Here's all I got.
Football's rewarding when you "gut it out" (misnomer; nobody's beating the crap out of YOU on a football field) and hang in there in tight games.
Maybe you can leave in total stinkers, we still come up with those every now and then.
But the very thing that made this a GOOD GAME, not a BAD game, is that it took twists and turns. Guys weren't perfect. I know we WANT guys, all of them, to be perfect all the time. But they're not.
But here's what made it good. Baltimore's "been there" before and has no illusions about the big bad Patriots. The Patriots have "been there" before in improbable LOSSES (omg) to these guys. Nobody let it be OVER until it was OVER... except the fans.
That was 2 teams fighting all night... granted, Baltimore played a good 3-4 minutes and we played a good 50 or so minutes... but that doesn't always mean you win, and we came damn close to losing it.
Football's fun to watch because you MIGHT LOSE... more fun when you win in the end and all that, but the "we shouldn't ever make a mistake" mindset sounds all noble and coach-like in the head of a casual fan, as if they're personally going to fix stuff by yelling "THEY NEED TO CALL DIFFERENT PLAYS" after the fact on every play.
Sometimes you're perfect gate to gate, sometimes they are, and sometimes... there's some ugly in your win and some "god this is GREAT" in your win, right in the same game.
Last night only a fool would turn it off until it was truly over.
I mean here is the thing, as a perfectionist, oh tsk tsk, this worries me, that worries me, blah blah blah.
As a fan? That was a GOOD GAME. I can understand being grumpy about the win, but turning that game off? Give me a break.
