Another honorable mention is the 1975 Vikings. That was the best offense of Tarkenton's career. The defense was getting old, but still solid. To have that hail mary ruin that season was heartbreaking to 11-year-old me.
My list (Mainly going off how max or sad I was when it was over. 8. 2018 Vikings (the hype was so high to not even make it to the dance) 7. 2016-2017 Wild 6. 2003-2004 Timberwolves was very young but I remember 5. 2015 Vikings 4. 21-22 Wild 3. 2019 Twins 2. 2017 Vikings 1. 2009 Vikings
Nothing, NOTHING compares to the heartbreak of '98. That was an all-time great team that beats the Falcons 9 times out of 10. That is the one that absolutely got away. I swear to god at school the next day it was like a classmate had died. Funereal.
@@Saltyahole my contention is that the '98 team was just better and were playing an inferior opponent. They weren't just beating people that year, most games were over by halftime. I believe they beat Jacksonville by 50 points late in the year.
Never been mad , but at ten years old in 1970 watching the first Super Bowl of the Vikings and picking them as my favorite team, and living in Pa. Alan Page being my all time favorite player , just lots of disappointments over the years. Just not there time yet, get it done before lots of us are done ! 💜 💛
A couple not mentioned: Gopher football loss to Iowa to break the undefeated season; Twins 2010; MNUFC losing to Atlanta the night before Easter in 20 degree weather - Atlanta took a red card early, I decided I'd leave once we scored, and I was there for the rest of the game
For me as a Vikings fan who lives in New Orleans, 2009 will always grind my gears. It was a blatant robbery for which no one was punished for. Even after playing like absolute garbage for the first half they are in position to win it and the int happens then the refs seal it in OT
@Mark R even despite the Vikings turnovers if they don't give Pierre Thomas that criminally bad fumble spot in OT they win so I don't wanna hear that lol. Gave him forward progress spot where his helmet was despite the ball being by his nutsack
Ya the whole game plan was Shawn Payton paying $10,000 to everyone on the defense for every single hit on Favre.. and $20,000 for each injury to him or our receivers and the NFL does nothing During the game because of the hurricane 🌀 they gave new Orleans that game to propell the Aints into the super bowl and then that game was fkn rigged.. then they waited for a year to punish the coaches for bounty gate 🙄 any other team would have been beaten the same way.. look up the dirty ass Darren Sharper 🤣 SCAB who's in jail where he fkn belongs along with the entire coaching staff of the New Orleans AIN'TS.. FK THEM.. AND I SAID THEY WOULD NEVER BEAT US OUT OF THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN AND NOT ONLY THAT THEY WOULDN'T WIN ANOTHER SUPER BOWL TROPHY UNTIL PAYTON AND BREEZE WERE GONE AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT BULLSHIT SEASON..Fk the NFL for rigging years of MINNESOTA VIKINGS GAMES.. they literally hate us for some reason and we deserve a fkn legitimate shot at the TITLE
4th and 26 in Tempe Arizona. That one still kills me. Vikings lead the division from week one all season long but then gave it up to Green Bay in the last week and missed the playoffs altogether.
The wild really had me believing they'd make a real run.. and the two game winning streak had me thinking they had the blues number.. and it would be over at game 5
Yes, the 2019 Twins playoff “performance” was such a gut shot. That team went into that series fully aware of its curse, and just proceeded to cement it and solidify it even further. F@¥&!
2017 NFC championship blowout by the Eagles. We were on such a high after the "miracle" we as fans felt like this was gonna be our year, but then we got to Philly and it all fell apart. I also got the 2014 Gopher Men's Hockey, crazy regulation win against UND of all teams and then Union scores a late goal in a close game to seal the deal.
I broke my Grandfather's Flat screen television 📺 when favre threw that pick across his fkn body to porter instead of limping for 4 yards and laying down for a field goal 😑
Screw the NFL gaming commission and the crooked ZEBRAS for letting the saints dang near kill Brett Favre on every play.. The saints defense should have had over 20 roughing the passer penalties which would have caused the VIKINGS to have a short field on every single offensive possession. Resulting in a route of the AIN'TS and a resounding victory for the last Vikings championship caliber team 👏 whom would have trounced the patriots in the super bowl had the deck not been so crookedly stacked against them.. Robbing them of their First Lombardi Trophy 🏆 and super bowl victory in 50 years as of then
Part of what makes the '09 Vikings loss so bad is that the NFL changed the rules so that both teams get an opportunity to possess the football in overtime. If that game happens a year later the Saints get the ball first in OT, kick a field goal, and Favre gets an opportunity to drive down the field and either match the score or win the game with a touchdown. The Vikings are somehow always on the wrong side of everything.
It's tough. Two close calls '98 and '09 Vikings. I'd have to go with '09. My reasoning is we were the better team, we were steamrolling teams since the loss to the bears. We did everything we could do to lose that game and it was still right there. Add to that that we would have destroyed the colts in the superbowl. '98 we got beat and there was no guarantee we beat an amazingly good Denver team. '09 was our best chance
There is disappointment/devastation and being angry with a team that has underachieved. As far as anger toward local teams not living up to expectations, I would include the 1989-1991 Vikings (coming off a strong 1988 season, mortgaging the future for Herschel Walker, and completely underachieving during Burnsie/Lynn's last three years), last year's Twins (you have to actually show up for a season), the 2004-2005 Timberwolves (Sprewell and Cassell exposed Flip Saunders' inability to handle a talented, but volatile lockeroom), the 2010 Vikings (complete mess and waste of talent), the 2018 Vikings (the Vikings still haven't figured out the Cousins mistake coming off the surprising 2017 season), and the Ryan Saunders Timberwolves teams of 2019-2021 (not great teams, but should not have been anywhere close to being the dregs of the NBA).
The 2000 Vikings say hello. Still with prime, unstoppable Moss. Still an extremely potent offense. All the lessons learned from ‘98. 41-0 Can’t even get a field goal. That’s for sure top 4. None of the Twins comes even close to any of those Vikings’ failures.
But the 09 Vikings was bounty gate. If the Saint were not able to pound left and right on Farve. The outcome would of been better I believe. I still am amazed he was able to finish that game.
The gary Anderson miss fkn broke my heart .. and then the 40-0 Vikings/Giants nfc championship game and then the farve 2009 NFC championship game interception made me believe they were never going to win a super bowl.. so I knew when we faced Philly for a home super bowl we were screwed
I’m going 09’ and 17’ Vikings and I’m going to two games in the regular season 09’ (Sunday night game)late December against Matt Moore starting panthers team and 17’ December against panthers again. we win those games we have the number 1 seed and definitely win super bowl both years.
1998 was My #1. NOT EVEN CLOSE!! 1987-88 NFC Championship #2. #3 NFC 2009-2010 VIKINGS Championship game. I was gonna say 1991 North Stars but they in my opinion played the best overall Championship of all time in the Peguins. 2001 Twins were a disapointment. I think or it was like 2003. It was early 2000's. Obvouisly the 2000- 2001 Vikes with that performance in NY. They were a much better team. Then 2017-2018 Vikings. The table was set was just waiting for the meal to be cooked.
2009 was much worse than both of those. Despite them literally trying to kill Favre late/dirty hitting him multiple times, despite the many turnovers and despite the very obviously biased officials… We STILL win that game if even one of those bs overtime calls goes our way, forcing them to punt it to us… And they went on to beat the colts…that means we would have beat the colts. 98 we would have just lost to the Broncos…
@@Saltyahole Completely disagree. 1998 we had the best team in the NFL NOT Even close. 2009 I agree We got robbed in two different ways. With the BS hits and the BS Calls. 1987-1988 We made and had momentum that playoff year. I know we wouldv'e destroyed the Broncos in that Super Bowl too.
The 1998 Vikings were probably better than the 2009 Vikings, however their opponents in their Super Bowls would have been on different levels. The 1998 Broncos were MUCH better than the 2009 Colts, and a game between the 98 Vikings (if they would have been healthy) and 98 Broncos would have been the best super bowl of all time. The game could have gone either way. However, since the 98 Vikings had so many injuries after the NFC title game vs Atlanta, they probably wouldn’t have done well against Denver in the Super Bowl. The 2009 Vikings would have destroyed the Colts in the Super Bowl, even if Favre would have only been 50% healthy.
By far the #1 offense and #1 defense in the NFL 1969 Vikings in Super Bowl IV and next the 1967 Twins, even better than the ‘65 WS team, which could only miss the World Series if they got swept by Yaz and the Red Sox in Fenway.
The '22 Twins team will make the revised list. 1st place in the Central right now, but they will pass on any opportunity to add real pitching/hitting help at the deadline (again). They make horrible lineup and pitching rotation decisions. Royce Lewis is getting the Kellen Mond treatment for some reason. Buxton will run into a couple fences, pitchers will fall apart (literally), and the medical staff will be the only Twins playing in October. It would be cool to see them roll out Tyler Duffey in the 8th inning of a first-round playoff game though. I would make a fortune live betting. It's like Groundhog Day with the Twins.
When you start off with #8 from 1998 NFC championship game… I know you aren’t including the super bowl trips in this because we haven’t held a single lead in any super bowl game. Each game deserves its own spot. Along with 1998, 2009, 41-0, and also 8-0 game 6 Stanley cup for the north stars should rank very high. You could do any twins playoff loss from 2006-2010 where they had 2 MVPs and were too busy trading away their cy young candidate to pay any attention to the trash rotation they always employ. The Yankees loss in the last year of the dome felt like a what coulda been… not that we’ve had that feeling much with the twins. Balls were juiced and we had ZERO pitching. 2019 was a fluke and that HR record should have an asterisk just like the Astros WS.
I do not agree with 2003-2004 wolves being on here. Plenty of other much better options for timberwolves. How about the Butler meltdown or rockets series? Or any of our many first round exits? If you added the 2017 Vikings, something else has to get excluded. That team was overrated. Literally started Case Keenum and got to that game off a lucky missed tackle and some thought we’d make it to the super bowl. Come on. Get that off the list. We deserved to lose that game with that shit effort. Melt down, yeah. But we’ve had worse… in the big games. And Diggs catch wasn’t one of the greatest plays in history. That’s a reach.
Im only 22 so my list is going to be a lot different than any of yours. 8. The 2018 vikings/the 2021 twins. The 18 vikings probably anger me more but both teams deserve to be on this list for just being an absolute let down of a season following an upsetting end to the previous season. Had high hopes for both of those teams and they didnt even make the playoffs. 7. The 2015 vikings. Blair f'n Walsh. 6. The 2009 vikings. Was a lot like mackey and the 98 vikes. I was more sad/confused than i was angry. 5. The 2019 vikings. After a great game in new orleans i expected more the following week. 4. The 2020 twins. After the 2019 season my hopes were high and what was even better is we got to play the astros who finished with a below .500 record. We then got swept. 3. The 2021-22 wild. I've only gotten into hockey since like 2019ish but now its right up there with football as my favorite sport. The 2020-21 season gave me a taste for playoff hockey and I was super excited for this team to make some sort of playoff run. After the trade deadline my mind was set that they were at least going to win the first series and go toe to toe with the avs. I knew losing round 1 was a possibility but leading the series 2-1 and then losing the final 2 games the way we did was heartbreaking and infuriating. 2. The 2019 twins. It was easily the most exciting twins team i had seen in my teen-young adult years and i was so excited for playoff baseball. Nelson cruz hit that homerun early with the nice batflip and then we got swept. 1. 2017 vikings. The 09 vikings team is something i barely remember, i just wasnt that much into watching sports at the time, but later on i got super invested into them. The 2017 vikings was the first time a team i rooted for was even close to a championship. Obviously the odds of us beating philly and then the pats was super unlikely but i didnt care. We had just won the miracle game, we were playing for a home superbowl, and it just felt like it was meant to be. Then we scored the first points and i was super excited. We then didnt do a single thing the rest of the game.
After the 98 championship game, my roommate and I slowly shuffled a couple blocks from our apartment to Loon Grocery on Lyndale. A very nice gay man working the counter looked at us and said, “Wow, you guys look REALLY sad.”
The 1992 Northstars. Fresh off the run to the Cup finals in 91, they had all the key players back, should be a great season. What do they do? They stumble out of the gate and once again barely make it into the playoffs (thanks Toronto). But wait! The Northstars win the first two games against the Red Wings IN Detroit!!! They split the next two games at the Met. They are up 3-1 and have completely out played the Wings.....and then.......the Northstars lost the next 3 games and were eliminated.
I’ll also say the 2003-04 Wolves. The only reason the Lakers beat us in the conference finals is because we were down to our 3rd string PG, who only joined the team a few weeks before out of the CBA. If either Cassell or Troy Hudson weren’t out, the Wolves would have won the championship.
You really think that? You do remember the lakers (the team that beat us) got smoked by the pistons, right? That means, by simple logic, that if we did manage to get by the lakers, that we also would have proceeded to get smoked by the pistons. This is also another reason why 09 is worse than 98. 09 would have been a win against the colts. 98 would have been a loss to the broncos.
When healthy, the 03-04 Wolves were better than the Lakers. The Pistons were not favored to beat the Lakers, and it was an upset when Detroit won the series. If the Wolves would have played the Pistons in the finals, Detroit doesn’t pull off the upset.
I dn think we as fans have any right to be PO'd about local teams if they disappear at critical times. It only means we as fans were over-optimistic. The teams were not as good as we thought.
No 1999 Vikings?? I mean, they were mocked on How I Met your Mother? It's the only time I literally threw an object and broke my TV. Bad form Mack a Dak
The 1999 Vikings went up against arguably one of the greatest football teams to win the Superbowl. Nobody was beating the Rams that year, imo. If I remember right some people banned playing the 99 Rams on Madden because that team was so dominant on offense and defense. Their offense gets the most press but if you look at their defensive stats that year it even lined up with the type of defensive stats Baltimore put up in 2000.
Another honorable mention is the 1975 Vikings. That was the best offense of Tarkenton's career. The defense was getting old, but still solid. To have that hail mary ruin that season was heartbreaking to 11-year-old me.
Another ball kicker nut shot is 1988 in San Fran. The Steve Young run. That play and subsequent loss killed me.
My list (Mainly going off how max or sad I was when it was over.
8. 2018 Vikings (the hype was so high to not even make it to the dance)
7. 2016-2017 Wild
6. 2003-2004 Timberwolves was very young but I remember
5. 2015 Vikings
4. 21-22 Wild
3. 2019 Twins
2. 2017 Vikings
1. 2009 Vikings
Thanks for all the playoff fumbles, AP!
Nothing, NOTHING compares to the heartbreak of '98. That was an all-time great team that beats the Falcons 9 times out of 10. That is the one that absolutely got away. I swear to god at school the next day it was like a classmate had died. Funereal.
09 has something to say about that.
@@Saltyahole my contention is that the '98 team was just better and were playing an inferior opponent. They weren't just beating people that year, most games were over by halftime. I believe they beat Jacksonville by 50 points late in the year.
I would agree with you, but I was born a few months after this game so I have no recollection.
Never been mad , but at ten years old in 1970 watching the first Super Bowl of the Vikings and picking them as my favorite team, and living in Pa. Alan Page being my all time favorite player , just lots of disappointments over the years. Just not there time yet, get it done before lots of us are done ! 💜 💛
A couple not mentioned: Gopher football loss to Iowa to break the undefeated season; Twins 2010; MNUFC losing to Atlanta the night before Easter in 20 degree weather - Atlanta took a red card early, I decided I'd leave once we scored, and I was there for the rest of the game
For me as a Vikings fan who lives in New Orleans, 2009 will always grind my gears. It was a blatant robbery for which no one was punished for. Even after playing like absolute garbage for the first half they are in position to win it and the int happens then the refs seal it in OT
@Mark R even despite the Vikings turnovers if they don't give Pierre Thomas that criminally bad fumble spot in OT they win so I don't wanna hear that lol. Gave him forward progress spot where his helmet was despite the ball being by his nutsack
Ya the whole game plan was Shawn Payton paying $10,000 to everyone on the defense for every single hit on Favre.. and $20,000 for each injury to him or our receivers and the NFL does nothing During the game because of the hurricane 🌀 they gave new Orleans that game to propell the Aints into the super bowl and then that game was fkn rigged.. then they waited for a year to punish the coaches for bounty gate 🙄 any other team would have been beaten the same way.. look up the dirty ass Darren Sharper 🤣 SCAB who's in jail where he fkn belongs along with the entire coaching staff of the New Orleans AIN'TS.. FK THEM.. AND I SAID THEY WOULD NEVER BEAT US OUT OF THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN AND NOT ONLY THAT THEY WOULDN'T WIN ANOTHER SUPER BOWL TROPHY UNTIL PAYTON AND BREEZE WERE GONE AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT BULLSHIT SEASON..Fk the NFL for rigging years of MINNESOTA VIKINGS GAMES.. they literally hate us for some reason and we deserve a fkn legitimate shot at the TITLE
@@basedjiren3889 they won because of “Katrina” even though Katrina was like 4 years prior 🤷🏻♂️
Thank AP for his playoff fumbles
First! , unlike MN franchises
I usually hate first comments but this almost made me spit out my water.
Not one mention of the Blair walsh missed field goal? Come on boys. End of APs super hero career and it's not talked about enough.
That pales in comparison lol. We weren’t the team to beat that year.
All Minnesota professional Teams can win every single game except for the one's that matter the most
4th and 26 in Tempe Arizona. That one still kills me. Vikings lead the division from week one all season long but then gave it up to Green Bay in the last week and missed the playoffs altogether.
Thank you SKOL SO KEEP ON LOSING
For me, with the exception of the Twins in 87 and 91, it's been every team since the day they were created up until this afternoon.
The wild really had me believing they'd make a real run.. and the two game winning streak had me thinking they had the blues number.. and it would be over at game 5
Yes, the 2019 Twins playoff “performance” was such a gut shot. That team went into that series fully aware of its curse, and just proceeded to cement it and solidify it even further. F@¥&!
30 yrs old , born during the 91 world series. biggest 2 disappointments 2009 vikings and 2003 Wild . For very different reasons .
2017 NFC championship blowout by the Eagles. We were on such a high after the "miracle" we as fans felt like this was gonna be our year, but then we got to Philly and it all fell apart. I also got the 2014 Gopher Men's Hockey, crazy regulation win against UND of all teams and then Union scores a late goal in a close game to seal the deal.
That’s mental weakness…
I'm a union grad and that was a lot of fun lmao
We had 5 NBA championships now LA has 17 it will always piss me off and the MN Timberwolves keep reminding us about that
The 02 Vikings. That game in Arizona. I was 11 I was made and sad, I cried for like an hour I wouldn't eat. I was just sad and mad for like a day.
How about the 2002 Twins, more so penny pinching Carl, who let Big Papi go. I'm so sour to this day about that. Ughh
I broke my Grandfather's Flat screen television 📺 when favre threw that pick across his fkn body to porter instead of limping for 4 yards and laying down for a field goal 😑
Screw the NFL gaming commission and the crooked ZEBRAS for letting the saints dang near kill Brett Favre on every play.. The saints defense should have had over 20 roughing the passer penalties which would have caused the VIKINGS to have a short field on every single offensive possession. Resulting in a route of the AIN'TS and a resounding victory for the last Vikings championship caliber team 👏 whom would have trounced the patriots in the super bowl had the deck not been so crookedly stacked against them.. Robbing them of their First Lombardi Trophy 🏆 and super bowl victory in 50 years as of then
Biggest meltdown was going from the Miracle to getting DESTROYED by the Eagles the next week in the year we could’ve played the SB at home.
Part of what makes the '09 Vikings loss so bad is that the NFL changed the rules so that both teams get an opportunity to possess the football in overtime. If that game happens a year later the Saints get the ball first in OT, kick a field goal, and Favre gets an opportunity to drive down the field and either match the score or win the game with a touchdown. The Vikings are somehow always on the wrong side of everything.
Both the 1998 and 2009 vikings.
It's tough. Two close calls '98 and '09 Vikings. I'd have to go with '09. My reasoning is we were the better team, we were steamrolling teams since the loss to the bears. We did everything we could do to lose that game and it was still right there. Add to that that we would have destroyed the colts in the superbowl. '98 we got beat and there was no guarantee we beat an amazingly good Denver team. '09 was our best chance
Worst part is if they beat the Bears they get home field and they don't get robbed by the refs in New Orleans
There is disappointment/devastation and being angry with a team that has underachieved. As far as anger toward local teams not living up to expectations, I would include the 1989-1991 Vikings (coming off a strong 1988 season, mortgaging the future for Herschel Walker, and completely underachieving during Burnsie/Lynn's last three years), last year's Twins (you have to actually show up for a season), the 2004-2005 Timberwolves (Sprewell and Cassell exposed Flip Saunders' inability to handle a talented, but volatile lockeroom), the 2010 Vikings (complete mess and waste of talent), the 2018 Vikings (the Vikings still haven't figured out the Cousins mistake coming off the surprising 2017 season), and the Ryan Saunders Timberwolves teams of 2019-2021 (not great teams, but should not have been anywhere close to being the dregs of the NBA).
Okay, now this is a video I can get behind. 😂😭
The 2000 Vikings say hello. Still with prime, unstoppable Moss. Still an extremely potent offense. All the lessons learned from ‘98.
41-0
Can’t even get a field goal.
That’s for sure top 4.
None of the Twins comes even close to any of those Vikings’ failures.
Nothing breaks my heart more when Foreman fumbled on the goal line
But the 09 Vikings was bounty gate. If the Saint were not able to pound left and right on Farve. The outcome would of been better I believe. I still am amazed he was able to finish that game.
The gary Anderson miss fkn broke my heart .. and then the 40-0 Vikings/Giants nfc championship game and then the farve 2009 NFC championship game interception made me believe they were never going to win a super bowl.. so I knew when we faced Philly for a home super bowl we were screwed
You really put the 09 loss on Favre? He was the ONLY reason we were in that game!
1998 and 2009 are scars that will never ever heal
I’m going 09’ and 17’ Vikings and I’m going to two games in the regular season 09’ (Sunday night game)late December against Matt Moore starting panthers team and 17’ December against panthers again. we win those games we have the number 1 seed and definitely win super bowl both years.
I guess these guys will never be in the same room again.
1998 was My #1. NOT EVEN CLOSE!! 1987-88 NFC Championship #2. #3 NFC 2009-2010 VIKINGS Championship game. I was gonna say 1991 North Stars but they in my opinion played the best overall Championship of all time in the Peguins. 2001 Twins were a disapointment. I think or it was like 2003. It was early 2000's. Obvouisly the 2000- 2001 Vikes with that performance in NY. They were a much better team. Then 2017-2018 Vikings. The table was set was just waiting for the meal to be cooked.
2009 was much worse than both of those.
Despite them literally trying to kill Favre late/dirty hitting him multiple times, despite the many turnovers and despite the very obviously biased officials…
We STILL win that game if even one of those bs overtime calls goes our way, forcing them to punt it to us…
And they went on to beat the colts…that means we would have beat the colts.
98 we would have just lost to the Broncos…
@@Saltyahole Completely disagree. 1998 we had the best team in the NFL NOT Even close. 2009 I agree We got robbed in two different ways. With the BS hits and the BS Calls. 1987-1988 We made and had momentum that playoff year. I know we wouldv'e destroyed the Broncos in that Super Bowl too.
The 1998 Vikings were probably better than the 2009 Vikings, however their opponents in their Super Bowls would have been on different levels. The 1998 Broncos were MUCH better than the 2009 Colts, and a game between the 98 Vikings (if they would have been healthy) and 98 Broncos would have been the best super bowl of all time. The game could have gone either way. However, since the 98 Vikings had so many injuries after the NFC title game vs Atlanta, they probably wouldn’t have done well against Denver in the Super Bowl.
The 2009 Vikings would have destroyed the Colts in the Super Bowl, even if Favre would have only been 50% healthy.
My wife and I went to game 1 and 2 at Yankee stadium in 2019 as part of our honeymoon. Big mistake!
2001 vikes losing to giants in championship game...and 91 Northstars blowing a 3-1 lead in Stanley Cup final...ugh
They were never up 3-1 though.
By far the #1 offense and #1 defense in the NFL 1969 Vikings in Super Bowl IV and next the 1967 Twins, even better than the ‘65 WS team, which could only miss the World Series if they got swept by Yaz and the Red Sox in Fenway.
The '22 Twins team will make the revised list. 1st place in the Central right now, but they will pass on any opportunity to add real pitching/hitting help at the deadline (again). They make horrible lineup and pitching rotation decisions. Royce Lewis is getting the Kellen Mond treatment for some reason. Buxton will run into a couple fences, pitchers will fall apart (literally), and the medical staff will be the only Twins playing in October. It would be cool to see them roll out Tyler Duffey in the 8th inning of a first-round playoff game though. I would make a fortune live betting. It's like Groundhog Day with the Twins.
98 Vikings for sure at number one... I was all in and they ripped my heart out
When you start off with #8 from 1998 NFC championship game… I know you aren’t including the super bowl trips in this because we haven’t held a single lead in any super bowl game. Each game deserves its own spot. Along with 1998, 2009, 41-0, and also 8-0 game 6 Stanley cup for the north stars should rank very high. You could do any twins playoff loss from 2006-2010 where they had 2 MVPs and were too busy trading away their cy young candidate to pay any attention to the trash rotation they always employ. The Yankees loss in the last year of the dome felt like a what coulda been… not that we’ve had that feeling much with the twins. Balls were juiced and we had ZERO pitching. 2019 was a fluke and that HR record should have an asterisk just like the Astros WS.
I do not agree with 2003-2004 wolves being on here. Plenty of other much better options for timberwolves. How about the Butler meltdown or rockets series? Or any of our many first round exits? If you added the 2017 Vikings, something else has to get excluded. That team was overrated. Literally started Case Keenum and got to that game off a lucky missed tackle and some thought we’d make it to the super bowl. Come on. Get that off the list. We deserved to lose that game with that shit effort. Melt down, yeah. But we’ve had worse… in the big games. And Diggs catch wasn’t one of the greatest plays in history. That’s a reach.
Im only 22 so my list is going to be a lot different than any of yours.
8. The 2018 vikings/the 2021 twins. The 18 vikings probably anger me more but both teams deserve to be on this list for just being an absolute let down of a season following an upsetting end to the previous season. Had high hopes for both of those teams and they didnt even make the playoffs.
7. The 2015 vikings. Blair f'n Walsh.
6. The 2009 vikings. Was a lot like mackey and the 98 vikes. I was more sad/confused than i was angry.
5. The 2019 vikings. After a great game in new orleans i expected more the following week.
4. The 2020 twins. After the 2019 season my hopes were high and what was even better is we got to play the astros who finished with a below .500 record. We then got swept.
3. The 2021-22 wild. I've only gotten into hockey since like 2019ish but now its right up there with football as my favorite sport. The 2020-21 season gave me a taste for playoff hockey and I was super excited for this team to make some sort of playoff run. After the trade deadline my mind was set that they were at least going to win the first series and go toe to toe with the avs. I knew losing round 1 was a possibility but leading the series 2-1 and then losing the final 2 games the way we did was heartbreaking and infuriating.
2. The 2019 twins. It was easily the most exciting twins team i had seen in my teen-young adult years and i was so excited for playoff baseball. Nelson cruz hit that homerun early with the nice batflip and then we got swept.
1. 2017 vikings. The 09 vikings team is something i barely remember, i just wasnt that much into watching sports at the time, but later on i got super invested into them. The 2017 vikings was the first time a team i rooted for was even close to a championship. Obviously the odds of us beating philly and then the pats was super unlikely but i didnt care. We had just won the miracle game, we were playing for a home superbowl, and it just felt like it was meant to be. Then we scored the first points and i was super excited. We then didnt do a single thing the rest of the game.
If the Vikings are facing a back up quarterback you can bet they will lose
After the 98 championship game, my roommate and I slowly shuffled a couple blocks from our apartment to Loon Grocery on Lyndale.
A very nice gay man working the counter looked at us and said, “Wow, you guys look REALLY sad.”
The 1992 Northstars. Fresh off the run to the Cup finals in 91, they had all the key players back, should be a great season. What do they do? They stumble out of the gate and once again barely make it into the playoffs (thanks Toronto). But wait! The Northstars win the first two games against the Red Wings IN Detroit!!! They split the next two games at the Met. They are up 3-1 and have completely out played the Wings.....and then.......the Northstars lost the next 3 games and were eliminated.
Need judd and Declan list asap
41 and a doughnut needs honorable mention
I’ll also say the 2003-04 Wolves. The only reason the Lakers beat us in the conference finals is because we were down to our 3rd string PG, who only joined the team a few weeks before out of the CBA. If either Cassell or Troy Hudson weren’t out, the Wolves would have won the championship.
You really think that?
You do remember the lakers (the team that beat us) got smoked by the pistons, right?
That means, by simple logic, that if we did manage to get by the lakers, that we also would have proceeded to get smoked by the pistons.
This is also another reason why 09 is worse than 98. 09 would have been a win against the colts. 98 would have been a loss to the broncos.
When healthy, the 03-04 Wolves were better than the Lakers. The Pistons were not favored to beat the Lakers, and it was an upset when Detroit won the series. If the Wolves would have played the Pistons in the finals, Detroit doesn’t pull off the upset.
98 vikes#1 09 vikes#2 91 north stars that 1 hurt still remember Jagger and mario lemieux celebrating
“Group of Slappys”
I dn think we as fans have any right to be PO'd about local teams if they disappear at critical times. It only means we as fans were over-optimistic. The teams were not as good as we thought.
09 vikes for sure for us people under 30. Only time I cried for sports and felt like dying
09 vikes vs saints is the worst… we would have beat the colts in the SB
88 Twins put up better stats than 87 series winner ….couldn’t beat the A’s
I was thinking of that too but the A's just blew up after the all-star break and the Twins couldn't keep up.
No 1999 Vikings?? I mean, they were mocked on How I Met your Mother? It's the only time I literally threw an object and broke my TV. Bad form Mack a Dak
The 1999 Vikings went up against arguably one of the greatest football teams to win the Superbowl. Nobody was beating the Rams that year, imo. If I remember right some people banned playing the 99 Rams on Madden because that team was so dominant on offense and defense. Their offense gets the most press but if you look at their defensive stats that year it even lined up with the type of defensive stats Baltimore put up in 2000.
Why didn't you guy put the this year's wild. They totally blew it in the first round of the playoffs. They were supposed to win in 6 right
41-0 enough said!
98 vikings is number one for me by a mile
Terrible list lol
09 was far and away the most heartbreaking. It’s not even close.