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Other than the ones mentioned:

the 2001 home game against the Saints. Steve Smith returned a punt for a TD in the closing seconds, only to see Ricky Williams score the game winning TD with 1 second on the clock.

I was at that game and it was a kick in the balls for sure.

2003 vs Tennessee

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I don't know why I didn't put Super Bowl in the list of what I was expecting. Maybe because the Pathers were underdogs and only led one time in that game, by one point.

Would the Arizona game be a stomach punch game considering it was such a blowout? A stomach punch, by Bill Simmons' definition, is one where victory gets taken away from you unfairly. I've had two in my life...Christian Laettner and Donnie Moore (all I have to say is their names and you know what game I'm talking about).

The three games that would best fit the Simmons definition, to me, would be the 04 Saints game, because that team had tried so valiantly to come back from 1-7, the 04 Falcons game (same reason), and the Super Bowl, simply because the Panthers had been money in overtime that year.

See the stomach punch games always come when you're THIS close to doing something special.

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I wasn't able to re-watch the superbowl loss until this year.But at least that was a good game that could have gone either way. I think I won't be able to watch the Arizona playoff game until ...well never. Everything had lined up, we were gonna have home field with the giants loss. I still can't believe how badly we loss that game. It feels like a light graze against my balls every time I think of that game. God such bad memories..why even make this post..........AAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I remember a home game in 2001 where we lost in part because of a late safety against us. The safety happened because our guy (I believe it was Doug Evans) either picked up a fumble or grabbed an INT and his momentum carried him into the end zone. My memory is hazy on some aspects, the game (I believe) was against either the Saints or the Jets. The rule that allowed for the call was changed soon after that season, nowdays it would be ruled a touchback. Regardless, the safety ended some momentum we had in that game. That game with the safety seemed to eptomize that season.

My next game was a preseason game we played against Denver in 1997. Terminal scumbag Bill Romanowski blitzed and jammed his helmet up under Kerry Collins' face mask and broke his jaw, not to mention blasting out several of Collins' teeth. That and the Kevin Greene soap opera threw a pall on things that ruined any chance of repeating the success of 1996. What made things worse was that no one retaliated for Collins, which indicated some things about how Collins was viewed, feelings about him which became public later. The team didn't respect him, and let that blatant hit go by unchallenged!

Third game was already mentioned, the 2004 game at Atlanta. That one really hurt..

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