BradyManny

Aside from sporting defeats in your own personal athletics, was this the most painful loss for you?

Simply as a spectator, yes, this for me was the most painful thing I've ever watched. I was too young to remember Buckner, so it's only competition is the 03 ALCS. And as horrendous as that was, with the Red Sox, losing is the norm, and no matter what, part of you always expects the Sox to find a way to lose.

With the Brady-Belichick Pats, it's quite the opposite. In the case of the Sox, they redeemed their 03 loss the ensuing year - the goal for any Sox fan was to break the curse, win one, and die happy. As a Pats fan in this era, it's about making history. Nothing the Pats can ever do can give them this one ring that slipped out of their fingers.

This one will sting for a while.

PATSNUTme

The game in Oakland when it was taken away from us by that bogus roughing call on Sugar bear. That would have been our first SB Championship.

This one was very understandable.






it was all mcdaniels fault.

MrBigglesWorth

Frpm the euphoria of Asante intercepting the ball to the pick at the end it was a stressful spectrum of emotions, especially to see the team run out of gas and players get fatigued.

It was like the Carolina game but for almost the entire 2nd half trying to hold on, and almost did, but that clock didn't move fast enough at the end.

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BradyManny

This game was a lot like the Colts goal line stand game except the end....

I just can't think about the specifics of this game.

If I think "we lost to the Colts in the AFC Championship game after a great season in which we exceeded expectations while managing to build for the future", then yes, I take solace in that long-winded fact. I can rationalize it.

But if I think of anything that took place from the moment Troy Brown was called for offensive PI, it makes me want to vomit all over everything.

Sean Pa Patriot

As a lifelong Pats fan... I rated the worst playoff loss like this

1 At Denver last yr

2 At Denver 1986

3 At Pitt 1997

After this Sunday , those losses will never touch the one on sunday.. Its the worse loss in Pats history.. I know the super bowls were bad, but lets face it Chicago was the better team, and the game against Green Bay hurt, but I thought we would be back very soon.. Its not the loss, its how we lost.. just very unPatriot like..

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We going to take it one game at a time

chris_in_sunnyvale

Game 6 was a kick in the nads. Be thankful you're too young to remember.

If the Pats had a history of losing and then put up that kind of show, I'd compare it to Game 6, but the recent Lombardis definitely mute the pain. Also, despite giving up the largest lead in AFCCG history, the Pats gave up a 21 point lead in the same place 3 years ago and barely held on for victory. The difference between that game and Sunday's game is making/not making one lousy play so in essence we've almost seen the exact same game twice in three years.

The 2003 ALCS loss was muted by the fact that Grady gave that game away and there already was a history of losing in spectacular fashion thanks to the boys of 1986.

I'd list them as: Game 6 >>>> 2003 ALCS > AFCCG loss

Honorable mention to:

- Celts lose game 6 (and title) at home in 1985 to LA
- Celts lose game 7 at home to Sixers in 1982 ECF
- Pats lose SB20 in embarassing fashion

I wasn't a hockey fan, but I can imagine "too many men on the ice" in 1979 must have been painful to live through.

Edit to add: I was too young for Ben Dreith. Thank God.

Regards,
Chris

MrBigglesWorth

Ya right at the end if the pats run blitz had worked the colts would have had to kick a field goal and it woould have been a different story.

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MrBigglesWorth

I can't stand baseball so I try to pretend it doesn't exist. It's only background noise for those quiet summer nights.

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BelichickFan

I voted yes because it feels like the worst. That might be because it's so fresh in my memory but I think it's the worst.

3 to be 4

this isnt even in my top 10. They've won me 3 Super Bowls. the losses that occurred when I wondered if we'd ever win one hurt much, much more.

id rank them

Game 6 1986
Bruins, too many men on the ice, 1979
Roughing the passer, 1976
Pedro game 2003 ( although the Patriots OT win at Miami just days later saved us a long winter of pain, in fact the Patriots never lost again and won a Super Bowl. HOW can we not love a team like THAT)