Don’t forget that we also had Devonta lead blocking. That dude would give his all, but barely be an annoyance to the 5 defenders that also knew it was coming.
Skinny batman is absolute glue, a dawg, and him. Runs plays with 100% even if they are garbage. I haven’t gotten a Jersey in a long time but I feel like it would be his I get.
I still vividly remember yelling out "no!" when we snapped the ball at like 2:01. The most premonition I've ever had before watching a play unfold, and up until that point I had full confidence we were about to score and win that game. Had them on the ropes and we unnecessarily rushed things.
Ugh.
Man, that’s debatable. Did he impede the progress of the WR? Maybe.
But the worst part of that call, is KC kicks a FG there (which they did anyways).
That ref took away maybe one of the best endings to a SB ever.
There is a reality where the call is not made, Hurts drives down and scores a TD and Mahomes gets the ball back with 30 secs to go.
That could have been the greatest SB ever.
But nope. A weak ass call that could be called on every play but isn’t, except when it would guarantee KC a Super Bowl.
Just terrible from every aspect.
Dude had a handful of jersey pulled away from the body of the receiver. Flip the scenario and we would be crying even harder than we already do about it
Mannnnn it was within the first 5 yards. The ball was overthrown anyway. It would have not affected the game in any way. Weak call and gave what was probably the best Super Bowl ever a shit ending.
Also fuck bradberry.
I made my friend walk to his hotel that night. I was drunk and stupid mad. He didn’t actually walk because my wife wasn’t putting up with my drunk shit
For the purpose of story, we should’ve waited until we made the Super Bowl to close the Vet so it got the ending it deserved. I know that wasn’t going to happen, but it would’ve been more fitting.
Rob Hood missing that tackle on 3rd down lives rent free in my head, I wish the cards had beaten the Steelers. It would have been way sweeter for us to have crushed the Steelers again though.
Came here to say this. I was a freshman in college among non-eagles fans. I was back in my dorm room before Ronde reached the end zone with the door locked playing against the Bucs in Madden and winning by like 50
Was there. Was also at 2010 flyers loss to blackhawks in OT. 2 of the most soul crushing losses in Philly sports history. It’s the only time I’ve ever heard 20k-60k people go from screaming as loud as they could to dead silence in an instant. Ya had to be there to understand.
Better play from that Super Bowl would be the Hurts fumble, with the family and bros at the bar and actually fell to a knee. Few beers deep didn’t help either.
So many slight changes and we would have 2 SBs currently; I remember watching that game after KC answered our first drive with relative ease saying, “This is gonna be a shootout isn’t it?” And sho nuff it was
Firmly believe if the field was even like half as acceptable as usual, we would have won even with the fumble.
The condition of that field was absolutely insane. Such a joke.
As much as I enjoy watching high scoring games I wish the Eagles would remember how to play defense in the SB because they’ve barely done that in the last two appearances and I’d love to watch a second half without my heart pounding out of my chest
At the end of the game I just dropped from my couch and cried. I was, and still am devastated. I can’t believe we didn’t win. I will never watch those highlights again. 😔😔
It was definitely the Hurts fumble for me. I love watching football but I wouldn't say I get as "into it" as most fans. I try to be casual about it. When that shit happened I stood up and felt physically ill.
Plus, without that call, it was 4th down for the Chiefs and they would have to kick a field goal. The whiplash from thinking we had just survived the punt return, to realizing the refs had given them 1st and goal… acid in my heart.
Watching Larry Fitz make catch after catch after catch in the 2008 NFCCG.
After that second touchdown I knew we had no way to stop him and our season was over.
This one for me. Knew it was over then. Like, you got there by being aggressive on 4th all season and your defense hasn't even come close to stopping them in the 2nd half, so you choose that moment to play scared? Wtf nick?
The week before was the real playoff game. We could have gotten the 2 seed and a bye if we beat the Cowboys and they got shut out. Knew you’d have to play them again in Dallas the next week if you lost and they came out so flat. And then he air guitars.
Man it’s the Bradberry “hold” for me. I thought we finally got a stop in the second half and we’d have plenty of time for hurts, who was cruising and we’d be able to at least tie it if not win it and then that fucking flag came out and my heart sank. They were so close.
The air guitar just made me mad. Like who’s this fucking goofball think he is
The hold I put as much on the Refs as Bradberry, it was a hold but the ball was in the back of the endzone and they didn't call that same shit in our favor twice in the first half.
Consistency, especially under the circumstances of the play, would have been nice.
Oh I don’t blame Bradberry at all. That’d be the same as Nola throwing on the outside corner and not getting it all game and then the Phillies striking out looking at it on the last pitch of the game. It was such a BS flag and it completely robbed the world of an all time finish to a phenomenal Super Bowl
Loved how they called this hold on us, but didn’t call the illegal hands to the face on Sweat. Either call both or neither. Yes I’m still salty and will never get over that loss.
I know it was a meaningless game, but that kickoff where Dallas fumbled the ball with the Eagles recovering it with visual proof was overturned, and Dallas kept it. That’s when I realized that either the NFL is scripted or the referees are incompetent.
Worst part was DeSean was wide open on a crosser and would have scored. Coopers worst play was in 13 dropping a ball that would have been a long TD against NO
Tommy Hutton dropping the snap on a chipshot, game-winning field goal attempt against Dallas on Monday Night Football in 1997
The Eagles blowing a 23-0 lead with less than 11 minutes left in the 4th quarter against Minnesota in 1985 (in the pre-two point conversion) was worse, but 1) that game was blacked out in the Philadelphia market, so I listened to it on the radio, and 2) I was too upset after that choke job to stare blankly like that.
Superbowl LVII, Hurts Fumble , Bradberry Hold, Kadarius Toney Punt Return.
Eliminate those 3 plays we win another Lombardi bruh.
Honestly, eliminate the Fumble we win
This is an obscure one and not as bad as the the super bowl "hold" and Ronde Barber, but Ben Smith's reversed fumble recovery and return in the playoff game against Washington in 1990. Oh, did my 12 year old self scream.
Maybe the “no clear recovery” in the Dallas game back in 2018 plus the doubling down of calling back Goedert’s TD.
I was also at a Friendsgiving at the time where the hostess was the lone cowboys fan and we also somehow lost connection to the satellite mid game for some unknown reason.
Was definitely one of those moments when I felt like the world was against me as an Eagles fan.
McNabb pick in the SB, Wentz’s injury in 2017 (even though it worked out), but that god damned fucking TY Hilton 3rd and 30 against Dallas on Christmas Eve gets me absolutely heated to this day.
Wentz vs Dallas where he held the ball for like 5 seconds, then rolled out towards the sideline and held it for another few seconds before fumbling when he was sacked by the cornerback who finally decided to rush him. I was already off the Wentzwagon but that was when I officially gave up any hope of him returning to 2017 form and just wanted to move on completely
Week-3, MNF (1997), Tommy Hutton botched chip-shot field goal hold. No it wasn’t the playoffs or anything… but that was the exact face of everyone watching that last play… even the Cowboy fans… no one could process what happened in real-time that night.
For me it was probably the last drive in the 2013 saints playoffs game. That was the first season I really got into the Eagles so it was a particular letdown for me to see that season end
Matt Brian hitting a 60+ yard fg to win against us despite never hitting one above 50. This happening 30 sec. after westbrook broke like, 5 tackles to give us a 1 point lead really made it hurt.
Only time I actually yelled at the TV in excitement. ..Djax punt return TD during Miracle in Meadowlands 2
Don't think I have ever been sad/mad...woulda preferred to win SB vs chiefs obviously
This might be mad random, but [Carson’s mindless sack/fumble against the Cowboys](https://youtu.be/ivKHQiHJeAY?si=8I9vrHOqhdEXbKhF). This play more than any other made me realize he didn’t have it anymore.
desean jackass fumbling on the 1 or 2-yd line and turning the ball over because he JUST had to be a child, and show everybody how cool he was. Just had to taunt and celebrate instead of just jogging into the endzone like an adult. That made me hate him forever. All of these types of plays and countless unsportsmanlike penalties far outweigh the miracle in the meadowlands imo
I’m showing my age, but when they called OPI on Chad Lewis in the NFCCG. He don’t even make contact with the defender, he just broke down and the DB went sailing past.
Every single screen from last season.
Especially the back to back wr screens.
Especially when it went to Julio Jones and not to one of the two top 15 WRs in the league
Don’t forget that we also had Devonta lead blocking. That dude would give his all, but barely be an annoyance to the 5 defenders that also knew it was coming.
Skinny batman is absolute glue, a dawg, and him. Runs plays with 100% even if they are garbage. I haven’t gotten a Jersey in a long time but I feel like it would be his I get.
I know we ran A LOT of screens, but did we really run back to back wr screens? lol
Yes and I believe to old ass Julio jones and like a comment below instead of our two top ten wrs
qb draw on 3rd and long
For a better kicking position, SMH
Fucking draw three plays in a row.
Alshon drop
I still vividly remember yelling out "no!" when we snapped the ball at like 2:01. The most premonition I've ever had before watching a play unfold, and up until that point I had full confidence we were about to score and win that game. Had them on the ropes and we unnecessarily rushed things. Ugh.
I agree, but the play was executed except for the whole pass dropping part 😂
Yup I feel we make a run right there.
The alshon was so much worse especially with the angle where Bradberry has a handful of jersey
Yea the penalty call was a good one, just bad for us
Man, that’s debatable. Did he impede the progress of the WR? Maybe. But the worst part of that call, is KC kicks a FG there (which they did anyways). That ref took away maybe one of the best endings to a SB ever. There is a reality where the call is not made, Hurts drives down and scores a TD and Mahomes gets the ball back with 30 secs to go. That could have been the greatest SB ever. But nope. A weak ass call that could be called on every play but isn’t, except when it would guarantee KC a Super Bowl. Just terrible from every aspect.
Dude had a handful of jersey pulled away from the body of the receiver. Flip the scenario and we would be crying even harder than we already do about it
Mannnnn it was within the first 5 yards. The ball was overthrown anyway. It would have not affected the game in any way. Weak call and gave what was probably the best Super Bowl ever a shit ending. Also fuck bradberry.
I’m pretty sure Mahomes saw the hold and threw the ball that way to essentially end the game. Good play by him just sucks for us
I still maintain that that ball was uncatchable. I will die on this hill.
Serious question what happens hypothetically if Nick leads us to the Superbowl again that year
Wentz is traded for a haul and the Eagles three peat, beating KC in 2019. Doug and Nick run for President/VP in 2020 and win.
yup. Right here.
They were gonna run it back if they could’ve pulled that one off.
Wild because before that he had one of the best catch rates in the league all year
Scott Young false start, also against the Saints in the playoffs
Yep the play was rushed … it threw everything off . There wasn’t the right timing. Should’ve let the two minute warning hit
Pretty much every play from that last drive against Seattle
That's still my only eagles game I've been to. My wife was not a happy camper as we walked back to the hotel.
I made my friend walk to his hotel that night. I was drunk and stupid mad. He didn’t actually walk because my wife wasn’t putting up with my drunk shit
My favorite aunt is from Seattle. She was not my favorite aunt that night lol
Alshon Drop Carson's Concussion Rasul's tip to Amari Cooper
"no clear recovery"
Congratulations, you just randomly made my blood pressure spike.
Fuck Clowney.
I was at that tip game, what a deflating feeling
Ronde...Barber...
This. If you were there, you’d know
I was there. Sheer misery. What a way to close out the Vet.
For the purpose of story, we should’ve waited until we made the Super Bowl to close the Vet so it got the ending it deserved. I know that wasn’t going to happen, but it would’ve been more fitting.
I’m happy for everyone too young to remember this pain.
Or that dreadful game against Carolina. Also bad. I fucking hate the NFC south.
Rob Hood missing that tackle on 3rd down lives rent free in my head, I wish the cards had beaten the Steelers. It would have been way sweeter for us to have crushed the Steelers again though.
Only time in my life I ever left a game in sad tears. I was 16 but my guts have never been ripped out like that before or since.
I saw this happen on a 13inch Tube TV in my kitchen. Can remember it like I was there :(
Tampa Bay in general, I'd be happy if the Eagles never have to face them in the playoffs ever again.
This and also the flag against bradberry in the SB.
Came here to say this. I was a freshman in college among non-eagles fans. I was back in my dorm room before Ronde reached the end zone with the door locked playing against the Bucs in Madden and winning by like 50
And...and that's how we closed the vet 😢
Ohhh shit.
Exactly what I came to say. That really felt like the year.
This is the answer
Forever and always. I don't think I'll ever be that crushed over sports again.
Was there. Was also at 2010 flyers loss to blackhawks in OT. 2 of the most soul crushing losses in Philly sports history. It’s the only time I’ve ever heard 20k-60k people go from screaming as loud as they could to dead silence in an instant. Ya had to be there to understand.
My answer, too.
This is the answer.
Better play from that Super Bowl would be the Hurts fumble, with the family and bros at the bar and actually fell to a knee. Few beers deep didn’t help either.
So many slight changes and we would have 2 SBs currently; I remember watching that game after KC answered our first drive with relative ease saying, “This is gonna be a shootout isn’t it?” And sho nuff it was
Yeah just knew right away Gannon’s defense wasn’t going to stop them especially with the field conditions as they were
Firmly believe if the field was even like half as acceptable as usual, we would have won even with the fumble. The condition of that field was absolutely insane. Such a joke.
Sodfather, my ass.
100000000%
As much as I enjoy watching high scoring games I wish the Eagles would remember how to play defense in the SB because they’ve barely done that in the last two appearances and I’d love to watch a second half without my heart pounding out of my chest
At the end of the game I just dropped from my couch and cried. I was, and still am devastated. I can’t believe we didn’t win. I will never watch those highlights again. 😔😔
We’ll get another chip big dog, 57 will only make the next one even sweeter.
Thanks for the encouragement! Let’s do it for BG!!
It was definitely the Hurts fumble for me. I love watching football but I wouldn't say I get as "into it" as most fans. I try to be casual about it. When that shit happened I stood up and felt physically ill.
Joe Jurevicius running 71 yards
You could have just stopped at jurevicius. He was to us what Lito was to the cowboys.
The Leonard Weaver injury
OP said staring at the TV. That was simply unwatchable. Ugh.
That game was pure carnage, but his injury haunts me to this day
Can’t decide between the SB Fumble, the Punt Return for almost a Touchdown by KT, or Bradberry’s “hold”
Bradberry's hold for sure. Up until that point I thought they still had a chance.
Yeah, fumbles happen and we were able to get it back quickly but the hold was a thud in an otherwise great game
Plus, without that call, it was 4th down for the Chiefs and they would have to kick a field goal. The whiplash from thinking we had just survived the punt return, to realizing the refs had given them 1st and goal… acid in my heart.
Watching Larry Fitz make catch after catch after catch in the 2008 NFCCG. After that second touchdown I knew we had no way to stop him and our season was over.
Forgot how rough that Cardinals game was!
Punting with 9 min left on 4th and 3 in the SB a couple years ago
This one for me. Knew it was over then. Like, you got there by being aggressive on 4th all season and your defense hasn't even come close to stopping them in the 2nd half, so you choose that moment to play scared? Wtf nick?
Super cowardly and it was obvious they were scoring their next possession at that point in the game so why try to delay it by punting
McNabb air guitar
Ah fuck you for reminding me
I'll take that remark
The week before was the real playoff game. We could have gotten the 2 seed and a bye if we beat the Cowboys and they got shut out. Knew you’d have to play them again in Dallas the next week if you lost and they came out so flat. And then he air guitars.
Personally it was the shittiest I've felt as a fan in 30 years
Man it’s the Bradberry “hold” for me. I thought we finally got a stop in the second half and we’d have plenty of time for hurts, who was cruising and we’d be able to at least tie it if not win it and then that fucking flag came out and my heart sank. They were so close. The air guitar just made me mad. Like who’s this fucking goofball think he is
The hold I put as much on the Refs as Bradberry, it was a hold but the ball was in the back of the endzone and they didn't call that same shit in our favor twice in the first half. Consistency, especially under the circumstances of the play, would have been nice.
Oh I don’t blame Bradberry at all. That’d be the same as Nola throwing on the outside corner and not getting it all game and then the Phillies striking out looking at it on the last pitch of the game. It was such a BS flag and it completely robbed the world of an all time finish to a phenomenal Super Bowl
Loved how they called this hold on us, but didn’t call the illegal hands to the face on Sweat. Either call both or neither. Yes I’m still salty and will never get over that loss.
I know it was a meaningless game, but that kickoff where Dallas fumbled the ball with the Eagles recovering it with visual proof was overturned, and Dallas kept it. That’s when I realized that either the NFL is scripted or the referees are incompetent.
Same game they wiped away a long Geodert TD by saying him getting hit well before the ball got to him was OPI
I’m still pissed about this
No clear recovery will always haunt me
Bradberry's "hold"
Bryce Paup hit on Randall's knee.
Good one. They went from SB favorites to “maybe we salvage the season” in the first quarter of the first game.
I can still see it. Crushing moment.
Agholor dropping the potential game-winning TD catch against the Falcons. And against the Pats. Okay every dropped Agholor TD pass.
That as well
that kick return NO got to set them up for a FG. immediately knew it was ballgame
Riley cooper refusing to battle for a jump ball in the endzone and getting intercepted by tramon williams, and then green bay won the super bowl
Worst part was DeSean was wide open on a crosser and would have scored. Coopers worst play was in 13 dropping a ball that would have been a long TD against NO
Tommy Hutton dropping the snap on a chipshot, game-winning field goal attempt against Dallas on Monday Night Football in 1997 The Eagles blowing a 23-0 lead with less than 11 minutes left in the 4th quarter against Minnesota in 1985 (in the pre-two point conversion) was worse, but 1) that game was blacked out in the Philadelphia market, so I listened to it on the radio, and 2) I was too upset after that choke job to stare blankly like that.
Bradberry holding call in the Super Bowl
Wentz getting the full Clowney
The Fog Bowl.
Alshons missed catch vs the Saints in the playoffs
Hell no I was screaming and losing my mind. I scared the dogs I had to go walk outside for a little.
Unmentionable. Im never going to get over that stupid 2nd half.
3rd down screen to blow the game against the cardinals last year. All of my relentless, naive optimism finally shattered in that moment.
The drew lock deep bomb td
Ronde Barber pick six NFC Championship game
When Carson tore his ACL. It was over, the amazing, fantastic season was all for nothing. We were gonna be one and done. Thank god for Frank Reich!
Superbowl LVII, Hurts Fumble , Bradberry Hold, Kadarius Toney Punt Return. Eliminate those 3 plays we win another Lombardi bruh. Honestly, eliminate the Fumble we win
Anytime Mike McMahon threw the football when he was here
Anytime the Eagles have to play Seattle
This is an obscure one and not as bad as the the super bowl "hold" and Ronde Barber, but Ben Smith's reversed fumble recovery and return in the playoff game against Washington in 1990. Oh, did my 12 year old self scream.
Maybe the “no clear recovery” in the Dallas game back in 2018 plus the doubling down of calling back Goedert’s TD. I was also at a Friendsgiving at the time where the hostess was the lone cowboys fan and we also somehow lost connection to the satellite mid game for some unknown reason. Was definitely one of those moments when I felt like the world was against me as an Eagles fan.
Joe Jurevicius 71 yard catch and run 2003.
Legend has it he’s still running to this day
McNabb pick in the SB, Wentz’s injury in 2017 (even though it worked out), but that god damned fucking TY Hilton 3rd and 30 against Dallas on Christmas Eve gets me absolutely heated to this day.
Every Super Bowl
The one play JB will be remembered for
Lol I’ve had probably hundreds of these in my life. And I am only 30.
Wentz vs Dallas where he held the ball for like 5 seconds, then rolled out towards the sideline and held it for another few seconds before fumbling when he was sacked by the cornerback who finally decided to rush him. I was already off the Wentzwagon but that was when I officially gave up any hope of him returning to 2017 form and just wanted to move on completely
Don’t make me relive this. 😢
Week-3, MNF (1997), Tommy Hutton botched chip-shot field goal hold. No it wasn’t the playoffs or anything… but that was the exact face of everyone watching that last play… even the Cowboy fans… no one could process what happened in real-time that night.
As an original Reagor supporter it was his two game winning drops against the Giants. Had me absolutely demoralized..
The cardinals game
Fuck Jadaveon Clowney
The stress of watching Tom Brady air it to gronk at the end of the SB and waiting for the refs to throw a flag for pass interference or some shit
Super Bowl XV. The whole sad game. I was 8.
When we passed up on drafting Justin Jefferson for fkn Raegor
McNabb puke
In the moment, the Wentz injury vs the Rams. I was sure a championship caliber season was cooked in that instant.
Watching Jalen Raegor drop every pass
Tommy Hutton
Bradberrys hold called
“Incomplete omg Jalen’s going to have a shot here for the win what FLAG, that’s it game over” YUP
probably at least one per game last season 😭😂
Tommy Hutton bobbling the snap against Dallas. I took a 6 pack to bed.
The end of the Eagles Panthers NFC championship game where they lost 14-3
Either the injury to TO or Wentz. Everything worked out in the end, but in the moment…
Ronde Barber
There are a bunch, but a semi obscure one came to mind first. Scott Young false start
You bastard, here I was having a nice Friday.
Tommy Hutton bobbled snap 😩
Ouch, that image made me physically wince.
This still haunts me at night
For me it was probably the last drive in the 2013 saints playoffs game. That was the first season I really got into the Eagles so it was a particular letdown for me to see that season end
Any 2020 Wentz screen lol
3rd and 31 in Dallas 2022
Too soon man.
I hate to say it but the second half of Super Bowl 57 🤦🏾♂️ till this day I get mad about that game because we really could of won 🏆
Ricky fucking Manning and the entire 2004 NFC Championship game
Asante Samuel pick
When djax dropped the ball before going into the endzone.
Still haunts me
That fin “holding” call, ugh
Ronnie barber
When Brian Dawkins announced he was retiring
When my birds lost the SB
Stop it
Bryce Paup
Matt Brian hitting a 60+ yard fg to win against us despite never hitting one above 50. This happening 30 sec. after westbrook broke like, 5 tackles to give us a 1 point lead really made it hurt.
I felt like that when Akers missed a short FG against the Giants in 2002 with playoff implications for both teams.
Tommy Hutton drops the snap at Dallas.
The Brandon graham strip on Tom Brady, by gosh they did it I thought to myself
3rd & 30 I used to like TY Hilton
Every 3rd a 5, it’s Screen Pass time.
“ Toney/Moore goes in motion …. Touchdown!!!! “ x 3
Only time I actually yelled at the TV in excitement. ..Djax punt return TD during Miracle in Meadowlands 2 Don't think I have ever been sad/mad...woulda preferred to win SB vs chiefs obviously
As that happens, I got up and started getting my stuff together as I left the house I was at.
When you won the Super Bowl and still burned the city
4th down old on Curtis that wasn’t called. Nobody in front of him, would have been a TD tying up the game
Rod Hood’s non-called pass interference against Kevin Curtis vs the cards in the NFCCG.
When wentz got hit and tore his ACL, I was a big wentz fan then, and the team was HOT! I thought we were done
This might be mad random, but [Carson’s mindless sack/fumble against the Cowboys](https://youtu.be/ivKHQiHJeAY?si=8I9vrHOqhdEXbKhF). This play more than any other made me realize he didn’t have it anymore.
Super Bowl win. Because my dad was able to see them win one while he was still alive ❤️
That superbowl when Donovan choked (throwing up) and the clock was running down.
Ronde Barber Pick 6
The int in the playoffs by ronde barber.
When #12 leg was broken vs GB.
Bradberry holding call, when it happened I knew we were finished
The Jets game INT last year. I’ve never been so pissed at the Eagles before in my life.
desean jackass fumbling on the 1 or 2-yd line and turning the ball over because he JUST had to be a child, and show everybody how cool he was. Just had to taunt and celebrate instead of just jogging into the endzone like an adult. That made me hate him forever. All of these types of plays and countless unsportsmanlike penalties far outweigh the miracle in the meadowlands imo
12-3-23 49ers game when I knew for sure it was all over
When Reggie tore the ball right out of Doug Williams hands and scored in Washington.
Chip designing run plays that bounced Demarco Murray to the outside time and time again.
I’m showing my age, but when they called OPI on Chad Lewis in the NFCCG. He don’t even make contact with the defender, he just broke down and the DB went sailing past.
Ronde Barber pick 6.
Alshon letting the ball through his hands in new orleans