Sickening

[cardsfanmd]

Why are we talking about these horrific episodes???????

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

That game is responsible for the biggest meltdown I have ever had watching a professional sports game... They single handedly made my wife disgusted with me for a good week.

The only other time I had a huge meltdown (tears, fits, and more tears) watching the cards was when I was 9 years old and Neil O'Donaghue missed that FG causing the Cards to miss the playoffs by two freaking points in 1984... My father still talks about my meltdown and my cries of , "I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue...."

 

[Buckybird]

That game is responsible for the biggest meltdown I have ever had watching a professional sports game... They single handedly made my wife disgusted with me for a good week.

The only other time I had a huge meltdown (tears, fits, and more tears) watching the cards was when I was 9 years old and Neil O'Donaghue missed that FG causing the Cards to miss the playoffs by two freaking points in 1984... My father still talks about my meltdown and my cries of , "I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue...."

If we had made the playoofs that year, we might have won it all, maybe. That year nobody had an answer for Lomax to Green and the defense would hit the QB in the mouth, every play. Who knows? I was in St. Louis on Oct 21 game vs. the Skins that year and O'Donohue hit the winner on the last play. Green roasted Darrell Green both games that season. The memories!!!!!!!!

 

[cgolden]

Can we not talk about this game anymore? It's too painful to relive.

Nuff said.

 

[Gambit]

Just when i was getting around to forgetting about it

me too; as time goes by it becomes more funny than sad.

Then I realize I'm just confusing my emotions as usual

 

[CardEd]

I can still remember the chant we had going as some of the Bears fans were leaving early.....

" Beat the traffic, beat the traffic......"

that was one of the toughest loss to be at, of many losses

 

[Osbern61]

If we had made the playoofs that year, we might have won it all, maybe. That year nobody had an answer for Lomax to Green and the defense would hit the QB in the mouth, every play. Who knows? I was in St. Louis on Oct 21 game vs. the Skins that year and O'Donohue hit the winner on the last play. Green roasted Darrell Green both games that season. The memories!!!!!!!!

I remember that game in St Louis and O'Donohue had missed an extra point earlier in the game, so it was a tense moment.

 

[mjb21aztd]

ugh man that game did suck i'm pretty sure I broke something that night but I was to pissed off to remember... I hope we never have to go through a loss like that again but we probally will being cardinal fans

 

[BigRedRage]

I was dancing in the living room, drinking beer. Cheering and seeing a 1-4 turnaround. Then it all happened.

I was running around the stadium talking **** to ever bear fan I saw.

 

[BigRedRage]

To all those who mentioned crying in this thread:

Seriously? Seriously???

I was there, in the 11th row as excited as anyone and as heartbroke as anyone but to cry? man up.

 

[English on tour]

i stayed up to 5.30am to watch it live, went to work at 7.00 with no sleep and felt sick to me stomach all day bloody long.......and still feel sick now thinkng about it.

b@astards

 

[TigToad]

I remember the Bears fans behind us, who _whined_ the whole game... about the stadium, the food, the Cardinals fans, the ushers, Arizona, everything. They got silly drunk and the girl was rude to a lot of folks. . then the turn around happened and they started cursing (loudly) at the Cardinals players everytime they made a mistake and called them really poor names.

When I think of that game all I can hear is that guy yelling those curse words (even his inflection) and thinking 'thats the kind of person who will get to leave this game happy'.
(It didn't help we got chrewed out for standing too much earlier that game by the ushers when the Bears fans complained, but they never talked to the Bears fans about their language)

I was so angry and upset afterwords even now I'm shaking slightly remembering it. I sat through 30+ point losses at Sun Devil that never phased me like the 4th quarter of that game wrenches at me. The fact I've always liked the Bears didn't help, it made it worse. Like a betrayal.

 

[thirty-two]

Ouch, thanks for that punch in the gut.

Worst part of that game: The jackass Bears fans leaving in the early 4th quarter, thinking they had lost, only to COME BACK UP TO THEIR SEATS when they started to get back in th e game. Then the laughing/taunting that ensued.

God, that night SUCKED.

 

[phillycard]

I still can't watch after the 2nd half of that game yet. I don't know when I'll ever be able to. Now thatnks to the graciousness of the NFL network, we'll be tortured for all eternity with reruns of that game.

 

[phillycard]

To all those who mentioned crying in this thread:

Seriously? Seriously???

I was there, in the 11th row as excited as anyone and as heartbroke as anyone but to cry? man up.

BRR, I'm as much a man as can be, but I cried after that game, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. That was as gut wrenching a loss as a fan of a team can take. I don't need to go into a dissertation of what being a Cards fan is like to you, but the way that played out, you gotta give your brethren a pass on that.

 

[Linderbee]

That game is responsible for the biggest meltdown I have ever had watching a professional sports game... They single handedly made my wife disgusted with me for a good week.

The only other time I had a huge meltdown (tears, fits, and more tears) watching the cards was when I was 9 years old and Neil O'Donaghue missed that FG causing the Cards to miss the playoffs by two freaking points in 1984... My father still talks about my meltdown and my cries of , "I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue, I hate O'Donaghue...."

whoa, whoa, whoa...wait. Are you telling me we had ANOTHER crappy kicker named Neil???

 

[BigRedRage]

I guess, I love my team and follow them just as closely as the next fan but I cant see myself crying after a football game, I get pissed off and yell at the other teams fans not sulk and cry

 

[Rivercard]

I still can't watch after the 2nd half of that game yet. I don't know when I'll ever be able to. Now thatnks to the graciousness of the NFL network, we'll be tortured for all eternity with reruns of that game.

The 2nd quarter pisses me off to. The cards played "not to lose" for the last 3 quarters. Up 14-0 Hayes intercepts Grossman and returns it to the Bears 35 yard line. What do the Cards do instead of stepping on their throats?...... they get wimpy. Two delay of offsides/game penalties and 2 worthless run plays up the gut followed by a pass play that everyone knew was coming. Next series, same thing.

 

[CardLogic]

For godsakes...

somebody make it stop!!!

 

[CardEd]

I guess, I love my team and follow them just as closely as the next fan but I cant see myself crying after a football game, I get pissed off and yell at the other teams fans not sulk and cry

I agree to a point, until they are tears of joy......

The only sporting event I ever teared over was when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in '93/94. Tears of joy. Because of years of torment from Islander fans of "1940" chant.

I can still picture myself at my mom's house in NY in the den jumping up and down after the game seven victory!

Here's to hoping we will all have tears of joy from the Cardinals!

 

[cgolden]

Sad, sad day. I watched the game at a bar with a group of friends and of course we made small friendly wagers throughout the beginning of the game but I took the worst bet of all. One guy (who wasn't even a Bears fan, just a front-runner) bet me, when the Cardinals went up 14-0, that the Bears would come back to win. The bet was the group would pick up my tab if the Cards won but if the Bears won, I'd have to pick up the tab of the entire group. Needless to say, by the end of the game I was heart-broken, highly intoxicated (b/c I thought there was no way I'd have to pay), and broke as a joke.

 

[slanidrac16]

I took the positives out of that game.
First , Leinart looked poised and was tearing the Bears up with no real running game and a weak offensive line. Remember Rackers missed TWO chances to win that game at the end of both halfs.

The other positive note was that game was the begining of the end for that coaching staff. ANY other coaching staff would have lead this team to a win. Instead we decided to run the ball into Urlacher 25 times. Just plain stupid. Then Dennis Green fires Rowan. What a fiasco.

The thing that takes the sting out of it for me is that we were 1-4 at the tme and going nowhere.

 

[Rivercard]

The thing that takes the sting out of it for me is that we were 1-4 at the tme and going nowhere.

Yep, our overall pathetic-ness does provide some comfort in those stinging singular pathetic moments. Odd, but true.

 

[MrYeahBut]

When I was channel surfing and saw the game was on, my wife quitely said 'Don't do it to yourself, bro...don't do it to yourself' . I'm glad she still loves me. I didn't watch.

 

[BigRedRage]

When I was channel surfing and saw the game was on, my wife quitely said 'Don't do it to yourself, bro...don't do it to yourself' . I'm glad she still loves me. I didn't watch.

she calls you bro? kinda odd..