When did sports transport you ... or crush you?

1990 Syndicate (Michigan High School basketball fans will know): Class C semis, a Berrien Springs win over Ishpeming and I clinch the Syndicate title. Ishpeming beats Berrien Springs, McCabe clinches the title, but I can now finish second if Ishpeming wins the title. Ishpeming loses by something like 30, i finish third and I'm ticked.
And I have to watch Perry fucking Watson win a state title...

 

And of course you forgot the most critical part of the story. Namely, did you boink a skanky Olive Garden waitress that summer?

 

Transport: 1994 World Cup: USA 2, Colombia 1. Amazing to be there for that.

As for crushing me . . . Tom Brady/Adam Vinatieri, 2001. It was a fucking FUMBLE.

 

Amen, brotha!

 

Yeah, that one still stings a bit, too. Idiot Troy Edwards forgets to step back in bounds and a penalty wipes out a 70-yard punt, setting up Troy Brown's punt return for a touchdown. Ugly. Then again, the special teams were brutal all season.

The 1994 AFC Championship was more painful as an individual game, dominating the Chargers in Three Rivers Stadium except for two long touchdown passes. Then O'Donnell's fourth-down pass into the end zone is broken up in the final moments. The only saving grace there is that it saved the Steelers from getting smoked by the 49ers.

 

What he said.

Fuck Kerry Fraser's smouldering corpse.

And fuck Songbird. McSorley's stick? That's called karma, baby. Cheaters never prosper.

 

Wasn't Alfred Pupunu the hero? Someone in my fantasy league took him high the following year.

Saw Kevin Greene on Pros vs. Joes the other day. Or at least, a large meathead who looked like him. When my wife noted how ugly he is, I recounted the old story that following that loss to San Diego, he was on his hands and knees bawling in the lockerroom, telling reporters to "Get the fuck out of here!"

 

One time covering Reds spring training, I told Ken Griffey Jr. that he broke my heart on that play and that he didn't have to score. He just told me "Yes, I did," and I should go talk to Edgar.

 

My first year of Little League, I remember how cool it was to clinch the division title and qualify for the championship game. Three nights later, I scored a run in the championship, but we lost. Worst feeling in the world when you're 10 years old.

A year later, my team went 0-16.

 

Yeah, Popunu scored one of the touchdowns, but it wasn't like he did anything spectacular. There was a ridiculously bad breakdown in the Steelers' secondary and nobody covered him.

 

If memory serves, a prominent Steelers player later said "I don't know what that corner was thinking" on that play.

Tim McKyer was the offending corner, I believe.

 

Not sure. McKyer was the one beaten deep on the Chargers' second touchdown. He was inconsolable after the loss. I think he even had to be helped off the field.