After yesterdays elation, what about the other end of the spectrum. You saw the looks on the Indian players faces. When in your life did you most feel that way?

1987 playoffs.

WE were the better team. WE fought and clawed our way to the playoffs, right to the very end, against another team that was better than Minnesota that year. Yet, they moved on, and won it all.

I grew to dispise the Metrodome and homer hankies that year.

163

Lion - Redskins, 1991 or '92.

Game 163 was bad, but it was a GREAT GAME!!

Pistons-Celtics 1987(and i am no longer an NBA fan, but back in those days i was) - game 7 when Vinnie and Dantley heads collided and both came out (this was after the game 5 fiasco when Bird stole that last pass and gave it to DJ for the game winning layup)

Game 5 was worse, IMO. All Isiah had to do was PASS THE BALL, THROW IT IN THE AIR AND LET IT BOUNCE AROUND BETWEEN PEOPLE'S HANDS. ANYTHING.

That WAS awful.

Isn't it fun to dredge up painful sports events?

Game 7 of the 2005 NBA finals with the Pistons and Spurs. Robert Horry hit a dagger with just a second or 2 remaining.

I know, but that was more shocking than anything. Game 7 was finite and final, and i am convinced the Pistons were going to win if those two did not exit the game due to injury in the 3rd quarter.

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I think that was game 5

piston's playoff loss to boston on a bad inbound pass.

or

dempsey's 62 yarder.

or

the phantom TD in the rose bowl.

or

di>ck mccauliff hits into his first DP of the year to lose the pennant in 67.

or

wings lose to sid the kid.

1967 - Last game of the season when the Tigers loose to the Angles and the Red Sox take the AL Pennant by 1 game.

I smacked the arm of the couch and nearly gave my grandmother a heart attack. Then I sat on the back porch alone and fought back the tears.

Runner up. Watching a pathetic Monte Clarke praying on the sidelines for the field goal against San Francisco that did not come.

I smacked my grandmother so hard she nearly had a heart attack. Then I sat on the back porch alone while everyone else waited for the ambulance and fought back the tears.

If we are going to go down to the college ranks, there are a whole bunch more, depending on the colors you root for.

I remember that Monte Clark game, he did have his hands clasped together, only to see the kick sail wide right.

I never experienced anger and frustration like I did after Game 4 of the 2006 World Series.....Not Game 5....Game 4.....Obviously, Game 5 was the game that officially ended the World Series for us, but Game 4 was, in my opinion, much more of a heartbreaker. Down 2-1 in the Series, obviously we have to win to avoid going down 3-1. We're up 3-0 early, cruising along, everything is looking great. Then we allow them to take a 4-3 lead, come back and tie it 4-4 in the top of the 8th, then a cr*p double by Eckstein that Monroe basically falls down on allows them to take a 5-4 lead in the bottom half, which is how it ends up. That game hurt sooooooooooo bad. Worst pro sports loss ever.

Another one that resonates for me is by far game 7 against the Penguins (but somebody already mentioned that).

So, I will go to back to back home game 7 losses in the early 90's, first to the Maple Leafs in OT, then the next year, as the # 1 seed, losing to the San Jose Sharks, and Chris Osgood played as a rookie and ended up crying in the locker room.

I'm never coming to your house to watch sports.

Me being a stranger, you'd probably beat me up or something, if we lost.

i remember that game too. the thing about those games is you remember where you were at the time. i was in vermont on a ski vacation.