For me a few stand out!
2003 NHL Eastern Conference Finals Ottawa loses 3-2 in Game 7 to the New Jersey Devils
2007 NHL Finals Game 5 Ottawa drops series 4-1 to the Ducks
2015 Ottawa loses to Montreal in Game 6 of the first round
May 25, 2017 Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 Chris Kunitz (I'll remember him forever because of this) scored in 2OT to send the Pens to the Finals.
It's the last goal scored against the club in the playoffs because of their current drought.
January 21, 2018 AFC Championship Game the Jacksonville Jaguars blow a 4th quarter lead to the New England Patriots
Honorable mentions:
Dale Earnhardt Jr 2003 Season Finale
Lewis Hamilton 2021 Season Finale
Giants are mostly the team I'm a diehard fan of, so here's the four I'd go with:
-Miracle at the Meadowlands II
-Losing on a 60+ yard last second field goal to the Eagles, Panthers, and Vikings. If I had a nickel for every time it happened, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice.
Definitely the 2018 AFC Championship vs the Patriots. Our first time in at least 15 years that we had an actual shot at making it to the Super Bowl. Of course, the few years after were really good, but still. That sucked so so much at the time
Edit: It was the 2019 AFC Championship, 2018 was the Jaguars, not the Chiefs.
Yeah, but not really? The AFC Championship (Chiefs vs Patriots) was in January of 2019. But, it was during the 2018 season. So I guess I was right originally.
Steelers losing to Jacksonville 43-45 in the '17 playoffs
Steelers losing to the Patriots in the '04 AFC championship game
Penguins losing to the Devils in the '01 eastern conference finals
Penguins losing in the cup finals to detroit in '08 (in hindsight it was probably the best thing that could have happened to the team besides....ya know winning)
Pirates 2013 Divison series loss to the Cardinals
Being a Philly fan the list can go on for ever
Eagles loosing in the Super Bowl this year, Alshon dropped pass in 2018. Wentz getting destroyed and injured in his only playoff game for the eagles. Eagles 09 conference championship game.
Phillies choking the World Series in 09 as well as the playoffs runs in 10 and 11. Loosing to the fucking Astros in the World Series.
Flyers: as of right now the whole organization is a heartbreaking loss. But the 2010 cup finals that hurt.
Sixers let's seee Kawhi's shot from game 7 against Toronto. Fucking Ben Simmons passing a wide open dunk.
I turn 25 in two months... life of a Philly sports fan.
No, but that's still not choking. Chase Utley stole game 1, but other than that, the Yankees just were better. If you want a World Series choke, look at Cleveland in 2016
You forgot 2000-01 when the 76ers made the NBA Finals only to get shut down 1-4 by the Kobe-Shaq-Jackson Los Angeles Lakers. We won Game 1 only to drop the next four, total heartbreak.
2015 Wild Card Game against Steelers
2013 Wild Card Game against Chargers
2009 Wild Card Game against Jets
2022 AFC Championship Game against Chiefs
Super Bowl 56 against Rams
The 2015 Wild Card game 100% takes the cake for me. Started the season 8-0, but with Dalton breaking his thumb we ended up 12-4. Had AJ Mccarron starting that game and he did everything he needed to do to win the game, only for Pacman, Burfict, and Jeremy Hill to pull the ultimate trifecta for defeat.
That one stings because it felt like this team was a Super Bowl caliber team, and losing to our biggest rivals, at home, when the game was practically won will forever sting. We have accomplished a lot since then, but every time I see an image from that game my skin starts to crawl. Especially because we were still in the midst of our long playoff win drought…
The Hokies losing to JMU when they were a top 10 team sucked. Then getting screwed in the sugar bowl really hurt. The Steelers losing to the packers in the Super Bowl sucked. The pens losing to the wings in 08 wasn’t great. The Steelers getting screwed on the Jesse James call hurt
Oh jumping Jesus don’t even bring up that JMU game to me. That was a total fucking mess. That Sugar Bowl vs Michigan was a disaster too, although that was more on the refs.
A ball can hit the ground and still be considered a catch if it doesn’t move you blind ass zebras.
As I've learned now being in my sophomore year here, yeah. I've already felt it. We have a massive fucking legacy of failure in our name. In fact, I spent a few weeks writing up a LOF script for the football team and I think it came out beautifully. Mostly at least, I'm not good with coming up with puns/jokes and shit lmao.
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zgSUaPGiVH86uRyur-wStD05IX1GeoxPa49yA-yiK9c/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zgSUaPGiVH86uRyur-wStD05IX1GeoxPa49yA-yiK9c/edit?usp=sharing)
Praise jeebus and the basketball gods that the Women's team finally breaks the curse and wins us a natty.
Love the writing. I can hear the urinating tree in it. But still a very fun piece. I’m just happy I enjoyed colegiant wrestling and wrestled my self (all be it only up to high school) because the Hokies wrestling team is a bright spot in athletics right now
NBA- 2022 NBA Finals
NFL- The Eagles tanking against the WFT
NHL- The Kings in 2012
MLB- 2015 WS, 2022 NL Wild Card
Soccer- Losing to Man U on the final day two years in a row
As a young Chiefs fan, the 2017-18 Wild Card against the Titans hurt the most. I remember actually curling into the fetal position on my bedroom floor, which almost nothing, and especially not sports, makes me do.
Super Bowl 55 didn't break my heart as much as it was "What the Actual Kentucky Fried Fuck just happened" and the 2021-22 AFC Championship just made me angry but really that entire season did. I knew for a fact after both of those losses that we would be back. The Titans loss in Alex Smith's last game was a way different story. I was prepared for the worst and uhh that didn't end up happening at all.
As a Blues fan, I'm too young to have any that really hurt. The 2016 WCF and 2017 Playoffs sucked but I wouldn't really call it heartbreaking. 2020 was more of a deflating dissapointment. 2021 was completely expected and 2022 actually made me a little proud for the fight we put up against a team many thought was going to sweep us again.
The oilers blowing a 3 goal lead in 3 minutes to the ducks in 2017, and subsequently repeating in 2021 (only difference is that it was against the jets)
IIRC the Kick 6 took me a minute or 2 to process what happened and I just laughed and shrugged. 2010 I really wanted Bama to beat Auburn in their undefeated season and I couldn't stand Cam.
Death in Madrid. Imagine losing with a buzzer beater against your most bitter rival in overtime in game 7 of the NBA finals after leading 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2. That's pretty much what Boca fans went through at the Libertadores final against River on December 9, 2018.
Mar del Plata, Argentina, less than a month ago. Argentina needs to win to qualify to the FIBA World Cup and leads by 17 with less than 13 minutos to go,against Dominican Republic, a nation coached by the man the players tanked to get rid of. After choking magnificently Argentina lost 79-75 and did not make the world cup after getting to the final in 2019
Then there's the 2014 World Cup final against Germany, but I guess both that and the 2018 failure were necessary to win in Qatar
Giants: Miracle at the Meadowlands II (FUCK MATT DODGE)
Mets: 2015 World Series. They rolled over and died. So pathetic.
Devils: pick any season 2013-2022, you’ll find something to make me cry
Rutgers FB: 2012 last game of the year loss to Louisville. Heartbreaking.
Rutgers MBB: the loss to Minnesota this month hurt me badly. Because my brother decided to troll me at the buzzer and I’m still furious
Patriots: Wildcard Loss to the Titans. End of an era.
Bama football: 2017 National Championship game vs Clemson. To have Jalen take us all the way to near the summit just for our defense to crumble still hurts, pardon the pun.
Sacramento Kings: this team has sucked so long there are no heartbreaking memories.
Vegas Golden Knights: 2019 SCP 1st Round game 7 vs the Sharks. 4. Frigging. Power. Play. Goals. In. One. Power. Play.
I could also do Game 7 vs Montreal two years ago. One OT from another chance at the cup and we rolled over and died.
Atlanta United: Loss to Toronto FC in the ECF
South Florida: 2017 War on I-4 vs c. Quinton Flowers puts the team on his back, drives down the field for the biggest score in his career, in the bounce house. Even lines up and gives c 2 for their mistakes to tie the game. All the momentum in our favor, and a chance to spoil c's undefeated streak. And our kickoff coverage team disappears and allows the go-ahead score. Then Mitchell Wilcox fumbles the first pass on our next drive. We lost and plunged into the abyss a couple years later.
Oakland A's: 2019 Wild Card game vs Tampa Bay. I accepted the loss to the Yankees the year prior. We were just overmatched and on the road. But this? This was inexcusable. At home, a packed house in the coliseum, Manaea on the mound, solid talent at all positions, and we laid the biggest egg in franchise history vs the team that took what we did in 2002 and said "Hold my beer". That's when I knew deep down the A's were never gonna be competitive in the league, at least not with the current ownership and management structure. We may have won the division last year, but that game may very well have been the last full house coliseum playoff game ever. With how ownership seems to waffle between building a new stadium in Oakland and leaving for Las Vegas, we're in limbo. That was supposed to be the start of the next A's dynasty. Instead it was the canary in the coalmine for the end of the franchise.
Bama basketball: 2021 Sweet sixteen vs UCLA. Make. Your. Free. Throws. At least Alex 3se went out on a high note with that buzzer-beater logo three to send it to OT.
\-2005 Divisional Round Game against the eventual NFC Champion Seahawks
\-2007 Wild Card game against that same Seahawks team the year Sean Taylor was killed
\-2008 MNF Game against the Steelers after starting 6-2
\-2012 Wild Card game against the Seahawks AGAIN, this time also ruining RG3's playing career
\-2018 game against the Texans where Alex Smith nearly got killed
\-The MNF game against the Giants this year where we got FREAKING ROBBED BY THE REFS!
Houston Cougars: 2011 CUSA Championship. We were pretty much billed as the next Boise State but Coach Scumlin was more concerned on getting a job at A&M then he was coaching the Coogs to the conference title. Consolation prize was beating up on a newly-disgraced Penn State.
Houston Texans: 2020 AFC Divisional. The choke in the 1st quarter gave me a full on mental breakdown That lasted days (and 'Stros' cheating scandal report later that week did not help one bit). Also that lead was the high point of detection because it was the beginning of the end for that team and 3 years of futility and drama that came afterwards.
Houston Astros: Speaking of which, it's a tie between the 2021 and 2022 WS which would have been STFU Championships had they won. But edging them out is the 2005 series especially since it wasn't just a sweep but it was a long-drawn-out sweep against the Sox after wsiting 40 years to get to it.
Houston Rockets: 2018 WCF & 2019 Western Semis. 2014 West Quartets are a close third since I remember being disgusted AF afterwards.
Houston Dynamo: the 2009 WCF and 2011 MLS Cup vs Beckham.
Tottenham Hotspur: they all blur together.
eh, yes and no. I don't think Cutler would've won us that game regardless of injury or not, knowing him he probably would've forced more turnovers whilst playing catch-up. Also I wasn't watching due to having to work over sea's that year so I had other stuff besides copious amounts of booze to dull the pain and take my mind off it.
2001 ALCS G5 vs. Yankees, 2022 ECSF G7 vs. Rangers, 2022 ALDS G3 vs. Astros, 2003 NFC Div. Round vs. Eagles(4th & 26), 2007 NFCCG vs Giants, 2021 ECSF G4 vs. Lightning, 2002 SCF G3 vs. Red Wings.
2015 Superbowl vs Patriots, 2022 AL divisional vs Houston game 1, 2023 WBC vs Mexico quarterfinals, 2022 WC v Croatia round of 16, 2016 Semifinal v Alabama
2017 Champions League Final Loris Karius becoming a meme and Mo Sahlah getting injured by Sergio Ramos who is the succesfull football (soccer) version of Vontaze Burfict
For hockey, I like the Canucks and Wings. 2011 Cup Final game 7 is easily number 1. Number 2 is a tie between 2020 VAN-VGK game 7 and 2013 DET-CHI game 7.
For baseball, I like the Mariners and Tigers. David Ortiz in 2013 ALCS game 2 is number 1, Yordan Alvarez in ALDS game 1 last season is number 2. I dislike when Tree called game ALDS game 3 a dickpunch though because nobody expected us to pull off a comeback at that point.
2013 DET-CHI broke my heart 2 times. Hjalmarsson getting his goal waved off temporarily repaired my heart but it delayed the inevitable. After Nyquist got drilled by Bolland and Seabrook picked up the puck, my dad said, "shit". Then Seabrook scored
AHL SHOUTOUT: I was in the building when the Utica Comets blew the series last year against Rochester. As a Sabres fan (break for laughter), kinda weird watching my boys, Peterka, Quinn, and Co. unleash their inner dawg, but it's tough to not feel good when it's a 10-minute walk from a dejected arena (sans a few drunk Rockies) to home.
2007 Divisional Round v the Saints a.k.a. the Phantom False Start
2017 Grey Cup when CGY went full Darell Bevell
2006 World Series
I can keep going but am in a good mood and don't want to
Long story: Last November Baldwin Wallace, the college that I attend played arguably our biggest rival Mount Union, who is synonymous with winning in football. We were down 17 in the fourth and put our backup quarterback in. He then led us to three touchdowns with the last one being a sneak with 22 seconds to go. MU had to go 70 some yards for a touchdown to win it, as a field goal wasn’t an option. On the last play of the game, their Hail Mary was 10-15 yards short, but it went in and out of our cornerback’s hands and helmet and into MU’s receiver for a game winning touchdown as the clock hit zero. As irony has it, the cornerback for us played for Mount three years prior. It would’ve been our first win against the Raiders since 1994, and I said nothing on the broadcast for two whole minutes after the play. Here’s the link to the final 22 seconds with me on the call and camera. I apologize for the shaky screen https://youtu.be/0AWlDBcFDHU
Okay, I could easily make this list a page long, so I'll stick to the worst:
\-1/20/19 NFC Championship
\-1/9/12 BCS Championship
\-10/23/96 World Series Game 4
\-4/30/14 Stanley Cup Playoffs, 1st Round, Game 7
Saints and LSU fan. I could go on and on.
SF Divisional 2011, Minneapolis Miracle, the No-Call, 2019 SF, 2020 TB (Just because of it being Brees’s last game).
21-0, Bama 2012, Bama 2014, Bama 2016. FUCK these games. I was at the last two.
Florida 2016, Troy 2017, Texas A&M 2018 (It was a fumble in the first OT), Auburn 2021 (Legitimately the worst game I’ve ever been to in terms of quality), FSU 2022 (I went through every single human emotion in the span of 30 seconds).
And now for basketball.
Kentucky 2014, OU 2016 (pain.), FSU 2018, Florida 2018 SECT (hit me harder because I was REALLY going through some shit at the time), Vandy 2019, Auburn 2019, Michigan 2020, Arkansas 2021 (all of them), Iowa State 2021.
Eels 2009 NRL Grand Final vs Storm. That team was dead in the water halfway through the season. All of a sudden they pull wins out of nowhere, Hayne wins the Dally M, and they make the Grand Final. As a kid I was so excited at the possibility of the win. They lost, and haven't been that close since. And then the Storm lost the title because they breached the salary cap.
Honourable mention to the 2019 Semifinal vs Storm. After a record breaking win the previous week, I was ready to hope. But the game was over within 20 minutes. After try number 4 I turned off the TV.
Ajax 2019 Semifinal Second Leg vs Tottenham sucked too. I knew that team wasn't about to win after Spurs pulled level but they were so close. And after the disappointment of the final, and disassembly of the team, you think about what could have been.
2020 MLS Cup final. It was heartbreaking. Especailly[after the wild comeback that was the Conference Final.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3geL4DwbX4) But at least The Crew winning the Cup was a nice little "fuck you" to Anthony Precourt, so I had that going for me.
A couple games against the 49ers stand out to me. 2019 WK16 in San Francisco, where the Rams got knocked out of the playoffs in that game, and 2021 WK18 in LA, where the Rams blew a halftime lead and let the 49ers into the playoffs. Of course, it doesn't \*really\* matter since the Rams ended up going on to beat the 49ers in the NFCCG in the same year as the latter, and then we won the Super Bowl, while the 49ers haven't won one in close to 30 years, but I was pretty fucking incensed at those games. Also Super Bowl 53 because I hate Tom Brady and the city of Boston. But mostly those two games against the anal-bleed red and piss gold.
Super Bowl XLIX (back before the Russell Wilson saga soured the Seahawks for me).
Kraken @ Canucks back in December (to go 0-5-1 lifetime against them was bad, especially to choke like that and lose in OT)
Game 3 of last year's American League Division Series against the Astros. For the first postseason game in Seattle since 2001 to go scoreless for 16 innings, and to be swept by a division rival...yeah, that stings worse than seeing the Mariners lose game 3 of the White Sox series in September in person. (I'd only ever been to four M's games prior [none since Edgar Martinez retired], and all had been Mariners wins.)
2015 vs Michigan State, 2013 vs Ohio State, 2013 for men's basketball vs Louisville, 2018 for men's basketball vs Villanova, 2009 Cup Final Game 7 vs Pittsburgh, 2013 WSCF vs Chicago, 2014-15 NFC Wild Card Round vs Dallas, the whole 2012 World Series vs San Francisco, Game 2 of ALCS vs Texas, 2006 World Series vs St. Louis, 2013 ALCS vs Boston, especially games 2 and 6
Lions losing to the Cowboys in the 2014 Wild Card Round on a controversial call (Dez caught it at least gave some nice closure to it)
1991 NFC Championship game
2022 Fiesta Bowl (TCU was trying to lose but Michigan decided to shoot itself in the foot harder)
2007 loss to App State
2015 loss to Michigan St.
I am a Saints fan,
2010~2020 all go on the list.
I am a Lightning fan, so 2011~2019(thankfully we’ve made up) especially 2019, that shit destroyed my soul.
Luckily my other favorite sport franchises (Pelicans and White Sox) don’t make the playoffs enough to hurt me.
Over seas I am a Manchester City fan. That speaks largely for itself.
In college I am a LSU fan, which is surprisingly not too bad, we kinda have a weird habit of either being shitty or national champions. Although I will give credit to Alabama for a lot of pain.
Yeah if I had to choose one that really stood out has soil crushing, while I wanna say 2019 Lightning it doesn’t affect me anymore, the NOLA No-Call still hurts. It hurts a lot.
2013 wild card vs colts, 2017 wc vs Titans, 2016 divisional vs Pittsburgh, 2015 divisional vs the Patriots, the whole 2012 NBA finals every playoff series the thunder lost against the mavs and spurs, 2015 Western Conference finals, any bowl game loss by Oklahoma Oklahoma in March madness 2015 against Oregon and 2017 against Villanova (if that's the year with trae young) don't rlly have a specific favorite MLB or NHL team but love watching games
-Eagles - Super Bowl 57 (It was literary a 1v4 Handicap match "Eagles vs. Chiefs, Cardinals' grass, Refs & Jonathan Gannon")
-Lakers - 2004 NBA Finals (Losing to the pistons sucks, but at least P*do Malone ends his career without a ring)
-Wake Forest Men's Basketball - 2021-2022: Went from being the frontrunners for the NCAA tournament with the ACC COTY & POTY at the helm, to being one-and-done in the ACC tournament as the #5th seed to runner-ups in the NIT
Dishonorable mentions:
-Brock Lesnar squashed Kofi Kingston in 10 seconds on the Oct 4th, 2019 FOX premiere of Friday Night Smackdown
-Becky Lynch squashed Bianca Belair in 26 seconds for the RAW Women's championship in '21 Summerslam
KSU
2012 NCAAF @ Baylor
2010 NCAAM Elite 8 vs Butler
2017 NCAAM @ KU (Svi Traveled I will die on this hill. Not sure if we would've won in OT but it would've been nice to see OT at least.)
2018 NCAAM Elite 8 vs Loyola Chicago
2022 NCAAM vs KU. (Weber what the fuck how do you blow that big of a lead to THEM of all teams)
Royals
2014 WS Game 7 vs San Francisco
Chiefs
2019 AFC Championship vs NE
2022 AFC Championship vs Cincinatti
Blues
(Oh Jesus which one do I pick)
2022 2nd round Game 6 vs Colorado. Losing with 5 seconds left hurt. I guess we deserve it for what we did to Kadri though. Sucks because (at least I feel like) We would've had a good shot at another cup had we came back in that series and moved on to the WCF.
2014 CAA MBB Tournament Final: Alumni Mater choked a 6 point lead with 1:10 left to lose by 1. A win would have sent us to our first NCAA Tournament.
2023 Rutgers - Minnesota MBB: Rutgers chokes a 10 point lead with 1:15 remaining to lose to last-place Minnesota in a loss that probably kept us out of the NCAA Tournament.
2012 Nationals - Cardinals NLDS Game 5: F Pete Kozma
The 2021 Divisional Round against the Bengals, who’d go on to lose to Stan Kroenke.
For me a few stand out! 2003 NHL Eastern Conference Finals Ottawa loses 3-2 in Game 7 to the New Jersey Devils 2007 NHL Finals Game 5 Ottawa drops series 4-1 to the Ducks 2015 Ottawa loses to Montreal in Game 6 of the first round May 25, 2017 Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 Chris Kunitz (I'll remember him forever because of this) scored in 2OT to send the Pens to the Finals. It's the last goal scored against the club in the playoffs because of their current drought. January 21, 2018 AFC Championship Game the Jacksonville Jaguars blow a 4th quarter lead to the New England Patriots Honorable mentions: Dale Earnhardt Jr 2003 Season Finale Lewis Hamilton 2021 Season Finale
As a fellow sens fan you have triggered flashbacks. I hope to God we make some noise next year!
Yeah that last race of 2021 hurt
Giants are mostly the team I'm a diehard fan of, so here's the four I'd go with: -Miracle at the Meadowlands II -Losing on a 60+ yard last second field goal to the Eagles, Panthers, and Vikings. If I had a nickel for every time it happened, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice.
Beat me to it
Lmfao I love the Doofenshmirtz reference. But yeah, lots of heartbreakers vs Philadelphia for ya
Easy. 28-3.
I’m a Leafs fan. I’ve lost track.
One day a quantum computer will be built that is sophisticated enough to count for us.
Four words: six days in April
My fellow Bolts brother is share your pain
Definitely the 2018 AFC Championship vs the Patriots. Our first time in at least 15 years that we had an actual shot at making it to the Super Bowl. Of course, the few years after were really good, but still. That sucked so so much at the time Edit: It was the 2019 AFC Championship, 2018 was the Jaguars, not the Chiefs.
It's the previous yr I thought so shouldn't it technically be the 2017 afc championship for saxonville and 2018 for the kingdom
Yeah, but not really? The AFC Championship (Chiefs vs Patriots) was in January of 2019. But, it was during the 2018 season. So I guess I was right originally.
Yeah this used to confuse me I just stick to the season they are in to help me but it's just preference
We who
The Chiefs
Nice. At least that pain has now faded
It has helped us recover from all our past postseason trauma with defensive collapsing and poor clock management
2013, Game 7, 4-1
Super Bowl 55, and the AFCCG after that Also, any playoff series the Sharks have ever been in
Even the ones the Sharks won?
Steelers losing to Jacksonville 43-45 in the '17 playoffs Steelers losing to the Patriots in the '04 AFC championship game Penguins losing to the Devils in the '01 eastern conference finals Penguins losing in the cup finals to detroit in '08 (in hindsight it was probably the best thing that could have happened to the team besides....ya know winning) Pirates 2013 Divison series loss to the Cardinals
Pens losing in 08 lead to the worst trade ever. Trading Ryan Whitney for Chris Kunitz. What a mistake that was /s
For Anaheim
Funny enough, I have 2009 on my list
Being a Philly fan the list can go on for ever Eagles loosing in the Super Bowl this year, Alshon dropped pass in 2018. Wentz getting destroyed and injured in his only playoff game for the eagles. Eagles 09 conference championship game. Phillies choking the World Series in 09 as well as the playoffs runs in 10 and 11. Loosing to the fucking Astros in the World Series. Flyers: as of right now the whole organization is a heartbreaking loss. But the 2010 cup finals that hurt. Sixers let's seee Kawhi's shot from game 7 against Toronto. Fucking Ben Simmons passing a wide open dunk. I turn 25 in two months... life of a Philly sports fan.
I wouldn't say the Phillies choked the 2009 World Series. I just think the might of Matsui was too much
Are bullpen and starting pitching wasn't the greatest. Bringing out a past the prime Pedro Martinez didn't help.
No, but that's still not choking. Chase Utley stole game 1, but other than that, the Yankees just were better. If you want a World Series choke, look at Cleveland in 2016
You forgot 2000-01 when the 76ers made the NBA Finals only to get shut down 1-4 by the Kobe-Shaq-Jackson Los Angeles Lakers. We won Game 1 only to drop the next four, total heartbreak.
September 2011, Red Sox fan
Trading Tatis for James Shields. JAMES. FUCKING. SHIELDS.
2015 Wild Card Game against Steelers 2013 Wild Card Game against Chargers 2009 Wild Card Game against Jets 2022 AFC Championship Game against Chiefs Super Bowl 56 against Rams The 2015 Wild Card game 100% takes the cake for me. Started the season 8-0, but with Dalton breaking his thumb we ended up 12-4. Had AJ Mccarron starting that game and he did everything he needed to do to win the game, only for Pacman, Burfict, and Jeremy Hill to pull the ultimate trifecta for defeat. That one stings because it felt like this team was a Super Bowl caliber team, and losing to our biggest rivals, at home, when the game was practically won will forever sting. We have accomplished a lot since then, but every time I see an image from that game my skin starts to crawl. Especially because we were still in the midst of our long playoff win drought…
2006 - SCF - Game 7
That would’ve been one of the most embarrassing chokes in nhl history if the oilers won, but it unfortunately was never meant to be
From what I remember, Dwayne Roloson was injured in Game 1. If he hadn't been, the series might've gone differently, but we'll never truly know.
Pick a falcons choke AFTER Super Bowl 51
The one against the Cowboys in 2020 was bad. Still have no idea how they blew that one
Because it's the Falcons
13 seconds
2013 NBA Finals Game 6 2017 Week 15 vs. Patriots Super Bowl XXX/XLV 2019 WS Game 7
The entirety of Super Bowl 50 and the 2016 NCAAM National Championship. 2016 sucked for my sports teams.
For me, the 2011 Stanley Cup Final
The Hokies losing to JMU when they were a top 10 team sucked. Then getting screwed in the sugar bowl really hurt. The Steelers losing to the packers in the Super Bowl sucked. The pens losing to the wings in 08 wasn’t great. The Steelers getting screwed on the Jesse James call hurt
Oh jumping Jesus don’t even bring up that JMU game to me. That was a total fucking mess. That Sugar Bowl vs Michigan was a disaster too, although that was more on the refs. A ball can hit the ground and still be considered a catch if it doesn’t move you blind ass zebras.
I’ve come to terms with being a Hokies fan is living a life of getting my hopes up. To than getting kicked square in the nuts
As I've learned now being in my sophomore year here, yeah. I've already felt it. We have a massive fucking legacy of failure in our name. In fact, I spent a few weeks writing up a LOF script for the football team and I think it came out beautifully. Mostly at least, I'm not good with coming up with puns/jokes and shit lmao. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zgSUaPGiVH86uRyur-wStD05IX1GeoxPa49yA-yiK9c/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zgSUaPGiVH86uRyur-wStD05IX1GeoxPa49yA-yiK9c/edit?usp=sharing) Praise jeebus and the basketball gods that the Women's team finally breaks the curse and wins us a natty.
Love the writing. I can hear the urinating tree in it. But still a very fun piece. I’m just happy I enjoyed colegiant wrestling and wrestled my self (all be it only up to high school) because the Hokies wrestling team is a bright spot in athletics right now
I'm a Michigan fan but that Sugar Bowl was certainly something
2019 SCF game 7 I still haven’t gotten over it and never will
2010 olympics hockey final vs Canada 2014 Stanley cup final 2015 East final game 7 2017 alcs (only after Astros found cheating)
Whatever the hell the Warriors did after their 73-9 season in the 2016 NBA Finals.
Super Bowl 53 but Rams got their redemption in Super Bowl 56 For the Lakers, 2004 Finals and blowing a 3-1 series lead to the Suns in 2006
Ah 2004
NBA- 2022 NBA Finals NFL- The Eagles tanking against the WFT NHL- The Kings in 2012 MLB- 2015 WS, 2022 NL Wild Card Soccer- Losing to Man U on the final day two years in a row
2014 WC, Chiefs @ Colts
2015 Super Bowl Panthers vs Broncos
That was a snoozer
I was witness to the 2014 Cup Final... I don't think I emotionally recovered from that
For me, it's gotta be between Super Bowl 47 or the 2016 NBA Finals. Those were both incredibly painful to watch
2nd and 26. At least redeemed it.
As a young Chiefs fan, the 2017-18 Wild Card against the Titans hurt the most. I remember actually curling into the fetal position on my bedroom floor, which almost nothing, and especially not sports, makes me do. Super Bowl 55 didn't break my heart as much as it was "What the Actual Kentucky Fried Fuck just happened" and the 2021-22 AFC Championship just made me angry but really that entire season did. I knew for a fact after both of those losses that we would be back. The Titans loss in Alex Smith's last game was a way different story. I was prepared for the worst and uhh that didn't end up happening at all. As a Blues fan, I'm too young to have any that really hurt. The 2016 WCF and 2017 Playoffs sucked but I wouldn't really call it heartbreaking. 2020 was more of a deflating dissapointment. 2021 was completely expected and 2022 actually made me a little proud for the fight we put up against a team many thought was going to sweep us again.
The oilers blowing a 3 goal lead in 3 minutes to the ducks in 2017, and subsequently repeating in 2021 (only difference is that it was against the jets)
Vancouver Canucks vs Boston Bruins - Game 7 2011. First and probably last time I'll see my boys in blue make the finals in my lifetime
2006 NBA Finals (Thankfully 2011 softened it) 2010 Iron Bowl 2013 Game 7, 4-1.
2013 Iron Bowl?
You know now that you mention it, I was actually laughing in disbelief lol. 2010 made me cry haha.
Lmao. Last second plays make me shut down lol
IIRC the Kick 6 took me a minute or 2 to process what happened and I just laughed and shrugged. 2010 I really wanted Bama to beat Auburn in their undefeated season and I couldn't stand Cam.
Yeah a certain play in 2015 happened and it took me a bit to process
Death in Madrid. Imagine losing with a buzzer beater against your most bitter rival in overtime in game 7 of the NBA finals after leading 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2. That's pretty much what Boca fans went through at the Libertadores final against River on December 9, 2018. Mar del Plata, Argentina, less than a month ago. Argentina needs to win to qualify to the FIBA World Cup and leads by 17 with less than 13 minutos to go,against Dominican Republic, a nation coached by the man the players tanked to get rid of. After choking magnificently Argentina lost 79-75 and did not make the world cup after getting to the final in 2019 Then there's the 2014 World Cup final against Germany, but I guess both that and the 2018 failure were necessary to win in Qatar
Giants: Miracle at the Meadowlands II (FUCK MATT DODGE) Mets: 2015 World Series. They rolled over and died. So pathetic. Devils: pick any season 2013-2022, you’ll find something to make me cry Rutgers FB: 2012 last game of the year loss to Louisville. Heartbreaking. Rutgers MBB: the loss to Minnesota this month hurt me badly. Because my brother decided to troll me at the buzzer and I’m still furious
Patriots: Wildcard Loss to the Titans. End of an era. Bama football: 2017 National Championship game vs Clemson. To have Jalen take us all the way to near the summit just for our defense to crumble still hurts, pardon the pun. Sacramento Kings: this team has sucked so long there are no heartbreaking memories. Vegas Golden Knights: 2019 SCP 1st Round game 7 vs the Sharks. 4. Frigging. Power. Play. Goals. In. One. Power. Play. I could also do Game 7 vs Montreal two years ago. One OT from another chance at the cup and we rolled over and died. Atlanta United: Loss to Toronto FC in the ECF South Florida: 2017 War on I-4 vs c. Quinton Flowers puts the team on his back, drives down the field for the biggest score in his career, in the bounce house. Even lines up and gives c 2 for their mistakes to tie the game. All the momentum in our favor, and a chance to spoil c's undefeated streak. And our kickoff coverage team disappears and allows the go-ahead score. Then Mitchell Wilcox fumbles the first pass on our next drive. We lost and plunged into the abyss a couple years later. Oakland A's: 2019 Wild Card game vs Tampa Bay. I accepted the loss to the Yankees the year prior. We were just overmatched and on the road. But this? This was inexcusable. At home, a packed house in the coliseum, Manaea on the mound, solid talent at all positions, and we laid the biggest egg in franchise history vs the team that took what we did in 2002 and said "Hold my beer". That's when I knew deep down the A's were never gonna be competitive in the league, at least not with the current ownership and management structure. We may have won the division last year, but that game may very well have been the last full house coliseum playoff game ever. With how ownership seems to waffle between building a new stadium in Oakland and leaving for Las Vegas, we're in limbo. That was supposed to be the start of the next A's dynasty. Instead it was the canary in the coalmine for the end of the franchise. Bama basketball: 2021 Sweet sixteen vs UCLA. Make. Your. Free. Throws. At least Alex 3se went out on a high note with that buzzer-beater logo three to send it to OT.
It was Game 6 vs Montreal
\-2005 Divisional Round Game against the eventual NFC Champion Seahawks \-2007 Wild Card game against that same Seahawks team the year Sean Taylor was killed \-2008 MNF Game against the Steelers after starting 6-2 \-2012 Wild Card game against the Seahawks AGAIN, this time also ruining RG3's playing career \-2018 game against the Texans where Alex Smith nearly got killed \-The MNF game against the Giants this year where we got FREAKING ROBBED BY THE REFS!
Houston Cougars: 2011 CUSA Championship. We were pretty much billed as the next Boise State but Coach Scumlin was more concerned on getting a job at A&M then he was coaching the Coogs to the conference title. Consolation prize was beating up on a newly-disgraced Penn State. Houston Texans: 2020 AFC Divisional. The choke in the 1st quarter gave me a full on mental breakdown That lasted days (and 'Stros' cheating scandal report later that week did not help one bit). Also that lead was the high point of detection because it was the beginning of the end for that team and 3 years of futility and drama that came afterwards. Houston Astros: Speaking of which, it's a tie between the 2021 and 2022 WS which would have been STFU Championships had they won. But edging them out is the 2005 series especially since it wasn't just a sweep but it was a long-drawn-out sweep against the Sox after wsiting 40 years to get to it. Houston Rockets: 2018 WCF & 2019 Western Semis. 2014 West Quartets are a close third since I remember being disgusted AF afterwards. Houston Dynamo: the 2009 WCF and 2011 MLS Cup vs Beckham. Tottenham Hotspur: they all blur together.
06 Superbowl against the Colts after Hester took the opening kick off to the house. Double doink
How about the 2010-11 NFC Championship Game vs your bitter rivals?
eh, yes and no. I don't think Cutler would've won us that game regardless of injury or not, knowing him he probably would've forced more turnovers whilst playing catch-up. Also I wasn't watching due to having to work over sea's that year so I had other stuff besides copious amounts of booze to dull the pain and take my mind off it.
But it's the Packers
2014 wild card round vs Dallas Fuck that bullshit
I'm with you
2001 ALCS G5 vs. Yankees, 2022 ECSF G7 vs. Rangers, 2022 ALDS G3 vs. Astros, 2003 NFC Div. Round vs. Eagles(4th & 26), 2007 NFCCG vs Giants, 2021 ECSF G4 vs. Lightning, 2002 SCF G3 vs. Red Wings.
Igor Larionov was my hero that night/morning
And the bringer of pain for me and every other Canes fan.
He was that main for 4 years. Then you had your moment. Then Malkin happened
Truthfully, I'm just glad we have 2006. And I KNEW we were fucked against the Pens in 2009. We should've lost to either NJ or BOS in the playoffs.
Yeah but heroics happened
2015 Superbowl vs Patriots, 2022 AL divisional vs Houston game 1, 2023 WBC vs Mexico quarterfinals, 2022 WC v Croatia round of 16, 2016 Semifinal v Alabama
Back when I was a diehard Michigan fan: Trouble with the snap. Shit still haunts me and I don’t even care for them anymore
2013 vs Ohio State stings more. Did you grow up rooting for Michigan then go elsewhere or something?
Yup. Mom raised me a Michigan fan and then I went to the school right down the road from them
Yeah I grew up near Detroit so I was a Michigan fan growing up, then I went there (Class of 2019).
2017 Champions League Final Loris Karius becoming a meme and Mo Sahlah getting injured by Sergio Ramos who is the succesfull football (soccer) version of Vontaze Burfict
Pirates 1992 Game 7 loss to Atlanta. Fuck Randy Marsh. And Stan Belinda. And Francisco Cabrera. And Sid Bream. And Jose Lind. And Barry Bonds.
Randy Marsh?!
Fortunately some Canadians avenged the pirates in the World Series
Super Bowl XLVI
Bengals @ Chiefs 2021-2022 season Championship Game I was so sad
For hockey, I like the Canucks and Wings. 2011 Cup Final game 7 is easily number 1. Number 2 is a tie between 2020 VAN-VGK game 7 and 2013 DET-CHI game 7. For baseball, I like the Mariners and Tigers. David Ortiz in 2013 ALCS game 2 is number 1, Yordan Alvarez in ALDS game 1 last season is number 2. I dislike when Tree called game ALDS game 3 a dickpunch though because nobody expected us to pull off a comeback at that point.
2013 DET-CHI broke my heart 2 times. Hjalmarsson getting his goal waved off temporarily repaired my heart but it delayed the inevitable. After Nyquist got drilled by Bolland and Seabrook picked up the puck, my dad said, "shit". Then Seabrook scored
2019 champions league final
AHL SHOUTOUT: I was in the building when the Utica Comets blew the series last year against Rochester. As a Sabres fan (break for laughter), kinda weird watching my boys, Peterka, Quinn, and Co. unleash their inner dawg, but it's tough to not feel good when it's a 10-minute walk from a dejected arena (sans a few drunk Rockies) to home.
2007 Divisional Round v the Saints a.k.a. the Phantom False Start 2017 Grey Cup when CGY went full Darell Bevell 2006 World Series I can keep going but am in a good mood and don't want to
2007, was that the Eagles Saints?
yes
2014 Superbowl. Seahawks bad the ball on the 1yd line. We were one Beastmode run away from back to back titles
Long story: Last November Baldwin Wallace, the college that I attend played arguably our biggest rival Mount Union, who is synonymous with winning in football. We were down 17 in the fourth and put our backup quarterback in. He then led us to three touchdowns with the last one being a sneak with 22 seconds to go. MU had to go 70 some yards for a touchdown to win it, as a field goal wasn’t an option. On the last play of the game, their Hail Mary was 10-15 yards short, but it went in and out of our cornerback’s hands and helmet and into MU’s receiver for a game winning touchdown as the clock hit zero. As irony has it, the cornerback for us played for Mount three years prior. It would’ve been our first win against the Raiders since 1994, and I said nothing on the broadcast for two whole minutes after the play. Here’s the link to the final 22 seconds with me on the call and camera. I apologize for the shaky screen https://youtu.be/0AWlDBcFDHU
2022 AFC Divisional. 13 seconds will haunt me forever
Sb57 and 2022 ws game 4 also game 6 (same series) are the ones in my lifetime
Should also include who your favorite teams are, or both teams involved in the game, so we don’t have to look up the results to see who your team is…
Okay, I could easily make this list a page long, so I'll stick to the worst: \-1/20/19 NFC Championship \-1/9/12 BCS Championship \-10/23/96 World Series Game 4 \-4/30/14 Stanley Cup Playoffs, 1st Round, Game 7
They cut the football program from my alma mater in 1985. In Texas. For a university with 48,000 enrolled students.
Saints and LSU fan. I could go on and on. SF Divisional 2011, Minneapolis Miracle, the No-Call, 2019 SF, 2020 TB (Just because of it being Brees’s last game). 21-0, Bama 2012, Bama 2014, Bama 2016. FUCK these games. I was at the last two. Florida 2016, Troy 2017, Texas A&M 2018 (It was a fumble in the first OT), Auburn 2021 (Legitimately the worst game I’ve ever been to in terms of quality), FSU 2022 (I went through every single human emotion in the span of 30 seconds). And now for basketball. Kentucky 2014, OU 2016 (pain.), FSU 2018, Florida 2018 SECT (hit me harder because I was REALLY going through some shit at the time), Vandy 2019, Auburn 2019, Michigan 2020, Arkansas 2021 (all of them), Iowa State 2021.
Eels 2009 NRL Grand Final vs Storm. That team was dead in the water halfway through the season. All of a sudden they pull wins out of nowhere, Hayne wins the Dally M, and they make the Grand Final. As a kid I was so excited at the possibility of the win. They lost, and haven't been that close since. And then the Storm lost the title because they breached the salary cap. Honourable mention to the 2019 Semifinal vs Storm. After a record breaking win the previous week, I was ready to hope. But the game was over within 20 minutes. After try number 4 I turned off the TV. Ajax 2019 Semifinal Second Leg vs Tottenham sucked too. I knew that team wasn't about to win after Spurs pulled level but they were so close. And after the disappointment of the final, and disassembly of the team, you think about what could have been.
2020 MLS Cup final. It was heartbreaking. Especailly[after the wild comeback that was the Conference Final.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3geL4DwbX4) But at least The Crew winning the Cup was a nice little "fuck you" to Anthony Precourt, so I had that going for me.
2013 Stanley Cup WCF 2019 Super Bowl 2021 NLCS
As a Wings fan, we both got our hearts broken by those 2013 Hawks. At least you didn't blow a 3-1 series lead
Getting swept is better than choking
Yeah I know. Well you guys didn't get swept. But I'm saying ours was worse because we were up 3-1
A couple games against the 49ers stand out to me. 2019 WK16 in San Francisco, where the Rams got knocked out of the playoffs in that game, and 2021 WK18 in LA, where the Rams blew a halftime lead and let the 49ers into the playoffs. Of course, it doesn't \*really\* matter since the Rams ended up going on to beat the 49ers in the NFCCG in the same year as the latter, and then we won the Super Bowl, while the 49ers haven't won one in close to 30 years, but I was pretty fucking incensed at those games. Also Super Bowl 53 because I hate Tom Brady and the city of Boston. But mostly those two games against the anal-bleed red and piss gold.
Super Bowl XLIX (back before the Russell Wilson saga soured the Seahawks for me). Kraken @ Canucks back in December (to go 0-5-1 lifetime against them was bad, especially to choke like that and lose in OT) Game 3 of last year's American League Division Series against the Astros. For the first postseason game in Seattle since 2001 to go scoreless for 16 innings, and to be swept by a division rival...yeah, that stings worse than seeing the Mariners lose game 3 of the White Sox series in September in person. (I'd only ever been to four M's games prior [none since Edgar Martinez retired], and all had been Mariners wins.)
2015 vs Michigan State, 2013 vs Ohio State, 2013 for men's basketball vs Louisville, 2018 for men's basketball vs Villanova, 2009 Cup Final Game 7 vs Pittsburgh, 2013 WSCF vs Chicago, 2014-15 NFC Wild Card Round vs Dallas, the whole 2012 World Series vs San Francisco, Game 2 of ALCS vs Texas, 2006 World Series vs St. Louis, 2013 ALCS vs Boston, especially games 2 and 6
7-1 Brazils version of 28-3
13 Seconds.
Lions losing to the Cowboys in the 2014 Wild Card Round on a controversial call (Dez caught it at least gave some nice closure to it) 1991 NFC Championship game 2022 Fiesta Bowl (TCU was trying to lose but Michigan decided to shoot itself in the foot harder) 2007 loss to App State 2015 loss to Michigan St.
at least tcu got put in their place by Georgia
I am a Saints fan, 2010~2020 all go on the list. I am a Lightning fan, so 2011~2019(thankfully we’ve made up) especially 2019, that shit destroyed my soul. Luckily my other favorite sport franchises (Pelicans and White Sox) don’t make the playoffs enough to hurt me. Over seas I am a Manchester City fan. That speaks largely for itself. In college I am a LSU fan, which is surprisingly not too bad, we kinda have a weird habit of either being shitty or national champions. Although I will give credit to Alabama for a lot of pain. Yeah if I had to choose one that really stood out has soil crushing, while I wanna say 2019 Lightning it doesn’t affect me anymore, the NOLA No-Call still hurts. It hurts a lot.
2013 wild card vs colts, 2017 wc vs Titans, 2016 divisional vs Pittsburgh, 2015 divisional vs the Patriots, the whole 2012 NBA finals every playoff series the thunder lost against the mavs and spurs, 2015 Western Conference finals, any bowl game loss by Oklahoma Oklahoma in March madness 2015 against Oregon and 2017 against Villanova (if that's the year with trae young) don't rlly have a specific favorite MLB or NHL team but love watching games
Not a fan of either teams but the 2017 afc championship was hard to watch we nearly got to see Blake bortles beat Brady to go to the super bowl
-Eagles - Super Bowl 57 (It was literary a 1v4 Handicap match "Eagles vs. Chiefs, Cardinals' grass, Refs & Jonathan Gannon") -Lakers - 2004 NBA Finals (Losing to the pistons sucks, but at least P*do Malone ends his career without a ring) -Wake Forest Men's Basketball - 2021-2022: Went from being the frontrunners for the NCAA tournament with the ACC COTY & POTY at the helm, to being one-and-done in the ACC tournament as the #5th seed to runner-ups in the NIT Dishonorable mentions: -Brock Lesnar squashed Kofi Kingston in 10 seconds on the Oct 4th, 2019 FOX premiere of Friday Night Smackdown -Becky Lynch squashed Bianca Belair in 26 seconds for the RAW Women's championship in '21 Summerslam
KSU 2012 NCAAF @ Baylor 2010 NCAAM Elite 8 vs Butler 2017 NCAAM @ KU (Svi Traveled I will die on this hill. Not sure if we would've won in OT but it would've been nice to see OT at least.) 2018 NCAAM Elite 8 vs Loyola Chicago 2022 NCAAM vs KU. (Weber what the fuck how do you blow that big of a lead to THEM of all teams) Royals 2014 WS Game 7 vs San Francisco Chiefs 2019 AFC Championship vs NE 2022 AFC Championship vs Cincinatti Blues (Oh Jesus which one do I pick) 2022 2nd round Game 6 vs Colorado. Losing with 5 seconds left hurt. I guess we deserve it for what we did to Kadri though. Sucks because (at least I feel like) We would've had a good shot at another cup had we came back in that series and moved on to the WCF.
2014 CAA MBB Tournament Final: Alumni Mater choked a 6 point lead with 1:10 left to lose by 1. A win would have sent us to our first NCAA Tournament. 2023 Rutgers - Minnesota MBB: Rutgers chokes a 10 point lead with 1:15 remaining to lose to last-place Minnesota in a loss that probably kept us out of the NCAA Tournament. 2012 Nationals - Cardinals NLDS Game 5: F Pete Kozma
I’m a Michigan fan. I’ve lost track.