Every Team's Most HEARTBREAKING Playoff Loss! 

Don't even need to watch to know what the Falcons most heartbreaking loss is

I love that you guys used the losing team's radio calls...you rarely hear those and it hammers home the pain of the losses big time.

OH BOY do I have a Buffalo Bills game for you to update this list with... lol

Chargers just blew a 27-0 lead to the Jags a few minutes ago. Crazy heartbreaker for LA

I would argue that an even worse loss for the Broncos was the ‘96 Divisional Playoff against the 2nd Year Jaguars. One of the biggest playoff upsets and it absolutely shocked the Broncos.

It's crazy that in 2011, the Ravens lose in the AFC Championship to the Patriots because their kicker missed a chip shot field goal - and that's their most heartbreaking loss on this list. The next summer, they get Justin Tucker, who has been (at least on pace to be) the greatest kicker in NFL history. And he makes the kick in the 2012 AFC Divisional to hand the Broncos their most heartbreaking loss.

...and AS a Giants fan...I love this video...I never realized how many heartbreaks we have caused till I see them all in one place

Seeing RG3 go down like that is really heartbreaking especially knowing how badly that injury effected his potential

Damn, the Patriots really are "America's worst nightmare". On here 9 times just crushing team's dreams.

The Saints have had so much playoff heartbreak that they had to put 2 for us. And they didn't even include Beastquake or 2019.

As a Saints fan, I understand, but how dare you make me relive BOTH of those moments.

Ah yes, allowing all fans to relive their most painful memories. Thank You NFL Throwback

Patriots seemed to own about a quarter of those heartbreaks

Sherm face after the INT said it all.. can't imagine the pain Seahawks fans felt

It's sort of poetic how the 49ers and Giants gave each other their most heartbreaking loss.

As a Panthers fan, that loss in Super Bowl XXXVIII still stings almost twenty years later. The Cardiac Cats had the game within their grasp, but the kick out of bounds and frickin' Tom Brady killed any chances they had of going out on top.

Just seeing how many of these teams' most heartbreaking losses have been to the Patriots has been mind-boggling. SEVEN teams on this list lost to the Patriots. The list could be altered and changed, yes, but really puts into perspective just how dominating the Pats have been for the last 20 years or so.

As a Saints fan I would rather go through 10 Minneapolis Miracles than what happened the year after

I'd argue for the Jets that their loss to the Steelers in the 2010 AFC Championship Game was the most heartbreaking. They had just come off a huge upset against the rival Patriots and were one drive away from completing the comeback. The Steelers 3rd and 6 conversion still haunts me to this day, and as of this writing, that is the most recent Jets playoff appearance. Also the AFC Championship Game loss to the Colts the year prior was pretty rough.

As a Steelers fan, I believe the '94 AFC championship loss to the Chargers was the most devastating. They had home field advantage against an inferior San Diego team and laid and egg at Three Rivers. Yeah, their Superbowl 30 loss to the Cowboys was disappointing, but they were the underdog as not many people thought they would knock off the dynastic Cowboys.

The only reason I can tolerate looking at that 23-20 loss to the Patriots in 2011, is knowing that the Ravens got revenge the following season on their way to a Superbowl victory.

That Falcons loss to the Patriots is one of the all-time worst chokes in sports history. No way Atlanta ever forgets that one.

The Vikings could’ve had the Hail Mary, 1987 drop on the goal line, 1998, 2009 Brett Farve int, and the 2015 Blair Walsh miss.

As a fan of New Orleans the divisional loss to the 49ers on January 14, 2012 hurt worse. Many of us believed the 2011 crew was the best team the Saints ever put on the field, even better than the '09 team.

It must have been difficult for the NFL Throwback editors to come up with just one Vikings heartbreaking playoff loss. Drew Pearson pushing off? Darrin Nelson dropping the game winning pass in Washington? Gary Anderson? 41-Donut? Favre throwing across his body against the Saints? NICK FOLES beating the brakes off the #1 ranked D? Oh yeah and any of the 4 Super Bowl losses.

00:00 - Patriots 00:56 - 49ers 01:45 - Chiefs 02:42 - Packers 03:49 - Cardinals 04:43 - Seahawks 05:14 - Titans 06:02 - Saints 07:04 - Steelers 07:54 - Ravens 08:39 - Bills 09:19 - Eagles 10:18 - Rams 11:22 - Broncos 12:09 - Buccaneers 13:04 - Giants 14:16 - Falcons 15:09 - Browns 16:09 - Raiders 17:10 - Bengals 17:56 - Redskins/Football Team 18:59 - Chargers 20:00 - Colts 20:37 - Panthers 21:33 - Lions 22:17 - Bears 23:21 - Vikings 23:59 - Dolphins 24:16 - Jets 25:14 - Jaguars 26:05 - Texans 27:07 - Cowboys

Major props for using the losing team's radio announcers, it really adds some extra oomph to hear all these different dudes going through the five stages of grief in real time.

Jacksonville was so dominant and deserved to go to the Super Bowl that year IMO.

The 2014 NFC championship is just pure pain. Packers defense played at a higher level than Seattle’s and forced 5 turnovers. That onside kick recovery was like a stab through the heart💔 Can’t believe how we dominated the majority of the game but didn’t close it out😔😔

That Seahawks loss still hurts …. Lynch was disrespected by his own coach :(

More than anything, the takeaway is that every single team in the sport has had a heartbreaking loss. Solidarity

It’s hard to not pick the 2010 NFC Championship game against the Packers for the Bears. Chicago was the host and let their longtime rival hoist the George Halas trophy in Soldier Field. Two weeks later Green Bay goes on to win the Super Bowl. I’ll never forget that game. The infamous Jay Cutler injury and all of the ex players calling him out on social media.

As a pats fan I got over the 46 and 52 losses. But 42… man kills me to this day smh Another note crazy how many of these involve Tom Brady

I love how the giants are just ruining dynasties in these, it’s the only thing they’re good at 😂

The Broncos most heartbreaking playoffs loss, I gotta say, would still have to be the 1996 Divisional loss to the Jaguars. The reason being that, despite Peyton Manning being a beloved part of Broncos history, John Elway was always The Man in Denver. 1996 looked like it was going to be their last, best chance at him winning a Super Bowl. Denver was far and away the best team in the AFC, and Jacksonville didn't look like they were going to be any serious competition. They were a 2nd year expansion franchise that barely squeezed into the playoffs. The Broncos were up 12-0 after the 1st Quarter and were rolling. And lost. The 2012 Ravens had been to the AFC Championship Game the previous season and were still a solid team that we knew could pull things off. The Jags came out of nowhere to win in 1996. Our jaws were wide open after the Broncos failed to convert that last onside kick. We all were like, "How could this happen?!?" That's the difference. Oh, and The Ice Bowl. People all over the area had trouble starting their cars that morning, and there were reports that at least one person died in the stands due to exposure. It was so cold that they canceled the marching band performance at halftime and the referees got rid of their whistles because they were sticking to their lips. What was it, -15* in Green Bay that afternoon? I still love hearing Vince's admonishment to Bart Starr before that final QB sneak. "Okay, run it, then let's get the Hell out of here."

You really think the Raiders loss in the "Tuck Rule" game was more heartbreaking than the "Immaculate Reception" game? Raiders' fans and ex-players are still grousing about that game 50 years later. Also, as a Colts fan I think the '95 PO loss to the Steelers ending a true "Cinderella season" on a missed last second hail Mary was a lot more heartbreaking than the '05 loss to those same Steelers, who outplayed us for the whole damn game. I also think blaming Gary Andersen for "losing" the '98 PO game is pure BS. The Vikings still had a 7-point lead, and the D lost the game, not Andersen.

28-3 ... I'm not a falcons fan but that pain will never heal 💯😂

As a Saints fan there is no worst one all of them hurt😞

Lots of recency bias in some of these picks. Chargers’ loss to a depleted Oilers team in ‘79 or the loss to the Raiders in ‘80 were at least as bad as the Patriots game. Washington’s shellacking in Super Bowl XVIII to the Raiders was worse than RGIII getting hurt. Older Cowboys fans have always told me the loss to the Colts in Super Bowl V was way worse than the Packers NFL title losses. And speaking of the Colts, Super Bowl III????! Anyway… Hard disagree on the Steelers toughest playoff loss. Super Bowl XXX was frustrating, but the loss the year before to the Chargers in the AFC Championship Game was worse. 2001 AFC Championship against the Patriots was bad too. Way tougher to lose as a big home favorite than to lose in a game you weren’t necessarily expected to win. Even if it is the Super Bowl. How about the loss to the Raiders without Harris and Bleier in ‘76? Any older fans remember that one?

As a broncos fan I still believe the 96 divisional game vs the Jags was pretty brutal. That ravens team had a ridiculous tantrum in Jones and Bolden

As a chiefs fan I gotta say the loss to Andrew Luck and the colts was more heartbreaking. I’d even put the loss to Mariota and the Titans above the loss to Brady in the championship game. Once we got Mahomes there was a sigh of relief knowing we could win playoff games, but before then the curse was real and painful.

"The Drive" and "The Fumble" happening to the same team in back to back years against the same opponent in the same game. Man, the Browns really are cursed.

i’m not even a cardinals fan and it hurts to see those super bowl highlights

If you havent had a painful loss to the patriots or the giants, are you really a real team?

The most heartbreaking loss for Houston was the 32 point blown lead vs Buffalo in ‘93.

The first truly heartbreaking playoff loss I ever experienced was for the 1991 season: John Elway led the Broncos on what some call "The Drive II" converting on a couple of 4th downs to defeat the Oilers 26-24.

Looking at this list, Brady got a lot of luck and capitalized on em. Tuck rule, Ravens missed FG, KC lines up offsides, Jags blown lead/Mile Jack fumble recovery run, Falcons blown 28-3 lead, Seattle didn't run Lynch at the 2 yard line, Carolina kicks out of bounds in the Super Bowl, etc.

That no call as a Saints fan still haunts my dreams🙀

Cowboys have had a lot of heartbreaking playoff losses, twice to the Steelers in the Super Bowl, Super Bowl 5 against the Colts, the "Catch" in 1982 with the 49ers, 1994 NFC title game against the 49ers, all of the Tony Romo losses, 2016 with the Packers.

Everyone is gonna talk about the Seahawks not running the ball down at the goal line, but the 49ers losing Montana and the chance to 3-peat was bigger than that

The most devastating loss in Dolphins playoff history: 1994 Divisional Round at San Diego. Dolphins dominate the 1st half up 21-6...fall behind 22-21 at the end of the 4th...Marino leads one final comeback drive...gets to San Diego's 30...Stoyo misses the game winning kick wide right. We should have played the 49ers in the Super Bowl that year.

I thought the worst game for Miami would be when Ray Finkle missed that heartbreaking field goal wide right in the Superbowl!

"As they try to win their 4th Super Bowl in 7 years" The Packers have 4 NFCC loses in the last 7 years😭

The fact that the Double Doink is probably the 3rd worst playoff loss in Bears history is depressing. (#1 being the Washington loss and #2 being the loss to the Packers in the NFC Championship game)

I gotta say that the most heartbreaking loss for the New Orleans Saints was the 2018 NFC Championship Game against the Rams on the no PI call.

That Vikings team at the end of the 90's was one of the most talented teams to never make it to the SB.

1981 AFC Divisional: Raiders at Browns. Mike Davis's last minute INT of Brian Sipe just when it looked like the Browns were gonna pull it out was also an extremely heartbreaking loss for the Dawg Pound. I wanted so bad to see a 'Siper' Bowl

As much as Super Bowl 42 footage, logos, sound effects and moments still traumatize me, huge shout out for using the Patriots radio call and the legendary voice of the Patriots, Gil Santos, who is sadly no longer with us

As a Cowboy fan, there's no way the 1966 NFL Title game was more heartbreaking than Dwight Clark making "The Catch." The 1966 Cowboys were a young, green playoff team facing the dynastic Packers. The overall mood was that their time would come. There was little expectation they would win, and no shame when they did. Truly heartbreaking were the SB loss to the Colts with 5 seconds left, and wasting two elite seasons by losing to inferior Cleveland in 1968 and 1969.

Add the Bills vs. Chiefs game to this list from the 2021 season divisional playoffs that just happened. I hope Bills Mafia will recover! Best game ever played.

As a Bears fan, I thought that the double doink was going to be in here.

Honestly don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully process the Jets and Browns making the same playoffs 🤯

I Would argue that the 49ers loss to the Ravens in XLVII was worse

The Titans in the Super Bowl against the Rams will always be #1, but the 2021 Divisional against the Bengals, it's up there.

I’ll never get over 18-1…….or Samuel’s dropped INT…..

As a Chiefs fan, the epic collapses against the Colts in 2013 and Titans in 2018 hurt way more than that loss to the Patriots. While it sucked losing to the Evil Empire, with Patrick Mahomes it feels like we always have shot, rather than the impending sense of dread that I always had pre-Mahomes that we were going to somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I think they are going to have to update the most heartbreaking loss for the Bills.

That 2002 Eagles loss to Tampa Bay was earth-shattering. Everyone in my family, including my parents, went to bed in tears that night

23:21 many people forget that the Vikings already had the lead before Gary Anderson's missed field goal. It would have made it a 2 possession game but ultimately it was the Vikings defense who blew it by allowing the Falcons to drive down the field in the last 2 minutes.

I like how they used the losing team's radio announcers to emphasize the heartbreak.

Man, I will never forget that Tyree catch. I was watching with a bunch of Giants fans and I think they had minor heart attacks multiple times in that one play.

Vikings have had so many of these it's impossible to pick just one

As a cowboys fan I already knew it would be ethier the dropped catch in the super bowl by Jackie smith or romo fumbling a snap

I'll never forget the Packers vs Seahawks in the NFC championship game. My fathers last Packer game alive. We had that game in the bag, and to see that trick play on the field goal, and then the Wilson hail marry, and then to top it off the Bostick botched onside kick recovery, I swear I have football PTSD from that game.

The 49ers loss to the Seahawks in the NFC championship killed me.. also that NFC championship against the giants where our punt returner muffed two punts and giants won in OT. Heartbreakers for sure.

you'd have to add bills' loss to chiefs yesterday

Thanks for including the radio calls from the losing side of some great defeats/collapses/impossible moments in NFL history. I had never heard the Seattle radio call of the Super Bowl 49 play. Very cool.

The fact that the most embarrassing playoff loss for the Bears in this video is NOT represented by the "Double Doink" is, in fact, embarrassing. 3 years later and the after-effects are still being felt, and will continue to be for a long time.

The Steelers most painful loss has to losing the AFC Championship to the Chargers in 1994. They were huge favorites. They were hosting a championship for the first time in 10 years, and they had a 10 point lead late in the game.

For the Cowboys, I would also include Jackie Smith's dropped touchdown catch in Super Bowl XIII.

I still hurt watching my Titans lose the SB by a yd. I sure miss the warrior that was Air McNair😢

As a Panther's fan watching that final kickoff hurts my soul more and more every time I see it.

I genuinely think Pete Carroll didn't run the ball because of what happened to him in the Rose Bowl against Texas. Lendale White stuffed on 4th and 2 because everyone knew it'd be a run to their bruiser back.

Great list. Giants fan here. I expected the loss to the niners to be on the list...but by the start of the next season i was over it. The loss to the Rams in 1989 (Jan 1990) however... still hurts 32 years later... ask any giants fan who was a teenager then.

When you’re a Vikings fan with no Super Bowls, they all hurt. Some more than other. But you feel all of thrm

McCleon: "Tom Brady, overrated." 😂😂😂

That 2006 chargers loss to the patriots still hurts knowing we where the much better team, colts where next & bears after in the super bowl!!!

God seeing that Saints no call still pisses me off. I'm not even a Saint's fan but that just made me hate the officiating crew. To see the whole team so heartbroken to have come so close but missing out because the refs don't have fucking eyes.

Cowboys had 2 on here and they could have included The Catch, the last second SB V loss, the Jackie Smith dropped pass in SB XIII, the Dez no catch, or Rodgers ridiculous 3rd & 20 conversion in 2016.

Honorable mentions: Baltimore: Blowing two 14-point leads in New England Buffalo: Music City Miracle, 13 Seconds Chicago: Double Doink Dallas: Romo botching the snap in Seattle Green Bay: 4th and 26 Indianapolis: Hail Mary pass hits Aaron Bailey in the chest before falling incomplete Las Vegas: Immaculate Reception Pittsburgh: Getting Tebowed on the first play of OT

That bloody "no-call" for the Rams-Saints..... absolute garbage

Bears lost by a touchdown to the Packers in the NFC Championship in January of 2011. Backup Caleb Hanie threw an interception at the 29 yard line with 37 seconds left after a bad timeout by Lovie Smith. Losing that game was way more depressing.

lol 1st clip might give Patriots fans an immediate heart attack and a loud moaning sound from Giants fans.

The Lions heartbreaking lost was the 1993 wild card game against the Packers.93 was the last time the Lions won a division title.

VERY nice touch counting BOTH "The Drive" and "The Fumble" for Cleveland.

The Falcons Superbowl collapse really takes the cake. I've watched the 2014 NFC championship over and over and over and it still has me scratching my head how Seattle won it and Green Bay lost it.

As a Chiefs fan, that AFC Championship was ruff, but that 2016 loss to Pittsburgh has been forgotten and that one was a gut punch

As a Patriots fan I have experienced many highs watching them but losing the SB in 2007 hurt way more than winning any of the others felt good! I would gladly take away 2 Super Bowls to just get that one back!

The Tennessee Super Bowl breaks my heart, as a Tennessee native, we came so close💔💔

As a Patriots fan, I can honestly say that Super Bowl 42 wasn't it. It was the year before in the AFC Championship game against the Colts. Blowing a 21-3 lead to lose 38-34, and Rêche Caldwell driven out of New England