But your assuming that the pressure had something to do with us eventually losing.
Do you have any evidence it didnt? Could the Super Bowl have turned out any worse?
Do you know it didnt wear them down mentally as the season progressed, that it didnt effect how they prepared, how they approached everything?
did this team look the same to you in December and January and February than they did in Sept, Oct and Nov?
whatever it was, they just werent a great team toward the end. And that is very un-Patriot like.
all im saying, is even before the loss, I enjoyed the stretch run of 2004 better because that team was playing great at the end and not just holding on to history as the 2007 Patriots seemed to be doing.
the AFCCG against the Chargers? That performance vs what the 2004 team did at Pittsburgh? or compare the win over the Jags vs the 2004 win against the Colts. Which team was playing at its best and which team was barely making it across the finish line as all the media scutinized evey move they made?
I could say, gosh gee, the 2008 Patriots are going to go 19-0 and all is wonderful....but the truth is, my Patriots dont HAVE to be 19-0 for me to love them. I loved them when they were 1-15, and Im not the one acting like the world will end if they lose a game, you guys are.
so who is being a real fan? truthfully saying that for me, i;ll enjoy a 14-2 or 12-4 just as much, or one of you guys who will die if they ever break your heart and lose.
sorry i said something so blasphemous as to imply i would love the Patriots even if they lost opening day, and would in fact, prefer it, if it would spare them, and us, the best ever idiocy we had to go through, which did indeed effect the teams performance, and which ruined the pure joy of having just gone to a Super Bowl.