Which team suffered the bigger embarrassment in sports of 2014?

This is too early for you to determine... but they still have to face either Argentina or Netherlands.

Did the Heat or Broncos lose on their home stadium in their city? Nope.

I vote BRAZIL. They probably won't even get 3rd place.

 

Seahawks had the better team, so did Germany. The losses weren't unexpected even if lopsided.

The Heat's loss had to be endured 4 times and also puts in perspective last year's championship. Heat won it by luck.

 

this brazil loss will be much more remembered in the long run and is even a bigger failure becuase of what football means to brazil and all the bs going on in their country to get the world cup.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/world-cup-favelas-socially-cleansed-olympics

you don't beat a team 4 times in 7 games by luck

 

Agreed about it being more remembered in the long run.

For me, non-layup/dunk game winning shots are a dice roll.

The series vs Portland could have easily gone our way but for 2 calls/missed calls with game consequences and a lucky shot, not to take away from Lillard's skill in that dept.

As good as Allen is, it is still a dice roll. You stack it in your favor, but it's still luck. I feel the same way about penalty kicks after a tie game. Brazil was lucky to survive Chile.

 

Germany - ManBras (7-1)

1) Very rarely will you see a 7-1 like scoreline in football
2) ....especially in World Cup Semi Final
3) ....ESPECIALLY against an opponent like Brazil.

Today's match will be discussed for next 50-100 years.

 

You have to remember in the Super Bowl, it was practically a home game for the Seahawks. Most fans would agree that Seattle was picked to win but nobody expected the blowout that happened. Same thing with Germany and Brazil - most expected Germany to win but not like this. But the fact that they did it on Brazilian soil where Brazil hasn't lost since I was alive (or close to it - 39 years) makes their loss more embarrassing.

 

Too easy.. this Germany-Brasil game. Last time Brasil lost this bad was in 1920 (lost 6:0)

 

Got to be Spain. World champions, Euro champions. A team that's supposedly near impossible to score against. Then they go 1-7 in the first two games to the Netherlands and Chile and don't make it out of the group.

 

I think it is historic because it will hurt too much for Brazilians, but Brazilians got the most talent of any country in the world

They have like golden generations every other World Cup. It will fuel them to play better.
Scolari's team was all Neymar and the rest was one of the weakest team in the history of Brazil.

 

You also have to give credit to spain.

 

I think the better question is "Was Brazil's loss the worst loss of all time in sports history?"

This was a country that hadn't lost a competitive match on home soil since 1975.

The Brazilian government has made public a nearly $4.9 billion price tag. Who knows what expenses haven't been reported.

It's been reported that nearly 250,000 people were displaced during World Cup construction.

The most infamous loss in Brazilian history was the Maracanazo where they lost 2-1 to Uruguay. They were historically annihilated yesterday.

Annual Super Bowl losses don't often create existential dilemmas for society at large. This loss will be felt for decades in Brazil.

The ruling politicians, including Dilma Rousseff, were banking on a Brazilian championship in the hopes that people would forget the appalling costs, undelivered infrastructure and excess. The government could very wall be on the way out in this year's elections now.

All of this shows how the World Cup is so much more than a sporting event. Worst of all, Brazil still has to find a way to pay for, and host, the Olympics in two years.

 

This. I have been harping on that the whole World Cup.
This has some serious socio-economic aftereffects

 

Of course rich Germany and quite rich Holland are celebrating. Their people are relatively wealthy.

 

I know for sure this has made most Mexicans say "7-1 is worse than Robben's dive. I would rather lose 2-1 on a botched call than losing at home like that."

Nope. Previous Champions have gone out in the first round with a BANG. I don't mean the thadeus kind.

 

Rockets being embarassed with HCA over a clearly less talented Blazers team thanks to a piss poor head coach.

None of the others were unexpected as the better team won.

 

What?
It was the 4 and 5 seeds matchup. Its not like we were 1st seed and some out of the blue 8th seed team demolished us. We weren't heavy favorites.

Yes, Germany was favored to win but nobody expected 7-1.
I was expecting 2-1 maybe.

 

First, Blazers aren't less talented than Rockets. LMA, Lillard plus Batum is a great core. We weren't clear favorites anyhow.

7:1 in a world Cup semi-final vs Brazil and on their own turf is something you will never see again.

 

Once every four years.

World Cup in their own country.

Eyes of the world watching.

And they got annihilated.

 

Once every four years.

World Cup in their own country.

Eyes of the world watching.

And they got annihilated.