And they did. Ugh.
I wish I was a believer in moral victories but I don't. History is written by the victors. One stupid decision, a little luck, and we'll have to endure years of Patriot fan gloating. This is particularly bitter for me because I lived in Cleveland and was a huge Browns fan as a kid when they lost to Denver in the '88 AFC Championship Game because of "the fumble." They were the better team and Denver proved it by going to the Superbowl and getting their asses kicked by Washington. At least with the "fumble" it was a reasonable football play that just went wrong. Yesterday was a dumb football play that cost Seattle the Superbowl. Ouch.
I can think of a lot of coulda shoulda's. I wish the Seahawks secondary wasn't in its weakest condition since early season. I wish the Seahawks secondary wasn't further weakened when they lost last year's Superbowl MVP in the first quarter to injury. I wish our starting defensive end didn't get injured in the 3rd quarter...followed by two touchdown drives by the Patriots. I wish our coach called for a run instead of a pass. Any one of those would have probably made the difference in the game.
It's definitely hard to swallow. The Seahawks held the Patriots to 57 yards rushing. The Seahawks rushed for 162 yards. They intercepted Brady twice. As I predicted yesterday, the Seahawks were the tougher team. On any normal day the Seahawks win with those numbers.
But they weren't the smarter team...at least in the last meaningful play of the game.
Sorry, I can't bring myself to really congratulate the Patriots. I admire the hell out of Brady for leading the Patriots comeback in the 4th quarter against Seattle's depleted defense. I admire what's his name who made the interception to win the game...nice defensive play on an historically stupid offensive play. I admire the Patriots secondary shutting down Seattle's middling receivers for about half the game. I admire Belichick for being an ornery *******. But overall I say, lucky win but still counts.
See you next year and hope the results are what they should have been yesterday--the best team winning the game.
PS. It'll be fun to see how the Patriots fare in a year or two when Brady is done. ;-)
I'm terribly sorry to inform you, but you are an idiot for posting that tripe.
Your team was THOROUGHLY outplayed in that 1st half. That should have been at least a 17-7 patriots lead at that point. Brady threw an ill advised pick in the red zone, which was worse than the Wilson pick (the Wilson pick was predicated on a GREAT play by the CB - - not a center field catch like the Brady INT). Also the 2nd Seattle TD was a gift from the Pats not playing to win, but not to lose with 31 seconds to go in the 2nd quarter. A GIFT that you don't even recognize in your sorrow.
Your "Greatest Defense in History" had a 10 point lead in the 4th quarter against a 37 year old QB.
Grow up and own it.
You Seahawks fans are still newbies and not ready for primetime. That is not your fault. We were there several Super Bowls ago also. We felt "jipped" by Tyree's catch and then Manningham's catch and saw deja vu in the Kearse catch. 3 SB's in a row - - 3 improbable catches in the last 2 minutes.
BTW, you are a RANK HYPOCRITE if you wrote that without smirking about your NFC Championship "victory".
Your team did NOT have to deal 2 weeks with the greatest media storm ever levied on an American sports team in history. Your head coach did NOT have to devote 3 days of what should have been focused preparation on a contrived scandal.
Your team had all the advantages, a closer SB locale and 80% of the fans in attendance.
Mflint, does your mommy cut your hamburger for you too?
The Patriots OVERCAME circumstance.
THAT is what greatness is.
