Almost Got it
We all miss a catch sometimes – but it rarely has as wide reaching ramifications as this miss had for Canadian politician Robert Lorne Stanfield. Stanfield lost the 1974 Federal Elections after this photo of him was published in newspapers.
The incident is still widely cited in Canadian media as an example of Canadian “image politics,” considering this photo was chosen over many others taken of him ctaching that very same football. If he had known that, maybe he would have gone for tennis.
