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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Slightly off topic. Worst sports moment. Period.

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13th man. That was by far the worst sports related day of my life. In fact it was quite a bit worse than a whole bunch of non-sports related terrible events/days of my life.

Bought a ticket at the last minute, figured I'd be crazy to not attend the GC of my most cherished of all sports teams in my home city. And I lived about a 15 min drive from McMahon, just up crowchild. Went down, got a ticket for $100 in section N or M.

What a glorious 55 minutes of football that was. Give or take that amount of time. Right up until Durant threw that pick.

The section I was sitting was THE endzone it happened in. It all happened right in front of me. I swear I was the only person in my section to see the flag instantly. I didn't cheer for a single second. But the whole rest of the people around me went nuts and started jumping up and down, hugging. These two young ladies, about my age, in front of me were hugging and crying.

I just stood there pointing muttering to myself how there was a flag. And I knew it was against the Riders (though I figured it was procedure or offside, not too many men).

I can still hear that ###### randorf (i think) announce the MVP and hand over the trophy in my mind. And the associated image is of the intersection around 24th ave because I had left the stadium well before then. In fact my seat was on an aisle that allowed me to walk right out of the stadium as soon as the second kick split the uprights.

This is me right now by the way:

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Well I was gonna add in my original post that the 94 Bure goal was my worst sports fan moment until the 13th man in 2009, but I didn't want to face any Roughrider related backlash 😆. I'm a born and raised Calgarian, lived there until 2093, family still lives there, but my wife is from Saskatchewan and my kids were all born out here, so I caught the green fever despite my best attempts to resist it. That moment was soul sucking on a whole other level