Biggest Sports Fails Of 2011: Tiger Woods, Chris Bosh, Nick Novak, Marion Barber & More (VIDEO)

Whether it is incredible size, lightning speed or uncanny hand-eye coordination, today's professional athletes tend to possess preternatural physical skills that the rest of us foam-finger waving, beer-helmet wearing fans can only marvel at from the stands, slack-jawed and heavy limbed.

Maybe these starks differences between us and so many of them explain why fans can take so much joy in watching a professional athlete flounder, bumble and fail.

Whether it is a missed dunk, an embarrassing flop or a missed attempt at an open net, the schadenfreude of an epic fail can sometimes rival the exhilaration of witnessing a game-winning shot or otherwise transcendent performance. Sound like too cynical a point of view? Go check the top trending sports videos at Youtube at any point and you'll likely find a break-even mix of the sublime and the slapstick. Because fail = funny.

From kickers using Gatorade tubs as a rest room to missed dunks all the way to postgame handshakes gone horribly wrong, here are the most heinous and hilarious sports fails from 2011.

Help us decide which was the WORST SPORTS FAIL OF 2011. We know these epic fails are just the tip of the ice berg -- or, the rather, the top deck of the Titanic. So let us know the other flops, flails and unbelievable screw ups that took place this year by clicking 'Add A Slide' and submitting a YouTube highlight.

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[WhatWhat1]

12:54 AM on 01/03/2012

Ironic that Ron Artest Meta World Peace Stills Nash & Young is dancing with someone whose name is Peta, considering he all but starved his dogs to death by neglecting them.
RAMWP is worthless in almost every way.

[ugod84]

09:43 PM on 01/02/2012

I had to add the blown PAT call during the Toledo-Syracuse game. I can't believe it was left off the list. How do you miss a call like that even after replay?

[Tater Salad]

05:37 PM on 01/01/2012

Bosh is good at acting. He convinced the Warm that we was a superstar.

[Tater Salad]

05:46 PM on 01/01/2012

*he

[Greatest Darthfruit]

01:09 AM on 12/30/2011

OMG!! That's really one of the worst slides ever!!! I can't stop laughing!!
And, that Giants players faking Injuries? What is this? Is Football turning into damn Soccer???

[backhandii]

06:45 PM on 12/29/2011

Best sports fail of the year is you all...who wish SO BAD that Tim Tebow was on this list simply based on his faith.

...but instead he went out and succeeded.

You lose (you know who you are).

[threalReginald]

02:23 PM on 12/30/2011

I guess you didn't see his last game. Looks like he pissed Jesus off last week.

[backhandii]

05:56 PM on 12/30/2011

No Reggie. He lost. Every athlete does it.

The kid owns jealous $cum like you.

[jeffp26]

04:02 PM on 12/29/2011

Steroids.

[Seafarer61]

03:23 PM on 12/29/2011

I'm a Red Sox fan for 40 years. They win this contest hands down. Epic.

[DarkHorses]

06:41 PM on 12/29/2011

Some teams wear retro uniforms now and then.
The Sox put on their Retro Red Sox attitudes last year.

[testpocalypse]

01:59 PM on 12/29/2011

Atuo

[testpocalypse]

01:58 PM on 12/29/2011

Test comment

[testpocalypse]

01:58 PM on 12/29/2011

Werd

[Francis 3]

12:42 PM on 12/29/2011

The Rivers fumble is quite funny, just for the incredulous look on Phil's face.

[newplasticmachine]

12:17 PM on 12/29/2011

no Mayweather Ortiz?

[SheikArbusto]

11:38 AM on 12/29/2011

Lebron tanking in the Championship -- not mentioned here. By far and away, the greatest potential FAIL involves a championship.

[Don Sulis]

11:24 AM on 12/29/2011

Pathetic sportsmanship by Bosh.

[threalReginald]

02:25 PM on 12/30/2011

Bosh is your daddy. GO HEAT, BEAT the HATE

[cnobody]

08:22 PM on 12/31/2011

The Miami CHeat

[shlack123]

11:06 AM on 12/29/2011

I still look back at the Bosh, D-Wade, and Lebronbron flops and laugh. They got away with them, but still lost to the Mavs. Maybe they should have spent more time playing in the 4th quarter instead of flopping.