Opposing Players Who Broke Your Heart
Whose head would you like to grab and shake, like Michael Corleone did to his brother Fredo in The Godfather, Part II, for either a game and/or a career that inflicted emotional distress on you as a Michigan fan?
Several that come to mind for me: Troy Smith, Reggie Ho, Dusty Mangum, Plaxico Burress.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:32 PM ^
celebrating in Boulder (including me, then-wife and my new baby girl) was awesome to witness. Never seen a city explode like that (without overturned cars and dumpsters/sofas on fire). I had split loyalties that day, so i guess you can label me a heretic/blasphemere/dirty rotten scoundrel
August 12th, 2010 at 9:47 PM ^
Damn Gopher!
August 12th, 2010 at 9:59 PM ^
Kittner's Big House comeback in 1999 caused me to put a fist through my closet.
Vince Young as well.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:25 PM ^
on Kittner. That brings to mind another Illinois QB that belongs on the list who led a huge, shocking comeback against us. I believe it was 1993 and his name was Johnny Johnson. Can anyone confirm?
August 12th, 2010 at 11:16 PM ^
Yeah, I think he had a long TD run late in the game to beat us.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:17 PM ^
Donovan McNabb in that first game of the '97 season...
August 12th, 2010 at 10:19 PM ^
Also Evan Turner with that 37-footer at the buzzer to beat us in the B10 basketball quarterfinals... I was just stunned, grasping for air...
August 12th, 2010 at 11:16 PM ^
Despite all the various heartbreaks of recent seasons, Turner's shot gave me a gut punch the likes of which I'd not felt in a long time. I walked around on the verge of tears for the rest of the day.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:33 PM ^
I remember the 1997 season going pretty well. The second game of 1998 against Syracuse was pretty rough.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:53 PM ^
Ha, right, thanks, yes the '98 season...
August 12th, 2010 at 10:40 PM ^
We were pretty undefeated in '97.
Edit: Beat me to it ZL.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:21 PM ^
I always thought that RR should have tried to lure Armanti Edwards away from Appalachian State for his last two years of football. There was probably no QB in the country more qualified to run his system. People thought that Edwards was too small but he was a 3rd round draft pick in the NFL. Apparently somebody saw something in him.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:30 PM ^
1a. Vince Young - only game (not counting last 2 years) where I felt there was nothing the team was going to ever be able to do anything to stop the other team.
1b. Troy Smith - Mostly because he was a Buckeye. I think the 2005 game was the one that hurt the most because I felt like we should have won that game. Played terrible in 2004 and in 2006, our D just couldn't stop them.
3. Armanti Edwards - The Horror. Enough said.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:43 PM ^
goes back aways, but to me still one of the most disappointing Michigan losses ever. 30-14 lead damnit
http://www.youtube.com/user/alexhurricanes#p/a/f/1/gSILtW8qRmQ
also Demetrius Brown's awesome performance for the Spartans in 1987.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:43 PM ^
Cornelius Greene.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:07 PM ^
Ugh—I was at that 1975 game when Greene brought the Bucks from behind with under 3 minutes to go for the win.
What people have probably forgotten is that Michigan was playing with a pure freshman QB that day. While he did some good things, he fumbled once, made a bad pitch on another play that directly led to a fumble, and threw at least three INTs himself, including two in the final couple of minutes to allow OSU to score the winning TD and then to ice the game. He seemed to recover OK and went on to beat OSU three straight years.
RIcky Leach.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
Bob Crable blocking that field goal for ND. And then a few years later we dominate the Irish in every department except tackling the Rocket on those kicks. I can still feel the pain after all these years.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:55 PM ^
armanti edwards, terrelle pryor
August 12th, 2010 at 10:58 PM ^
I think it was '93, we were favored and he kicked our ass.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^
Former OSU QB Kirk Herbstreit. He took me out to a nice seafood dinner and never called me again.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:14 PM ^
it would be Justin zwick. If he hadn't been a complete bust, we would never have had to deal with Troy Smith.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^
Ohio State running backs named Wells
August 13th, 2010 at 12:09 AM ^
Troy Smith, Armanti Edwards, Dexter Jackson, Dennis Dixon, Anthony Gonzalez (that catch in 2005), Gary Russell (Minn 2005), Evan Turner (basketball 2010). Vince Young too, but he was just incredible.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:21 AM ^
My step-dad knew Reggie Ho, and i believe Reggie Ho is a cardiologist now. Random, I'm done.
But, I hated Reggie Miller for a long time (Knicks) and I especially hated Chipper Jones (Although I have great respect for him on the field.)
August 13th, 2010 at 12:33 AM ^
Ironic.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^
Well played, good sir. Well played.
August 13th, 2010 at 9:52 AM ^
I still remember him tearing us up in East Lansing in '99. Cato June lived in my hall in West Quad that year and I just remember seeing his face after he got back from that game.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:25 AM ^
First game I clearly remember having my heart broken was listening to Bob Ufer call the Harry Oliver FG (Ufer (paraphrasing): "And the wind just died! The wind just stopped blowing!"). Believe it was '79, but could have been '80.
Then I had the privilege of being a student from '87-'90. Every year they had a player who went nuts. Those games will forever be known to me, in order, as the Tim Brown game, the Reggie Ho game, the Rocket Ismail game, and the Rick Mirer game.
The other times I remember walking out of the Stadium in stunned silence have already been mentioned -- Ricky Foggie, Carlos Huerta, Gary Russell, Troy Smith/Anthony Gonzalez. I wasn't at The Horror or the Colorado game, and the Oregon game wasn't heartbreaking so much as a three-hour dong punch.
August 13th, 2010 at 2:32 PM ^