Your worst flip out moment from a loss.

#77
#77
allvol17 said:
As I recall, we were playing Vandy, at home, 2005 and lost. My wife, young son (3 yrs at the time) were sorting through Xmas decorations for the upcoming season. Near the end of the game, when I knew we were going to loose, I picked up a talking Santa Claus and threw it across the living room (away from my wife and son) with my customary expletive "damn it!". It was weighted weird b/c of the battery pack and sailed a little high on me hitting the big wedding picture of me and my wife. The glass broke out of the frame and the picture fell to the floor. I stood in silence as I turned toward my wife and son, who were looking at me with disbelief. I opened my mouth to start to say that I didn't really mean to do that, when the talking Santa suddenly said:

"Remember, the magic of Christmas lies in your heart"

Disaster adverted - minor Xmas miracle as we all just started laughing.

My son still talks about Daddy throwing Santa across the room.:crazy:
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ah ha ha :)
 
#78
#78
After that 2001 choke against lsu, I was cursing so loud outside the Ga Dome that I almost got arrested. I've never been that angry!
 
#79
#79
No question...mine was when we lost to Arkansas (I think it was 99) and Raynoch Thomspon jumped into their o line while they were taking a knee to end the game. Thomspson embarrassed the entire team that day, and that sent me into flip out mode.
 
#80
#80
2000 LSU game where we blew the comeback. I slammed my head back into the wall from the couch and broke a light switch in the chalet we were staying. It didn't hurt - I was drunk, but the look I got from the others in the room was perturbing. I then got into a verbal altercation with the guy who was responsible for the security deposit.

Right after that, I proceeded to haul ass down a curvy mountain road to get..... Krispy Kreme donuts. Guess I had to vent by drunk driving down a mountain and eating junk food.

Bleed-Orange said:
I should probably hide all of these memories deep down and never tell anyone how crazy I am for UT football, but it makes for a fun thread.

Mine was the 2001 SEC championship game against LSU. We fumbled away our chance, and a shot at the national title, late in the game. I threw the ottoman threw the living room wall. I then proceeded out the front door and stripped out of my lucky UT outfit. I lit the pile of clothes on fire and watched them burn in my underwear as the neighbors drove by. Needless to say, I wasn't invited to the next neighborhood BBQ.
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#81
#81
Football: tie between 2007 SEC Championship game and last year's game against (I think) Alabama. After the SECCG, I made my way down the GA Dome ramps cursing at the top of my lungs, kicking trash cans, and bumping into every LSU fan that crossed my path. All in front of a girl I'd been dating for about a month. After the Bama game, I fired off an email to Hamilton telling him what incompetent bozos he and Fulmer are and that I wouldn't give the University another dime until Fulmer got fired. Of course Fulmer did get fired not too much later and I felt terrible. I got pretty upset about the Gaffney game and the 2001 SECCG, but that was before alcohol entered my life and my celebrations and flip outs got much more legendary.

Basketball: Sweet 16 game against Ohio State. I believe I set a record for number of f bombs dropped in a 5 minute car ride on my way home from watching that game.
 
#82
#82
My worst flip out is ironic in a couple of ways. First, it was after a win.

In 1988, we started 0-6 but won our last 5 to finish 5-6. We opened with Colorado St. in 1989 and were favored by 20 points or so. If you weren't around for Johnny Majors, well he was the king of run it up the middle on 3rd and long. And that he did, all day long, as we protected a lead and played a field position game, and squeaked out a 17-14 win.

Well, my satanic ex-girlfriend came to stay with me that weekend and was giving me one of her traditional mindf@#c*ings. By games end, my whiskey flask had emptied just to the point where I had completely lost all inhibition and had superhuman strength.

Besides the ex-girlfriend confusion, I was enraged that Majors was (in my mind) going to subject us to another failed season. I filed out of Neyland, stormed past the baseball diamond, encountered some wooden sawhorses put up by the UT Police to control parking, and proceeded to stomp a couple of them to pieces. Evil ex-girlfriend is screaming at me to stop, various passer-bys are gawking, but I am oblivious, stomping, hurling pieces of wood at the fence surrounding the baseball diamond. Crazy. :crazy:

The second ironic thing about this is that the very next week we went out to Pasadena and upset a UCLA team that was ranked in the top 10. The UCLA game really marked the beginning of Tennessee's presence as a fixture atop the college football standings from 1989-2001.

I think your worst flip out is always going to be confined to your teens / early twenties. As you age, you learn to accept the inevitable (until you hire Kiffin :dance2:).

I have never admitted this before. Please don't call the UT Police. I can't afford to replace the sawhorses once you factor in the interest.
 
#83
#83
easy....2001 SECCG. I was a junior in college (IU....since it was in state....i know...I don't want to hear it). Anyhow...long story short...I should not have been out in public that night after the loss...but I was. And it was not pretty.
 
#84
#84
My worst flip out came in 2007 when we played at Kentucky in basketball. I expected to beat Kentucky by like 20 and after we lost I picked up one of our stools in my dorm room at the time and slung it across the room and put probably the biggest whole in the wall. It cost me 1,000.
 
#85
#85
A few come to mind....

Sometime in the mid 90's I was in high school and home alone. A devestating loss to USCjr prompted me to punch a hole in the wall in my parents living room. I got creative and moved one of my mother's pictures over the hole. It still hangs there to this day and to my knowledge she has no clue what lies beneath.

2005 Alabama - after the game was over I jumped off the couch in my crowded living room, crow-hopped and punched my entire arm all the way through a closet door. My wife didn't speak to me for over a week.

Cal 2007 - I thought i had finally gotten smart and started punching non-breakable surfaces. Instead I ended up with a broken hand from repeatedly punching the linoleum floor in my buddy's apartment.

Needless to say now I just cuss and drink too much.
 
#86
#86
Wow, I have a few. I rank them in this order:
2008 Wyoming
2001 SEC Championship Game
2005 Vandy
08-09 UCLA Games
2006 LSU Game

I remeber another game but I can remember which one it was when Clausen (casey) was our QB, I think that it was against Ga and right before the half we did a pitchout run and fumbled and they got the ball and ran it in.
Also the 1996 Florida game I traveled up to Knoxville from Murfreesboro and left my ticket at home. I borrowed a friends student ticket who was a girl and as I was going in I scanned her student id wrong and they noticed I wasnt her since I was a guy and kicked me out and wouldnt let me in. I had to walk about 3-4 miles in the pouring down rain back to my friends house and when i got back we were getting our asses kicked and we lost badly.
I broke lots of stuff after all of those games, got into fights, cussed out people in people. Oh well..
 
#87
#87
08 gator game...for whatever reason, I acutally thought we had a shot. Got entirely too intoxicated and my evening didn't go well after that one. So, well, lets just say all of 08 blew hard and I probably needed to go to rehad after the season, but i didn't. :)

The good news is, from what i have seen out of Kiffin, our teams will no longer roll over and play dead like they did under Fulmer...which deserves a toast... :toast:
 
#88
#88
Mine is definitely the 05 Vandy game. I cried like a little girl after the game, i just couldnt believe that we just got beat at home vs. a team that had never beaten us in my lifetime. A few weeks passed and i decided to go toVandy for a b ball game. They start showing highlights of the game. So i storm down the stairs to the bathroom. Out of all the people to see, Jay Cutler walks in as i am leaving. Needless to say i proceeded to tell him exactly what i thought of him.
 
#89
#89
The most pissed I've been after a loss goes back further than most of you guys. Some 20-25 years ago, at Auburn (I have no interest in looking up exact date or score), and it was just ridiculously hot. Auburn kicked our ass up and down the field all day, but it was finally coming to an end. The Tigers were on our 3 or so, and were set to take a knee to run out the clock. The Auburn qb took the snap and stepped back, waiting to be challenged before he kneeled. Except no Tennessee player bothered to. After standing there for a few seconds, he walked into the endzone. Several AU fans started to do some talking on the ramps going out, but the look on my face (and the fact that I'm a pretty big guy) kept them quiet, and me from having to go to jail for tossing one of them off that ramp. I still feel sorry for the two guys that rode down with me. I was driving, but I didn't speak, and refused to stop, until we got back into Tennessee. I'm pretty sure they found alternative recycling uses for a couple of coke bottles along the way, but they still made a mad dash for the bathrooms at the TN welcome center.
 
#90
#90
Actually my worst flip out in sports period was the 2003 NLCS...Game 6. Cubs blew it, and I literally screamed at the top of my lungs, opened the front door my house and pulled a Forrest Gump and just started running as fast I could down the street. Luckily I had on my running shoes and suitable running apparel but still, I'm surprised I didn't pull a muscle or something because I didn't do any kind of warmup. When I got back I was still so jacked up I went upstairs and started lifting weights and got on the exercise bike. After an hour of all that I still was jacked up so I immediately went to the Cubs' messageboard and proceded to call the Cubs every name in the book. My wife said the next morning "Don't worry, they can win tonight" and I just looked at her and said "It's the Cubs....no they won't".
 
#91
#91
the 05 bama game, when anderson fumbled, i through a lamp across my parents living room and when it hit and shattered on the wall, my mom was walking down the hall way and was cut by the glass. she still does not let me live that one down.
 
#92
#92
I almost got into a fight with another UT fan after the Jabar Gafney "touchdown". I was so mad I was ready to fight anyone. Being young and drinking did not help.
 
#93
#93
Gorilla33 said:
Football:01 LSU SEC championship. I took a bat to a tree.
Basketball: Sweet sixteen game against Ohio State. Injured hand. Left permanent damage in Reese 132.
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The ohio state sweet sixteen game. Watching it on the flat screen in the bedroom as it was a late night game. Wife sound asleep beside me. We lose last second I sit up and punch the bed oops. Did not see my wife's leg had crept over to my side as my fist slams into her leg. She jumps up wondering what the hell just happened. I got a verbal a** chewing that evening of epic porportion.
 
#94
#94
After the bama game I threw a chair bobby knight style. The irony is, the chair was an Indiana University Chair. The chair is broken now. Maybe thats why I am such a good bball coach?! haha
 
#95
#95
Skjellyfetti said:
Jabar Gaffney's "catch"
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Heck, Iam a HUGE Gator fan, and that was no 'catch' as you say. I would have flipped out also, if I was a Vol fan on that one. That 'catch' for me anyhow, from Jesse 'ESPN' Palmer, to Gaffney was embarrassing. Kinda one of those, 'Thank ya, now let's get the heck outta dodge' moments. :unsure:
 
#96
#96
Actually the maddest I ever got was not during a football game, It was the 1981 UT/Virginia basketball game in the NCAA tournament...UVA had Ralph Sampson and UT lead the game by 10 for most of the day, Dale Ellis was amazing that day...We ended up losing by 3 with only seconds left...I was so mad I punched a hole in the living room wall...Broke a bone in my hand...Not one of my more brilliant moments thats for sure lol
 
#97
#97
Wyoming last year I walked out shiftless and It was cold as crap that day . I lost the will to live . Two hour drive home not one word. I almost gave up on ut that day.
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#98
#98
04 Notre Dame. At home and I think we are ranked 10th or 11th. I don't think I've ever been as angry at one player as I was with Rick Clausen that day, well until some of Crompton's games.
 
#100
#100
this was a tough one for me because WE HAD THEM ON THE ROPES....I was about to have a come apart because I thought if I was one of our players, there would be NO WAY we were not going to score...when you get that close to the goal line, it seems to me that you should have some trick plays or just several plays that you run so much in practice, there is no way you can't use one of them to get into the end zone. It hurts knowing they did not beat us, WE BEAT US! Who would ever think we would fail to get at least one of those field goals? If we had won, the aftermath for bammy would have been awesome but as I always say, they are the luckiest bunch I have ever seen.
 
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