Paul Finebaum: What's a loss from your favorite sports team you still can't get over?

[PTSD@Dome’03MI]

Gophers
2003 Michigan
2005 Wisconsin
2015 Michigan

Vikings
2009 NFC Championship (New Orleans)
1998 NFC Championship (Atlanta)
2017 NFC Championship (Philly)....absolute gut punch after the Miracle

Twins
2006 ALDS Game 1 (Oakland)...it's a crime that 06 team didn't win the pennant.

Gopher Hockey
1989 NCAA Championship (Hah-vahd)
2022 NCAA Championship (Quinnipiac)

For the Vikings, I also want to add the 2001 NFC Championship when the Dennis Green led Vikings got blown out by New York Giants 41-0.

Not sure which was worse- Atlanta (watching the end at home) vs. NY (watching slow death at a viewing party)…

 

[Gophers1992]

For the Vikings, I also want to add the 2001 NFC Championship when the Dennis Green led Vikings got blown out by New York Giants 41-0.

Not sure which was worse- Atlanta (watching the end at home) vs. NY (watching slow death at a viewing party)…

41-0 sucked but we can take solace in knowing that nobody was going to compete with Baltimore in that Super Bowl I feel like.

 

[DarrenTheGreek]

For the Vikings, I also want to add the 2001 NFC Championship when the Dennis Green led Vikings got blown out by New York Giants 41-0.

Not sure which was worse- Atlanta (watching the end at home) vs. NY (watching slow death at a viewing party)…

It wasn't a slow death IMHO. It was 0-14 within the first 3 minutes. Poof.

 

[IceBoxGopher]

For the Vikings, I also want to add the 2001 NFC Championship when the Dennis Green led Vikings got blown out by New York Giants 41-0.

Not sure which was worse- Atlanta (watching the end at home) vs. NY (watching slow death at a viewing party)…

It has to be Atlanta. One single kick. I guess the Strib already had some premade copies if the Vikings had won

 

[gopherdudepart2]

Two lessers but I still think about.

1993: loved Wacker. Won three in a row 59-56 vs Purdue, beat rising Northwestern, kept Wisconsin from a national title. Led 21-9 at Illinois with less than five minutes to go. Lost 23-21. Could’ve been 4-2 in the B1G.

2008: this board was electric. 7-1, ranked #20 hosting 6-2 Northwestern. Reusse was eating crow over Brewster. Tied game in third quarter. Eight minute, 19 play drive to the two yard line. Monroe misses 20(!) yard field goal. Lose on pick six on final play.

Followed by no show against Michigan, blown 21-7 lead at Wisconsin and 55-0 against Iowa.

Before 55-0 to zero against Iowa debacle, and the Northwestern burnout, didn't the Gophers start suffering key Injury's around that time of the Northwestern game.

 

[Eastside Forever]

1962 loss to Wisconsin; refs stole the game. 4 Super Bowl humiliations, 1967 Twins lose to Red Sox last 2 games of seaon to lose the pennant to them.

 

[btowngopher]

The handful of gut punch losses to NW and Purdue not even making anyone’s list says a lot about the last 30 years.

 

[60's Guy]

3 more recent random wtf games...
2015 Michigan painful
2021 Bowling Green home loss - we are 1 and 2 to these guys in home games - maybe unforgivable?
2024 Penn St ... no way we should lose the game as it played out - really disappointing

 

[Gold Rush]

Thanks for all the painful memories - one that stands out for me that I didn't see mentioned was the 1990 Utah game that we were tied 29-29 with just a few seconds left in the game. The Gophers are going for a fairly easy FG to win the game. But wait -- it's BLOCKED. and returned about 80 yards for a Utah TD with no time left in the game - Gophers lose 35-29.

 

[Gold Rush]

The handful of gut punch losses to NW and Purdue not even making anyone’s list says a lot about the last 30 years.

I've seen quite a few of those, too. How about the Hail Mary pass vs. Northwestern or the game where the timekeeper fell asleep vs. Purdue?? I paid good money for those games, too!! haha