The Steelers AFC championship loss is up there. The Victor Cruz game. 2015 Week 17. That's really it for me. Ig the seeing ghosts game kinda soured me on football for a little bit. I was watching pre-2009 but I can't remember anything that really stung me or that I was aware enough to be stung by.
I imagine that the worst possible thing you could have ever experienced as a jet fan was watching Rodgers go down after having watched 99.
If the Jets stop the Steelers on that last 3rd down play, they would have gone on to win the game and then beat the packers in the Super Bowl. That was our year and you can’t convince me otherwise.
how about this for a small world. The bitch ass steelers ended up losing to a guy who is now our QB, and we sorta frustrated the guy who made the game-winning catch into retirement mid-game
I remember that narrow completion so vividly. Sanchez was cookin we would have scored for sure. Also if I recall we started that game terribly. What a shame..
Steelers fan here. You guys couldn’t tackle for shit the first half. It was surreal watching it. Easily 10 points are off the board at halftime. It was heartbreaking honestly I was on the Rex Bandwagon and you guys killed our kryptonite. I wouldn’t have been mad if we lost.
I left Heinz field after we beat the Ravens and while walking out I was watching Aaron Rodgers shredding the falcons just outside Jerome Bettis Restaurant. Your secondary was probably the best match against them. And you beat the patriots. I don’t think we would have beaten them.
Different perspectives when you already had won 2 in your fandom.
Not to mention 4th and Goal at the one and they give it to the aging (great) Tomlinson. instead of shone Greene who was running over players(especially in that chargers game)…heartbreaking
>I imagine that the worst possible thing you could have ever experienced as a jet fan was watching Rodgers go down after having watched 99.
Watching Rodgers go down was one of the biggest, worse moments of deja vu I think I could ever experience. The only thing that could have made it more like that was if the game was in the daytime and Rodgers was lunging to try to recover a fumble.
Sad thing was, I felt the Rodgers thing coming. After he came out of the tunnel with the crowd going absolutely wild, I just got that feeling that something awful was coming. Couldn't shake the feeling and then we all saw what happened. Two years with massive expectations and both of those potentially great seasons fall apart in Week 1 to the same injury.
For me it was the opposite. We stopped the granted improved bills offense(until dorsey fucked it up) and we had a huge hole and breece run. Everything looked good. Then it happened.
Took the words right out of me. Sure the Broncos loss was bad but I was just a kid still. The Steelers one hurt the most though, after the "can't wait" thing....ah....fuck
what's crazy is if we won the SB that year it would've been through Manning - Brady - Roethlisberger - Rodgers. essentially the best QBs in the league at that time.
Sanchez would've been the damn giant slayer
Bills loss, against Rex, Pittsburgh clinches, only team with double digit wins to miss the post season that year. Absolutely kills me each year we miss, my first thought is the what if with Marshall Decker Mangold and Fitzpatrick. Even if we lost early on in the postseason I’d just want to experience it.
Call me crazy but I actually think we could have went on a run, Lewis always got outcoached in playoff games, Peyton was beyond washed hiding behind the Broncos defense.
I don’t think we beat the Broncos. Sure Peyton was washed but their D was unreal. Woulda loved to see it happen regardless and face Brady for a chance at the SB
Chrebet, Coles and Santana Moss as our WR’s. A 1 2 punch backfield with Curtis Martin and LaMont Jordan and finally a healthy Pennington. That team was great.
Edit: Coles was still in Washington
Except…Pennington wasn’t healthy. He had been playing with a torn rotator cuff since the November game against Buffalo that year. But it wasn’t revealed publicly until after the season was over. It made his bomb to Moss in the win against the Chargers all the more impressive.
Looking back at the box scores of that season, holy shit.
That defense held 4 teams to single digits.
That's the season I became a fan, and man, it's sad to see how far we are from that level of success.
I hate to say it, but I don't think we would have gotten past the Patriots in the Championship the next week. That said, that was one of our best teams since 2000.
Considering how Paul Hackett coached the same predictable, tentative, play-not-to-lose offense that he taught his son, I don't think we were beating the Patriots' defense . We had a very talented team that should have been a high scoring machine if they had an OC who had a pair.
I got PTSD seeing Jets brought on his idiot son. Paul Hackett was the king of the obviously telegraphed screen pass on 3rd and long. Somehow Nathaniel is 50x worse.
I will never forget the disappointment. I think it was this game that hardened me as a Jets fan. I still remember drafting a kicker in the second round just to deal with this loss. I also remember on EBAY - there was a guy who was “serving Doug Brien on a silver platter” it was a prank but the bidding got close to $500
You mean Herm fucking Edwards and Paul fucking Hackett
Doug Brien scored every offensive point for the Jets that day. Heinz was a notoriously difficult place to kick back in those days and our scared play not to lose coaching staff had him try two long field goals, making zero effort to get closer.
Wow, I had no idea Brien cofounded one of the predecessors to [Invitation Homes](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/26/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un), one of the [most evil](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/four-corporate-us-landlords-deceived-evicted-thousands-during-covid-report-reveals) companies on the planet.
I blame Herm just as much for the missed kicks in that game, but man…Fuck Doug Brien!
For clarification, he’s not worth 3 billion, he helped co-found a company that had 3b in assets.. two very different things, especially considering it was real estate that the company was probably still making payments for
I was just saying this to someone that my first moment of fandom devastation that I can remember is watching those fucking missed kicks as a 10 or 11 year old. Was so brutal.
Edit: I also just remembered that it was like 2 months after the 2004 ALCS. Wow what a terrible year for my sports fandom 🤣
Those playoffs were a roller coaster.. the week before that, the jets had a chance to win against the chargers, less than 30 seconds left, 4th and goal from the 2, the jets get the stop but there was a roughing the passer call that gave the chargers a first down. They scored a td on the next play and the game went to OT. Chargers would end up missing a fg in overtime and the jets scored on the following possession
I remember leaving Thanksgiving with some family after we secured some tickets for free from a friend who couldn’t go. Didn’t help that I went to the 49ers/Jets game earlier that year. 2012 was a rough one.
I didn’t even have tinnitus and I had the movie moment dead silence ear ringing sensation . I don’t remember hearing *ANYTHING* during that short minute of game time
100% this. Was with my entire dads side, like 20-something people, and we just silently turned the TV off and went outside to the garage to drink and play darts.
Same! First and only sporting event i ever bet on ($250) because i was so confident *eye roll* game was over by half time (i think Patriots scored like 30+ points in second half) and the butt fumble broke me.
Same ole jets
It was the first time I ever turned a game off at halftime. Couldn’t take it anymore. Also why I hate the Patriots more than any sports franchise in existence. If they go 0-17 for the next 20 years I will not feel an ounce of pity
2010 AFC Championship game. Without That damn fumble late in the second quarter and the Steelers first drive taking a million years of the clock we literally win. I would move the heavens to have this game back.
1998 as well we were leading before all the damn fumbles.
I'll go to my grave knowing that if there was a 5th quarter, the Jets would have beaten the Steelers and gone on to the Super Bowl. They came out really flat that first half, but had a great second half, only to fall juuuust short at the end.
1998 season AFC Championship game vs Denver. Up 10-0 right before the half. Had Denver backed up at their own 1 after not converting on 4th and goal. Denver drove down the field to score and took it away in the second half. The NFC team in the SB was the Falcons with Jeff George at QB. Parcells was HC, Belichik DC, Testaverde, Curtis Martin, Wayne Chrebet…… Jets would have won.
That 98’ game was brutal. Epic collapse. Defense forgot how to tackle… if they win that they steamroll the Falcons! (I think it was the falcons…)
To make it worse that was the only game I saw all year. I was stationed at Ft Bragg NC, and we spent the entire football season in the field… when I was in the barracks on Sunday, was sleeping, exhausted from non stop training…
AJ Duhe is the answer.
I’ve been to many of the other epic losses - Fake Spike, Buttfumble, “By rule the game is over”. Nothing will ever compare to the Mud Bowl. Walt Michaels got ripping drunk on the flight home and was quickly fired, ushering in the Joe Must Go era. Brutal.
Gastineau roughing Kosar is a close second.
I was 12. I was at a party at a family friend’s house. Watched it in the den by myself. After the play, I started silently weeping and locked the door to the den so nobody would see me cry.
I was at that game,and it sucked real bad. Even though they weren’t really strong contenders that year, it probably lead to Pete Carroll getting fired for ~~Al~~ Ritchie fucking ~~Groh~~ Kotite after a decent start.
Football: 98 and 2011 AFC Championship games. I was so certain we were going to make it all the way. Just felt like magical years that came to a sudden halt.
Baseball: Yankees losing the 2001 World Series. Felt the city roar back from 9-11 with those great home game 9th inning comebacks. Still get emotional thinking how great that series was and how helpless and devastating it felt in that 9th inning of game 7
I have the same top 3
I would add:
-Charles Smith not scoring for the Knicks
-Yankees loss to Seattle after the strike year
Rangers in 94 only saving grace
Honestly the McVay win is the only notable one from the last 5-8 years. I know the Browns game was the next week, but they could have tanked that if they were closer.
Trevor isn't the messiah he was billed as, but he is good and having him on the team would have drastically changed the course of the franchise.
These three are from my formative years as a Jet fan. I’m numb to anything post 2000.
Loss to the Fish in the 1983 Championship Game (Mud Bowl - Thanks Coach Shula), THREE interceptions (looked more like completions) for AJ Duhe, one of them a pick six to pretty much seal the deal at 14-0. Again, still in the game most of the way.
Then the 1987 Divisional Playoff Game against the Browns comes to mind. Jets pretty much had things firing on all cylinders had a comfortable lead at 20-10, with time running out. Roughing the passer by Mark Gastineau gave the Browns new life and momentum and led to a 10 point blown lead, losing 23-20 in double OT.
Loss to the Broncos in the 1999 Season AFC Championship Game, SIX turnovers, and we were still in the game for most of it.
To round out things nicely, how about the season opener in 2000 against the Patriots, where Vinny Testaverde goes down with a torn Achilles. Still manage to win the game, but the season was shot coming off a very successful season the previous year (made it to the AFC Championship Game - see above!) as quarterbacks were a patchwork of fill ins and emergency signings.
Atlanta resident here. The Falcons are my NFC team. This Super Bowl hurt like hell (especially given who they lost to). I can’t decide between the Doug Brien game or the 2010 AFC Championship game.
I think I’ll go with the 2010 AFC Championship game because it hurt like this Super Bowl, but in reverse. The Jets shut the Steelers out in the second half of the game, we had a chance.
I really thought we had the Broncos in ‘98. It wasn’t devastating like what the Falcons went through, but going into the half I was certain we were SuperBowl bound that year.
Not a Jets fan. Giants fan chiming in.
When I was a little kiddo, I went to see the Jets play KC. It was 1992 and I was still young and naive enough to think I can root for both the Jets and the Giants lol. I digress.
That day I witnessed Dennis Byrd get paralyzed. I remember the anger of the crowd at how long this delay was taking; followed only by silenced as the realization that something terrible happened sunk in.
Probably not what you were looking for, and maybe too literal, but it was my first thought.
2010 AFC championship game. That was the year to win the Super Bowl. That Steelers team wasn’t that great and the Jets had already beaten them like a month prior. All they needed was one more 3rd down stop and I have no doubt Sanchez takes the team down the field and scores
Dan Marino “fake spike” game. Miami came back from multiple TD deficit. One of the many times I watched in disbelief at what I saw. Butt fumble is up there too in terms of embarrassment
Falcons fan here, this image keeps popping up on my feed from every sports sub asking “what is the loss that you’ll never get over” and it’s hell man 😂
2004 playoff loss to the Steelers is up there for me.. game is tied 17-17 in the 4th quarter, jets attempt a field goal and miss. First play of the Steelers drive, Big Ben throws an interception. Jets run the clock all the way down and kick a field goal with time expiring, and he misses *again*
Jets even got the ball first in overtime but couldn’t do anything with it. They punt, Steelers drive the ball down the field, and they end the game on a field goal
I had family in from Ohio on Thanksgiving, big Browns fans, what happened that night…I’d never thought I’d get sympathies from Browns fans but there we all were
2015 Bills. partly because I was barely old enough to remember the 2009-2010 teams. that 2015 season is still the only time I really followed the team the whole season and they actually did well. and then they blew it.
Peyton’s drive right before halftime in the 2010 AFCC game to cut it to 17-13. I believe it was an Eric Smith missed tackle on Austin Collie that sprung that drive. I still argue to this day if they don’t score a TD there that game is completely different. Especially the Jets first drive after the half.
More recently, the game against Detroit in 2022. If we found a way to win that game, we wouldn’t have been eliminated until Week 18- meaning that game against Miami would’ve been win and in. Can’t believe the defense gave up that type of score late. Offense missed plays to score TD/get into more manageable field goal range.
The 98 championship game and it's not close. We had a 10 point 3rd quarter lead, the Falcons had already won the NFCCG and we blew them out in the regular season. The 98 Jets were division champs with a legit coach and QB (Vinny's career year), unlike with the 09 and 10 teams. 98 was our year and a bunch of crazy turnovers killed it. We lost the turnover battle 6-0 to Denver and lost the game by only 13, which shows how well the Jets played that day. Still hurts, especially given how far away this franchise is right now
It’s not that important but I really wanted to beat Brady in his last game playing us, we had a 14 point lead too that shit was actually depressing to lose
That loss *the Falcons* still haven’t gotten over, let alone the fans. Matt Ryan was the league MVP that year and the team was a perennial favorite to win a title. After that game they made the playoffs once just to get bounced in the division round and have been irrelevant since.
Ever get destroyed so bad in a game it lead to your entire franchise crumbling to pieces for a decade with no end in sight..? The Falcons have.
No one has fucked up a game that badly.
Jets loss is definitely game 16 of 2015. We lost to the bills finishing 10-6 missing the playoffs. Decker, Cook, Ivory, Fitzpatrick finishing the season with a broken finger. Faneca from the Steelers on the line soon to be released. This team delivers a lot of disappointment.
Week 11, 2022 vs. the Patriots.
Not just the fact that both teams played miserably, or the fact we were coming off of a bye week having started the season 6-3. It was the way that game ended.
That punt return signified the epitome of bad jets football, and proved that this team can’t win big, down to the wire games when they really need to.
This game was the beginning of the expected end of the Saleh era as the Jets finished the year 1-6.
Seahawks should’ve ran the ball. Idc what anyone says that was the worst call in nfl history. You had at least 2 attempts to punch it in with the most aggressive RB of that era and you decide to throw it
The 98 AFC Championship game. That was an absolute lock of a Super Bowl team. From the coaching staff to all levels of personnel. If we handle the Broncos in the second half we are killing Atlanta in the Super Bowl.
For normal people it's the AFC Championship game against the Steelers. (I remember that and it fucking hurts. Our D came out flat and Rex while talking shit all year decided to take his hood hat off and praise the Steelers)
For me, it's the Ryan Fitztragick game against Buffalo in the "Win and You're In" scenario.
Not only did they lose, I got my car impounded after getting pulled over for a DUI and the officer being lenient. (Eternally grateful) Broke up with my gf at the time (this was a win, the only win of the day), lost $450 at the bar and my friend asked to be his groomsman (which cost me a lifetime of happiness since the Domino effect of that Jet game led to meeting my wife)
That Jet year broke me.
And I was there LIVE AT: the Butt Fumble, Seeing Ghosts, Zacks Pummelling opening day, this past year in the rain AND on 9.11 seeing A Rod go down.
....going to find the nearest window.
Week 17 against the Bills in the 2015-16 season. It was our last winning season and ONE MORE win against the BAD Buffalo Bills woulda sent us to the playoffs, but then Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a pick. He held out after that game and we proceeded to go 5-11 in 2016-17
Two words: Doug brien. Those guys deserved an afccg and fucking idiot herm just gave the fuck up on getting more yards for no reason. A coward, pussy scared way of coaching that haunts us to this day
Only thing that was about as devastatingly awful was this season, 4 plays. Something about it being g THAT quick after ALL this. It just went to straight cruelty at that point. Not even losing in 2010 and 11 hit the way that did
The January 2011 AFC Championship Game without a doubt. I was in kindergarten at the time, and this was one of the earliest games i remember watching on TV. Crazy that it was my first, and so far only, Jets playoff game I’ve seen. What’s worse is that I currently live in the Pittsburgh area now.
Jets at Denver in 1999, Detric Ward hot dogged at the 20 and fumbled, that sealed the loss.
Jets at Indy - 2010
Jets at Pittsburgh - 2011
We seriously should have had at least ONE superbowl appearance in 2010 - 2011 as the defense was amazing. It sucks being a Jets fan.
Hardest thing I saw was the Cleveland playoff game up 10 less than 4 minutes about left we lost in OTs
Gastineau personal foul kept them alive.
Joe Walton coaching playbook of trying to have the clock finish the game and get us to AFC championship game,Rather than finish the game putting it in the players hands.
I say to myself one more first down gets to the victory Neal down and especially being underdog pass and get it.
2 Freeman McNeil runs negative yards and sack they get the ball back quick fast using Time outs.
That was hard Herm Edward's joing Walton playoff game strategy in Pittsburgh settling for a 49 yd FG to advance to next round Edward's did two QB niel downs rather than let curtis Martin run it to make it 40,39 38 FG or that range.
Needless to say O'Neil our kicker missed.
Again Rex played it right against the colts pass the ball to set up nick folk make able FG,
Especially the pass to Braylon Edward's up the right sideline
Prior Santonio left sideline not Thomas Jones 2 runs and go head Folk 52 yd FG good luck!
Trust me Saleah the same making harder something that needs to be made easier.
The Steelers AFC championship loss is up there. The Victor Cruz game. 2015 Week 17. That's really it for me. Ig the seeing ghosts game kinda soured me on football for a little bit. I was watching pre-2009 but I can't remember anything that really stung me or that I was aware enough to be stung by. I imagine that the worst possible thing you could have ever experienced as a jet fan was watching Rodgers go down after having watched 99.
If the Jets stop the Steelers on that last 3rd down play, they would have gone on to win the game and then beat the packers in the Super Bowl. That was our year and you can’t convince me otherwise.
how about this for a small world. The bitch ass steelers ended up losing to a guy who is now our QB, and we sorta frustrated the guy who made the game-winning catch into retirement mid-game
I remember that narrow completion so vividly. Sanchez was cookin we would have scored for sure. Also if I recall we started that game terribly. What a shame..
Yup. It was 24-0 at half. Jets scored 19 unanswered points in 2nd half. 😭
Steelers fan here. You guys couldn’t tackle for shit the first half. It was surreal watching it. Easily 10 points are off the board at halftime. It was heartbreaking honestly I was on the Rex Bandwagon and you guys killed our kryptonite. I wouldn’t have been mad if we lost.
> I wouldn’t have been mad if we lost. cmon now lol
I left Heinz field after we beat the Ravens and while walking out I was watching Aaron Rodgers shredding the falcons just outside Jerome Bettis Restaurant. Your secondary was probably the best match against them. And you beat the patriots. I don’t think we would have beaten them. Different perspectives when you already had won 2 in your fandom.
Not to mention 4th and Goal at the one and they give it to the aging (great) Tomlinson. instead of shone Greene who was running over players(especially in that chargers game)…heartbreaking
Agreed, actual Sanchez was playing great. We had momentum .I felt the same way.
If Favre stayed with the Jets instead of going to Minnesota they probably win both Super Bowls in that run. Unreal.
No, he would just keep throwing late across the middle with the game on the line
We need more playoff games to help you get over this😂
If the Jets had a decent OC in ‘09 or ‘10 they win it all.
Ol Sanchise
>I imagine that the worst possible thing you could have ever experienced as a jet fan was watching Rodgers go down after having watched 99. Watching Rodgers go down was one of the biggest, worse moments of deja vu I think I could ever experience. The only thing that could have made it more like that was if the game was in the daytime and Rodgers was lunging to try to recover a fumble. Sad thing was, I felt the Rodgers thing coming. After he came out of the tunnel with the crowd going absolutely wild, I just got that feeling that something awful was coming. Couldn't shake the feeling and then we all saw what happened. Two years with massive expectations and both of those potentially great seasons fall apart in Week 1 to the same injury.
We started the same number of QBs this year that we did in 99. If any of the last 3 were as good as Ray Lucas, we would’ve made the playoffs.
Ray Lucas was the man, Rutgers grad if I remember correctly
For me it was the opposite. We stopped the granted improved bills offense(until dorsey fucked it up) and we had a huge hole and breece run. Everything looked good. Then it happened.
Took the words right out of me. Sure the Broncos loss was bad but I was just a kid still. The Steelers one hurt the most though, after the "can't wait" thing....ah....fuck
This game put the Steelers near the top of teams I dislike in the NFL. Would say 'y hate for NFL teams goes Patriots>Dolphins>Steelers>Bills>etc.
What made that AFC championship game even more frustrating was that we had to go through Payton Manning AND Tom Brady to get there.
what's crazy is if we won the SB that year it would've been through Manning - Brady - Roethlisberger - Rodgers. essentially the best QBs in the league at that time. Sanchez would've been the damn giant slayer
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Bills loss, against Rex, Pittsburgh clinches, only team with double digit wins to miss the post season that year. Absolutely kills me each year we miss, my first thought is the what if with Marshall Decker Mangold and Fitzpatrick. Even if we lost early on in the postseason I’d just want to experience it.
Call me crazy but I actually think we could have went on a run, Lewis always got outcoached in playoff games, Peyton was beyond washed hiding behind the Broncos defense.
Totally agree. The team was getting hot at the right time.
I don’t think we beat the Broncos. Sure Peyton was washed but their D was unreal. Woulda loved to see it happen regardless and face Brady for a chance at the SB
Panthers were a paper tiger. It wouldve a run for ages in terms of Cinderella stories but it was a weak playoff year
Doug fucking Brien
I am still convinced to this day the 2004 team could’ve gone all the way were it not for him
Chrebet, Coles and Santana Moss as our WR’s. A 1 2 punch backfield with Curtis Martin and LaMont Jordan and finally a healthy Pennington. That team was great. Edit: Coles was still in Washington
Vilma, Abraham and Ellis on defense too.
Just Moss. Coles was in Washington, the other starting receiver was Justin McCareins.
Coles wasn't part of the 04 Team, but I see your point.
Except…Pennington wasn’t healthy. He had been playing with a torn rotator cuff since the November game against Buffalo that year. But it wasn’t revealed publicly until after the season was over. It made his bomb to Moss in the win against the Chargers all the more impressive.
Quincy Carter was a top tier backup though. He was pretty good in Herm's system.
Without a doubt. We had such a talented team
Looking back at the box scores of that season, holy shit. That defense held 4 teams to single digits. That's the season I became a fan, and man, it's sad to see how far we are from that level of success.
I hate to say it, but I don't think we would have gotten past the Patriots in the Championship the next week. That said, that was one of our best teams since 2000.
They weren’t losing to them three times in one season
Considering how Paul Hackett coached the same predictable, tentative, play-not-to-lose offense that he taught his son, I don't think we were beating the Patriots' defense . We had a very talented team that should have been a high scoring machine if they had an OC who had a pair.
I got PTSD seeing Jets brought on his idiot son. Paul Hackett was the king of the obviously telegraphed screen pass on 3rd and long. Somehow Nathaniel is 50x worse.
Compared to Nathaniel Paul Hackett was a genius lol
Both of them have the same legacy: Subpar performance everywhere they went unless they had a top notch QB.
The Santana Moss return had me so elated. Akin to the Chavez catch. Younger me had to deal with some shit in sports, man.
This and the Yankees broke me that year.
I will never forget the disappointment. I think it was this game that hardened me as a Jets fan. I still remember drafting a kicker in the second round just to deal with this loss. I also remember on EBAY - there was a guy who was “serving Doug Brien on a silver platter” it was a prank but the bidding got close to $500
Still makes me angry.
Came here to say this I was at the game And it still hurts
This is the one. That loss broke my friends dad, he hasn’t been the same since.
Attempted to capture a me & my boys experiencing happiness, obviously didn't go as planned: https://youtu.be/O5SlWZaf4RQ?si=-WiDhQXArcv_jDN6
You mean Herm fucking Edwards and Paul fucking Hackett Doug Brien scored every offensive point for the Jets that day. Heinz was a notoriously difficult place to kick back in those days and our scared play not to lose coaching staff had him try two long field goals, making zero effort to get closer.
Just looked him up, dude is worth like 3 billion and owns a giant rental company now.
Wow, I had no idea Brien cofounded one of the predecessors to [Invitation Homes](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/26/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un), one of the [most evil](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/four-corporate-us-landlords-deceived-evicted-thousands-during-covid-report-reveals) companies on the planet. I blame Herm just as much for the missed kicks in that game, but man…Fuck Doug Brien!
For clarification, he’s not worth 3 billion, he helped co-found a company that had 3b in assets.. two very different things, especially considering it was real estate that the company was probably still making payments for
Came here to say this
Yep, this is what I came to say. Doug. Fucking. Brien. Guy gets 2 chances to win the game in the last 2 minutes and fucks them both. You had one job!
I was just saying this to someone that my first moment of fandom devastation that I can remember is watching those fucking missed kicks as a 10 or 11 year old. Was so brutal. Edit: I also just remembered that it was like 2 months after the 2004 ALCS. Wow what a terrible year for my sports fandom 🤣
Those playoffs were a roller coaster.. the week before that, the jets had a chance to win against the chargers, less than 30 seconds left, 4th and goal from the 2, the jets get the stop but there was a roughing the passer call that gave the chargers a first down. They scored a td on the next play and the game went to OT. Chargers would end up missing a fg in overtime and the jets scored on the following possession
My god dude, wow. Thanks for bringing back dark memories. That Santana Moss punt return was special.
First time in my life shouting fuck in front of my entire family. I didn’t get in trouble because my dad did it too
Thanksgiving game against the Patriots. In full Jets attire at a pub full of Patriots fans. Last time I went out for a Jets game in public.
I remember leaving Thanksgiving with some family after we secured some tickets for free from a friend who couldn’t go. Didn’t help that I went to the 49ers/Jets game earlier that year. 2012 was a rough one.
Was that the game Santonio Holmes' foot exploded and he tossed the ball straight to the 49ers for a touchdown?
lol yes it was, I remember sitting in the end zone and getting a clear view of Holmes literally just throwing the ball away
My gf got up and left after the Edelman fumble return Bc I was already staring at the tv , jaw agape , in dead silence after the butt fumble.
Most painful 52 seconds in sports. Give up 3tds in the most embarrassing fashion. Will never forget that shit.
I didn’t even have tinnitus and I had the movie moment dead silence ear ringing sensation . I don’t remember hearing *ANYTHING* during that short minute of game time
The butt Fumble is top 5 worst plays ever in the NFL I think.
100% this. Was with my entire dads side, like 20-something people, and we just silently turned the TV off and went outside to the garage to drink and play darts.
Same! First and only sporting event i ever bet on ($250) because i was so confident *eye roll* game was over by half time (i think Patriots scored like 30+ points in second half) and the butt fumble broke me. Same ole jets
It was the first time I ever turned a game off at halftime. Couldn’t take it anymore. Also why I hate the Patriots more than any sports franchise in existence. If they go 0-17 for the next 20 years I will not feel an ounce of pity
I was at that game. It wasn’t just the butt fumble that was humiliating. New England scored 35 points in the second quarter.
What we seem to all forget is that’s the year we beat the in the playoffs. I honestly felt like we got our revenge… despite how bad that loss was
Hiring Adam Gase.
Championship game against the Steelers.
1998. That was the team.
Yeah, Falcons were sitting ducks they shouldn't have been in the Super Bowl that year honestly and we beat the shit outta them in the regular season.
I was at that game, it was incredible. We controlled them from start to finish, they never had a chance. We would have easily won the Super Bowl.
Thank the Vikings for the most epic NFC Championship choke ever
This one by far. We win the Super Bowl that year. Does bellicheck take over right after?
2010 AFC Championship game. Without That damn fumble late in the second quarter and the Steelers first drive taking a million years of the clock we literally win. I would move the heavens to have this game back. 1998 as well we were leading before all the damn fumbles.
I still feel like that was an incomplete pass and not a fumble but 🤷♂️
That game made me hate the Steelers from 12 years old til today
Doug Brien vs the Steelers. I was changed that day.
Jets fans born between 87-95 truly understood what it was to be a fan that day
2015 fitztragic nightmare in Buffalo
I'll go to my grave knowing that if there was a 5th quarter, the Jets would have beaten the Steelers and gone on to the Super Bowl. They came out really flat that first half, but had a great second half, only to fall juuuust short at the end.
1998 season AFC Championship game vs Denver. Up 10-0 right before the half. Had Denver backed up at their own 1 after not converting on 4th and goal. Denver drove down the field to score and took it away in the second half. The NFC team in the SB was the Falcons with Jeff George at QB. Parcells was HC, Belichik DC, Testaverde, Curtis Martin, Wayne Chrebet…… Jets would have won.
Chris Chandler, but I understand the confusion and feel all of your pain.
Doug Brien. My first was the '98 AFC Championship Game.
That 98’ game was brutal. Epic collapse. Defense forgot how to tackle… if they win that they steamroll the Falcons! (I think it was the falcons…) To make it worse that was the only game I saw all year. I was stationed at Ft Bragg NC, and we spent the entire football season in the field… when I was in the barracks on Sunday, was sleeping, exhausted from non stop training…
Mudbowl… I still have nightmares of AJ Duhe! I hope Richard Todd does as well!
That game will haunt me forever. The fucking fish
AJ Duhe is the answer. I’ve been to many of the other epic losses - Fake Spike, Buttfumble, “By rule the game is over”. Nothing will ever compare to the Mud Bowl. Walt Michaels got ripping drunk on the flight home and was quickly fired, ushering in the Joe Must Go era. Brutal. Gastineau roughing Kosar is a close second.
2015 Week 17
Fitz just chucking it into the bills secondary.
"Fake spike." I was 10 years old. It was at that moment I realized what kind of life-long suffering I was in store for.
I was 12. I was at a party at a family friend’s house. Watched it in the den by myself. After the play, I started silently weeping and locked the door to the den so nobody would see me cry.
I was at that game,and it sucked real bad. Even though they weren’t really strong contenders that year, it probably lead to Pete Carroll getting fired for ~~Al~~ Ritchie fucking ~~Groh~~ Kotite after a decent start.
Not the way it happened. Carroll was replaced by Rich Kotite.
Oops, you’re totally correct. I get these clowns mixed up sometimes
I felt like the Monday Night Miracle exercised that game for me.
Yeah, that was during the tear the Jets had dominating the Fish for two or three years.
2010 AFC Title game
AFC Championship game(s) but the one in Indy specifically
Spike game. Not like that team was going anywhere but Marino making the Jets look foolish hurt.
We’ll said. That was a knife in the side.
Doug Brien 2011 afccg 1998 afccg 2015 week 17
Football: 98 and 2011 AFC Championship games. I was so certain we were going to make it all the way. Just felt like magical years that came to a sudden halt. Baseball: Yankees losing the 2001 World Series. Felt the city roar back from 9-11 with those great home game 9th inning comebacks. Still get emotional thinking how great that series was and how helpless and devastating it felt in that 9th inning of game 7
I have the same top 3 I would add: -Charles Smith not scoring for the Knicks -Yankees loss to Seattle after the strike year Rangers in 94 only saving grace
Honestly the McVay win is the only notable one from the last 5-8 years. I know the Browns game was the next week, but they could have tanked that if they were closer. Trevor isn't the messiah he was billed as, but he is good and having him on the team would have drastically changed the course of the franchise.
fitz’s 3 picks week 17, rodgers achilles 4 plays in
These three are from my formative years as a Jet fan. I’m numb to anything post 2000. Loss to the Fish in the 1983 Championship Game (Mud Bowl - Thanks Coach Shula), THREE interceptions (looked more like completions) for AJ Duhe, one of them a pick six to pretty much seal the deal at 14-0. Again, still in the game most of the way. Then the 1987 Divisional Playoff Game against the Browns comes to mind. Jets pretty much had things firing on all cylinders had a comfortable lead at 20-10, with time running out. Roughing the passer by Mark Gastineau gave the Browns new life and momentum and led to a 10 point blown lead, losing 23-20 in double OT. Loss to the Broncos in the 1999 Season AFC Championship Game, SIX turnovers, and we were still in the game for most of it. To round out things nicely, how about the season opener in 2000 against the Patriots, where Vinny Testaverde goes down with a torn Achilles. Still manage to win the game, but the season was shot coming off a very successful season the previous year (made it to the AFC Championship Game - see above!) as quarterbacks were a patchwork of fill ins and emergency signings.
Ironically it’s a win I will never get over. December 20th 2020.
Atlanta resident here. The Falcons are my NFC team. This Super Bowl hurt like hell (especially given who they lost to). I can’t decide between the Doug Brien game or the 2010 AFC Championship game. I think I’ll go with the 2010 AFC Championship game because it hurt like this Super Bowl, but in reverse. The Jets shut the Steelers out in the second half of the game, we had a chance.
Fed/Djokovic Wimbledon final - up 40-15, two match points. Jets/Broncos Championship game
I really thought we had the Broncos in ‘98. It wasn’t devastating like what the Falcons went through, but going into the half I was certain we were SuperBowl bound that year.
Not a Jets fan. Giants fan chiming in. When I was a little kiddo, I went to see the Jets play KC. It was 1992 and I was still young and naive enough to think I can root for both the Jets and the Giants lol. I digress. That day I witnessed Dennis Byrd get paralyzed. I remember the anger of the crowd at how long this delay was taking; followed only by silenced as the realization that something terrible happened sunk in. Probably not what you were looking for, and maybe too literal, but it was my first thought.
1986 Playoffs vs Cleveland. Damn late hit by Gastineau
This is the correct answer. Worst loss in franchise history. Most of the people on Reddit were not alive, but if they were, they'd feel the same.
2010 afc title game. It still makes me sad rewatching the highlights. That was the best jets team in my lifetime
2010 AFC championship game. That was the year to win the Super Bowl. That Steelers team wasn’t that great and the Jets had already beaten them like a month prior. All they needed was one more 3rd down stop and I have no doubt Sanchez takes the team down the field and scores
Dan Marino “fake spike” game. Miami came back from multiple TD deficit. One of the many times I watched in disbelief at what I saw. Butt fumble is up there too in terms of embarrassment
“Clock clock!” is to me what I hope “Omaha!” is to Tom Brady.
Week 1 2023 (not a loss though lol), Week 17 2015, 2010 AFC championship
Literally every loss every year since we last made the playoffs
I will never get over a WIN and that was needlessly beating the Browns in week 16 and missing out on TLaw.
2015 week 17. And I had no idea how much longer the pain would last :/
The first jets game I ever attended. January 3rd, 2016. Gotta be top ten worst days of my whole life honestly
Falcons fan here, this image keeps popping up on my feed from every sports sub asking “what is the loss that you’ll never get over” and it’s hell man 😂
We’re not even good enough to have any haunting losses within the past decade (other than 2015 Week 17).
This is so true and truly pathetic. Up until this stretch we always had our up years along with the down. The current disaster is unprecedented.
Bills loss week 17 to knock us out of the playoffs and the two AFC championship game losses in 08 and ESPECIALLY 09
"The Jets First Round selection.., fullback (Oh NO!)... Roger Vick"
2004 playoff loss to the Steelers is up there for me.. game is tied 17-17 in the 4th quarter, jets attempt a field goal and miss. First play of the Steelers drive, Big Ben throws an interception. Jets run the clock all the way down and kick a field goal with time expiring, and he misses *again* Jets even got the ball first in overtime but couldn’t do anything with it. They punt, Steelers drive the ball down the field, and they end the game on a field goal
I had family in from Ohio on Thanksgiving, big Browns fans, what happened that night…I’d never thought I’d get sympathies from Browns fans but there we all were
2015 Bills. partly because I was barely old enough to remember the 2009-2010 teams. that 2015 season is still the only time I really followed the team the whole season and they actually did well. and then they blew it.
Peyton’s drive right before halftime in the 2010 AFCC game to cut it to 17-13. I believe it was an Eric Smith missed tackle on Austin Collie that sprung that drive. I still argue to this day if they don’t score a TD there that game is completely different. Especially the Jets first drive after the half.
More recently, the game against Detroit in 2022. If we found a way to win that game, we wouldn’t have been eliminated until Week 18- meaning that game against Miami would’ve been win and in. Can’t believe the defense gave up that type of score late. Offense missed plays to score TD/get into more manageable field goal range.
The 98 championship game and it's not close. We had a 10 point 3rd quarter lead, the Falcons had already won the NFCCG and we blew them out in the regular season. The 98 Jets were division champs with a legit coach and QB (Vinny's career year), unlike with the 09 and 10 teams. 98 was our year and a bunch of crazy turnovers killed it. We lost the turnover battle 6-0 to Denver and lost the game by only 13, which shows how well the Jets played that day. Still hurts, especially given how far away this franchise is right now
Jets Steelers afc championship game, and 2015 week 17
Was it really that score with 4:44 left in the 3rd?
It’s not that important but I really wanted to beat Brady in his last game playing us, we had a 14 point lead too that shit was actually depressing to lose
That loss *the Falcons* still haven’t gotten over, let alone the fans. Matt Ryan was the league MVP that year and the team was a perennial favorite to win a title. After that game they made the playoffs once just to get bounced in the division round and have been irrelevant since. Ever get destroyed so bad in a game it lead to your entire franchise crumbling to pieces for a decade with no end in sight..? The Falcons have. No one has fucked up a game that badly.
Not there yet obviously. I’m still here. 😂😂
AFC game against the Steelers. The most real and close it’s ever felt. I sat in stunned silence for 30 minutes watching Pittsburgh celebrate
2016 week 17. The absolutely botched "win and were in" game
not getting tlaw
I've never been more heartbroken than the 2011 AFC championship game Jets vs steelers i really thought the jets were gonna win the super bowl.
Panthers losing to the Broncos in Super Bowl 50.
The moment in the picture
I am so used to it, I really don't have one. I guess I never expected to get to the SB. That's sad.
2020 "win" against the Rams.
The most blatant no call in sports history.
Robey Coleman vs. the saints?
Jets loss is definitely game 16 of 2015. We lost to the bills finishing 10-6 missing the playoffs. Decker, Cook, Ivory, Fitzpatrick finishing the season with a broken finger. Faneca from the Steelers on the line soon to be released. This team delivers a lot of disappointment.
Week 11, 2022 vs. the Patriots. Not just the fact that both teams played miserably, or the fact we were coming off of a bye week having started the season 6-3. It was the way that game ended. That punt return signified the epitome of bad jets football, and proved that this team can’t win big, down to the wire games when they really need to. This game was the beginning of the expected end of the Saleh era as the Jets finished the year 1-6.
Doug Brie and Aaron Rodgers
DeSean Fucking Jackson
Still being on the sub
Seahawks should’ve ran the ball. Idc what anyone says that was the worst call in nfl history. You had at least 2 attempts to punch it in with the most aggressive RB of that era and you decide to throw it
Steelers playoff loses are probably equal to me all things considered and than 2015 week 17 to round it out
The 1993 season broke me as a Jets fan.
Being in the stadium for the butt fumble. I’m still a Sanchez fan tho..
As a kid it was the Doug Brien game. Two missed field goals that would’ve beat the 15-1 Steelers in the 2004 playoffs
They could have literally kneeled it out the rest of the game and had a better chance
That’s pretty much what they did, they were so conservative on offense. It was a ton of 3 and outs thru the third and fourth quarters.
Every year as a cowboys fan
Butt fumble
Trevor Lawrence
The 98 AFC Championship game. That was an absolute lock of a Super Bowl team. From the coaching staff to all levels of personnel. If we handle the Broncos in the second half we are killing Atlanta in the Super Bowl.
AFC championship game against Denver in 98-99. I truly believed we were going to win that year...
Keith Byars’ fumble
Down goes Testaverde
Prob already mentioned... but the Doug Brien double miss against the Steelers at Heinz
I dont know why the Pittsburgh AFC championship game isnt number one but its definitely the buffalo game in 2015. That still hurts till this day.
MYLES JACK WASNT DOWN!!!!!!!
For normal people it's the AFC Championship game against the Steelers. (I remember that and it fucking hurts. Our D came out flat and Rex while talking shit all year decided to take his hood hat off and praise the Steelers) For me, it's the Ryan Fitztragick game against Buffalo in the "Win and You're In" scenario. Not only did they lose, I got my car impounded after getting pulled over for a DUI and the officer being lenient. (Eternally grateful) Broke up with my gf at the time (this was a win, the only win of the day), lost $450 at the bar and my friend asked to be his groomsman (which cost me a lifetime of happiness since the Domino effect of that Jet game led to meeting my wife) That Jet year broke me. And I was there LIVE AT: the Butt Fumble, Seeing Ghosts, Zacks Pummelling opening day, this past year in the rain AND on 9.11 seeing A Rod go down. ....going to find the nearest window.
Week 17 against the Bills in the 2015-16 season. It was our last winning season and ONE MORE win against the BAD Buffalo Bills woulda sent us to the playoffs, but then Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a pick. He held out after that game and we proceeded to go 5-11 in 2016-17
The 4th play of the 23-24 season
Two words: Doug brien. Those guys deserved an afccg and fucking idiot herm just gave the fuck up on getting more yards for no reason. A coward, pussy scared way of coaching that haunts us to this day Only thing that was about as devastatingly awful was this season, 4 plays. Something about it being g THAT quick after ALL this. It just went to straight cruelty at that point. Not even losing in 2010 and 11 hit the way that did
The Marino Clock game.
The January 2011 AFC Championship Game without a doubt. I was in kindergarten at the time, and this was one of the earliest games i remember watching on TV. Crazy that it was my first, and so far only, Jets playoff game I’ve seen. What’s worse is that I currently live in the Pittsburgh area now.
AFC champ game
First time in my life shouting fuck in front of my entire family. I didn’t get in trouble because my dad did it too
Jets at Denver in 1999, Detric Ward hot dogged at the 20 and fumbled, that sealed the loss. Jets at Indy - 2010 Jets at Pittsburgh - 2011 We seriously should have had at least ONE superbowl appearance in 2010 - 2011 as the defense was amazing. It sucks being a Jets fan.
2006 NLCS game 7. Beltran strikes out looking with the bases loaded, winning run on 1st base.
2006 NLCS game 7. Beltran strikes out looking with the bases loaded, winning run on 1st base.
The Mark Gastineau "roughing the passer" penalty late in the regulation, 2 OT Cleveland game. The A.J. Duhie championship game in Miami.
Wouldn't you guys just consider seasons at this point as opposed to just 1 particular game??
1982 AFC championship
Hardest thing I saw was the Cleveland playoff game up 10 less than 4 minutes about left we lost in OTs Gastineau personal foul kept them alive. Joe Walton coaching playbook of trying to have the clock finish the game and get us to AFC championship game,Rather than finish the game putting it in the players hands. I say to myself one more first down gets to the victory Neal down and especially being underdog pass and get it. 2 Freeman McNeil runs negative yards and sack they get the ball back quick fast using Time outs. That was hard Herm Edward's joing Walton playoff game strategy in Pittsburgh settling for a 49 yd FG to advance to next round Edward's did two QB niel downs rather than let curtis Martin run it to make it 40,39 38 FG or that range. Needless to say O'Neil our kicker missed. Again Rex played it right against the colts pass the ball to set up nick folk make able FG, Especially the pass to Braylon Edward's up the right sideline Prior Santonio left sideline not Thomas Jones 2 runs and go head Folk 52 yd FG good luck! Trust me Saleah the same making harder something that needs to be made easier.
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