Mexico's Copa America Centenario journey came to an abrupt stop on Saturday night as El Tri suffered a 7-0 loss to titleholder Chile at Levi's Stadium.
So perturbed by the result, Mexico's manager Juan Carlos Osorio issued an apology after the fact, which seemed to matter little as Mexican newspapers ran headlines lambasting the shame of their national team's performance.
But Mexico fans don't need to be too upset, since suffering a blowout loss is a time-honored tradition in the history of the Copa America.
Here's a look back at some of the biggest losses in the competition:
Blast from the Past: Argentina 8-0 Paraguay (1926)
The first Copa America was played in 1916, but it took 10 years and 10 iterations of the tournament before South American football saw its first huge blowout in the competition. Argentina dispatched Paraguay 8-0, Roberto Cherro scoring twice, but the Albiceleste ultimately lost the title to Uruguay.
One year later, Uruguay destroyed Bolivia 9-0, but Argentina won the championship. If goals run dry, these two teams exhausted their stores just a touch early.
It was just the start of 100 years of big-margin victories.
Double-digit Demolition: Argentina 12-0 Ecuador (1942)
While 8-0 or 9-0 wins are certainly impressive, no result stands grander in the history of South America football than Argentina's utter demolition of Ecuador in 1942. A 12-0 final score saw Pedro Petrone score five goals alone in a result that still marks Argentina's largest-ever win in its history (and Ecuador's worst loss ever, too).
Perhaps as expected then, it was Uruguay which went on to win the 1942 title.
In 1975, Argentina nearly matched its historic achievement with an 11-0 win over Venezuela, with Daniel Pedro Killer, fittingly, scoring three goals.
Brazil hit double-digit margins too in 1949 against Bolivia, a 10-1 scoreline with Nininho, Jair, Zizinho, Claudio and Simao all finding the back of the net; it was one of four huge wins for Brazil in that tournament, though, as the Selecao defeated Ecuador 9-1 one week prior, then dismantled Peru 7-1 two weeks later.
The 1949 tournament proved incredibly fruitful for Brazil, though, as those three wins, plus a 5-1 result over Uruguay, set up a final against Paraguay that ended, predictably, in a blowout ...
Knockout Punch: Brazil 7-0 Paraguay (1949)
Mexico's pain comes from the fact that a 7-1 loss came in the quarter-finals; while a group stage blowout can be avenged, a loss in the knockout rounds sends a team packing.
In 1949, Paraguay suffered a major loss right in the final playoff match, a tiebreaker fixture that was only played because of the peculiar format of the competition at the time; back then, all teams played in a round-robin group, with the title going to the team that finished top of the group with the most points.
Paraguay ended the series tied with Brazil at 12 points apiece ... after defeating Brazil in the final game of the tournament 2-1. That result meant a playoff game was needed to decide a winner, and Brazil went ahead and won that match 7-0.
Brazil has never shied away from eliminating teams in the knockout stages; they dispatched Peru 7-0 in the semi-finals of 1997 and Chile 6-1 in 2007; Robinho and Vagner Love were among the scorers in the latter win.
Modern Era: Argentina 6-1 Paraguay (2015)
Brazil's big-margin victory over Chile in 2007 isn't the only modern blowout; just last year, Argentina defeated Paraguay 6-1, with Marcos Rojo, Javier Pastore, Angel Di Maria, Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain all finding the back of the net.
In 2004, Argentina defeated Ecuador 6-1, with Javier Saviola scoring a hat-trick in this group stage win.
If Saviola is a familiar name, there were even more stars on display in Brazil's 7-0 thrashing of Venezuela in 1999; both Ronaldo and Amoroso notched a brace, with Ronaldinho, Emerson and Rivaldo adding one each en route to the Selecao's sixth Copa America title.
El Tri's Triumph: Mexico 6-0 Paraguay (2007)
So, with those results in mind, Mexican soccer fans can take some solace knowing the scars of battle run deep for many teams in South America. And, to be fair, Mexico was on the delivering end of a pretty comfortable margin of victory themselves back in 2007 with a nice little 6-0 win over Paraguay.
Nery Castillo, Gerardo Torrado, Fernando Arce, Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Omar Bravo all found the back of the net in that semi-final victory.
