Posted by djsunyc:

charles smith 4 missed layups. i was in the building, section 408 and it felt like a morgue walking out. i went to 20+ knicks home games that season, and that was the only loss i witnessed that season...

agggghhhhhhh! i was there too. "it felt like a morgue walking out." i was just telling sebstar about it and used those exact words!

Posted by Marv:

Posted by djsunyc:

charles smith 4 missed layups. i was in the building, section 408 and it felt like a morgue walking out. i went to 20+ knicks home games that season, and that was the only loss i witnessed that season...

agggghhhhhhh! i was there too. "it felt like a morgue walking out." i was just telling sebstar about it and used those exact words!

I was at Game 7 against the Pacers in 1995... that damned fingerroll looked good

Charles Smith, Reggie Miller's 20+ point 4th Q outburst (complete with the choke sign at Spike), Game 6 against Houston,Reggie Miller's 8 pts in however many seconds, Ewing's missed finger roll, Giants playoff debacle against 49ers in 2002, blowing 4 games in row to the Sox.

Thanks for making me relive the horrors of my life. Time to go refill the flask.

1982 Jets AFC Championship loss to Miami- the year that the Dolphins kept the tarp off and let the field get rained on so Freeman McNeil would not be able to have his usual game.

The Knicks losing to LA in the 71-72 finals after they had crushed them in game 1. I seem to remember that Debusschere got hurt in game 2 and was not himself the rest of the series.

The Mets loss to Oakland in 1973, after being up 3-2.

The Charles Smith game and the 1994 series loss to Houston were also terrible.

I think Game 7 Yankees vs Red Sox in the 2004 AL Championship... Yanks were up 3-0 and drop 4 straight games... the Yanks lloked like they were defeatd in the 2nd inning and played like it for 7 more innings...

Posted by VDesai:

Charles Smith, Reggie Miller's 20+ point 4th Q outburst (complete with the choke sign at Spike), Game 6 against Houston,Reggie Miller's 8 pts in however many seconds, Ewing's missed finger roll, Giants playoff debacle against 49ers in 2002, blowing 4 games in row to the Sox.

Thanks for making me relive the horrors of my life. Time to go refill the flask.

That's pretty much the list... but I'll add Ewing's big toe being on the court, the Giants fighting on the sidelines in 1997, and (I know I'm the one of three that cares about hockey) Mark Messier leaving the Rangers after the 97 playoffs

For me... Even though the Yankees had won 4 titles, when Mariano gave up that stupid ****ing BS bloop to Luis Gonzalez to end the 2001 World Series.

Here's my top 10.

10. Yankees 2008 -- Summer of HGH. Andy Pettite admits using.

9. Giants 2001 -- getting they asses beat 34-7 by the Ravens in the Super Bowl.

8. Knicks 1984 -- after knocking off the Pistons, lose game 7 at Boston Garden. I was six years old and cried a lot. Boston easily beats the Bucks then beats LA for the chip.

7. Knicks 1997 -- PJ Brown flipping Charlie Ward, the ensuing ejections.

6. Knicks 1985 -- at the peak of his career, the great Bernard King suffers devastating ACL injury misses remainder of season and entire next season. Despite averaging 22.7 points per game during his first six games back, the New York Knicks to release him at the end of the 1987 season. However, King would have a very successful comeback with the Washington Bullets, improving his scoring average each year with the squad and returning to the All-Star Game

5. Giants 1989 -- losing in sudden death to the LA Rams in the first round of the playoffs at home after going 12-4

4. Yankees 2004 -- Red Sox become the first team in major league history to win a series after being down 3 games to none.

3. Knicks 1993 -- The Charles Smith game. No other words can describe it.

2. Yankees 2001 -- lose game 7 in the 9th inning in Arizona

1. Knicks 1994 -- Starks missing all those threes, Riley not substituting in Ro Blackmon.

Jets being up 10-0 over Denver and proceeding to fumble 6 times in Denver's territory - one by their 10 that was destined to put us up 17-0 and probably give us the game....and knowing we, like Denver did, would have steamrolled the FALCONS. (this was my edit, i keep calling the Falcons the Hawks these days. Yeah, I've killed a few brain cells I probably need.)

Starks flaming out and Riley just watching as our NBA Finals went down the drain.

That Miami fight in...97?

Ewing shattering his wrist (thanks Andrew Lang - and wtf we go and sign the loser later on!) and tearing his achillies...we still had a real good shot with Ewing then.

I mean, those are really the big ones to me. Smith getting murdered by Scottie/Michael without a call - eh, what can you do about that. Was that game 3 of the Starks THE DUNK series? I can't remember.

See, things like the Charles Smith bit - and the Ewing Fingerolls - and the Ewing tough fallaway, rims out, dudley's tip won't go, knicks lose --- eh, to me they're annoying at the time but now, that's just basketball.

The other events I feel were avoidable in some way - except Ewing getting hurt? I dunno, that was freak.



[Edited by - cosmic on 07-20-2009 10:15 PM]