Armchair Bronco

One of my favorite "Old School" scenes from the Denver-NE rivalry was when Shannon Sharpe was "calling in the National Guard becase Denver is killin' the Patriots"! Man, those were the days.

WE ARE "KILLING THE PATRIOTS!" - YouTube

Times have changed; lately, the Patriots have been killing Denver. And before that, Denver kept getting killed by Indy year after year in the playoffs. Wait long enough and teams at the top become bottom dwellers. And mediocre teams become dominant. It's what makes the NFL great.

jmt57

I was old enough to be out on my own and a season ticket holder when the Pats lost to the Bears. There is absolutely no way that losing a blowout feels better than losing a close game; in fact it is not even remotely close.

To me the major difference in the comparison made above regarding how Titans fans felt is that they had never seen (and still never have seen) their team win a championship. In a 32-team league a fan should on average see his team win a championship after 16 years, and then one more every 32 years after that. Based on that I've seen as many championships as I should expect to see in a 80 years; I've witnessed a lifetime worth of championships in the last decade. It's as if I'm playing with house money at this point. If I had never seen the Pats win a championship I would surely feel differently, but since that's not the case I am quite calm this morning - something that co-workers, customers and family are rather surprised to see.

ctpatsfan77

OK, the Pats have gone 29-6 in the past two years . . . and it's time to dump BB and Brady?

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"Momentum was quickly snatched away by New England, who once again proved that any Patriot, at any moment, can make a play." —Inside the NFL, Packers v. Patriots

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Armchair Bronco

I actually felt sorry for Patriots fans after that crushing defeat to Chicago. The only thing that went wrong in that game is that Ditka inexplicably forget to let Sweetness score a TD. Otherwise, the Patriots were humiliated on national television.

A few years later, I got to experience that horrible, HORRIBLE feeling when Denver was humiliated by the Redskins in the Super Bowl when the game got away in the second quarter (what did they score? 4 or 5 TD's? I forget). Then, if that weren't bad enough, we were utterly and completely destroyed by the San Francisco 49'ers, 55-10. I still haven't even seen even a single YouTube video from that game; it's just too painful. And humiliating.

For weeks after that game, I was a laughingstock in the office. I just wanted to crawl in a hole and hibernate for 6 months.

So hold your heads up high, Pats fans. You played a close game and you lost the game on the final play. That's the way to go down. Fighting till the last minute with a chance to win it at the end.