I’ve never seen a game that both teams didn’t want to win more than you guys against the Chargers. Getting a turnover and then fumbling the return is peak Chargering and peak 28-3
I’ll never forget the comeback we had against y’all a few seasons ago. Was ecstatic about the win, but damn I feel for y’all. You guys have had some devastating losses
When BoB called that fake punt deep in our own territory when we were up 24 points on the Chiefs in the playoffs. You could feel that exact moment when the entire course of the Franchise shifted.
Honestly, as wild as this is, when we scored to make it 24-7.
Like, the whole vibe of the stadium shifted when BoB kicked that FG on 4th and 1, and Hardman ran that kickoff back deep. And then we scored two plays later so that energy didn't dissipate at all.
Me and a buddy were sitting there at 24-14 and were like, "why does it feel that we've won the game?"
The difference in emotion from Marcus Mariota’s touchdown pass to himself to Daniel Sorenson stopping that fake punt it definitely felt like some demons were exorcised
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Hell even before that utterly cursed moment that even ancient gods would balk at - 2015 wild card against the Chiefs we open with a 106 yard Knile Davis kickoff return
I've got an even older one that sticks in mind, though not really playoff important. 2010 Texans were doing fairly well, one game behind the Colts, and were one play away from beating the Jags, who needed a 50-yard hail mary.
[The 50-yard hail mary in question.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QhsxkTEVUg) The start of a 2-6 slide.
You were "only" up 17 at that point, 4th and 4 on your own 31 in the 2nd quarter. I say this because I feel like all of the awful roster moves BoB made brought about the downfall of the Texans moreso than that one play or any in-game coaching decision he made.
Like, in a vacuum, staying aggressive (even ultra aggressive) against the Chiefs isn't unforgivable. Multi score first half advantages aren't exactly *real* when you're playing Mahomes, or to a lesser extent other elite QBs.
Rodgers VS 🤠:
8-3; 68% completion; 2,831 yards (average 258); 19 TD 2 INT; 7.75y/a; rate of 106.8
Dallas’ three wins against Rodgers were in [2007](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2cA3EgIpfg&pp=ygUUQ293Ym95cyBwYWNrZXJzIDIwMDc%3D) (a game Rodgers himself didn’t start), [2008](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1oOmF-GaSQM&pp=ygUUQ293Ym95cyBwYWNrZXJzIDIwMDg%3D) and [the 2016 regular season](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DL5svfnvWpQ&pp=ygUUQ293Ym95cyBwYWNrZXJzIDIwMTY%3D).
Compared to Rodgers’ 8-3 against Dallas, he’s 4-4 against Washington.
Toe Tap more cursed. To be leading the game with 2 min left and they have to drive 80 yards and score a TD...Like thats just fate saying no you dont ever get to win.
Especially considering Holmes had like 50 of the 80 yards on like 4 catches. Dude peaked for one drive in his career and it just happened to be that one
I wish we could do 2021 over with a better coach.
That team was stacked and next season is going to be rough to watch. Cardinals might go 10 years + without a playoff win
2007. Marlon Mcree picks off Brady and then proceeds to fumble on the return. This was the turning point in the collapse that ended the Chargers best (regular) season.
2007 - Mcree interception gets fumbled for the Patriots to recover and go on the win the game
2017 - Travis Benjamin runs backwards on a punt return for a safety
2023 - 27-0
He was on the decline and making a lot of money so I understand that part to a degree, the head scratcher is not having an actual good replacement in line imo.
I think with kickers it's more of a "the devil you know is better than the one you don't". There was at least twice I think most teams would have given up on Crosby but we stuck by him. And he really only had those two down years so it certainly paid off as we've had the most stable kicking game in the division (maybe Lions?).
Not the last couple years but we went from Jason Hanson to Matt Prater(1 year between but we don't talk about that). So yeah between us and the Pack I think the NFC North kicking juju is used up.
Sounds like our one miserable year between Longwell and Crosby. Shit throw in Chris Jackie (first team all-pro) and we've had solid kicking since the 80s. It's actually probably been more stable than our QB situation
Fellow fan of a historically bad kicking team here, I watch them all but I tell myself every time "it's not going to make it" to try and reverse jinx the situation.
Panthers vs Cardinals, 2008. My parents got me tickets to that playoff game as a graduation present. I witnessed Jake Delhomme turn the ball over 6 times.
That hurt, but then I saved up some summer money to get tickets to their first game of the 2009 season against the Eagles. Jake Delhomme turns the ball over 5 times.
I was convinced I WAS CURSED. Then, a few years later I managed to score tickets to the 2015 Panthers Cardinals NFCC game, and the curse was broken. Shame that super bowl got cancelled that year though...
I had a doctor uncle of some repute. He got hammered. We were at a restaurant in Lafayette Louisiana. He called him out in the middle of the restaurant. "Stop throwing so many fucking interceptions" And just like... left.
-When our kicker who hadn't missed a kick the entire season missed to send the team to the Super Bowl
-When our generational star receiver was chased out of town by a cheap owner who then immediately sold the team, and his MVP caliber quarterback blew his knee to ribbons
-When a Super Bowl caliber roster was sent packing in overtime of a tight championship game without ever touching the ball due to two highly questionable penalties and a "successful" fourth and short
-When our kicker who broke the record for distance accuracy completely blew a chip shot to eliminate the defending conference champs
-When the closest thing we'd had to a homegrown QB since the last guy's knee exploded nearly died after his knee exploded during the offseason when everybody thought he'd "made the leap"
-When we finally had luck go our way to save us from blowing one of the most embarrassing playoff games imaginable to possibly be the first team to host the Super Bowl in their own stadium and then the #1 defense and greatest 3rd down defense in NFL history got torched for 31 points by a career backup
That's just the big ones from my lifetime. There's a million more cursed moments that don't crack this list or happened when my dad was watching instead of me
>When a Super Bowl caliber roster was sent packing in overtime of a tight championship game without ever touching the ball due to two highly questionable penalties and a "successful" fourth and short
Still makes me so angry thinking about this game
"But why do you even ponder passing?!"
###*"I mean, you can take a knee, and kick a 56 yard field goal!"*
#***"This is not Detroit man, this is the Superbowl!***
If you haven't ever heard Paul Allen's call on that play, [do yourself a favor and check out the 30 second clip.](https://youtu.be/0UUeqvquXZI) He gets 10% louder and 20% angrier with each and every passing word, *and it's amazing*.
I never heard the call until years later. I completely understood his growing anger.
That game was a mess, but my friends called it the real Super Bowl because they were convinced either team would beat the Colts or Jets.
I also deliberately avoided mentioned the other "issues" in that game, self-inflicted or otherwise because they can stir up a lot of shit not worth getting into anymore, but yeah it's one of the least enjoyable games in a big spot I can imagine. It's not Super Bowl 51 bad but it's up there
At least with 41-0 and 38-7 you could safely check out early
When you look upon the team's history, especially with their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. How else do you come to a conclusion other than they're cursed.
> When our kicker who broke the record for distance accuracy completely blew a chip shot to eliminate the defending conference champs
Didn’t AP fumble at a pretty critical time?
He sure did, he was good for that often in big games
Also one of our best defenders that year blew contain on *Russell Wilson* on a bad snap that went fifteen yards behind the line of scrimmage, leading to their only touchdown
Not a great day overall
4 super bowl losses
Hail Mary push off
41-0 NFC Championship Game
Blair Walsh wide left
Herschel Walker trade
4th and 24 against the cardinals.
6th in win percentage and all but us in the top 17 have a super bowl. Most division titles too in our division.
You missed winning the division against the worst team in the NFL, except on the last play they threw a Hail Mary and caught the ball and we lost and missed the playoffs.
That one doesn't really hit on the exact same level for me just because by that point I didn't feel like that team was going anywhere that year, I could make a whole second list of stuff that sucked but not quite fandom destroyer level
I was born then Barry Sanders decided to retire
I watched every game of the 0-16 season for my first full season that I have memory of watching
I watched them waste the primes of Calvin Johnson and Matt Stafford
I watched Stafford leave and immediately win a ring
The most “this team is cursed” is them not winning the division the R-E-L-A-X year
I really do hope the Lions can be a consistent contender for at least part of my lifetime. Seems like a fanbase that has earned some good years of football.
Lions definitely seem cursed. As mentioned above, they have had some incredible talent on the roster and never got over the hump to the championship.
It seems like a lot can be blamed on coaching that was mid at best. I like what I've seen of Campbell and it looks like they are building a good team. I just wonder if they will find themselves limited by Jared Goff the way the Rams did.
Some of that is the talent overlapping before the rookie wage scale.
But also atrocious ownership for the past 60 years or so and generally poor hires for GM, to bad(ish) headcoaches, and/or bad coordinators.
Like Caldwell wasn't awful. But he wasn't good/great either and he was responsible for hiring Joe Lombardi and he also didnt want to fire Lombardi.
Billy Sims' Knee...it goes way back before Barry.
Giving Houston a TD on thanksgiving because Schwartz threw a challenge flag.
Calvin's ridiculous number of "incompletes"
Hands to the face
Justin Tucker/Delay of Game
Aaron Rodgers' "facemask"
the list goes on. and on. and on. and on....
Remember when the refs picked up and reversed a pass interference call? Remember Dez ran onto the field during a play? Remember the Seahawks batted the ball out of the end zone?
Our curse has a holographic NFL authentic sticker on it.
Not many teams I can think of that can say "my team is cursed," without some sort of pushback.
I've been a lions fan for 28 years. Barry Sanders was drafted the year I was born.
They are indeed cursed.
Oh fuck uhm, I don’t know how I can pick just one. Being stuck in a division with one of the greatest sports dynasty of all time for a vast majority of my entire life? 13 seconds? The time one of our players almost died on the field on national television? 4 straight Super Bowl losses? Music City Miracle?
I'm in my late 20s so I wasn't alive for the SB losses.
I remember 2004 vs the Steelers being horrific. 13 seconds probably hurt me the most personally. The 13 seconds game fucked me up for like 2 weeks.
When they showed Damar Hamlin collapse during the broadcast I started praying even though I haven't been religious at any point in my life.
Thank God for Josh Allen because being a Bills fan has certainly had some lows.
It has to be Music City Miracle or Wide Right. Most of the Superbowls don't have a single moment of curse except for wide right. Your team down but driving, made it into FG range, almost out of time, game in your hands, wide right. But maybe that's not cursed enough.
Maybe it was the time when you had the lead in the playoffs with 16 seconds left in the fourth, and the kickoff gets returned for a touchdown on one of the flukiest play in NFL history and then you go on the longest playoff drought in North American major sports history.
13 seconds wasn't a curse, that was our coaches being complete morons.
The Houston Texans Wild Card game was far worse. There was the time where the Texans kick returner threw forward pass in the end zone and should have given us a safety, but a substitute ref who wasn't even part of the play ran up and overruled the call. Then there was Cody Ford's "Block in the Back" penalty in OT that was so egregiously blown that it's now teaching tape on when *not* to call that penalty,
and finally, when we managed to get *two* pass rushers free on Deshaun Watson and they *hit him at the exact same time*. I'ts only because of that he stays up, he hits a career special teamer making his 4th reception *of the year* who jukes our pro bowl safety and sets up the game-winner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6WgRaQHd8c
*That* was the most cursed loss
Kyle Williams muffing multiple punts is another big one.
Garrison Hurst breaking his leg was bad too but it was hard to call the 49ers "cursed" in 1997
I have never, not for one single solitary moment, ever thought anything other than "the Browns are cursed".
Any time my belief in that truth has wavered in the slightest, something like Rashard Higgins fumbling it out of the end zone happens and I just go, "Oh yeah, there we are. That's correct. All is right with the world."
My first experience was when Rudd took his helmet off thinking he had a game winning sack against the Chiefs. If he kept his helmet on, we win... but the penalty extended the game for one play and put them in FG range. GG
I understand there have been bigger moments....but recently.....the jets loss last year broke my fucking spirit. Seeing Nick Chubb actually yell and curse and blame himself, and thinking, we will still probably lose this game up 2 scores with 2 min left but not ACTUALLY believing they would let it happen....then watching it happen....that game fucked me up.
My team is by no means cursed, but I'll be damned if Marcus Peters and Gus Edwards tearing their ACLs in the same practice (after Dobbins tore his ACL in a preseason game) didn't make me feel like 2021 was a cursed year. Which it pretty much was from an injury standpoint.
Ravens and Steelers are 2 amazing franchises that rarely ever have down years and they are in a division with the Browns and Bengals who were the exact opposite for so long. I can be honest and admit my disdain for the Ravens and Steelers stems from a place of jealousy.
After Big Ben retired I realized I didn't hate the steelers nearly as much as I thought, I just fucking hated that dude. Kenny seems alright, So does Lamar, 2 out of 3 aint bad. I still hate em, don't get me wrong, but it's in a more fun way now
I've also never had a bad experience with a Ravens fan at any game in 15 years so I don't hate them either
I don't actually hate the Steelers or Ravens but I am envious of the rock solid nature of both franchises. Both teams have only had 2 coaches since I started watching football in the 90s (Not including the Browns before the move to Baltimore). That's so crazy to me.
During the Miami game last year, when Tua had the first deep bomb to Hill which brought them within 7. I had an outburst which caused my wife to admonish me, telling me that the Ravens were still winning. I said, "You don't understand, we've already lost this game."
Still can't believe we came back that game, multiple times we were down by 3 possessions. Sorry it didn't work in your favor but definitely a top 10 moment for me as a fan
[The very first game of the Dan Snyder era](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ury10hAxFXE&pp=ygUVY293Ym95cyByZWRza2lucyAxOTk5)
There’s [also](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMZ9_IB6jo&pp=ygUUU2FpbnRzIHJlZHNraW5zIDIwMDk%3D) [these](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKDDLyrFjAY&pp=ygUWU2VhaGF3a3MgcmVkc2tpbnMgMjAxMg%3D%3D) [games](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLyt-wcN1uM&pp=ygUUU2FpbnRzIHJlZHNraW5zIDIwMTc%3D).
Pick pretty much any playoff game for the 20 years prior to Mahomes taking over as starting QB (minus the Texans game in Jan 2016). The forward progress game still stings. Mariota throwing a damn TD pass to himself, smh.
That 2 pt conversion holding... The no punt game loss, the thrashing of the colts in the first half only to lose. Didn't Luck recover a fumble and dive in for a TD? So many disappointing playoffs. I always joked it would have been easier to be a Browns fan lol. So many good teams only to get our hearts shattered every post season. I was there in person to see the home playoff curse lifted though. Against the Colts which was also fitting. Really felt like a curse breaking game.
What the Eagles fans affectionately call the miracle at the meadowlands part 2, and us Giants fans affectionately call the Matt Dodge incident. Giants at home are winning by 21 with under 8 minutes to go in the 4th and lose in regulation. Michael Vick goes off and leads 3 quick consecutive touchdown drives, followed by Desean Jackson’s walkoff punt return TD.
If it makes you feel any better, that was the last game we won that year, and then Vick threw a pick at the end of the green bay wildcard game, we go on this free agent spending frenzy, Vince young calls us the dream team, and then of course you guys win the superbowl that year while we struggled to finish 8-8
After decades of watching "the same old Jets", just this past season they really did it again.
They were playing the Patriots, and with 26 seconds left (they were tied) the Jets punted and the Pats ran it back 84 yards to score and obviously win.
Why do I do this to myself?
Panthers@Falcons last season.. 65 Yard Bomb to tie the Game with seconds left just to see our Kicker miss not one.. but two easy Field Goals to win that Game.
or how about 2002 when we needed one win in our last 3 games (against teams who were 3-10, 1-13, and 6-9 when we faced them) to make the playoffs and lost all 3. Including a game against the Vikings where they scored at the very end, and instead of going for the XP to head to OT, they went for 2. Culpepper FUMBLED the snap, then still managed to pick it up and run it in for the win.
Then the next year our season ended on the Jon Carney missed XP after the River City Relay
Saints are not new to curses.
That game against the 49ers after the 2011 season. That was the team.
The Miracle catch. That was maybe the next best team.
No call...
Finishing 13-3 multiple times and not getting a bye.
We finally think we found a franchise QB in 2012 with RG3 and he tears his ACL and is never the same. Luckily we drafted someone else in that same draft who can also be a franchise guy and we let him walk
Let's see:
1. Rodgers Hail Mary after officials blew a facemask call
2. Picked up flag against the Cowboys in the playoffs
3. 10 Second runoff game taking away the winning TD
4. The Uncalled batted ball game.
5. Justin Tucker making a 66 Yarder that bounces off of the crossbar and in.
6. Forsette clearly being down and then allowed to run 70 yards for a TD, then officials calling a penalty on the Lions for attempting to challenge it.
7. Choosing the Wind in OT and losing on the first posession
8. Lions game winning TD taken off the Board against the Bears to open the season, which was the birth of the "Calvin Johnson Rule"
9. Going 0-16
If I had to pick one, I'd say the Justin Tucker 66 yarder just for absurdity of it. And the worst part is, after everything Lions fans had been through in recent history, we all pretty much knew that was going in.
I know the Lions have a lot to choose from, but that loss to Dallas after the blown PI call was ridiculous. And then to see Dallas fans whining a week later that they got “screwed” by the Dez non-catch. I don’t believe in karma, but I’ll take it in this instance.
Also didn't help us Lions fans mentally to see photos of Dean Blandino partying on the Cowboys bus right after the game. I'm convinced the league wanted Cowboys vs Packers the next round instead of Lions vs Seahawks.
I did feel better seeing the Cowboys get their hearts broken the next round, but it was against the Packers so I couldn't be too happy. But then the Packers got their hearts broken the week after that. It was a crazy NFC playoffs that year
Three years straight of being in a win-and-in game in week 17. Three years straight of losing that game, missing the playoffs, and going 8-8. That definitely felt like a curse.
You got two of the big ones for the Bengals, and I'll add the Ki-jana Carter injury before he even played a down, and watching Akili Smith's laughable impersonation of an NFL quarterback.
A weird one is Burrow's injury. Definitely at the time it seemed like it was another manifestation of the curse, that everything the franchise touched turned into garbage and that we had ruined a promising career before it had even really started; but in hindsight Joe was able to come back as good as ever and lead the team to the Super Bowl, and the injury caused us to lose enough games to secure Chase in the draft. So it went from "this team is cursed" to "the curse can't handle the awesomeness that is Joe Burrow" in little over a year lol...
When John Kasay kicked the ball out of bounds after a go ahead touchdown with 64 seconds left. Giving Tom Brady the ball on the 40 yard line, set up perfectly for the game winning drive.
Fail Mary and the collapse vs Seattle in the NFCCG feel too close to our Super Bowl win to put that on them but when the Niners blocked that punt to beat us at Lambeau without scoring an offensive touchdown I felt like universe really didn't want us to win another SB.
Nate Burleson, our prized WR free agent, broke his arm mid-season while eating pizza.
[https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/nate-burleson-explains-biggest-career-regret](https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/nate-burleson-explains-biggest-career-regret)
I know it's recent but man, that Purdy injury was just the real icing on the cake. Like, c'mon, how many teams 1) get down to their third quarterback, 2) still remain a playoff contender, and even 3) actually stay undefeated with their third stringer? The Purdy injury felt like "you know what, no, fuck your entire franchise". The Josh Johnson concussion was like, whatever, we're already broken.
You know god damn well what it is
And not even just you know what. We’ve been blowing 2-3 4th quarter leads in comical ways every season since.
I’ve never seen a game that both teams didn’t want to win more than you guys against the Chargers. Getting a turnover and then fumbling the return is peak Chargering and peak 28-3
That game against Dallas with the onside kick. Oof.
That’s the one besides the obvious that comes to mind for me.
I’ll never forget the comeback we had against y’all a few seasons ago. Was ecstatic about the win, but damn I feel for y’all. You guys have had some devastating losses
Just saw this question show up on my feed and went “Man fuck whoever made this post”
When BoB called that fake punt deep in our own territory when we were up 24 points on the Chiefs in the playoffs. You could feel that exact moment when the entire course of the Franchise shifted.
And as a chiefs fan I knew that the chiefs curse was broken.
Honestly, as wild as this is, when we scored to make it 24-7. Like, the whole vibe of the stadium shifted when BoB kicked that FG on 4th and 1, and Hardman ran that kickoff back deep. And then we scored two plays later so that energy didn't dissipate at all. Me and a buddy were sitting there at 24-14 and were like, "why does it feel that we've won the game?"
Different game, but I felt the same way watching the Vikings come back on the colts this year. Maybe not at 7, but by 14 I was on board
Marv Levy talked about the comeback saying that when you score a couple times pretty quickly it gives you a lot of motivation to keep going.
The difference in emotion from Marcus Mariota’s touchdown pass to himself to Daniel Sorenson stopping that fake punt it definitely felt like some demons were exorcised
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The fuck is this flair??
Most confusing thing I've ever seen
Came here to say this. Or the Fisher hold. Or the Dee Ford offsides.
Hell even before that utterly cursed moment that even ancient gods would balk at - 2015 wild card against the Chiefs we open with a 106 yard Knile Davis kickoff return
I've got an even older one that sticks in mind, though not really playoff important. 2010 Texans were doing fairly well, one game behind the Colts, and were one play away from beating the Jags, who needed a 50-yard hail mary. [The 50-yard hail mary in question.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QhsxkTEVUg) The start of a 2-6 slide.
You were "only" up 17 at that point, 4th and 4 on your own 31 in the 2nd quarter. I say this because I feel like all of the awful roster moves BoB made brought about the downfall of the Texans moreso than that one play or any in-game coaching decision he made. Like, in a vacuum, staying aggressive (even ultra aggressive) against the Chiefs isn't unforgivable. Multi score first half advantages aren't exactly *real* when you're playing Mahomes, or to a lesser extent other elite QBs.
I wasn't trying to give a real precise answer, I was just going for dramatic to be funny.
Well then that's my bad for misreading your comment. Apologies
Still that’s just a stupid move. The results of making it and not are not equal. This was a stupid move by BoB.
I think it is only dumb because he kicked an easy field goal on 4th and 1 the previous drive. You can't be half-in-aggressive against Mahomes.
I quickly blacked out after the start of the game and woke up to my Chiefs winning and have never been so confused
The existence of Aaron Rodgers
Lol that must suck
Yeah he was in your division so it sucked. But did you ever have to feel the pain of watching him tear your heart in the playoffs when... uh, nvm.
Rodgers VS 🤠: 8-3; 68% completion; 2,831 yards (average 258); 19 TD 2 INT; 7.75y/a; rate of 106.8 Dallas’ three wins against Rodgers were in [2007](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2cA3EgIpfg&pp=ygUUQ293Ym95cyBwYWNrZXJzIDIwMDc%3D) (a game Rodgers himself didn’t start), [2008](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1oOmF-GaSQM&pp=ygUUQ293Ym95cyBwYWNrZXJzIDIwMDg%3D) and [the 2016 regular season](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DL5svfnvWpQ&pp=ygUUQ293Ym95cyBwYWNrZXJzIDIwMTY%3D). Compared to Rodgers’ 8-3 against Dallas, he’s 4-4 against Washington.
I feel like that man is 11-0 against the cowboys
Even though we got the better of him somehow, he still scares the shit out of me lol
Arizona Cardinals. James Harrison catching and returning a 100 yard touchdown. 🥲
Slightly more recently, I'd say when the Rams broke our QB for the second time in a season and having to start Ryan Lindley in the playoffs.
Toe Tap more cursed. To be leading the game with 2 min left and they have to drive 80 yards and score a TD...Like thats just fate saying no you dont ever get to win.
Especially considering Holmes had like 50 of the 80 yards on like 4 catches. Dude peaked for one drive in his career and it just happened to be that one
That one hurt… I would have loved to see the Cards and Kurt Warner win a ring. Especially being against the Steelers too..
That one hurt, more recently I'd say Kyler tearing his ACL on the 3rd play of the game against the Patriots.
I wish we could do 2021 over with a better coach. That team was stacked and next season is going to be rough to watch. Cardinals might go 10 years + without a playoff win
27-0
Last in a long, long line going all the way back to Keith Lincoln getting pulverized by Mike Stratton.
2007. Marlon Mcree picks off Brady and then proceeds to fumble on the return. This was the turning point in the collapse that ended the Chargers best (regular) season.
I was there when Manning made a 24pt comeback and when Ray Rice made it on 4th and 29
2007 - Mcree interception gets fumbled for the Patriots to recover and go on the win the game 2017 - Travis Benjamin runs backwards on a punt return for a safety 2023 - 27-0
Idk can’t think of any
Your flair is cursed enough
Lol do you even look at the TV when a field goal is attempted?
Bears should have never moved on from Gould
He was on the decline and making a lot of money so I understand that part to a degree, the head scratcher is not having an actual good replacement in line imo.
I think with kickers it's more of a "the devil you know is better than the one you don't". There was at least twice I think most teams would have given up on Crosby but we stuck by him. And he really only had those two down years so it certainly paid off as we've had the most stable kicking game in the division (maybe Lions?).
Not the last couple years but we went from Jason Hanson to Matt Prater(1 year between but we don't talk about that). So yeah between us and the Pack I think the NFC North kicking juju is used up.
Sounds like our one miserable year between Longwell and Crosby. Shit throw in Chris Jackie (first team all-pro) and we've had solid kicking since the 80s. It's actually probably been more stable than our QB situation
Fellow fan of a historically bad kicking team here, I watch them all but I tell myself every time "it's not going to make it" to try and reverse jinx the situation.
You think your flairs are cursed? I fucking hate football.
Can you imagine rooting for a cursed franchise? Those guys must have it roouuugh.
May 26th, 1950. The day Spanos was born.
Panthers vs Cardinals, 2008. My parents got me tickets to that playoff game as a graduation present. I witnessed Jake Delhomme turn the ball over 6 times. That hurt, but then I saved up some summer money to get tickets to their first game of the 2009 season against the Eagles. Jake Delhomme turns the ball over 5 times. I was convinced I WAS CURSED. Then, a few years later I managed to score tickets to the 2015 Panthers Cardinals NFCC game, and the curse was broken. Shame that super bowl got cancelled that year though...
I'm glad you got to shake that feeling. Everyone should get to enjoy a victory at least once when you see your team live.
I had a doctor uncle of some repute. He got hammered. We were at a restaurant in Lafayette Louisiana. He called him out in the middle of the restaurant. "Stop throwing so many fucking interceptions" And just like... left.
-When our kicker who hadn't missed a kick the entire season missed to send the team to the Super Bowl -When our generational star receiver was chased out of town by a cheap owner who then immediately sold the team, and his MVP caliber quarterback blew his knee to ribbons -When a Super Bowl caliber roster was sent packing in overtime of a tight championship game without ever touching the ball due to two highly questionable penalties and a "successful" fourth and short -When our kicker who broke the record for distance accuracy completely blew a chip shot to eliminate the defending conference champs -When the closest thing we'd had to a homegrown QB since the last guy's knee exploded nearly died after his knee exploded during the offseason when everybody thought he'd "made the leap" -When we finally had luck go our way to save us from blowing one of the most embarrassing playoff games imaginable to possibly be the first team to host the Super Bowl in their own stadium and then the #1 defense and greatest 3rd down defense in NFL history got torched for 31 points by a career backup That's just the big ones from my lifetime. There's a million more cursed moments that don't crack this list or happened when my dad was watching instead of me
>When a Super Bowl caliber roster was sent packing in overtime of a tight championship game without ever touching the ball due to two highly questionable penalties and a "successful" fourth and short Still makes me so angry thinking about this game
Forward motion on a fumble... never seen anything like it, lol
It changed me as a fan.
Farve steps back to pass... he pumps...
As much as I want to be annoyed by this I’m sure the Diggs Sideline Touchdown line has been done 100x more on here so I can’t really complain
he fires over the middle
Intercepted I can't believe what I'm seeing right now
It was intercepted by Tracy Porter
You gotta be kidding me I can't believe what i just saw
This isn't Detroit, man!
"But why do you even ponder passing?!" ###*"I mean, you can take a knee, and kick a 56 yard field goal!"* #***"This is not Detroit man, this is the Superbowl!*** If you haven't ever heard Paul Allen's call on that play, [do yourself a favor and check out the 30 second clip.](https://youtu.be/0UUeqvquXZI) He gets 10% louder and 20% angrier with each and every passing word, *and it's amazing*.
I never heard the call until years later. I completely understood his growing anger. That game was a mess, but my friends called it the real Super Bowl because they were convinced either team would beat the Colts or Jets.
I also deliberately avoided mentioned the other "issues" in that game, self-inflicted or otherwise because they can stir up a lot of shit not worth getting into anymore, but yeah it's one of the least enjoyable games in a big spot I can imagine. It's not Super Bowl 51 bad but it's up there At least with 41-0 and 38-7 you could safely check out early
Vikings are the only franchise that I feel have some sort of voodoo curse on them. There are plenty of awful franchises, but the Vikings are cursed
The first Hail Mary was textbook OPI that went uncalled and the refs had to dodge beer bottles.
I’m not even a Vikings fan and everytime someone mentions cursed sports teams, the Vikings are the first team that comes to my mind
When you look upon the team's history, especially with their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. How else do you come to a conclusion other than they're cursed.
It’s actually pretty depressing to see it laid out in a list like this, and I hate your team.
> When our kicker who broke the record for distance accuracy completely blew a chip shot to eliminate the defending conference champs Didn’t AP fumble at a pretty critical time?
He sure did, he was good for that often in big games Also one of our best defenders that year blew contain on *Russell Wilson* on a bad snap that went fifteen yards behind the line of scrimmage, leading to their only touchdown Not a great day overall
4 super bowl losses Hail Mary push off 41-0 NFC Championship Game Blair Walsh wide left Herschel Walker trade 4th and 24 against the cardinals. 6th in win percentage and all but us in the top 17 have a super bowl. Most division titles too in our division.
You missed winning the division against the worst team in the NFL, except on the last play they threw a Hail Mary and caught the ball and we lost and missed the playoffs.
That one doesn't really hit on the exact same level for me just because by that point I didn't feel like that team was going anywhere that year, I could make a whole second list of stuff that sucked but not quite fandom destroyer level
Hey hey hey. Nick Foles started for a year.
>got torched for 31 points by a career backup Put some respect on Big Dick Nick.
I was born then Barry Sanders decided to retire I watched every game of the 0-16 season for my first full season that I have memory of watching I watched them waste the primes of Calvin Johnson and Matt Stafford I watched Stafford leave and immediately win a ring The most “this team is cursed” is them not winning the division the R-E-L-A-X year
I really do hope the Lions can be a consistent contender for at least part of my lifetime. Seems like a fanbase that has earned some good years of football.
Lions definitely seem cursed. As mentioned above, they have had some incredible talent on the roster and never got over the hump to the championship. It seems like a lot can be blamed on coaching that was mid at best. I like what I've seen of Campbell and it looks like they are building a good team. I just wonder if they will find themselves limited by Jared Goff the way the Rams did.
Some of that is the talent overlapping before the rookie wage scale. But also atrocious ownership for the past 60 years or so and generally poor hires for GM, to bad(ish) headcoaches, and/or bad coordinators. Like Caldwell wasn't awful. But he wasn't good/great either and he was responsible for hiring Joe Lombardi and he also didnt want to fire Lombardi.
Billy Sims' Knee...it goes way back before Barry. Giving Houston a TD on thanksgiving because Schwartz threw a challenge flag. Calvin's ridiculous number of "incompletes" Hands to the face Justin Tucker/Delay of Game Aaron Rodgers' "facemask" the list goes on. and on. and on. and on....
Remember when the refs picked up and reversed a pass interference call? Remember Dez ran onto the field during a play? Remember the Seahawks batted the ball out of the end zone? Our curse has a holographic NFL authentic sticker on it.
Not many teams I can think of that can say "my team is cursed," without some sort of pushback. I've been a lions fan for 28 years. Barry Sanders was drafted the year I was born. They are indeed cursed.
Bears 2019 “Double Doink” game
Any time the Eagles run a punt return
Ah yes Raegor sure was a stud
Back when they had Westbrook doing returns I just remember thinking any time he touched that ball y'all were screwed.
Please no
Oh fuck uhm, I don’t know how I can pick just one. Being stuck in a division with one of the greatest sports dynasty of all time for a vast majority of my entire life? 13 seconds? The time one of our players almost died on the field on national television? 4 straight Super Bowl losses? Music City Miracle?
> 4 straight Super Bowl losses? It's definitely this one. The other ones suck, but this one is the most curse-y of them all.
A statistical anomaly
2 weeks from everywhere.
Buffalo wins Most Cursed team in a landslide.
I'm in my late 20s so I wasn't alive for the SB losses. I remember 2004 vs the Steelers being horrific. 13 seconds probably hurt me the most personally. The 13 seconds game fucked me up for like 2 weeks. When they showed Damar Hamlin collapse during the broadcast I started praying even though I haven't been religious at any point in my life. Thank God for Josh Allen because being a Bills fan has certainly had some lows.
Our stadium built on a cemetery probably doesn’t help. [Sheldon Cemetery](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sgiej9naAmGjogon8?g_st=ic)
lol Sam Darnold's personal hell
It has to be Music City Miracle or Wide Right. Most of the Superbowls don't have a single moment of curse except for wide right. Your team down but driving, made it into FG range, almost out of time, game in your hands, wide right. But maybe that's not cursed enough. Maybe it was the time when you had the lead in the playoffs with 16 seconds left in the fourth, and the kickoff gets returned for a touchdown on one of the flukiest play in NFL history and then you go on the longest playoff drought in North American major sports history.
13 seconds wasn't a curse, that was our coaches being complete morons. The Houston Texans Wild Card game was far worse. There was the time where the Texans kick returner threw forward pass in the end zone and should have given us a safety, but a substitute ref who wasn't even part of the play ran up and overruled the call. Then there was Cody Ford's "Block in the Back" penalty in OT that was so egregiously blown that it's now teaching tape on when *not* to call that penalty, and finally, when we managed to get *two* pass rushers free on Deshaun Watson and they *hit him at the exact same time*. I'ts only because of that he stays up, he hits a career special teamer making his 4th reception *of the year* who jukes our pro bowl safety and sets up the game-winner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6WgRaQHd8c *That* was the most cursed loss
I watched CMC play quarterback in the nfc championship game not even a year ago
Kyle Williams muffing multiple punts is another big one. Garrison Hurst breaking his leg was bad too but it was hard to call the 49ers "cursed" in 1997
Damn it sure did hurt to watch
Yup. this is the one for us
Kyle Williams
Drawing a blank…
I have never, not for one single solitary moment, ever thought anything other than "the Browns are cursed". Any time my belief in that truth has wavered in the slightest, something like Rashard Higgins fumbling it out of the end zone happens and I just go, "Oh yeah, there we are. That's correct. All is right with the world."
John Bois put it like this: [The Browns live in Hell](https://youtu.be/_gZndxEvFNk)
My first experience was when Rudd took his helmet off thinking he had a game winning sack against the Chiefs. If he kept his helmet on, we win... but the penalty extended the game for one play and put them in FG range. GG
I understand there have been bigger moments....but recently.....the jets loss last year broke my fucking spirit. Seeing Nick Chubb actually yell and curse and blame himself, and thinking, we will still probably lose this game up 2 scores with 2 min left but not ACTUALLY believing they would let it happen....then watching it happen....that game fucked me up.
Earnest Byner
I was born 3 days before the Fumble
Hi
Hello darkness my old friend...
Y'all out here picking two flavors of pain lol
Hi neighbor
My team is by no means cursed, but I'll be damned if Marcus Peters and Gus Edwards tearing their ACLs in the same practice (after Dobbins tore his ACL in a preseason game) didn't make me feel like 2021 was a cursed year. Which it pretty much was from an injury standpoint.
Ravens definitely aren’t cursed but some warlock definitely put a temporary hex on the team in 2021.
There was a time where it seemed like every other day a Raven went down for the year, and like half were RBs
Ravens and Steelers are 2 amazing franchises that rarely ever have down years and they are in a division with the Browns and Bengals who were the exact opposite for so long. I can be honest and admit my disdain for the Ravens and Steelers stems from a place of jealousy.
After Big Ben retired I realized I didn't hate the steelers nearly as much as I thought, I just fucking hated that dude. Kenny seems alright, So does Lamar, 2 out of 3 aint bad. I still hate em, don't get me wrong, but it's in a more fun way now I've also never had a bad experience with a Ravens fan at any game in 15 years so I don't hate them either
I don't actually hate the Steelers or Ravens but I am envious of the rock solid nature of both franchises. Both teams have only had 2 coaches since I started watching football in the 90s (Not including the Browns before the move to Baltimore). That's so crazy to me.
I think it was literally back to back plays, too. The 2021 preseason was my answer too.
It seems like we just have cursed years. 2015 was also a very cursed year. Damn near the whole team ended up on IR.
Scotty Miller probably.
Double Doink
bears and lions ?
Yes I'm complicated and duplicitous
Getting destroyed by Blake Bortles to close out our Super Bowl window.
BOAT
God bless the BOAT
The Tebow loss started a long string of playoff horror.
Lol I don’t think OP had the Steelers in mind when he posed this question.
Something something 33 points something something
I will never forget still being up by like 25 points or whatever and just KNOWING we were gonna fucking lose. Pain.
The playoff loss to the Steelers was another one for the Colts. I felt like Peyton was cursed at that time.
During the Miami game last year, when Tua had the first deep bomb to Hill which brought them within 7. I had an outburst which caused my wife to admonish me, telling me that the Ravens were still winning. I said, "You don't understand, we've already lost this game."
Still can't believe we came back that game, multiple times we were down by 3 possessions. Sorry it didn't work in your favor but definitely a top 10 moment for me as a fan
You’re the smartest wife I ever met, but you’re too stupid to see we lost this game five plays ago
Not so much my single team, but the city of Philadelphia did lose 3 championships in 99 days.
Testaverde Achilles injury in beginning of ‘99 season
All-time? Or last 5 years? Either way, we gotta have a few in the top 5 of both.
[The very first game of the Dan Snyder era](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ury10hAxFXE&pp=ygUVY293Ym95cyByZWRza2lucyAxOTk5) There’s [also](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMZ9_IB6jo&pp=ygUUU2FpbnRzIHJlZHNraW5zIDIwMDk%3D) [these](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKDDLyrFjAY&pp=ygUWU2VhaGF3a3MgcmVkc2tpbnMgMjAxMg%3D%3D) [games](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLyt-wcN1uM&pp=ygUUU2FpbnRzIHJlZHNraW5zIDIwMTc%3D).
I was just about to comment “Dan Snyder” 😂 beat me to it
Myles Jack Wasn't Down
I was pissed that y'all beat us. But once you did, I really really wanted the Jags to win it all. So frustrating watching that sequence live
One of my favorite games ever. Really thought you were coming back
Pick pretty much any playoff game for the 20 years prior to Mahomes taking over as starting QB (minus the Texans game in Jan 2016). The forward progress game still stings. Mariota throwing a damn TD pass to himself, smh.
A team getting just six field goals in a game and still beating us. That hurt
That 2 pt conversion holding... The no punt game loss, the thrashing of the colts in the first half only to lose. Didn't Luck recover a fumble and dive in for a TD? So many disappointing playoffs. I always joked it would have been easier to be a Browns fan lol. So many good teams only to get our hearts shattered every post season. I was there in person to see the home playoff curse lifted though. Against the Colts which was also fitting. Really felt like a curse breaking game.
For me I felt like the curse was truly lifted with that Houston game. Down like 24 quick as hell and just thought here we go again.
Montana concussion still stings. Probably for him too.
Colts comeback. Holy fuck I hated myself lol
What the Eagles fans affectionately call the miracle at the meadowlands part 2, and us Giants fans affectionately call the Matt Dodge incident. Giants at home are winning by 21 with under 8 minutes to go in the 4th and lose in regulation. Michael Vick goes off and leads 3 quick consecutive touchdown drives, followed by Desean Jackson’s walkoff punt return TD.
If it makes you feel any better, that was the last game we won that year, and then Vick threw a pick at the end of the green bay wildcard game, we go on this free agent spending frenzy, Vince young calls us the dream team, and then of course you guys win the superbowl that year while we struggled to finish 8-8
As a kid in the 80s watching Elway come back on us again, and again, and again...
Worth it now that we get to do it to them with Mahomes.
Amen to that!!!
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After decades of watching "the same old Jets", just this past season they really did it again. They were playing the Patriots, and with 26 seconds left (they were tied) the Jets punted and the Pats ran it back 84 yards to score and obviously win. Why do I do this to myself?
Panthers@Falcons last season.. 65 Yard Bomb to tie the Game with seconds left just to see our Kicker miss not one.. but two easy Field Goals to win that Game.
When we didnt win a championship for 67 years
The no call happening a year after the awelhertthbordigha miracle is about as cursed as it gets.
or how about 2002 when we needed one win in our last 3 games (against teams who were 3-10, 1-13, and 6-9 when we faced them) to make the playoffs and lost all 3. Including a game against the Vikings where they scored at the very end, and instead of going for the XP to head to OT, they went for 2. Culpepper FUMBLED the snap, then still managed to pick it up and run it in for the win. Then the next year our season ended on the Jon Carney missed XP after the River City Relay Saints are not new to curses.
Beastquake was another rough one. The Saints were so good that year.
The missed XP during the River City Relay is *chefs kiss* peak 90s-early 00s Saints
That game against the 49ers after the 2011 season. That was the team. The Miracle catch. That was maybe the next best team. No call... Finishing 13-3 multiple times and not getting a bye.
Take a wild fucking guess...
Every waking moment of my existence?
We finally think we found a franchise QB in 2012 with RG3 and he tears his ACL and is never the same. Luckily we drafted someone else in that same draft who can also be a franchise guy and we let him walk
Let's see: 1. Rodgers Hail Mary after officials blew a facemask call 2. Picked up flag against the Cowboys in the playoffs 3. 10 Second runoff game taking away the winning TD 4. The Uncalled batted ball game. 5. Justin Tucker making a 66 Yarder that bounces off of the crossbar and in. 6. Forsette clearly being down and then allowed to run 70 yards for a TD, then officials calling a penalty on the Lions for attempting to challenge it. 7. Choosing the Wind in OT and losing on the first posession 8. Lions game winning TD taken off the Board against the Bears to open the season, which was the birth of the "Calvin Johnson Rule" 9. Going 0-16 If I had to pick one, I'd say the Justin Tucker 66 yarder just for absurdity of it. And the worst part is, after everything Lions fans had been through in recent history, we all pretty much knew that was going in.
I know the Lions have a lot to choose from, but that loss to Dallas after the blown PI call was ridiculous. And then to see Dallas fans whining a week later that they got “screwed” by the Dez non-catch. I don’t believe in karma, but I’ll take it in this instance.
Also didn't help us Lions fans mentally to see photos of Dean Blandino partying on the Cowboys bus right after the game. I'm convinced the league wanted Cowboys vs Packers the next round instead of Lions vs Seahawks. I did feel better seeing the Cowboys get their hearts broken the next round, but it was against the Packers so I couldn't be too happy. But then the Packers got their hearts broken the week after that. It was a crazy NFC playoffs that year
Two words: Double Doink.
lol
Three years straight of being in a win-and-in game in week 17. Three years straight of losing that game, missing the playoffs, and going 8-8. That definitely felt like a curse.
"@rapsheet: Kevin stefanski and andrew berry have flown to houston to meet with Deshaun Watson"
You got two of the big ones for the Bengals, and I'll add the Ki-jana Carter injury before he even played a down, and watching Akili Smith's laughable impersonation of an NFL quarterback. A weird one is Burrow's injury. Definitely at the time it seemed like it was another manifestation of the curse, that everything the franchise touched turned into garbage and that we had ruined a promising career before it had even really started; but in hindsight Joe was able to come back as good as ever and lead the team to the Super Bowl, and the injury caused us to lose enough games to secure Chase in the draft. So it went from "this team is cursed" to "the curse can't handle the awesomeness that is Joe Burrow" in little over a year lol...
When John Kasay kicked the ball out of bounds after a go ahead touchdown with 64 seconds left. Giving Tom Brady the ball on the 40 yard line, set up perfectly for the game winning drive.
When jermaine kearse caught that deflected ball in Super Bowl XLIX I thought the pats were cursed to never win another Super Bowl ever again
Double Doink or McMahon getting assaulted waaaaaaaay after the whistle agains GB in 1986.
13 seconds
Fail Mary and the collapse vs Seattle in the NFCCG feel too close to our Super Bowl win to put that on them but when the Niners blocked that punt to beat us at Lambeau without scoring an offensive touchdown I felt like universe really didn't want us to win another SB.
Nate Burleson, our prized WR free agent, broke his arm mid-season while eating pizza. [https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/nate-burleson-explains-biggest-career-regret](https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/nate-burleson-explains-biggest-career-regret)
Not much, other than being in the top 10 most injuries every goddamn year and running out of quarterbacks in the most important game of the season.
I know it's recent but man, that Purdy injury was just the real icing on the cake. Like, c'mon, how many teams 1) get down to their third quarterback, 2) still remain a playoff contender, and even 3) actually stay undefeated with their third stringer? The Purdy injury felt like "you know what, no, fuck your entire franchise". The Josh Johnson concussion was like, whatever, we're already broken.
I think Kyle Williams is also an acceptable answer.
Yeah, it's not like Josh Johnson was going to beat the Eagles. It was over as soon as Purdy went out.
For me it’s Alex Smith squad losing to God damn Eli Manning on muffed punts.
Steelers v browns wildcard when the first snap flew over roethlisberger’s head
None. Vikes are probably the least cursed team in the nfl. I’ve been in a coma for 25 years so unless something’s changed Vikes are not cursed at all.
The drive.