re: Most devastated you've been at a sporting event?

UAB loss

Tenn loss after Katrina

1/9

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Most devastated you've been at a sporting event?

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Saints.

1983.

Last game of the regular season at home vs. the Rams.

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I don't understand how this can be anyone's most devastating game? A week later, the game was fricking irrelevant.

shite like 1/9, Saints-Niners 2011 playoffs, LSU-NCState last week, those choke jobs last fricking forever.

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True, but we didn't know at the time, so I can see how at that moment, it would have been...though I don't have it on my shortlist generally speaking.

baseball: 2012 wild card game infield fly

football: 2014 Alabama,2012 Alabama, 2011 Alabama

I was at the LSU/#1 Arkansas basketball game in 1994. Alex Dillard hit a three to send it to OT, and then Scotty Thurman hit the game winner in OT. LSU lost 108-105.

Two weeks later, I was at the LSU/Kentucky game, where LSU lost a 31 point lead with 15 minutes left.

Whole lotta this going on after those two games:



And people bitch about being LSU basketball fans now.

The most shocking loss was Norfolk State, but Mizzou had a few injuries in that game and didn't have the inside presence to win a title that year, so that's not my choice.

My choice is the 2002 Elite Eight loss to Oklahoma. That tournament was the only time in my lifetime I believed Mizzou could at least have a legitimate shot at winning the national title. If they get by OU, they get a very beatable Indiana team in the Final Four and get either Maryland/KU in the final. That was a great KU team and Mizzou played them very tight three weeks before in Columbia. Just having a shot at playing for the title would have been great.

The game itself was frustrating. Clarence Gibert, playing with an injury, made just one FG. The team missed over half its free throws and yet, they lost by just six points. Everything went wrong but they still lost by only 6.

If Quin gets to a Final Four in year three, who knows what kind of domino effect that has in recruiting and momentum. Perhaps he doesn't gamble on Rickey Clemons. I think Quin was a good coach who made a few mistakes. If they win that game, you never know. Perhaps he is still there.

Just thinking about this thread

Missouri has to have the worst luck when it's come to finishing off games.

5th Down
The Davidson kick
The blunder in Boise

2013 NBA Finals. Game 6. Spurs 28 seconds from winning a title on the Heat's home floor.

Then everything that could possibly go wrong, did. Lost in OT and went on to barely lose game 7.

But game 6 was the heartbreaker. Literally had to reevaluate the way I watched sports after that, cuz it fricked me up, I won't front

1/9 theres no getting over that game. Must be rough for the players.