There are lots of good words to start with: Debacle, Mirage, Meltdown, Giveaway, Surrender Monkey, Collapse
The trick is to make something memorable, or a nice ring.
Northwest Nightmare
The Pacific Pantload
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There are lots of good words to start with: Debacle, Mirage, Meltdown, Giveaway, Surrender Monkey, Collapse
The trick is to make something memorable, or a nice ring.
Northwest Nightmare
The Pacific Pantload
Seattle Surrender
Maybe from In Utero?
Milk It
Dumb
All Apologies
My three nominees are all similar...
Hapless in Seattle
Helpless in Seattle
Hopeless in Seattle
The name needs to incorporate the willful nature of the collapse. the premature turtle-shell, submissive dog-rolling-on-it's-back, attempt to run out the clock. the misplaced, premature confidence that the game was won. The concentrated concatenation of bungling incompetence. The catatonic immobility brought on by a stunning and seemingly instantaneous turn of events. The totally incongruous, inexplicable capture of momentum by a team that just threw a catastrophic interception. I think Burnett's slide epitomizes what happened, Vince's POV aside.
"The Slide" encapsulates the loss for me, but is not quite catchy enough and doesn't tell the whole story.
"Seattle slide" gives you more information, but makes it sound like seattle was the team that slid.
"Ruining down a dream"
"kneel down and out"
Seattle Slew
slew1
slo͞o/Submit
verb
1.
turn or slide violently or uncontrollably in a particular direction.
"the Chevy slewed from side to side in the snow"
FYI - Cleveland sports radio guys unanimously agreed that the Packer loss was worse than any single playoff loss suffered by the Browns. Worse than "The Drive," worse than "The Fumble." Worse than "Red Right 88." They were quick to add that because GB has had so much sustained success, GB has nothing to complain about - Cleveland still has exclusive rights for weeping and gnashing of teeth over tragic playoff futility.
Surrender in Seattle or Seattle Surrender as previously suggested
Can-cede-it
"the one that got away"
55:5
Unbefuckinglievable.
only if you are a Browns fan. RR88 wasn't even a championship game. The Drive was brutal, but it didn't come close to the collapse GB suffered. I'm not saying this, this is the view of unobjective (from the Cleveland view point) radio guys.
(edit: Also, they argued that you have to take yourself out of the context of accumulating bad playoff losses and accumulating years of no championships to evaluate an isolated, single game, tragedy. In the totality of the Cleveland experience, GB can't come close - thank God!)
Slocum's Exit.
Packer Pucker