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Your team's 3 worst "gut punch" losses (in your mind.) (1 Viewer)

Nice to see that in their relatively young history, the Ravens have handed out at least as many guy punches as they've taken. Here are the 3 worst losses I can think of:

1. 2006 AFC Divisional game loss to Colts

Ravens were 13-3, had a bye, and were primed to end all the Colts nostalgia in Baltimore once and for all by whipping them on the way to the Super Bowl. The defense played out of its mind, holding Manning to 5 FGs and 15 points, but the offense turned the ball over 4 times and could score only 2 FGs of its own in a 15-6 loss. The Colts went on to win the Super Bowl.

2. tie, 2008 AFC Championship loss to Steelers, 2010 AFC Divisional loss to Steelers

The 2010 loss probably hurt more, even though the stakes were lower, because the Ravens blew a 21-7 halftime lead, and let the Steelers convert a 3rd-and-19 to keep the game-winning drive going. The 2008 loss was tough because it cost the Ravens a trip to the Super Bowl, but they were pretty big underdogs in Flacco’s rookie year. Still, they had the ball and a chance to drive the field for the win at the end of the game, until Polamalu sealed Pittsburgh’s win with an INT and incredible return for a touchdown.

3. 2003 Wild Card loss to Titans

After a few years of getting slapped down by the Ravens, the Titans were the more physical team in this 20-17 playoff win at Baltimore. Orlando Brown committed a 15-yard personal foul that gave the Titans just enough field position to set up Gary Anderson for a game-winning 46-yard FG that slid over the crossbar with less than a foot to spare. It was no fun to be the bully who got bullied, and the play of QB Anthony Wright made it clear the Ravens were very far from having a playoff-caliber offense.
If there were one single game that made me want to run Billick out of town on a rail, it was your #1. In the 2nd quarter, they finally got Jamal Lewis rolling and he was just gashing the Colts. So what does the Offensive Guru do coming out of the half? Throws the ball all over the field and the Ravens got nothing going until....... Was that game also the one where Heap got called for that bull #### OPI in the end zone?

I'm surprised you left this one out, T_M:

AFCCG in NE a couple of years ago. The Lee Evans/Billy Cundiff game. That, the '06 game, and the '10 loss to the Steelers are the top 3 for me.
:bag:

I must have blocked that one out. Obviously so much worse than the loss to the Titans, actually probably the worst loss of all of them.
Yeah, I think you're right. The Titans loss was actually karmic justice against the Ravens. As someone posted upthread, Del Greco had uncharacteristic misses (some returned for TDs) and there were other really odd plays in those games - a screen bouncing off of Jamal Lewis' hands right to Sharpe who goes for a TD. Ray piledriving McNair into the ground with no flag.

I'm convinced Baltimore would've beaten the Giants had they gotten past the Pats.

 
Obviously, considering the stakes, it's hard for the Broncos to top 2012 vs. the Ravens, 1996 vs. the Jaguars, and 1987 vs. the Redskins. If we're ignoring the stakes and just looking at the games, here's my top 3:

#3- Dec. 28, 2008 vs. the Chargers

#2- October 5th, 2003 vs. the Chiefs

#1- January 12th, 2013 vs. the Ravens
This saddens me. If I had to make a list of the three best Bills wins, the 10-7 victory over the Broncos would probably clock in at #2. (#1 comeback over Oilers, #3 51-3 beatdown of the Raiders). For the Broncos fans, the 1991 AFC Championship game doesn't even get an honorable mention.

 
Obviously, considering the stakes, it's hard for the Broncos to top 2012 vs. the Ravens, 1996 vs. the Jaguars, and 1987 vs. the Redskins. If we're ignoring the stakes and just looking at the games, here's my top 3:

#3- Dec. 28, 2008 vs. the Chargers

#2- October 5th, 2003 vs. the Chiefs

#1- January 12th, 2013 vs. the Ravens
This saddens me. If I had to make a list of the three best Bills wins, the 10-7 victory over the Broncos would probably clock in at #2. (#1 comeback over Oilers, #3 51-3 beatdown of the Raiders). For the Broncos fans, the 1991 AFC Championship game doesn't even get an honorable mention.
Ignoring the stakes, the game wasn't much of a gut punch at all. Accounting for the stakes, it's in the top 10, but not top 3. Even if Denver had beaten Buffalo, they weren't beating Washington that year. And they'd already made (and lost) three SBs in recent history. In 1996 and 2012, I was certain Denver was going to win the superbowl. I was sure of it. Instead, they lost at home to a double-digit underdog. In 1987, Denver actually jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the Super Bowl before falling apart. I think pretty much every Broncos fan will agree that those three games were much harder to stomach.

 
Obviously, considering the stakes, it's hard for the Broncos to top 2012 vs. the Ravens, 1996 vs. the Jaguars, and 1987 vs. the Redskins. If we're ignoring the stakes and just looking at the games, here's my top 3:

#3- Dec. 28, 2008 vs. the Chargers

#2- October 5th, 2003 vs. the Chiefs

#1- January 12th, 2013 vs. the Ravens
This saddens me. If I had to make a list of the three best Bills wins, the 10-7 victory over the Broncos would probably clock in at #2. (#1 comeback over Oilers, #3 51-3 beatdown of the Raiders). For the Broncos fans, the 1991 AFC Championship game doesn't even get an honorable mention.
Ignoring the stakes, the game wasn't much of a gut punch at all. Accounting for the stakes, it's in the top 10, but not top 3. Even if Denver had beaten Buffalo, they weren't beating Washington that year. And they'd already made (and lost) three SBs in recent history. In 1996 and 2012, I was certain Denver was going to win the superbowl. I was sure of it. Instead, they lost at home to a double-digit underdog. In 1987, Denver actually jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the Super Bowl before falling apart. I think pretty much every Broncos fan will agree that those three games were much harder to stomach.
David Treadwell went 0-3 on FG's, with two of them bouncing off the uprights. Buffalo's only TD was on a Defensive INT by the NT(?). Denver recovered an onside only to have a fumble cost em the game.

Man, the three best wins don't begin to make up for wide right, let alone three gut punch games.

 
Oh God...really!?!

Wide Right

Music City Miracle

Willie Parker

*edit: You have to squeeze the other 3 Super Bowls in there too, but I'm not sure where. I'd probably have to put all of them ahead of Willie Parker, maybe XXVIII ahead of Music City.
Buffalo fans have the worst losses in sports history...period.

1. "Wide Right" - I'm lumping all 4 SB losses into one but the Giants loss was the worst

2. "No Goal '99" - Football or not, the Sabres losing the Cup on an OT goal that was CLEARLY against the rules is total BS.

3. "Music City Miracle" - You can call it whatever the hell you want but that was a forward lateral

For good measure, I'm going to throw in a 4th "loss" here because it deserves to be here. The city of Buffalo losing the Buffalo Braves the same way Cleveland lost the Browns--greedy POS owner. Thank god they moved to LA because every sport should have multiple teams in the same freaking city!

God clearly hates Buffalo sports.
If you feel it wasn't a lateral then the Music City Miracle makes it even for the comeback Frank Reich had against the Oilers. Talley got away with a blatant pass interference, that as I recall resulted in an interception.

 
December 18, 1976—Referee Ben Dreith robs the New England Patriots on phantom roughing the passer call against Ray Hamilton, handing the Oakland Raiders a 24-21 victory in the playoffs over the New England Patriots.

The Raiders went on to win the SB and I feel the Pats would have won that year. I also think the 'tuck rule' was just retribution for this game.

It was a long wait.

18-1 was pretty bad too, but their previous success took a lot of the sting out for me.

 
No real stakes, but the Eagles lost to Bucs about 4 years ago where they took the lead with like 15 seconds left and kicked off to the Bucs who got the ball around their 20, ran 1 play to get to the Eagles' 45 and then Matt Bryant made a 62-yard FG as time expired.

That was definitely a gut punch. If I remember right, the Eagles were clearly the better team but let the Bucs hang around all day (maybe having a lead in the 4th), but the Eagles had a really good drive to take the lead and looked like they had it fully in hand.

 
By the way, the exact opposite of the "gut punch" loss for me was a 24-6 loss to the Texans in 2002. You'd think losing by 18 points, the game was pretty one-sided. It was. The Steelers outgained the Texans in the ball game 422-47. No, that's not a typo. The Steelers had over 400 yards of offense and held Houston to under 50 and lost by 18. Houston amassed 3 first downs the entire game (to 24 for the Steelers) and David Carr went 3-10 for 33 yards on the afternoon. Houston did not cross midfield on offense until midway through the 4th quarter. And won comfortably.
Another great game that would qualify as one of the biggest gut punches if there was actually anything at stake has to be that New Orleans game where they were down by 7, scored a touchdown as time expired on a crazy play with a half dozen laterals, then saw Carney come out and honk the extra point.

Also, how about Tampa's MNF game against the Colts where they blew a 21 point lead with four minutes to play, went to overtime, saw Vanderjagt miss the game-winning kick (in the middle of his "perfect season"), but had Simeon Rice called for "leaping" (speaking of penalties I've never seen called before or since) and gave Vanderjagt a second chance, which he just baaaaaaaaaarely made.
The Saints have had so many gut wrenching losses, but they have all been minor games compared to what many other fans mention here about their teams.

Things like being 8-7 and missing the playoffs on a last second Mike Lansfrod FG for the Rams, or Flipper Anderson setting an NFL record for receiving yards in a game the Saints had all sewn up, Cliff Branch and the Raiders tearing up the Saints in the Dome on MNF coming back from a 28-14 & 35-21 deficit in the 2nd half, the River City Relay in which the Saints were hoping for a playoff spot but it wouldn't have mattered anyway in the end (but that Carney kick still makes me sick, it's true). Before 2006, there were probably a hundred gut wrenchers for the Saints and their fans.

But probably the worst was their first playoff game in 1987 when they were 12-3, looked like the best team in football after a 9 game win streak to close the year, came out fired up, scored a TD off the bat... and then lost 44-10 to the Vikes in the Dome. The Vikings would kill the Saints again in 2000 after gaining their first ever playoff victory, which made the NFCC victory in 2009 all the sweeter.
Is it true that prior to 2009 the Vikings were among, if not the, most hated team by Saints fans for the reasons you just mentioned?

 
By the way, the exact opposite of the "gut punch" loss for me was a 24-6 loss to the Texans in 2002. You'd think losing by 18 points, the game was pretty one-sided. It was. The Steelers outgained the Texans in the ball game 422-47. No, that's not a typo. The Steelers had over 400 yards of offense and held Houston to under 50 and lost by 18. Houston amassed 3 first downs the entire game (to 24 for the Steelers) and David Carr went 3-10 for 33 yards on the afternoon. Houston did not cross midfield on offense until midway through the 4th quarter. And won comfortably.
Another great game that would qualify as one of the biggest gut punches if there was actually anything at stake has to be that New Orleans game where they were down by 7, scored a touchdown as time expired on a crazy play with a half dozen laterals, then saw Carney come out and honk the extra point.

Also, how about Tampa's MNF game against the Colts where they blew a 21 point lead with four minutes to play, went to overtime, saw Vanderjagt miss the game-winning kick (in the middle of his "perfect season"), but had Simeon Rice called for "leaping" (speaking of penalties I've never seen called before or since) and gave Vanderjagt a second chance, which he just baaaaaaaaaarely made.
The Saints have had so many gut wrenching losses, but they have all been minor games compared to what many other fans mention here about their teams.

Things like being 8-7 and missing the playoffs on a last second Mike Lansfrod FG for the Rams, or Flipper Anderson setting an NFL record for receiving yards in a game the Saints had all sewn up, Cliff Branch and the Raiders tearing up the Saints in the Dome on MNF coming back from a 28-14 & 35-21 deficit in the 2nd half, the River City Relay in which the Saints were hoping for a playoff spot but it wouldn't have mattered anyway in the end (but that Carney kick still makes me sick, it's true). Before 2006, there were probably a hundred gut wrenchers for the Saints and their fans.

But probably the worst was their first playoff game in 1987 when they were 12-3, looked like the best team in football after a 9 game win streak to close the year, came out fired up, scored a TD off the bat... and then lost 44-10 to the Vikes in the Dome. The Vikings would kill the Saints again in 2000 after gaining their first ever playoff victory, which made the NFCC victory in 2009 all the sweeter.
Is it true that prior to 2009 the Vikings were among, if not the, most hated team by Saints fans for the reasons you just mentioned?
You mean the 87 and 00 playoff destructions at the hands of the Vikes?

I don't know about hated. The Falcons are hated. The Vikes destroyed the Saints so many times so badly it was (is) hard to hate them, it was more like a sense of doom playing them. Not just the playoffs, the Vikes had won something like 2/3's of the games by an average of 10+ points over the course of almost 20 Vike wins. Beating the Vikes was like overcoming some bad luck curse.

 
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I agree with 2 of EG's original three, but like someone else posted, that 2001 AFCCG game loss to the Pats still chafes my ### to this day. ###### Troy Brown. :rant: I'd replace the TEBOWTF with this one. A combination of recent success + low playoff expectations that year due to injuries makes the Tebow nutkick a lot easier.

Also, at the risk kicking Buffalo fans while they're down, what did Willie Parker do to the Bills? I don't remember.

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
I agree with 2 of EG's original three, but like someone else posted, that 2001 AFCCG game loss to the Pats still chafes my ### to this day. ###### Troy Brown. :rant: I'd replace the TEBOWTF with this one. A combination of recent success + low playoff expectations that year due to injuries makes the Tebow nutkick a lot easier.

Also, at the risk kicking Buffalo fans while they're down, what did Willie Parker do to the Bills? I don't remember.
The '01 AFCC loss to the Pats was more annoying than the Denver game, but the Denver game was a classic "gut punch" game in that the whole thing shifted and ended on one play. Steelers had all the momentum, I was SURE they were going to prevail, the new OT rules in effect meant the Broncos couldn't win on a FG even if they managed to get into Steelers territory.....and then in roughly 10 seconds, the season was just over.

 
Rosencopter is probably #1 for me with the Texans. Would have to give it some thought after that.
Yeah, Texans don't have a lot of history yet. Rosencopter was just an amazing meltdown.

Another option in the hall of shame would be "The Swat." 2010 Jags game. Going into final seconds and what should be OT, Garrard heaves up a 50 yard Hail Mary that Glover Quin swats down directly into the hands of Mike Thomas.
Last year's NE regular season "you guys are Super bowl pretenders" whipping was my third choice after these two.

 
Rosencopter is probably #1 for me with the Texans. Would have to give it some thought after that.
Yeah, Texans don't have a lot of history yet. Rosencopter was just an amazing meltdown.Another option in the hall of shame would be "The Swat." 2010 Jags game. Going into final seconds and what should be OT, Garrard heaves up a 50 yard Hail Mary that Glover Quin swats down directly into the hands of Mike Thomas.
Last year's NE regular season "you guys are Super bowl pretenders" whipping was my third choice after these two.
I thought about mentioning the Titans/Vince Young loss but that one didn't sting so much as the years passed and Vince started showing his true ineptitude.

The Green Bay game was the eye opener for me last year, I fully expected the Pats to beat us once Green Bay showed the way.

3rd for me is a toss up between the 2010 loss to the Cowboys when there were so many rowdy Cowboy fans that the Texans banned Tailgating from that point on or the '04 SNF loss to the Packers in the 4th Qtr. That was our first ever Prime Time game and we went up 13-3 in the first half only to have Farve squeek out a TD and 2 FG's to win it.

Now if we are including Oilers games...

 
Super Bowl XLI

The Tebow game (would have won had Marion Barber just stayed in bounds)

Any loss to the Packers

 
when the pack lost in 72 to the redskins after they stole lombardi in the late 60s and he then he died in 70 and this was with dan devine from notre dame back before they let players date other dudes who are pretend dead chicks on tweeter as the coach but then he quit a year later and it was the last time the pack did anything until the 80s and then all they did was win one game in that ridiculous tourament in 82 when four of the five central teams got in the number two would be the super bowl to denver and the number three would be a tie between 4 and 26 and the san fran playoff game where the refs did not want to call anything bad on jerry rice and gave the game to the 49ers when the ball should have been the pakcers and then that crap call in the seahwaks game which may be the worst call in the history of people making calls for anything even long distance take that to the bank brohans

 
By the way, the exact opposite of the "gut punch" loss for me was a 24-6 loss to the Texans in 2002. You'd think losing by 18 points, the game was pretty one-sided. It was. The Steelers outgained the Texans in the ball game 422-47. No, that's not a typo. The Steelers had over 400 yards of offense and held Houston to under 50 and lost by 18. Houston amassed 3 first downs the entire game (to 24 for the Steelers) and David Carr went 3-10 for 33 yards on the afternoon. Houston did not cross midfield on offense until midway through the 4th quarter. And won comfortably.
Another great game that would qualify as one of the biggest gut punches if there was actually anything at stake has to be that New Orleans game where they were down by 7, scored a touchdown as time expired on a crazy play with a half dozen laterals, then saw Carney come out and honk the extra point.

Also, how about Tampa's MNF game against the Colts where they blew a 21 point lead with four minutes to play, went to overtime, saw Vanderjagt miss the game-winning kick (in the middle of his "perfect season"), but had Simeon Rice called for "leaping" (speaking of penalties I've never seen called before or since) and gave Vanderjagt a second chance, which he just baaaaaaaaaarely made.
The Saints have had so many gut wrenching losses, but they have all been minor games compared to what many other fans mention here about their teams.

Things like being 8-7 and missing the playoffs on a last second Mike Lansfrod FG for the Rams, or Flipper Anderson setting an NFL record for receiving yards in a game the Saints had all sewn up, Cliff Branch and the Raiders tearing up the Saints in the Dome on MNF coming back from a 28-14 & 35-21 deficit in the 2nd half, the River City Relay in which the Saints were hoping for a playoff spot but it wouldn't have mattered anyway in the end (but that Carney kick still makes me sick, it's true). Before 2006, there were probably a hundred gut wrenchers for the Saints and their fans.

But probably the worst was their first playoff game in 1987 when they were 12-3, looked like the best team in football after a 9 game win streak to close the year, came out fired up, scored a TD off the bat... and then lost 44-10 to the Vikes in the Dome. The Vikings would kill the Saints again in 2000 after gaining their first ever playoff victory, which made the NFCC victory in 2009 all the sweeter.
Is it true that prior to 2009 the Vikings were among, if not the, most hated team by Saints fans for the reasons you just mentioned?
You mean the 87 and 00 playoff destructions at the hands of the Vikes?

I don't know about hated. The Falcons are hated. The Vikes destroyed the Saints so many times so badly it was (is) hard to hate them, it was more like a sense of doom playing them. Not just the playoffs, the Vikes had won something like 2/3's of the games by an average of 10+ points over the course of almost 20 Vike wins. Beating the Vikes was like overcoming some bad luck curse.
Yup. I used to be able to say the Vikings always beat the Saints. That was before Favre. Cannot say that anymore.

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
I agree with 2 of EG's original three, but like someone else posted, that 2001 AFCCG game loss to the Pats still chafes my ### to this day. ###### Troy Brown. :rant: I'd replace the TEBOWTF with this one. A combination of recent success + low playoff expectations that year due to injuries makes the Tebow nutkick a lot easier.

Also, at the risk kicking Buffalo fans while they're down, what did Willie Parker do to the Bills? I don't remember.
2004 Pittsburg vs Buffalo, last game of the season. Buffalo needs to win for first playoff spot in years. Game means nothing to the Steelers so they have backups in and even 3rd string rookie RB Willie Parker gets the nod. Parker gashes the Bills for 100+, Bills lose. He was a nobody at that point. Sitting on the bench behind Duce and the Bus. Comes in and just walks all over the Bills. They still haven't been to the playoff since 1999 and the Music City Forward Pass.

 
2004 Pittsburg vs Buffalo, last game of the season. Buffalo needs to win for first playoff spot in years. Game means nothing to the Steelers so they have backups in and even 3rd string rookie RB Willie Parker gets the nod. Parker gashes the Bills for 100+, Bills lose. He was a nobody at that point. Sitting on the bench behind Duce and the Bus. Comes in and just walks all over the Bills. They still haven't been to the playoff since 1999 and the Music City Forward Pass.
:lol: Okay, I get that Bills fans are probably still gutted by that game, but let's be serious...that was not a forward pass. Hell, I was rooting for the Bills in that game, and the second I saw the replay, I was like, "Oh ####, that was not a forward pass." And the many replays I have seen since have made it more than obvious that it was not a forward pass.

 
2004 Pittsburg vs Buffalo, last game of the season. Buffalo needs to win for first playoff spot in years. Game means nothing to the Steelers so they have backups in and even 3rd string rookie RB Willie Parker gets the nod. Parker gashes the Bills for 100+, Bills lose. He was a nobody at that point. Sitting on the bench behind Duce and the Bus. Comes in and just walks all over the Bills. They still haven't been to the playoff since 1999 and the Music City Forward Pass.
:lol: Okay, I get that Bills fans are probably still gutted by that game, but let's be serious...that was not a forward pass. Hell, I was rooting for the Bills in that game, and the second I saw the replay, I was like, "Oh ####, that was not a forward pass." And the many replays I have seen since have made it more than obvious that it was not a forward pass.
I disagree, all angles show it was indeed an illegal forward pass.

 
2004 Pittsburg vs Buffalo, last game of the season. Buffalo needs to win for first playoff spot in years. Game means nothing to the Steelers so they have backups in and even 3rd string rookie RB Willie Parker gets the nod. Parker gashes the Bills for 100+, Bills lose. He was a nobody at that point. Sitting on the bench behind Duce and the Bus. Comes in and just walks all over the Bills. They still haven't been to the playoff since 1999 and the Music City Forward Pass.
:lol: Okay, I get that Bills fans are probably still gutted by that game, but let's be serious...that was not a forward pass. Hell, I was rooting for the Bills in that game, and the second I saw the replay, I was like, "Oh ####, that was not a forward pass." And the many replays I have seen since have made it more than obvious that it was not a forward pass.
I disagree, all angles show it was indeed an illegal forward pass.
All angles?

Not really.

And actually every angle plus scientific analysis has lead to the correct conclusion that the proper call was made.

Get over it Bills fans.

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
Also, at the risk kicking Buffalo fans while they're down, what did Willie Parker do to the Bills? I don't remember.
2004 Pittsburg vs Buffalo, last game of the season. Buffalo needs to win for first playoff spot in years. Game means nothing to the Steelers so they have backups in and even 3rd string rookie RB Willie Parker gets the nod. Parker gashes the Bills for 100+, Bills lose. He was a nobody at that point. Sitting on the bench behind Duce and the Bus. Comes in and just walks all over the Bills.
I remember that game. For some reason it didn't stick with me that a playoff game was on the line for the Bills.

 
JayJay328 said:
2004 Pittsburg vs Buffalo, last game of the season. Buffalo needs to win for first playoff spot in years. Game means nothing to the Steelers so they have backups in and even 3rd string rookie RB Willie Parker gets the nod. Parker gashes the Bills for 100+, Bills lose. He was a nobody at that point. Sitting on the bench behind Duce and the Bus. Comes in and just walks all over the Bills. They still haven't been to the playoff since 1999 and the Music City Forward Pass.
:lol: Okay, I get that Bills fans are probably still gutted by that game, but let's be serious...that was not a forward pass. Hell, I was rooting for the Bills in that game, and the second I saw the replay, I was like, "Oh ####, that was not a forward pass." And the many replays I have seen since have made it more than obvious that it was not a forward pass.
I disagree, all angles show it was indeed an illegal forward pass.
I think you need glasses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=K_zg-J0q42M#t=73s

Not a forward pass. It is clear as day.

 
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Jerry Rice fumble/T.O. TD catch

4th and 26

Favre's OT pick against the Giants
For a Packer fan, this is The List.
The OT pick against the Giants didn't hurt as much as I thought it would for a few reasons...

1. By this point in Favre's career, the INT was inevitable. It was like death and taxes at that point. As one of Vikings fans said, it's what he does.

2. We were already given a stay of execution from a missed Giants FG. We were lucky to even have that chance.

3. Favre was playing like ### and I don't think he was going to move the ball anyway.

4. I feel like the Packers would have gotten slaughtered by the Pats in the SB anyway. The Packers didn't have much pass rush and that was the only way to beat the Patriots that year. Plus, see #1. I hated the Patriots, so the Giants knocking them off made it almost worth it.
Disagree...because they played well all year. Yes, they played like crap in a game in brutal conditions.

Id still rather get to the SB to have the chance to beat the Pats...then get beat like they did.
I'd rather they'd won too, but they didn't deserve to win that game. The Giants were the better team that day. In the 4th and 26 game vs the Eagles, I felt the opposite. That one really hurt.
Agreed there...4th and 26 and the Rice fumble games hurt more because those teams...IMO were legit SB teams.

2007 seemed more like a fluke year of Favre playing out of his mind while things were still being put together.
4th and 26 sucked and hurt badly. That was a Super Bowl winning team that one.Rice's fumble then compounded by Owen's catch sucked. Not sure the Packers were Super Bowl bound but the refs deciding that sucked.

The Giants game did not hurt as much. The Giants outplayed the Packers in every facet of the game that day. Each member of the Packers has an equal share of losing that game. Packers just sucked that day.

What hurt me the most was the Super Bowl vs the Broncos. No way should the Broncos have been anywhere near that trophy. Holmgren will never be forgiven for that game, nor should he be, and Elway would not get all the accolades he has received. Holmgren sucks.
I agree the Super Bowl against the Broncos was easily the worst. Losing as a favorite sucks. 4-26 easily 2nd for me as the Pack outplayed the Eagles but lost on a fluke play and horrible coaching by Sherman. NFCG against the Giants is easily 3rd for me as they were favored and at home...shouldn't lose those games. Plus Favre looked like an old man and I thought that would be the last I'd see him play. I always thought what a horrible way for a legend to go out.

The Rice game doesnt come close to this conversation IMHO. I didn't think the Pack had a shot at the Superbowl that year with MIN and ATL playing so well that year...plus I don't think GB would've done what ATL did against the Vikes in the dome.

 
As a Titans fan, the Super Bowl was the ultimate gut punch. However, it wasn't nearly as "gut-punching" as it would have been if I had actually been a long-time fan of the team. In reality, it was my second year as a Titans fan. They were new to the area, we had a blast at the games, the city was going crazy, etc.

Still, it was an incredible run to the super bowl and we were pumped.

The gut-punching aspect was that the Titans didn't play their style of football until the 2nd half, and that frustration had been building the entire game. Then when they started getting it done in the fourth quarter, we felt like we were watching magic happen with McNair. At that point it seemed like a no-brainer that we were going to come back and win the game. Then Dyson was stopped just short of the goalline, the game ended and it was just brutal.
The Super Bowl loss doesn't get to me much. I knew the Rams had a great team that year. That might be my #3.

Losing to the Ravens the year after was worse. Still have bad memories of Ray Lewis stripping that ball from Eddie George.

The loss 13-10 to the Ravens about 4 years ago was really bad also. After the year we had, beating Pittsburgh and stomping the towel. Going from the highs of that with the team we had to losing to the Ravens again really sucked. Oh and Flacco that was clearly a delay of game on that last drive.

 

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