This Super Bowl loss was BY FAR the worst of the three and I say that as a life long Red Sox fan. I'd been conditioned to see them get close and lose in some bizzare, punch in the gut kind of way (67 World Series, losing the AL East title in 71 to the Tigers by 1/2 game, blowing the division lead to the Orioles in 74, the 75 WS, Bucky #$%^ing Dent in 78, etc, etc), so 86 was no different.
The fact that Henderson hit the home run and we came back from the dead vs the Angels was a shock to say the least. I had low expectations going into the WS; everyone forgets the Mets were an absolute powerhouse that year. I was shocked we won the first two games at Shea. The way we lost game six was a Greek tragedy, a nightmare, but there still was a game seven.
We were up in that game too, 3-0, until Hurst ran out of gas and that was all she wrote. 2003 was bad too, losing to the Yankees and Aaron #$%^ing Boone; again, a bizzare, punch in the gut when Grady froze like a deer in headlights and left a cooked Pedro in the game.
The Super Bowl was 10,000 times worse; we were the far, FAR superior team, the Giants had no business being on the same field as the Patriots, they had just hung 38 friggin points on the Giants in week 17. This was an epic chokejob, just brutal.
Was down in PA this past weekend and saw my first "New York Giants Super Bowl Champions" hat; what a disaster, this ones always gonna hurt. Time heals all wounds, but not this one. Eli Gump is now a Super Bowl legend; stop the world, I wanna get the #$%^ off........................
