Sports results you will never get over

[BOSSHOG]

The top of my list is the 1979 Arkansas-Indiana State NCAA College Basketball tournament game which ISU "won." A review of the game will show ISU had two other players on the court; those with striped shirts. The championship contest should have been between Magic Johnson and Sidney Moncrief. I dedicated the Doobie Brothers song "What a Fool Believes" to anyone who thought ISU "won" that game, and I still do. GO HOGS GO.

Surely, you have a game that pisses you off; and I apologize for calling your Surely.

[alonso_quijano]

1. 86. Bill Buckner.

Can't blame officiating for that one.

[Emboldened Chimp]

38. You kidding? That's the greatest sports moment EVER!

Watching the Sox lose in such ignominious fashion was sheer joy.

[bubblesby2002]

2. 7th game in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals

I was soooooo sure that the Canucks would win and take the cup. But noooooooo, the stupid NY Rangers won that game and I have never gotten over it. I have always despised the NYR and I will not change my mind. Plus Mark Messier stinks big time.

[3rdParty]

11. I feel your pain

The Canucks deserved that series in '94. It was the one year Taliban-richter played good in his whole career. I lost all my respect for him (and the team) when he said it was wrong to go after the Taliban only 2 weeks after 9/11.

Mark Messier is one of the greatest clutch players ever (I wish he wasn't on such a sorry ass team though)

[bubblesby2002]

31. I agree with your take on Mark Messier.

Doesn't mean I have to like him though. Yeah the Canucks deserved that series - they played so well. It was at the height of Bure's talent too.

On the Island here, a sign on the side of the road that said TRAVEL BC, had the "T" and the bottom part of the 'R' covered over so that when you drove by it said PAVEL BC. Everyone honked, and I mean everyone. It was a special time.

[sasquatch]

29. GO NY Rangers!!!

Buekaboom, Graves, Richter, Leetch and Messier. The broadway bruisers of '94

:bounce:

[3rdParty]

42. NY Rangers?? Nothing but a rich spoiled team-reminds me of Enron managers!

They went over 50 years without a cup (even though during most of those years there were only 6 teams in the league) in the last century.

Are they trying to go 50 years without even making the playoffs in this one??? hahahahahaha

No Kennan = no cup

[youngred]

52. The Worst Team money can buy

the Rangers are a talent black hole since the 94 cup series

[sasquatch]

76. No that would be the Texas Rangers

Wrong Rangers. They need to hire a good manager again so Messier doesn't have to carry all the load.

[youngred]

89. Look what they've done though

They bought Lindros, Fleury, Kovalev, Jagr and many more through the years (even Wayne Gretzky spent his worst years in NY), and have nothing to show for it, they don't even make the playoffs despite having the second largest payroll in Hockey.

The Texas Rangers have 2-3 good players, but that's it. The NY Rangers have tons of talent but no wins

[RUexperienced]

3. How about the US/USSR Olympic basketball game

in 1976 (?) where the Soviets were allowed to replay the last few seconds until they finally won the game.

[GOPisEvil]

10. 1972. n/t

[3rdParty]

12. Good call

I still can't watch that game. Very upsetting when such blantant cheating was allowed.

[chromotone]

61. Bob Seagren's performance in the pole vault (same year)...

The US/USSR game is a good choice, but I felt Seagren got the shaft from the IAAF when he was not allowed to use his own pole:

Bob rode the fiberglass revolution in vaulting poles to ever higher heights, raising the American record during his reign as America's best vaulter six times by a total of over a foot. Early in the 1968 Olympic season, he won the Mt. SAC title with a meet record leap of 17-1. He was one of three jumpers to clear 17-8 1/2 at Mexico City, winning the Olympic gold medal on fewest misses.

Bob was the heavy favorite for the gold medal going into the 1972 Olympic season. He set the last of his four world records (18-5 3/4) in the months leading up to the Olympic competition in Munich. However, a last-minute decision by the IAAF forced Bob to vault on an unfamiliar pole. He had to settle for the silver medal, the first time ever in Olympic competition that a U.S. athlete was not the gold medal winner.
http://vm.mtsac.edu/relays/HallFame/Seagren.htm

I was a pole vaulter in high school (1968-70) and had followed his career from Mexico City to Munich. As I understand it, the pole he wanted to use was a new composite pole (carbon?) that was ruled unacceptable (after he had arrived in Germany) because it was so new on the market that other vaulters didn't have enough time to purchase and practice with one(???) He had to borrow a pole to use.

As with the basketball team, it was the first time an American lost in that event.

He was robbed!

[HEyHEY]

75. Canada 0 England 13 - Under 17 Hockey

WTF??!

[UrbScotty]

99. Amen. (nt)

[VelmaD]

4. The Ice Bowl

As a lifelong Cowboy fan I can't get over it. I hate the Packers for it to this day and I wasn't even alive when it happened. :-)

[wysimdnwyg]

25. Velma, darling...

you're ruining my love for you. As a Packer fan, that game rates up there as one of my favorites. (Of course, like you, I was not around to see it live.)
;)

[VelmaD]

28. I know...we're just star-crossed from the get go

It's like Romeo and Juliet only with Cowboy boots and Cheeseheads.

I can't help it. I was born this way. My parents are original Cowboys fans - lived in Dallas when the team was founded. And my father only believes in ONE conspiracy theory - that Vnce Lombardi was personally responsible for making sure the heaters on the Cowboy's side of the field didn't work.

[wysimdnwyg]

53. Well, I guess I can accept you're being a Cowgirl

Just so long as you can accept my wearing cheese on my head.

Besides, I think your boots are kinda sexy.

[VelmaD]

60. I suppose I'll just have to learn...

to cope. I mean...football season is only 5 months out of the year.

As long as you don't wear the cheeshead thingy to bed we'll be fine. (I'm thinking you might just WANT me to leave on the cowboy boots sometimes. ;-))

[wysimdnwyg]

67. You got it, baby!

[Exgeneral]

101. like Romeo and Juliet only with Cowboy boots and Cheeseheads.

I'd pay big money to see that movie.
:D

[PVnRT]

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God, I hate the Cowboys so much.

[Zero Gravitas]

5. 3 games

3 13-3 seasons
3 First round byes
3 home play off games
0 WINS
Great goggly moogly

[afraid_of_the_dark]

39. It's enough to make one sick...

I'm such a fan, I :puke: Eagle green. :(

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Monaco Grand Prix, 1984

But there was sweet, ironic revenge afterwards:

http://www.f1rogues.com/index.php?pOption=articleview&pArticleId=100

[Zero Gravitas]

13. How about

Senna taking out Prost at the first corner of the 1990 Japanese GP?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. How about

Prost taking out Senna at the chicane exactly one year before that?

[Zero Gravitas]

17. he he

that too, but as a Ferrari fan I was more dispointed at the latter incident ;) OF course the recent Ferrari-Schumacher dominance makes those past disapointments much easier to tolerate.

I was a huge fan of both Senna and Prost (and still think that Senna is the greatest driver of at least the last 25 years) their rivalry really spiced F1 up back then and we haven't seen anything like it since.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Schumacher learned from Prost's mistakes

And always has his teammates neutered. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[southerngirlwriter]

7. Game 7 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals -- NBA

A ref the Chicago Bulls had had major problems with, for years, made a bullshit call against Scottie Pippen that cost them a four-peat. I vomited, and I will never, ever, ever get over it.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

8. Game 6 Western Conference Finals 2 seasons ago

Kings vs Lakers. Need I say more?

[catzies]

23. I remember that too but I didn't have a team in that contest.

But I KNEW the Lakers were going to win.

The same ref that cost you *that* game 6 cost me *my* game 6 in the Finals in 1998.

His name is DICK BAVETTA and may he rot in hell when his time comes.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

33. Commence rotting now, as far as I'm concerned.

That was two years ago, and I'm still bitter. If he's there for the Kings games in the playoffs this year, I'll have to go for anger management therapy. ;)

[GOPisEvil]

35. Can I have Jess Kersey (Spur killer) join him?

:evilgrin:

[afraid_of_the_dark]

37. Rot on!

Sorry... couldn't resist the pun. :evilgrin:

[nini]

55. It must really suck to know the Kings choked in game 7 too...

flame suit on -- :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

9. Sigh...Buffalo 41, Houston Oilers 38...the greatest comeback ever...

My remote control bit the dust that day. Up 35-3 and lost. :-( Moved away to freaking Tennessee after that...:cry:

[Scottie72]

48. That had to be

incredibly difficult. I couldn't imagine what it was like to be a fan on the other side. I am a Bills Fan and was actually at the game. Man I thought it was over with that interception return early in the second half. I just sat back and was resigned to see the Bills get blown out.

But they did get their revenge on the Bills a few years later with the Music City Miracle.

[youngred]

54. HAHAHAHA

I had to drive to Syracuse to see that game because it wasn't a sellout.

I hate the Bills and even I could respect that as a fantastic game

[GOPisEvil]

57. Oh, objectively speaking it was a great game...

...subjectively, I wish it happened to someone else. Dammit.

[youngred]

72. True

You even got the Bills Backup quarterback to play against.

[Drifter]

93. I was at that game ...

Sat in the endzone. The game tying field goal landed 3 seats to my right, 1 back. The winning field goal sailed over my head. For some reason they did not put up the field goal nets for these 2 kicks. It may have been to prevent problems if there is a crowd stampede onto the field.

My buddy and I had agreed to leave just after halftime when HO scored yet another TD (ugh). We both agreed to finish the giant stadium beers before we left. By the time we finished them, BB had scored twice and were driving for another. We decide to stick it out. Very memorable game.

BTW - I'm not a BB fan (actually a 49er fan), but I enjoy going to games (I'm in Rochester). I was able to get tickets to and go to all of their home playoff games back when the were losing SBs.

Cheers
Drifter

[PAMod]

14. My 8-year-old son's baseball team lost the championship last July...

after dominating the league all season long. The whole team, my guy included, just sort of floated through the final 3 innings, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Of course on the outside I was all praise and comfort, but privately I had trouble sleeping for a couple of weeks.

The loss had a positive effect, though; the little guy is rarin' to go for this season.

[ohiosmith]

15. The Marvin Hagler/Sugar Ray Leonard fight. The fix was in to force

a rematch but Marvelous got his revenge by retiring after the fight.

[Redneck Socialist]

19. Oooh, I'd forgotton about that.

Hagler had that one.

[trackfan]

36. This fight made me truly believe pro boxing was fixed

My boss at the time claimed before the fight that Leonard would win - and that it was fixed. I didn't think Leonard stood a chance. Boss said that he KNEW Leonard would win, and had $10,000 on fight. He also said you could tell which fights were fixed by the lack of injury to the fighters - in real fights, there is much more blood.

[Awsi Dooger]

79. I attended that fight and you guys are nuts

Leonard won clean. There wasn't ANYONE in my section of the Caesar's Palace arena who believed otherwise. Hagler was too old, too cautious, and virtually gave away the early rounds.

People forget Sugar Ray Leonard was only 30 years old, much closer to his prime than Hagler. Leonard had sparred extensively, gameplanned exclusively for Hagler for years, and looked great throughout camp.

I had Leonard to win by decision, one of the best and most satisfying wagers of my life.

[catzies]

18. June 14, 1998. Game 6 NBA Finals. Chicago Bulls/Utah Jazz.

#23 (I can't say his name) has one too many rings, courtesy David Stern and the referees of that game.

I had to see that damn clip of that shot on 1,000,000 Gatorade commercials.

Still not over it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. Also: 1982 World Cup, Italy 3 x Brazil 2

Nobody cheated, but boy, was that cosmically wrong. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. 1999 Packers/San Fran playoffs...Jerry Rice fumbles the ball

and the refs don't call it. With 7 seconds left to go Steve Young throws a touchdown pass. Grrrr. That should have never happened. And all this the year before they brought back instant replay. It still makes me angry.

[wysimdnwyg]

27. Right there with you

That game should never have been allowed to go on with SF on offense. Rice fumbled, GB won.

Of course, I'm still smarting over the '98 Super Bowl, too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. I hear ya...sniffle

and now we also have 4 and 26 to feel bad about...Waaaaaaaaaaaah!

[mvd]

24. Ones from a Philly fan

Game 6 of the 1993 World Series. Fregosi blew it by taking out Mason!

The last two Eagles losses in championship games

I didn't expect the Sixers and Flyers to win when they got to the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup series.

[phillybri]

95. Panthers 14, Eagles 3

There are no words...

:cry:

[Beaker]

26. '69 Cubs...no one game- just the destruction of a small boy's dreams.

nobody deserves to have the idealism sucked out of their soul at age 8.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. I Was 13 and It Bummed Me Out, Too!

Man, i thought it was in the bag on August 1st. Little did i know. And, nothing since then either. What a drag!
The Professor

[sasquatch]

30. 1996 OSU/Michigan game

John Cooper couldn't beat Michigan or win Bowl games to save his life. I hate John Cooper still to this day.

[Anaxamander]

32. Super Bowl XXXIII

If only the Falcons coulda won! :'(

[Emboldened Chimp]

40. Game 7 - Yanks v. Diamondbacks

Two outs to go and Rivera blew it...certainly the worst I've felt after any sporting event in my lifetime.

[soleft]

69. But it saved Enrique Wilson's Life

Yankees win the World Series, Enrique Wilson is on flight 537 enroute to Domican Republic, which crashed in Queens - no survivors.

But because the Yankees lost he took an earlier flight.

This has actually helped Rivera himself get over the blown save. A different kind of save.

[Emboldened Chimp]

70. Wow, I didn't know that...

Well, that is comforting. I'm over it now!

But don't talk to me about Christian Laetner's last second shot to beat UCONN in the Sweet 16...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

98. Was so happy about that! I hated the D-Backs uniforms

but at least they beat Satan's team! :evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

41. Game 1 of the 1988 Stanley Cup Finals

Through regulation, 2 full overtimes and into a 3rd... scoreless.

Oilers score and win again the Boston Bruins.

Bruins never recover.

[MissMillie]

43. Oh yeah... and

Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.....

[Faygo Kid]

44. 1986, Kansas "beats" MSU in NCAA basketball; The Clock

Nice that KU at home got plenty of extra time to catch MSU in the tourney. We wuz robbed.

[catzies]

45. I'll give you "Not over it"

From the Deseret News: House Passes Resolution Honoring Stockton
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590040763,00.html

snipped:

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives managed to unanimously agree on something Tuesday: Retired Utah Jazz star John Stockton is a role model on and off the basketball court — and it officially offered him the nation's thanks.
It passed, by a unanimous voice vote, a resolution by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, that not only thanked Stockton but listed his many accomplishments — and it gave House members a chance to sing his praises. Some even told the world from the House floor that referees robbed the Jazz and Stockton of an NBA title.

"...Coble also said a notorious no-foul call involving Jazz player Bryon Russell and the Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan in the NBA Finals likely cost Stockton and the Jazz a championship. Coble said "many Jazz fans, including yours truly," believe a push-off foul should have been called against Jordan.
Davis, from Illinois, jokingly offered an explanation: "The Bulls were moving so fast that the referee just couldn't see what was happening."

*cough* BULLSHIT *cough*

:)

[catzies]

74. Too late to edit my own post but adding that was YESTERDAY

So, you see, lots of us including some Congressmen are not over it!
Yes, the House passed a resolution on Feb. 3, 2004 praising Stockton as an athlete and as a human being. He's a good Democrat too.

[ArkDem]

47. The trip was a foul but this was more painful for me........

Texas 15
Arkansas 14

in 1969

[Ishoutandscream]

85. Greatest football game I have ever seen

I was only 8, but that game stands out in my college football watching.

[3rdParty]

49. 1991 NCAA Basketball #64 vs. #1

NCAA tournament - 1st Round
#1 seed - Geogetown 50
#64 seed - Princeton 49

Princeton outplayed them all night and refs screwed them with a convienent no-call with 1 second in the game. Would have been the first (and only) time a #1 seed has been knocked out in the first round.

[sasquatch]

50. The day Las Vegs shit. 2003 Fiesta Bowl Miami/Ohio State

NOBODY was expecting our Buckeyes to win that game. Even some of the Ohio State faithful were in doubt that we'd win. Every "expert" was picking Miami to just blow them out. Ohio State's defensive line and linebackers dominated that game. Ken Dorsey spent the game running for his life or throwing off of his back. The Miami tailback(can't think of his name right now)couldn't get anything on the ground.


The greatest college football game ever:D

[Awsi Dooger]

80. A great Ohio State win, but hardly unexpected in Las Vegas

Hey sasquatch, the Vegas sportsbooks were rooting bigtime for Miami! Every joint in town lost huge when your Buckeyes prevailed.

The straight up money line plummeted as gametime approached, with virtually every Vegas wiseguy loading up on Ohio State to win, taking 4-1 odds. The pointspread dropped as well, down to 11 1/2 or 12 from a high of 14. The only thing that saved the sportsbooks somewhat was the OTs, which pushed the game over the listed total. The wiseguys had parlayed Ohio St and under.

As a 'Cane fan, that is one game I would have listed here and will never get over. Forget the controversial ending, I was in Miami leading up to the game and was livid that no one, especially the Miami offensive linemen, had any idea how awesome the Buckeye front seven was. I feared that opponent, and no one else, all year and took a piece of Ohio State +14 and money line +425, desperately hoping to lose the latter. Miami would have toyed with upstart, talkative USC.

Our tailback, BTW, was Willis McGahee, who was drafted first round by Buffalo but never played.

[sasquatch]

88. It shocked me how good that front seven was

I don't think Bret Romberg was expecting them to be that good either. That was one of the best defenses I've ever seen in college or pro football.

[noonwitch]

51. The 1980 powder puff football game at my high school

I was a junior and the game was rigged so the seniors would win. We scored 2 touchdowns, and each was taken away on a made up technicality, 10 minutes before the game ended, when the seniors were down 17-7.
We killed the juniors the next year, so there would be no question.

[rsdsharp]

56. Super Bowl IV

Chiefs beat the Vikings 23-7. I've hated Hank Stram ever since. "65 Toss Power Trap. 65 Toss Power Trap." "Just keep a-tricaltin' the ball down the field, boys." Just shut the hell up, Hank!

I love old Super Bowl highlights, but I can't watch IV to this day. That game DOES make me happier every year when I watch Lombardi and the Packers stomp the shit out of them in Super Bowl I. Prior revenge!

[SaveElmer]

58. Vikings-Cow"Girls" Dec 28, 1975 - Drew Pearson

Vikings lose 17-14 when Roger Staubach throws a hail mary pass to Drew Pearson in the end zone to "win" the game. Course Pearson could not have caught the ball without pushing Nate Wright to the ground first.

:mad:

SERENITY NOW!!!

[VOX]

59. October 12, 1986 - Angels ONE STRIKE away from going to the WS...

and ace reliever Donnie Moore gives up a 2-run dinger to Boston's Dave Henderson. The Angels go on to lose the game, and the playoff series. (Moore never got over being the goat, and the fans didn't help -- he committed suicide 2 years later.)

Curiously, Boston unravelled right at their moment of truth with the Mets in the World Series that year. Karma?

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/teams/1986redsox.stm
One loss away from elimination and trailing 5–2 entering the 9th, the Red Sox stage one of the most improbable comebacks in post-season history winning 7–6 over the Angels in 11 innings. After Don Baylor's 9th-inning home run reduces the deficit to 5–4, reserve outfielder Dave Henderson slugs a 2-out, 2-run home run off Donnie Moore to give Boston a 6–5 lead. California ties the score with a run in the bottom of the 9th but Henderson, who had appeared to be the goat when he dropped Bobby Grich's long fly ball over the fence for a home run in the 7th inning, delivers a sacrifice fly in the 11th for the winning run.

[Bertha Venation]

66. Rezmutt, are we karmically joined at the hip or something? ;-)

Wow. Are you a lifelong Angels fan too? :D

I only quibble with one thing: please, please don't tell me you really think that that game had anything to do w/ Moore's suicide. I wouldn't be surprised if shit he got from angry fans contributed, but suicide comes from a lifetime of emotional problems. Neither the fans' behavior nor the loss itself should be construed as the cause of his suicide. Besides, Donnie Moore didn't lose game 5. The Angels did. Then the Angels lost games 6 and 7.

[Exgeneral]

103. oops

posted in the wrong place

[Bertha Venation]

62. 1986 American League Championship Series

Angels up on the Red Sox, three games to one.

Angels drop game five at the Big A.

Red Sox win games six and seven at Fenway Park.

I never thought my broken heart would mend.

Guess what? It mended in 2002.... O8)

[GOPisEvil]

63. 1985 and 1987 World Series

Yes, I'm a bitter Cardinals fan. :grr:

[SaveElmer]

64. Sorry Dude

1987 was a thing of beauty !!!

[GOPisEvil]

65. Stupid rackin' frackin' alternating home field advantage!

If it was 1986 or 88, you KNOW that series would have been different! :P

[rsdsharp]

92. I grew up a Twins fan

I agree with you about 1987. The Twins have NEVER won a road World Series game. 1985? Yeah, the blown call in game six cost the game (and would have decided the Series). But the loss of game seven wasn't due to where it was played. Andujar blew sky high. It was the worst game seven blow out since the Cardinals beat the Tigers in 1934 11-0.

I do feel for you though. I currently follow the Cubs, and the LCS game six loss made me sick. (Five little outs away, and Prior was cruising. Why, God? Why was it suddenly 1984 again?)

[Kat45]

68. "Too many men on the ice"

Stanley Cup finals between Boston and Montreal, late 70s (I forget the exact year.) The refs called it agains the Bruins, and that was the beginning of the end. The hated Canadiens, who back then were the golden boys in the NHL, won yet another Cup. And the Bruins fans had yet another reason to rant that the referees always favored the Canadiens, especially in Montreal. (When I heard that a lot of them were employed off-season by Molson, who owned the Canadiens, I had to wonder myself.)

[Emboldened Chimp]

71. Christian Laettner's last-second shot...

to beat UCONN in the Sweet 16. Naturally, this happened the game after UCONN did the same to Clemson--only that was one of the best moments in sport I ever witnessed. Ever since Laettner's shot, I've hated Duke--and him. I'm glad his NBA career sucks.

[jmowreader]

73. Dale Earnhardt's 12th-place finish in the 2001 Daytona 500

Yes, this is the race where he was killed on impact with the wall.

Because if it would have been anyone else in 1st and 2nd besides his kid and the guy everyone said he was stupid to hire, he would have been doing his job, passed both of those guys (the 3 was the dominant car all day; he dropped to the back of the field then raced to the front a number of times just to prove he could), crossed the stripe first, and probably would have gone on to win the Winston Cup.

But no, he was back there blocking traffic like he had never done before, the wind caught him, shoved him below the stripe, he came back up, caught Sterling Marlin's left front bumper with his right rear, and two seconds later he's dead as a doornail.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

77. I don't think a fatal racing accident qualifies as a "sports result".

I thought about mentioning Senna's death in 1994, but I felt it more to the spirit of the thread to mention just wins & defeats.

[baldguy]

78. Wide Right

That's how SB XXV is known in Buffalo.

http://www.superbowl.com/history/recaps/game/sbxxv

[Awsi Dooger]

81. On a liberal website, how can Ali/Frazier I be overlooked?

March 8, 1971, and easily the most anticipated sporting event of all time. I was in elementary school and will never forget huddling by the radio at night to listen to round-by-round updates. Then being crushed as Frazier got the (rightful) unanimous decision.

That was a culturally symbolic sporting event like no other, as depicted in a recent documentary. The liberal, anti-war crowd backed the true champion Ali and the conservatives embraced an unlikely ally in Frazier. That split was certainly evident in my neighborhood, and I grew to dislike some of my friends' parents who badmouthed and hated Ali.

Even at that age it did feel like a sledgehammer, good succumbing to evil.

Others:
* the most unjust sporting outcome BY FAR was Roy Jones Jr. cheated of the gold medal in Seoul, 1988

* my Dolphins falling to Oakland, 28-26, in the '74 AFC playoffs, Kenny Stabler's stumbling shotput to Clarence Davis after Benny Malone scored too soon for Miami. It ended our mini dynasty since Csonka, Kiick and Warfield had already committed to the WFL.

* the University of Miami losing two championship Fiesta Bowls at the bitter end, '86 to Penn St and '03 to Ohio St, both times when the 'Canes were being touted as among the best teams ever

[Beaker]

83. because true liberals would find boxing to be brutal, barbaric....

...pointless and oughta be outlawed??

just guessing here...

[ProfessorGAC]

86. I'm A Liberal, & I Boxed In College

I don't want it banned. At least amateur stuff. We wore helmets and used softer gloves than the pros. No real evidence of long term damage from boxing under amateur rules has ever been turned up either.

You can ban the pros if you want. That's ok by me. Not calling for it. Just don't care one way or the other.
The Professor

[sasquatch]

90. I think the Ali/Foreman fight was better

Foreman could hit slightly harder than a frieght train and dominated the opening rounds. I was surprised that Ali could hold up to all of Foremans punches, let alone knock him out in the later rounds. Still a shock when I watch it to this day.:wow:

[tsakshaug]

82. The aforementioned Bill Buckner game

But a few years before that Red Sox-Yankees one game playoff..Huge collapse by the Sox in the second half of the season. F'n Bucky Dent hits a home run......
I hate F'n Bucky Dent..

[KamaAina]

100. Isn't that "Bucky F'n Dent"?

I hate Bucky F'n Dent, too. Buckner damn near got me and Mom kicked out of our apartment (you could hear the screams all the way to the Norwalk line).

Guess when we moved from Md. to Conn.? The summer of '75...

Ed F'n Armbrister...

[progressiverealist]

87. 1982 World Series, Game 7, Brewers lose to Cardinals

God knows my beloved Brew Crew will never get there again... 9 outs away from a title and we lose it for lack of a healthy Rollie Fingers.

Feh.

[ThomWV]

91. 1957, Phil Hill Wins at Sebring

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

94. That wasn't F1, was it? (nt)

[ThomWV]

96. Nope - Production and Prototype

This even predates the Group 7 cars. I was just a kid and we were 2 pits down from them with a factory Triumph (the prototype for the TR-4, called the Conrarto Trimphs, two roadsters (body styles almost identical to what would become the TR-4) and a single all aluminu coupe that an Uncle of mine was driving.

[bleedingheart]

97. Neil O'Donnell's tenure with the Steelers

boy that guy sucked... just absolutely sucked.

[SoCalDem]

102. Okay you sports guys.. Here's an anthem for ya

http://www.pureesoiree.be/Post/?P_ID=2684

[Exgeneral]

104. Brady fumbles! Oakland recovers! Game over!

oh wait, that wasn't a fumble.

Unless you're not a Patriot fan.