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Most painful Husky losses that you remember
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For some reason with Oregon having yet another painful loss, last night on Pac-12 classics it was the 1992 UW at Arizona game and of course this is UCLA the school who gave us IMO our most painful loss in program history.
So to you guys what is your top 5 most painful Husky losses?
1. UCLA loss in 1990: Cost us a national title, easily the worst defensive performance of that era, offense was terrible.
2. 1995 home loss to Oregon: Cost us a Rose Bowl plus back to back losses to Oregon just fucking sucked.
3. UW at Arizona in 1992: I forgot what losing felt like. That whole week was fucked up and watching our offense just sputter really hurt. I was just in shock the rest of the night.
4. UW at UCLA in 1999: Cost us a Rose Bowl and UCLA was fucking awful that year/injured. I still remember Tui throwing a costly pick in Overtime to blow the game.
5. UW at Michigan in 2002: That team had some talk of national title and a lot of talk of Rose Bowl. To lose on having 12 men on the field after a timeout just fucking ruined my day. I was like Race/iDawg after the BYU loss where I was like TSIO as I knew then that team didn't have what it took.
I was born in 1980 so that is why I left out 1982 AC and 1985 Oregon State.
If you noticed I don't have any in the past decade not because we haven't had painful losses but more to the fact I stopped caring. UW back then was a big deal and every loss mattered so much.
So guys what are your most painful losses?
So to you guys what is your top 5 most painful Husky losses?
1. UCLA loss in 1990: Cost us a national title, easily the worst defensive performance of that era, offense was terrible.
2. 1995 home loss to Oregon: Cost us a Rose Bowl plus back to back losses to Oregon just fucking sucked.
3. UW at Arizona in 1992: I forgot what losing felt like. That whole week was fucked up and watching our offense just sputter really hurt. I was just in shock the rest of the night.
4. UW at UCLA in 1999: Cost us a Rose Bowl and UCLA was fucking awful that year/injured. I still remember Tui throwing a costly pick in Overtime to blow the game.
5. UW at Michigan in 2002: That team had some talk of national title and a lot of talk of Rose Bowl. To lose on having 12 men on the field after a timeout just fucking ruined my day. I was like Race/iDawg after the BYU loss where I was like TSIO as I knew then that team didn't have what it took.
I was born in 1980 so that is why I left out 1982 AC and 1985 Oregon State.
If you noticed I don't have any in the past decade not because we haven't had painful losses but more to the fact I stopped caring. UW back then was a big deal and every loss mattered so much.
So guys what are your most painful losses?
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2007 losing the chance to fire our sack of shit coach and hire Jim Mora. Cost us several quality bowl wins and a shot at a good BCS game.
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1990 Colorado & 1990 UCLA... the 1995 home loss to ND and then the "Leap by the Lake" game. The Holiday Bowl loss against Major Applewhite's Texas really sucked ass.
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I should clarify actual games. Coaching hires/blunders are an entire different category.section8 said:2007 losing the chance to fire our sack of shit coach and hire Jim Mora. Cost us several quality bowl wins and a shot at a good BCS game.
Damn that list could go on forever. -
There's been many, but the 1995 home loss to ND sticks out. Only b/c a guy from my HS was playing for ND and he likes to talk shit at reunions. Cocksmoker
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UW had a comfortable lead in that game in the 3rd quarter and lost the game when ND threw a TD pass to a totally uncovered receiver... pitch & catch... easy.unfrozencaveman said:There's been many, but the 1995 home loss to ND sticks out. Only b/c a guy from my HS was playing for ND and he likes to talk shit at reunions. Cocksmoker
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1982 Stanford and WSU, 1984 SC, 1990 Ucla, 1992 Arizona
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The Bledsoe "Snow Bowl" game was a terrible, too. The Huskies were moving the ball well with Darius Turner running the ball up the gut. But, they went away from that in favor of running sweeps with Kaufman.
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'85 Oregon State, '86 ASU, '92 Arizona, '94 Oregon, '95 Oregon, '02 Michigan, '03 Nevada, '04 Arizona.... All losses after that occurred when we ceased being a football school.
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The tie to USC in 94 or 95 sucked. That is one of my earliest memories of going to games. 2000 Oregon, '97 Oregon and Apple Cup.
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Why was 04' Arizona painful? By that point we were like 1-8.DerekJohnson said:'85 Oregon State, '86 ASU, '92 Arizona, '94 Oregon, '95 Oregon, '02 Michigan, '03 Nevada, '04 Arizona.... All losses after that occurred when we ceased being a football school.
Nevada was more frustration that we lost but I stopped giving a fuck as I knew Gilby was a shit coach.
Good choice guys on 1995 Notre Dame. I remember leading by 7 late, then they blocked a John Whales punt as our normal punter was hurt. Then ND goes for two and the lead where Mayes is wide open.
Then Huard is driving us down for the win only to throw a pick six. That was only our second home loss in a a span of 40 games at the time. -
Definitely '95 Notre Dame. 99 UCLA because I made my parents promise me they'd take me to the rose bowl if we went. The tie vs USC that cost us the PAc10. I still say the loss to Nevada because that was a huge omen of things to come and pretty much ruined my night. Personally, the 05 Apple cup really really stung because I started college in 02 having huge hopes for the program while I was there. And working for the team my junior senior year, I just remember walking up the tunnel cussing up a storm realizing that my upperclassmen years at UW we went 3-19.
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good call on '99 UCLA. I was in a similar position as you. I would have been at the Rose Bowl if we won that one. At least I got to go the next year.
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re: '04 AZ... Because Napoleon Kaufman and Lincoln Kennedy were inducted into the Husky HOF at halftime, and the surreal scene of empty seats and a shitty football team were hard for me to take.
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2012 apple cup. What the fuck?
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That makes more sense. I'll say the 2011 Oregon game was tough in that regard too. How piss poorly they handled honoring the 1991 Huskies team.DerekJohnson said:re: '04 AZ... Because Napoleon Kaufman and Lincoln Kennedy were inducted into the Husky HOF at halftime, and the surreal scene of empty seats and a shitty football team were hard for me to take.
Seeing what we used to be while watching our rivals become what we once were. I know you even wrote a good article on that. -
I was at the 99 UCLA game. A dude was passing around a sign up sheet for people that would be interested iin a rose bowl trip package.
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1990 Colorado didn't bother me. I felt UW lost to a very good team on the road and played them right to the wire. I felt the team was on the verge of great things.
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I remember them passing around roses in the winning locker room after defeating Arizona and thinking about the 1990 feeling I had when UW had to host UCLA. I thought it was a terrible omen.MikeDamone said:I was at the 99 UCLA game. A dude was passing around a sign up sheet for people that would be interested iin a rose bowl trip package.
At least the next year we made up for it with a Rose Bowl win. -
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Neuheisel '03
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Only time I was ever happy after a loss was Hawaii in 2007 as I thought for sure that was the final nail in the Tyrone coffin.
When Ty was announced for a year four that was easily the most devastated I felt in the past decade. I couldn't believe it at all.
I hated the hire but when after year three when they looked at all the evidence to bring that fucker back when Mora was sitting right fucking there in town I was so pissed. -
UConn 06
Michigan 2002
Texas 2001
Miami 2001
Oregon 2000
UCLA 1999
UConn 98
Oregon 97
Notre Dame 95
Oregon 95
Michigan 93
Arizona 92
WSU 92
UCLA 90
Pretty sad that with all the UW football losses in the past decade none of them hurt as bad as they used to. I'm numb to Husky football. -
That was the only game I ever rooted against UW from kickoff to final whistle. When Reece dropped that pass I knew we were free. I even posted this pic on DM.c.He_Needs_More_Time said:Only time I was ever happy after a loss was Hawaii in 2007 as I thought for sure that was the final nail in the Tyrone coffin.
When Ty was announced for a year four that was easily the most devastated I felt in the past decade. I couldn't believe it at all.
I hated the hire but when after year three when they looked at all the evidence to bring that fucker back when Mora was sitting right fucking there in town I was so pissed.
I hate that I continue to know more about sports than our AD's. -
I remember my Doog friends called me pissed off we blew that game and I didn't give a fuck. I was like I'm actually happy we are finally free of Tyrone.dnc said:
That was the only game I ever rooted against UW from kickoff to final whistle. When Reece dropped that pass I knew we were free. I even posted this pic on DM.c.He_Needs_More_Time said:Only time I was ever happy after a loss was Hawaii in 2007 as I thought for sure that was the final nail in the Tyrone coffin.
When Ty was announced for a year four that was easily the most devastated I felt in the past decade. I couldn't believe it at all.
I hated the hire but when after year three when they looked at all the evidence to bring that fucker back when Mora was sitting right fucking there in town I was so pissed.
I hate that I continue to know more about sports than our AD's.
Then when I heard Ty was retained I couldn't fucking believe it.
As for DNC including basketball games those two UCONN games and the UNC game in Thomas final game was so fucking gut wrenching. As was the Oregon State loss in the Pac-12 tournament with Wroten who played great all game long missing 4 straight FT's. -
Yup. Basketball has given me more painful losses than UW has in the past decade.dnc said:UConn 06
Michigan 2002
Texas 2001
Miami 2001
Oregon 2000
UCLA 1999
UConn 98
Oregon 97
Notre Dame 95
Oregon 95
Michigan 93
Arizona 92
WSU 92
UCLA 90
Pretty sad that with all the UW football losses in the past decade none of them hurt as bad as they used to. I'm numb to Husky football.
Most recent heart breaker for me was Michigan in 2002. Stanford bugged me but it wasn't even in the top 25 most heart breakers.
UW football which was so much to me in my young adult life has just left a void for me in adulthood which sucks. -
Yeah that UNC game should have been on my list, good call. I expected Wroten's FT to cost us a game all year so I was pissed but not surprised when we lost that OS game.He_Needs_More_Time said:
I remember my Doog friends called me pissed off we blew that game and I didn't give a fuck. I was like I'm actually happy we are finally free of Tyrone.dnc said:
That was the only game I ever rooted against UW from kickoff to final whistle. When Reece dropped that pass I knew we were free. I even posted this pic on DM.c.He_Needs_More_Time said:Only time I was ever happy after a loss was Hawaii in 2007 as I thought for sure that was the final nail in the Tyrone coffin.
When Ty was announced for a year four that was easily the most devastated I felt in the past decade. I couldn't believe it at all.
I hated the hire but when after year three when they looked at all the evidence to bring that fucker back when Mora was sitting right fucking there in town I was so pissed.
I hate that I continue to know more about sports than our AD's.
Then when I heard Ty was retained I couldn't fucking believe it.
As for DNC including basketball games those two UCONN games and the UNC game in Thomas final game was so fucking gut wrenching. As was the Oregon State loss in the Pac-12 tournament with Wroten who played great all game long missing 4 straight FT's.
The Louisville game was painful in a different way, we never really looked like we belonged on the same court. More embarrassing than gut wrenching. But still very painful.
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Yea because that 2005 team didn't lay an egg all year long then they did vs Louisville that was shitty.dnc said:
Yeah that UNC game should have been on my list, good call. I expected Wroten's FT to cost us a game all year so I was pissed but not surprised when we lost that OS game.He_Needs_More_Time said:
I remember my Doog friends called me pissed off we blew that game and I didn't give a fuck. I was like I'm actually happy we are finally free of Tyrone.dnc said:
That was the only game I ever rooted against UW from kickoff to final whistle. When Reece dropped that pass I knew we were free. I even posted this pic on DM.c.He_Needs_More_Time said:Only time I was ever happy after a loss was Hawaii in 2007 as I thought for sure that was the final nail in the Tyrone coffin.
When Ty was announced for a year four that was easily the most devastated I felt in the past decade. I couldn't believe it at all.
I hated the hire but when after year three when they looked at all the evidence to bring that fucker back when Mora was sitting right fucking there in town I was so pissed.
I hate that I continue to know more about sports than our AD's.
Then when I heard Ty was retained I couldn't fucking believe it.
As for DNC including basketball games those two UCONN games and the UNC game in Thomas final game was so fucking gut wrenching. As was the Oregon State loss in the Pac-12 tournament with Wroten who played great all game long missing 4 straight FT's.
The Louisville game was painful in a different way, we never really looked like we belonged on the same court. More embarrassing than gut wrenching. But still very painful.
The UNC loss hurt because that team had the right makeup of upperclassman and talent to make a run. I wasn't bummed about the UNC draw either as those are the type of teams UW can play with. Then Syracuse is upset so we would have played Marquette another school we match up well with then play Kentucky who if you recall went toe to toe with earlier in the year. That sucked.
Most embarrassing loss in either sport will always be 2001 vs Miami. I didn't expect to win but that was back when UW football meant something so to get your ass kicked that badly was humiliating. -
Mariners '00 ALCS
Mariners '01 ALCS
Seahawks '06 Super Bowl
UCONN '06 (Worst. Feeling. Ever.)
Louisville '05
Notre Dame '09 sucked balls
I dropped my first F-Bomb when David Justice hit the go ahead home run in game six of the '00 ALCS. Remains one of the most painful moments of my life.
Seeing Yankee fans celebrate going up 2-0 in Safeco was enraging. 7 year old me told a douchebag in a Roger Clemens jersey to go back to New York.
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I miss giving a shit about the Mariners too. Those two series really sucked I agree with that.
Seahawks have become the new Huskies to me where they have given me the most joy and most pain in the past decade.
I guess this thread just shows how dead Husky football became once they let go of Rick in June of 2003. -
Snow Bowl and Leap by the Lake
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'89 Condom game - "We" dropped to 2-3 IIRC, and back then, 2-3 wasn't at all fucking acceptable
'03 Nevaduh...was there...fuck Gilby..enough said...
'94 AC - Getting blowm by the Coogs, then facing a long, bowlless offseason sucked
'98 Oahu Bowl - Losing to a team like Air Force was pathetic. It was the first non-winning season since the 70s.
2008 Kal - It was pretty obvious that Try just mailed it in. Fuck him. Winless seasons are always there, plus Doogs will use it as an excuse until kingdom come.
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