{"id":8297,"date":"2015-02-02T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2015-02-02T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:53:59","slug":"remember-this-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2015\/02\/02\/remember-this-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember This Pete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-hogs.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pete-carroll-choke.jpg\" alt=\"pete-carroll-choke\" width=\"426\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pete-carroll-choke.jpg 426w, https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pete-carroll-choke-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was over 20 years ago, so many football fans may not remember Pete Carroll&#8217;s controversial &#8220;gesture&#8221; way back in 1992. Carroll was the defensive coordinator for the Jets at the time, and they were playing the Miami Dolphins in the second last game of the season. Dolphins kicker Pete Stoyanovich inexplicably missed an extra point with just a couple of minutes left in the game, and Carroll made the infamous choke gesture in response. It was senseless. It was classless.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins went on to win the game anyway, and Carroll later apologized for his classlessness, but obviously that wasn&#8217;t enough of a sacrifice for the football gods. They wanted more.<\/p>\n<p>And extracted it yesterday at the most inopportune of times for Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>Karma&#8217;s a bitch huh Pete?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pete Carroll gives the Dolphins the choke sign in 1992\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-qN3MlBSj0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was over 20 years ago, so many football fans may not remember Pete Carroll&#8217;s controversial &#8220;gesture&#8221; way back in 1992. Carroll was the defensive coordinator for the Jets at the time, and they were playing the Miami Dolphins in the second last game of the season. Dolphins kicker Pete Stoyanovich inexplicably missed an extra &#8230; <a title=\"Remember This Pete?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2015\/02\/02\/remember-this-pete\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Remember This Pete?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,3],"tags":[1566,1050,263,1565],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","category-washington-redskins","tag-choke","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-york-jets","tag-pete-carroll"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remember This Pete? | The-Hogs.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2015\/02\/02\/remember-this-pete\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remember This Pete? | The-Hogs.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It was over 20 years ago, so many football fans may not remember Pete Carroll&#8217;s controversial &#8220;gesture&#8221; way back in 1992. 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