Most miserable game in Packers history

[run pMc]

Boy, these are all good ones and they all were pretty miserable.

I'll throw one out that nobody's mentioned: the Dec 19, 2005 loss to Kyle Boller and the Ravens 48-3 on MNF. It was in Week 15 of the 4-12 season, and Bert Farv had no help, but to get shellacked by Kyle Boller on national TV and fall so far from a playoff team to that was miserable.

[MadtownPacker]

Most miserable game? I'm gonna go with 4th and 24 in the playoffs against the Eagles. I was much younger back then and that made me depressed for two weeks afterwards.

You must have been too young to count because it was 4th&26. But you're right that one sucked more than Harlan at a pride parade.

[channtheman]

You must have been too young to count because it was 4th&26. But you're right that one sucked more than Harlan at a pride parade.

Right you are. Got my numbers all mixed up. No one else caught it! Or at least pointed it out!

[TravisWilliams23]

I gotta go with the super bowl loss to the Broncos in 97 or 98? 18 point favorites and they let the Rat win one for Elway. It was the super bowl man and you DO NOT LOSE the super bowl!

[bobblehead]

Right you are. Got my numbers all mixed up. No one else caught it! Or at least pointed it out!

I blocked that play from my memory so I didn't really have a chance to catch it.

[Freak Out]

I gotta go with the super bowl loss to the Broncos in 97 or 98? 18 point favorites and they let the Rat win one for Elway. It was the super bowl man and you DO NOT LOSE the super bowl!

This...the 4th and 26 game...I remember the MNF game in Denver during a blizzard. Down 14 in ike 20 seconds due to fumbles. Fuck...

[Pugger]

No, thinking the game your referencing was somewhere around 2003 or so KY. I remember that shootout I believe on a Monday night between 'slinger and sheriff. Lindy was washed out of the league by that point as a HC.

Thinking what blue dog is referencing was a game during the '97 season when Pack lost to a winless Colt team in November on the way to Super Bowl XXXII.

As far as miserable games, look back at a Thursday night game in '91 at home against the Bears if you want misery. Almost swore off the Pack after that one it was so bad. October 10, 1991 or so. Brutal

Or how about the last time the Falcons were in Green Bay on cold and snowy evening?

[Pugger]

I gotta go with the super bowl loss to the Broncos in 97 or 98? 18 point favorites and they let the Rat win one for Elway. It was the super bowl man and you DO NOT LOSE the super bowl!

Oh god, how could we forget that nightmare?

[pbmax]

I blocked that play from my memory so I didn't really have a chance to catch it.

Its going to take significant therapy to relive that game OR the chance Darren Sharper gets HOF votes and qualifies as a finalist.

[The Shadow]

Thanksgiving Day, but not 2013. Thanksgiving 1962. I didn't have high expectations in 2013, with the Packers starting their 4th different QB, decimated by other injuries and in the clutches of a month-long winless streak. I did have high expectations in 1962 for a Packer team that was undefeated and was steamrolling through their schedule, absolutely dominating in most of their games. They didn't just lose in 1962. like this year, they were physically dominated and embarrassed, but it hurt more in 1962 because of the far greater expectations.

Agree. The appearance of the "Look Out, Bart!! block.

[pbmax]

First my joke: you old guys should really write these memories down before you forget them!


Next a serious suggestion: a book about fan's memories of the Packers years gone by. Have to be a lot of detail people simply don't get in standard issue books on the subject. I really want to read more about "Look Out, Bart!" blocking.

[hoosier]

Another worst game candidate: the loss to SF in 1998-99 wildcard game. That one was a double or triple whammy: lost on a bad non-call, lost chance to stick it to Minny in the championship game, and confirmed the "fart in the wind" diagnosis about the 95-97 teams.

[Smidgeon]

I know it's recent and I've been watching for not as long as other Rats, but my worst game was the Cardinals game where the refs called the game against the Pack. That one hurt. It was as if it was decided already. That one took me the entire offseason and most of the following season to get over.

It isn't the worst defeat or the most embarrassing. It wins simply on how long it took me to recover.

[The Shadow]

First my joke: you old guys should really write these memories down before you forget them!


Next a serious suggestion: a book about fan's memories of the Packers years gone by. Have to be a lot of detail people simply don't get in standard issue books on the subject. I really want to read more about "Look Out, Bart!" blocking.

The Packers were rolling along & a favorite on that Thanksgiving.
But Alex Karras, Roger Brown & Joe Schmidt blitzed unmercifully - and the O line was virtually helpless - and Starr was sacked again & again.
After the game, Jerry Kramer said that that the blocking scheme was basically "Look Out, Bart!"

[woodbuck27]

My choice for the loss that made me feel most miserable:

I just looked and found this:

If you don't recall it or never saw this be warned. It's UGLY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdK-ueD6hU

The 1998 Playoffs - Wild Card game - San Francisco 49ers 30 - Green Bay Packers 27

That bloody game was ours but ** the Official's stole it from us **.

I'll always remember the play at the end. That play after a nice drive was Steve Young’s last ditch game-winning 25-yard touchdown pass to Terrell Owens. So many here will re-call that play ... the dagger in the Packers heart. Young managed to thread a pass to TO inspite of the Packers tight pass coverage that converged on TO just inside the end zone ... left.

I'll never forget TO slanting left across the goal line and making a leaping catch to pull down Young's 20 plus yard pass with 3 seconds remaining in the game. Terrell Owens was having a great season but that play, later called 'The Catch II' defined him first IMO.

That catch shouldn't have been.

** What set that up was a blown call by the Officials on a play that occurred earlier on the same drive.

At the tail-end of Jerry Rice’s first catch of the game on the right side of the field. He bobbled the ball and fumbled as he fell to the ground . The officials ruled that Jerry Rice was down before he fumbled the ball; and replays showed otherwise. The ball should have come back to the Packers as we recovered the fumble. Back then there was no instant replay and consequently no avenue to reverse the ruling on the field.

The drive continued and well it's all above.

I'll never forget the reactions of Brett Favre and Mike Holmgren to Terrell Owens amazing catch as they watched helplessly on the sidelines.

The season was over !

I awoke the following morning and lay in bed looking at the ceiling thinking...all that ...was simply a bad nightmare.