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A loss that hurt

Quietcowskee
Quietcowskee Member Posts: 4,238 Standard Supporter
edited July 2021 in Hardcore Husky Board
Can you remember a game that started the process of ripping your heart out as a Husky fan?

Mine? Cal in 2002. Dawgs hadn’t lost to Cal since 1976. Nnamdi Asomugha bodied Reggie and Kyle Boller ripped it on us. Total shock. They actually did it.

It was a given that we’d never lose to Cal. Neuhiesal’s team was becoming pass-happy and soft. Mediocrity was starting to set in and it sucked.


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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102

    Can you remember a game that started the process of ripping your heart out as a Husky fan?

    Mine? Cal in 2002. Dawgs hadn’t lost to Cal since 1976. Nnamdi Asomugha bodied Reggie and Kyle Boller ripped it on us. Total shock. They actually did it.

    It was a given that we’d never lose to Cal. Neuhiesal’s team was becoming pass-happy and soft. Mediocrity was starting to set in and it sucked.


    Same game
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,455 Founders Club
    1979 ASU
    1982 WSU
    1986 ASU
    1988 WSU
    1992 Arizona
    1994 Oregon
    1995 Oregon
    2003 Nevada
    2006 Stanford
    2007 Cal
    2008 Oklahoma
    2008 WSU
    2010 Stanford
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,455 Founders Club

    1979 ASU
    1982 WSU
    1986 ASU
    1988 WSU
    1992 Arizona
    1994 Oregon
    1995 Oregon
    2003 Nevada
    2006 Stanford
    2007 Cal
    2008 Oklahoma
    2008 WSU
    2010 Stanford

    Surprised you didn’t mention UCLA in 90
    It hurt bad but for some reason it wasn't traumatizing
  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    92 Apple Cup too
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    It was 1990 UCLA for me, hands down.

    Many of the losses under Petersen make the list. I can't really call anything between 1997 and 2014 real disappointing because my expectations were low. Maybe the Sun bowl vs Purdue, or the 2000 loss at Oregon would make it.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102
    2002 Cal was the first time I felt like the program was going hard down the mountain

    1990 UCLA hurt for completely different reasons knowing that a win likely meant a national title … Greg Lewis getting hurt and Mark Brunell not knowing how to throw the football is something that I’ll never feel great about …

    1992 Arizona because as a teenager I was in the mindset that UW had a big swinging duck and didn’t lose to ANYBODY … much less Arizona … grown up me would have bet heavy on Arizona that week

    1995 USC turning a 21-0 lead into a come from ahead tie to lose out on the Rose Bowl … that was way more impactful than some of the other games like the Ortege flip game

    There have been a handful of games that left me shaking my head (notably during the Sark years) … but few games have left me where a walk for perspective didn’t do the trick
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,768 Founders Club
    2017 getting robbed of 3 straight conference championships in a shit tier empty stadium. Fuck perspective.

    3 straight conference champions and even this lazy staff doesn't have to fight SC and Oregon for west coast blue chips.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    The list is too long. Our entire identity as a program is losses that hurt.
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,768 Founders Club

    I forgot the chart loss to Arizona in '14 or so

    Anyone who thinks Pete was a good coach can go watch that game on repeat forever.

    Chaser: 2015 in Tempe the next year. Fuck Petersen.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072

    1979 ASU
    1982 WSU
    1986 ASU
    1988 WSU
    1992 Arizona
    1994 Oregon
    1995 Oregon
    2003 Nevada
    2006 Stanford
    2007 Cal
    2008 Oklahoma
    2008 WSU
    2010 Stanford

    “Husky Football: Breaking hearts since 1979!”
  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,554 Swaye's Wigwam
    1990 UCLA for obvious reasons

    1995 Tie at Home vs. SC. Up 21-0 and Lambo offensively went into a complete shell, and prevent defense when we had clearly lost momentum and did nothing about it. Always wondered had we went back to RB and that, coupled with expectations and talent on 96 team if it could have been start of another run.

    2003 Nevada: I knew that was the low for the program, just never expected it to keep bouncing along it for 6-8 years.

  • EwaDawg
    EwaDawg Member Posts: 4,335
    Fuck this. Not reading this thread but Air Force, in 2005, at Quest Field. A sign of things to come with tyrone willingham.
  • EwaDawg
    EwaDawg Member Posts: 4,335
    edited July 2021
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    2008 Oregon. We? had 5 Reasons we were going to win that one. Rather easily.

    Still haunts me.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Real talk so so many losses to UCLA.

    1990 cost us a natty
    The JJ Stokes Game.
    afore mentioned 1999
    The Deshaun Foster game.
    The MJD game.

    Interestingly, not the Myles Jack game (I was rooting for Jack and Mora, fuck Sark!)
  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    edited July 2021
    dnc said:

    Darkhorse candidate for most important loss: 1999 at UCLA.

    Win that one and go to the RB.

    Just as importantly, Ty WIllingham doesn't.

    Perhaps a W and back to back RBs either a. protects RN's job enough that he makes it through 2003 before getting fired b. at least knocks Ty down enough that he never leaves Stanford and becomes a national icon after failing at ND, preventing him from ever being handed the keys at Montlake.

    #GreatMomentsInDoogHypotheticals

    Wow
  • trublue
    trublue Member Posts: 3,042
    edited July 2021
    dnc said:

    2008 Oregon. We? had 5 Reasons we were going to win that one. Rather easily.

    Still haunts me.

    Umm, OK. What did you expect to be different from the 2007 game at Husky Stadium?

  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    dnc said:

    Real talk so so many losses to UCLA.

    1990 cost us a natty
    The JJ Stokes Game.
    afore mentioned 1999
    The Deshaun Foster game.
    The MJD game.

    Interestingly, not the Myles Jack game (I was rooting for Jack and Mora, fuck Sark!)

    Before he decided to switch to being a cuog in his last couple of years of life, my Dad the Husky fan always hated UCLA most of all. He said UW would always lose every game to them that mattered.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,987 Founders Club
    dnc said:

    trublue said:

    dnc said:

    2008 Oregon. We? had 5 Reasons we were going to win that one. Rather easily.

    Still haunts me.

    Umm, OK. What did you expect to be different from the 2007 game at Husky Stadium?

    Everyone is talking about the difference between Baer and Donatell.
    And speed speed speed
  • Quietcowskee
    Quietcowskee Member Posts: 4,238 Standard Supporter
    dnc said:

    Darkhorse candidate for most important loss: 1999 at UCLA.

    Win that one and go to the RB.

    Just as importantly, Ty WIllingham doesn't.

    Perhaps a W and back to back RBs either a. protects RN's job enough that he makes it through 2003 before getting fired b. at least knocks Ty down enough that he never leaves Stanford and becomes a national icon after failing at ND, preventing him from ever being handed the keys at Montlake.

    #GreatMomentsInDoogHypotheticals

    Isn’t that the game that birthed the name @WilburHooksHands?
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    trublue said:

    dnc said:

    2008 Oregon. We? had 5 Reasons we were going to win that one. Rather easily.

    Still haunts me.

    Umm, OK. What did you expect to be different from the 2007 game at Husky Stadium?

    You continuing to make clueless posts like this one brings a small bit of brightness to what are otherwise dark times.
  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,331
    All lambo games.

    Oregon 94
    Oregon 95
    Notre dame 95
    Nebraska 97
    UCLA 97

    Rick game(s)
    99 UCLA
    02 Michigam
    03 Cal

    Pete
    15 Oregon. Wtf was that
    18 Oregon
    19 Oregon
    17 Stanford

    Never had any other expectations for any other teams post James era sir hard to say with Colby ty sark. I fully expect to hate lake.