What is the absolute lowest a game has ever left you feeling?? Tell what happened and why you felt so deflated



1.) Raiders vs. Patriots -AFC playoffs 1/19/02 (Tuck Rule game in the snow)

Date night with my gf but wanted to finish watchin my Raiders before we went to Red Lobster. Charles Woodson creams Tom Brady in the snow and jumps on the loose ball. It was ruled a fumble but after further review it was overturned via the infamous Tuck rule. Vinatieri kicked the tying field goal that sent the game into OT and then eventually defeating Oakland w/ another FG. I was so pissed that i couldn't leave the couch. Pats won the superbowl 3 weeks later.


2.) ECU- 61 Marshall- 64 (3OT) GMAC bowl 12/19/2007

David Garrard vs. Byron Leftwich. We built a 28 pt halftime lead and watched it melt away in the 2nd half. Went back and forth thru 3 OT's when Leftwich finally finished us off.

3.) ECU-16 Duke- 23 8/31/2002

Ready to get past the nasty GMAC bowl hundreds of Pirate fans flocked to Durham to watch ECU kick off a new season against a hapless Duke team that owned the nation's longest losing streak. It rained all day long. The game was close and as regulation came to an end, a late ECU rally came up short. You should have seen those Duke players celebrate. It was a long, quiet, wet drive back to Greenville. We made ESPN bottom 10 i think it was 2 weeks in a row

10/11/2007 9:09:56 PM

go away

10/11/2007 9:13:50 PM

go away

10/11/2007 9:14:37 PM

Nobody on this thread or anybody outside of Greenville care about ECU

10/11/2007 9:15:42 PM

Clemson - 1 billion - NCSU - Who cares

This game two years ago pretty much killed my will to be a State fan. It was the middle of the second quarter and Clemson discovered that if they just ran the ball through our defensive line, they could score at will.

I never in my life had left a game before, but I did then. To finish homework.

10/11/2007 9:19:51 PM

go away

10/11/2007 9:20:46 PM

get your std infected self out of here

10/11/2007 9:23:25 PM

any time my team loses [/thread]

10/11/2007 9:24:38 PM

NC State vs. THE Ohio State University... that close to taking down a future BCS bowl winning team...

10/11/2007 9:26:14 PM

go away

10/11/2007 9:30:58 PM

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"Date night with my gf but wanted to finish watchin my Raiders before we went to Red Lobster. "

10/11/2007 9:56:30 PM

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"2.) ECU- 61 Marshall- 64 (3OT) GMAC bowl 12/19/2007"

is this foreshadowing?

10/11/2007 9:57:34 PM

-Stayed up to 2am to watch the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout between North Carolina and Purdue sometime in the late 1990s. Purdue is down a couple points with 30 seconds to go and has to foul. Purdue automatically fouls and the Carolina player, I forget who, spins himself around and throws the ball into the stands. The ref calls an intentional foul for no reason other than he was paid off I guess. BASTARD REF! Still pisses me off!

-Two years ago I fly up to see Notre Dame play at Purdue. Excellent day and everyone in the tailgate was really up for it...Purdue's down 28-0 at halftime. Oh well, I got to see them beat the Irish a couple weeks ago.

-When I was 11 and Purdue was in the Elite 8 with Glenn Robinson as a 1 seed. We met Duke there. We were tied at the half but Duke pulled out to win, and I cried afteward (I was 11). I knew it'd be a very long time before we'd ever have as good a chance to make the Final 4. Purdue has given me a lot of sadness as a sports fan.

Not as bad as my uncle though. Purdue made the final in the late 1960s and played one of John Wooden's UCLA teams, and UCLA ran away with it and won. He took a knife after the loss and he threw it through a door. My dad, young kid at the time, asked him what was wrong and my uncle yelled, "They're never going to get this far again!" So far's he been right.

I then had a different uncle that was watching Purdue in person in Indianapolis in 1990 or so in the tournament and were playing Texas in the 2nd round. Texas won on a buzzer beater. My uncle is beyond mad and Texas' cheerleaders are on the floor ecstatic and cheering right below him. He stands up and yells at the top of his lungs: "GET THOSE SWEATHOGS OFF THE FLOOR!" Still makes for a good story despite the stinging defeat at the time.

-Philip Rivers' last home game when we lost to Maryland in 2003. No need to explain.

-NC State vs. Miami in 2004. Crowd was absolutely hot at the beginning. College Gameday was there. Corso had picked the Pack to win and was in the full wolf outfit. We kick the ball off to Miami...and it's immediately ran back for a touchdown. We go on to lose comfortably. Depressing. It was also kind of when we started to realize that Amato had taken us as far as he was going to.

-When I was 8 years old I was a big Broncos fan and they played the 49ers in the Super Bowl. Today, I can see that the Broncos were massive underdogs with no chance. However, when you're 8 years old you don't think that way. To this day it remains the most lopsided loss in Super Bowl history. Denver lost to San Francisco 55-10.

-Darkest sports hour of a different type. I was at the 1999 Indycar race at Charlotte where there was a fluke accident and suspension and a tire from the car hopped over the catch fence and killed 4 or 5 spectators. Worst feeling I've ever had related to sports.

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10/11/2007 9:58:35 PM

dont you all have your own sports moments?













































hell nah, this is the wolf web

10/11/2007 9:59:33 PM

kimo =\


[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 10:02 PM. Reason : who cares]

10/11/2007 9:59:36 PM

Maryland v NCSU 2001

I've never heard it as loud in Carter-Finley before or after that game.

10/11/2007 10:00:12 PM

2-3 yrs ago in chapel hill when the ref signaled TD for TA and then they took it away

ncaa tourney against vanderbilt watching the lead slip away

10/11/2007 10:07:17 PM

November 10th, 2001

Millbrook at Green Hope

State Semifinals (Soccer)

Up 3-1 at halftime...down 4-3 20 minutes into the second half and that's how it ended




May 25, 2005

AC Milan vs. Liverpool

Champions League Final

Milan up 3-0 at halftime...Liverpool scores 3 goals in the first 15 minutes of the second half...Liverpool GK Dudek cheats and secures victory for the reds in a shootout




2005 NCAA Tourney

Villanova vs. UNC

So close...

10/11/2007 10:08:36 PM

^^^ That was my freshman year. Three Maryland players faked injury all at the same time because they were out of timeouts and the clock was running. That was pretty much the point I lost all respect for them.


Back-to-back-to-back football losses in 2002 that kept our best team ever from reaching a BCS bowl.

10/11/2007 10:12:55 PM

^ Wasn't that a road game?

Cause we were undefeated and then lost to Georgia Tech at home. And then I thought we lost two on the road to UVa and Maryland, and then we beat Florida State at home in the last game of the year, that eventually got FSU's quarterback busted.

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 10:17 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 10:16:59 PM

just being an NC State fan for the past 10 years. Isn't that an agony of defeat?

10/11/2007 11:37:23 PM

Tony Romo fumbling the hold and missing the endzone by a yard and a half

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 11:44 PM. Reason : asdfgf]

10/11/2007 11:43:05 PM

my senior year when i blew a lead by getting caught in one move in the wrestling state championships in the FIRST round when i was a favorite Ive regretted it ever since.

10/12/2007 12:06:41 AM

October 12, 2007 12:07AM

Me reading this thread

10/12/2007 12:07:21 AM

^FTW

10/12/2007 12:50:58 AM

Panthers vs. Patriots 2003
Damn you Adam Vinetari.

10/12/2007 1:05:31 AM

2 weeks ago this Sunday.

10/12/2007 1:27:34 AM

2003 NLCS

10/12/2007 2:33:38 AM

This is actually pretty easy for me. I am from Maryland. USED to be a terps fan. no longer. but back in the day there was a game where UMD played Duke. UMD was up by 10 with 54 seconds to go. Fucking Jason Williams can rot in hell.

10/12/2007 3:57:21 AM

Champions League Final 1999 Bayern Munich vs. Manchester United

Bayern score after 6 minutes and lead 1-0 going into injury time in the second half when Sheringham and Solksjaer score 2 goals in 3 minutes to snatch victory.

10/12/2007 7:15:01 AM

The infamous Chris Paul nut shot / last second floater to win

N. Johnston @ Red Springs
Baseball playoffs
Up 4-1 going into the 6th
Lost 5-4

I agree on the OSU game at OSU a few years back

10/12/2007 7:24:51 AM

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"just being an NC State fan for the past 10 years."

??

last 10 years?

more like last 15, at least



oh, TA missing the TD against OSU by an inch

10/12/2007 8:04:34 AM

my senior year playing football at apex.

1st round of the playoffs, we were playing at jacksonville. score was tied at half 23-23 or something like that. the 2nd half saw no points at all. jacksonville had the ball on their own 30 with about 25 seconds to go and were just running the ball to kill the clock and go to OT. I played defensive end and had noticed their left guard would shift in his stance whenever he pulled, a good indicator they would be trapping. I saw his 'tell' from my right DE spot and yelled across the line telling all of my teammates what I saw. evidently they werent listening...he busted a 60 yard run on us on a trap play. they then killed the clock and kicked a last second FG, sending us home. it was absolutely heartbreaking. we had no illusions of winning a state title or anything (much less getting past the next round and a very good Fayetteville 71st team) but we were a very tight group of seniors..I think 14 of us played together in middle school, all the way through high school. it hurt to go out like that.

oh yeah...this too

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"2-3 yrs ago in chapel hill when the ref signaled TD for TA and then they took it away"

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10/12/2007 8:56:49 AM

Coupla years ago NCSU was 9-0 going into a game against Georgia Tech. It was a game which, on paper, we should have won handily.

It was aired nationally (big block of ABC coverage) and they even made a music video using that Alabama 3 song for Chuck Amato...

Game started, and our offense looked like it was going in slow motion. Our defense wasn't able to stop them when they needed to. It was painful to watch. The game didn't feel anywhere near as close as the final score indicated. That was supposed to be the year for NCSU football, and that game started a 3 loss slide that only ended with a questionable win over FSU.

But watching that game was just painful, and kinda heartbreaking. The team, during that game, looked a lot like the team we've got on the field this season.

[Edited on October 12, 2007 at 9:40 AM. Reason : /]

10/12/2007 9:13:59 AM

Probably watching NC State piss away a 1st half lead in the Sweet 16 against Wisconsin.

10/12/2007 9:17:45 AM

NC State's choke job against Vandy was bad.


Darkest of dark hours was when Leyritz hit the bomb against Wohlers in the 1996 World Series subsequently leading to the Yankees winning the rest of the games in the series. The Braves had the championship in the bag if Leyritz doesn't hit that shot. It changed the course of the Braves future and the Yankees suddenly became baseball's dynasty instead of the Braves.

10/12/2007 9:23:31 AM

^^^it was in slow motion

despite Sean Berton's postings on this board, he was a key to our offense that year. he was basically a blocking h-back and made our running game go. he got hurt before this game. plus TA broke his wrist before this game which was his first step on the road to being the most fumble and injury prone rb ever.

10/12/2007 9:54:02 AM

yeah... i knew about the injuries... but still, it hurt...

you can almost trace NCST's program going downward from that game on... there was a slight peak with FSU and Notre Dame (although, FSU was somewhat controversial, and we took ND's qb out of the game early), but after that it's been steadily downhill

10/12/2007 10:05:50 AM

A lack of depth and leadership can be pretty much linked to every shitty state team.

10/12/2007 10:13:46 AM

Basketball: This one is too easy: 2003 ACCT finals against Duke, we're on a serious run, and leading by 5-8 points when we get hot, and Powell sinks a top of the key 3 to put us up 15 with under 10 minutes to play, and then, JJ gets hot and the officials swallow their whistles on our end and can't call enough fouls on us at Dukes end. It was the 20 year anniversary of our improbable run, and we could have snapped Duke's ridiculous ACCT streak, I thought the stars had aligned when Powell drilled that 3 ball. I've never seen a turn around quite that fast, no coincidence that K was the opposing coach. I'd much rather win the ACCT than get to the sweet 16 and lose, just my preference, so the meltdown In Orlando against Vandy wasn't as big a deal to me, because ultimately, there's no way we would have advanced to the elite eight, and good teams don't have to brag about the sweet 16, that's for the UW-Milwaukee and the George Mason's of the world. If you've grown up around ACC hoops, the ACCT is big time.

Football, well, we'd be here all day to discuss that

[Edited on October 12, 2007 at 10:54 AM. Reason : .]

10/12/2007 10:51:50 AM

few things that pop immediately into my mind

- the entire 1-15 panthers season

-chris paul hitting the shot against us in 2004. i was front row and the last one to leave the arena

- getting humiliated by UNC last year @ chapel hill in football

- sitting in the student section of the dean dome for the UNC vs NCSU bball game in 2005. this is the marvin williams dunk game, and we lost by like 25+.

- every saturday this year that i watch ncstate football. this is approximately 3.5 dark hours

10/12/2007 11:14:00 AM

I have my own darkest moment from High School (long story. i think this is the first time in 12 years i've written it out all the way.)

1995, North Carolina High School Cross Country. My team, Watauga, won the 1994 4A Boys NCHSAA Championships the previous year by the largest margin in NC XC history: 1st (Watauga) - 52, 2nd (E. Meck.) - 126. I was a freshman that year and wasn't on the varsity team. I dropped 3 minutes off my 5k my So. year and was consistently running #4 or 5 by the end of the 1995 season.

1995 was a great season. We were ranked 1st in the state all season and went nearly undefeated (got 2nd, I believe, at the "Wendy's Invitational", a large multi-state invitational in Charlotte). We won the NW 4A Conference easily, of course, and went onto the Western 4A Regionals, where the top 4 teams advance to States. There are only 4 regions in the state, so ~1/4th of the 4A schools were at this meet. The Regional race, quite literally, could not have gone any better. We placed all 7 of our runners in positions 1-7. i.e. Out of about 20 teams and 140 runners, all 7 of our runners finished before a single other runner from any other team finished.

After the Regionals race, we were heavily favored to win the State Championship the following week. Ranked 2nd was 3-year old high school Raleigh Leesville Road. Predictably, everything that could go wrong at the State Meet, did. It was a horrible, cold, rainy day, mud and water everywhere. Several of our guys didn't race up to par. Our top runner was favored to win the individual championship, and he got 3rd. He was the only one of us to finish in the top-10, after having 3 in the top 10 the year before. Most disasterously of all, though, was our #2 runner. As a sophomore in 1994 he got 8th in the state, and was gunning for a top-5 finish in '95 as a junior. Like any coach will tell you not to do, he changed his normal routine the morning of the race, cramped hard, and finished 64th overall, last on the team. I finished 26th as a Sophomore, so I had a decent race.

Going into the awards, even after clearly having our worst race of the season, it was still up in the air who had won. Our team was deep enough that theoretically, one or two of our top-5 guys could have an off-day and we could still win the State Meet. Furthermore, there was no other team who clearly stepped up, so even after this, we still figured we were in the top 3. So they start the awards, counting down from 10th. They get to 3rd. ... Mt Tabor, 112 points.
2nd..... Watauga. 109 points. A huge cheer erupts from the Leesville Road team, because they knew they were the only ones who could have beaten us. We trudged onto the stage and took our silver medals. Probably the saddest-looking State Runners Up you could have seen.
Then comes the kicker. 1st: Leesville Road. Score: 109 points! It came down to a 6th-man tiebreaker, the first in State Meet history. Normally, XC meets are scored by adding the positions of the top-5 runners, and lowest team score wins. If the top-5 runners' scores tie from 2 teams, then the team who's 6th man finishes first wins. Leesville Road's 6th man beat ours by 2 places. Losing was bad enough. Losing on a tie-breaker, especially when so many of our guys know they didn't race their best, was the real kick in the balls.

To make our loss worse, the announced the girls team results next. The Watauga girls won their State Championship race by 2 points over the Leesville Road girls. So we had parents and coaches and runners who were devestated by the boy's loss, but still had to celebrate the girl's win. Furthermore, had the boy's won our championship, it would have been the first time that the same 4A school won both championships in the same year.

10/12/2007 11:15:31 AM

(1) TA was in

(2) Chuck Knoblauch (sp?) and Greg Gagne pretend to have the ball when its really in the outfield, fake out Lonnie Smith so he doesn't run home, and the Twins beat the Braves in the WS.

(3) That team beat Illinois by only a few points, keeping me from winning a bracket worth several hundred (might've been 4 figures) by less than 10 points (out of thousands of points in scoring system)

10/12/2007 11:21:52 AM

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"Basketball: This one is too easy: 2003 ACCT finals against Duke"

That definitely is up there as far as State w/ me. Josh Powell suddenly transformed into Damon Thornton. If he bent his elbow there was a foul somehow...

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"so the meltdown In Orlando against Vandy wasn't as big a deal to me, because ultimately, there's no way we would have advanced to the elite eight, and good teams don't have to brag about the sweet 16"

Was that '04? I think we would have played UConn next, and they were rolling people by like 25+ in that regional from start to finish..

[Edited on October 12, 2007 at 11:52 AM. Reason : x]

10/12/2007 11:51:59 AM

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"-NC State vs. Miami in 2004. Crowd was absolutely hot at the beginning. College Gameday was there. Corso had picked the Pack to win and was in the full wolf outfit. We kick the ball off to Miami...and it's immediately ran back for a touchdown. We go on to lose comfortably. Depressing. It was also kind of when we started to realize that Amato had taken us as far as he was going to."

this is it for me too

10/12/2007 11:56:01 AM

agentlion, I ran CC way back as well, how in the world could you guys sweep a race and then come back to flop like that? Just curious, what was the time of the #7 guy in the race you guys swept? I don't know if this is true or not, but I came along a few years after you and at every huge meet, i.e. Wendy's, Freedom, Boone invite, etc, they told the #6 and #7 guys to run as if you're a top 5 guy because they were used as a tiebreaker, so if a top 5 guy got hurt or DQ'd during the race, you'd have your 6 and 7 running with the mindset that they could really be the difference, either way, I'm sure each guy in your top 5 wished they'd beaten out one more guy, esp the guy who finished 64th.

10/12/2007 12:29:21 PM

^ hey.
you know, I need/want to go back and look through my scrapbooks at home to remember the specifics of the race where we went 1-7. Admittedly, the stars aligned on that day. A week earlier in the Conference meet, which was a subset of the Regional teams, we got a perfect score of 1-5, but had one or two other runners sneak in before our 6 and 7th. Freedom had a good up-and-coming runner, Josh Baker, who was a Fr. at the time, and he was easily their best runner already. I think he beat a couple of our guys at Conference, but had a bad race at Regionals and was behind all of us.

Here's what I remember of the perfect Regional race: It was at Freedom HS, a nice, fast 5k course. Our winner was ~15:38 by himself, I think (a PR), which we felt was a very good lead into States the next week at McAlpine. Since McAlpine is even faster than Freedom, we figured he could easily run with the leaders even if the race went under 15:30. Due to the rain and conditions, though, the winner at States ran a relatively pokey 15:55 and our #1 went 16:02 in 3rd place.
Back to Regionals, numbers 2 and 3 both went sub-16, which again was a good indication that they both had a shot at making All-State the next week (one finished 13th, the other finished 64th). I was 5th man and had my Sophomore PR at 16:34. #4 was right in front of me, probably 16:30, and numbers 6 and 7 were both within 10 seconds of me, so that would be all 7 runners under 16:45.

Those times were a pretty big feat at the time. The previous year, 1994, was kind of a new era in NC HS Cross Country. In 1994, Watauga won the state meet with 7 runners under 17:00, which was a first. After that race, there was a quote from the Charlotte Providence coach who said something like "It used to be, you get 5 guys under 17:00 and you would win the state meet easily. We had 5 guys under 17 today and we got 3rd by 100 points". Prior to 1994-95, you would see 1 or 2, maybe 3 guys go under 16 at McAlpine, sometimes 16+ winning. By 1996, you have 8-12 guys every year under 16.

10/12/2007 12:55:19 PM

p rivers last game against maryland hands down

10/12/2007 1:21:40 PM

I have two that stand out.

Eighth grade bball, we had been down most of the game to West Rowan Middle. Towards the end we started a run and had a real chance to win. Under a minute to go and we go up by 1 on a big three pointer. West Rowan goes down and goes up by two with about 6 seconds to go and things are going crazy. I get out on the wing and get the inbounds and am heading up the floor, at half court nearly uncontested. I go in for the layup and get hammered with .6 seconds showing. I'm winded as hell. I go to the line and brick the first free throw off the front of the rim. Our coach calls a timeout, the team is sitting around me, and I don't think I'll ever forget Robbie Menius patting me on the shoulder saying Hey, no pressure at all, right?". Coach says "When you make this shot, not if, ...."

I get to the line and I have many things traveling through my head. I'm tired. And I promptly proceed to air ball it.


The other one isn't so devastating. I played soccer for a pretty shitty high school team in a pretty tough conference (Mt Tabor, West Forsyth, and Reynolds), and the season scoring "record" for our squad was a lofty 18 goals. My senior year I entered the last two games of the season with 15. We played South Stokes the penultimate game and I had 2 goals already with about 10 minutes to go and had proceeded to piss on a few of their defenders and then got cleaned out in the box for a PK. My good buddy rushes up to me and practically begs to take the shot, citing the fact that I already had 2 which is why I should let him take it. I told him don't ruin what would be my hat trick by missing. He proceeds to miss. I find out after the game that I have tied the scoring record with the 2, I would have broken it with 3.
Next game is against Davie,whom we had already beaten earlier in the season. I expected to score this game. I had tons of opportunities in the first half, my team was feeding me well, but I was just trying entirely too hard and missed out.

I got my head checked at half time, came out feeling pretty good about my chances, when our goal keeper proceeds to shatter the nose of one of their players, causing a bench clearing brawl. I kinda knew at that point the rest of the game would be crap on both ends of the field, and it pretty much ended that way, leaving me tied for the most goals in a season at my high school. I think the record still stands.

10/12/2007 1:25:40 PM

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"p rivers last game against maryland hands down"

goddmanit, we should have won that game

10/12/2007 3:11:52 PM