I know for many of us, this may have been to most brutal loss in our time.
Hard to believe it's been four whole years.
I still remember enjoying myself in the first half, but having a bad feeling that we needed to pile it on in order to put them away. When they recovered the on-side kick, I knew we were in for a doozy. Never could I imagine the events that followed...
Discuss where you were and what you went thru in the subsequent hours, days, and months :
Win as a team, lose as a team.
Jeff...
I agree SF playoff loss was gut wrenching. 2002 may have been the most complete Giants team I've ever witnessed (I wasnt around for '86). But let me point out I said "perhaps the darkest day." Darkest day definitely up for debate/
2011 Eagles were the Dream Team... Many were picking Jets/Eagles Super Bowl in preseason. Which made our run that much more sweet. Especially Christmas Eve.
Win as a team, lose as a team.
And completely agree about that. Kenny Phillips was a much bigger culprit than Matt Dodge but Coughlin didn't run out to embarrass him on national television when he took the worst angle I've ever seen on Celek.
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but what TC did to him that day is IMO one of his worst moves as head coach of the Giants. There were a million reasons the Eagles won that day, none bigger than TC himself not having the hands team out for an obvious onside kick, or re-inserting O'Hara who was cooked, back into the starting lineup.
Win as a team, lose as a team.
And completely agree about that. Kenny Phillips was a much bigger culprit than Matt Dodge but Coughlin didn't run out to embarrass him on national television when he took the worst angle I've ever seen on Celek.
Agreed with both of you.
2) Getting throttled in the SB by the Ravens
3) Sehorn blowing out his knee returning kicks in a preseason game
Bill Parcells said that was the worst in game coaching job he ever did. They dominated that game but couldn't score.
Yes, the 1860s and 70s.
You could easily say the Fumble was a good thing, on balance. Does anything in the next decade happen the same way, if we don't blow that game?
The 2003 San Francisco game still hurts the most for me, but even that set the table for better things.
It still hurts.
As for the 2010 game, even Tom Coughlin talks about how it served as motivation for 2011.
I'll trade a game like that for a Super Bowl any time.
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I just never, ever thought they'd lose that game to the fuckin' Rams. Not at home.
I just never, ever thought they'd lose that game to the fuckin' Rams. Not at home.
Me neither. I thought they were going to win it all that year.
I feel the same way about 1989. Great as that Niners team was, the Giants could beat them. Were tied with them in fourth quarter in Candlestick that year despite Wesley Walls' chickenshit cheap shot that took LT out of the game.
Meanwhile, at least the Eagles got a t-shirt out of the deal...
The Niners game took years off my life. Just an absolutely gut-wrenching, soul-burning, darkside-inducing viewing experience. I don't know how many emotions I was feeling at the end of that game, but they were all bad. By the time Terrell Owens was celebrating on top of whatever that was he was celebrating on, I felt like I could breathe smoke. I'm getting mad right now just thinking about it.
I don't feel that way about the 2002 team...I thought that group was a mirage and would have been destroyed in Tampa. That Tampa D was real, and the idea of Kerry Collins facing a heavy pass rush against that Tampa 2 (I believe statistically it might be the best pass D in history) is an ugly one. Derrick Brooks might have had three pick sixes.
The losses that linger for me are XXXV (I didn't love that team, but shit they got there and had an opportunity) and especially 2008. Infuriating...a colossal lost opportunity to write the team into the all time books with the best.
Sorry, but it was Alan Ameche in 1958. Nothing else in my memory comes close to that horror.
Yeah, but no way as bad as blowing a big lead and losing at the end.
Eagles were as good as dead that season. We were 11-1 and coming off of SB victory. We beat every one of the eventual CG participants. McNabb's sideline antics. I've never been more certain about something that ultimately didnt happen. We woulda won it all that year.
Just because it's the Eagles...
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And no it wasn't the darkest day in Giants history. On the field The Fumble in 1978 was. Off the field I would say Troy Archer being killed in a car accident was.
Sorry, but it was Alan Ameche in 1958. Nothing else in my memory comes close to that horror.
I wasn't around for that one. But my Dad went to Philly to watch it on TV because they couldn't get tickets and griped about it until he passed.
At least they were in the middle of a golden era back then.
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And no it wasn't the darkest day in Giants history. On the field The Fumble in 1978 was. Off the field I would say Troy Archer being killed in a car accident was.
Sorry, but it was Alan Ameche in 1958. Nothing else in my memory comes close to that horror.
I wasn't around for that one. But my Dad went to Philly to watch it on TV because they couldn't get tickets and griped about it until he passed.
At least they were in the middle of a golden era back then.
Yeah, but it was fool's gold. They just couldn't beat the Packers, then it was goodbye Allie and goodbye Giants until Parcells arrived.
I agree that they weren't a great team, but I'm a big believer that if you get to the final, you'd better win it. I don't think there's a worse loss in sports than losing a final. Brutal.
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Enormously so.
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at that point. That just wasn't a particularly good team. They got hot for a while late in the year. It happens.
I agree that they weren't a great team, but I'm a big believer that if you get to the final, you'd better win it. I don't think there's a worse loss in sports than losing a final. Brutal.
I completely agree. Losing when you're in the finals is such an awful feeling.