The ONLY good thing about today.

italian pat patriot said:

of course i will stay but, i admit, this loss is HUGE...

but, as always, i'm a true fan

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Would have been best

Nothing will seperate me from my NE sports teams. This loss is painful, but it was still an exciting season. Here's to a great season next year that hopefully ends the right way.

Can't get rid of me THAT easy!

What these guys did was simply amazing.

Now that I've found this site, I hope to learn about what really happens in the off season. For example, I've never really understood how the cap works.

I hope to be a smarter fan when we start this crazy ride again

The ONLY good thing about the game is that a friend of my 10yoS, who I coached in Little League last year and who happens to be undergoing chemo for a rare form of leukemia (due to receive a bone marrow transplant in a few weeks if all goes well), got to see his Giants win the Super Bowl while sitting in his hospital room.

The rest is minutiae. Albeit sucky minutiae.

Wow, surprisingly enough, this thread has pretty much been the source of the only thought that has been any consolation since the loss. Not just with fans, but in general. Maybe, in the eyes of the national media, the Pats can just go back to being another team? I know that's never going to happen, with the whole Goodell/Specter thing looming, but it would do a lot to mitigate how much this sucks if that was the result.

Something good just happened. I banned my first troll today!!!!

PATSNUTme said:

The only good thing about today is that all the bandwagon and sunshine Patriots will be leaving. They are probably already gone.

So, there are plenty pf seats now on the bandwagon, even window seats with leg room. Are you staying on or jumping off?

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Oh but the bandwagoners will be back. After the remarks made about the death of a dynasty I suspect we'll coming out of the gates next season like no other, and we'll have the I was there the whole time people back again.

Has anyone else noticed that every journalist is taking their swings at the pats right now? I have never seen such prevalent subjective articles. There's always a few biases, but today it is just ridiculous. What seems to slip everyone's mind is that other than our LBs this team is pretty young. We'll be back next year, and we'll probably have a defense as venomous as our offense.

the only good thing about today is i'm still ALIVE and still have my job.

08 here we come.

DieHardColtsFan said:

mmm mmm mmm....nobody said that besides planning the parade and getting a book all jazzed up...that there was gonna be biggest humble pie being served in boston.

what a treat!

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WOW. Another troll who just doesn't get it.

1) EVERY CITY whose team might go to the SB starts planning the parade route in advance. Boston doesn't have to do much planning since they've had quite a few in the last 7 years.

2) The Patriots had NOTHING to do with the 19-0 book that was posted on Amazon.com. OH, and if you had a brain, you'd also know that the same publisher had a book on Amazon for pre-order touting the Giants upset of the Patriots.

Sorry, but I think that there was bigger humble pie served in Indy when the Colts failed to defend their SB title than the Patriots losing in the SB.

I am staying, and will never leave

The other plus is that 'spygate' now becomes passe. The story only had the legs it did because of the Pat's success, something the haters never quite grasped. If it was say, the Raiders that were caught videotaping, it would never have amounted to anything more than a sports trivia question.

i'm afraid that the spygate is not going to go away even though we LOST. I hope this spygate is OVER.

Not going anywhere, I will be here forever.

That being said, this day absolutely blows!!! Can't focus on work, sleep, and life. A wise guy once said "Time Heals", but forgot to mention how much time???

I guess for me the biggest dissappointment is not being able to cement our place in history with a 4/7 years SB and a 19-0 in one of them, so that hurts . . .

PATSNUTme said:

The only good thing about today is that all the bandwagon and sunshine Patriots will be leaving. They are probably already gone.

So, there are plenty pf seats now on the bandwagon, even window seats with leg room. Are you staying on or jumping off?

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I have been on since the 80s and am staying put, thanks. :rocker:

I have a feeling a lot of bandwagon fans will be back on next season...as for me? There is no other franchise I'd rather be a fan of.

My first reaction after I threw all the magazine near me and pounded the couch was I would never follow the Patriots again (or football for that matter). I put too much time and energy in watching their magical season only to lose when it mattered most. All those records and wins meant nothing. They broke my heart. I was so depressed for them and I'm not even apart of the team. However, after I cooled off, I realized that I need a break from football and I will probably sign off until April's draft. I will not go on to ESPN to find out who the Pats will draft. So when draft day hits, I won't be suprised/disapointed in who they draft because I won't do my homework on pontential draft picks. I probably will not even check who they sign in free agency unless a friend let's me know. After 10 years of being a Pats fan, I need a break. My heart is broken.

Staying, staying, staying!!!!!

Mods, you should take inventory of all the members names on this site that don't show up until next year when the Pats dominate again and put a little Asterisk next to their names. I can understand not wanting to think about this pain right now, but any names that disappear from this site for the next 6 months should be IP banned or branded with an *.

I'm here for the duration, even (God forbid) if I've seen my last Pats SB run (which by the way, I seriously doubt.)

What gets me is that even though you always try to get better in the offseason, this one strikes me as a holding action. Retain what you can of last year's talent. It wasn't lack of talent that lost this game.

There'll be arguments - try to retain Samuel, try to replace him, whatever. There will be questions (as always) about the "old linebackers." There will be dread of retirements: Bruschi, Seau, Harrison. In the end/beginning, there will be a team again in seven months, and I'll hang on every move on the way to building it.

I'm still sold on Kraft, Belichick, Pioli, Ernie Adams (!), Brady, Moss, et alia. There are winners and losers in football. This was a fantastic team, that proved itself not the best. Ouch. But it's true.

We are spoiled. It looked easy in 01-04. We know better since the last couple of years' painful rejections at the gate to "ever."

There's plenty of time to crash that gate a few more times, and then, one day far from now, plenty of time to be the longsuffering fan of a rebuilding franchise once again.

Pats fan to the end.

PFnV