Piggybacking from yesterday's Rick Nash thread, for me it was 1975-76. What was yours?
Here's the summary:
*Football: The Giants were in the midst of a hideous, homeless stretch, went 5-9 in 1975, began 1976 0-9 on the way to 3-11, canning Bill Arnsparger in season and naming John McVay coach.
*Baseball: after a promising 89 win 1974, Catfish Hunter and Bobby Bonds signed for 1975 and after a poor start they won 83 games. The Mets were in year 2 of a 10 year freefall.
*Basketball: Knicks were aging and in their slide from the glory years, and Walt Frazier was traded to Cleveland before the 1976 season.
*Hockey: The Rangers killed us throughout that year. They lost the JP Parisi game at home and were bounced by the Isles in April '75 from the playoffs, then the Cat shit himself and dumped Hadfield over the summer for Nick fucking Beverly, traded Gilles Villemure for Doug fucking Jarrett, lost Eddie Giacomin on waivers, then kicked us all in the balls and traded the great Jean Ratelle and Brad Park for a broken down Espo and Carol Vandais. More joy followed there in January '76 when the Cat was canned and replaced by John Ferguson, who then dumped Rod Gilbert as soon as he could in the fall of '76. And as colhowpepper pointed out, Ferguson also traded Rick Middleton for Ken Hodge before the 1976 season began.
The rangers totally collapsed and now are barely watchable...
Also a Mets fan, and watched a team that went to the WS just a cpl seasons ago deteriorate into trash.
May 2017 burn in hell never to be spoken of again.
Its made me borderline renounce sports.
Rangers eliminated
Knicks blow ass
Cuse football beats the #1 team and does not do much of anything after that
Cuse B-Ball in a down year.
Only bright spot was the Yankees
*Finals
Almost got booted from my dorm because I literally punched the wall and made a big hole leading from the hallway into my neigbor's room. Got saved because the Dorm Director was from Boston.
Almost got booted from my dorm because I literally punched the wall and made a big hole leading from the hallway into my neigbor's room. Got saved because the Dorm Director was from Boston.
I had the same reaction Bill. Its 1978!
Bucky fuckin Dent!
* The Giants. Enough said there.
* The Mets imploding, top to bottom.
* The Knicks getting Hornacek'd.
FUCK!
Mets: 70-92/Big expectations and it was one injury after another. 2015 feels like a decade ago.
Rangers: 25-23-5/This season is collapsing in front of our eyes. This window is closed shut. Time to start thinking about the future. Playoffs are a long long shot. The last 7-8 years the Rangers have been reliable for a good season. Not this year.
Knicks: 23-31/Quick start was fool's gold. This team is trash and so is the coach. I can't stand watching them.
- Giants did give some reason for optimism with Coughlin and the Eli draft, but that was a tough season.
- Rangers reached the pinnacle of their overpraid veteran suckage, then lockout
- Knicks were in the early years of the Isaiah debacle
Quote:
The whole year wrapped up on a single day.
Almost got booted from my dorm because I literally punched the wall and made a big hole leading from the hallway into my neigbor's room. Got saved because the Dorm Director was from Boston.
I had the same reaction Bill. Its 1978!
Bucky fuckin Dent!
what's the problem? :-)
The great Bill White
Fast forward 26 years and they are a fk'n joke!! Even though the Eagles won, it's fun watching the Skins go nowhere. And they're not ever getting anywhere with Snyder.
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Giants virtually out of contention by week 4
Rangers eliminated
Knicks blow ass
Cuse football beats the #1 team and does not do much of anything after that
Cuse B-Ball in a down year.
Only bright spot was the Yankees
What is certain is this Giants season has by far been the worst in my lifetime.
October 2000 lose World Series to Yanks.
January 2001 get destroyed in SB by Ravens.
April-May 2001 lose 1st rd heart breaker to Raptors.
June 2001 lose crushing game 7 to Avs (F Ray Borque).
For those keeping score that's 0-3 in 3 championship appearances plus pretty bad 1st round exit.
This year is up there for me just based on football alone which is my favorite sport.
3-13, Eli benched for Geno and Eagles SB is enough to cry Uncle. The Mets were terribly disappointing, the Knicks are just meh, but the Devils have been a nice surprise.
Jay Williams pulls off the miracle minute bringing Duke back from 10 down with less than a minute to play against my Terps.
But it's ok, I told myself. I still have the Superbowl.
Gulp.
After that, the Knicks began the 10 year stretch of sub 500 basketball that basically killed my interest in the NBA until recently (and no longer as a Knicks fan).
This was a particularly weak way to suck.
Giants suck shit beyond all comprehension, along with myriad of injuries, to go 3-13 and to top it off, the Eagles (the Eagles!) win the Super Bowl.
It gets no worse for me personally — as coming into the season I considered the Giants a legitimate Super Bowl contender and the Mets a likely playoff team.
Relative to expectations, 2017 was by far the worst for me.
And, Bill White's call of Dent's HR just never gets old.