Worst Sporting event you've attended???

What is the worst sporting event you have attended? Both for level of suckiness, or because your team lost and you wanted to cry?

I'll start;

Worst event: I attended 16 games of the Tigers terrible '03 season where they only won like 41 games or something. Obviously they lost all the games I went to. Including games that went into 11 innings and 13 innings.

Worst feeling after event I attended: Appalachian St. over Michigan.

I remember thinking that eventually Michigan would win. And then I was like here it is the winning field goal, except Michigan kickers always suck. Then it got blocked. And my friend, who is a casual fan turns, and says to me "THAT CANT HAPPEN, ITS MICHIGAN."

I don't think I talked for the next two hours. The next morning when I woke up, I remember everything being okay. I walked downstairs, got on the treadmill and said "SHIT, that really did happen."

The same thing happened for like two weeks. Sometimes I didn't believe it was really true.

 

Anything with the world "field" before "hockey."

Actually, anything with the word "hockey." NHL games are OK enough but the high school "action" in my neck of the woods was just fuckin brutal.

 

i had a field hockey beat freshmen year in college.

sigh

 

My very first baseball game with my father.
Damp, drizzly awful day in September. On their way to losing 100 games again, the Sox are at Fenway in front of about 800 of us. I can't even remember who they were playing -- the KC A's, I think -- and it was about 11-1 in the fifth and my father said, "Let's get the hell out of here." I couldn't have been happier.

Hey, dad. Wanna have a catch?

 

You could be in the first row at this game...

Or you could be on the field during this...

 

Shit. For a while there I thought you were going to say you left Dave Morehouse's no-hitter.

 

A girls high school basketball tournament game in northern Kentucky once where one team held the ball almost the entire game. It was something like 4-3 at halftime and 10-8 for a final score or something ridiculous.

 

None of the college or pro games I've covered really stand out, but two from my prep beat days in Mississippi do:

1. In 1997, one of our local football teams went 0-10 and was outscored something like 450-35 for the season. In the regular-season finale, they played perennial powerhouse Taylorsville, which then featured sophomore quarterback Jason Campbell. I show up for the game (mainly to see Campbell play), but he, as well as most of the other starters, are in street clothes. Taylorsville still wins 35-0.

2. Unlike most other states, Mississippi runs its soccer season concurrent with basketball, meaning the playoffs are in February. I was at a local girls playoff game, where the temperature was near 20 with flurries. The home team had one of those propane jet-type heaters on the sideline. Along about the second half, it caught on fire. The coach had to race over and cut the gas off before it exploded. I wanted to go home and shoot myself after that one.

 

Small town high school diving.

 

NHRA Southern Nationals.

 

Tie:
Oct. 14, 2003. Game 6, NLCS. Marlins 8, Cubs 3. Fuck Alex Gonzalez.
Aug. 9, 2001. My 20th birthday. Rockies 14, Cubs 5. Fuck Julian Tavarez.