italian pat patriot

Yeah...That loss probably was the worst in our history...
Many are considering the 1976 Pats the best ever Patriot team.

I would like to see that game...How is it possible to do that ?

PATSNUTme

Yes that game that was stolen from us in Oakland. The Surgar Bear Hamilton roughing call which the reply showed he never touched Stabler. We would have won our first SB that year, I'm sure of it.

Also, our first home playoff game that we lost to Houston -can't remember the year. All I can remember is that on 4&1 we went will an 11 man front and got toasted.

italian pat patriot

if i should add my 5th one i will consider when we lost @ Jax in the wild card game as Zolak was our qb...
i was pretty sure we had zero possibilities and infortunately i was right...

Drew Bledsoe (i loved him on these years and i bought 2 jerseys with # 11) was injured (finger if my memory is correct).


but, NUMBER ONE, again, OUR TREMENDOUS LOSS 1976 against Oak...

'' this time the Pats would suiffer the most devastating and controbersial loss in franchise history ''...

Fairbanks called that loss a 'tragedy'...

the game still evokes outrage in NE...

and so on...

Patriotic Fervor

That might have been '78. Dan Pastorini was the Houston QB, and accurately read the blitz on that play, and lofted (really lofted!) a pass to his wideout on the left side, who was streaking down the sideline. Such an eager and easily discernible blitz indicated that the Pats did not know what was coming up with that particular play. Pastorini may have audibilized the play at the line.

The Pats tried that stunt with San Diego back in '70, when Unitas was QBing for SD. Ball is snapped, 2 steps back, and Johnny U hits a WR (Alworth?) on a short slant past the defensive backfield (which was actually non-existent on that play). The result, of course, was a touchdown.

They lost that game, 14-13.

Ahhh, such was life in this storied franchise!

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richpats

We had a Sunday night game against Denver at home in '95 where they came in and killed us 37-3 IIRC. Games like that always leave a bad taste in my mouth.

pats1

I hear ya!

Why did I ever re-download some Bronco fan's highlight video of the game (which, because the Broncos really did very little to actually win the game themselves) was more like a lowlight video of the Patriots.

Just seeing Belichick use every explicative in the book arguing with that scum bag (should sit right up there with Dreith) Tripplette gives me all the motivation in the world to not only fight against the officiating in this game, but in the entire playoffs. Absolutely pitiful.

Coast2CoastPatsFan

I agree that this is a great thread......keep up the good work, IPTP!

I'll go along with several other posters in saying that the 1976 Playoff loss to the Raiders was the most difficult for me. That 1976 Patriots team was a great team and could've very well gone all the way if not for the shoddy officiating. The officiating in that game was by far the worst I've ever seen in my close to 40 years of being a football fan, the bogus roughing the passer call on Sugar Bear just being the tip of the iceberg.

As far as the most lopsided Pats loss I've ever witnessed, some of you longtime fans will remember (or just as soon forget) the record 52-0 pasting taken at the hands of the Dolphins in Miami in 1972. IIRC, the Pats were down 21-0 at the end of the first quarter!

Another difficult one for me to take was the 20-3 (I believe that's the correct score) MNF loss in Miami in December 1980. A divisional crown was at stake for the Pats and the loss kept them out of the playoffs. As if that wasn't bad enough, the evening was made even worse when we all learned that John Lennon had been murdered.

And last season's playoff loss to the Broncos was a bitter pill to swallow. I really felt good about the Patriots chances of winning another Super Bowl leading up to that game.

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Pats726

I have to totally agree with you on these two losses. The drubbing in SD was bad..the upstart Patriots vistied and got their bums kicked. I remember that Cappeletti ran down and scored a TD, but it was called back because in running the route he was out of bounds. THAT was early in the game and really they were totally out of it.
Yes..they had to bea the Jets..IN NY. I remember that because it was one of the first games I saw in color; at a friend's house. Jim Nance was suppose to gain a number of yards and win the rushing title and the Patriot team was suppose to win and head for the playoffs. As it turned out, the team lost, Nance didn't get his yardage and Emerson Boozer ran wild!! I remember a lineman from the Jets, Sherman Plunkett. He was wide, so wide when you looked at the OLine you could see he rook up much more width than any of the other linemen, but strangely enough for his mamoth size he could run and I remember him ambling downfield, gut hanging out, but leadint the way for Boozer. It was a disappointing loss.
But I wwill add another one, the first playoff game in Foxboro, 12/31/78 when the team was trounced by the OIlers. A New Year's eve game, I believe player later in the afternoon..maybe 4. The big play was a fake field goal with Pastorini flipping the ball to a player who cut in front of him and ran outside in for a TD. It fooled the D and the Pats lost 31-14.

Pats Fanatic

I agree with the all the games here, yes the Oakland games still gets my blood bolling 30 years later. I would like to ad the 1987 game against the Bronco's in the play-offs that Tony Eason managed to blow. The 1994 lose in the play-offs against the Browns was disappointing too.

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Pats726

WHat happeend in 87...I only remember that Eason was QB and they had opportunities...but details?? (I was traveling at the rime..and?? remember only sketchy radio accounts at the time..)