Have you ever cried after a loss?

#76
#76
I have never cried but I was really heart broken over the 2007 SEC Championship game. Our team played their hearts out against a much more talented LSU team and we were one interception away from winning that game! I felt really bad for our players because I knew they came to play that day and they had the rug pulled out from under them.

2001 SEC Championship game against LSU was different. We were the more talented team. We came in overconfident and we just got out played and out coached in the second half! I was pissed after that game.
 
#78
#78
I took some losses hard as a kid. The one I remember most was "The Catch" that should've been "The Drop" from Jabar Gaffney against Florida. I was so angry and I was throwing things but I may have had tears of anger...but that was as a kid.

Now I just get mad and throw things or sit and stare at the wall or ceiling for about an hour without moving (when Mount Cody blocked our game winning field goal attempt).
 
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Persian Vol said:
In my childhood days as a fan, but never as an adult.
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I recall as a child crying after the Miami Dolphins lost to the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs in 1974, IIRC (the game where Stabler threw that miracle pass for a TD). Never have cried for the Vols. Guess I'm just not committed enough to the cause.
 
#81
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No, not even when I was a kid. I just got more pissed when I was 9-19 and knocked the crap out of stuff. Less from 20-30 destroying stuff. After 30 I have had one incident...LSU game 2010. You cannot cry.
 
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OrangeSummit said:
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.
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Now this raises an interesting question. I was guilty of shedding some tears of joy right there on the carpet of Neyland stadium on the 3d Saturday in October, 1982. First win in 11 tries over Bama. Everyone was chanting "We Beat Bama".
 
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DERELICK_MY_VOLS said:
Never cried after a loss either. Growing up in Neyland Stadium year after year then through college....never. Moved to California and would watch games on t.v......BOOM! Choked up every time the Vols run through the T. Back in Knoxville now...still happens to this day. I compare it to seeing a loved one for the first time in several years...except it is every weekend during football season!
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Might want to change the thing that says CA is where my body is or something.
 
#86
#86
2009 Bama game and LSU game...

After LSU I was just drained and just locked myself in my room. Lost my voice that day.
 
#88
#88
Never cried but destroyed a wedding gift from my best friend after a loss to Bama. Fortunately, he understood. My wife didn't.
 
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I've never cried but as a teenager I came close a few times. Lets see, the first was 2006? Against Georgia. We were down 24-7 early and I had never turned a game off before it was over. I turned the game off, and just sat in silence for probably twenty minutes till I calmed down. I turned the game back on and we were down 24-14 at half. We ended winning 51-33, now one of my favorite games as a kid because I thought it was over. That fourth quarter was something special.

Then the Lincoln game against Bama. Man... I was pacing my living room, I was 18. All I could think about was how bad Daniel Lincoln was and that a forty yarder was probably 50/50. They called timeout and I got a lot more positive for some reason, telling myself he was going to make the kick. I was already planning out how I would celebrate. When Cody blocked it, all I could do was drop to my knees and lay face flat on the floor for a good while.

Then the LSU game ... Lets not get into that one. Lets just say I broke things.
 
#90
#90
I haven't cried but after the bball loss to MSU in the Elite 8 2010 in, I was rather emotional. I just really loved that group hated it for them to come that close and fall short in that way. I especially hated it for guys like Chism and Prince. I felt the same in 07 after the OSU loss in the Sweet 16 and the football loss to LSU in 2010.

Also, I am not sure it is more "manly" to lose one's temper and throw stuff than it is to cry, after a loss. In both situations, it is lost perspective is it not?
 
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Jake Tate said:
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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That Gaffney game was the one where I realized that it was just a game. I was just out of college and almost swung at my Dad, who is the epitome of an obnoxious Gator fan (he's the guy who always loved Spurrier because he ticked off the TN fans).

Realized that I loved my father a whole lot more than football, and that there were more important things in life. Redecorated the room, took down framed autograph pictures and just lived through my own success and failures, not those of a game (though I'm not critical of those who do).

The last 3 years were spent in more of a state of bewildered amusement and shaking of the head with annoyed chuckles.
 
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I've never cried over a loss but have had a few tears of happiness flow after a big win!

When we lose & I'm all mad about it I try to remember what my dad has told me many times after a loss. "there's a lot of things that could have happened today that are a lot worse than losing a football game." That helps me put it in perspective.
 
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#96
#96
Never cried over a UT loss, but I can't stand to watch or read any sports related info for fear of having to be reminded of the loss. It really feels like "us" against the world after a loss.
 
#98
#98
Life's too short to cry over.....a game. Mad, yes...and sure don't wanna hear $h!+ from another team's fan(s). I'll agree with other posters that if you were the one playing in an important game and lost then sure..you've got a right to shed a tear or two.
 
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perico said:
That Gaffney game was the one where I realized that it was just a game. I was just out of college and almost swung at my Dad, who is the epitome of an obnoxious Gator fan (he's the guy who always loved Spurrier because he ticked off the TN fans).

Realized that I loved my father a whole lot more than football, and that there were more important things in life. Redecorated the room, took down framed autograph pictures and just lived through my own success and failures, not those of a game (though I'm not critical of those who do).

The last 3 years were spent in more of a state of bewildered amusement and shaking of the head with annoyed chuckles.
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Not a VFL imo
 
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