Crazy for trying... Crazy for crying... Crazy for loving you

LakeAnneCrew · #1 07-24-2003, 04:16 PM

What Redskins game left you the most heartbroken? It was so cool to read some of your rituals on Sundays. I noticed many said that when the Skins lose, it takes several days to recover.

I'm the same way. Nothing pisses me off worse than going through the pain of a Redskins loss.

So I wonder... what game left you in pieces.

Mine would be a recent one when the Redskins lost to the Bucs in the playoffs by some ridiculous score... 14-13 like four years ago. That game left scars.

Hailyeah · #2 07-24-2003, 04:32 PM

Off the top of my head:

1) Super Bowl XVIII - 38-9 loss to the Raiders. I thought that team was invincible. Could have had a back to back. Devastating.

2) Opening day vs. Dallas in 1999. All our DB's have leg cramps and the Rocket goes for 85 yards and the score to win 41-35 in OT.

3) Up 20-0 vs. Philly at RFK after the 1st quarter, circa 1989ish. Gerald Riggs goes for like 251 yds, but fumbles and we lose.

4) That MNF debacle in 2001 between 0-4 Wash and Dallas where SD fumbles while running down the clock and they kick a FG on the closing drive. (That game outrated the Yankees playoff game that same night even though the teams were a joke at the time)

5) Bodybag game in Philly in 1990 (although this was avenged in the playoffs at the Vet that year).

TexSkin · #3 07-24-2003, 04:39 PM

Super Bowl XVIII - 38-9 loss to the Raiders. Know doubt about it...I still hate Maruc Allen because of it.

LakeAnneCrew · #4 07-24-2003, 04:43 PM

I remember the Rocket game... Man that sucked watching him take it to the house. I also remember the Riggs game. The bodybag game was on my b-day, Nov. 12. Those were some great answers that reminded me of my pain, too.

bfauble83 · #5 07-24-2003, 04:43 PM

The playoff loss to the Bucs in 1999

AGibbsGirl · #6 07-24-2003, 05:33 PM

The Joe Theismann leg crunch game...

In 1989 when the stinking Cowboys went 1-15 and the 1 was a win over the Redskins...

The last game from Gibbs, the last game from Monk and the last game from Darrell...~sniff~

And of course the Superbowl loss to the Raiders

CarMike · #7 07-24-2003, 05:43 PM

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2) Opening day vs. Dallas in 1999. All our DB's have leg cramps and the Rocket goes for 85 yards and the score to win 41-35 in OT.

That game still hurts me whenever I think about it. I remember at the beginning of the 4th quarter, my buddy was saying that its over. I told him to not go there. I remember all too many games where the girls have come back to beat us.

And when it actually happened, it was devistating. The feeling I got in my stomach when he was running down the field will forever be etched in my stomach.

truant · #8 07-24-2003, 05:45 PM

In 91 when we were undeated and the cowgirls beat us... that stung

the "cramps" game... that was the worst feeling ever. I didn't move for hours...

CarMike · #9 07-24-2003, 05:45 PM

I was very heart broken for the last game at RFK as well. Even though we pounded the cowboys......

I really miss the old place. Everytime I watch the United play there It takes me back.....

LadyNRedskinsfan · #10 07-24-2003, 11:18 PM

im pretty young so my list is pretty limited. hailyeah mentioned most of the games i was ever truly heartbroken over.

Hailyeah said:

"Opening day vs. Dallas in 1999. All our DB's have leg cramps and the Rocket goes for 85 yards and the score to win 41-35 in OT.

That MNF debacle in 2001 between 0-4 Wash and Dallas where SD fumbles while running down the clock and they kick a FG on the closing drive......."

...i need to put the playoff game against the bucs in 99 #1 though. i was in denial after that one.

dj_stouty · #11 07-25-2003, 07:25 AM

The cramps game was heartbreaking...

This past season had a few heartbreakers as well.

Especially the game on Thanksgiving Day, when the Skins gave up a game THEY SHOULD HAVE WON to the Cowboys on national TV. Ohhhhhh the horror.

dukeuch · #12 07-25-2003, 10:49 AM

Can't remember the specifics, but a long time ago the game when we were beating the 'Boys, knocked Staubach out of the game, and their backup led a great comeback (can't believe I can't remember that bastard's name).

Skinzaholic · #13 07-25-2003, 10:56 AM

Great! Thanks everybody! I JUST got over all of this and here you go dragging it out again....

back to counseling.

LakeAnneCrew · #14 07-25-2003, 11:19 AM

That's funny...

#15 07-25-2003, 11:50 AM

Skinzaholic, don't go into a state of depression. TC opens Sunday! The Washpost & Washtimes will be full of articles. This board will gesculate, postulate, and girate, and require fumigate(ing). In a couple of weeks we play something called pre-season. Then, in just a few short weeks after that, we do the real thing every week! This is the best time of year!