This is the Worst Loss I've Ever Experienced as a Fan

[Snarf]

For some reason the Indy playoff game last year was worse for me - far worse. Not sure why.

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]

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.

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]

In football, nothing even comes close. Baseball, the leader in the clubhouse was 1986/Buckner, which 2003 came close to. But those losses lost a lot of their sting when the Sox won the World Series. This is so incredibly painful because of the all the negative energy towards the Pats, the grind of the perfect season which became so exausting, and how close they came here. It's hard to even think about next year. The thing is, nothing can erase this unless there was ANOTHER run at a perfect season, which at this point is the last thing I'd want. Awful awful awful.

& 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.

 

[Seymour93]

For some reason the Indy playoff game last year was worse for me - far worse. Not sure why.

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]

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.

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.

 

[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

 

[PittPatriot]

I think the 24hr gap between games 6&7 gave me (10years old then) enough time to come to terms with the loss. However, last night was all about exorcising the pain that held over from the 2006 AFCCG. I needed a victory to feel 'over it.' Yes, all this is worsened because 18-0 may never happen to us again. Even if we win the SB next year, I think I will always have an empty spot left from this season.

The only therapy for me will be bringing back Asante and Moss...and upgrading the LB corps. No matter what anyone says, we looked old and slow in the front 7 yesterday. The O-Line has some questions to answer, but I have always felt the front 7 has been the heart and soul of this dynasty.

 

[aluminum seats]

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.

Well, I don't know. It was painful (VERY), but this one to me is much worse. Maybe it comes down to the perfect season and how you feel about it--if you never cared about it--and I know a lot of people didn't--then this loss could be less painful than that, I guess. But the perfect season was something I really wanted as a fan. Not getting it just SUCKS to me, making this one the worst.

 

[Terry Glenn is a cowgirl]

Let me take you guys back in time. You know that night. The night that we'll never forget. February 3, 2002. That was my worst loss as a fan. You know the expression misery loves company. Well it is so true. Pats fans sorry to rub salt in the wound but this Super Bowl provides some closure for me from that horrible loss six years ago. I could not have dreamed up a better scenario. Yeah, I know what a loser troll I am. But you know what, it does feel so good.

We know how you feel like now... and it isn't a good feeling.

 

[thechris]

I agree all around. This loss hurts BAD. I was kinda hoping I'd wake up today and that yesterday never happened at all.

 

[TomPatriot]

For some reason the Indy playoff game last year was worse for me - far worse. Not sure why.

Pats blew a huge lead - that's why.

 

[reflexblue]

This IS the worse loss I have ever experianced,worse than last years AFCCG,at least there was an excuse for that. The team was beat up,worn down, sick and had to play the reff's too. Th '86 Red Sox was bad I never got over that one,but we wern't suppose to win. This game after listening to,and defending the team and coach all year from outside attack was beyond any thing I've ever imagined.We were suppose to win, the Giants Aren't that good. We looked like it was Our first SB The OL,OC,QB,AND HC ING was: sickening
abominable, awful, beastly, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrid, horrific, icky*, loathsome, lousy, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, n, objectionable, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, satiating, scandalous, s shameless, shocking, stinking, surfeiting, vile, vulgar plus shocking. I was embaressed by the loss, and like the Sox of '86 I will never get over this one EVER. I even have to consider with all the time I put into listening, watching, reading,and writing about the team (about 8 hours a day every day, 365 days a year) weather its worth it any more. I could be a better father, husband, worker and get more things done if I didn't put so much time,energy and emotion into this team.

 

[pheenix11]

This is the worst ever for me by far. Someone wins a championship every year, its great to do but its not unique.

But NO ONE has ever gone 19-0. We had it right there in front of us and now it is gone and the chances of ever seeing it again are slim. We had a chance to do something that would ensure immortality for this team and now its gone. And now we have to go through another offseason, training camp, preseason, regular season and postseason to even have a chance to make up for it.

Even if we come out guns blazing the first 8 games next year and blow everyone out, no one will care, no one will be impressed because we didn't win the big one when it mattered. After every game next year no matter how great we look people will say "yeah, but".

This just royally sucks. My life will go on but as a fan of history I am crushed. We were so close. And we will probably win the Super Bowl next year and we will all be happy but it won't be the same. It won't be perfect.

Well maybe it will, but its a longshot.

 

[Terry Glenn is a cowgirl]

...abominable, awful, beastly, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrid, horrific, icky*, loathsome, lousy, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, n, objectionable, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, satiating, scandalous, s shameless, shocking, stinking, surfeiting, vile, vulgar plus shocking. I was embaressed by the loss, I will never get over this one EVER. I even have to consider with all the time I put into listening, watching, reading,and writing about the team (about 8 hours a day every day, 365 days a year) weather its worth it any more. I could be a better father, husband, worker and get more things done if I didn't put so much time,energy and emotion into this team.

I felt the exact same way... to a "T."

I felt like I wasted way too much time on something that didn't really even matter that much.

I still feel this way.

I have learned a very valuable lesson though.

I will concentrate much more on stuff that I CAN control.

Last night was actually a very good lesson.

I will still be a fan, but, not nearly as much as I once was.

 

[aluminum seats]

I felt the exact same way... to a "T."

I felt like I wasted way too much time on something that didn't really even matter that much.

I still feel this way.

I have learned a very valuable lesson though.

I will concentrate much more on stuff that I CAN control.

Last night was actually a very good lesson.

I will still be a fan, but, not nearly as much as I once was.

I'm sure those are worthy sentiments, but damn.....still be a fan, but not as much? That's a depressing idea as well, having to distance yourself from something that has given so much joy. Damn damn damn.

 

[Pats Fanatic]

To me the playoff loss in 1976 was far worse then this. It took me along, long time to get over that. Remember then we had no SB titles no real great history but that year was magic, then robbed from us. The last two hurt but still have 3 titles and the Pats are the team of the decade, just think about that from were we were just a few years ago. This team will make it back, I'm very confident of that plus what a year this has been let not lose sight of that.