Upside to Pats horrific loss in SB?

[mcbee]

At the risk of being flamed, I think there's an upside to the Pats' loss.

It helps people, myself included, live less vicariously. I mean, really, what connection do I have to these guys? I grew up near the stadium and saw a few Pats players/coaches around town...big deal.

After the SB loss, I was kind of sick. That teaches me not to get so worked up about these things...instead of following every preseason practice, this year I'm just going to let it go. Last year, I'd go to a sports bar just to see the Pats play. Fool me once, kind of thing though. Not doing that again. I think I'll just worry about me and mine and not live so vicariosly. I mean Brady etc. aren't even from NE. Even Belichick isn't from NE. He's from NJ! Why should I bask in their reflected glory? Just because they play for my home state/region?

Look at this message board with all the "can you believe so and so said the pats cheat!!!" hysterical. It's like "don't these people have a life?".

Do you think people have mellowed out about the team now that the dream of a perfect season and the "FY tour" and all that nonsense is gone for good? I think people in NE, the fair weather fans especially are kind of going to go back into their holes and hibernate for a while...move on.

I'll still root for NE if I happen to see them on TV, but hopefully I'll be working out or doing something else (it's warm here in wintertime) when they're on. And if they lose, it won't break my heart.

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

At the risk of being flamed, I think there's an upside to the Pats' loss.

It helps people, myself included, live less vicariously. I mean, really, what connection do I have to these guys? I grew up near the stadium and saw a few Pats players/coaches around town...big deal.

After the SB loss, I was kind of sick. That teaches me not to get so worked up about these things...instead of following every preseason practice, this year I'm just going to let it go. Last year, I'd go to a sports bar just to see the Pats play. Fool me once, kind of thing though. Not doing that again. I think I'll just worry about me and mine and not live so vicariosly. I mean Brady etc. aren't even from NE. Even Belichick isn't from NE. He's from NJ! Why should I bask in their reflected glory? Just because they play for my home state/region?

Look at this message board with all the "can you believe so and so said the pats cheat!!!" hysterical. It's like "don't these people have a life?".

Do you think people have mellowed out about the team now that the dream of a perfect season and the "FY tour" and all that nonsense is gone for good? I think people in NE, the fair weather fans especially are kind of going to go back into their holes and hibernate for a while...move on.

I'll still root for NE if I happen to see them on TV, but hopefully I'll be working out or doing something else (it's warm here in wintertime) when they're on. And if they lose, it won't break my heart.

Id' agree. In the end it's a game. It's fun to watch, but it's not my career. I'm just a viewer and not a participant. crazy how come people get tattoos on their head of the pats.

 

[drakesta101]

just think..if they had won you'd still be a sucker

 

[pats1]

No.

(Well, maybe. But not your way. It will only make a potential Super Bowl win - hell, even a 19-0 season - that much more satisfying, considering the embarrassment endured all offseason.)

 

[363839]

If the Pats won that game the cries of Cheat would have just grown.

 

[Patjew]

To me there is no upside and I am as rabid as ever.

 

[Deus Irae]

Let me put it this way.....


I'm looking forward to the GFY 2008 tour.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

At the risk of being flamed, I think there's an upside to the Pats' loss.

It helps people, myself included, live less vicariously. I mean, really, what connection do I have to these guys? I grew up near the stadium and saw a few Pats players/coaches around town...big deal.

After the SB loss, I was kind of sick. That teaches me not to get so worked up about these things...instead of following every preseason practice, this year I'm just going to let it go. Last year, I'd go to a sports bar just to see the Pats play. Fool me once, kind of thing though. Not doing that again. I think I'll just worry about me and mine and not live so vicariosly. I mean Brady etc. aren't even from NE. Even Belichick isn't from NE. He's from NJ! Why should I bask in their reflected glory? Just because they play for my home state/region?

Look at this message board with all the "can you believe so and so said the pats cheat!!!" hysterical. It's like "don't these people have a life?".

Do you think people have mellowed out about the team now that the dream of a perfect season and the "FY tour" and all that nonsense is gone for good? I think people in NE, the fair weather fans especially are kind of going to go back into their holes and hibernate for a while...move on.

I'll still root for NE if I happen to see them on TV, but hopefully I'll be working out or doing something else (it's warm here in wintertime) when they're on. And if they lose, it won't break my heart.

Belichick is from maryland i think. he grew up in annaplis and his dad was a scout for Navy.

I think the super bowl loss makes us stronger in the end. it reminds us that defense wins championships.

 

[HEY BRO! WHAT UP?]

It actually turned out to be a lose-lose situation for both superbowl participants. First, most people agree that the Giants are a fluke (they are) and nobody is really taking their superbowl win seriously. Second, most people seem to think the Giants will go back to their mediocre ways this season. However, the Pats have to live with being labeled as one of the biggest choke jobs of all time. But, had the Pats won, most people would say "yeah they won the superbowl and went 19-0, but they cheated". Almost everybody would want an asterisk next to that record. So if your looking for any upside to this, is that most people agree that the Giants are a fluke and needed a miracle to beat the Patriots. The irony in this is that the pressure is off the Pats and now on the Giants. Just imagine the New York media if the Giants start off slow.

 

[PonyExpress]

The Patriots run of success has meant nothing but joy to me, despite the occasional stomach punch loss. Life is painful. Football fandom is fun.

 

[LuthierJr]

To me there is no upside and I am as rabid as ever.

Ditto.... even more so.

 

[bbabin]

The Patriots run of success has meant nothing but joy to me, despite the occasional stomach punch loss. Life is painful. Football fandom is fun.

Right on! There is no other team that I'd rather be a fan of, that's an easy way to put it. I also like Brady's perspective from that Esquire attitude. He says something like "What am I supposed to do, sit here and bitc4 about it? You just have to move on." If I am more emotionally tied to the game than the players, I think something is wrong.

 

[spacecrime]

I'll still root for NE if I happen to see them on TV, but hopefully I'll be working out or doing something else (it's warm here in wintertime) when they're on.

Jeez, they go 18-1 and the fan base self purges? I thought that only happened after a team totally tanked a couple seasons in a row.

Well, enjoy your Sunday afternoons gardening in the potting shed, or whatever. The rest of us will be watching the games.

 

[T_Brady12]

If you ask me, this is just a cop-out to jump off the bandwagon because the Pats lost.

 

[pheenix11]

As I tried to explain to my wife last February there is nothing else like sports in life. There is nothing else where you have both the possibility of both utter joy and complete devastation that can decided in an instant.

Good things happen in life and bad things happen in life but things usually go one way or the other. You have a kid, its all good, you lose your job, its all bad, etc etc. Nothing else has the dichotomy of two completely different outcomes with both being equally possible. Sports is very unique that way.

Beyond being born 6'4, 250 lbs with sprinter's speed this is the only way most of us can experience sports. Besides, players and coaches come and go, but fans are forever.

In my book as long as you are feeling something, its good. Maybe I just like drama, but it reminds me that I am alive and have some passion. Yeah its just a game, but it is a lot of fun.

 

[Real World]

I still haven't watched a single clip from that game. I'm not sure I'll ever be over that loss.

 

[Bertil]

All of the stuff you listed, I said to myself after the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs. That said, I'm not "over" it, but it's in the rear view mirror and nearly out of sight. Unfortunately, I know it's still there. Only another SB win will make it disappear.

 

[Scouse Patriot]

I downloaded the Madden 09 demo last night and guess which Madden moment they had you playing. I was expecting a nice half of football and instead they have you playing the Giants winning drive down the field in the SB.

It went off.

I can't leave sports alone, it's everything to me. What are the Pats to you? They're meant to be the team you love and your meant to be the one of people the players look too for support. Abandoning them because they lost isn't cool.

There is no upside, the loss was sh!t. Really f'kin sh!t.

 

[NovaScotiaPatsFan]

I smell what you're cookin man, I got too in to it too. I need to learn not to get so worked up about football. No other sport does that to me like football does. But I need to try to fight it.

 

[Halifax_Pats_Fan]

I say I won't and come January I will get all worked up again. I am still fuming from that punk Bailey's pick.

Also going 19-0 would have been sweet and got that other punk Morris off the Hair Commercial and onto the back burner for good, what a clown.

The losses always hurt, esp. with a perfect season and SB on the line. That is just how it is. We (and I) will obviously live to fight another day nonetheless.

Should be an another exciting year!!