What's your biggest flip out after a UConn loss?

[ZenConn]

I forget which game it was but after a last second loss a few years ago I threw my cable remote hard at the floor. It popped apart with pieces going everywhere. I taped it back together and the only buttons that worked were the up/down channel buttons.

LOL. Isn't that the only buttons you need? Oh and the power button.

 

[Vuce]

A kid on my floor in Lafayette freshman year punched through a window after The Darius Rice Incident. Just decided it was the right idea.

I read the title of the thread and this was the first game that popped into my head - still can't believe we lost.

 

[8893]

I've tried to forget about the bad losses and not hold on to them enough to flip out, but every one of those mentioned in this thread definitely had me in a sour mood for anywhere from hours to a few days.

While I've never flipped out over a loss, there are three incredibly painful wins that come to mind immediately as games where I flipped out during the game because I thought we were going to lose:

• Gonzaga, Elite Eight, 1999 (had FF tickets and airfare purchased and could not believe all my dreams were about to vanish like that).
• Pitt, BET Finals, 2004 (roller coaster of a night for me: first and only time I ever got ripped off scalping tickets--bought fakes--and ended up getting in with decent deal on legit tickets shortly thereafter; down eight with something like two minutes left and it felt like we were down 20).
• Duke, FF Semis, 2004 (was at the game and thought I was having a cardiac event; my buddy vowed to carry me out if I did; could not bear the thought of hanging out in San Antonio for three more days while Duke partied on).

Honorable mention to Kentucky, FF Semis, 2011 (also at that game, obviously a grueling win with the same fears as the Duke Semi above, but had a good feeling we would pull it out, and have to admit that after two NCs in the bank, it seemed less dire--except for the thought of losing to Calapari).

 

[Dove]

And the winner and still champion! Fishy!

You think its funny? That drifter had a family.

 

[Penfield]

I have had my fair share of freak outs. I will usually get pretty despondent after a loss and if it's particularly bad I have been known to punch a wall or two. My girlfriend has figured out it is probably best to just leave me alone when UConn loses.

Here are two stories that mostly involve my friend's poor choices after a loss.

Vs Kentucky in MSG 09-10 season: We had very good seats on the risers behind the basket. As the final buzzer sounds my brother kicks the row of chairs in front of us and all 10 chairs in the row fall forward into the Kentucky fans that had been sitting in them. I start apologizing to everyone and trying to help put the seats back. I look to my friends and brother only to realize they had all booked it out of there immediately. I was left standing alone with a row of broken chairs and a bunch of Kentucky fans staring at me. In the end, the Kentucky fans were actually pretty nice saying they knew how he must have felt, but we were not able to fix the seats.

Vs MSU Final Four 08-09 season: I had been living with this guy in Boston for a couple years and eventually he jumped on the UConn bandwagon. During the week leading up to the game we realized that if MSU beat UConn my roommate would win at least $700 in a pool my dad was running. When my brother and a couple other friend found out they were giving him a pretty hard time about it. My brother jokingly said to him, "You know that if MSU beats UConn you have to get us all strippers - it would be the right thing to do. " So as we all know UConn loses and everyone is pretty upset. Unbeknownst to the rest of us my roommate has ordered us a Limo. It pulls up about half an hour after the game when the depression is really starting to sink in. There are bottles of liquor ready to go and we drive to the Strip Club. Once we get there he hands each of us $50 in $1s and says to go crazy. The night ended up being pretty good after all. I actually felt kinda bad because we definitely blew through all his winnings and probably some more, but that will teach him to never pick against UConn in the tourney again.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Mine would have to be the 2009 final four game with msu. Me and my dad drove from Madison to Detroit in the car. During that ride we were talking about uconn winning it all and said msu had no chance to beat us. During the game I was screaming after every play and eventually lost my voice. Then all of the msu fans started harassing us and almost got into a fight with them. To this day I will no longer go back to Detroit. Those Msu fans were really bad!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 3149]

I respect your opinion, but disagree... Our path wasn't very hard to final four, the chemistry you rightly point out was nice but not that necessary. Without Dyson, MSU wasn't going to be without our long term starting five. Hey, there's worse things than losing to a Tom izzo team, dude teaches his teams to bang, as did Calhoun. It's the soft teams we eat for breakfast, especially in the tourney

I respect your opinion, but disagree... Our path wasn't very hard to final four, the chemistry you rightly point out was nice but not that necessary. Without Dyson, MSU wasn't going to be without our long term starting five. Hey, there's worse things than losing to a Tom izzo team, dude teaches his teams to bang, as did Calhoun. It's the soft teams we eat for breakfast, especially in the tourney

I definitely agree with part of what you're saying. We certainly would have been deeper with Dyson, but who's to say he wouldn't have brought us down with turnovers and poor shot selections. I guess we'll never know... Would be nice to have '99 '04 '09 '11 (and should be '06 as well but that's a whole different story I don't feel like getting worked up about. God I hate George mason...)

 

[CTBasketball]

• Hibbert/Georgetown 08': punched a hole in my drywall and broke my hand.
• USF in 2010: washed my car until the paint came off.
• Marquette 2012: tackled my Christmas tree.

 

[huskiesnyc]

I cried. Though to be fair, I was 10 years old.

I cried after George Mason and I was 23 years old.

 

[huskiesnyc]

All I can say is thank God that Arizona guy didn't nail that 3 against 2 years ago. I honestly don't know what I would have done.

 

[CTBasketball]

All I can say is thank God that Arizona guy didn't nail that 3 against 2 years ago. I honestly don't know what I would have done.

You don't want to know what I would have done.

 

[pepband99]

All I can say is thank God that Arizona guy didn't nail that 3 against 2 years ago. I honestly don't know what I would have done.

Holy crap. No kidding.

 

[Deleted member 3149]

#1- losing to George mason...sat there in disbelief for a solid 3 hours. Wouldn't talk to anyone.

#2- losing to San Diego in 08. I know we weren't that good, but that game just pissed me off

#3- 6ot vs the cuse. Would be #1, but was too tired to damage anything that late

#4- Michigan state loss. Just painful...

#5- not sure, but I bet there's many more I can't even think of

 

[UChusky916]

For me, UConn vs MSU in the final4 of 2009.

My best buddy from home went to MSU attended the game (bastard). We had trash talked all year about how good both of our teams should be. There was a lot of trash talking leading up to the game and unfortunately for me, still to this day.

To start the year, I bought a new UConn cap (tradition for me). As the season progressed, I considered this to be a lucky cap (except versus Pitt) and was very cautious with it, sure to wear it every game.

While celebrating our W over Missouri in the E8 on-campus, a friend-of-a-friend who was an annoying bandwagon basketball fan knocked my cap off my head in celebration, and dirtied it. I knew then we were going to lose to MSU.

After the inevitable MSU loss, in my drunken stupor, I lit my cursed hat on fire and watched it burn. Later that night I saw the friend-of-a-friend at another party. When he asked me about my hat, I half-jokingly pushed him into the direction of a fire pit. He wasn't expecting this, and actually stumbled onto the fire pit before quickly rolling out. He was fine, no injuries, just a ruined sweatshirt. At the time it seemed deserved. Now, it seems borderline overreactionary.

 

[huskiesnyc]

Losing to Maryland in 02' for more painful to me than losing in the FF to MSU in 09'. There were like 30 something lead changes in that game. Also Marcus White getting the ball stuck between the rim against Texas in the last minute. I would rather lose in the sweet 16 than elite 8, so any elite 8 loss is where the real destruction starts in my house.

 

[HuskyBlue08]

You guys are a bunch of flip outs. Glad I don't watch games with any of you.

I usually get over losses by crushing a large pizza.

It's also the same way I celebrate victories.

 

[Chuck]

My biggest flip out was actually during a stressful win. 2002 vs Arizona (the one in Arizona). UConn was struggling. I don't remember the details of the game. I just remember that my girlfriend kept walking in front of the screen and asking about her many outfits. She was stressed because we were going out with a few couples and all had, at one point or another, seen her in all the outfits she had. I cared even less than I usually would because I knew we weren't going out with those couples that night. It was a clever ruse I had put together to keep her from making other plans because I was going to propose that night. All of that, plus my general grumpiness during losses, came to a head when I ignored a review request and moved chairs to avoid her tv-block. For the first, and last, time in our relationship, she mocked my UConn fandome. She said, in a condescending baby-talk tone, "What's the matter, the little Huskies are losing."

Naturally an argument ensued. The Huskies came back to win, and I went through with the proposal. Had they not won, who knows what would've happened.

 

[John]

sure a big loss can hurt, but it's nothing that a beer or three and a nice sloppy blowjob can't fix.

 

[UCONNFanInNC]

All I can say is thank God that Arizona guy didn't nail that 3 against 2 years ago. I honestly don't know what I would have done.

I was on vacation with the family, watching on a crappy rental house TV. If that had gone in, the trip would have been ruined.
I thought I broke my hand after George Mason (I was 32 at the time and not proud of my behavior)
The FLA game in '94 made my then-girlfriend, now wife, question EVERYTHING about me.

The shot against Clemson was my favorite though. That popped my UCONN cherry and I bounced up and down on a hotel bed in White Plains NY screaming my head off. 2 days later though...

 

[Tenspro2002]

I skinned my knuckles pretty badly punching a wall during the game against UNC in 2003, but the worst overall experience had to be the UW and GM games in 2006. I watched both of those games from the same dorm lounge and -- aside from my girlfriend at the time -- was basically all alone in there, with the exception of passersby either angrily or bemusedly wondering what all the noise was about. That noise, of course, was me, yelling in anguish, yelling in joy, flipping/throwing tables, chairs, my hat, anything I was confident wouldn't break. (I value the contents of my wallet too much to risk actually damaging things.)

Those games ended in a huge sigh of relief on Friday night and in utter despair Sunday afternoon. I think that was the last time I cried in public. What a rollercoaster.

 

[Fishy]

All right.

I'm actually pretty calm during hoop games these days. Football still sets me off, especially the Vikings, but otherwise, I'm not even remotely as demonstrative as I used to be.

1) I watched the Laettner game at my parents' house with my younger brother. I didn't really react after the shot, but my brother started to laugh and I whipped the remote at him. I missed him and the remote sailed through the family room door, past the kitchen and into the dining room where my dad was sitting. It arrived there in four or five pieces. Trying to be helpful, he says, "Most of the remote is in here now!" as if it up and walked there on its own. You simply could not fluster the man.

2) When I was first married, my wife decorated the living room of our apartment with these wicker baskets that held pillows, dried flowers and whatever the hell else. We were married in May of 1998 - by the end of the 98-99 season, I had kicked all of the baskets. I vaporized one when the Vikings lost to the Falcons in the NFL championship game, I got one stuck on my foot when Khalid slipped against Miami and I stomped the handle of one when Quentin Hall hit his three with a minute left in the Elite Eight.

We had the downstairs neighbors up one night and there was a game on - I wanted to kick something, but I was on my best behavior so I kinda sideways kicked one of the baskets and it made a little crunching noise - the neighbor's wife perks up and says, "So that's what that noise is! We always wondered...".

3) The last time I remember any sort of outburst was in our current house. I don't remember the game, but I had a tantrum and threw the remote at the front door - I ended up hitting the wall and had to repair the divot. The remote cracked and we still have to use an Exacto knife to cut the tape away whenever the batteries have to be changed.

I kinda grew out of all that and eased into profanity which my wife enjoyed even less than the wanton destruction. I'm creative with profanity and I've said things that have specifically horrified my inlaws to such a degree that my wife tries to make me go upstairs to watch UConn or the Vikings when they're here. They're here this weekend and although I'll probably be perfectly fine, the Vikings/Packers game tomorrow night has my wife on edge.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Either last season or the season before I destroyed a remote and threw a few pots and pans in the kitchen. Chipped two of the drawers and broke off a knob.

The offense?

I was watching one of Uconn's basketball games and had to leave at half because my kids had basketball practice and I was one of the coaches. Simple enough, I watched the first half, jumped in the car and went to practice. I left the TV on so that when I got home I could rewind and catch the second half. But I was woefully inadequate in my risk management.

How?


True to the Directv commercial the wife had the DVR set up to record any NCIS, Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order SVU, CSI, House, and pretty much every channel on the cable system. And the basketball game got trumped.

Obviously I was less than pleased that several of her re-runs kept me watching the second half. After things cooled down I calmly picked up the remote pieces and deleted every show that was on the DVR including kids Christmas specials. And I deleted all of her preferences for future auto-recording.

 

[MidTown Husky]

You guys are a bunch of flip outs. Glad I don't watch games with any of you.

I usually get over losses by crushing a large pizza.

It's also the same way I celebrate victories.

So either way, you consume 2-3 large pizzas a week during basketball season? Very nice...

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

So either way, you consume 2-3 large pizzas a week during basketball season? Very nice...

you didnt respond to my punch in the throat question...

 

[Fishy]

sure a big loss can hurt, but it's nothing that a beer or three and a nice sloppy blowjob can't fix.

You must be very popular in the sports bars.

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

All right.

I'm actually pretty calm during hoop games these days. Football still sets me off, especially the Vikings, but otherwise, I'm not even remotely as demonstrative as I used to be.

1) I watched the Laettner game at my parents' house with my younger brother. I didn't really react after the shot, but my brother started to laugh and I whipped the remote at him. I missed him and the remote sailed through the family room door, past the kitchen and into the dining room where my dad was sitting. It arrived there in four or five pieces. Trying to be helpful, he says, "Most of the remote is in here now!" as if it up and walked there on its own. You simply could not fluster the man.

2) When I was first married, my wife decorated the living room of our apartment with these wicker baskets that held pillows, dried flowers and whatever the hell else. We were married in May of 1998 - by the end of the 98-99 season, I had kicked all of the baskets. I vaporized one when the Vikings lost to the Falcons in the NFL championship game, I got one stuck on my foot when Khalid slipped against Miami and I stomped the handle of one when Quentin Hall hit his three with a minute left in the Elite Eight.

We had the downstairs neighbors up one night and there was a game on - I wanted to kick something, but I was on my best behavior so I kinda sideways kicked one of the baskets and it made a little crunching noise - the neighbor's wife perks up and says, "So that's what that noise is! We always wondered...".

3) The last time I remember any sort of outburst was in our current house. I don't remember the game, but I had a tantrum and threw the remote at the front door - I ended up hitting the wall and had to repair the divot. The remote cracked and we still have to use an Exacto knife to cut the tape away whenever the batteries have to be changed.

I kinda grew out of all that and eased into profanity which my wife enjoyed even less than the wanton destruction. I'm creative with profanity and I've said things that have specifically horrified my inlaws to such a degree that my wife tries to make me go upstairs to watch UConn or the Vikings when they're here. They're here this weekend and although I'll probably be perfectly fine, the Vikings/Packers game tomorrow night has my wife on edge.

Fishy are you a MN native... or just a fan of the Vikes?

 

[UConn3432]

i break things a lot, phones, remotes, laptops, water coolers. the worst is when you get texts from people like..."oh tough loss for your huskies, great game though." SLAM, that phone needs to die. Once i reached 25 i started turning my phone off after losses. recently, i chucked the uconn bottle opener that plays the fight song at my ceiling and put a hole in it during the new mexico game. it was the third throw before i got the music player inside to break. if the music stopped after the first or second throw at the wall i wouldn't have a hole in my ceiling right now. oh well.

 

[Chin Diesel]

sure a big loss can hurt, but it's nothing that a beer or three and a nice sloppy blowjob can't fix.

You must be very popular in the sports bars.

Probably depends if he's giving or receiving.

 

[Fishy]

Fishy are you a MN native... or just a fan of the Vikes?

Fan - my parents bought me a Vikings' sweatshirt when I was three and I stuck with them. (Part of me wishes it was a Steelers, Patriots or Giants sweatshirt.)

I've never been to Minnesota and have never even seen the Vikes play live.

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

Fan - my parents bought me a Vikings' sweatshirt when I was three and I stuck with them. (Part of me wishes it was a Steelers, Patriots or Giants sweatshirt.)

I've never been to Minnesota and have never even seen the Vikes play live.

Ahh nice. Minny is actually a pretty decent town (in the summer) if you ever get out there. I was up for work last year, the new baseball stadium is a great place to catch a ballgame. I was raised a Pats fan, but goodluck this weekend, should be a good one.