilt". I don't think many/any of them knew what tilt is, but needless to say, we went on to win. I should also throw in that I drove in the game-tying RBI, and scored the go-ahead run. We won 8-7. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] They had no choice but to do themselves in. TILT BABY!!! [/ QUOTE ] For a similar but more watched example, see any must-win game the Cubs have played the last, oh 98 years. (Sorry, not trying to start a sports forum.) |
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For your project I suggest looking into Mike Caro's Threshold of misery. Basically it means that at a certain point you have lost so much that you can't feel losses, and as a result your play deteriorates. he applies this in real life too, such as when a mother loses children and she gives up social contacts, won't dress as nice as usual and such.
You can find Mike Caro's website at poker1.com, although from what I can tell it hasn't been updated lately, which is a shame, because I enjoy his work. Along with several free articles on his site (offered in audio and print) he has several books and dvds, however I don't know the quality of most of them. If a disclaimer is needed I have no affliation. |
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Last season in the playoffs this team was beating us all game, and they were all quiet. They brought in a reliever who threw nothing but "gas", lol. Anyway, we started hitting him and they made a couple errors. Their catcher, who thinks he's Paul LoDuca, started yelling at ALL the fielders. example: "COME ON GUYS! WE NEED TO TIGHTEN UP!! LETS GO!! RIGHT NOW!!" We started laughing in the dugout and I told my teammates that they were "on tilt". I don't think many/any of them knew what tilt is, but needless to say, we went on to win. I should also throw in that I drove in the game-tying RBI, and scored the go-ahead run. We won 8-7. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] They had no choice but to do themselves in. TILT BABY!!! [/ QUOTE ] lol. In a similar situation I was playing in a B league baseball league that we pretty much just had fun in. One game we played a good friend of mines team (and 3 or 4 others on the team) and he pitched. We also play poker with him a lot. Anyways we started a rally off of him scoring 7 runs in 2 1/3 innings or so. After each run or big hit or whatever we'd be like "He's on tilt!" He constantly had this look of disbelief on his face, he always like'd to brag about what a great pitcher he was. |
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Woody Hayes was the head football coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes back in the 60's and through 1978. He was one of the best college football coaches ever. Over his career, he amassed a 238-72-10 record and 205-61-10 in the Big Ten. He won four national championships (five if you count the title given to OSU by the National Football Foundation in 1970), won 13 Big Ten titles, played in 8 Rose Bowls (including four straight from 72-75), produced 56 All-Americans, and had three Heisman Trophy winners, three Outland Trophy winners, two Lombardi Trophy winners, and some of the coaches that were assistants under him were Lou Holtz, Bo Schembechler, Rudy Hubbard, Bill Mallory, Earle Bruce, and Dave McClain.
Woody's style was strength-on-strength, will-on-will, toughness-on-toughness. His conservative style of predominantly running the ball at the opponents is known as "three yards and a cloud of dust." Woody believed that the pass should be used as an element of surprise; "There are three things that can happen when you pass, and two of them ain't good," he said. The Hayes temper is a thing of legend. Woody would commonly explode into verbal assaults at coaches and players, but he would also be the first to congratulate someone when they performed well. He was famous for throwing and destroying objects; he would always throw his hat, destroy his watch, and stomp on his glasses when he got angry. He would throw anything he could get his hands on. Woody Hayes was fired in 1978 after having a temper tantrum during the Gator Bowl against Clemson and striking a Clemson linebacker named Charlie Bauman after intercepting a pass to clinch the game for the Tigers as well as two of his own players. Ohio State was embarrassed, and they had no choice but to immediately fire Woody Hayes. The man who was so famous for his temper would lose his job because of it. |
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