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[Vit-D]

I will have to agree with those of you who indicated that the 2002 Giants was the most heartbreaking season, but I will raise you...

I was actually AT game 6 and 7 of the World Series that year.  As a huge Giants fan, not only did I have to experience the Giants choking that series away, but I had to do it while being screamed at by a bunch of fairweather Angels fans.   At one point during Game 6, I was thinking to myself that I was about to become maybe 1 of 3-4000 people who could say that they saw the San Francisco Giants win a World Series in person.  Less than 30 minutes later, I was staring an epic collapse in the face.

Post game 7 was the only time in my life that I have cried following a sporting event.  That World Series was legitimately one of the worst moments in my life.  Just horrible.

[Stennick]

1999-00 St. Louis Blues, we had the best record, the Presidents Trophy, we were rolling right along with our best team ever and we were beaten in the first round of the playoffs. I haven't paid attention to Hockey since.

2000 St. Louis Rams, we won the Super Bowl and I was still skeptical that we were as good as it appeared. The next year we're rolling right along. Warner, Bruce, Holt, Faulk, the Defense is doing just fine. Then Faulk goes down, then Warner goes down and we tie for the division with just ten games before losing in the Wild Card round to the Saints.

2001 St. Louis Rams - We wound up beating Detroit 49-0 I still remember that game. We only lost two games the entire year and we sat Warner for one of them. We get into the playoffs and roll right through with ease. Then the Super Bowl happens and it would be easy to blame it on the refs or a million other things but none the less we lost and we'd never get close again.

2003 St. Louis Rams, Marc Bulger's first full season as the Rams QB. We hit an amazing stride winning 12 games and just missing out to the Eagles for Home Field advantage. Which I'm pretty sure we were 8-0 at home that year and nearly unstoppable. Then we go into DOUBLE overtime with the Panthers in the second round of the playoffs and lose :(

2004 St. Louis Cards - We have a 100 plus win season, we push the Stro's to the very limit in what was one of the most dramatic playoff series' I ever saw. Then we get into the World Series against a team that barely made it in the first place only to be SWEPT.

2009 St. Louis Cards - We acquire Holliday at the mid season point and go on a nasty winning streak only matched by the New York Yankees. I'm starting to think its a Yankees-Cards World Series. We're smashing opponents putting up crazy offensive numbers and our pitching is lights out with Carp, Waino, Joel Pinero (when he was good), Franklin closing it out with a sub 2 ERA and I think two blown saves the entire year. We were swept by the Dodgers scoring what four runs in the entire series or something like that?

[Tabe]

Stennick, on Aug 20 2010, 07:51 PM, said:

2001 St. Louis Rams - We wound up beating Detroit 49-0 I still remember that game. We only lost two games the entire year and we sat Warner for one of them.

Pssst...it was 35-0 :)

Tabe

[Stennick]

Tabe, on Aug 20 2010, 11:32 PM, said:

Stennick, on Aug 20 2010, 07:51 PM, said:

2001 St. Louis Rams - We wound up beating Detroit 49-0 I still remember that game. We only lost two games the entire year and we sat Warner for one of them.

Pssst...it was 35-0 :)

Tabe

35, 49 its all the same :)

[SULLY]

1994 Canucks - This was the year I found Hockey. Cliff Ronning, Pavel Bure and co played their way into my hearts. Then Sergio Momesso hits the crossbar in Game 7 and the stupid fucking Rangers win.

1997 Blue Jays - I wasn't exactly a smart young man. But I figured Carlos Delgado and Shawn Green were getting better, Ed Sprague just came off a 36HR season. Pat Hentgen had just won the Cy young Award and now Roger Clemens was joining? The Jays were back baby! They weren't. They really, really weren't.

Every 49ers team after 1994 - Man, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Ken Norton Jr. Garrison Hearst, Terrell Owens, and guys like JJ Stokes who I figured would rule. This team should have been amazing for way longer. They weren't. I had an angry childhood.

2009 Dodgers - I'm not a Dodgers fan in any way, shape or form. But considering how shitty The Reds and Jays usually are I find teams to cheer for in October. Last year, Andre Either was my guy. I wanted badly to see an LA-Yankees World Series. Torre vs Girardi, Manny against NY again, it was going to be great. Then the stupid fucking Phillies (who I've hated since 1993) had to go and shit all over my hope.

[SULLY]

Almost forgot...

1995 Orlando Magic - FUCK YOU NICK ANDERSON!

[TimLivingston]

I know I work for the Blue Jays, but good lord almighty is this 2010 SF Giants season turning into a heartbreaker.

[Josh Mann]

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Then the Super Bowl happens and it would be easy to blame it on the refs or a million other things but none the less we lost and we'd never get close again.

The Rams lost SB36 because Mike Martz forgot Marshall Faulk was on his roster that day. Every other reason is window dressing.

[strobogo]

Every season the Pacers have had since I've been alive.  Especially 2000 on.  We were so close and we've never come near it again.  And now every time the team looks like it is getting it together, someone gets arrested or suspended.  It's a bummer especially when you aren't into football or racing and the Pacers are all you have around here.

[James F'n X]

1993-94 Seattle Supersonics.  Dikembe Mutombo doing snow angels on the Key Arena floor.
2001 Seattle Mariners.  116 regular season wins and possibly the worst playoff team ever assembled.
2005 Seattle Seahawks.  Playing defense in the most important game in a city's history is just overrated.  I don't care if the ref admitted five years after the fact that he blew the holding call, champions recover.
2007-08 Seattle Supersonics. The end of professional basketball in Seattle.

[sprewell rimz]

2004 Auburn Tigers. Shut out of the title game.
2006 Dallas Mavericks. Dwyane Wade. Refs. Adrian Griffin starting at small forward.

[TIA]

Can't talk too much about things State side living Down Under....

I live for the Saints in the AFL down here. 1 championship in almost 150 years.

2004 we start the season 10 - 0. The coach decides to reward the players with a day off from training and they go to the movies. Disaster as we lose our next game. We finish the season 14 - 8 but we make it all the way to the week before the Grand Final. We are playing away against the team that finished on top of the ladder (Port Adelaide) and we are winning. All the momentume is with us. Our leading goal scorer kicks his 100th goal for the season and, as is tradition, the crowd invade the pitch to celebrate. Security have trouble getting people back in their seats. Momentum lost. We go down by 6 points (one goal) and have to watch Port Adelaide win the championship.

2005 - This is our year. We finish fourth but we have been building all year. We play away again, against Adelaide. Our oldest player (and the oldest player in the comp) Robert Harvey puls out the game of his career. The guy is 35 and he is blitzing through the field. We win and earn a week off. Once again we are in the second to last week of the finals. We play Sydney at home. 3/4 time and we are a long way up. 7-8 goals to nothing in the last qtr sees the Swans run over us and go on to win the championship.

In 06 we were crushed with injuries and a new board took over the club, new coach was put in etc.

2007 we missed the finals for the first time in a couple of years, right when our team was peaking.

2008 - Again we make it to the second to last week (seeing a pattern?) this time against Hawthorn (another Melbourne based team) Geelong had won the title last year and were already back to the big dance. Just a matter of who would face them. We get demolished all night long and once again have to watch the team that just beat us go on and win the title.

2009 - We break records for the league. We only lose 2 games all season by a combined total of 7 points. We set the record for the best defence in 150 odd years of AFL history with a rookie playing in the number 1 defender spot with a club favorite sits in the stands. We FINALLY make it to the Grand Final. We are playing Geelong who are here for the 3rd straight year. They are 1-1. We lead all day. We are dominating everywhere but on the scoreboard but to me it doesn't really matter. We only need to win by 1 point. Hell our ONLY championship was a 1 point win back in '66. In injury time of the final 1/4 scores are tied. The ball it played into the middle of the ground where a Geelong player gets a lucky toe poke that goes past 2 Saints players and straight to his Geelong team mate. It results in a goal and the Geelong Cats win (kicking another goal after the siren to rub it in) We become the first team in AFL history to be leading at 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 time of the Grand Final and lose.

2010 - We finish second to a rampaging Collingwood. They look so dangerous be they are young. We are battle hardened and ready. Alot of people have said this will go down as one of, if not THE, greatest Grand Final of all time. The pressure was intense. Players couldn't take 2 stpes without being tackled. With 1 minute on the clock the Saints are down by one point. The ball is launched into our attacking area and the first bouce is awesome. It sits up right in frontof the goal for a Saint to run onto it BUT he doesn't quite get there and rather than bouncing end on end and through for a goal it snaps at a right angle and only socres 1 point. Scores finish level and as per AFL tradition and rules there is no overtime.

We have to come back again the following week.

2010 take 2.0 - We are destroyed. The younger team is able to pull up faster and recovour alot better than the weary Saints. Many feel that had overtime been played we would've won fairly comfortably.


So to sum it all up - Best case scenario the Saints could've, and almost should've, won the title in any of 04/05/08/09/10. We could have gone from 1 title to anything up to 6. As it is we still only have 1 title and if we dont win it in 2011 or 2012 then I fear we will lose alot of our best players through age and free agency.

The life of a sports fan ey?

[adamsie]

What no mention of 1997 and Darren Jarman beating you in the last quarter.

for me 2002 was the worst year since Carlton came last got fined and lost draft picks which nearly killed the club.

[TIA]

adamsie, on Dec 1 2010, 04:16 PM, said:

What no mention of 1997 and Darren Jarman beating you in the last quarter.

for me 2002 was the worst year since Carlton came last got fined and lost draft picks which nearly killed the club.

I was only 10 when Jarman killed us in '97. Wasn't really at the front of my hopes and dreams hahaha More interested in being a fighter pilot ;)

The last 6-7 years have been hell for me. I wasn't used to having such a strong team. '01/02/03 were fun because we were always the underdog. Now winning is expected. We should be taking our chances and it's such a kick in the guts to see the boys fall short over and over again.

We are never going to catch Carlton/Essendon/Collingwood and have 16 odd flags but dammit I want to stay in front of Port, Fremantle, Footscray, GC17 and GWS!!! I think our team will be better if Stanley, Steven and Armitage devlop as expected but we need to strike before we lose Riewoldt, Fisher etc


As for the Blues - 2002 was a massive wake up call for the whole comp I think. All of a sudden things got serious. Teams started paying more attention to draft picks because they saw what a lack of quality youth did to Carlton.

[Kaptain Kayfabe]

The 1988 Bengals. Super Bowl XXIII. 34 seconds short. I was 8 years old and I cried. It was the first time I ever remember watching something where the "good guys" didn't win in the end.

The Bengals again in 2005. I think they would have torched Pittsburgh in the playoffs if Palmer didn't have his knee blown out on an obvious cheap shot.

I long ago accepted that the Bengals are going to suck, but every so often they give you that glimmer of hope and... yeah. It makes it twice as hard when they blow it.

[SoopArr AE]

Perfect time to add the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies.

Clinched the NL East for the fifth time in a row, in record time.

Broke the franchise record for most wins in a season.

Broke the franchise record for most wins by a manager.

The bats went dead in Game 5 against the Cardinals and Ryan Howard, with 2 hits in the series, failed the team for the second year in a row.

[Sky Blue Sam]

As a Coventry fan, I'd quite like to experience one season that wasn't heartbreaking. This one has the potential to be the worst yet. Only won one game all season, tiny squad packed full of kids, can't afford new signings or loan players, highest earning player too fat to get in the first team and the threat of liquidation hanging over our heads. All this, and we've FINALLY got a manager in who I trust and who is trying to get the team playing good, attractive football, but I know he's going to get fired by Christmas (despite getting fuck-all to work with) and replaced by some old duffer.

[Vince Greene]

2003 Carolina Panthers, easily.



We rebounded from 1-15 to be in the Super Bowl two years later. We play an amazing game with New England, and bring it to a tie when John fucking Kasay kicks off out of bounds with a minute to go. Everyone knew, deep down, we were going to lose at that point, that you couldn't possibly expect Tom and the gang to NOT get into field goal position and win, yet there we sat as he ripped our hopes to shreds, hoping against hope it wouldn't happen but knowing that it would. Fucking brutal.


The various Braves losses in the World Series are rough too.

[Burgundy LaRue]

2009 Colts was pretty bad.  Went 14-0.  Decided not to go for the undefeated season.  Won the AFC, but lost the Super Bowl to the freaking Saints.  A total waste of a season.

[Rev]

1986 California Angels. Game 5 of the ALCS. The night that broke Donnie Moore.