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Does losing the last Superbowl drop us off the list with those other teams? None of them choked in the big show.
Neither did the Patriots "choke in the big show". Rather, on that day the Giants played better. The team that plays better on a given day usually wins, though sometimes they require miraculous circumstances, like a helmet catch and a dropped potential INT.
It just always bugs me to hear it implied or stated so often that somehow that was an unearned championship, the Giants were receivers of an unanticipated gift, that the Patriots having their offensive line overwhelmed by defenders and having the other team make one more spectacular play than they did somehow equates to choking.
I would like to have had a better game plan and better execution, but not for one moment do I think that Patriots players were unprepared, "got the yips", froze up, were deer in the headlights, or whatever phrase that you want to use that is associated in my mind with the word "choke".
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