Re: What is your worst "I never get over it" moment?
I won't impugn the OP, but I'm past the "never get over it" stage of my sports hobby.
It's never been much of a problem with Alabama because we win so many titles that the next title sort of washes away what happened.
But consider my sports lifetime just for a moment and my favorite teams:
Alabama lost a national title on the last play (basically) with a probably illegally run play
Five weeks later, Atlanta blew a 25-point lead in the Super Bowl and lost.....on the last play.
In 2011, my Texas Rangers were TWICE one strike away from winning the World Series....we're still waiting.
In 1991, my Braves lost the greatest World Series ever played on the last play in the tenth inning. In fact - to give you heartbreak - the Braves held a 3-2 lead and lost BOTH game six AND game seven in EXTRA innings, something that has never happened before or since. (I still like the Braves but became a Rangers fan when I moved here and went to a bunch of games).
So let's talk about the Kick Six game for just a minute - it mildly affects me but only because we could have had the first legitimate THREE-peat in cfb history and the weird part is that if UGA doesn't tip that ball, we STILL win three in a row I believe because a loss to Auburn would have been the best thing as far as adjusting the team into kill mode for Mizzou and FSU.
The Kick Six game was an absolute nightmare. JessN is right - we were literally TWICE the team as Auburn in 2013. The problem, though, was that on that particular day Auburn played well enough to: a) hang around; and b) win. When we kept leaving points on the board, I was having 1999 La Tech flashbacks and that's almost what happened only worse. When Marshall hit Coates to tie the game, I figured we were dead. Then when we got a chance to win it on a field goal, I was thinking, "28 years to the day after Tiffin's kick it would be great to do it again." When it came up short, I was on my feet and turned my head to the right because as a fat old boy back then I had to have clearance to sit my fat behind down. When I looked back at the screen, I thought, "Hmmm....uh oh....." and I'm sure I was white as a ghost. Mostly, I was in utter shock - not that we lost but HOW we lost. I was numb for about an hour.
One friend (a girl) was watching her first ever Alabama game in California that day and we were texting during the game and when Davis ran it back she texted, "Can they do that?" I said, "Yep....." I had already warned my MSU buddy that we were letting them hang around too late into the game, and then he didn't hear from me for a long time. He asked me what happened and I told him and it was like, "Do what?"
I'll say this about it: I'm one of those fans who wouldn't have really cared about the Kick Six if we had still won the championship and three-peated. The loss wouldn't have had the devastating implications it did - it was in truth a HISTORIC loss in MANY ways.
That being said - I was pretty much over it once we won the Clemson game two years later. It was utterly shocking and Auburn deserved to win but I'm over it.
Let me put it this way: I've watched the 2013 game again. I've NEVER watched the 2010 IB or the 2011 World Series game six again. My Atlanta Braves pain died on my birthday in 1995, when they won it all. In fact, the next year when we were up 2-0 on the Yankees I became one of those fans who just assumed we'd win because we owned them through the first six innings of game four (rout in game one, shutout in game two, close loss in game three, 6-0 lead).
My Notre Dame buddy refuses to watch Colorado beat them on the clip of Ismail in 1991, too. To this day he will not watch it.
