What Was Your Most Heartbreaking Moment As A Sports Fan?

[K-town Vol Fan]

Personally I have not felt the same about UT football since 2017 UF. OU sucked but at least they weren't a conference rival. That 2017 UF game killed something in my heart for UT football.

 

[zjcvols]

Still haven’t personally recovered from 2015 Florida

 

[mercuryvol]

Ancient one here. 1972 UA game.

 

[Voltopia]

Personally I have not felt the same about UT football since 2017 UF. OU sucked but at least they weren't a conference rival. That 2017 UF game killed something in my heart for UT football.

I'm liking this to agree with it - not to express any positive emotion about that crap show of an ending.

 

[Boston Vol]

Tell us your most heartbreaking moment as a sports fan?

Mine has to be the Texas A&M double overtime loss in 2016.
Or
Florida in 99, first loss after winning the National championship.

 

[Cobb-Webb 1989]

91 World Series

Hear you on that one / Kirby Puckett in game six...

If Bobby Cox would have rotated his pitches more (left the starters in too long), the Braves would have more than one WS.

 

[pbxvol]

The night Peyton got robbed during Heisman announcement. Can’t remember a time I’ve been more disappointed

 

[Sin City Vol]

Watching Pig Howard fumble while trying to score against Georgia..

 

[Border Vol]

91 World Series
2001 SEC Championship Game
2007 SEC Championship Game
1991 AFC Championship Game
2003 Super Bowl
1999 World Series
2018 NCAA March Tournament Tennessee VS Purdue
2017 NCAA March Tournament Tennessee VS Loyola Chicago

The 1996 World Series was far worse

 

[NighthawkVol]

Tell us your most heartbreaking moment as a sports fan?

Mine has to be the Texas A&M double overtime loss in 2016.
Or
Florida in 99, first loss after winning the National championship.

Losing 9-6 to Alabama in 1990 was probably the worst. Auburn coming back to tie that year was also up there. That team should’ve played for a NC. Those two games kept us from doing so.

Florida 97, Florida 93, Bama 93 (another tie that felt like a loss), and LSU 01 are up there. Losing to Purdue in the Sweet 16 a couple years ago was painful because that team deserved to go further and the officials stole it.

Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, Dyson coming up a yard short in the Super Bowl, and the Preds loss to the Pens in the 17 Stanley Cup Final are the most painful non-Vol moments.

 

[Flathead75]

I was sure someone would say 2001 when Earnhardt hit the wall!?

 

[OrangeSquid]

Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV. Too dang many from the VOLS to pick. Seems they can always find a way to crush VN's heart...

 

[VOLfrombama]

2001 was a tough year

1. I was also at the Hobnail boot game,
and then
2. Matt Mauck having our way with us

Everything else since then is just more shat on an already shatty shoe

 

[MAD]

As a follow-up question: when did you first feel numb to the football program?

Probably if I had to pinpoint it, it would be during the 2016 season.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

2001 was a tough year

1. I was also at the Hobnail boot game,
and then
2. Matt Mauck having our way with John Chavis

Everything else since then is just more shat on an already shatty shoe

FYP.

 

[MAD]

The Terrance Cody Belly Block of '09.

Yeah it sucked that we lost, but that was the one loss I could say I was proud of our Vols.

 

[coachinva]

1999 D2 National Championship. Carson-Newman blew a 20 point lead in the 4th qtr to end up losing in the 4th OT.

 

[JBVolunteer]

Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV. Too dang many from the VOLS to pick. Seems they can always find a way to crush VN's heart...

My dad and I were sitting in the opposite end zone and both of us thought Dyson made it into the end zone! I’ll never forget how heartbreaking that one was.

 

[MAD]

2001 SEC Championship
2010 Michigan State
Titans Super Bowl
Nearly every time the Caps play the Penguins in the playoffs
2017 USA/Trinidad & Tobago WC qualifier
2012 NLCS game 7 - being at the game in the pouring rain watching the Cardinals lose while 42k celebrated was depressing.

Good one, I was in shock after.

 

[MAD]

Most are against Alabama & Florida like fumbling out of the end zone & catches that aren't catches for TDs

That “not catch” still gets my blood boiling.

 

[TNDeb3]

Feb. 18, 2001. The day Dale Earnhardt died.

 

[Westtnvol2]

Ancient one here. 1972 UA game.

My first Vol game, beautiful fall day 1972. Tennessee and Holloway outplay Bama until the last two minutes. Bama scores twice in 35 seconds to win the game. 1985 Cardinals game six, blown call at first base cost Cardinals World Series against the Royals.

 

[MAD]

Miami won the NC in 1989.

Not sure, but I think they may have meant that if Vols had beaten Bama that year they would have been NC in 89.

 

[Knox-a-rue]

I was at the hobnail boot game.

 

[MAD]

1980 Vols vs Ga .. Hershel Walker as a freshman .. Glenn Ford fumble at the 1 yard line and loosing 16-15 ..

Remember listening to this game on the radio and feeling so depressed afterwards.