Your Top 5 most scarring sports outcomes...

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

The guy must have pulled an epic con job on Clark.

He was a bully and I'm sure that his bluster worked on an owner that was, at the time, relatively new to the position. Pioli had a fantastic resume, no doubt, and the NFL has been chortling Patriot balls for 17 years now. That's why hiring good employees is tough. Sometimes the guy with the best resume is a fraud.

[AJKCFAN]

Think the standard should be if the loss didn’t happen and instead your team won, would it have led to a Championship (or at the very least a trip to the Championship Round)

So with that in mind and I will just limit this to KC professional sports teams and NOT Sporting KC who I simply don’t give a **** about...

1. 2014 World Series Game 7 - this really wasn’t the most heartbreaking per se. I mean the Royals won so much that year even without winning it all. They mattered again. They were relevant again. That 29 year abyss one can easily argue was worse than this drought with the Chiefs. For me, it was tough because I flew out to KC for Games 6 & 7 of World Series with my 8 year old son, all to see them lose. Left the K feeling really proud for the Royals and the season/run they had but to not achieve the ultimate father/son sports moment (watching your team win it all live in person) hurt so ****ing much. Thankfully we DID get that chance next year as drove 30 minutes from our home to Citi Field for Game 5 and stayed there til 2am celebrating with the Royals and some 5000 Royals fans who also were there. STILL, seeing them all winning it all in New York WAS nice but it would not have held a candle to seeing them win it off in KC the year before. So yes, it’s tops for me but for selfish reasons.

2. 1977 ALCS Game 5 - although the Yankees were themselves. Great team, that WAS the best ever Royals team. 102-60. 16 game winning streak. Then an 8 game winning streak. Part of a 35-4 run. Games 4 AND 5 in KC. Up 3-1 through 7 innings in Game 5 and still up 3-2 going to the 9th and summoning your ace pitcher Dennis Leonard to finish them off and you give up 3 to lose the pennant. Did we ever need Wade Davis in a time machine... Royals would have annihilated the Dodgers in World Series.

3. 1997 AFC Divisional Playoffs - always felt winner of that game was going to crush Steelers the next week and go to Super Bowl and stood a great chance to win Super Bowl. After seeing the Chiefs detonate the 49ers 44-9 a month before, it just felt this team had it all and no real weakness. I mean put that D on the 2018 Chiefs and we are 16-0 without being seriously challenged even with that schedule. Yes Gannon should have started that game. Yes Broncos greased their jerseys. Yes Gonzalez had a TD taken away. I still think had they won that game they WIN the Super Bowl.

4. 1993 AFC Championship Game - with Montana leading Chiefs to improbable comeback wins to Steelers and then Oilers, just felt even with going to Buffalo and facing the 3 time defending Champs, there was a Super Bowl berth on the line and we had the QB to pull off the impsoble. Then the counter trey happened. Then Kimble Anders at the goal line just before halftime doing his best Demetrius Harris impersonation happened. Then DT being benched happened which cost him years from finally making the Hall of Fame. Then Montana being concussed happened. We’ve never been back to an AFC Championship Game since despite having 5 chances (4 at home) since.

5. 1980 World Series Game 5 - much like the 1977 ALCS. Royals led 3-2 top 9 and had the Quiz in for the save in KC. Close it out and you have 2 chances to win it all in Philly. But he gave up 2 so it’s now 4-3 Phillies. Royals load the bases and Jose Cardinal pinch hits with 2 outs and inexplicably takes a called strike 3 and Royals lost the World Series the next game but it was pretty much all over rughtbthere and then. Was at that mother ****ing game too.

I left some out so I’ll call it next level Top 5 or 6-10

6. 1976 ALCS Game 5. Yeah Chambliss walk off HR but it’s all top of 9 when a very disputed force out at second for the third out denied the inning being continued. Had it been continued the Royals would have had the bases loaded and Brett was going to be up. Somehow I feel the Chambliss HR would have sliced the Royals lead to 8-7 (or 9-7 - or maybe Brett hits the most clutch granny of all time and its now 10-7). What I’m saying is Royals would have made the World Series. They would have been destroyed by the Big Red Machine but going to World Series on their first playoff appearance would have been incredible - precursor to what did happen in 2014 if you will.

7. 1995 AFC Divisional - this was the most painful loss for me and hopefully I’ll never experience anything like this again. My appetite shut down for 5 days. I was beyond depressed. Years of past Chiefs disappointments all because they kept losing on the road but now you’re 8-0 at home and the 1 seed and you go 13-3! And here comes a 9-7 Colts team that was good at absolutely nothing. It still boggles my mind that they lost that game. If ever there was a game for Marty Ball it was that game in the 0 degree freezer with our elephants against their undersized DL and they put it in Bono’s hands. WHY? Still, even if they won given all the heartache in Marty’s career before and since there was no guarantee whatsoever they would have beat Steelers next week and after getting beat soundly in Dallas in Thanksgiving, there was very little reason to think they would have been able to beat that Cowboys Dynasty. Still though, it would have been a Super Bowl.

8. 1990 AFC Wild Card - this was next up. I wasn’t born for Christmas Day OT loss in 1971 so hating Shula and the Dolphins was something told to me from my Dad but I learned how to hate them here. Completely dominated Marino for 3 quarters and up 16-3 and now down 17-16 and yes the hold by Szott really hurt but Lowery is on for a 52 yard FG to win it and he made SO MANY long FGs in his career and it could be said he was the best long FG kicker in the game. It was in Miami and I don’t remember it being windy or rainy. Hell, Stoyanovich made a 58 yard FG to close first half. So Lowery hit it and it was right down the middle and I celebrated and celebrated until the refs said it was no good. Replays show it being at least 3 yards short. I still to this day cannot believe Lowery did not have the power to make that kick. And that Chiefs team was really good. DT 20 sack season. DeBerg was fantastic. Barry Word and Christian Okoye could run so effectively. That team likely loses to Buffalo next week though. Also if DT sacks Kreig for Sack 8 they won the AFC West and Raiders go to Miami and Chiefs host Bengals in Divisionals so maybe they beat Esiason. I say that because instead, the Raiders host Bengals and that’s the game Bo Jackson hurt his hip and in the process ends his Royals career.

9. 2016 AFC Divisonal - how do you lose a game when your D (and team) does not give up a single TD the whole game and your offense scores 2 TDS and you STILL lose? Only the Chiefs. Here however, the Steelers did control the game tempo and although Chiefs led in first half they never led in second half. However this was best chance for any Chiefs team post Marty to reach AFC Chamlionship Game and failed. I don’t think they would have had any chance to beat the Patriots the following week.

10. 2003 AFC Divisional - the No Punt game. Only team Vermeil tool to the playoffs and their offense was so freaking good. And their special teams was so freaking good and yes Dante Hall took one to the house in this game too. And their defense was so freaking bad. And we knew it going on and Peyton just carved them up. The whole. Freaking. Game. Hey fun fact. This was the ONLY home playoff game in Chiefs history that they NEVER led at any point. The shame is Priest Holmes, Tony Gonzalez, Trent Green never had a chance to play for a Super Bowl appearance. Even though Bellichick and Brady would have routed them in AFC Championship Game.

Now I didn’t put 2013 AFC Wild Card Game here. In pain, it is at the top no doubt and when you’re up 38-10 even on the road you win. But keep in mind they were the worst team in NFL the year before and during the course of this game they were beyond banged up. So many key injuries. Winning that game would have been without question their last win of the year as they were toast next round.

And I didn’t put 2017 AFC Wild Card Game either. It is also painful because up 21-3 in your home, you win ESPECIALLY against a mediocre offense that somehow managed to score 19 points in a half with everything at stake. Truth be told, I was so ready for the season to end and turn the keys over to Mahomes. Seriously, as Alex struggled in second half, Mahomes should have been the call for the final drive. I had absolutely zero doubt then the Chiefs win if he played but not upset. Losing that game was a blessing in disguise as it ushered in the Mahomes Era and despite Sutton and despite Reid, you give Mahomes a 21-3 lead or a 38-10 lead, home or road, strong team or weak team, I have unwavering confidence Mahomes will win each and every one of those games.

[suzzer99]

Oh yeah DT failing to sack Krieg for sack #8 might be my #5.

[Hammock Parties]

I'm going to Denethor his ass if we win the SB

[Prison Bitch]

I’m still enraged by 96 colts. I can’t say that about any other outcome.


But it taught me a lesson: records don’t mean shit. I didn’t follow point spreads back then so -8.5 isn’t a sure thing. I felt like it was a -15 spread equivalent or something.

[Wallcrawler]

93. 13:25 left in 3rd quarter of AFC title game. Bruce smith and Darryl Talley bounce Joes head off the turf. Kreig comes in and Chiefs fall 30-13. I was 16 years old that season. First season introduced to football and the chiefs. Got hooked, misery ever since.

95 Marty sticks with Bono after 3 picks, and **** kickers. Gannons pass just over Lake Dawson's fingertips still ****ing haunts me.

97. Horseshit OPI on Tony Gonzalez.....

03. No punt bowl. Johnnie Morton drop and a Priest Holmes fumble kept us from keeping pace with fivehead.

14. 38-10 at half. Lose 45-44.

[DanT]

1) Royals lose Game 5 of 1977 ALCS

2) Chiefs lose in AFC Divisional round for 1995 Season

3) Royals lose 1980 World Series in 6 games

4) Royals lose Game 7 of 2014 World Series

5) US Mens Basketball lose to USSR in 1972 Olympics

[Prison Bitch]

We drafted Ethan Horton #15 overall in 1985.


Jerry Rice went next.

[Demonpenz]

MU losing the UCLA. Mario Lemiuex and Jagr losing to Flordia Panthers in game seven. KU losing when they had Wiggons and Embid was bad, KU losing to Michigan was bad, I don't remember much about the KU loses to bucknell and bradley because I was drinking booze and cough syrup all day in those days. The Chiefs game where they brought a specialist to kick the ball deep on kickoffs and he kicked it out of bounds 3 times was a bad one.

[Buns]

Chiefs - no particular order

No Punt Game

Trent getting concussion was pretty scarring to see live.

Colts comeback in Andy's first year was bad; that team was hot.

Pittsburgh and Tennessee losses were bad. Nothing beats a playoff defeat.

Besides Chiefs, 2014 Game 7 of World Series sucked.

Most scarring to date, because it ruined hockey for me, for years: 9 year old me, 1993 Stanley Cup Finals. **** Jacques Demers.

[007]

Blowing the 28 point lead in the playoffs. Nothing else comes close.

[siberian khatru]

I'm a bit surprised at how many list Game 7 of the 2014 World Series.

When Salvy popped up, my shoulders slumped at the finality of a wild ride. Damn, so close. But I didn't feel the least bit crushed emotionally. And any lingering disappointment was pretty much flushed away the next year. I still think that if they win in 2014 they don't win in 2015, because they were so motivated to return, so either way we get our WS.

[Bump]

most of the 90's playoff losses. The one vs the Colts and that kicker that shall not be nammed. The one when Marty benched Rich Gannon because "you can't lose your job due to an injury"

those two where definitely the worst ones for me.

[jimidollar]

Every Chiefs playoff loss. I am a Jayhawks fan and while they've had many tournament disasters, they've also had success. It balances out. The Chiefs need to start balancing out now.

Also, how the **** does golf make it into your top 5?

[UK_Chief]

These play off loss threads are surely bad karma for Saturday?!