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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Maybe I've been lucky. I started watching football when I was 11, and that was in 1994, right when the team started to turn around.
Just about anytime I make a post even referencing SB42 loosely, I'm reminded by how hauntingly close this team was to making extremely epic sports history, and how - a large part thanks to one lucky play - that was ripped away.
While Brady & Belichick are together, we as Patriot fans are in a unique situation where we have a reasonable expectation of a championship caliber team every year. Some will call it greed - I disagree. As long as these two are together, a year that doesn't end in a Patriots championship is going to be a disappointment.
Considering the bitter way in which 2007 ended, and considering how 2006 also had a strange, twisted and depressing ending [in that case, one in which fate, the refs, and the flu deprived of us a championship] does this team need to win another ring to "redeem" itself and help minimize the sting of those two losses and maximize the impact of their decade long greatness?
I think a lot of the older fans don't mind being greedy. I don't at all. . .
You weren't around when the Pats where the best thing going to make a loss out of a win, back in the 70's when we lost our rights to MNF, the '76 playoff loss, the countless games that we had to listen on the radio cause it was blackout as the stadium was not sold out, the '86 loss to the Bears, on and on
We were many times at the celler in the division and had a few good season here and there and had tragic playoff lossess. Factor in the Red Sox and briuns failures from '72 to '01 you get the picture.
when some one brings water to a dying man in the desert don't blame the guy if he wants to get up, cheer and enjoy the water . . .
when some one brings water to a dying man in the desert don't blame the guy if he wants to get up, cheer and enjoy the water . . .
This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.We'll always have Paris
Maybe I've been lucky. I started watching football when I was 11, and that was in 1994, right when the team started to turn around.
We'll always have Paris
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Round up the usual suspects...
"Is this game Honest? Its as Honest as the day is long..."
"I'm shocked. Shocked! To find gambling going on here..."
( your winnings sir....)
"I came for the waters."
"Waters? We're in the Desert!".
"I was ... mis-informed."
I think the only true way to ever redeem SB42 would be for the Pats to not only win the super bowl this year, but go 19-0 in the process. Sure, another 17-2 season with a ring at the end would help to ease the pain a lot, but it still wouldn't fully erase what could have been from our minds...I feel the only way I will ever be able to forget that disappointing end would be for the Pats to somehow finish the deal with a real 19-0 season, but that's just me...
I'm sure the the team doesn't care as much about being undefeated, but there is no way, at least in my mind, that trading a 19-0 season for a 17-2 season is a fair trade...with that said, I will be pulling for 19-0 in 2009, but i will settle for less if they win the SB...for now anyway...