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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 4232371, member: 1023"]
I've got one.

I was doing a radio call-in show in Syracuse with Carmen and Pat Nappi...coach of the tremendous 1976 Olympic boxing team (Ray Leonard, the Spinks brothers).

The show is percolating. The guests are great. We're getting wall to wall  good phone calls.

Then the guy in charge of the show insists that I end with a lengthy taped feature piece about hockey. Hockey!??! 
When we've got a world's champ who beat Sugar Ray Robinson and a guy who coached some of the greatest ever. 
I tried to talk him out of it during breaks. 
But no dice.  
So I thank Carmen and Pat and go to the hockey story.

As soon as the tape hits the air, Carmen gets out of his chair, walks out of the studio door and heads to the control room saying, "Where is that guy?" 
He walks in to the control room and starts slapping around the executive producer (playfully...I think). 
I would have joined him but I had to wrap the show. 
Wound up wasting about ten minutes of what could have been productive air time.
One of the worst decisions ever in the history of sports broadcasting.

Although I unintentionally may have surpassed him in bad decision making.
I was working in NYC producing the Mets 1986 World Series victory parade.
All communication with people along the parade route broke down.
So, I had to guess when to go to different people.
And every time I decided to go to a different person along the parade route... Mookie Wilson was going by. 
So, for anyone watching our station it became just the Mookie Wilson victory parade.
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