That's just like, your opinion, man.
OK, thinking about the shape of the football and how it bounces weird on a fumble. OH WAIT, it was a fumble. Somebody didn't do their job right.
As for the onside kick, you don't think the kickers know how they are supposed to kick the ball to give their team the best chance to get the ball back?
Horrible examples. Just horrible.
Yeah, those rare instances do involve luck. But of all golf shots taken they probably occur about as frequently as a freak toss going in the basket, a la JR Rider. I already admitted that there is a minimal amount of luck and that I shouldn't have said no luck.
No. There was no luck in that particular shot going in. That's a horrible argument. The player was trying to make the shot and made the shot. He/she was good enough to make the shot on that instance.
No, that is somebody involved with the game not being good enough.
Come on, you have either missed the point completely or are being intentionally dense.
Sure someone messed up if they fumbled. The point is not the fumble - fumbles are going to happen, that is a fact. The point is that, once the fumble occurs, luck may determine how that crazy ball is going to bounce and thus who ends up with it. So players on both teams may react to the fumble in the best way possible but the bouncing ball is still going to determine who gets it.
The same goes for the onside kick - it is like the chaos guy in Jurassic Park says - minuscule differences in input can create big differences in output. The kicker can kick the ball the same way (as best he can, as a human) and the ball will bounce differently each time. So everyone does their job right but the bounce of the ball determines the outcome.
As for golf, good shots (well struck, as intended) end up with poor results (or poorer than expected) all the time. Minor gradations in slope, wind, etc. create fluctuations in results that are unpredictable and uncontrollable - the definition of luck. Over time, if you keep hitting good shots, you are going to get overall good results - but an individual shot can certainly get lucky - or vice versa.
On the low percentage shooter - it depends on your perspective. If you are playing a team with good shooters and one terrible shooter, your best strategy is to guard the other guys and make the bad shooter beat you. You can execute that strategy perfectly, and make the bad shooter take a tough shot under duress - and he makes it anyway. Sure, from his perspective he was trying to make the shot and did. But if he would only make that shot 1/100 times, don't you have to say he was lucky to make it? And, from your perspective, you were certainly unlucky that he did - you did everything 'right' but lost. I would agree this is a less clear-cut example than some of the others - but luck is still involved.
As for an official screwing up, you are looking at it from the wrong perspective - sure he was in control of his actions. But, if the call went in my favor - I was most definitely lucky that it did. Was Colorado lucky that year the officials somehow gave them 5 downs to score? Darn right they were.