DarrylStingley
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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I don't mean result. I don't mean Super Bowl. I mean what TEAM did you relate to/love the most?
And why?
Not to tarnish your post OP but you may want to change the 1986 to 1985. 85 is known as the run to the SB vs the Bears. 1986 is the 11-5 season and the loss @ Denver.
2001 for everything. SB Champs. Surprise. Unlikely. Underdogs.
2001 hands down. So unexpected; so spectacular!!!
If you are basing it on the final finish, obviously there are only three choices. If you are basing it on just plain likeability, and not necessarily glory, I'd have to go with 2010.
Perhaps we all forgot that this team was ON THE BRINK of mediocrity. The 2009 team showed the most un-Brady/Belichick like tendencies of the era, with terrible situational football, attitude problems, a lack of leadership, and some complete chokes; and I mean "choke" in the sense of quitting after three quarters.
Perhaps it's best to ask which is your favorite non-championship team. When teams lose in the end, it's hard to keep those sweet memories.
Regardless of how the Pats finished, that 45-3 moment was one to savor for a long time.
2007. Spectacular until the end. It began with the spygate story coming up and then trashing every team for 2 months and breaking records. The moment after the Pats beat the Charges in the AFCCG where Mr. Kraft says "18-0" was spectacular.
The Giants loss was by far the most painful loss in history. It was devastating. I remember everyone ready to crown the 19-0 Perfect Patriots and Brady as the G.O.A.T. I still get nightmares from that game and every time I watch the 3rd and 5 play where Manning should have been sacked, but Tyree made the play...WOW
I have gone back and watched highlights of many heartbreaking games....but I have yet to watch highlights of SB 42 and hopefully never will (Except for when the Tyree catch pops up in commercials, can't help that).
Luckily I don't remember too much of the game, it is slowly slipping out of my mind....and I'll make sure it stays that way.
What an enjoyable post.I had to go with 1985.
Event with the blowout that was SuperBowl XX, it was a season to be proud of. The final home game vs Cincy to get in, going on the road three times and winning (especially the Raiders and then to end the Orange Bowl losing streak that stood at 18 straight).
Grogan's naked bootleg that suckered the entire Jets D, Mosi's killer special teams play, Holloway-Hannah-Brock-Wooten-Moore (the Big House!) - an absolutely incredible O Line.
Tippett and Blackmon - probably the best pair of OLB's ever, Veris and Old Man Julius Adams.
I believe that if the Pats had played one of those games at home, or even had a bye, the outcome of SB XX would have been a lot different. I think the emotional drain of those games, plus instead of reading their own press and believing it, they let the Bears press get in their heads, was just too much.