Rank Your Top 5 Most Heartbreaking Kentucky FB Loses

by Thomas Hunt Morgan on Nov 8, 2008 9:33 PM EST Comment 7 comments

I was walking out of the Commonwealth Stadium after the UGA game and several people were stating that while the loss stung, it wasn't nearly as disappointing as past loses. As a young but still long suffering UK FB fan, and fueled by my sullen post game attitude, I began to compile a list of most heartbreaking loses. This is my catharsis (and hopefully it can be yours too).

1, Peach Bowl Clemson 14 UK 13 12/31/93: The Mary Moore Fumble

2. LSU 33 UK 30 11/07/02: The Bluegrass Miricale

3. Florida 24 UK 20 09/11/93: Wurfell to Doering

4. Tennessee 52 UK 50 (4OT) 11/24/07: the streak continues

5. Governors Cup U of L 40 UK 34 (OT): Game delayed by lightning

Honorable Mention: Arkansas 71 UK 63 (7OT) 11//1/03; Any UT-UK game of the past;

Here's to "new" Kentucky

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That's a pretty good list

But the only changes I’d make to mine would be to remove the Peach Bowl because unfortunately I was not able to see that one. Loss stings, but when you don’t see it happen its not quite as bad.

And my #1 is the Wuerfel Florida game. It was horrifying to me as a young child to be standing and clutching at the chain link fence at the rear of the endzone and see that catch right in front of me and my younger brother. It was mildly traumatizing to go from elation to desperation in a couple of seconds.

And I second the arrival of the “New” UK football.

by lacrosse_cat on Nov 9, 2008 2:48 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Peach Bowl

I just left a meeting where I was reminded about the saying the art is found in the spaces in between. Jazz is in the notes and beats you DON’T hear.

I have always felt that that year, game and down to that fumble filled up all of those artful spaces.

I do not normally feel a program building project, like UK seems to always be, hangs by the fate of any one singular moment. However, this is one of those that may deserve more than its natural share of “what if” talk.

I really think that game on that stage at that time in Curry’s administration could have kicked us in another direction than it did.

What if…….

Changing how you think will change what you think.

by wilson452 on Nov 10, 2008 12:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You are lieing to yourself

The Curry era was doomed to failure from the start.

The man stuck Tim Couch in an option set against Florida in The Swamp for his very first ever college start…

Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."

by chirop1 on Nov 10, 2008 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

AND

it killed his redshirt he was on that season. No wonder the dude is doing color on the BBN delay telecasts of UK games. He went from that fire bath to a gimmick dink and dunk offense where making REAL reads of the D was not really needed because no matter the set he was jacking the long ball or dumping a screen.

I am not saying it WOULD have changed things. I am only saying it COULD have. And it really could have but we will never know. I do recall some nice recruiting “talk” until then and they all ran from UK like crazy after that loss.

Changing how you think will change what you think.

by wilson452 on Nov 11, 2008 10:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The Bluegrass Miracle.

I was listening to that game on the radio, and just after I went through the car was and UK was celebrating, lightning struck.

I went from a kind of elation to a, “Well, that’s Kentucky football. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory was not invented at UK, but we perfected it here.”

A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan

by Truzenzuzex on Nov 9, 2008 6:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

1987 (?) UK vs. ut (Intentionally uncapitalized)

Believe it was 1987, UK had 1st down and goal from the one with about a minute to go in the fourth. Future NFL RB Mark Higgs went over future NFL Pro-Bowl center Dermontti Dawson four times in a row and failed to score. Frustrating.

by cpacat on Nov 11, 2008 7:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

11/1/1980

Tulane 24, UK 22. Tulane went the length of the field to kick the winning field goal on two questionable pass interferance penalaties. The receiver and defender went up together. On the second one Tulane was still so far back they couldn’t get the hail mary to the end zone but they got it to field goal range. The clock had already run out but the the game couldn’t end on a defensive penality. The game was in NO and I think it was played in the SuperDome.

by Slim Wagers on Nov 11, 2008 9:09 AM EST reply actions 0 recs