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As much as we have Riggo's Super Bowl run, the Hail Jayden, Howie's homer and more, there are just as many crushing losses in DC sports history. In 'honor' of England vs. Argentina yesterday, Kevin Sheehan wants to know what YOUR worst DC sports losses are!
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00:00Staubach lines up under center this time with Springs and Pearson behind him.
00:08He throws.
00:09Tony Hill got it. Touchdown, Dallas.
00:12And now the extra point.
00:15Don't forget what's coming.
00:19And don't forget either that Washington still has two timeouts left.
00:25Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire on the call.
00:29In late December 1979, the season finale, the last game of the NFL season.
00:35Washington had it in the bag.
00:38Up 13 late in the fourth quarter.
00:41And Dallas led by Roger Staubach.
00:45Two long drives, including that capper.
00:48A touchdown pass to Tony Hill with 42 seconds to go to knock Washington out of the playoffs altogether.
00:56The win would have put Washington with home field advantage and as the one seed in the NFC playoffs.
01:04That is, for me, number one on the all-time loss where defeat was snagged from the jaws of victory.
01:13Like what happened yesterday with the English up 1-0 and Argentina scoring twice in that sport over a seven
01:25-minute period.
01:26What's that all-time devastating, you had it in the bag, but your team let it get away and you
01:33lost.
01:33What's that number one for you?
01:37301-230-0980.
01:41There are others here.
01:42I mean, there are.
01:44I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
01:48Nine of them for our local teams.
01:51Let me just say that I don't have a caps one, so you can help me with that, Max.
01:55I've got a couple caps ones.
01:57Give me your number one.
01:58So the number one, I mean, it's 2009 and 2010 were two of the biggest heartbreaks because the caps were
02:04so good.
02:05The Montreal loss.
02:05The Montreal loss is the loss because the caps were up 3-1 in that series and then Jaroslav Halak
02:10locked in.
02:11I mean, the caps that year were just unbelievable.
02:13They won the President's Trophy.
02:14They were the first team that wasn't an original six team to crack 120 points, which is no team had
02:21ever done it before.
02:21It was huge.
02:22Nick Backstrom, Alex Semon, Mike Green, Alex Ovechkin was at the top of his game at the time.
02:27It really felt like that was the year, and then it just all fell apart in three games as Jaroslav
02:32Halak just locked in.
02:34Yeah, they got Halak.
02:36I do remember that very much.
02:38That was devastating.
02:40And what was the seventh and deciding game?
02:43It wasn't – did they get shut out in the seventh and deciding game?
02:47I believe it was an overtime loss.
02:50Was it an overtime loss?
02:51I don't think game seven was an overtime loss.
02:53I could be wrong.
02:56Four power play opportunities for the Caps.
02:58Yeah, it was just a rough game.
03:00Was it an overtime loss?
03:02It was.
03:03Okay.
03:042-1.
03:052-1 final score.
03:062-1 in overtime.
03:07Montreal won.
03:08No, it was regulation.
03:10I'll keep that record.
03:11Okay.
03:11Yeah, I didn't remember it being an overtime game.
03:13Okay.
03:142-1.
03:15All right.
03:15That's a good one.
03:16That's certainly – because of the series lead as well.
03:20All right, 3-0-1, 2-3-0, 0-9-80.
03:23We've got phone lines open.
03:25I want to know what the equivalent for you was to what English fans are going through.
03:32Thinking that they are on their way to the World Cup final and then literally seven minutes later, eight minutes
03:39later, whatever it was, they're out.
03:41For me, Washington's 13-point lead over the Cowboys in the 1979 season finale is number one.
03:49I'll share with you what my number two is.
03:52I've got a bunch of others that are absolute examples of it was over, but it wasn't, including a couple
04:02of more Skins Cowboys games.
04:05Man, did they – and have they played some of the all-time legendary games.
04:10From a Cowboys perspective, same thing with Washington.
04:13The Monday Night Miracle, the Santana Moss from Mark Brunel twice, that had to be devastating.
04:19The Sean Taylor return of the Troy Vincent block field goal in 2006.
04:25It set up the game-winning field goal with no time left on the clock, untimed down.
04:31Yeah.
04:31All right, let's start with Joe in Springfield.
04:35Joe in Springfield, go ahead.
04:38What's going on?
04:39Shout out to the bats.
04:40Yep.
04:42What do you got, Joe?
04:43What's the game that sticks with you is you thought it was over, and it was devastating when the opponent
04:48came back and won.
04:51You know, Kevin, I'm going to say it was the 1999 divisional round when Washington was playing Tampa Bay,
04:56where 13-0 were dominating the defense.
04:59I mean, the defense had gotten better as the season went on, and they were shutting down Tampa Bay's offense.
05:03But then when John Lynch intercepted Brad Johnson, that got the Bucs back into it.
05:08But when we lined up for that field goal, I mean, if not for a bad snap, Kevin, I had
05:12confidence in Brett Conway because Brett Conway was accurate all year long.
05:15And if he had made the field goal without the bad snap, we would have played Kurt Warner, the Rams,
05:19in the NCAA championship.
05:20I don't know what the outcome would have been, but it would have been the top two offense in the
05:23league square off against each other.
05:25It would have been fun to see that.
05:26But, yeah, the Tampa Bay loss in 1999 was devastating.
05:28We had that game up 13-0.
05:30We had all the momentum, and then we just lost it.
05:33And if not for that bad snap, Kevin, we're talking a whole new different story with the NFC championship appearance.
05:37I mean, such a sad aftermath with Dan Turk, who rolled the snap back on what would have been a
05:46potential game-winning field goal.
05:47Obviously, he died within a year, I think, after that.
05:51Just a terrible snap.
05:53Choked on the snap.
05:55And that was, yeah, up 13-0 in Brad Johnson, who was definitely hampered with a shoulder injury,
06:05threw that pick to John Lynch, and it flipped the game on its side completely.
06:12Remember, that was Brian Mitchell's final game as a Redskin.
06:15He returned the second-half kickoff 100 yards to give Washington a double-digit lead.
06:22And to your point, the defense was awesome.
06:26Remember, Sean Taylor got booted from that game for spitting at – why am I blanking on who he spit
06:36at?
06:37What helmet did Sean Taylor spit at?
06:40What player?
06:42I'm blanking.
06:43It wasn't all-stop.
06:44It wasn't work done.
06:49But, yeah, no, that was a devastating loss, and it certainly seemed, as that game was going on,
06:55that Washington was going to advance to the NFC championship game.
07:00And remember, Joe, Tampa went the following week to St. Louis and lost to the high-flying, greatest show on
07:10turf, Rams,
07:11in that first year.
07:1311-6 was the final score of that game.
07:18Let's go to John in Virginia Beach.
07:20John, go ahead.
07:23Hey, good morning, Kevin.
07:24How you doing, buddy?
07:25Good morning.
07:26Hey, I got three that came to mind real quick.
07:30I'm a little bit of a younger fan, but the first one that came to mind was in 2017 when
07:36we went down to New Orleans.
07:38Lost a double-digit lead there late in the fourth quarter.
07:41Oh, painful.
07:42Painful.
07:42A game that we really needed to have there and let that one slip away.
07:48Up two touchdowns, lost in overtime, right.
07:51Yep.
07:52Second one was just last year against the Bears, another game that just felt like we really needed to have
07:57that
07:57to keep the season alive and to let that fumble away at the end.
08:01That was certainly tough.
08:04And then just a personal one, I'm an ODU alum down here, and we got buzzer-beatered in the tournament
08:09by Butler
08:10in the first round.
08:12They went on to go to the title game.
08:14That was certainly a tough one, but those are the three that quickly came to mind for me.
08:18Yeah, no, those are good ones for sure.
08:23The game that you're referring to in New Orleans, that was such a critical game because I believe
08:31that's also the game where Chris Thompson broke his arm and they ended up losing him for the rest of
08:37the year.
08:37That was really the turning point in the game.
08:42A turning point in the season.
08:44Because Washington's dead set in playoff contention if they hold on to that lead, and Chris Thompson doesn't get hurt.
08:51They lose the game, Chris Thompson gets hurt, and I believe that the next game was Thanksgiving night
08:58against the Giants that they won.
08:59I could be wrong about that.
09:01But the season did not end well after it looked promising for a while.
09:07Michael Pittman, thank you guys.
09:09Michael Pittman, of course.
09:10The running back for the Buccaneers in that playoff game.
09:14Sean Taylor spit in his face, got ejected.
09:17And there was question as to whether or not he would have been eligible to play in the NFC Championship
09:23game
09:24had they advanced.
09:26Let's go to Samaj.
09:28Samaj, and just for everybody, and we've got a line open if you want to weigh in at 301-230
09:33-0980.
09:34Off England's devastating loss to Argentina yesterday where defeat was snagged from the jaws of victory.
09:43Give me the example for you.
09:45The worst of those kinds of losses for any of your teams where it seemingly was over and won,
09:53and then all of a sudden, it wasn't.
09:56Go ahead, John.
09:59Good morning, Coach.
10:00How you doing?
10:00Thanks, Max.
10:01Good job.
10:01Taking my call, as always.
10:04Samaj, I'm sorry.
10:05Samaj, my fault.
10:07Yeah.
10:08That's okay.
10:08I heard you.
10:09I knew you would get it right.
10:10Well, once I heard your voice, I knew you.
10:11On that note, we're in the same age group, so it's all good.
10:18And that said, dude, I got to take it back to our high school days.
10:21The first thing that came to mind, and thanks for clarifying the topic,
10:25because I wasn't sure if you were saying local teams or just teams in general,
10:29so you clarified it.
10:30I appreciate that.
10:31So, dude, I got to go back to 82 and the introduction of the world to Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
10:37Oh, yeah.
10:37Georgetown, Carolina, and the Superdome, Fred Brown, and then Mike.
10:43That's the number one thought that popped in my head immediately.
10:48Really, I'll never forget that.
10:50And the second was just last year.
10:52I'm a big Canes fan.
10:53Outside the Terps football, my other college football team is the Canes,
10:57in the national championship game.
10:59The only thing about Georgetown, North Carolina, Samaj, is that the game wasn't won.
11:04It was a great basketball game.
11:06It wasn't like Georgetown had the game in control and then lost.
11:10No, not in control, but they were up.
11:12They were up, and Mike hit the shot, and then Fred Brown tossed it to James Worthy at the end.
11:20Yeah.
11:20No, I get that.
11:24That's a painful loss, no doubt, but that wasn't, we got this game, we've dominated this game,
11:30and then all of a sudden it changes at the end and you go home a loser.
11:35That started a stretch, by the way, during the 80s of just one incredible national championship game after another.
11:43The next year was Wittenberg, Lorenzo, Charles, and then you had 87 was Keith Smart.
11:5186 was the run by Danny Manning to the finals against Oklahoma.
11:55Yeah, against Oklahoma.
11:57Yeah.
11:58Of course, Villanova over Georgetown in 85.
12:01Incredible stretch.
12:02I can't speak for you, Kev, but that run to this day is why I still hold on to my
12:08college basketball loyalties,
12:09my first hoop option.
12:11Those, that decade, man, college basketball was never.
12:15I think a lot of people who became Georgetown fans became Georgetown fans in 82.
12:22I think you're 100% right.
12:24Maryland fans had been around for a decade.
12:26You know, when Lefty got here, he introduced college basketball to this market as a big product.
12:32And Maryland was a powerhouse in the 70s, always ranked in the top 10.
12:37And then Georgetown, even though John had some success before Patrick got there, he got to an Elite Eight in
12:441980.
12:45But I think that championship game and that championship run in 82 with Patrick as a freshman is the game
12:54and the tournament that really got Georgetown into that.
12:59But not only locally, much more followed, but started to become a national brand.
13:05Yeah, no doubt.
13:07Yeah, thanks, Samaj.
13:07By the way, yes, I screwed up.
13:09My fault.
13:09Kevin and Arlington, you're right.
13:11I don't know how I didn't get that one right.
13:14The Michael Pittman incident was in 2006 when they beat Tampa Bay in the postseason.
13:22The 99 game, obviously, Sean Taylor was not on that team.
13:25My fault.
13:26I'm getting my Tampa playoff games mixed up.
13:31Let's go to Tim.
13:33Tim in Gettysburg.
13:34Give me the gut-wrenching defeat snagged from the jaws of victory loss like England had last night in your
13:43life's sports fan rooting-dom.
13:46Yeah.
13:48Hi, Kevin.
13:51What?
13:51Um, um, 2001, uh, 10-point lead with less than a minute to go.
14:00Yeah.
14:01That's on my list.
14:03And, and was, Kevin, was it not the same year that they lost to Duke in the final four?
14:09Of course it was.
14:10It was the, yeah, it was the first of their four games that year.
14:13Cole Fieldhouse, I was there that night, gone in 54 seconds.
14:17Up 10 with 54 seconds to go.
14:20Jason Williams knocks down a three.
14:22Shane Battier scores.
14:25Drew Nick, uh, Drew Nicholas misses a couple of front ends.
14:28Steve Blake had fouled out completely on a terrible call, which really hurt them down the stretch.
14:34Game goes to overtime.
14:35They lose 98-96.
14:36Um, yeah, that, that, that, now they got revenge on senior night at Cameron Indoor, but that is an all
14:43-time defeat snagged from the jaws of victory moment for me.
14:47No doubt.
14:48There's a, uh, there's one from Maryland that ranks higher on my list, but that was crushing for sure.
14:56Yeah, there's, there's another one on my list, but I'll let somebody else come up with that.
15:01Yeah.
15:01Yeah, uh, Maryland had, look, Maryland basketball fans have been put through it over a long lifetime of rooting for
15:11them.
15:11If you've been, you know, in that 40 to 50 year range of being a Maryland basketball fan, there are
15:17many more crushing defeats than I think there have been exhilarating victories.
15:23Although they've been, there've been a lot of those too, but yeah, gone in 54 seconds at home against Duke
15:29on a night when that building was absolutely insane.
15:34Uh, Terrence Morris had a dunk with about eight, nine minutes to go to put the Terps up double digits
15:40and that it was over.
15:43It was over.
15:44The building was insane.
15:45Kay was forced to call timeout and it was rock and roll part two.
15:50And the building was exploding and it, it seemed like there was no chance.
15:53And, um, yeah, that was, that was a crushing defeat for sure.
15:57But they eventually met three more times in one of the great single season head to heads in college basketball
16:05history, four meetings between two teams in one season.
16:09And each game was special.
16:11Each game was special and memorable.
16:14Thanks for that.
16:15Appreciate it.
16:16301-230-0980.
16:19Let's go to our guy, Jerry in Gaithersburg.
16:21Jerry, go ahead.
16:23Oh, it was, uh, I think the year 2024, the Redskins Cowboys and the, uh, I think, uh, uh, it
16:30was touchdown pass to McLaurin.
16:32Like in almost the last seconds.
16:33But the next thing I know, they, I think the Cowboys ran back for a kickoff for a touchdown.
16:38Oh my goodness.
16:39Yeah.
16:41You got to remember the details.
16:42I don't remember the details, but.
16:43Well, yeah, I mean, it was, first of all, what's, what's interesting about that game is it was not one
16:49of Jaden's best games, uh, for whatever reason, Dallas twice gave him some problems.
16:54The season finale was not whatever, but yeah, I mean, they had, you know, Cavante Turpin had that big kickoff
17:00return that gave Dallas, I think a 10 point lead in the fourth quarter.
17:04And then Washington with 14 seconds left, 86 yard touchdown pass, Jaden to, uh, to Terry McLaurin.
17:14And, um, and that gave them, you know, uh, that gave them a chance to tie and Austin Seibert missed
17:21the extra point.
17:23And then Dallas returned the onside kick for a touchdown and they had two kickoff returns in the fourth quarter.
17:29Yeah.
17:30I mean, look, that was not one of those games that you were up and it was over, um, that
17:35touchdown pass was only to tie the game.
17:38Had, had Seibert made the extra point, but, um, yeah, but it was certainly a shocking ending, but not exactly
17:46apples to apples to what happened last night, but appreciate the call.
17:50301-230-0980.
17:53Let's go to Kevin Arlington.
17:54Kevin, go ahead.
17:55Yeah.
17:55I screwed that up.
17:56I, I don't know why it didn't come to me.
17:58Um, a lot of Tampa, Washington playoff games, uh, over, over the years.
18:03Yes.
18:04Um, but go ahead.
18:08Hello, Kevin in Arlington.
18:10Can you hear me, buddy?
18:12I got you now, Kev.
18:14Yeah.
18:15The last note on that is that was the only playoff win under Gibbs 2.0, but it was amazing
18:20that anyone could win a playoff game at the end in the ownership.
18:23Right.
18:24So, and, and, and, and having, uh, what was it?
18:27A hundred and twenty yards of total offense and less than 50 passing or whatever it was.
18:32Yeah.
18:33Yeah.
18:34That was, that was an interesting game.
18:35You know, Kevin, I was going to say, I mean, there's so many caps heartbreaks and you asked for caps
18:40and Mac had a really good one when we got the lock.
18:43I think the, um, Easter Sunday, multiple overtime loss for the Islanders is probably mine, but the one I want
18:51to mention, um, and it was the game that interestingly enough really made me a Maryland Terps fan was the
18:58NC state game against David Thompson, modern town, Tom Burleson.
19:02And that, uh, you know, in those days, you know, and you can say it and remember it better than
19:06I can, but it costs Maryland a chance to go to the post season.
19:10And honestly, Kevin, I still think that that was Maryland's best team, but, uh, what do you think or remember
19:15about that game other than Burleson had the game?
19:17Well, I mean, the 1974 ACC tournament final in Greensboro between NC state and Maryland is a debatable greatest game
19:26ever played in college basketball until the Laitner shot against Duke against Kentucky, um, in 91 or in 92, Maryland,
19:36NC state was always referenced as the greatest college basketball game of all time.
19:41Do you know, do you know, in that, in that game, there wasn't one turnover in that basketball game, uh,
19:48they lost 103 to a hundred in overtime.
19:50It wasn't one of those games where Maryland had the game one and you know, uh, like I'll give you
19:58an example in 2010 where it felt like the game was one, but, um, it was, it was an unbelievable
20:04game.
20:04Burleson had 38 Thompson was uncheckable, uh, you know, Lucas, Howard, McMillan, Elmore, Owen Brown.
20:11Uh, and they, you, they were arguably the two best teams in the country, you know, NC state went on
20:18to win the title.
20:19They beat UCLA in the semifinals, and then they beat Marquette, uh, Al McGuire's Marquette team in the final, but
20:25Maryland was arguably, they were ranked fourth when they played NC state.
20:29NC state was ranked first, but most people thought that Maryland was probably the second best team in the country.
20:35And so they couldn't go to the tournament back then only the ACC tournament winner and only one team per
20:42conference can, could go.
20:44And Kevin, you know, this, that was the game that expanded the NCAA tournament.
20:49And they called it the Maryland rule where more than one team from each conference could go to the NCAA
20:56tournament because they left out one of the two or three best teams in the country.
21:01And Kev, just think about it. That really created or led the way to March Madness.
21:07And March Madness is one of the greatest things in American sports.
21:10I mean, I think we would have eventually gotten there because of the money, Kevin, you know, but yes, that
21:15was, that was the early spark to expand the term tournament.
21:20Um, and I think it got expanded to 48 teams at that point or 52 teams at that point.
21:26I forget the exact number, uh, Maryland actually the following year went to the elite eight because they were the
21:33first team from the ACC to be a non ACC tournament winner to get in at large, but it happened
21:41the following year.
21:42So the game, yeah. And they, they went to the elite eight that year and lost to, uh, Louisville, uh,
21:48in the elite eight, but yeah, no, you're right.
21:51It was, it was, um, a monumental moment in the sport because the powers that be looked at it and
21:58said, how can the second or third best team in America not play in the NCAA tournament?
22:05We have to fix that. And they did. Unfortunately, they didn't fix it the year before.
22:11So Maryland could have still gone to the tournament, but yeah, that was a devastating loss. It was not a
22:17game that they had won. I know they had a 10 point lead at one point, I think in the
22:21second half, but that was just a brilliant basketball game by both teams.
22:25Yeah, it was. Yeah. Thanks, Kip. I appreciate it. Uh, 301-230-0980. Let's do this for a little while
22:34longer off of the English losing a game that looked like it was going to be won.
22:41Uh, you know, uh, defeat snagged from the jaws of victory yesterday by the Argentinians over the English. Give us
22:51your worst, you know, game is over and your team loses it like England did where it was just so
23:00gut wrenching and you'll never, ever forget it.
23:03I gave you mine. I gave you mine. My number one was 79 Redskins Cowboys skins up 13 with just
23:10over two minutes to go.
23:12And they ended up going from literally in two and a half minutes, the one seed and the favorite to
23:17go to the Superbowl out of the NFC to being completely out of the playoffs.
23:22For those of you not old enough to remember that, or you weren't a skins fan, that was truly devastating
23:31because it wasn't like, okay, it's a terrible loss, but let's go get them next week.
23:36It's over. It's over. It sent Riggo into hiatus. He was so devastated by that loss that he sat out
23:46the following year.
23:48He thought it was over for him. His chance to get to a Superbowl. Thank God he came back though.
23:54When Joe Gibbs became the head coach, Russell, Paulie, anybody else that wants to jump on? We've got an open
23:59line. Give me your worst personal defeat with one of your favorite teams where defeat was snatched, snagged from the
24:09jaws of victory. Like it was for the English last night. Kevin Sheehan show the team 980 and the team
24:13980.com.
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