In sports terms, the term "GOAT" used to mean someone who had choked away a game, an unlucky loser forever burdened by the memory of ruining someone else's life/game.
Via THE RINGER:
What establishes someone as a sports goat?
Well, first they need to do something monumentally bad which changes the course of the game, series, or even a career.
Second, the play is usually, but not exclusively, a boneheaded one that every fan thinks they could make.
Finally, this person takes all the blame for a team's loss or lack of success even when it is not entirely their fault.
For example, Fred Brown from the ending of the UNC/Georgetown 1982 Final.
Meanwhile, at some point in recent years we've just started throwing the word "GOAT" around to describe someone as being the Greatest Of All Time. Buy why? Why did we co-opt "GOAT" - which was not only already a term used in sports, but a term meaning the exact opposite of the greatest? How did they happen - instead of "greatest" why didn't they just use "best" instead? In other words, "The BOAT". Nobody likes or cares about goats, but you know who loves a boat? EVERYBODY!
I truly don't know how this happened. And it's out of fucking order, people.
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