Have you ever cried after a loss?

#27
#27
The losses over the last two years honestly have been the easiest for me to handle. And that makes me want to cry right now. I wanna be good again. I want to watch the Vols and expect to win or have a chance in every game. I think Butch is gonna get us back to that.
 
#28
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I haven't but for those of you that have, which tampon brand did you use to wipe those tears away?
 
#31
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Only once that I remember - the 1968 Orange Bowl when Karl Kremser missed the field goal that would have beaten OKlahoma. I was 11 years old. Then I just would get mad, but losing has become so commonplace the last few years I hardly get mad anymore. I hope that changes......
 
#35
#35
No crying here for me. I just get mad & disappointed at times where I go outside in the backyard to cuss & fuss & kick the ground. I know my neighbors think I'm crazy if they see me acting that way.
 
#36
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When I was a kid.... 2005 was a rough year. (I was 9) I still get very pissed, but it been quite a few years since I cried over a loss.
 
#37
#37
If by cry, you mean my eyes getting watery with fury as I destroy my home or my favorite coffee table than no...

Closest I've come...
2000 Florida game, I think it was, when Palmer threw an incompletion to Gafney (I refuse to call that a catch as long as I live) that was ruled a TD. I destroyed quite a bit of stuff including large parts of my liver. Went outside pulled a bush out of the ground, and acted insane for a bit.

Rage, pure, unadulterated rage.


I have cried after losing a game that I played in. and I cried, by myself at home later, when I coached a little league baseball team and they lost a game to a team that we really needed to beat. I felt like I had let those kids down.

but not like that guy did on the radio. Just a few tears.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
The "Jabar Gaffney no catch" ...google it kids. I was there and it was the first game I ever got to go to with my dad. Loudest I've ever heard Neyland. I had to fight back tears leaving... I was in my early 20s. Never shed one but that was the most painful loss I've ever felt from my Vols. Worst freakin call ever. Still pisses me off to this day. Smh
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Ernest Graham's TD shouldn't have counted either. His knee was clearly down at the 2. Absolutely the most painful UT loss I can remember.:furious3:
 
#39
#39
People who cry over football losses are usually the same type of people who poison their chief rival's trees on their campus imo.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
The "Jabar Gaffney no catch" ...google it kids. I was there and it was the first game I ever got to go to with my dad. Loudest I've ever heard Neyland. I had to fight back tears leaving... I was in my early 20s. Never shed one but that was the most painful loss I've ever felt from my Vols. Worst freakin call ever. Still pisses me off to this day. Smh
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This. I'm getting angry just thinking about it. I have watched that replay several different times, and still to this day have yet to find anyone who would call that a catch.

Than we got replays. Why does UT have to get screwed before they fix the problem?
 
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#41
#41
No, but after the Gator game I usually won't have anything to do with any kind, type, or mode of sports for about 2 full weeks. After that loss I'm emotionally and psychologically drained and find any type of sports or the mention of it repulsive.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
NO! I actually understand there's life beyond football.
Didn't cry when a beloved girlfriend broke up with me either.
Just helped her pack, hugged her, and waved good-bye as she drove off.
Directed her to a hotel when she showed up a year later saying she needed a
place to stay and think she'd made a mistake in leaving me. All games are games
to me. You enjoy them while they last, if disappointed, life goes on so keep going.
Cry over a football game? Geez, what a pushy.
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Apparently the girlfriend wasn't THAT beloved. I can admit to crying when the one I thought was THE one left me. Even tough guys are guilty of that. But football? I agree. Pushies.
 
#43
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I remember when I was 15 and we lost to Memphis in 97. My mom and dad were out in a date and I was suppose to have the dishes washed by the time they got back. I didn't think it was even possible to lose to them until the clock ran out. Anyway I remember tears coming up and I threw a glass in the sink. The glass broke and cut my finger pretty good. I still have a scar to this day on my pinky. Everytime I see it, I think of that game. It cost us a chance at playing in the NC and as opposed to now, I wasn't used to UT losing lol.
 
#44
#44
1980 USC game...Didn't cry but threw a fit that was you tube worthy lol....Damn I wanted to beat them so bad.
 
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volsincebirth said:
I remember when I was 15 and we lost to Memphis in 97. My mom and dad were out in a date and I was suppose to have the dishes washed by the time they got back. I didn't think it was even possible to lose to them until the clock ran out. Anyway I remember tears coming up and I threw a glass in the sink. The glass broke and cut my finger pretty good. I still have a scar to this day on my pinky. Everytime I see it, I think of that game. It cost us a chance at playing in the NC and as opposed to now, I wasn't used to UT losing lol.
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Haven't seen any part of that game since...cant do it.

BTW...that was 96.
 
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calban said:
Almost. Dooley's 13 player loss to LSU.
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That's the closest I've ever come too. I didn't actually cry, but I did just sit in the kitchen staring at the wall in silence for like 25 minutes straight. My mom was cooking something and trying to talk to me and I wouldn't respond. Eventually she just walked away and let me be.

Lots of games have made me mad in the past. I mean, even some wins have made me mad. But that was one of the only games that made me that sad.

Oh and 2009 Alabama. :sad:
 
#48
#48
the closest i ever came was, when we beat Florida 20-17. i welled up but never did but those were tears of joy. never over a loss.
 
#49
#49
I use scream therapy, adopted after the 2010 LSU loss. After the 2011 UK loss, I discovered that there really aren't enough swear words, even when you string them all together in new and unexpected ways.
 
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