Brutal Championship losses

I still don't know how Atlanta lost this game.  Even with New England coming back, Ryan hit Julio Jones deep in Patriot territory.  If you run in the middle 3 times, and kick the field goal, you bring home the Trophy.  Matt Bryant is one of the best kickers in the game.  These game are more than choke jobs...they are another level.  Truly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  Conservative playcallers would have won that game for Atlanta

San Antonio was up about 9 points with under a minute left.  Parker was taking free throws and they were rolling the trophy out.  And then Lebron hit a couple of 3s and Ray Allen hit another 3 at the end. And the game went into overtime, where the Heat kept the momentum won the game.  They went on to win Game 7 and win the series.  This loss was brutal for the Spurs, but didn't stop them from coming back the next year and stomping the Heat in a redemption series.

Georgia fans have to suffer some serious PTSD when thinking how Bama has cost them championships.  The 2012 SEC Championship was bad enough watching the game slip away from Aaron Murray and the Bulldogs from the Alabama 9 yard line.  The Bulldogs would have beaten Notre Dame.  But the 2017 Championship was awful for the Bulldogs.  They had Bama on the ropes at half time, and were stoning Hurts.  It appeared the Bulldogs would be on their way to their first title since 1980.  Then Saban and the Tide came out at halftime starting a Freshman QB that was channeling his inner Bret Farve, took it to overtime, and stunned Georgia.

The LSU-Alabama game was pretty brutal for most of the nation watching an SEC rematch, but it was excruciating for LSU fans, watching possibly their best team ever get completely shut down, especially after the "Game of the Century" win earlier in the season.  LSU has NEVER gotten redemption for that game.  They have come close multiple times, but losing in the last minute.  The dominance Alabama established in that championship game has created a mental lock on LSU.

I don't know how this College World Series game compares with the other games above, but it was definitely mentally draining for Arkansas.  In Game 3, they were thoroughly dominated, and just looked deflated.  Literally one out away the previous night for Game 2, three players ran over to catch a foul ball, and it landed in between all three players.  Catch that ball and the Razorbacks are champs.  That simple.  Instead, Oregon State came to life and scored a run to tie, and then later hit a HR bringing in two more runs.

After the narrow field goal miss in Super Bowl XXV vs. the Giants, the Bills went to three more Super Bowls and got squashed every time.  In the last one they lost, they were playing pretty well till Thurman Thomas fumbled.  He walked to the sideline, sat down, and looked like death.  It was a recurring nightmare.