Your Worst Sports Memory

[Alanbama27]

As far as football, I guess my worst memory was the 1966 team getting robbed of the MNC by the northern media. I absolutely loved that team.

Yeah, '66 was ridiculous considering Bama went 11-0 and Both Notre Dame & Michigan State were 9-0-1 and yet somehow Bama ends the season either #2 or #3 depending upon the poll. Obviously the AP had us 3rd! Go figure.

 

[crimsonk]

There have been quite a few bad memories with Bama football. The one that sticks out the most is when Auburn had Bo Jackson and they defeated Alabama in for the first time in 10 years. I was in my teenage years and I had never seen Alabama lose to the barn until then. I believe the year was 82'. I've never been so mad in my entire life.

The Arkansas game from last year was also a sickening one too. We had that game won.

 

[RILEY4BAMA]

" Fear the thumb"

 

[BamaKJ]

Peyton leading the band in Birmingham!!!!!!!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

i have two words "Louisiana Tech"

 

[jangalang]

Besides being a tide fan, I am a huge Buffalo Bills and Sabres fan, which leads me to...

- Brett Hull's "No Goal"...1999 Stanley Cup Finals Game 6, where Hull scored the game winner in OT with his skate in the crease, which at the time, meant no goal....and the referees didn't even review it, cause they were ready to end the game.

- "Music City Miracle"...Bills wrap up the playoff game against the Titans and are ready to start doing the playoff thing again, when Frank Wycheck throws a "lateral" to Kevin Dyson on the ensuing kickoff and the Titans score a TD only to move on to the Super Bowl against the Rams

- "Wide Right"...this shouldn't need much explaining for anyone who knows about the Bills

 

[ALLVOL]

Peyton leading the band in Birmingham!!!!!!!

I liked that one VERY much. LOL :biggrin:

 

[CapstoneStan]

I liked that one VERY much. LOL :biggrin:

Many of us here considered that act classless. Winning is one thing, but rubbing your opponents nose in it is quite another. But then you probably don't understand that.

 

[bamanut_aj]

Many of us here considered that act classless. Winning is one thing, but rubbing your opponents nose in it is quite another. But then you probably don't understand that.

yes. It is classless to lead your teams band in their fight song after beating your biggest rival.

My worst sports memory is the 1991 State soccer tourney my Senior year of HS. We hosted and were tied with perennial power McGill-Toolen with the game winding down. Suddenly, one of their forwards broke through with the ball at just past mid-field. I was playing sweeper and one of our fullbacks was behind me. As the play shifted to defense, the same fullback is now in front of me with us both in full pursuit of the guy with the ball. It's still like a bad dream in slo-mo.....our fullback quickly caught the guy just inside the penalty box and I screamed "noooooooo, don't tackle him" just as he tried to slide-tackle their forward from behind. He succeeded, the penalty was called, the penalty shot was made, and we lost.

 

[BattleTide]

It's a three way tie for me (both Bama games)

1st annual Music City Bowl (1998) - I was sitting in the freezing rain & sleet while watching the VT Hokies whip us up & down the field. Little did we know how good that team really was!

2000 Bama vs AU - Again, freezing rain & sleet and probably the most boring football game that I've ever witnessed.

1997 Bama vs Ark - This is probably THE HOTTEST I have ever been at a game. I bet I saw 20 different people get carted out of the stadium due to heat exhaustion (or maybe it was too much whiskey!)

I could name a multitude of other miserable Bama experiences (Central Fla @ homecoming, S. Ill, La Tech, S. Miss) as I was a student there during the Dubose era. Outside of 99, it was pretty rough.

 

[Roll Tide]

aside from the Bear passing away, I would have to say the pathetic showing vs arkansas last year. We had 5 chances to win that game ( I think I counted 5 ), in regulation and couldn't do it. I had nightmares about it for three days.

 

[Alabama Larry in Ky]

Stan...and thats why to this day I will not pull for manning and never will. Isn't that the guy who "Mooned" a female reporter? Class?

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

No particular order

1) Watching Siran Stacy blow his knee out against BC later in game after he had run a 99 yd TD back on a kick off.

2) Marvin Constant's knee injury

3) Prothro

4) HS football - watching our left guard get his leg broken against Pine Forest. Painful.

That's my short list, but I'm sure there are more.

 

[TomBama]

In no particular order:

-- Atlanta Braves losing a heartbreaking game 7, 1-0 in ten innings, to the damn Twins in the 1991 World Series

-- Atlanta Braves winning the first two games of the 1996 World Series against the Yankees -- in New York -- and then losing four straight (including all three in Atlanta)

-- Bama losing to Auburn by one stinking point in 1982, my senior year at UA, and Bear's final game against Auburn

-- Being in the stands in South Bend to see 'Bama get absolutely dominated by Notre Dame, 37-6, in 1987

-- The loss to Auburn in 1997 when Ed Scissum fumbled and Auburn kicked a FG to win 18-17, and then we missed (barely, I recall) a very long FG attempt at the end

One memory that might have been my top worst moment when it happened is now a happy one. I was a huge Cub fan (having grown up in Chicago) and was distraught when the Cubs blew a 2-0 lead in the 1984 NLCS and lost 3 games to 2 to San Diego, when they were on the verge of their first World Series appearance in about 40 years. I now hate the Cubs, and wish that I'd hated them back in '84. At least I have the great memory of their 2003 flop against the Marlins!

 

[Bama-Kin]

No particular order

1) Watching Siran Stacy blow his knee out against BC later in game after he had run a 99 yd TD back on a kick off.

2) Marvin Constant's knee injury

3) Prothro

4) HS football - watching our left guard get his leg broken against Pine Forest. Painful.

That's my short list, but I'm sure there are more.

Regarding your #1) Wasn't it Kerry Goode blowing out his knee against BC? He made BC look silly all day until the injury.

Another disappointing injury: Ahmad Galloway, in a 2nd half rhythm, had begun to pulverize the Oklahoma linbackers. I actually saw them start to give ground with the blows he was delivering.

I guess it was too much for his knee too.

 

[utjughead]

The first loss to Tenn in 11 years. Every time I turned around someone was running the full length of the field for a TD. Peyton led the band after. I think that was Leonard Littles sr year. God that was horrible.

It was actually Little's sophomore season. He had a game-defining play that evening when he nearly decapitated Burgdorf on an ill-fated Bama option. The hit caused a fumble, which UT recovered, and the rout was on.

The 95' win over Bama was the football gods' way of making up for Bama's 86 win over UT. In both games, the home crowd had little to cheer for from the opening whistle through the final horn.

 

[chris]

Specific to Alabama, and Coach Bryant's passing aside, 1978 vs. USC in B'ham. That was the first time I saw Alabama lose in person.

although not my worst memory,i'll get to that directly,the '78 sc game was my first game i'd attended! i was 21 and took my dad. it was his birthday and needless to say we were both dissapointed.
my worse memory was the '81 ga.tech game. bama had just beaten l.s.u. the previous week on nat'l t.v.,were ranked #1,and there was no line on the game. we lost 24-21,at legion field no less,and it would be the ONLY game the jackets would win the WHOLE season! and to make matters worse bill freakn curry was the ga.tech coach! ARGH!!!

 

[lafella]

Anyway I look at it I haven't enjoyed a November in awhile.

Dale Earnhardt's last crash.

CJK's loss in the bowl game. I so wanted it for him and us lol.

 

[BamaNTN]

Losing to LA Tech.

 

[Crimsonfan]

I think it was 1980.... MSU-6 BAMA 3
I was in shock for a week. Just couldn't believe we could lose to MSU! dadgummit...I'm getting that sick feeling again! I still can't believe it. I didn't think it was possible for CPB to lose to them.

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