Worst game in the History of the franchise??

For me any game lost to chivas is a nightmare, But (96-09) are championship games that are the worst especially losing on a golden goal and cardiac arrest penalties. I feel disgusted just thinking about it .

 

Last game of 2003.

How could it get any worse than giving up five unanswered goals to the smurfs?

Honorable Mention: a brutally boring 0-0 draw to Columbus in 2005.

At the end of the game, my eight year old nephew (attending his first MLS game) turned to me and asked, "Since neither team scored, does that mean they're both lousy?" Two days later Sigi was fired.

 

03 against SJ was bad but for some reason the 09 final is the worst for me personally. I felt devastated after. I think i gave up watching soccer for 3 months. I cant pinpoint why that one was so hard on me, but it just was.

 

Yep '03 second leg against San Jose for me. It was a perfect storm of bitter rival, false hope and the ugliest collapse I’ve ever seen. '96 was a bummer, but without much history between teams there wasn’t quite the emotional investment.

 

Indeed, it was also the worst for me, but then against I missed the majority of the Galaxy's seasons prior to the British Mothership landing in '07, probably because as a young kid my parents couldn't be bothered to drive all the way to the Rose Bowl from the South Bay to watch games after the hyped inaugural game.

Unlike you however, I can pinpoint the exact two reasons why I disliked this game so:

1. First time since I started rewatching that LA were in the final. With Beckham and LD. To come that close and see the team kicked out on penalties, was absolutely heartbreaking. Also, it cast doubts on whether this whole "DP" experiment would actually equal success on the field. It was a crucial turning point for LA and the league.

2. The result of the final defeated my attempts to get laid that day.

Imagine a UC campus somewhere in SoCal, circa 2009:

That was pretty much the last time I ever spoke with her again.

Lesson of the story? The following:

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This thread sucks as bad as those games listed.

 

The 2009 MLS Cup Final.

I was/still live in Seattle and I went to the game live with all my Galaxy gear on. At the time I didn't know there was an away fans section but luckily I was able to sneak into it around half time, I was really worried before I was gonna be stuck around a bunch of Sounders haters all going for RSL. Anyway, the whole time hippie douche sounders fans kept coming by and yelling obsenities towards LA fans, in which one of them chased the little f*ck and got kicked out for it.

So it came down to penalties and I never felt so confident when LD stepped up and then we all know what happened. I was literally in tears after and couldn't leave my seat for a long time, long enough to see those RSL f*ks raise the cup. When leaving the stadium about 100 people kept coming up to me and saying LA is crap and we suck and this and that. Then some f*ck threw beer on me and I nearly tackled the guy but my friend pushed me away from him...

Oh yea, later that week I wrecked my car b/c a "wonderful" seattle driver decided to turn right on red when i was already in the intersection and my car was deemed totaled and I had to buy a new one. so yea...

 

LOL

 

In my family, no matter how much we love him, he will always be known as Landon Frickin Donovan after that final PK.

 

For me it was these two Games...

The 6-2 Loss to FC Dallas in 2009 that ended with AJ getting injured and,...

The Last Game of 2010

I was probably the most mad I have ever been after watching those 2 games.
What made both those games maddening for me was the way they celebrated every goal. I have never wanted to see Jeff Cunningham and David Ferreira pimped slapped so badly in my life. And to make it worse that 2010 Western Finals game delayed our vengence for losing the MLS Cup in 09. We were wrecking fools all year long and then bam Dallas literally laughed us off the pitch. Thank God I wasn't in the stands as I am almost certain I would have been arrested that day.

Honorable Mention
2009 MLS Cup Final
I still watch the highlights and fill like we just might pull off a win. Soooo close. Slipped right through the fingers. After that incredible comeback of a year to lose like that you KNEW that a sleeping beast was going to be wide awake from that day forth. But Dallas! DALLLAAASSS!!!!

If it wasnt for living through those rough 08-09 years I don't know if I would have had the strength to put up with those early losses that happened in 2012.

 

This is a really depressing thread. Reading through it has me feeling kind of sick. I didn't know that was possible when you are the two time champions.

A really smart guy (in a different context than sports) once told me that "Losing hurts worse than winning feels good. Winning is a high, but you remember the losses better." Guess that's true here as well.

 

I saw a game towards the end of the Sigi Schmid era, after he'd lost the clubhouse, where Sigi put five forwards in and we still couldn't get off even 1 shot on goal.

And I'll go with that, because my shrink says I haven't really worked through 2003 enough to talk about what happened.

 

Seriously. PartyPoops McBuzzkill.

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The 03 loss to San Jose was humiliating and unforgettable. That is definitely #1.

Beautiful Gamer reminded me of the shock and horror of 2010 versus Dallas. I was in the stands and it was horrible to watch the team just fall apart. It was cold comfort remembering that we were the Supporters Shield winner. Kind of like, exactly like, San Jose feels this year.

The Superliga final where Donovan missed the PK for the win (which I saw in person), was almost as bad as the 09 MLS cup final (which I saw on TV). But we can now console ourselves that the Superliga never meant anything... and tragically enough that goalkeeper Calero from Pachuca has just died an untimely death, so there are more important things.

 

Lopsided scores like the 4-0 Sanduskying we suffered against Seattle this past season are always in the running for worst game ever in my book.

 

The Superliga will forever be remembered by the Chris Klein bicycle kick. Everything else was just training.

 

you've convinced me to remember the good part of the superliga. (Klein's bicycle was epic.) Maybe I should do the same with 2010.

 

All yours, profiled.