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The game you are referring to was actually in 1988. Flutie was not on the team in 1986--Tony Eason was the starting QB. In that game, Flutie had a bizarre statline, going something like 9-for-30 with FOUR touchdown passes in a 30-7 rout of the Bears. I remember a big deal was made out of that outcome in that the Pats gained some measure of "revenge" for the SB XX shellacking.
No, Flutie was not on the team in '86. I believe he was signed during the strike season of '87. You're right - that Bears game probably was in '88.
The thing I remember most about that game, apart from the Fryar touchdown pass, was McMahon being carted of the field on a stretcher. That was worth the price of admission!
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There was a game at Fenway Park, i believe 1963 or so, against Buffalo, late in the season, IN THE SNOW and we got beaten on a pass to Elbert "Golden Wheels" Dubenion. It was a key game for a division title, i I remember correctly. That was devastating to me, at the time.
The playof loss to Houston at Foxboro in the Chuck Fairbanks debacle. That was a horrible day. And, it was on New Years day, i believe.
Last years loss to Denver really pissed me off. It did not have to be, even with the turnovers.
EDIT: SEE YOU AT THE PICNIC ON SUNDAY???????????????????
2nd edit: The monday night game, in the rain, where we lost in overtime on the kickoff return by some guy named Washington.
Another bad loss that you may not remember was the 51-10 drubbing by San Diego in the '63 AFL Championship game. If they had won, perhaps they would have had a stadium built before 1970, or sold some more tickets, and might have had the one more player they needed to go to the First Super Bowl in '66.
People forget that all they had to do was beat the then lowly, last place, Jets at the end of the season and they would have gone instead of KC in '66. The game swung on the fact that one of their defensive linemen was injured late that year and they had no qualified substitute. The Jets won and the Pats never recovered.
Great point re the 66 team (the 6-6-2 Jets didn't finish last, tho, that honor was reserved for the 3--11 Dolphins and Oilers). It would have been them instead of the Bills vs. KC for a ticket to SB I. If they'd pulled it off, Win or Lose, as the first AFL team in the SB, they wouldn't have had to wait over 30 years for Brady and Belichick to secure the Franchise's place in NFL history.
One real bad loss that You omitted my Italian Friend is the 1978 New Years Eve Playoff Loss to the Houston Oilers. The Pats were flat and never showed up.They made Dan Pastorini look like a Hall of Famer that day.Simply brutal.
No, Flutie was not on the team in '86. I believe he was signed during the strike season of '87. You're right - that Bears game probably was in '88.
The thing I remember most about that game, apart from the Fryar touchdown pass, was McMahon being carted of the field on a stretcher. That was worth the price of admission!
I saw someone say the 1997 playoff loss to Pitt was a tough one, but one of the toughest Patriots losses was vs Pitt a few weeks before that. The Patriots had the game in control until Bledsoe through a late pick and the Steelers came back to win. If the Pats would have one that game, they would have been playing Pitt at home in the 2nd round, and who knows what could have happened.
Aside from the ones already mentioned, one that sticks out in my mind was in 1984 after Berry replaced Meyer as the coach and the Patriots has a shot at making the playoffs. They were at Denver, driving late in the game for the go ahead score when Don Crickie (sp?) said "and Grogan hands off to the sure handed Mosi Tatupu" and the next thing you know, fumble, a Denver defensive back scoops up the ball and runs it all the way back for a TD, ballgame.
Just another example of how Denver always has been and always will be a house of horrors for this team. The most recent loss is just another example of that.........
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The last game I attended was at old Foxboro Stadium on Dec 27 1992 against MIA. We were 2-13 going into the game and Scott Zolak was our starting QB (Dick MacPhearson coaching).
The temp at the start of the game was 16 degrees (you literally couldn't sit down on the aluminum beches without getting frozen stuck to them). At 13-13 in the 4th Qtr Charlie Baumen tried a 35 yarder and shanked it, sending the game into OT.
Marino had already been knocked out of the game but his backup (Scott Mitchell, former Lion) got them in position for a Pete Stoyanovich game winner, which he nailed.
It was after 4 and below zero when I left, and I remember thinking this team needs help or they'll get moved. Low and behold 6 months later we got Parcells and Bledsoe. Then Kraft bought the team.
Call me supersticious, but I haven't been to a game since. Is Gillette any nicer in the bleachers nowadays?
IMO the Pats were the best team in the NFL, a win there would have changed the franchise.
Next was the loss to GB in the SB, Parcells tanked, just a wasted opportunity, and I had food poisioning that day.
The loss to Houston in the playoffs where we blew the big lead. the team of the 70's hurt, they had the talent but..... never won the big one, that was a team that should have done more.
The Titans game in 2002 was brutal, we were dominated on both LOS, I called my Dad the next day and told him we didn't deserve to go to the playoffs that year.
The Denver game this year was tough also, gave the game away, espically the way the team had dealt with adversity all year long. I thought the D had gotten to the point where they could dominate. The injuries in the OL caught up with us in that gaem, but we still gave it away with the TO's. I'll always wonder what effect Brady's hernia had on some of the off target passes that were missed.
SB XX never bothered me, we had a great (and unexpected) run in the playoff's, you always hoped they would find away, but the Bears were simply the best team that year. I did wish they had started Grogan, he would have done better than Eason.
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