When Has Sports Broken Your Heart?

28 - 3: that would be mine. It was eerie in the office the next day how silent everyone was, almost like a wake at a funeral home, but actually even more silent when I think about it. The entire city was in a collective funk.

And it's a wound that will continually get picked and re-opened pretty much every year at Super Bowl time until I'm no longer upright --> Greatest deficit overcome in a Super Bowl: 25 points, Patriots v. Falcons.......

 

To a man, every Yankee fan I know says the 2004 collapse didn't pain them much, always saying a certain loss to some other team was worse. I believe most of them are lying through their teeth because recognizing the anguish would mean conceding the high ground. We own your souls. Deal with it

 

Maryland lacrosse losing in the NCAA semifinals in 2018 (both teams).

It was bad enough that two teams that adopted me as their own lost. What made things even worse were a couple of moments:

1) One of the women's players and I were hugging the day after they lost and she said, "we're losers!" after only their second loss of the entire season. The fact she was practically crying on my shoulder hit pretty hard.
2) Two nights after the men's team lost, one of the guys from the men's team greeted me with something between a bro hug and an actual full on hug and said, "I'm sorry we let you down."

I was just starting to get over the losses when the latter one happened. That added at least another day.

 

Every time Duke wins.

 

Meh, like I said, I didn't see it. It's difficult to be anguished about it when I've never bothered to watch it.

 

Not going to bother clicking play now, either.

 

Yep, 86 game 6 because the Sox had the same chance of coming back that the Angels did.

And 03 game 7 , Timlin in the 8th, Williamson in the 9th, that is how it should have gone.

But, I got over it.

 

Arena Football. Great niche sports completely mismanaged by a bunch of Joe Joneses who think they're Jerry Jones.

 

Sid Bream

Bo getting hurt.

 

2002 NCAA hockey final, Maine 50 seconds away from a national title the year Shawn Walsh died. Lose on a power play in OT.

That one, and losing 1-0 in 04 with a minute of 6 on 3 time at the end, left a mark.