A loss that hurt

Tequilla

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

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

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

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

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

dflea

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

It was for me. I'm still not over it.

Jenkins bullshit flip is the very first thing that comes to mind

92 Apple Cup too

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

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

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

The list is too long. Our entire identity as a program is losses that hurt.

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

haie

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

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!”

http://twitter.com/USC_Athletics/status/1412082861650313226?s=19

godawgst

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.

Fuck this. Not reading this thread but Air Force, in 2005, at Quest Field. A sign of things to come with tyrone willingham.

**W

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

Still haunts me.

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

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!)

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

Comments

Tequilla

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

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

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

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

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

dflea

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

It was for me. I'm still not over it.

Jenkins bullshit flip is the very first thing that comes to mind

92 Apple Cup too

The list is too long. Our entire identity as a program is losses that hurt.

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

haie

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

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!”

http://twitter.com/USC_Athletics/status/1412082861650313226?s=19

godawgst

Fuck this. Not reading this thread but Air Force, in 2005, at Quest Field. A sign of things to come with tyrone willingham.

**W

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

Still haunts me.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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?