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I saw this on another board and thought it might be interesting to bring over here. I think we can all agree on "The Drive", and "The Fumble" for the Browns. But, what game for your other teams sticks out to you the most? Here's mine...
UK basketball- 1992 Duke. Enough said. Also, VMI hurt pretty bad, too.
UK Football- 2002 LSU. Knock the ball down!!!
Red Sox- 2003 ALCS vs. Yankees. Aaron freakin' Boone.
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Wow. There are A LOT.. but a few that stand out with OSU/Tribe/Cavs..
-97 World Series game 7.. Not gonna lie, I cried.. Just brutal..
-2007 collapse against Red Sox
-2005 collapse in last week of season.. lose 2 of 3 to the Rays, then get swept by White Sox.. ALL games were at home that last week of the season.. WOW
-98 OSU loss to Michigan St.. Wow..
-96 OSU Home loss to Michigan (game Shawn Springs fell)
-2006 season title game vs FL.. Just taken to the woodshed.. Really thought that would be the time me and my Dad would witness a title together.. Thank goodness I attended the 02 season champ game..Unfortunately my Dad could not attend the 02 champ game cause of a double hip replacement he got a week before the game..
-Game last week vs. USC.. Damn...
-Cavs 2006 series vs Detroit Eastern Semis game 6.. We had a chance to close it out at home and freakin Flip Murray couldn't hold onto a rebound..
-2009 game 4 vs Orlando.. LB gets it to overtime and then we get rolled in the xtra session to go down 3-1 in the series..
-Obviously the "shot".. but I was only 7..
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World Series Game Seven against the Marlins,....
Oakland 1980, Red Right 88
Steeler Playoff Game,..."Dropcutt."
Miami Playoff Game, up 21-3
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The Shot The Drive The Fumble Need I say more? 
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The last one. Whatever the last one happens to be.
"Team Chemistry No Match for Team Biology" (Onion Sports Headline)
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DA choking it away against the Bengals.
Playoff loss a few years back to the Steelers..
Every major Cleveland sporting event ever?
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Oh, I got another one to add... UK 1997 NCAA championship game. Overtime away from what would have eventually been a 3peat. If Derek Anderson (basketball player, don't make this into a QB thread  ) had been healthy, Arizona wouldn't have been within 10 points of us in that game.
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DA choking it away against the Bengals.
Playoff loss a few years back to the Steelers..
Every major Cleveland sporting event ever?
Unfortunately, this is the "Call-to-Quinn" for a lot of us,....(admittedly not looking so good.)
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DA choking it away against the Bengals.
I'm no DA fan but I lay this one squarly at the feet of Chud. Snowing hard with 40Mph winds and you come out throwing 48 times!?!? And run only 25?!?!
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there are so many that Tressel's first bowl game probably isn't even in the top100....and that was a tough loss at the time.
(miraculous comeback from 28 points down....then Bellisari after playing great the whole 2nd half throws a horrible INT that effectively ends the game)
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'97 world series game 7 is far and away the worst moment for me in terms of sports, i think it has made me an extremely tough sports fan. i don't dwell on losses. when the tribe blew it in '05 and '07 i was over it in a day, when the cavs lost to orlando i was fine the next day, even when the browns blew it 2 years ago i was fine.
that day was so horrible that i don't think it could possibly ever get worse, you can't really get any closer to winning it all than that, other than being 1 out away instead of 2...
i had a party that day too for my 16th birthday, family friends, a pending celebration, everyone left without saying anything, when it's your party, it sucks, it's like you threw the worst party ever.
others that rank on the list that i have experienced is cc letting us down in game 5 at jacobs field with a chance to take us to the world series. he blew it, he freaking choked. i am glad we didn't pay him, i don't agree with letting other guys go so u don't have to pay them, but him, i agree. the guy choked, he let us down. he's not worth what he's making.
cavs losing game 1 against orlando hurt really bad. i had a hockey game that night, so i dvr'd the game, walked into the locker room and announced that nobody say anything if they saw any scores, well soemone arrived late and said "oh man, the cavs are killing orlando!" and i was mad but at the same time, excited. so i went home and watched the game anyway. and that first half was amazing. lebron punking d howard on a dunk, mo making that half court shot at the buzzer before halftime. then it just dwindled down, and dwindled down, and then lewis makes that shot, unreal. and while the series wasn't over again, the cleveland fan in ya, even if it is just a little bit, gives you that "here we go again" i kept positive during the whole series, and they definitely had a chance to get that upper hand back, but after that first game, it's like they had the air from that entire season taken out of them, it was a wild ride up until that night, and then it seemed like the guys were just not having fun anymore.
the browns playoff game in 2003 hurt too, ohio state shocks the nation a few days earlier, and the browns blow a lead in pittsburgh. typical.
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'97 world series game 7 is far and away the worst moment for me in terms of sports, i think it has made me an extremely tough sports fan. i don't dwell on losses. when the tribe blew it in '05 and '07 i was over it in a day, when the cavs lost to orlando i was fine the next day, even when the browns blew it 2 years ago i was fine.
that day was so horrible that i don't think it could possibly ever get worse, you can't really get any closer to winning it all than that, other than being 1 out away instead of 2...
i had a party that day too for my 16th birthday, family friends, a pending celebration, everyone left without saying anything, when it's your party, it sucks, it's like you threw the worst party ever.
others that rank on the list that i have experienced is cc letting us down in game 5 at jacobs field with a chance to take us to the world series. he blew it, he freaking choked. i am glad we didn't pay him, i don't agree with letting other guys go so u don't have to pay them, but him, i agree. the guy choked, he let us down. he's not worth what he's making.
cavs losing game 1 against orlando hurt really bad. i had a hockey game that night, so i dvr'd the game, walked into the locker room and announced that nobody say anything if they saw any scores, well soemone arrived late and said "oh man, the cavs are killing orlando!" and i was mad but at the same time, excited. so i went home and watched the game anyway. and that first half was amazing. lebron punking d howard on a dunk, mo making that half court shot at the buzzer before halftime. then it just dwindled down, and dwindled down, and then lewis makes that shot, unreal. and while the series wasn't over again, the cleveland fan in ya, even if it is just a little bit, gives you that "here we go again" i kept positive during the whole series, and they definitely had a chance to get that upper hand back, but after that first game, it's like they had the air from that entire season taken out of them, it was a wild ride up until that night, and then it seemed like the guys were just not having fun anymore.
the browns playoff game in 2003 hurt too, ohio state shocks the nation a few days earlier, and the browns blow a lead in pittsburgh. typical.
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Additionally,...The Citadel's playoff loss to Jim Tressel and Youngstown State,...I believe they were ranked # 1 at the time (they had beaten both Army and Arkansas that season). YSU eventually then lost the Title Game to Marshall.
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UCONN BBall: UConn's loss to GMU in overtime. God that sucked
Celtics BBall: Hasn't been anything that bad that I can think of. May be the Ricky Davis ghost foul by that referee who ended up getting hit for taking bribes. (The only reason it hurt so much was because it was so blatently obvious that there should be no call) I remember watching this game saying that it was unfair, the refs had to be paid off. Turns out I was right..........
I still hate Gilbert Arenas and the Wizards for that sham that they call a basketball game, even if it was regular season...........
Baseball: Nothing's been that bad, as a kid cheering for the Indians, Jose Mesa blowing it verses the Marlins. Last time he faced Vizquel, didn't he throw at his head?
College F-Ball: OSU losing to UFlorida. Ted Ginn Jr. gets a TD on the first return and gets injured. The rest of the game was awful.
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Speaking of UConn, the Buckeye loss to them was not good. Not "painful" though, as intimated by the thread. Actually, the Buckeye loss to Michigan when we had 'JJ' was worse.
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Without question, Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS.
Cabrera rip into left, Bonds comes up throwing - the gimp Sid Bream slides home beating the tag of Spanky LaVallierre - Pirates lose. Bonds leaves to San Fran, Drabek goes to Houston - the rest is history.
I was 12 at the time and I cried like a little girl. Had I known that I'd be 29 now - and they wouldn't be.500 to this point - I may have just gone ahead and not woken up the next morning.
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The one that hit me hardest was the Browns losing the NFL Championship game to the Packers in 1965. Having watched Cleveland win it all in '64 and being only 11 in '65 at that age it felt like watching the Packers taking something away that was rightfully ours.
2nd place would be the 1997 World Series game 7, although when Marquis Grissom didn't get that insurance run home in the top of the 9th, enough experience of watching Cleveland sports had me prepared. I recall listening to the TV during bottom of the 9th while pacing the dinning room because I couldn't watch after the man-on-third-with-one-out opportunity was blown. Guess that is why I view Grissom rather than Mesa as the culprit for the loss.
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It's an easy one for me. 1981 NLCS, Game 5 (best of fives back then). Dodgers beat Expos 2-1 when Rick Monday homered in the ninth. I was 14, but a huge Expos fan and that was a heartbreaker. I am still not completely over it. 
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Do we HAVE to do this? How 'bout positive sports moments?
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I'll answer that.
UK basketball- 1996 NCAA title game, 1998 Elite 8 game vs. Duke (Trailing by 17 with 9 min. to go and won. Got them back for 92'). 1998 NCAA title game. The day we hired Calipari.
UK Football- Not much to be too happy about lol. Beating #1 ranked LSU in 2007. Winning our first bowl game in over 20 years that same season.
Red Sox- Games 4-7 in 2004 ALCS vs. Yankees, coming back from 3-0. 2004 and 2007 World Series wins. 2004 was much sweeter because it "broke the curse".
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the sad part is, we could probably go on for days.... I will never quite get over the '98 OSU/Mich St game, Cooper's best team in my opinion. one I haven't seen mentioned is the '07 Ilinois game. Juice Williams running out the clock by converting about six straight third downs when everyone in the stadium knew they would be running the quarterback draw
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Red Right 88
The Drive
The Fumble
last years Super Bowl....I hate the steelers
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Not really a "team" loss ... but I was gutted when both Marco and Michael lost the Indy 500 in the matter of 4 laps. I've been a big Andretti family fan since the early 80's, and they always have the WORST luck at Indy. I met Michael in the pits when I was at the Cleveland Grand Prix practice at around age 9 or 10. He was hands down the nicest driver I met that day. So here he is leading with 4 laps to go, with his son in second place. Marco passes Michael for the lead with 3 to go ... and then Sam Hornish passes Michael a little bit later, and Marco within feet of the finish line. Couldn't believe it. If the Andretti's were from Cleveland, they would probably call that race, "The Pass".
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Red Right 88 was the most painful for me as far as on field, I was 14 years old and like most grew up learning to love the Brownies with all of my heart, a part of me died right there and I can still see the play in my head to this day....my other most painful were hearing on the radio while driving down the road that Bernie had been released (actually had to pull over and stop) and of course the move to Baltimore. The Drive and the Fumble were of course painful...as with most....but what was really bad about The Fumble was that I was stationed in Germany at the time and my roommate was a Donks fan. What made it even worse is we lost power right at KO and had to listen on the radio.....until power was restored just in time for us to view the Fumble live. Yay. This thread sucks. 
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There's the obvious 2 that made me cry as an 8 and 9 year old.
Tribe choking against the Redsox, I still can't believe.
The Browns losing to the Bengals in 07, I had to run to the bathroom and dry heaved after that one.
The 1997 world series.
Why don't this stuff happen to Pittsburgh teams. Bettis fumbles on the 1 against the Colts and they still manage to win. The Cards drive and take the lead with a little over 2 minutes left and they still win. Ugh.
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Barry Bonds ... Sid Bream.
And If you were a 9 year old when the Tribe choked and the Browns lost to the Bengals (both '07) ... how would you remember the '97 Indians? 
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I believe he was referring to the "obvious 2" as the Drive and the Fumble....
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And If you were a 9 year old when the Tribe choked and the Browns lost to the Bengals (both '07) ... how would you remember the '97 Indians?
I believe he was referring to the "obvious 2" as the Drive and the Fumble....
I definitely didn't read it that way, either lol.
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When I was 8 and 9 the 2 obvious heart breaks were the fumble and the drive. I was 19 in 1997.
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When the Browns went to Baltimore
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Oh yeah the real Browns moving takes the cake. I still have the Sports Illustrated with Art Modell kicking a dog in the nuts.
I can only imagine what it would be like to be rooting for Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco, Ed Reed, and watching a team that expects to win every week.
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it has to be tOSU losing to MSU. Bill Burke QB'd the Spartans and was from Howland High School (my high school) and I agree with many who say that was the Bucks best team ever. Dang that one hurts thinking about it
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