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Other Discussions => Other / General Sports => Topic started by: JSD on May 29, 2018, 05:02:27 AM
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My “Heartbreaking Sports Losses of The Past 20 Years” Top 10 List:
1. 2010 Celtics
2. 2007 Pats
3. 2003 Sox
4. 2011 Pats
5. 2017 Pats
6. 2006 Pats
7. 2012 Celtics
8. 2013 Bruins
9. 2018 Celtics
10. 2002 Celtics
Thoughts of my list? What am I missing?
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Trigger warning please ;)
I’m not as into baseball and ice hockey, so I have a few local sport references on there. But your NBA and NFL heartbreaks are legit
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This list seems about right with a couple of small moves. Cs are first for me in Boston sports (obviously), followed by the Pats, Sox, then Bruins. Those 1st two were absolutely killer and I am still unable to wrap my head around them. Aaron Boone, the Welker non-catch, the 21-3 lead on the Colts with Rex Grossman waiting in the SB, end of the Big 3 era...not really the thread you want to start your day with :'(
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I'd maybe bump the 2002 Celts out for whatever year the Bruins blew both 3-0 series and Game 7 leads against the Flyers.
But yeah, that's some heartache on that list for sure.
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If we are talking how heartbreaking they were AT THE TIME, I think 2003 Sox has to be first. The curse was alive and real. And it was a loss to the Yankees. Winning the next year definitely helps it feel less horrible in retrospect, but at the time there was nothing worse than that loss, at least to me.
Great job and list.
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I'd maybe bump the 2002 Celts out for whatever year the Bruins blew both 3-0 series and Game 7 leads against the Flyers.
But yeah, that's some heartache on that list for sure.
Thing about it is, it wasn’t at least conference finals, so it was really tough to elevate it to heartbreaking for me.
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Good thing you limited it to the last 20 years otherwise 1986 Sox would be #1.
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I’m not a Pats fan, so I stuck to a top-3:
1. 2010 Celts
2. 2013 Bruins
3. 2003 Sox
2010 was the worst loss I’ve ever felt. Most series / games are usually worth about 24 hours of misery. The Bruins loss stung for maybe a week. The 2010 Cs loss hurt deeply, making me lose my passion for basketball for 5 or 6 months.
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2007 Pats
2003 Sox
2011 Pats
2010 Celtics
2013 Bruins
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2010 was the worst loss I’ve ever felt. Most series / games are usually worth about 24 hours of misery. The Bruins loss stung for maybe a week. The 2010 Cs loss hurt deeply, making me lose my passion for basketball for 5 or 6 months.
I feel the same way. The Lakers, the title count, the way it all went down 21-6 FT disparity, game called totally different in the 4th, the blown lead. Makes me nauseous just thinking about it
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My “Heartbreaking Sports Losses of The Past 20 Years” Top 10 List:
1. 2010 Celtics
2. 2007 Pats
3. 2003 Sox
4. 2011 Pats
5. 2017 Pats
6. 2006 Pats
7. 2012 Celtics
8. 2013 Bruins
9. 2018 Celtics
10. 2002 Celtics
Thoughts of my list? What am I missing?
This is a tough exercise, because not all people watch all 4 sports. Furthermore, fewer people are considering all of the big 4 to be on equal ground.
I think it's hard to compare the 2010 Celtics to the 2007 Patriots or 2003 Red Sox losses. The biggest losses in my lifetime were the 86 Sox, 07 Patriots, and 03 Sox.
While the Lakers loss hurt badly (b/c they could have won easily), they just won a ring 2 years prior. Same logic with the 2013 Bruins.
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Good thing you limited it to the last 20 years otherwise 1986 Sox would be #1.
Definitely the most awful of my lifetime.
I really hated losing to the Lakers in 85, but that was much more anger than pure heartbreak.
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This is easy.
I don't follow the Bradies - er- Patriots....or the Red Sox or the Bruins.
But the Celtics?
2010, easily - for me.
Dancin' Joey and The Heartbreakers.
(http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/JOEY-CRAWFORD.gif)
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2010 Celtics were so brutal. Watching Artest beat us and seeing Rasheed wear down in real time. The Lakers bruised us inside and you saw it coming. But Artest hitting those big shots was just brutal to watch.
Still so tough because that team deserved more than 1 championship.
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My “Heartbreaking Sports Losses of The Past 20 Years” Top 10 List:
1. 2010 Celtics
2. 2007 Pats
3. 2003 Sox
4. 2011 Pats
5. 2017 Pats
6. 2006 Pats
7. 2012 Celtics
8. 2013 Bruins
9. 2018 Celtics
10. 2002 Celtics
Thoughts of my list? What am I missing?
do we really need to do this? I forgot about half of these
my dummy move to enter this thread =T
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2010 Celtics and 2013 Bruins all time hall of shame/choke jobs
2010 Celts were well under control at home and then in the 4th... I was like "this isn't real life"
2013 Bruins up 3-0 .... in a blink of an eye series tied 3-3. 7th game, Bruins score the first 3-0. Then Flyers storm back to win 4-3 (how fitting). One of the biggest choke jobs in history of sports. I almost burnt my jersey
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1. 2007 Patriots
2. 2010 Celtics
3. 2011 Patriots
4. 2012 Celtics
5. 2013 Bruins
6. 2015 Patriots
7. 2017 Patriots
8. 2018 Celtics
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Worst losses in Celtics history are Len Bias 1986 and Reggie Lewis 1993.
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Trigger warning please ;)
I’m not as into baseball and ice hockey, so I have a few local sport references on there. But your NBA and NFL heartbreaks are legit
I am exactly the same about baseball and hockey. Agree with OP on the order of the only losses on the last 20 years that I thought were "heartbreaking":
2010 Celtics and 2007 Pats equally heartbreaking
2011 Pats
Lots of others were disappointing (including the 2017 Pats, the 2018 and 2012 Celtics) but nothing else was really heartbreaking for me -- probably all the way back to the 1987 Celtics.
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Trigger warning please ;)
I’m not as into baseball and ice hockey, so I have a few local sport references on there. But your NBA and NFL heartbreaks are legit
I am exactly the same about baseball and hockey. Agree with OP on the order of the only losses on the last 20 years that I thought were "heartbreaking":
2010 Celtics and 2007 Pats equally heartbreaking
2011 Pats
Lots of others were disappointing (including the 2017 Pats, the 2018 and 2012 Celtics) but nothing else was really heartbreaking for me -- probably all the way back to the 1987 Celtics.
Man, those '10 C's and '07 Pats are still nightmare fuel.
I think the 2010 Celtics is probably my worst. Couldn't bring myself to be interested in basketball for a while after that
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2007 Patriots was brutal. 18-0 and then the G-Men broke our hearts.
Still feels awful to think about their D-Line just hitting/sacking Brady almost every play it seems.
I was only 8-9 years old at the time, and actually had tears in my eyes that night and was really sad. What could have been if we'd gone perfect that year... :'(
And now it's like you have PTSD when you think of the Giants in the playoffs LOL.
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Worst losses in Celtics history are Len Bias 1986 and Reggie Lewis 1993.
I think the basketball gods are smiling on us with Jaylen Brown (Reggie) and Jayson Tatum (Bias) in Green.
Seeing those two perform this season is starting to take the sting out, some.
These two could very well be bedrocks of the next 2-3 titles in Boston.
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Worst losses in Celtics history are Len Bias 1986 and Reggie Lewis 1993.
I think the basketball gods are smiling on us with Jaylen Brown (Reggie) and Jayson Tatum (Bias) in Green.
Seeing those two perform this season is starting to take the sting out, some.
These two could very well be bedrocks of the next 2-3 titles in Boston.
It feels that way!
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Some that hurt real bad in my lifetime
1975 Sox
1976 Pats
1978 Sox
1987 Celtics
2003 Sox
2007 Pats
2010 Celtics
2011 Pats
2013 Bruins
2017 Pats
2018 Celtics
But thats offset by
1976 Celtics
1981 Celtics
1984 Celtics
1986 Celtics
2001 Pats
2003 Pats
2004 Pats
2004 Sox
2007 Sox
2008 Celtics
2011 Bruins
2013 Sox
2015 Pats
2017 Pats
So its all good
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I cannot rank any of the Celtics losses higher than the Patriots/Brady big losses.
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1) 2010 Celtics
2) 1973 Celtics
3) 1987 Celtics - Game 4 & McHale's fumbled free-throw rebound
4) 1975 Celtics
5) 2011 Celtics - after stupid trade that cost a Banner
6) Len Bias
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5) 2011 Celtics - after stupid trade that cost a Banner
Of course Jeff Green shows up meaningfully, for the first time in his career, against us in the 2018 ECF... Ugh...
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5) 2011 Celtics - after stupid trade that cost a Banner
Of course Jeff Green shows up meaningfully, for the first time in his career, against us in the 2018 ECF... Ugh...
While Perk sat courtside cheering him on.
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2010 Celtics by far. This one was not just heartbreaking but it p---ed all of us off because of the way it was stolen from us by the refs.
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2019 Superbowl hopefully won't be on there
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2019 Superbowl hopefully won't be on there
You trying to jinx them?
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2010 Celtics (Game 7 Finals)
1973 Celtics (Game 7 ECF)
1987 Celtics (Game 4 Finals)
2011 Celtics (Trading Kendrick Perkins)
2013 Bruins (Game 6)
Oh sorry, you said last 20 years.
1973 and the lost FT rebound by McHale at the end of Game 4 in '87 were too painful for me to leave out.