Snarf

Same here. I felt last year that the officiating + flu robbed the Pats of a spectacular victory.

Yesterday's game we sucked from start to finish. Big old stinker. I don't mind losing when we play like losers.

BelichickFan

That pretty much sums it up for me. The better team won but that's not because we were good and they were great but that we sucked and they were OK. A really good team would have smoked us the way we played last night. I'm surprisingly fine today because we lost all of our own doing.

mb6592

& EVER WILL EXPERIENCE! The thing is, unlike other terrible losses that fade with time and future successes, this one will only get worse with the passing of time and the realization that we will NEVER be in this position again.

CTPatsFan

I've got to go with this game only because of the expectations and culmination of an undefeated season. Yes, the '86 WS was tough. The Buckner play was wrenching but they did have another chance to redeem themselves and failed in game 7. As a Sox fan I can't say that I wasn't surprised. And while playoff defeats to the Yankees were once routine, it wasn't the same as had they been WS games.

A lot of it hinges on my oldest son's reactions and experiences. All he knows are Pats SB runs, Sox WS runs, UConn hoops are usually pretty good. He's never experienced the losing years to temper his disappointment. It kills me to see him take it so hard.

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Seymour93

I actually cried after that game. We played a hell of a lot better against the Colts than we did last night. The main reasons why we lost were due to the flu, biased refs, and NaPolian tricks. As for last night we were just simply beaten by a better team. Even at 7-3 it seemed like we were losing and getting outplayed. For me going 18-1 and getting beat by a physical team fair and square in the SB is better than going 12-4 and losing to your arch-rivals in the playoffs for the first time in the conference championship game.

Patriot Missile

I'm a wreck this morning. Woke up on 3 different occasions last night. I'll admit I'm not angry at this game because the Giants did all the things they had to do to win the game.

I've always had the luxury of having coaches doing all the right things and never had to question them. But this was the worst coached 4th quarter by our coaching staff in my memory. Having a game winning interception go through the hands of you best defensive back compounded with one of the luckiest if not greatest catches all time by an opposing WR,mixed with a QB's jersey slipping through your guys fingers hurt. BTW there was holding on the play big time but I understand why the refs let it go. They were allowed to play the game and that's how it should of ended.

I can say with this game they won in the trenches and were the better team that day. Execution was not as good as it could of been but that's football.

I will never get over being robbed by the refs in the 06 championship game though. We were robbed and probably would of beat the Bears.

Horace's Ivories

This loss makes me realize how very lucky these Pats were to even be 18-0. I was kidding myself and thinking that those supposedly lesser teams/QBs (ie. feeley etc) played out of their minds and that these PATS were much better. I then rationalized that the Jags and Bolts must have been excellent teams based on their relatively close playoff games. I realize that the Pats were not the team reflective of a 18-0 record. They didnt deserve 19-0. Bottom line. It sucks and without a doubt an incredibly draining season but the Giants are the best team in the NFL.

Real American Hero

This one sucks because it completely nullifies everything this team did all year. For 18 weekends I was on cloud 9 only to have it come crashing down in the saddest of ways. I still have a hard time rationalizing all my thoughts about it. What saddens me most is the loser fans of 30 other franchises that think this is the greatest thing ever because Boston fans are "smug". Have they forgotten about how bad NY fans are? Eli's draft day antics? The '72 Fins? All these clowns who let their jealousy of the Pats make a Giants prediction that played out nothing like the actual game now trying to take credit for their picks? Talk about smug.

My hat is off to the Giants and their true blue fans, everyone else who wants to gloat in our misery can go eff themselves.

We'll be back. Brady is still in his peak and these guys will be hungrier than ever.

PS. - Niner and Dolphin fans - the '85 Bears are still the most impressive team I ever saw.

Va_Pats_Fan

I have to go with the loss last year being worse. Don't know why, this just didn't bother me as much as that one.

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chris_in_sunnyvale

Not the worst loss for me. Despite the Giants manhandling the Pats' OL, the Pats still were up 14-10 with just over 2 minutes to go and the Giants pinned on their 17yd line. The D had done its job all night. Then suddenly the Giants made play after play. The 3rd down throw to Toomer on the ground just short of the 1st down marker would have been an incomplete pass 7 times out of 10. Then the Pats key on Jacobs on the 4th down play and he's still able to eek out a 1st down. Then the game-changing play with Eli's escape and the circus catch by Tyree. That's a one-in-a-hundred play. Of course the Pats blitz would eventually leave Hobbs one-on-one with Burress and he got predictably smoked, but everything leading up to that was surreal.

Seriously, if I told you before the game that the Pats would be leading by 4 with just over 2 minutes and the Giants started on their 17, would you have taken that? Especially after you asked how many points the Giants had scored all game up to that point (10)? I would have taken that. Unfortunately, a whole bunch of sh** happened that normally wouldn't.

What makes the loss the most painful is that the 19-0 opportunity went up in smoke. Looked at without that taken into consideration, losing the way they did was more of a freak thing that I can reluctantly accept. Sure, the OL should have done a better job earlier so the offense could have put the game out of reach, but the bottom line is that they had the lead with just over 2 minutes left. They just couldn't close the deal, despite not playing all that badly in that final drive, Hobbs' coverage on the game-winner notwithstanding.

Regards,
Chris