You guys prob wont understand what i'm talking about but here goes...
AFL, 1999: My beloved Essendon was putting together a team that would only lose 6 games in 3 seasons, but came up against a mediocre, but spirited Carlton team (one of our arch-enemies for the last 120 years) in the preliminary final (the qualifying game for our 'superbowl' - the Grand Final). We ended up losing by a point, which isn't much when the scores usually get 100+. This put them into the GF where they got killed by North Melbourne... who would've had no chance against us. This started a trend which still pisses me off no end. We only lost 5 more games in 2.5 years, but one of those was the 2001 GF to Brisbane.
Fuck that loss in September 1999 still pisses me off... invincible team for 3 seasons and only one championship...
Go the Bombers! (and go Mark Johnson, you good thing)