January 22, 2015: The Top 10 Losses

After seeing the epic collapse of Green Bay on Sunday, it got me thinking.  It got me thinking about the best losses ever.  These games do NOT involve Chicago teams; there are no good losses when it comes to them.  This list involves games where I was seriously rooting against another team to lose, and they did!  This list of losses made me momentary fans of another team.  These losses made me happy.  Here are the Top 10 losses.

10.  Super Bowl XLIV:  New Orleans Saints 31 Indianapolis Colts 17

After the Colts beat our Bears, they went on my list.  They garnered a little hate.  I was never really a fan of Manning, but after he dismantled us 3 years earlier in Super Bowl 41, I really didn’t like him.  So, that lead me to seriously get behind the Saints in this one.  To see the final pick 6 off Manning to seal the deal was awesome.  It didn’t hurt that I won some serious cash on this game.  Happy day!

9.  2001 World Series:  Arizona Diamondbacks over New York Yankees 4-3

I’m not a BIG Yankee hater.  I don’t mind them most of the time.  Yet, going into this World Series, they had won 3 in a row!  That’s just too much winning.  How many titles do they have, and I can’t get one in my lifetime?!?!  So I was rooting for the Diamondbacks, in what turned out to be a classic series.  The combination of Big Unit and Schilling were awesome, and ex-Cub Luis Gonzalez got the famous GW hit off HOFer Mariano Rivera.  It didn’t hurt that one of my favorite all-time Cubs was on this team too:  Mark Grace.  So much for that ex-Cub curse…

8.  2008 NBA Finals:  Boston Celtics over Los Angeles Lakers 4-2

This was really all about my hate for Kobe Bryant at the time, and his quest to catch MJ on total NBA championships.  At the time, he had 3, and then proceeded to get 5 by winning the following 2 years after this loss.  I remember watching Boston pound the crap out of them in the clinching game with my Dad and brother (Happy Birthday Bro aka the leading commenter on this site) at Hooters on our annual golf trip.  I was thankful to the Celts that night, and with the Lakers cellar dwelling nowadays, and Kobe looking like an old man, that number 6 doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.  Yes!

7.  2004 World Series:  Boston Red Sox over St. Louis Cardinals 4-0

Couple reasons for this one.  I was rooting for Boston to break their curse, and I hate the Cardinals.  Easy call here.  I’m not a fan of Boston teams, but in this and the previous entry, I was rooting for them.  SInce they broke their curse, I went back to cheering against the Red Sox, but I was behind them here.  I was rooting for them in the epic comeback that preceeded this series in the ALCS against the Yankees.  Something like that is going to have to happen for the Cubs to finally break through one day.  Boston showed us how, and we got some of those guys in our front office now.  Let’s make this happen!

6.  Super Bowl XLII:  New York Giants over New England Patriots 17-14

See, I told you I’m not a fan of Boston’s teams.  I may have been rooting for them when they played the Greatest Show on Turf 6 years earlier, but that was it.  I rooted against them vs Carolina and Philly, to no avail, but this year was bigger.  There was no way in hell I wanted the Patriots to go undefeated through an entire NFL season.  There was no way in hell I wanted a team to be pegged the greatest of all time over our Bears.  I was all about the G-men here… as a matter of fact, they had already reserved a place in my heart from what they did 2 weeks prior…

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4.  2011 NBA Finals:  Dallas Mavericks over Miami Heat 4-2

I liked this one even more.  I loved to see this overhyped trio who talked about 6, 7, 8 titles, get smacked in the mouth in their first appearance in the Finals.  Yes, they did get 2, but that’s a lot better than 4.  I was worried that it could have been a Lakers-Heat finals at the beginning of the year…  I think I would have ended up even rooting for the Lakers in that one.  I hated that Heat team.  I’m still mad the Bulls never got another chance at them at 100%; I know we would have took them out.

3.  2008 NFC Championship Game:  New York Giants over Green Bay Packers 23-20

From here on out, we celebrate the demise of the cheese.  This was the first win in 2 weeks that put that Giants team on my list of favorites.  They went to Lambeau and knocked Favre and the Pack out.  I remember watching this game in Vegas, and seeing all the sad Packer fans; priceless.  As mentioned above, this Giant team then knocked out the undefeated Patriots.  It was a great end to that football season.

2.  2015 NFC Championship Game:  Seattle Seahawks over Green Bay Packers 28-22

Coming in at my 2nd favorite loss of all time, is this past Sunday.  This loss was so epic.  I could see the t-shirts now… “you just got bostick-ed”.  The way that Green Bay lost this game will keep a warm feeling in my gut for a long time.  To have this happen, along with the hiring of John Fox, almost makes me forget the horrible Bears season.  Almost…

1.  Super Bowl XXXII:  Denver Broncos over Green Bay Packers 31-24

To see the Packers fail on the ultimate stage takes the cake.  This would have been a repeat for them… whew!  Another game that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.  Watching from a bar in a small town in Iowa, my friends and I were probably the only ones cheering on Denver, and shouting Favre Sucks at the TV.  I’m surprised we made it out of there alive.  It won’t be easy to EVER pass this loss up…  Thank you John Elway.  Thank you Denver.  Bend over Packers.

So there you go.. my top 10 list.  It didn’t take much time to think of these.  It was easy to go through the memory bank, and pick these out.  I remember the hate I directed at each of these losing teams, and the joy I felt when they lost.  How about you?  Do we have any of these games in common?  Do you have other games you remember fondly?  Let’s hear them, after all, sharing is caring.