re: What was your most depressing day as a sports fan?

The day the umpteenth former NFL player committed suicide because of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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BS.

We just won a Ship a few years before and were in the final game. It really didn't bother me losing to the best coach in the game.

The spoiled fans whining about Miles and wanting him fired was far more painful and frustrating to listen to than the loss.

Both Saints playoff losses were far worse to me because we had never been there and won before.

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1. Saints-Vikings NFC championship. To get a fricking delay of game penalty after a time-out was inexcusable.
To see someone get fined for a dirty hit on Favre but not get penalized was criminal. To find out later that a bounty was out on Favre and dirty hits cost the Vikings the game was downright garbage.
2. Vikes-Cowboys NFC Championship game 1975 season. A blatant push-off by Drew Pearson wasn't called leading to a game winning TD.

That Saints-49ers game was one of the best games I have ever witnessed.

I can't really call it depressing. It was a roller coaster of emotion

The Kentucky game in 2011.


The moment Jordan Jefferson trotted onto the field. The crowd boo'd, sensing what was coming. I knew I wasnt the only one. There was an ominous, depressing feeling that I never could shake from that day until 1/9.

It all started for me at the Ky game

Really ironic now that I go to LSU but when LSU beat Duke in the sweet sixteen in 06 I was so upset.

I was a huge Duke fan and that team was stacked. I thought they were near unstoppable.

probably the Saints-Browns game in 1999.

Tim Couch threw a hail mary that got tipped into the hands of the CLE WR for a TD on the last play.

I mean it was a shitty season, I think the Saints only won like 3 games but I just remember thinking... why God why?

they had already surrendered a tipped pass that was caught for a TD at the end of the first half the week before on a hail mary.

I mean what the frick? That was a rough season.

1/9 I didn't attend but my parents had tickets and we're not let in. Long story but my brother sold the tickets to them through a website and after they were sold it resold them but my parents got the money back and didn't have to watch that shite show lol

1/9

Long as frick version:

I grew up with a different hatred for Alabama than almost all LSU fans. I was raised in a rabid Tennessee family. It's not just my Dad, it's my grandmother cursing Alabama at the dinner table at freaking Easter. I went to every Tennessee-Alabama game in Knoxville, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa for over a decade. To say it's in my blood is an understatement.

Fast forward to 1/9, I had just graduated from LSU in December and searched for tickets the entire Holidays. What a way to bookend a fantastic time at LSU. We're gonna beat Bama twice to cap an undefeated season against what could be argued as the most difficult single-season schedule ever played. We're gonna do it at home, in New Orleans, and party like it's Mardi Gras.

I got a ticket that Monday morning for way more than I could really afford. I told myself, to hell with it, this is rare. I had to go. Then, with the entire country watching, we shite the bed. We didn't just wet the bed, we shite all over it, smeared it across the freakin wall, and rolled around in it.

I've been on the road for many losses, whether at a UT or LSU road game and nothing compares to how the Bama fans were on that walk back to my truck. They are a lot of great Alabama fans. I'm convinced I walked out with the Walmart-side walker reserved Bama section. Worst experience and most depressing moment as a sports fan.

Rant over. Whew I feel better

1/9/12