The Jackal wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 5:57 am
http://www.furmansportsreport.com
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - There probably have been more deflating losses in the 113-year history of Furman football than Saturday, but it's hard to recall one at the moment.
This is a fun game. I can think of several.
2004 James Madison (fumble on the 1, missed xpt, playoff game - JMU won national title)
2002 App State (miracle on the mountain)
Admittedly, I don’t recall us blowing a 21 point 3rd Q lead before.
Yep...definitely those...and the ‘85 Nat’l Champ game & whatever year Ingle slipped on the black ice in the haunted end zone in Boone.
Oh..and here’s a little-known, but fun (very dark humor fun) one....
1979 @ VMI.
We had started 0-5, including losses to NAIA PC & Woffy, but rebounded (as the 2018 Paladins are about to do) and had put ourselves in position to win the SoCon Championship. Rallied back in Lexington to score the potentially game-tying TD (21-20)...but our (openly atheist) Kicker missed the game-tying XP badly and then began a sideline tirade of loudly swearing at and pointing up at God blaming Him for his missing the XP and telling Him, “I’m going to get You for this!” Can you imagine how afraid we were to get on that plane with him to fly back to GVL out of the mountains? This was less than a decade and only a couple of hundred miles away from when and where Marsha’s (“We Are Marshall”) tragic plane crash occurred. It has taken a lot of praying, penance, and good works by your ‘Dins over the years to overcome THAT deflating loss!