What Was Your Most Heartbreaking Moment As A Sports Fan?

[Maxwell865]

Inky Johnson injury. I was sitting in section S and really young at the time. Made me sick to my stomach.

 

[azvol03]

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.

Its been 30 years...but it’s one of those “etched in your memory” things. I can still “see“ it. October 1990, Neyland Stadium, UT vs. ‘Bama. Huge defensive struggle the whole game.

Seconds remaining. Tied 6-6. They’re unranked, we’re #3 in the country. We’re driving and get within field goal range. Only a few seconds on the clock. Victory is within our grasp. Bama blocks our potential game-winning field goal attempt and the ball rolls and bounces down to OUR 31 yard lime where they take possession...and promptly kick a field 48 yarder for the win with no time left. From a likely victory to utter, crushing defeat in just seconds. Found a quick synopsis of it online. Pasted here:

1990: Last-second field goal hands Alabama unlikely victory

Alabama was a wounded team when it headed to Knoxville on Oct. 20, 1990, having suffered numerous injuries to key offensive players and sporting a 2-3 record. Tennessee was 4-0-2 and ranked No. 3 in the country. Alabama somehow pulled off a 9-6 stunner, with Stacy Harrison blocking a last-minute field goal attempt by the Volunteers. The ball rolled far enough to set up a 48-yard field goal try by Philip Doyle, who nailed the kick and gave Gene Stallings' Crimson Tide one of the unlikeliest wins in the series.

 

[Carp]

Super Bowl 34. Titans/Rams and 1 yard short.

Nothing else comes close.

 

[tennrich1]

I don't have heartbreaks over sports but the biggest fiasco (I guess because it was such a fluke) was the loss at Memphis. That was the worst display of football from the Vols I had seen in years. Of course, if we had replay... his knee was down yada yada yada....If that games played 50 more times the Vols win 50 times....

 

[orangefloyd]

Big John Tate getting knocked out by Mike Weaver in Stokely In his first title defense. 1980.

 

[Vols4life]

Being a Bucs fan the 1999 NFC Championship game hurts....Bert Emanuel caught that ball
2001 SEC title game.....Granted Miami would have won the National title but still how do we lose to Rohan Davey...like how
2000 the Jabar Gaffney "catch" like FML man
2013 Lady Vols lose to Louisville in the elite 8.....haven't been close to the final 4 since

 

[N.ohio vol]

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

That was a huge loss. He was a household name and I felt like i lost my grandparent or an uncle that day. I actually think a alot of the country felt that way.

 

[N.ohio vol]

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At first you thought touchdown. Then pig started looking at the official like did he see what i hope he didnt see and im thinking crap i bet that was a touchback. Then the ruling

 

[Remy]

Hubert calling Gaffney's incompletion a touchdown. NOTHING else comes close. Although Mountain Cody blocking our FG attempt at Tuscaloosa where we were going for the win is my #2 but it ain't close to my #1.

 

[Vols4life]

2019 purdue

That phantom foul call.....maaaaannnn

 

[jdbeard]

Bama game when Kiffin was here. I left the MTSU homecoming game to go watch at a bar and was heartbroken.

 

[TnVol!]

Losing to tiger high in 1996. Pitiful. I lived in Memphis.

 

[LordBolton]

2001 SECCG. We should have taken home a second NC, but football looked that day like bball did today again at the same opponent.

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

Big John Tate getting knocked out by Mike Weaver in Stokely In his first title defense. 1980.

Had him beat too just needed to avoid him one more round i believe. He self destructed after that loss

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

That was a huge loss. He was a household name and I felt like i lost my grandparent or an uncle that day. I actually think a alot of the country felt that way.

Nascar died that day too

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

As a life long Cubs fan ....this ranks up there

 

[GAVol]

2013 UGA with Pig Howard fumbling into the pylon in OT was so cruel that you couldn't make it up if you tried.

 

[Flipdaddy]

LSU loss in Atlanta.
The year butch let Florida come back and win.

It’s hard to say, Tennessee has lost so many games for dumb reasons.

The Alabama loss 6-3 in 2005
The Dooley LSU loss
The Oklahoma come back

 

[fla orange]

That last second "TD" dont remember could have been Caldwell, where it hit his hands and immediately knocked out, never had it long enough to be called possession even the commentators believed the same thing. A&M was tuff loss, targeting calls Myles Garrett who went to the Browns our Bad boy to the Eagles, HeartBroke and pissed!!!, But! Biggest HeartBreak and Pissed (sorry pissed goes with it) PEYTON MANNING!! NOT! winning Heisman was ********!! Seen sports channel discussing the other day, said if Woodson had gone to Indiana? Would he have won? He doubted it! Fricking Michigan, Ohio st bias crap

 

[VaBornVol]

I’m not much of a baseball fan now, but as a kid the 1991 World Series hurt bad

 

[Smokeyone]

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.

Tennessee vs Wyoming 2008. That’s when we all knew it was over.

 

[peaygolf]

What Was Your Most Heartbreaking Moment As A Sports Fan?

Making Double-Bogey on #18 (my 36th hole of the day) to keep me from qualifying for the '95 US Open.

That has to count......................

 

[ArdentVol]

the twin disasters vs. ucla, syracuse during bernie-ernie era were more painful than the disappointing 21st-century ncaa tourney finishes.

 

[Red Forman]

Mariano Rivera’s blown save against the Diamondbacks in game 7 of the 2001 World Series.

 

[Border Vol]

the twin disasters vs. ucla, syracuse during bernie-ernie era were more painful than the disappointing 21st-century ncaa tourney finishes.

Ernie and Bernie losing to VMI 81-75 in the opening round of the 1976 NCAA Tournament.