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[eliza0224]

Germany vs Italy world cup 2006

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c7HUMGvvwf8

Two goals in the last two minutes of the second over time.

Fuck you del pierio you magnificent sob.

This was definitely my worst sports moment. I completely blocked this. It hurts to be reminded of it
Chelsea losing a Champions League semifinal against Barca fucked me up too.

Best moment: Germany winning the last World Cup. Holy shit I celebrated Goetze's goal like there was no tomorrow.

 

[Asturie]

Game 5 of Astros vs Cardinals 2005. Astros are about to advance to the world series while at home and Pujols hits a 3 person home run against one of the best closing pitchers at the time. Luckily they won the next game before getting destroyed by the White Sox.

 

[theignoramus]

As a life long NBA fan, the Malice at the Palace had me legit shook. I knew something ugly was going to go down when Big Ben Wallace looked like he was about to throw down with Artest.

 

[njean777]

When the Eagles lost the Super Bowl I was sad. When the Eagles lost last year to the saints in the play offs I was sad. When the Eagles this year fell apart and missed the play offs I was sad. Being an Eagles fan is hard sometimes, but I still believe in them 100%. Oh and let's not forget the 4-12 season for the Eagles, that was a fun season .

 

[keuja]

germany's my team but still i really wanted him to retire with another world cup.

This, the 2014 Spurs-Heat game 7 and the France-NZ Rugby World Cup finals.

Fuck those 3 finals. Im still salty

 

[NH Apache]

Couple of those games versus the Giants were pretty depressing.

 

[EPaul]

Stern screwing the Lakers for "Basketball Reasons"

 

[ccbfan]

Uconn 1990 - Freakin Laetner
Uconn 1994 - Freakin Donyell Marshall missing 2 frees to win the game.
Uconn 1995 - Freakin Playing UCLA in California
Uconn 1996 - Freakin Mississippi State

Made Uconn 1999 freakin glorious

 

[Owensboro]

The Christian Laettner shot, 1992 Duke vs Kentucky. I was little, watching with my older brother in our living room. I pretty vividly remember being down on my knees in the Platoon position screaming "WHYYYYYY". I kid you not when I say that was the moment that I realized life wasn't like Disney Sports movies, with the "good guys" winning all the time, and games being over regardless of how much time is left.

It wouldn't be so bad if every fucking college basketball game didn't start with it's little swooping log animation over famous basketball moments, of which it is arguable the most famous. Having to relive that moment over and over and over is torture. I once had a friend from Philadelphia argue that being a fan of that city's teams was far worse than being tortured by that shot. In rebuttal, I switched to CBS before their coverage of an Indiana vs another crappyy team game and, sure enough, floating CBS logo swooping over Laettner hitting the damn shot. Seriously, it's always there.

I don't mind Laettner. In fact, he's a super nice, stand up guy. He came to a charity "Heroes vs Villians" ex-player game at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY and totally hammed it up for the crowd, getting thrown out in the 4th quarter. Then, he took pictures with fans with them "stomping on his chest" like during the game (fans had to donate to charity to do it).

But hell man, that shot. Ugh that shot.

 

[InfernoNR]

Already mentioned, but the 2004 Eagles season and then subsequent superbowl definitely destroyed me, leaving me shook for years.

 

[jello44]

Game 5 of Astros vs Cardinals 2005. Astros are about to advance to the world series while at home and Pujols hits a 3 person home run against one of the best closing pitchers at the time. Luckily they won the next game before getting destroyed by the White Sox.

That ball still orbits MMP to this day.

Lidge was never the same until he was traded to the Phillies.

 

[Col WillieSharp]

June 12, 2009. Subway Series between the Yankees and Mets.
Mets are leading 8-7 in the bottom of the ninth.
The Mets intentionally walk Mark Texiera to pitch to Alex Rodriguez with the winning runs on base.
....And it worked! Arod hits a soft pop-up to Luis Castillo, who back-pedals, sets up, and drops the ball.

Jeter and Texiera score, the Yankees win.

That was the day that I finally, finally realized that nothing was ever going to change.
I was going to grow old, and die, and the Mets will be there with me, dissapointing me for the rest of my days.

 

[Shabadoo69]

As a die hard Utah Jazz fan the Michael Jordan push off on Bryon Russell still kills me.

 

[Leunam]

Japan 2014 at the Suzuka Circuit. My favorite track in the world and a race I look forward to every year. Nico Rosberg scores pole position, but I'm pulling for Lewis Hamilton to win this. The race starts behind the safety car due to the brutal rain and the race is redflagged shortly thereafter with the cars lining up the pit lane.

Eventually we get going and Lewis takes the lead after an amazing pass on the first turn. Lap 42 comes around and Adrian Sutil loses it and bins the car in the wall, prompting a crane to come out onto the runoff are and lift his car out. The next lap, Jules Bianchi, young French driver for Marussia also crashes in the same spot.

Jules was driving for a back marker team. They along with Caterham and previously also HRT didn't race for points, just positions at the back. Until Monaco of that year where Jules would score his first points for himself and Marussia, and elevated the team above the back of the field, and even previous regular point scorers. That was a huge moment for Bianchi.

Worsening conditions bring the race to a stop, with Hamilton, Rosberg, and Sebastian Vettel rounding off the top three. Little by little information began trickling in about what happened to Bianchi. The entire paddock was in a somber mood and everyone knew that any celebrations would be muted in respect to Bianchi and the team. You could see it in everyones face. No cheering, no champagne sprayed, but some idiot didn't remember to turn off the fanfare music at the end.

Pictures and brief video gave some insight as to what happened. Bianchi had been going too fast in the wet and slid off the track at a very high speed and jammed his car under the crane, lifting this heavy vehicle with the impact of his car. He was driven to a nearby hospital and his family flew in from France right away.

I thought I had just witnessed the first death in Formula 1 since Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger both died at Imola in 1994. Jules suffered a traumatic head injury but was still alive, albeit in incredibly bad shape. His racing career is most likely over.

I doubt I'll forget the looks on everyones faces when the race ended.

Many examples I can think of, including the death of Marco Simoncelli, which I watched live, but this is the most recent.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

The first series of Mavs/Heat in the finals. The mavs were finally destined to win, but Bennett Salvatore had other plans...

 

[Frustrated_Grunt]

Seeing Clemson get blown out in the 2012 Orange Bowl by WVU felt pretty terrible, coming from someone who doesn't get too upset by losses.

Getting redemption in the 2014 Orange Bowl against Ohio State was sweet afterwards though.

 

[Jamie OD]

Yeah this was mine. France Vs Ireland in extra time of the match that determines who qualifies for the 2010 World Cup. Thierry Henry handles the ball near Ireland's goal to keep it in play, no foul is called and Henry passes it to William Gallas who then scores. France goes through. They probably would have beaten us anyway in the penalty shootout if it happened but man did it suck to see France qualify that way at our expense.

 

[jergrah]

Dolphins losing to Patriots in AFC Championship in 1985 -- Miami was the best team that year, destroyed the Bears (who won the title) on MNF and at the time Marino was god tier. Painful.

Jaguars destroying Miami in the playoffs and Marino's last game.

Braves losing World Series to Toronto

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

Oh, and the world series with the Rangers in 2010, was it? or 2011. They had it won...

 

[Draxal]

NYK.

Charles Smith.

 

[inm8num2]

2011 B1G football championship - Michigan State losing due to a roughing the punter call (it was the right call but the punter flopped so badly).

1991-1994 Super Bowls - Buffalo ((, 1991 especially for the missed FG.

2014 NCAA tournament - Michigan State losing to UConn, probably Izzo's last legit chance at a natty.

2002, MSU bball loses @ home to Wisconsin - broke a 53-game home-winning streak, Torbert's alley-oop tip in from an out-of-bounds play with 0.2 seconds left that would have won the game was waived off.

2004, MSU bball loses @ home to Wisconsin - MSU would have won the game (and B1G championship) if Chris Hill had made at least one of his two FTs in the waning moments. Devin Harris hit a 3 to tie and send it to OT.

Basically, fuck Wisconsin.

 

[Sephzilla]

NFL rigged as fuck

I'm still pissed off about that

 

[theepicoftyler]

If the Cubs get to the World Series and lose I will legit kill myself.

 

[jts]

Portugal - Greece (Euro 2000) The Greek Tragedy

Portugal - France (Euro 2004) Xavier's hand and Zidane's golden pen

Portugal - Spain (Euro 2012) fucking pens

Germany - Portugal (WC 1998 qualifier) Fuck you Marc Batta you cunt of a ref

We had such proper teams, should've won something

 

[DietRob]

Super Bowl XXIII - 1989
Bengals vs 49ers

San Fran Down 16–13, San Francisco got the ball on their own eight-yard line with 3:10 on the clock and marched 92 yards down the field in under three minutes. They then scored the winning touchdown on a Joe Montana pass to John Taylor with just 34 seconds left in the game.

Bengals will never get this close again and this was the start of the Bungles.

 

[terrisus]

Oh, and the world series with the Rangers in 2010, was it? or 2011. They had it won...

Protip: If you can't even remember what year it was, it didn't really bother you that much >.>

 

[Dunedain_Ranger]

Almost had one this year . We were in the semis beating a team 38-31 driving to kill the clock and waste our opponents time outs . We get to the 22 yard and our running back breaks open and gets hit at the one yard line and fumbles all he had to do is fall down!!! It's fine they can't 99 yards in 49 seconds ........ They sure do they score and decide to go for two their running back fumbles and we fall on it. We go on to win the championship. It would have probably sent our running back into a deep depression had we lost !!!

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I was 11 at the time so I don't remember how I felt too well, but I had watched nearly every Titans game since they came to Tennessee at that point and now as far as i know Samari Rolle is still playing for them.

Yeah. I'm not even a fan of that squad, but I remember watching that game and that shit HURT.

As a life long NBA fan, the Malice at the Palace had me legit shook. I knew something ugly was going to go down when Big Ben Wallace looked like he was about to throw down with Artest.

Yeah, that whole thing was fucking crazy. I read a Grantland article that was an oral history of that whole event awhile back - you still get the sense nobody really learned shit from it.

But there are a few things that I've seen on TV that had me pick up a phone and call a friend or family member to say "Can you believe what the fuck is going on right now?" and watching that fight break out live on TV was one of those moments. It really felt for a second there like the cops were going to come in and start tazing and beating NBA players down live on TV as what seemed like the entirety of Detroit came swarming down on top of them.

 

[inm8num2]

Here's a good one I remember being upset about for days:

Baggio misses penalty kick in 1994 WC

 

[Sparkedglory]

First thing that comes to mind for me is the fail mary thanks to the replacement refs. The Seahawks did NOT win that game dammit.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

This is the year. We have the QB. Super Bowl is a lock.

To say Ben had a terrible game is an understatement, but this interception was the killer. Still pisses me off thinking about Roidney barely walking into the endzone. Ugh.

 

[Aureon]

Italy - South Korea at the 2002 world, lost to a obviously rigged referee, who would then get off mostly scot-free from FIFA, banned the year after that to another allegation, and arrested for heroic possession in 2010.
I don't even care about soccer, but that was ridicolous.

 

[BigMastadon]

Two Words: Steve Bartman

 

[terrisus]

arrested for heroic possession

Impressive!

 

[inm8num2]

1994 Stanley Cup Finals - the Canucks were down 3-1 in the series but forced a Game 7 which they lost. I hated Mark Messier for a couple years.

 

[Crosseyes]

2010 NFCCG still hurts pretty bad. Just such a trainwreck of everything going wrong.

AP's fumbles, missed field goals, 12 men penalty, Favre's INT...

The on top of that you had the bullshit out of our control like the Saint's bounty hunters targeting Favre, the ignoring of penalties on those attempts on him, and finally the completely ref botched OT drive that gave the Saints the win.

If just anything, anything from those could've gone differently...

 

[Askani]

Mine are recent.

Best: 2013 MLS Cup. I was at the game. Cold as hell. Two overtime periods and 20...yes 20 PKs to settle it. It was amazing. It was back and forth of getting super pumped and then taking a punch to the gut 10 times in a row. I would have been devastated if we lost. Sometime later I got to stand on the PK spot and I got chills. It was crazy how small the goal felt.

Worst:

Game 7 of last seasons World Series. I waited 29 years to see the Royals win it all. To come that close was heart breaking. That said, I was in no way disappointed with their playoff run this year. That in and of itself was something special.

I would say the Royals losing game 7, but I was happy that they made the playoffs. Everything after that was gravy.

Yep. I had legit man tears. It ruined me for sports for a few months because I couldn't watch anything. I was emotionally drained "sportswise". I still am a little to be honest.

 

[Az]

Have to add Spahic fouling Nasri outside the box. France got a penalty and the game ended 1:1 which took France to the Euro 2012.

 

[joeygreco1985]

That Brazil vs. Germany game was murder.

I legit thought there was going to be a riot that night. No doubt in my mind. Watching that game live was one of the craziest sporting events ive ever witnessed.

What sports event had you the most legit shook after witnessing it, so much that you will always remember that day.

For Me: May 13, 2013 a day that will live in infamy for the City of Toronto:

Leafs are winning 4-1 going into the third period against the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of their series after being down 3-1 in the series. And then:

I couldn't watch another hockey game until that October when the new season started, the city was in mourning and I shed tears after that game.

I was one of the people in the crowd at Maple Leaf Square that night. When Boston tied it up we immediately moved to the back to make a quick exit. We knew Toronto wasn't going to win the game at that point, and we thought there was going to be a legit riot. Luckily it wasn't so bad but man that was a heartbreaker.

 

[jmdajr]

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

this mother fuckers, the hate i feel for barcelona is real as fuck. since this day i just lost any love for the sport in RL and in video games

the peak of Arsenal.

also this

this final was so damn crazy, i regret i didnt bet more on liverpool that day

 

[sikkinixx]

1994 Stanley Cup Finals - the Canucks were down 3-1 in the series but forced a Game 7 which they lost. I hated Mark Messier for a couple years.

For a COUPLE years? Fuck Mark Messier. Fuck when he waltzed in and became captain for a few shit years. And fuck Mike Keenan too.

 

[Askani]

That Brazil vs. Germany game was murder.

I legit thought there was going to be a riot that night. No doubt in my mind. Watching that game live was one of the craziest sporting events ive ever witnessed.

It was heartbreaking. I still feel bad for Brazil fans. I have a friend at work whose family is Brazilian. He was 10 when they emigrated. The look on his face when we talked about the game made me it worse. I had went to his parents house for the opening WC cup party and it was great atmosphere wise. I couldn't have imagined watched that drubbing with them.

 

[Sephzilla]

2007 NFC Championship Game - New York Giants vs Green Bay Packers - Lambeau Field

Green Bay felt like the team of fucking destiny going into this game. Favre was putting up numbers comparable to his MVP years in what many felt might be the last year of his career. Ryan Grant came out of fucking nowhere to be a dominant force at running back and give Favre the running game support he desperately needed. And the Cowboys getting one-and-done'd as the first seed ensured that the road to the Super Bowl ran through an icy cold Lambeau Field on the 50th anniversary of the stadium. It looked like the Football Gods were setting us up for the mother of all Super Bowls - Brett Favre's final blaze of glory versus the undefeated New England Patriots.

And then the Giants walked into Lambeau and continued what Michael Vick started - the destruction of the playoff Lambeau mystique.

A lot of people like to pile on Favre for the game ending interception he threw, but this was the game that permanently damaged my opinion of Mike McCarthy as a coach. This was easily the worst coached game in McCarthy's career and to this day it pisses me off that nobody tried to hold him accountable for it.

-Ryan Grant, upon becoming the starting RB for the Packers, was the most dominant running back in the league going into that game (956 total yards in the regular season on 188 carries and only started 7 games). He only gets 13 carries in a sub-zero football game that screams running game.

-The insistence on letting Al Harris try to cover Plaxico Burress by himself most of the game. Anybody who was watching this game could see clear as day before halftime was even over that Harris was clearly outmatched and needed help. Did Harris ever get that help? Nope.

-The play calling in general for the Packers seemed sketchy as fuck that game.

-I still think the Favre interception was the result of McCarthy abandoning the run game. I'm not entirely going to dump that on McCarthy because Favre still made a poor passing choice, but the Giants at that point were sending 7 back in coverage because Green Bay clearly had no intention of actually running the ball.

Ugh, thinking about it still ticks me off a little. The Packers should have won that game and they were also good enough to knock off the undefeated Patriots as well. I'm also pretty sure that if the Packers would have made it to the Super Bowl then Favre would have probably retired happily since he wanted to end his career in the big game, we would have had a smoother transition to Rodgers, and we wouldn't have had to see Favre in a Jets or Vikings jersey.

 

[VeryGooster]

2003 NLCS is probably the most I felt for someone else's fanbase.

 

[crimzonflame]

I guess I consider myself lucky that I have never experienced this. I somehow always manage to root for the right teams every year and they always win.

 

[terrisus]

also this

this final was so damn crazy, i regret i didnt bet more on liverpool that day

Could've gotten some amazing odds at the half, I'm sure.

 

[Diprosalic]

1. Federer loses to Nadal at Wimbledon 2008.

At the time i was on holiday in Japan and when we came back to the hotel late at night the match was already in the 3rd set (Federer lost both) and then he came back and won the next two. i was ecstatic. he then lost the fifth set 7:9.

i was broken.
i didn't watch any tv or visited sports site for almost a month until i was sure nobody was talking about it anymore.


2. Germany loses to Italy in 2006
3. Spurs getting daggered by Ray Allen in 2013.

 

[Pro]

Horry checks Nash into the boards. Stoudemire and Diaw take one step off the bench and idiot David Stearns suspends them for Game 5 vs. Spurs. Phoenix loses the series advantage and the 2007 Western Conference Finals in a year that any team could have beaten the Cavs in the Finals. Closest Phoenix Suns were to winning a Championship ever. Now the dream has been gone for a while.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Could've gotten some amazing odds at the half, I'm sure.

ah it was an informal bet with my milan fanboy cousin, he wanted to bet 1k or even more but since liverpool wasnt my team i shy'd away with just 500 bucks.