Most depressing sports memories

[Breakwood]

2006 Baseball World Classic. USA vs Canada we lose to CANADA come on.

Don't worry, we invented the sport.

[OnWis97]

#1, undoubtedly is 1993, the departure of the Minnesota North Stars.

Others include:

1st round loss for #1 Wisconsin hockey in 2000 (could have been great year with the rose bowl and the final 4).

Vikings lose 1998 NFC Championship game

North Stars run out of steam and lose in 1991 finals.

T-Wolves lose to Lakers in 2004 Conference Finals

[SouthSidePride]

Bulls: going up 2-0 against Washington then loosing 4 straight to blow it in 2005.

White Sox: 2000 ALDS sweep vs. Seattle. it hurt because we sucked, everygame would pull on your heart a little harder, and the thought that maybe, just maybe, the Sox could pull out a few runs and win one weighted on your heart a little more, until the end, when the runs never came.

2003: Sox have chance to take division in last week vs. Minnesota, get swept in ass kickin fashion.

2004: Minnesota clinches Central at US Cellular Field. Ozzie made the players stay out and watch the celebration. the look on their faces killed me. Only time I ever cried over sporting event. I sat in the third row and watched the celebration and cried....

Chiefs:death of Derrick Thomas.

Loss to Colts in 2003 divisional playoffs. only puntless game in playoff history, and so close to becoming a Chiefs win.

[NewYorkYankees#1]

Canada did not start baseball

[epper]

Three words:

Music.

City.

Miracle.

[sc49erfan15]

Thursday, March 16th, 2006. Tennessee 63, Winthrop 61. I was in attendance, clad head to toe in garnet and gold, and we were 1.8 seconds from one of the most remarkable upsets in NCAA Tournament history.

Monday, September 27th, 1999. Aeneas Williams ends Steve Young's career.

...and pretty much any 49ers moment from the past 3 years.

[PaperAirplane31]

(1.) 2001 World Series, it's not the fact the Yankees lost, but the fact that they lost so soon after 9/11. Though if Id've know what would've happened the Mets winning would be just as good.

(2.) 1/5/03 - The 49ers beat the Giants on the lack of a pass interference call.

[gojetsgo]

1990 - Jets blow 3-1 series lead to go down in 7 to the Oilers. Oilers cakewalk all the way to the Cup.

1992 - Jets blow 3-1 series lead to the Canucks.

1993 - Round 1 game 6 - Jets vs. Canucks. Game goes into OT, Greg Adams kicks it in. The goal counts, and the Jets are out.

2001 - Blue bombers with a 14-4 record get beat by the 8-10 Stamps to lose the Grey Cup.

But the worst, by far:

1995-96 - The Jets: Going, Going, Gone.

Losing games and championships are one thing, but there's no worse feeling in sports than losing your team.

[See Red]

January 4th, 1997 -- AFC Divisional Playoffs. Heavily favored Broncos lose 30-27 to the Jaguars after getting off to an early 12-0 lead.

2003 ALCS -- Aaron :censored:ing Boone.

[Luigi74]

1990 NLCS the Bucs had a better team than the Reds but never showed up.

1991 NLCS pretty much the same as 90 but was extra annoying because it was the Braves.

1992 NLCS I still say Spanky tagged Bream out at the plate.

1992 World Series Bobby Cox does the worst job of managing ever in the fall classic and a non-American team wins the Series.

1993 World Series just because Joe Carter's home run is compared to Maz's in 1960 when they are not even close.

1996 The day Kevin McClatchy/G. Ogden Nutting bought the Pirates.

2002 AFC Championship bad special teams play killed the Steelers once again and the world has to deal with the media's love affair with the Patriots.

2006 The Pens are sold to someone who has no plans on keeping the team in the city.

[floydnimrod]

2006 Sean Casey is traded to the Pirates for SH (Dave Williams)

2006 Carson Palmer goes down after a blow by Kimo von Cheapshot

2000 in the C-USA tournament Kenyon Martin goes down with a knee injury, We would have won that year.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Bulls: going up 2-0 against Washington then loosing 4 straight to blow it in 2005.

That was depressing for you? Really?

It was a first round game between the 4 and 5 seeds. Those are expected to be a toss-up, and it was also the first playoff appearance of boths teams in a while. It's not like expectations of either team were high to begin with, and the Bulls would have been smoked just as badly by the Heat as the Wizards were.

I get individual pain, but it seems like that playoff series loss was a just-happy-to-be-there moment more than anything else.

My most devestating sports memory was the Wychek's forward lateral. I just felt so helpless.

[BBTV]

2006 Baseball World Classic. USA vs Canada we lose to CANADA come on.

A WBC game was your most depressing sports memory?

Wow.

[CC97]

Canada did not start baseball

Most countries claim to invent every sport, ours is no different than the rest.

[Mac the Knife]

Actually mine has nothing to do with a particular game or event.

It was in April, 2001. I was sitting at my desk and pulled up mlb.com, hoping to catch an article or two about the grand opening of PNC Park... only to learn that my childhood hero, Willie Stargell, had died.

With 5 people in my office at the time, I have to admit I started weeping rather uncontrollably. They thought I had come unhinged, but I didn't really care. I didn't cry for some members of my family when they died, but I did for Willie, in part because it reminded me that my childhood was long gone.

I've since visited his grave and paid my respects, but that moment depresses me just thinking about it, even five years removed.

[PaperAirplane31]

Canada did not start baseball

Most countries claim to invent every sport, ours is no different than the rest.

Baseball's origins lie in primitive ball whacking with stick games developed in England. (I think.)

[Breakwood]

Canada did not start baseball

Most countries claim to invent every sport, ours is no different than the rest.

Baseball's origins lie in primitive ball whacking with stick games developed in England. (I think.)

Baseball's origins come from cricket, but legend has it that the first organized game of baseball as we know it was played in St. Marys, Ontario near London.

[IceCap]

Canada did not start baseball

Most countries claim to invent every sport, ours is no different than the rest.

Baseball's origins lie in primitive ball whacking with stick games developed in England. (I think.)

Baseball's origins come from cricket, but legend has it that the first organized game of baseball as we know it was played in St. Marys, Ontario near London.

Actually it was in Beachville, Ontario in 1838, at a festivle to celebrate the end of the 1837 Rebellion. It took place one year before baseball was said to have been invented in the US.

[FiddySicks]

(2.) 1/5/03 - The 49ers beat the Giants on the lack of a pass interference call.

HA!!! I was at that game. What a frickin comeback, never heard The Stick get louder. best part though? Watching my Bucs slam the Niners the next week, on my birthday. That was such an awesome year for me.

[TFoA]

(2.) 1/5/03 - The 49ers beat the Giants on the lack of a pass interference call.

HA!!! I was at that game. What a frickin comeback, never heard The Stick get louder. best part though? Watching my Bucs slam the Niners the next week, on my birthday. That was such an awesome year for me.

I remember that game too. For some reason I was going for the Giants, so I was pissed off when they didn't call IMO the most obvious pass interference in the history of professional football.