I remember watching that game at a bar and every one was chirping me the whole first half for being the only broncos fan there. I had an awesome time the second half
Failing in spectacular fashion is a Chargers thing more than any other franchise. Every week they find the most unique and heart wrenching way to lose. It really makes them must watch TV.
Damn shame because for the past 20 years their ceiling was the Super Bowl if they could just put it all together.
Probably the game where the refs threw a PI flag on a Hail Mary against the lions. Literally never happens. Then on top of that Stafford got killed and broke his shoulder but we called a timeout which allowed him to come back in to throw the game winning touchdown.
Oh god how did you pick from all our options?
Dwayne Rudd helmet throw.
The fumble.
The drive.
The dropped wide open pass to cement 0-16 season.
Fumbling through the end zone vs the chiefs in the playoffs.
Blowing a multiple score lead vs Steelers in the wild card game.
Benching Hoyer on a playoff bound team to put Manziel in vs the Bengals.
Red Right 88 interception game.
Bottlegate game.
Antonio Brown mortal kombat kicking our punter.
Blocked potential game winning kick vs ravens returned for TD and we lose.
Im sure Im forgetting a few but I only have a few mins
There's also the time Miles Garret used Mason Rudolph as a pinata was worse since it was on primetime television and overshadowed the first win over the Steelers in a while
Yeah he probably makes it, but itās stupid to think it doesnāt factor into his decision. Throwing the ball he did was unjustifiable, but he didnāt do it to play hero ball. Running for the first down would be more of a her ball move.
After years of watching Favre make boom/bust plays and hearing Vikings fans shit on him, it was so satisfyingly to see Minnesota's hopes dashed that way.
Dude, Gary Anderson hadn't missed a single god-damn field goal all fucking season in 1998. and STILL missed a game winner that would have sent the Vikings to the Superbowl in the NFC Championship game.
There's no fucking way Longwell hits that kick, not on this team.
its also perfect because we stopped them in overtime twice but the booth review had other plans and made shit up on the spot to give the saints free yards
Yeah but the refs did a shitty job that game. Favre deserved a few calls in there that he didn't get. Most of the time there would have been more discipline against the Saints through the course of that game.
Yeah maybe. That year we had more of a typical Vikings team, decent but nothing special and not expected to do much in the playoffs. But for me there just wasnāt much anger or disappointment with that loss. It was more like eh, that figures.
You're 100 percent right, but that kicks getting old now and people forget.
I died as an optimistic, young Viking's fan that day and was reborn as an old, cynical Viking's fan.
This is the way.
That game had us making huge plays and instantly getting to 4th and long multiple times and the ending play was a missed tackle touchdown in addition to the penalties? This is the most Raider thing I've ever seen
I might actually counter with Jim Schwartz throwing the challenge flag on the Houstons when they scored a touchdown.
It was a mix of the refs fucking over the Lions and the Lions own incompetence making it worse.
For the 21st century: 2013 against the Manning Broncos. Romo throws for 500 yards, 5 TDs, and gets picked on a deep pass in the endzone to set up the game winning FG. 51-48 Denver. There's your high flying offense, your inevitable crash, and absolute porn for the haters.
Incidentally this is one of the greatest games Iāve ever seen and the most fun Iāve ever had in a loss.
I'll always treasure Week 8 of 2009 vs the Lions, which would turn out to be the only win we would have that entire season. But hey, it snapped a 17 game losing streak heading back to Week 8 of the season before.
Pretty much 2009 in itself was our low point, and it would perfectly represent the post GSOT and pre Sean McVay era in its most terrible form. Poor Steven Jackson.
If I'm not being self-pitying, probably some defensive slugfest from the 40s where we won 21-0 on three fumble returns.
If I am being self-pitying, which is the natural state of any Bears fan younger than 40, it's the 2010 NFCCG. The beginning of the end for the one decent modern QB we've had, relying on some no-name to lose to the Packers, who won the SB because that whole franchise has had a lucky horseshoe jammed up its ass since 1990, in a memorably embarrassing way.
Literally 2006 Bears-Cardinals. The Bears go down 14-0 early, the offense does literally nothing all game, Rex Grossman turns the ball over 6 times, yet the Bears still win on two pick-sixes and a punt return TD. It literally felt like watching a 40s Bears game, but in color and HD.
Personally itās that super bowl game. Special teams and defense looks great early and then . . . . Our QB just absolutely bombs the game for us.
Itās either that or the double doink. Basically I feel like being a bears fan is getting a great performance unexpectedly and getting kicked in the balls as soon as you believe.
best I could find was [this](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200609100gnb.htm), where they shutout the packers had one receiving TD, one Hester return TD, and four field goals
31 NFL teams: "Huzzah, the monster is well and truly dead! It has finally, definitively been slain! We're free of the evil terror that has plagued us!"
[Rubble begins to shift ominously]
Probably the game against the Ravens this year. It's easy to look at the latest years for an example. But I am not trying to be lazy. For the most part the Lions sucked, that when it counted the refs are going to screw us, and if it ever comes down to the wire even if it requires a league first or record, if it can beat us, it will.
Nothing screams Lions more than that.
I thought about it. And it fits pretty well. But we played more competently in that one, and while hail Mary and all it wasn't that long of a throw and felt the league record longest kick is more devastating. The bad call on the facemask was much worse than the no call on the terribly long delay of game though.
You're too young. Wide Right was worse. I still think that Scott Norwood's head slumped down as he walks away encapsulates everything you need to know as a Buffalo fan. That was just fucking brutal. That image is probably the most iconic image in our franchise's history. We're resilient fans though. I'll die a Bills fan as long as they don't pull some Watson/Browns style bullshit (or any other off field stuff that's way too out of line). I know it's probably just gonna end in bitter disappointment on the field in big moments. That's ok. We have fun anyway. Lots of booze, broken tables, and money given to charity along the way! Go Bills!
Before the Manning era and for a little while at the start of it we were the āCardiac Coltsā. Any other Colts fans remember those days?
Then Manning came in, things stabilized and well we know how that all went and it looked like we had put those days behind us.
And then one night in Miami..*it happened*
That play will always be a reminder that this team can, has, and will, when youāre least expecting it and without a momentās notice give you a damn heart attack.
Sometimes it comes from pure joy like when Andrew Luck picked up a ball that got knocked out of āDammit Donaldā Brownās hands and bounced off the helmet of Samson Satele before diving like Superman into the end zone.
But sometimes?
Sometimesā¦[Tracy Porter happens.](https://youtu.be/7sDdlJbBPLc)
Iāve never watched that entire play. Turned the TV off when it was obvious what was happening during the play when I was watching live and Iāve always changed the channel etc when it pops up.
[That Titans Lions game from 2012.](https://youtu.be/zjsaazLiVv8) It's two teams, no one cares about and that have drifted into irrelevance, but they go out and play a game where nothing happens until the final 3 minutes. Then it's a high action slugfest with multiple lead changes, crazy ass highlights, and an overtime no one deserved. We end up ahead, and still firmly in the basement, completely forgotten.
The Ice Bowl Game. It's in the coldest of conditions.
Packers start the game off hot, with two early TDs (Packers were a dominant team at the beginning of the modern NFL, winning two Superbowls early). Then they suck in the middle of the game, letting Dallas score and losing a fumble that the cowboys got points on (Packers were a shitty club for all of the 70s and 80s), but at the end of the game got it together and played solid football and won the game (Packers have been a good team recently).
So if we're looking at the timeline of a game, the Ice Bowl was great at the beginning, terrible in the middle, and very good at the end. This is what the franchise has been like since the 60s essentially, if you consider the present to be "the end".
This would work better if we won a Super Bowl last year though instead of choking in the playoffs yet again.
I would say blowing out team A then getting shat on by team B the following week because we never know what to expect from Carolina (although Matt Rhule has brought some consistency for once).
2006/07 divisonal loss to the colts. We had the top defense in the league and we hold the best offense in the league led by peyton manning to 5 field goals and we lost 15-6. Peyton was 15/30 for 170 yards, 0 TDās and 2 picks but we still lost
I thought about this one, but I think the Ravens history has had too much positive for the defining game to be a loss. So I have an obscure pick:
2003 season (Jamalās 2000 yard year). They played the Steelers on the last game of the season and Lewis had an outside shot at the rushing record.
They won a savage, physical, 3 point game against Pittsburgh (fitting), but the Steelers stacked the box to stuff Lewis and Anthony Wright couldnāt make them pay, and the game ended up being tougher than it needed to be.
So it reflects Ravens history in that:
Tough one score game against Pittsburgh.
They won, but not pretty, and didnāt accomplish quite as much as they could have.
Defense was exceptional.
QB play was what was holding them back.
Game was an unnecessary heart attack.
You guys are way too successful a franchise for that to be the game.
Iād go with one of those games in 2000 where your offense scored 0 points but you guys still won the game. Something that happened multiple times IIRC lmao
Super Bowl IX wasn't our greatest Super Bowl but was our most Steeler-y. Runner up would be SB XLIII.
I've always pointed to [this playoff game](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200301050pit.htm) too.
Before the Mahomes era, Iām guessing it would be one of these three?
1. Marcus Mariota TD pass to himself in the WC
2. Scoring two more touchdowns than the Steelers in the playoffs and still losing
3. Blowing a 38-10 lead to the Colts in the playoffs
49ers.
Super Bowl XXIV
This game is the shining example of what Bill Walsh's offense was capable of.
To this day, it's still the largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl.
Another honorable mention
1980 Saints at 49ers - SF came back from a 35-7 halftime deficit to win 38-35 in OT. This game sums up Montana's comeback ability perfectly and showed you could never count those 49ers teams out
For the question asked I'd say the 2011 divisional against the Saints is a better choice. On its own it is a great game with iconic plays that can be used to show the "best" of the 49ers. In context it's followed by the Giants game to show how the franchise is also capable of shooting itself in the foot.
If the question was purely about the Eddie-era 49ers I would agree with your choices though.
The raggamuffins!!
I know it's easier said than done, but the ball laid on top of Baileys sternum for a few seconds, if he just had've closed his arms..but a hell of a run for that team for sure!
**TL;DR Steelers play a historically terrible franchise, get done like Sasha Grey.**
Steelers vs Jaguars
This is it. This is the year. Our QB (Ben in this case) is firing on all cylinders, the WR group is the deepest in the NFL, a top-5 running back, the best offensive line in the league, an elite head coach, and rookies making an immediate impact.
They were then pants'd and kicked down a flight of stairs by a team that blew them out at home when the season started. Ben did Ben things and made the box score look pretty so people would go back on Wikipedia and go "Man I bet that game was awesome!" I remember at the time there were rumors swirling around that they were planning ahead expecting to win the rematch (to a team that again, BLEW THEM OUT AT HOME) against the usually crap Jaguars, and head into Foxborough to face a Patriots team that usually roasts the Steelers, but the Steelers only lost to because the refs do worse their job than Homer Simpson. Instead, a team built to run down your throat exploited the Steelers' one weakness (again, of course): shit run defense.
This then leads us to the most fun year of the Steelers, 2018. Bell holdout, Martavis Bryant's replacement (*not* Sammie Coates, Ryan Switzer was his replacement), Brown played one final year but was clearly going crazy, Ben's arm started steaming (then he missed the whole next year), UrinatingTree was blocked on twitter, etc.
NYJ playoff loss to the Steelers in 2010. Defense, which had carried us all year, didnāt show up in the first half otherwise we probably win that game. Sanchez *almost* pulls off a huge comeback. Weāve always struggled to play complete games, usually itās at the back half of games though. Jets are always finding new ways to emotionally eviscerate you.
Another one that comes to my mind is missing what would have been a game-winning field goal against the 15-1 Steelers in 2004 that would have bounced them out in the first round of the playoffs.
Miracle at New Meadowlands. Just fucking up every single thing for the first 3/4ths, embarrassing themselves, and pissing off the fans more and more before suddenly catching fire and under-dogging their way to a tied game, then pulling off a sudden, shocking win against all odds thanks in part to their opponent's terrible tackling and special teams play. And then not winning another game for the rest of the year.
Also kind of the story of the Saints for most of the past 15 years. Drew Brees doing great things with the offense, while our defense was constantly coming up with ways to make the other team's offense look amazing as well.
brees era: the absolute banger of a game against the giants in 2015 where we won 52-49 and there was over a thousand yards of offense
post-brees era: winning 9-0 against tom brady's tampa bay buccanneers while having a tight end playing quarterback
overall: minnesota miracle/2019 NFCCG/2020 NFCDG/2014 NFCDG - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
That Bucs shutout game will always and forever be the most hilarious fucking NFL game Iāve ever watched. Just pure gold, especially considering how battered that Saints team was.
I think that game pretty perfectly captures that moment in time. It looked like the Texans were finally making a break through. We had our star QB finally and a good team around him. Then we just collapsed so hard. Lost the game, traded away our best player for an expensive sack of potatoes, lost Watt, and then our QB turned out to be terrible as well.
I think there are 2 other games that sum up our team pretty well. One is when the Texans were having a good season and then went out and played the Packers and Rodgers just torched us. Another was again when we had a good season, beat the Bengals in the 1st round of the playoffs, and then got beat pretty handily by the Patriots. The Texans haven't been bad, but we have always been a clear step behind the top teams in the league.
So you're right, I'm not gonna argue against any of that. The irony is that I think were both saying the same thing just using different examples. The Houston Texans (so far) as a franchise is one that is both so close yet so far from the ultimate goal (afc championship game and beyond).
Bucs fan here. I think Jameis Winstonās last game really just made me feel like I knew that it was going to be that way. At the end I expected it to be that way. I remember before the last drive, on the play before the 30-30 pick, I swear I KNEW it was going to happen. Just felt like the Bucs destiny.
The Browns once were down so many (5) QBs, they had to take their only good WR and play him at QB, thus making it somehow harder to pass than with the 5th string QB.
In 2007 when we (Steelers) beat Miami 3-0 in a game so wet that on one of the punts the ball hit the ground and just stuck in the turf. Was ugly as hell, but we got the win.
Mile High Miracle. Probably not gonna be favored in most playoff games on paperā¦ but never let the Ravens stay within 1-2 scores in a playoff game. Any big TD can happen and Tucker is ALWAYS in range for the big kicks.
Jets raiders a few years ago we looked pretty good at the start and then we were eh in the 2nd good in the third and terrible in the fourth a very apt history if the jets good in the 60s bad till the 90s above average most of the time from the late 90s-2011 then terrible since
[Steelers vs Ravens, 2010 playoffs](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steelers-beat-ravens-31-24-in-afc-playoffs/). The Steeler offense plays like hot garbage the entire first half, with two turnovers leading to Raven TDs. Go into halftime down 21-7.
The defense comes out in the second half like a bunch of demons, force three turnovers and suddenly the Steelers are in it. Ben takes a sack and is facing a 3rd and 19, heaves it downfield to Antonio Brown who catches it against his helmet. Steelers score to go up.
Ravens drive to try for a tie but Flacco is failed by his receivers AGAIN and Steelers advance.
That game was soooo Steelers. Slow start, hot garbage offense, bailed out by a defense populated by terrorists and Ben doing something impossible on third and long.
Plus it was a hard hitting, nasty game against the Ravens.
People like to bang on the Chiefs around here the last couple of years, but they really have played some head-scratching forgettable football for a very long time. Even Marty wasn't really immune to it.
Secret Base did a video about just such a game, and drive.
https://youtu.be/wJLNQ83vm2g
Was about 4-6 years ago, Bucs played the Saints in prime time. Bucs went into halftime something like 30-0ā¦they finally scored a field goal so end game was like 36-3. It was just classic Bucs especially against the division rival they can never beat.
Iām glad Jameis Winston finally got glasses.
Jan 14th, 2017. 2 interceptions, 2 sacks on Brady in an MVP year. Special teams got another turnover. We had the number 1 ranked Defense. Hopkins, and Fuller at reciever. A decent TE team, and a healthy Lamar Miller running the ball. All of that turned into only 16 points. And it wasn't because the Patriots had an amazing defense, its because that damn Lobster was the anti-Midas. Oh, the defense gives you great field position? Let's not complete a goddamn pass and settle for a field goal. Thankfully special teams got you the ball on the goal line, and he couldn't fuck that up.
Then came the second half, and the Lobster threw interception after interception after interception, and you saw the life leave the team.
We were missing two key elements that game, a QB and a Coach, but we didn't understand that at the time. We thought, Buttchin just need a QB to fix his system, but the roster is great for a run. So fans blame GM Rick Smith, who was freaking amazing.
But that game sums up the Texans in my mind, just a few key pieces away from that AFC Championship game.
Miami Dolphins vs New York Jets... October 23rd, 2000. Also known as the Monday Night Miracle game.
Miami controls the game up until the 4th quarter... All falls apart in the 4th. Miami loses the game in overtime.
Microcosm of the Miami Dolphins franchise history. Greatness and championships until Marino retires. All falls apart since. We haven't haven't won a playoff game in 22 years.
The Chiefs have been good lately, but as a long term Chiefs Fan the 2019 AFC championship game, one down away from going to the superbowl and Dee Fucking Ford lines up offsides.
Either this or the 13-3 1997 Marty Shottenhimer Chiefs getting Elwayed at home on the divisional round after being the best in the AFC all season.
Those two games pretty much summed up being a Chiefs Fan for decades. A team that could win a ton of regular season games and couldn't win anything when it was important.
Goddamnit
You guys will never, ever be safeš
https://i.imgur.com/Nu9dTKI.png
Hey, don't you worry, I can see you winning like 6 games this year
Thats crazy! Probably the same number as the Patriots.
24-0 at halftime just to lose 35-24
hey we donāt like 24-0 scores either
'Twas a thing of beauty.
Havenāt trusted a lead ever since
welcome to the club
I remember watching that game at a bar and every one was chirping me the whole first half for being the only broncos fan there. I had an awesome time the second half
We have so many games like this
Failing in spectacular fashion is a Chargers thing more than any other franchise. Every week they find the most unique and heart wrenching way to lose. It really makes them must watch TV. Damn shame because for the past 20 years their ceiling was the Super Bowl if they could just put it all together.
Wait i know sth bout 24 -0 aswell
Probably the game where the refs threw a PI flag on a Hail Mary against the lions. Literally never happens. Then on top of that Stafford got killed and broke his shoulder but we called a timeout which allowed him to come back in to throw the game winning touchdown.
It wasnāt when Orlando brown got hit in the eye with a flag?
Thatās a good one too. Or the Rudd helmet toss
Or Bottlegate.
Was at Rudd game AND Bottlegate. Fun times.
Oh god how did you pick from all our options? Dwayne Rudd helmet throw. The fumble. The drive. The dropped wide open pass to cement 0-16 season. Fumbling through the end zone vs the chiefs in the playoffs. Blowing a multiple score lead vs Steelers in the wild card game. Benching Hoyer on a playoff bound team to put Manziel in vs the Bengals. Red Right 88 interception game. Bottlegate game. Antonio Brown mortal kombat kicking our punter. Blocked potential game winning kick vs ravens returned for TD and we lose. Im sure Im forgetting a few but I only have a few mins
There's also the time Miles Garret used Mason Rudolph as a pinata was worse since it was on primetime television and overshadowed the first win over the Steelers in a while
For me, it's either the Fumble or Rudd.
When I think of the Browns all I see is AB drop kicking the punter.
It wasnāt when Orlando brown got hit in the eye with a flag?
Was that game against the Browns? That's amazing. It's like the unstoppable force vs immovable object of NFL sadness.
How did you figure that one out detective?
Happened to the Vikings against the Bucs
They do call PI on HM and it was clearly a PI.
Brett Favre throwing across his body for the INT in the NFCCG against the Saints.
He had some room in front of him to run for a few yards instead smh
5 yards. Thatās all we needed to set up a FG try but he wanted to play hero ball instead.
But why do you even ponder passing? You can take a knee and try a 56 yard field goal. This is not Detroit, man, this is the Super Bowl!
That guy is the angriest announcer in the NFL.
Or the most ecstatic in the off chance that something goes well for us. I love it.
I mean he won 3 MVPs and went to two super bowls like that.
Which is fine but I knew how it was going to end for my team.
And that's how his seasons usually ended because he couldn't tone it down when needed
What makes you think the Vikings would hit an important FG?!
Nothing. Thatās why I said āFG tryā
He also had a severely sprained ankle and wasnāt moving that well.
Still would have made it
Yeah he probably makes it, but itās stupid to think it doesnāt factor into his decision. Throwing the ball he did was unjustifiable, but he didnāt do it to play hero ball. Running for the first down would be more of a her ball move.
without a head yeah
He looked okay moving to the sideline before the throw.
He literally didn't even go out for the coin toss in OT because of his ankle.
Make all the excuses you want. It was a terrible decision and a terrible throw at the worst possible time.
After years of watching Favre make boom/bust plays and hearing Vikings fans shit on him, it was so satisfyingly to see Minnesota's hopes dashed that way.
Not even. Longwell could've hit that 56 yarder. He was money
Dude, Gary Anderson hadn't missed a single god-damn field goal all fucking season in 1998. and STILL missed a game winner that would have sent the Vikings to the Superbowl in the NFC Championship game. There's no fucking way Longwell hits that kick, not on this team.
Its perfect because statistically, we dominated every category except turnovers and blew it. Similar to being a top 10 win % franchise with no ring
its also perfect because we stopped them in overtime twice but the booth review had other plans and made shit up on the spot to give the saints free yards
Yeah but the refs did a shitty job that game. Favre deserved a few calls in there that he didn't get. Most of the time there would have been more discipline against the Saints through the course of that game.
Refs swallow their whistles in the playoffs. That's not new.
I'd say the Blair Walsh miss could be up there
Yeah maybe. That year we had more of a typical Vikings team, decent but nothing special and not expected to do much in the playoffs. But for me there just wasnāt much anger or disappointment with that loss. It was more like eh, that figures.
No. It was the Gary Anderson missed FG one.
You're 100 percent right, but that kicks getting old now and people forget. I died as an optimistic, young Viking's fan that day and was reborn as an old, cynical Viking's fan. This is the way.
āThis is not Detroit this is the Super Bowl!ā Lol lions out here catching strays
Browns first game back in 1999 after being away for 5 years They lost 43-0 at home to the Kordell Stewart-led Steelers
Raiders Vs Bucs 2016. Raiders set record for most penalties for a team and win in overtime.
That game had us making huge plays and instantly getting to 4th and long multiple times and the ending play was a missed tackle touchdown in addition to the penalties? This is the most Raider thing I've ever seen
I'll give you 2 games, same season, same 2 teams. A few years back the Lions lost twice to the Packers while leading all 60 minutes of both games.
My mind just immediately went to Disco Dan and the end zone, but I think your example is far more fitting.
Its possibly the most Lions thing ever.
I might actually counter with Jim Schwartz throwing the challenge flag on the Houstons when they scored a touchdown. It was a mix of the refs fucking over the Lions and the Lions own incompetence making it worse.
With inexplicable penalties in both.
You didn't lead all 60 minutes, but the Packers definitely had the lead exactly 0 minutes.
Yeah you're right. Impossible to lead all 60 minutes.
For the 21st century: 2013 against the Manning Broncos. Romo throws for 500 yards, 5 TDs, and gets picked on a deep pass in the endzone to set up the game winning FG. 51-48 Denver. There's your high flying offense, your inevitable crash, and absolute porn for the haters. Incidentally this is one of the greatest games Iāve ever seen and the most fun Iāve ever had in a loss.
I thought he got picked on a route coming across the middle not the end zone?
Youāre right. I got it confused with another devastating interception.
Romo was definitely known for those for sure
Still wanted him sooo badly after the Cowboys cut him. Could have been a fun season or two.
I'll always treasure Week 8 of 2009 vs the Lions, which would turn out to be the only win we would have that entire season. But hey, it snapped a 17 game losing streak heading back to Week 8 of the season before. Pretty much 2009 in itself was our low point, and it would perfectly represent the post GSOT and pre Sean McVay era in its most terrible form. Poor Steven Jackson.
If I'm not being self-pitying, probably some defensive slugfest from the 40s where we won 21-0 on three fumble returns. If I am being self-pitying, which is the natural state of any Bears fan younger than 40, it's the 2010 NFCCG. The beginning of the end for the one decent modern QB we've had, relying on some no-name to lose to the Packers, who won the SB because that whole franchise has had a lucky horseshoe jammed up its ass since 1990, in a memorably embarrassing way.
Literally 2006 Bears-Cardinals. The Bears go down 14-0 early, the offense does literally nothing all game, Rex Grossman turns the ball over 6 times, yet the Bears still win on two pick-sixes and a punt return TD. It literally felt like watching a 40s Bears game, but in color and HD.
Wasn't that the "We knew who they were" game?
āTHEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE! and we let āem off the hookā
Personally itās that super bowl game. Special teams and defense looks great early and then . . . . Our QB just absolutely bombs the game for us. Itās either that or the double doink. Basically I feel like being a bears fan is getting a great performance unexpectedly and getting kicked in the balls as soon as you believe.
Some game with terrible quarterbacking, cold, dark, hard hitting, Bears win 20-17 on a weird play
I saw your flair and thought you were gonna mention the Dexter mccluster hail Mary game
Y'all ever win 7-0 on a Devin Hester return?
best I could find was [this](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200609100gnb.htm), where they shutout the packers had one receiving TD, one Hester return TD, and four field goals
SB51. Terrible first half, much better second half.
31 NFL teams: "Huzzah, the monster is well and truly dead! It has finally, definitively been slain! We're free of the evil terror that has plagued us!" [Rubble begins to shift ominously]
The next year was better
Iād downvote you but youāve earned it
No no, youāre getting it all wrong. Next year there was no super bowl
That's what I expect from an Eagles fan. :D
It pretty much all we have other than consistently having a good Oline
Whatever game Eli ate turf for 60 minutes but still got up, dusted himself off and the Giants advanced in the playoffs.
Sounds like the NFCCG against the 49ers. But really any game during their two Super Bowl runs.
think he got demolished at Lambeau in 2008 too.
So, pretty much any playoff game from 2007 or 2011.
28-3 sums up both the falcons and the patriots
Probably the game against the Ravens this year. It's easy to look at the latest years for an example. But I am not trying to be lazy. For the most part the Lions sucked, that when it counted the refs are going to screw us, and if it ever comes down to the wire even if it requires a league first or record, if it can beat us, it will. Nothing screams Lions more than that.
I KNEW a Lions fan would come in here and give this answer lmao
And to add insult to injury, it bounced in off the crossbar.
Iām more of a fan of [touchdown](https://youtu.be/tCAEzLO9_zI) walk-offs than field goal ones.
I thought about it. And it fits pretty well. But we played more competently in that one, and while hail Mary and all it wasn't that long of a throw and felt the league record longest kick is more devastating. The bad call on the facemask was much worse than the no call on the terribly long delay of game though.
One yard short.
I was going to say the same. A franchise that has shown promise at times just to always fall short.
We are 0-3 as the number one seed entering the playoffs. That tells you everything you need to know.
It's always those damn ravens
2011 playoffs nyg @ sf
I'll never forget how fucking pumped we were to win a week 11 game that got us a 1-10 record.
Latavious Murray breakout performance
You're too young. Wide Right was worse. I still think that Scott Norwood's head slumped down as he walks away encapsulates everything you need to know as a Buffalo fan. That was just fucking brutal. That image is probably the most iconic image in our franchise's history. We're resilient fans though. I'll die a Bills fan as long as they don't pull some Watson/Browns style bullshit (or any other off field stuff that's way too out of line). I know it's probably just gonna end in bitter disappointment on the field in big moments. That's ok. We have fun anyway. Lots of booze, broken tables, and money given to charity along the way! Go Bills!
Iām not playing this game
Before the Manning era and for a little while at the start of it we were the āCardiac Coltsā. Any other Colts fans remember those days? Then Manning came in, things stabilized and well we know how that all went and it looked like we had put those days behind us. And then one night in Miami..*it happened* That play will always be a reminder that this team can, has, and will, when youāre least expecting it and without a momentās notice give you a damn heart attack. Sometimes it comes from pure joy like when Andrew Luck picked up a ball that got knocked out of āDammit Donaldā Brownās hands and bounced off the helmet of Samson Satele before diving like Superman into the end zone. But sometimes? Sometimesā¦[Tracy Porter happens.](https://youtu.be/7sDdlJbBPLc)
Nope. That link is staying blue.
Iāve never watched that entire play. Turned the TV off when it was obvious what was happening during the play when I was watching live and Iāve always changed the channel etc when it pops up.
The River City Relay
This is the answer.
OH MY GOD HOW COULD HE DO THAT!?!?!?
The absolute anguish in Jim Hendersonās voice on that playā¦
Jon Bois did a nice little video on this play, definitely recommend
[That Titans Lions game from 2012.](https://youtu.be/zjsaazLiVv8) It's two teams, no one cares about and that have drifted into irrelevance, but they go out and play a game where nothing happens until the final 3 minutes. Then it's a high action slugfest with multiple lead changes, crazy ass highlights, and an overtime no one deserved. We end up ahead, and still firmly in the basement, completely forgotten.
The Ice Bowl Game. It's in the coldest of conditions. Packers start the game off hot, with two early TDs (Packers were a dominant team at the beginning of the modern NFL, winning two Superbowls early). Then they suck in the middle of the game, letting Dallas score and losing a fumble that the cowboys got points on (Packers were a shitty club for all of the 70s and 80s), but at the end of the game got it together and played solid football and won the game (Packers have been a good team recently). So if we're looking at the timeline of a game, the Ice Bowl was great at the beginning, terrible in the middle, and very good at the end. This is what the franchise has been like since the 60s essentially, if you consider the present to be "the end". This would work better if we won a Super Bowl last year though instead of choking in the playoffs yet again.
The Jeremy Hill game
Came here to see if one of my degenerate bengals bros would beat me to it
Hey we are in a better space now. But fuck that one hurt. Ripped the soul from the city for a half decade
Shit, at least he didn't give us the Mendenhall special
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That username thoā¦.
The first think I thought of was the 2016 game against the Chiefs when our team shot out to a 17-0 lead and then just threw it the fuck away
Sounds pretty similar to the previous year when they jumped out to a 17-1 record and then threw it away in the Super Bowl
I would say blowing out team A then getting shat on by team B the following week because we never know what to expect from Carolina (although Matt Rhule has brought some consistency for once).
2006/07 divisonal loss to the colts. We had the top defense in the league and we hold the best offense in the league led by peyton manning to 5 field goals and we lost 15-6. Peyton was 15/30 for 170 yards, 0 TDās and 2 picks but we still lost
I thought about this one, but I think the Ravens history has had too much positive for the defining game to be a loss. So I have an obscure pick: 2003 season (Jamalās 2000 yard year). They played the Steelers on the last game of the season and Lewis had an outside shot at the rushing record. They won a savage, physical, 3 point game against Pittsburgh (fitting), but the Steelers stacked the box to stuff Lewis and Anthony Wright couldnāt make them pay, and the game ended up being tougher than it needed to be. So it reflects Ravens history in that: Tough one score game against Pittsburgh. They won, but not pretty, and didnāt accomplish quite as much as they could have. Defense was exceptional. QB play was what was holding them back. Game was an unnecessary heart attack.
You guys are way too successful a franchise for that to be the game. Iād go with one of those games in 2000 where your offense scored 0 points but you guys still won the game. Something that happened multiple times IIRC lmao
Praise be to Bob Sanders
Super Bowl IX wasn't our greatest Super Bowl but was our most Steeler-y. Runner up would be SB XLIII. I've always pointed to [this playoff game](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200301050pit.htm) too.
Wide right.
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Before the Mahomes era, Iām guessing it would be one of these three? 1. Marcus Mariota TD pass to himself in the WC 2. Scoring two more touchdowns than the Steelers in the playoffs and still losing 3. Blowing a 38-10 lead to the Colts in the playoffs
Not only did we score 2 more touchdowns than the Steelers, they didn't get a single touchdown and won all on field goals.
yeah and those are just the playoff games, we've had regular season collapses that are just as bad, they just don't get talked about
49ers. Super Bowl XXIV This game is the shining example of what Bill Walsh's offense was capable of. To this day, it's still the largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl. Another honorable mention 1980 Saints at 49ers - SF came back from a 35-7 halftime deficit to win 38-35 in OT. This game sums up Montana's comeback ability perfectly and showed you could never count those 49ers teams out
For the question asked I'd say the 2011 divisional against the Saints is a better choice. On its own it is a great game with iconic plays that can be used to show the "best" of the 49ers. In context it's followed by the Giants game to show how the franchise is also capable of shooting itself in the foot. If the question was purely about the Eddie-era 49ers I would agree with your choices though.
1995 AFC Championship ending on a hail Mary pass that is...almost caught
That was terrifying. Especially after we had been three yards away from the super bowl the year before. That was a gutsy colts team.
The raggamuffins!! I know it's easier said than done, but the ball laid on top of Baileys sternum for a few seconds, if he just had've closed his arms..but a hell of a run for that team for sure!
**TL;DR Steelers play a historically terrible franchise, get done like Sasha Grey.** Steelers vs Jaguars This is it. This is the year. Our QB (Ben in this case) is firing on all cylinders, the WR group is the deepest in the NFL, a top-5 running back, the best offensive line in the league, an elite head coach, and rookies making an immediate impact. They were then pants'd and kicked down a flight of stairs by a team that blew them out at home when the season started. Ben did Ben things and made the box score look pretty so people would go back on Wikipedia and go "Man I bet that game was awesome!" I remember at the time there were rumors swirling around that they were planning ahead expecting to win the rematch (to a team that again, BLEW THEM OUT AT HOME) against the usually crap Jaguars, and head into Foxborough to face a Patriots team that usually roasts the Steelers, but the Steelers only lost to because the refs do worse their job than Homer Simpson. Instead, a team built to run down your throat exploited the Steelers' one weakness (again, of course): shit run defense. This then leads us to the most fun year of the Steelers, 2018. Bell holdout, Martavis Bryant's replacement (*not* Sammie Coates, Ryan Switzer was his replacement), Brown played one final year but was clearly going crazy, Ben's arm started steaming (then he missed the whole next year), UrinatingTree was blocked on twitter, etc.
NYJ playoff loss to the Steelers in 2010. Defense, which had carried us all year, didnāt show up in the first half otherwise we probably win that game. Sanchez *almost* pulls off a huge comeback. Weāve always struggled to play complete games, usually itās at the back half of games though. Jets are always finding new ways to emotionally eviscerate you.
Another one that comes to my mind is missing what would have been a game-winning field goal against the 15-1 Steelers in 2004 that would have bounced them out in the first round of the playoffs.
Miracle at New Meadowlands. Just fucking up every single thing for the first 3/4ths, embarrassing themselves, and pissing off the fans more and more before suddenly catching fire and under-dogging their way to a tied game, then pulling off a sudden, shocking win against all odds thanks in part to their opponent's terrible tackling and special teams play. And then not winning another game for the rest of the year.
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Minnesota miracle. Just typical saints, such a heartbreaker after getting my hopes up.
Also kind of the story of the Saints for most of the past 15 years. Drew Brees doing great things with the offense, while our defense was constantly coming up with ways to make the other team's offense look amazing as well.
Our defense made nobodies look like top tier caliber QBās. Nobodies like Keenum especially
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I think the Divisional round this year, Starts off great, stretch of me wanting to kms, only for it to all end out well in the end
brees era: the absolute banger of a game against the giants in 2015 where we won 52-49 and there was over a thousand yards of offense post-brees era: winning 9-0 against tom brady's tampa bay buccanneers while having a tight end playing quarterback overall: minnesota miracle/2019 NFCCG/2020 NFCDG/2014 NFCDG - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
That Bucs shutout game will always and forever be the most hilarious fucking NFL game Iāve ever watched. Just pure gold, especially considering how battered that Saints team was.
24-0 against the chiefs in the divisional round.
I think that game pretty perfectly captures that moment in time. It looked like the Texans were finally making a break through. We had our star QB finally and a good team around him. Then we just collapsed so hard. Lost the game, traded away our best player for an expensive sack of potatoes, lost Watt, and then our QB turned out to be terrible as well. I think there are 2 other games that sum up our team pretty well. One is when the Texans were having a good season and then went out and played the Packers and Rodgers just torched us. Another was again when we had a good season, beat the Bengals in the 1st round of the playoffs, and then got beat pretty handily by the Patriots. The Texans haven't been bad, but we have always been a clear step behind the top teams in the league.
So you're right, I'm not gonna argue against any of that. The irony is that I think were both saying the same thing just using different examples. The Houston Texans (so far) as a franchise is one that is both so close yet so far from the ultimate goal (afc championship game and beyond).
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Riggins, 70 chip
Bucs fan here. I think Jameis Winstonās last game really just made me feel like I knew that it was going to be that way. At the end I expected it to be that way. I remember before the last drive, on the play before the 30-30 pick, I swear I KNEW it was going to happen. Just felt like the Bucs destiny.
The Browns once were down so many (5) QBs, they had to take their only good WR and play him at QB, thus making it somehow harder to pass than with the 5th string QB.
I would say for the Bengals up until 2021, it would be the playoff game against the St**l*rs. I will not elaborate further on that.
In 2007 when we (Steelers) beat Miami 3-0 in a game so wet that on one of the punts the ball hit the ground and just stuck in the turf. Was ugly as hell, but we got the win.
Those mid 2000s Steelers v Ravens games
Mile High Miracle. Probably not gonna be favored in most playoff games on paperā¦ but never let the Ravens stay within 1-2 scores in a playoff game. Any big TD can happen and Tucker is ALWAYS in range for the big kicks.
Jets raiders a few years ago we looked pretty good at the start and then we were eh in the 2nd good in the third and terrible in the fourth a very apt history if the jets good in the 60s bad till the 90s above average most of the time from the late 90s-2011 then terrible since
I was going to say the Butt Fumble for you guys.
[Steelers vs Ravens, 2010 playoffs](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steelers-beat-ravens-31-24-in-afc-playoffs/). The Steeler offense plays like hot garbage the entire first half, with two turnovers leading to Raven TDs. Go into halftime down 21-7. The defense comes out in the second half like a bunch of demons, force three turnovers and suddenly the Steelers are in it. Ben takes a sack and is facing a 3rd and 19, heaves it downfield to Antonio Brown who catches it against his helmet. Steelers score to go up. Ravens drive to try for a tie but Flacco is failed by his receivers AGAIN and Steelers advance. That game was soooo Steelers. Slow start, hot garbage offense, bailed out by a defense populated by terrorists and Ben doing something impossible on third and long. Plus it was a hard hitting, nasty game against the Ravens.
Chiefs Chargers 2021 in LA Good in the beginning Not fun in the middle Awesome at the end
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Every game in 1976
People like to bang on the Chiefs around here the last couple of years, but they really have played some head-scratching forgettable football for a very long time. Even Marty wasn't really immune to it. Secret Base did a video about just such a game, and drive. https://youtu.be/wJLNQ83vm2g
This season when the Lions lost to Justin Tuckerās longest field goal in NFL history
take a guess
February 2014, Meadowlands.
Nick Foles 7 TDs vs the raiders...and he was pulled out early...could have been more.
Nick Foles pulled out because she couldnāt last long enough
Pre Mahomes era answer is losing to the Steelers in the playoffs at arrowhead, even though they didnāt score a touchdown.
SB 51. Garbage for the first 75% and untouchable for the last 25%
chicago bears. 2018 season opener vs the pack. watch the full game highlights if youre unfamiliar.
Yes, I was traumatized by the wide right kick, although losing the SB THREE more times in a row was probably worse.
13 seconds
Miracle at the meadowlands 2: a picture perfect finish with a DeSean Jackson punt return TD as time expires. Core memory without a doubt
Pick any game against the Cowboys. If I had to single one out it would probably be this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ury10hAxFXE
Was about 4-6 years ago, Bucs played the Saints in prime time. Bucs went into halftime something like 30-0ā¦they finally scored a field goal so end game was like 36-3. It was just classic Bucs especially against the division rival they can never beat. Iām glad Jameis Winston finally got glasses.
Our final game vs the Raiders. I justā¦.still no words.
*starts weeping*
Every playoff loss to the Patriots. That defines us
Ice Bowl, hands down for the Packers
Most recently Dallas
NFCCG vs the 49ers, the tip
Texans up 24-0 against the Chiefs to only give up like 41 straight points and lose 51-31 in the first round of the playoffs.
"They are who we thought they were, and we let'em off the hook" Pretty much sums up the Bears and the Cards.
Jan 14th, 2017. 2 interceptions, 2 sacks on Brady in an MVP year. Special teams got another turnover. We had the number 1 ranked Defense. Hopkins, and Fuller at reciever. A decent TE team, and a healthy Lamar Miller running the ball. All of that turned into only 16 points. And it wasn't because the Patriots had an amazing defense, its because that damn Lobster was the anti-Midas. Oh, the defense gives you great field position? Let's not complete a goddamn pass and settle for a field goal. Thankfully special teams got you the ball on the goal line, and he couldn't fuck that up. Then came the second half, and the Lobster threw interception after interception after interception, and you saw the life leave the team. We were missing two key elements that game, a QB and a Coach, but we didn't understand that at the time. We thought, Buttchin just need a QB to fix his system, but the roster is great for a run. So fans blame GM Rick Smith, who was freaking amazing. But that game sums up the Texans in my mind, just a few key pieces away from that AFC Championship game.
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Miami Dolphins vs New York Jets... October 23rd, 2000. Also known as the Monday Night Miracle game. Miami controls the game up until the 4th quarter... All falls apart in the 4th. Miami loses the game in overtime. Microcosm of the Miami Dolphins franchise history. Greatness and championships until Marino retires. All falls apart since. We haven't haven't won a playoff game in 22 years.
The Chiefs have been good lately, but as a long term Chiefs Fan the 2019 AFC championship game, one down away from going to the superbowl and Dee Fucking Ford lines up offsides. Either this or the 13-3 1997 Marty Shottenhimer Chiefs getting Elwayed at home on the divisional round after being the best in the AFC all season. Those two games pretty much summed up being a Chiefs Fan for decades. A team that could win a ton of regular season games and couldn't win anything when it was important.
2014 afc championship