Your Top 5 most scarring sports outcomes...

[Jerm]

So reading the Colts/Chiefs topic about the game in '96 that is a horror fest and how it scarred everyone gave me the idea for this topic...screw it, I'm curious about everyone else's...

Here's mine...

1. Colts/Chiefs '96 playoffs - What more needs to be said? Thought at the very least we were going to the Super Bowl and nope...I was devastated.

2. Blues/Red Wings - Game 7 '96 Western Conference Semfinals - Another "this is our year" moment...and Steve ****ing Yzerman in Double OT rips my heart out with the most seeing eye bullshit slapper ever. **** off.

3. Mizzou/Oklahoma '02 Elite Eight - Clarence Gilbert goes ice damn cold and Arthur Johnson couldn't hit a FT to save his life...yeah that about sums up this shit show. Nothing like losing to OU for the 1,769th time in a row with a chance to go to the Final Four on the line.

4. Phil Mickelson at the 2006 U.S. Open - This entire topic could be 1-5 Phil but this one takes the cake for me. I couldn't believe he was actually going to do it and win an Open after coming so close and then.........banana peel off the 18th tee. Compound that with a calamity trying to get to the green and a totally meltdown was in progress. I sat in silence as his chip for bogey and a playoff raced by the cup.

5. Game 7 2014 World Series - Thankfully 2015 dampened and lessened the blow of this loss even though it still stings pretty bad. Madison Bumgarner being possessed by Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, and Cy Young at once and watching it knowing the inevitable absolutely sucked. Then you have the ray of light Gordo triple in the 9th and the uncertainty of never knowing what would've happened had he been sent...

What an uplifting topic, yes I know.

[FloridaMan88]

1) Chiefs losing to the Colts in the ‘95 playoffs.

2) Miami getting screwed by the refs in the Fiesta Bowl vs. Ohio State.

3) Chiefs losing to Denver in the ‘97 playoffs.

4) Chiefs blowing a 28 point lead vs. the Colts in the 2013 playoffs.

5) Miami losing to Notre Lame in ‘88.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Not sure why KU/Arizona wasn't as scarring to me... was relatively young and must not have realized how good that team actually was at the time.


IMO, in no way was the 2014 Royals scarring, and I was at game 7 of the WS (and paid out the ass for it).... that was such an amazing and unexpected run.... I mean, 2 minutes after the final out, fans in our section were chanting "thank you, Roy-als". And you knew they'd be back. Yeah, watching the game wasn't all sunshine and roses, but it was all just icing on the cake at that point........ similar to KU/Kentucky in the NC (except baseball is much more of a 50/50 game, of course).

I agree about the 14 ws loss. I just knew we would get back. I just knew that group would win one.

[suzzer99]

1. Chiefs playoff game at Miami - '90 season. Marino comes back from down 13 in the 4th Q. Chiefs get to the 30 or so down by 1. Okoye runs it down to the 10, should be game over. Nope - holding Dave Szott - which no one ever saw, and I'm told was just because he pancaked his man and he defender pulled him down onto him. Deberg can't get any more yards. Lowery misses a 50-yarder with the wind - dead center perfect - one yard short. Nothing will ever hurt as much as that game. A piece of me died that day.
2. The nameless kicker game.
3. Tom Watson in the British open at 59 years old.
4. Tyus Edny - I was watching with a bunch of my friends who went to Mizzou.
5. Probably Phil Mickelson at Winged Foot - so painful.

[ClevelandBronco]

1. The Fumble
2. The Drive
3. Red Right 88
4. Game 7, 1997 World Series
5. Can't think of one.

[suzzer99]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

I remember just being devastated in the 95 and 97 losses but I was still somewhat young. Too young to be scarred. I was also devastated Ayer losing game 7 in 2014 but that season was still so amazing.

That's how I was with the Chris Chambliss Royals game. Just a little too young to be devastated. I do remember my Mom locking herself in her room.

It's amazing I can't think of one scarring loss by the Royals since. It never really felt like we were in the 1980 WS, or any of the other playoffs we lost before '85. Then we didn't have any playoffs for 29 years. As bad as the Bumgarner game was - I was so happy just to make it that far that I can't put it in my most painful losses.

The Chiefs OTOH have been just a factory of pain since 1990 or so. Quite impressive actually.

[BlackOp]

I'd not say games but individual plays...

The fumble off a lineman's head back to Luck for a TD....

Mariota's pass to himself for a TD...

Those are plays driven by forces outside of anyone's control...literally 1 in a million chance. Both situations, the defender made a great, drive ending play which just added to the surrealism....they both ended up being the difference in the game.

Chiefs have lost two post-season games directly as a result of once in a lifetime, freak occurrences...in a span of 4 seasons.

You are left without a tangible explanation...

[tk13]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

1. Chiefs playoff game at Miami - '90 season. Marino comes back from down 13 in the 4th Q. Chiefs get to the 30 or so down by 1. Okoye runs it down to the 10, should be game over. Nope - holding Dave Szott - which no one ever saw, and I'm told was just because he pancaked his man and he defender pulled him down onto him. Deberg can't get any more yards. Lowery misses a 50-yarder with the wind - dead center perfect - one yard short. Nothing will ever hurt as much as that game. A piece of me died that day.
2. The nameless kicker game.
3. Tom Watson in the British open at 59 years old.
4. Tyus Edny - I was watching with a bunch of my friends who went to Mizzou.
5. Probably Phil Mickelson at Winged Foot - so painful.

I wasn't going to put any golf ones but that Tom Watson one is a real good pick. Just because it would have been one of the most unbelievable things to ever happen in sports. I'm not sure there's anything you can compare to that.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I actually think Watson losing that Open was bad for Watson fans and KC but good for golf. A 59-year-old guy winning a major is a bad look for a sport, IMO.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

This game ruined me as a Chiefs fan.

Mahomes will restore your inner child as he has mine.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

1) Chiefs losing to the Colts in the ‘95 playoffs.

2) Miami getting screwed by the refs in the Fiesta Bowl vs. Ohio State.

3) Chiefs losing to Denver in the ‘97 playoffs.

4) Chiefs blowing a 28 point lead vs. the Colts in the 2013 playoffs.

5) Miami losing to Notre Lame in ‘88.

I lost $200 on that game

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by Pawnmower

#1 is trading for alex smith

That was about as deflating as you can get. There was no hope to win anything meaningful.

Don’t forget trading picks for Herm Edwards. That started the dark ages of chiefs football.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

As far as Chiefs reg season, our 1994 loss to the Lambs:
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...9409250kan.htm


We were 3-0, at home, favored by -14.5 against a 1-2 shit team. Shut out 16-0 as Joe threw 3 picks. The Lambs would go 2-10 (!) the rest of the way.

I so remember that game. LOL

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Trading for Cassel was so much worse than trading for Smith.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I actually think Watson losing that Open was bad for Watson fans and KC but good for golf. A 59-year-old guy winning a major is a bad look for a sport, IMO.

I was so sad for him and it's okay for a 59 year-old to win the open. The PGA or the US open would be a different matter.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Trading for Cassel was so much worse than trading for Smith.

Not at the time.

Half the fanbase, myself included, was convinced he was the next Trent Green, or even better, a younger version!

Cassel was like Montana after all that Huard-Croyle-Thigpen bullshit.

We learned fast.