Sorry for revelling in pain but us Houston fans have learned to become masochists. After the thread on the most humiliating moment in Houston football. I though it might be interesting, in a giving your self paper cuts kind of way, to see what Clutchfans thought was the worst moment in Houston Sports history. I'm listing my worst in the poll but feel free to add others that I might've overlooked or have suppressed.
IMO, it's the illegal pick and the Stockton shot that knocked us out of the 1997 playoffs. We were destined to play and BEAT the Bulls that year. Makes me sad to think about it to this day, almost 10 years later. We were robbed.
That's a pretty good collection, but the loss to the Phillies in game 5 of the 1980 National League championship series was worse than a few of those. To be up 5-2 in the 8th at home with Ryan on the mound, the first WS in Houston history was within site. Then Phillie scored 5 in the 8th, but Houston fought back to tie and send the game to extra innings and the Phillies won in the 10th. To me, this was much worse than the Mets loss in 1986. Everyone assumed Scott would win game 7, but in 1980, it was much closer.
I agree and that's what I voted for. That hurts me to this very day and is the prime reason why Guy Lewis is stigmatized and not in the basketball HOF. Even though he's long dead from cancer, I still cannot look at film of Valvano running around on the court after that game.
I was thinking about including both the 1997 Stockton shot and the 1986 16 inning loss to the Mets but even if the Rox and Stros' respectively had won those game 6's we still would've had to play game 7's so no guarentee we would've have advanced. Good call though Bobrek on the game 5 loss to the Phillies. That one seems to have been largely forgotten and I would lump that with the game 2 loss against the Braves in 1999. It just broke our spirit. One other baseball loss I forgot to include was the 2004 game 7 loss to the Cards in the NLCS. Dam you Scott Rolen!
I'm going with Phi Slamma Jamma by a slim margin over 35-3. Reason being because it was so SUDDEN. With 35-3, it was like Chinese water torture because you could just see it coming starting with the Bills 1st TD in the 3rd quarter. If you were an Oiler fan, you just KNEW what was going to happen. And it was just a matter of time before it did. With Phi Slamma Jamma, it all happened in less than 3 seconds.
That's a pretty good point. When the Bills scored their 1st TD, my father walked out of the room saying, "Eh...we're gonna blow it."
Don't forget that the game 5 loss was in a best of 5 series for the NL pennant. So while the game 2 loss to the Braves may have broken their/our spirit, the game 5 loss to the Phillies directly prevented the Astros from going to the World Series.
NC State. The Buffalo game took me a season or 2 to get over it. The NC State game still gets me. That was a game that was supposed to be the most one sided match-up in a Championship game - and we lost - by a dunk. I still have ill feelings toward Guy for that game - serinity now...serinity now.
uhhhh...i was sitting in the Astros Suite which is right on the left field line basically by glass walls of the roof....i saw that ball just rocket launch off his bat...it was the sickest feeling on earth.
Not hiring back Calvin Murphy. That brought a super hex on the Rockets. like Juwan Howard, Tmac's back, Yao's foot, Clyde Drexler, Derek Andersen, Stromile Swift, Bob Sura on the IR for 100 years.
It wasn't really a moment and it shouldn't win, but the loss to San Diego in the NLDS in 1998 deserves a mention. It really felt like the Astros' year. Hampton, Reynolds, Randy Johnson, and Billy Wagner were awesome. Biggio had arguably the best year of his career. The original Killer B's were still together. But they ran into Kevin Frickin Brown. All those high hopes died on a 2-1 pitchers' duel.
Where's the lost to Karl Malone and Stockton? We could have played the Bulls in the Finals and finally see that Hakeem vs Jordan matchup that would shake the universe!
Not so much for me b/c the Astros still made it the World Series in the next game. I would have to go with NC State / Buffaloe even. What heartbreakers. Right there I learned that sports can be so mean.
