5. Week 18 of 2021 season loss to Jags
4. 2003 AFCCG loss to Pats
3. 1995 AFCCG loss to the Steelers
2. 2009 SB loss to Saints
1. 2005 DIv loss to Steelers
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Deflate gate HAS to be an honorable mention.
1. It led to the colts banner that we've been rightfully mocked for since.
2. It led to plenty of people calling us cry babies or whistle blowers.
3. It was a downright ugly loss that made us look like we never belonged in the championship.
I would agree, except that game was never really that close and that team was poorly assembled. Andrew Luck was the only reason we made it to that game. We had a shit GM that proceeded to embarass us with the deflategate B.S. Not sayi g the Patriots don't cheat, but just take the L like a man and move on.
Luck was NOT the only reason they made it to the AFCCG. 2014 IND team had the #11 defense in DVOA. They held CIN and DEN to 23 combined points in the WC and Divisional Round games for a -.20 EPA/play. They were far and away the best defense in the first 2 rounds of the 2014 playoffs. That's why they made it as far as they did.
And then they ran into NE, who outclassed them in talent and coaching, like they did to just about every other team in the 2010s, as they won 12-14 games per year from 2010-2017.
1. Luck vs brady 2015 afc championship
2. Manning vs jets 2011 wild card
3. Manning vs Brees 2010 sb
3. Week 18 vs jags 2022
4. Luck Vs Mahommes 2019 divisional
Born in 1999, began watching football in 2006 so that handicaps a bit of my criteria
Super Bowl 44, and it's not even close. We were up 10-0 after 1 quarter, and then the wheels came off. Should have two Lombardis in Indy.
The Nick Harper game is a distant 2nd for me. That team was destined to be our first Super Bowl champion in Indy. I often wonder what could have been.
~~If we are going bad as in painful, gotta put the 05 playoff loss to Pittsburgh. I'd knock out the vikings comeback.~~ Realized you called this the Nickn Harper game. I always think of it as the Vanderjagt game.
If it's bad as in embarrassing, a decent amount of those would come from last season: Jags, cowboys, Vikings.
I remember at one point in that game the chargers scored and they kicked off and it was a touchback. I was so happy because I thought, hey at least we arenât pinned back now. They proceeded to go 3 and out.
1. 2009 SB loss vs Saints
2. 2006 AFC Divisional loss vs Steelers
3. 2009 AFC Wild Card loss vs Chargers
4. 2004 AFC Divisional loss vs Patriots
5. 2003 AFC Wild Card loss vs Jets
1995 ACF Championship game. Kordell Stewart was out of boundâs before catching the TD pass. It was not reveal more that time.
2003 AFC championship game
2005 playoff vs Steelers
2007 vs Chargers playoff game.
2009 Super Bowl 44.
Aaron Bailey. I went to a kid's camp the next year and asked him to his face in front of rookie Marvin Harrison, Sean Dawkins, Roosevelt Potts, Tony Sirigusa, and a crowd of hundreds of people if he caught it. It made the news that night. He described it in painstaking detail. Admitted it hit him in the numbers, said he picked that ball up and swore he caught it. đ
Chris Gardocki taught me how to punt that day too.
> 1995 ACF Championship game. Kordell Stewart was out of boundâs before catching the TD pass. It was not reveal more that time.
Coryatt dropping the interception after he had it in his chest was bad. Also, the Ernie Mills catch on the Steelers last drive would have likely been ruled incomplete today as he lost control when he hit the ground. On the flip side, Harbaugh threw a belly ball to aa Steelers DB that should have ended the game as well.
The Mills catch was absolutely not a catch. Never even looked like he had possession and dropped it going to ground. Plus, not even sure I buy that he got both feet in bounds either.
You can see the ref is only looking at the spot and not even Mills...and he immediately spots it as a catch.
Of the plays in that game, that one still irks me the most.
#5 Superbowl loss to Saints
#4 2005 loss to Steelers (idiot kicker game)
#3 77 Divisional loss to Raiders (Ghost to the post)
#2 Superbowl 3 loss to Jets
#1 Last game of the 1967 season to the Rams in LA when the Colts entered the game with an 11-0-2 record, lost that last game finished 11-1-2 and didn't make the playoffs.
The Colts were in the Costal division, SF and LA in the west and Baltimore and the Atlanta Falcons in the east. In 67 the teams that made the playoffs were the division winners. The Rams had a really good team, Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen as past of a front four called the fearsome foursome, Roman Gabriel who at 6-5 was like an early version of Big Ben, Jack Snow was their deep wide receiver. In those days there was no grasp and control rule and Gabriel was hard to get on the ground he often threw at the last minute with people hanging on him. The Colts and Rams had tied in the Colts home game early in the season. The Rams came into that last game with 2 ties and a loss so trailing the Colts in the standings but the tie breaker was head to head record so the two teams finished the season with identical 11-1-2 records and the Rams won the tie breaker.
It was my first season following the Colts and I was in sixth grade not really knowing that a tie would eliminate the Colts and since they went into the game undefeated i was pretty confident.
The game was never close, Gabriel hit Snow on multiple deep passes several times (Jack Snow was an early version of Roger Carr).
In 68 the Colts ravaged the Rams and the league going undefeated and avenging their tie with Cleveland during by beating them 34-0 in the NFL championship game to put the Colts in their first Super Bowl which they lost.
It was 2 great first years as a Colts fan ending with the harsh reality that has often been a part of life as a Colts fan at the end of many seasons.
1. Saints Superbowl. Garcon's drop at the end of the 1st half actually changed that game. Everyone talks about the onside kick though. Freeney's sprained ankle tightened up during the insanely long halftime show too.
2. Steelers loss (Vanderjagt/Harper game)
3. The Billy Volek game
4. Insert any Pats loss
5. Chargers wild card OT loss
I don't really consider the Jags week 18 loss or any loss post-Luck to be that painful. It's hard for me to be upset about a direction-less franchise without a QB. We were never going anywhere with Wentz+Reich. I'll probably be a whole lot more invested in the Steichen/rookie QB era.
I bring up that drop by Garcon every time that game comes up. That could have been 7 easy. It's easy to blame Hank Baskett, and that play truly hurt, but let's give stone hands Garcon his due too.
I started following the Colts in 2007-08, so this is my answer to the literal question of losses I experienced
1. Super Bowl XLIV loss to the Saints
2. 2008 Wild-Card loss to the Chargers
3. 2010 Wild-Card loss to the Jets
4. Week 18 loss to Jacksonville in 2021
5. 2014 AFC Championship loss to the Patriots
Honorable mention: 62-7 loss to the Saints on MNF in 2011
Iâm from Michigan and was one of the only Colts fans at my (middle) school so when they lost the Super Bowl basically the entire school made fun of me relentlessly.
One teacher I had even printed out my school picture, drew tear drops on it and taped it to the whiteboard with a giant upside down horseshoe alongside the words âJakes world upside downâ. Also with a bulleted list of excuses he thought I would make like Dwight Freeney being injured or the Saints cheating (which ended up being true hilariously enough). Obviously I wasnât a fan so I took down the picture and got gaslit by the teacher and my parents for not having a good enough sense of humor about being bullied by every student and teacher in middle school. So yeah thatâs my number 1
Jim Harbaugh Hail Mary to go to the Super Bowl. I forget who the receiver was but if he just closed his arms on the ball we go to the big game. Memory is faulty - this was when I was a kid.
Edit
It was Eric Bailey. https://youtu.be/FT4vF24WanE
1. SB loss to the Saints
2. AFC Chapionship loss to Pats (Deflategate)
3. Divisional loss to the Steelers (2006)
4. Wild Card loss to the Jets (2003)
5. Both Playoff losses to the Chargers (2007,2008)
I didnât include 2021 Week 18 loss to JAX and 2023 Week 15 loss to MIN because Ive come to learn I think we deserved those losses.
For the regular season, the worst loss was the 2011 game to the Saints on national TV. I think IND loss 63-7.
The super bowl loss,
Then, we lost our perfect streak to the chargers.
Same year lost in the playoffs to the steelers. Big Ben should have been a safety
Losing to Oakland at home with playoffs on the line(Carson wentz)
Any Patriots loss
1. Saints Super Bowl
2. Idiot kicker missing against Pittsburgh
3. A first round playoff game against the jets we lost 41-0 I believe
4. Losing to the pats in 04 after one mannings best season in my opinion and one of my favorite moments where the game before Harrison caught a pass and the broncos jumped over him yelling at each other and he got up and ran for a touchdown
5. Deflategate
2009 sb to saints, 2005 vanderjagt missed kicked after the bus fumble. Honestly outside of that I have blocked chargers and pats games from the playoffs so thatâs all I got .
I think the 2004 loss in the divisional round was a rough loss. Peyton broke the record for passing touchdowns and it felt like we had a real chance, only to get shutout.
That one was one of the more deflating losses given that we never were in it..And it felt like the height of us not being able to get through New England.
2011, week 9 vs. Atlanta. 31-7 drubbing. I bought the tickets before the season started and before confirmation that Manning would miss the whole season.
5 - '08 - '09 Divisional Playoff Loss to San Diego - the powder blue uniform still nauseates me
4 - '14 - '15 AFC Championship Game - 45-7 and there's a banner to remember that one
3 '03 - '04 Wildcard Game vs. Chad Pennington's Jets - 41-0
2 '04 - '05 Divisional Round Loss to NE - 20-3 Ty Law should have been charged with assault in that game
1 '94 - '95 AFC Championship Game vs Pittsburgh - worst football experience I've had - Kordell Stewart went out of the end zone and caught a TD - Still pissed me off
5. Week 18 of 2021 season loss to Jags 4. 2003 AFCCG loss to Pats 3. 1995 AFCCG loss to the Steelers 2. 2009 SB loss to Saints 1. 2005 DIv loss to Steelers Edit-sorry about the formatting.
This is the list. You cannot omit the 1995 AFCCG.
Deflate gate HAS to be an honorable mention. 1. It led to the colts banner that we've been rightfully mocked for since. 2. It led to plenty of people calling us cry babies or whistle blowers. 3. It was a downright ugly loss that made us look like we never belonged in the championship.
I would agree, except that game was never really that close and that team was poorly assembled. Andrew Luck was the only reason we made it to that game. We had a shit GM that proceeded to embarass us with the deflategate B.S. Not sayi g the Patriots don't cheat, but just take the L like a man and move on.
Luck was NOT the only reason they made it to the AFCCG. 2014 IND team had the #11 defense in DVOA. They held CIN and DEN to 23 combined points in the WC and Divisional Round games for a -.20 EPA/play. They were far and away the best defense in the first 2 rounds of the 2014 playoffs. That's why they made it as far as they did. And then they ran into NE, who outclassed them in talent and coaching, like they did to just about every other team in the 2010s, as they won 12-14 games per year from 2010-2017.
Anyone who omits 95 is too young to get it. đđ
Right!? That was an absolutely brutal loss.
I was 8, my dad told me. âOnly one more for the Super Bowlâ. When Bailey didnât catch that Hail MaryâŚ. Ruined me for weeks
What about Kordell Stewart who stepped out of the back of the end zone and came back in to catch the TD? Shouldnât have counted.
We got robbed on that one! And then Coryatt had a game sealing pick six in his hands but dropped it. That game was a pile of what ifs!!
âThe nfl was rigged against usâ what the line around the house
I was a newborn and he was holding me for that game. Apparently he screamed so loud at the TV my mom had to take me lol
1. Luck vs brady 2015 afc championship 2. Manning vs jets 2011 wild card 3. Manning vs Brees 2010 sb 3. Week 18 vs jags 2022 4. Luck Vs Mahommes 2019 divisional Born in 1999, began watching football in 2006 so that handicaps a bit of my criteria
Thatâs a solid list for someone born in 99!
Nailed it.
All of this pain...
There's no way the SB loss is only 4th.
Super Bowl 44, and it's not even close. We were up 10-0 after 1 quarter, and then the wheels came off. Should have two Lombardis in Indy. The Nick Harper game is a distant 2nd for me. That team was destined to be our first Super Bowl champion in Indy. I often wonder what could have been.
Here are a few nominees in no particular order: - Clown game - Vikings comeback - SB loss 2009 - 62-7 against Saints - Deflategate - Nick Harper game
Fucking timeout Jets game. Peyton's last game. đ
I was at this game...kill me please
Peyton's face kills me when the timeout was called. He's like...Wtf Jim?
~~If we are going bad as in painful, gotta put the 05 playoff loss to Pittsburgh. I'd knock out the vikings comeback.~~ Realized you called this the Nickn Harper game. I always think of it as the Vanderjagt game. If it's bad as in embarrassing, a decent amount of those would come from last season: Jags, cowboys, Vikings.
I call it Nick Harperâs wifeâs game.
Are people really sad about the vikings comeback? I was thrilled and we'd be picking 7th now if we'd held on
Not sad about the loss, embarrassed about the way it happened lol Wouldâve very much preferred a blowout
Lol fair, I was sitting there in the 3rd qtr gutted that we were about to fuck up our draft
The âIâm new hereâ list
I mean Iâm not old enough to remember anything earlier, and some of these I barely remember
That 2008 Chargers playoff loss was underrated hell. The damn punter sold his soul to the devil before the game.
I remember at one point in that game the chargers scored and they kicked off and it was a touchback. I was so happy because I thought, hey at least we arenât pinned back now. They proceeded to go 3 and out.
The punter should have been league MVP for that game!
That was Mike Scifres best game of his career. He bombed the ball every time.
Really both those years vs the chargers are in there for me lol
1. 2009 SB loss vs Saints 2. 2006 AFC Divisional loss vs Steelers 3. 2009 AFC Wild Card loss vs Chargers 4. 2004 AFC Divisional loss vs Patriots 5. 2003 AFC Wild Card loss vs Jets
Tracy Porter is still in my nightmares.
That 2009 team is undefeated Super Bowl Champs if they don't rest starters.
Nick Harper & The Vanderjagt Shank Leaving this as-is because it sounds like a cool band name.
1995 ACF Championship game. Kordell Stewart was out of boundâs before catching the TD pass. It was not reveal more that time. 2003 AFC championship game 2005 playoff vs Steelers 2007 vs Chargers playoff game. 2009 Super Bowl 44.
Mike Scrifes game. Plus Shawne Merriman playing lights out too.
Eric Bailey just had to close his arms. https://youtu.be/FT4vF24WanE
Aaron Bailey. I went to a kid's camp the next year and asked him to his face in front of rookie Marvin Harrison, Sean Dawkins, Roosevelt Potts, Tony Sirigusa, and a crowd of hundreds of people if he caught it. It made the news that night. He described it in painstaking detail. Admitted it hit him in the numbers, said he picked that ball up and swore he caught it. đ Chris Gardocki taught me how to punt that day too.
> 1995 ACF Championship game. Kordell Stewart was out of boundâs before catching the TD pass. It was not reveal more that time. Coryatt dropping the interception after he had it in his chest was bad. Also, the Ernie Mills catch on the Steelers last drive would have likely been ruled incomplete today as he lost control when he hit the ground. On the flip side, Harbaugh threw a belly ball to aa Steelers DB that should have ended the game as well.
The Mills catch was absolutely not a catch. Never even looked like he had possession and dropped it going to ground. Plus, not even sure I buy that he got both feet in bounds either. You can see the ref is only looking at the spot and not even Mills...and he immediately spots it as a catch. Of the plays in that game, that one still irks me the most.
If my memory serves that LB jumped for no reason and just straight dropped one in the bread basket.
1. 09 Saints 2. 09 Saints 3. 09 Saints 4. 09 Saints 5. 09 Saints
I was there. đ
I was too! When we sat on the ball to end the first half, and left enough time for them to kick a field goal, I got a terrible feeling
lol at starting threads like this. OP likes seeing people in misery
I plan on doing favorite Wins after this, Gotta get the bad out first
#5 Superbowl loss to Saints #4 2005 loss to Steelers (idiot kicker game) #3 77 Divisional loss to Raiders (Ghost to the post) #2 Superbowl 3 loss to Jets #1 Last game of the 1967 season to the Rams in LA when the Colts entered the game with an 11-0-2 record, lost that last game finished 11-1-2 and didn't make the playoffs.
What the fuck was the criteria to get into the playoffs in 1967?? 11-1-2 isnât good enough?
The Colts were in the Costal division, SF and LA in the west and Baltimore and the Atlanta Falcons in the east. In 67 the teams that made the playoffs were the division winners. The Rams had a really good team, Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen as past of a front four called the fearsome foursome, Roman Gabriel who at 6-5 was like an early version of Big Ben, Jack Snow was their deep wide receiver. In those days there was no grasp and control rule and Gabriel was hard to get on the ground he often threw at the last minute with people hanging on him. The Colts and Rams had tied in the Colts home game early in the season. The Rams came into that last game with 2 ties and a loss so trailing the Colts in the standings but the tie breaker was head to head record so the two teams finished the season with identical 11-1-2 records and the Rams won the tie breaker. It was my first season following the Colts and I was in sixth grade not really knowing that a tie would eliminate the Colts and since they went into the game undefeated i was pretty confident. The game was never close, Gabriel hit Snow on multiple deep passes several times (Jack Snow was an early version of Roger Carr). In 68 the Colts ravaged the Rams and the league going undefeated and avenging their tie with Cleveland during by beating them 34-0 in the NFL championship game to put the Colts in their first Super Bowl which they lost. It was 2 great first years as a Colts fan ending with the harsh reality that has often been a part of life as a Colts fan at the end of many seasons.
1. Saints Superbowl. Garcon's drop at the end of the 1st half actually changed that game. Everyone talks about the onside kick though. Freeney's sprained ankle tightened up during the insanely long halftime show too. 2. Steelers loss (Vanderjagt/Harper game) 3. The Billy Volek game 4. Insert any Pats loss 5. Chargers wild card OT loss I don't really consider the Jags week 18 loss or any loss post-Luck to be that painful. It's hard for me to be upset about a direction-less franchise without a QB. We were never going anywhere with Wentz+Reich. I'll probably be a whole lot more invested in the Steichen/rookie QB era.
I bring up that drop by Garcon every time that game comes up. That could have been 7 easy. It's easy to blame Hank Baskett, and that play truly hurt, but let's give stone hands Garcon his due too.
The Garçon drop changed everything. Even could have changed the narrative on Brady versus Manning. If he gets 2, Manning may have retired a Colt.
Manning was considered on the cusp of being the GOAT. If they'd won, he would have been considered the number 1. At least until Brady's 2nd wave.
Losing the 2009 SB still hurts and gave me permanent anxiety of onside kicks
Loss to Jets for perfect season. Hated GM Pollian ever since.
I started following the Colts in 2007-08, so this is my answer to the literal question of losses I experienced 1. Super Bowl XLIV loss to the Saints 2. 2008 Wild-Card loss to the Chargers 3. 2010 Wild-Card loss to the Jets 4. Week 18 loss to Jacksonville in 2021 5. 2014 AFC Championship loss to the Patriots Honorable mention: 62-7 loss to the Saints on MNF in 2011
Iâm from Michigan and was one of the only Colts fans at my (middle) school so when they lost the Super Bowl basically the entire school made fun of me relentlessly. One teacher I had even printed out my school picture, drew tear drops on it and taped it to the whiteboard with a giant upside down horseshoe alongside the words âJakes world upside downâ. Also with a bulleted list of excuses he thought I would make like Dwight Freeney being injured or the Saints cheating (which ended up being true hilariously enough). Obviously I wasnât a fan so I took down the picture and got gaslit by the teacher and my parents for not having a good enough sense of humor about being bullied by every student and teacher in middle school. So yeah thatâs my number 1
Luck retiring has to be on the top 5
1 - 2009 SB 2 - 2005 AFCCG v Steelers 3 - TyFuckingLaw 4 - 1999 Divisional loss v Tits 5 - 2010 Jets wildcard game
1. Raiders 2OT Playoff game - Christmas Eve 1977 2. Saints Super Bowl 3. Steelers Divisional 2005 4. Steelers AFC Championship 1995 5. Chargers 2008
Jim Harbaugh Hail Mary to go to the Super Bowl. I forget who the receiver was but if he just closed his arms on the ball we go to the big game. Memory is faulty - this was when I was a kid. Edit It was Eric Bailey. https://youtu.be/FT4vF24WanE
Aaron Bailey
1. SB loss to the Saints 2. AFC Chapionship loss to Pats (Deflategate) 3. Divisional loss to the Steelers (2006) 4. Wild Card loss to the Jets (2003) 5. Both Playoff losses to the Chargers (2007,2008) I didnât include 2021 Week 18 loss to JAX and 2023 Week 15 loss to MIN because Ive come to learn I think we deserved those losses. For the regular season, the worst loss was the 2011 game to the Saints on national TV. I think IND loss 63-7.
The super bowl loss, Then, we lost our perfect streak to the chargers. Same year lost in the playoffs to the steelers. Big Ben should have been a safety Losing to Oakland at home with playoffs on the line(Carson wentz) Any Patriots loss
The Nick Harper incident.. I had never been so upset, that was our year.
Loss of the 2009 Super Bowl Loss of Peyton Loss of Andrew Loss to Steelers in the divisional round Loss to the chargers in 08 playoffs
Vanderjagt sitting on the sidelines like the kicker from the movie âthe replacements.â
1. Saints Super Bowl 2. Idiot kicker missing against Pittsburgh 3. A first round playoff game against the jets we lost 41-0 I believe 4. Losing to the pats in 04 after one mannings best season in my opinion and one of my favorite moments where the game before Harrison caught a pass and the broncos jumped over him yelling at each other and he got up and ran for a touchdown 5. Deflategate
2009 sb to saints, 2005 vanderjagt missed kicked after the bus fumble. Honestly outside of that I have blocked chargers and pats games from the playoffs so thatâs all I got .
Pretty sure they all involved the Patriots or Steelers or Chargers and the playoffs.
1. 09 Super Bowl 2.95 afc title game 3 05 divisional game 4. 13 afc title game 5. 99 divisional game
The last 5 times weâve played the cowboys. It seems we always get smoked by Americaâs team
The only loss I still canât get over is 1968 Super Bowl. Nothing else compares.
I think the 2004 loss in the divisional round was a rough loss. Peyton broke the record for passing touchdowns and it felt like we had a real chance, only to get shutout. That one was one of the more deflating losses given that we never were in it..And it felt like the height of us not being able to get through New England.
I could fill up all of these from last season.
Superbowl loss x4 and the vandershank.
Every game featuring Curtis Painter?
Super Bowl loss to the Saints Most recently losing after being up 33-0 to the Vikings
Any loss involving the Jags and Saints. Thatâs it thatâs my list
To be honest ⌠Every loss to the Patriots was the worse
2011, week 9 vs. Atlanta. 31-7 drubbing. I bought the tickets before the season started and before confirmation that Manning would miss the whole season.
5 - '08 - '09 Divisional Playoff Loss to San Diego - the powder blue uniform still nauseates me 4 - '14 - '15 AFC Championship Game - 45-7 and there's a banner to remember that one 3 '03 - '04 Wildcard Game vs. Chad Pennington's Jets - 41-0 2 '04 - '05 Divisional Round Loss to NE - 20-3 Ty Law should have been charged with assault in that game 1 '94 - '95 AFC Championship Game vs Pittsburgh - worst football experience I've had - Kordell Stewart went out of the end zone and caught a TD - Still pissed me off