3 Most Perplexing Losses By Your Fav Team (60s, 70s, 80s)

[SeahawkFever]

I don’t know what I’d answer for other decades, but the 2010’s would have to be the 2015 game vs the Bengals where the Seahawks led 24-7 in the fourth quarter and allowed 17 points, and lost in overtime.

Cincinnati was a good team at the time don’t get me wrong, but I didn’t expect the Seahawks with the Legion of Boom defense still fairly intact to blow a lead that large in a quarter.

Then again the Patriots came back in Super Bowl 49 against that defense, but a few players were injured if I’m not mistaken. I don’t know if that was the case in this Bengals game.

[Jay Z]

Green Bay:

12-26-60: Eagles 17, Packers 13. The Lombardi Pack repeatedly tightens up in its first championship test. Three early red zone possessions amount to only six points; Hornung misses a 14-yard field goal as the first half ends; stopped on downs at the Eagles’ 25; after Philly takes the lead in the fourth quarter, three Green Bay possessions amount to naught; on last-ditch play, Starr unaccountably passes underneath to Taylor instead of to the end zone.

Even if the Packers kick the FG on the first turnover, they are tracking to try and win the game with FGs, 19-17 or something like that. That's an awfully hard way to try and win. I think you're going to assume that you need TDs at some point. So I don't blame Lombardi entirely for going for it.

Eagles had more big plays. Starr hit 21 for 35 but for low yardage. Eagles took McGee and Dowler away and it was a lot of short stuff, Knafelc and Taylor both caught 6 passes. Packers running game was there, better than it would be later in the decade. But the passing game wasn't on either side. At the end Starr was a master of the big play, and the pass defense was among the best ever if not the best. In 1960 the pass defense was more middle of the road, and Starr didn't even start the whole year and had only 4 TD passes. Both aspects would improve in 1961, and the team had a great championship victory. But in this game, I do think the Eagles exploited some weaknesses of a young team.

[7DnBrnc53]

1984 @ Bills: Bills were 0-11 coming into the contest. Nuff said.

It was that game and their Week 15 loss to Washington (blowing a 21-6 halftime lead) that cost them the division titie. I feel that they should have made the playoffs that year, not in 1985.