# Your sports "points of pain"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 27, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985 "2015-01-27T05:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/1 "2015-01-27T05:30:40Z")
It occurred to me reading the Internet that there seems to be “points of pain” for most sports - events (usually game losses) so horrific that fans of that individual/franchise suffer some kind of negative emotional consequences just being reminded of it, even after years. Obviously, what happened two Sundays ago is probably an example, and I know there are well known examples out there, but I thought I’d let those be mentioned in replies. So what are yours? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/2 "2015-01-27T05:40:39Z")
Appalachian State ☹ ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/3 "2015-01-27T06:01:13Z")
18-1. 2003 ALCS Game 7 (still have never seen a replay of the Boone HR because I cannot bear it). The 2012 Champions League Final. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/4 "2015-01-27T06:15:23Z")
San Francisco Giants fans are only now getting over Game 6 of the 2002 World Series…except for those who still haven’t gotten over [Game 7](http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/12/22) of the [1962 World Series](http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/01/28)… ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/5 "2015-01-27T06:22:34Z")
Hearing “Tuck Rule” or “2002 Super Bowl” will probably incite angry feelings in me for the rest of my days. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/6 "2015-01-27T14:00:53Z")
For this Ottawa Senator fan, the names [Jeff Freisen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQW-R8pkmsU) or [Jason Pominville](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEpr8moQBPs) still hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/7 "2015-01-27T14:12:01Z")
Chicago Cubs: Steve Bartman’s fan interference game in the 2003 NLCS ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/8 "2015-01-27T14:29:38Z")
Up 7 games with 17 to go. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/9 "2015-01-27T15:03:22Z")
Among New York Giants fans of a certain age, “The Fumble” will never be forgotten. For those who don’t remember, it was the last play of a Giants-Eagles game, and the Giants were leading. All they had to do was take the snap, kneel, and go to the locker room with a victory. Instead, QB Joe Pisarcik tried to hand off the ball to Larry Csonka. The handoff was botched, a fumble resulted, and Eagles cornerback Herm Edwards (yes, the Herm Edwards who became an NFL head coach and an ESPN game analyst) ran it back for a game-winning touchdown. That play embodied life as a Giants fan in the Seventies. In those days, no matter how good things looked, fans knew the Giants could (and would) find some way to blow it. NO lead was safe with this team! The Giants in those days always found SOME way to lose. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/10 "2015-01-27T15:04:33Z")
Snow Plow Sorry too painful to elaborate. Look it up if you don’t know ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/11 "2015-01-27T16:51:08Z")
[Game 6 of the 1985 World Series.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iL_W9MucEk) Game 7 was pretty damn traumatic, too, but Cardinals fans were too numb to care. Even on TV, when Albert Pujols hit the bottom of the 9th, two out home run against the Astros in the 2005 playoffs, you could hear the crowd die. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/12 "2015-01-27T16:54:44Z")
The Yankees blowing a 3-0 series lead in the ALCS to the Red Sox, of all people. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/13 "2015-01-27T17:13:46Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Up 7 games with 17 to go. ☹ Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/14 "2015-01-27T17:15:11Z")
The Baltimore Colts leaving town in the middle of the night in 1983 The Baltimore Orioles losing the 1979 World Series after going up 3-0 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/15 "2015-01-27T17:15:43Z")
[“Wide Right”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Right_%28Buffalo_Bills%29) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/16 "2015-01-27T17:26:36Z")
I don’t follow college football, but here in Mizzou country, you speak the words “[Fifth Down](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Down_Game_(1990))” with caution. There is a bar near my house called “The Fifth Down”. They have a big sign inside describing the infamous play. I always thought it was odd to name a bar after your town’s most painful sports loss. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/17 "2015-01-27T17:28:44Z")
The Catch (Football version) > **[The Catch (American football)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catch_(American_football))** > > The Catch was the game-winning touchdown reception in the 1981 NFC Championship Game played between the Dallas Cowboys and the eventual Super Bowl XVI champion San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park on January 10, 1982, as part of the 1981-82 NFL playoffs. With 58 seconds left in the game, the 49ers faced 3rd down and 3 yards to gain on the Cowboys' 6-yard line. San Francisco wide receiver Dwight Clark made a leaping grab in the back of the end zone to complete a 6-yard touchdown pass from quart... I have to change the channel if they begin to show this lowlight, lest I become physically ill. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/18 "2015-01-27T17:32:31Z")
Francisco Cabrera David Volek ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/19 "2015-01-27T17:39:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [“Wide Right”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Right_%28Buffalo_Bills%29) Just… yeah… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985/20 "2015-01-27T17:42:37Z")
Forth and Twenty Six or Fail Mary. Take your pick. There are more as with any team and I’m sure when a name is put to what happened nine days ago it will join the list. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sports-points-of-pain/710985.md?page=2)