What's the worst loss you've ever seen your Fav NFL Team endure ?

[Rob]

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The last game at the Vet - NFC Championship loss.

This was a game the Eagles were supposed to win. The Bucs never won in games under 40 degrees, and it was in the teens. The Eagles had an early lead on the first possession, squandered an opportunity to go up 14-0 and basically did not click the rest of the game.

As an Eagles season ticket holder for 20 years, that is w/o a doubt the only loss I still think about from time to time.

That game was painful. But to me the worst loss was the Fog Bowl. The Eagles had such a great team that year and it felt like Mother Nature picked agains the birds.

[karamaxjoe]

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Since we're talkin football here, the worst or saddest game in my memory was the Bears loss to the Redskins in the first round of the playoffs in 1987. The loss was essentially the end of that dominant team although they did manage to get killed again in the playoffs in 1988 to the Niners.

The saddest moment of that game was seeing the greatest football player I ever saw finishing his career alone and in tears on the bench as the clock ran out.

[sox83cubs84]

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I've seen worse losses in terms of game score or playoff eligibility from the Bears, but one that sticks out in my mind is the Bears loss to Green Bay on Hallowe'en in 1994. The weather was absolutely hideous...snow/sleet/rain/cold/wind all at once. The Diva had his way with the Bears (as he usually did inthose days). Beyond the ramifications of the game itself, though, was the northwest Indiana crash of an American Eagle small jet that killed several dozen people, and was blamed on ice buildup on the wings of the plane that caused it to become unable to keep any altitude. That accident caused the FAA to re-evaluate the allowance of the small jets to fly under such terrible conditions and caused many cancellations for American Eagle, United Express, and other commuter jets in the years to follow. That crash and the game, at least to me, are inseperable.

Dave M.
Chicago area

[BoneRubbedBat]

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Oilers vs. Bills - the comeback, need I say more....

+1

This one game let the air out of Houston football for YEARS.

[hrvatwill]

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Ditto all but the last two paragraphs of Genius' post for me.......interestingly, my father STILL talks about the Pirates loss to the Reds in game 5 of the '72 NLCS to this day as the game which most broke his heart, the contest in which the winning run was scored on a wild pitch by Bob Moose.....but for him, Bench's lead off opposite field home run to tie the score in the bottom of the 9th inning was the most devastating moment.......

[gannonknight85]

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as a raider fan I would have to say the worst loss was the "tuck rule" game in the AFC championship in 2001. Heartbreaking....simply heartbreaking

[tjm5711]

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The day the bank took the note from Dan Snyder's daddy saying it was OK for Little Danny to purchase the Redskins. The team has yet to recover.

That's hilarious, but unfortunately for you Redskin fans very true. Snyder is like a young AL Davis. Except AL Davis was actually a great football mind and AFL pioneer in his youth. Snyder is a harmful meddler, always tinkering with things he shouldn't. Then we he realizes he's F---ed everything he up, he goes out and signs the highest priced free agent on the market. I hope for you Redskins fans' sake he leaves Mike Shannahan alone !

[tjm5711]

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Oilers vs. Bills - the comeback, need I say more....

That has to be #1 all time. You're talking about the when Frank Reich(QB) brought the Bills back from the 35-7 halftime deficit ?

[DrJ]

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Oilers vs. Bills - the comeback, need I say more....

[bigtime59]

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The day the bank took the note from Dan Snyder's daddy saying it was OK for Little Danny to purchase the Redskins. The team has yet to recover.

[b.heagy]

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1) 1994 AFC Championship Game against Chargers where they lost 17-13....3 more yards game.

I was there. Man was I pissed off after that one. That may have been the longest 4+ hour drive home a kid could ever endure.

[genius]

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Honorable mentions:
1) Steelers (1989) playoffs, worst team to ever make the playoffs (and thus one of my favorite Steeler teams of yore), lose 24-23 to Denver in the divisional round playoff after dominating much of the game ("Hoge is killing us!!!"). Consolation is knowing that had we won, we would have played the AFC Championship in Cleveland and probably lost, that would have been much tougher to take.
2) Steelers (2001) AFC Championship, we lose by 1 TD and give up a punt return for a TD and a blocked FG for a TD, worst part about it is an ultimate "hidden play", Troy Edwards flagged for running out of bounds on punt coverage nullifying a 75-yard punt from Josh Miller out of his own endzone with the score 0-0, the re-kick is a low short clunker right down the middle returned for TD.

I don't mind the 2004 loss to the Patriots as much, they were a superior team. We were the better team in Super Bowl XXX but we didn't realize it until the 4th quarter, though very tough to take I was proud of our guys that day.

The winner is the 1994 AFC Championship by far, the Alfred Pupunu game.

Though Pittsburgh fans have had much to cheer about over the years there have been many heartbreaks along the way, top 3 "other sports" devastating losses are Pitt Elite 8 last year to Villanova, Penguins 1993 game 7 to the Islanders (the Billy Volek game), and the #1 devastating loss of all-time in any sport, the 1992 NLCS game 7 franchise-killing Francisco Cabrera game.

A personal heartbreaking loss was Tom Watson not making 4 at Turnberry on the 72nd hole, as a big golf and Watson fan that would have been the greatest victory of all time and one of those records that would stand forever (oldest major championship winner).

I think the Patriots losing the undefeated season to the Giants in the Super Bowl has to be the #1 devastating loss all-time in the NFL, even though nobody asked me.

[10thMan]

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Tom, How quickly I forget! The 49`ers Superbowl Blowout was sad.

The Party at San Diego Stadium Before the Superbowl was amazing. People running into the Stadium with their Dogs, Carrying Cases of Beer inside, pretty much a Free for All!!! Then Mayor Susan Golding promised the City they would have the Biggest Party they ever seen if the Chargers made the "Big Game"

The Chargers are still in it!

Sean

[JasonBanz]

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I remember that 62-7 loss, being that I had just moved down here to Florida. I kind of felt for Marino going out like that. He was a great QB all those years without any great running backs behind him. That was Jimmy Johnson's last game too I think.

That was Jimmy's last game too, but I really don't pay much attention to that, the only thing he seemed to do while in Miami is drive Marino into retirement!

[russyurk]

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Being a Detroit Lions fan every loss is expected!!!!!!

Ditto that....just pick any Sunday!