Biggest Boston choke job?

[Scoe]

1986 Redsox

2007 undefeated Patriots

2023 Bruins losing first rd after record breaking season

2010 Bruins losing a 3-0 series lead

Other

 

[Palatine]

Beating the Yankees after going down 0-3 in 2004.

 

[Deepster]

1978 Sox - Had a 14 game lead at the end of July, blew it to the Yankees then lost a one game playoff at home (Bucky F Dent).

 

[JustbrewitMan]

2023 Bruins. 1986 Sox, 2007 Pats both made it to the Finals. 2023 Bruins gacked in the 1st round vs. a scrub team after getting out to a 3-1 series lead.

 

[CCSUblue]

Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.

 

[auror]

It's gotta be 2010 Bruins.

They were up 3-0 in the series. And then up 3-0 in Game 7 at home. And lost.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

I mean, they’re all crazy. 2010 Bruins probably first because of what @auror said. But, the Pats were almost assuredly the greatest team of all time and lost to my 10-6, Wildcard NYFBG. That was insane.

 

[Palatine]

I mean, they’re all crazy. 2010 Bruins probably first because of what @auror said. But, the Pats were almost assuredly the greatest team of all time and lost to my 10-6, Wildcard NYFBG. That was insane.

That wasn't a choke job --Eli owned Brady.

 

[stephen Henry]

1978 Sox - Had a 14 game lead at the end of July, blew it to the Yankees then lost a one game playoff at home (Bucky F Dent).

That 1978 collapse was so traumatic and painful that I quit following baseball.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.

I saw that on Sports Center this morning and as a Rays fan it freaked me out

 

[TheHorde]

2004 ALCS. Oh, wait…

 

[Devland]

Fun fact, since the NHL started awarding the President's Cup for best regular season record, only 8 of the 36 President Cup winners have won the Stanley Cup.

 

[uconndogs]

That 1978 collapse was so traumatic and painful that I quit following baseball.

I don't know, the 1986 collapse in the World Series was pretty catastrophic as well.

True story, 5-6 years after the one-game playoff with the Yankees in 1978 I'm at Fenway for a game with the Orioles. First batter of the game gets ready to step to the plate and the place goes crazy, boos, profanity, insulting his mother.....it went on for about five minutes.

It was Bucky Dent!

 

[Waquoit]

Beating the Yankees after going down 0-3 in 2004.

I remember Yogi telling Jeets "we always beat these guys."

 

[RichCTBB]

Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.

96, 97 Chicago Bulls

 

[RichCTBB]

96, 97 Chicago Bulls

Sorry, I misread that…missed the RECORD for best record, although it could be argued that at until the warriors won 73 games, the Bulls did have the record and a championship in the same year (96 with 72 wins)

 

[Devland]

Giants Patriots Super Bowl was 2008

 

[superjohn]

I mean, they’re all crazy. 2010 Bruins probably first because of what @auror said. But, the Pats were almost assuredly the greatest team of all time and lost to my 10-6, Wildcard NYFBG. That was insane.

I hear you but the nature of football is that it's one game like the NCAA tournament and the Giants outplayed the Patriots. Patriots couldn't deal with the Giants pass rush at all. Still, the Patriots had like 5 chances to come up with a defensive play on that last drive and they couldn't.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

That 1978 collapse was so traumatic and painful that I quit following baseball.

The Boston Massacre (early September 1978) was about as much fun as any four game series could be (basically when I first started college).

One thing I'll never forget is that in each of the four games, at least one Yankee was three four three before the Red Sox ninth hitter got an at bat. That series was when the Yanks caught the Red Sox. I believe the Yanks built up to a two game lead with about ten games left but the Sox finished the season 10-0 while the Yanks went 8-2 (the second loss on the last day of the regular season). Both teams had tremendous seasons, which each included an extended stretch of basically unsustainable excellence and a (very) brief stretch of very average play. The timing of when each happened is what made it appear that one team collapsed (if someone wants to stretch things, they can claim both had a collapse) but in reality it was two exceptional teams that finished in a dead heat.

 

[TheHorde]

Any best of 7 series choke is automatically worse than a one game winner take all situation.

 

[Kolumbo]

Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.

I think you have to include the '72 Dolphins. Undefeated is undefeated. They were perfect. Nuff said.

 

[TheHorde]

I think you have to include the '72 Dolphins. Undefeated is undefeated. They were perfect. Nuff said.

*14 game regular season

 

[CCSUblue]

I think you have to include the '72 Dolphins. Undefeated is undefeated. They were perfect. Nuff said.

I said best record for a regular season. So the 16-0 Patriots had a better record.

I also didn't say ever. Just the current record holders.

 

[Kolumbo]

I said best record for a regular season. So the 16-0 Patriots had a better record.

I also didn't say ever. Just the current record holders.

14-0 is the same as 16-0. You have to go by percentages because number of games change over time. Otherwise one would argue that 15-1 is a better record than 14-0.

 

[August_West]

LOL Bruins.


LGR!