Went back and read the SB51 thread.

TPL said:

Go back and read the SB51 game day thread on opposing team forums when it was 28-3 and the comeback began.
Jets, Steelers, Bills etc .
Delicious.
Although there was some pretty disturbing posts on the Jets forum if I recall. Lol.

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Beyond the forums — how many millions of Pats haters turned the game off at 28-3, content in knowing the Evil Patriots had been humbled, only to wake up and hear the outcome the next morning. I can just picture them, all groggy and making their coffee, tv on in the background just to get the weather, no thought to the Super Bowl. Then the sports report comes on and they’re like “....huh? What? You’ve gotta be @&$#ing $#@$ing me.”

PatriotReign said:

After they scored to take the 28-3 lead I was about to change the channel and was preparing myself for a self imposed media blackout until the draft. Then I remembered the comeback against the Broncos and that near comeback against the 49ers which kept me watching. I didn't get my hopes until the Edelman catch and the successful two point conversion.

Once we got the ball in overtime I was on my feet, pacing back and forth. Once JAmes White scored I jumped up and down hollering at the top of my lungs. All my noise woke my mom up who went to sleep after halftime. She wasn't a fan of the team but was happy because I was.

She passed away recently so this memory is more bittersweet now.

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My mother passed in 2014. Since then, if the Pats make a SB, I take my father to my house to watch it. Except for the 2014/2015 SB where I went to my fathers house. I remember watching that game which was about 2 weeks after my mother passed. I really didn’t care much either way, but I wanted my dad to experience just one more SB victory.

He’s still going fairly strong at 89 and has seen 2 more SB victories since then at my house. He finally sold the house I grew up in and moved into senior housing. He still drives the roads of Weymouth, so if you’re in the area, watch out! He’s blind in one eye!

We watched the 28-3 comeback and I was sick that day. So my emotions weren’t as acute as they normally are. I had actually accepted we’d lose that game. Watching our Pats comeback was like a dream for me. I just watched as my hopes rose little by little. It just didn’t seem real to me.

And to a point, it still doesn’t

Any link to the thread?

I'll admit I gave up. I did still watch but I wouldn't stop *****ing and moaning about what a pathetic performance it was. I was miserable. I'm sure I was driving the handful of people watching at the small gathering nuts with my negativity. Then when they started to come back a little I thought well at least they're not embarassing themselves and it will be more respectable loss. When they settled for the FG to cut it to 28-12 I thought that was probably it, maybe score again but they blew their chance............Not until the forced fumble did I start to think they would do it.

What's crazy is when they cut it to 2 at the end with like 1 min left in the game, at that point I felt it was inevitable and never doubted they were going to tie it right up and win somehow....... I was ecstatic........Looking back I realize that was it, if they didn't make that final 2 point conversion we were almost certainly toast. With 1 min left only an onside kick recovery would have sufficed, unlikely....Thankfully like so many other do or die plays before and after that one they executed.

The night was capped off with shots of something nasty.....but we had to do it because of what we witnessed. Unreal.

I wasn't on the game day thread that day. I think I have only been on it 2-3 times.
During that game, I vowed to watch it to the end. I felt like we were going to lose well into the 3rd period and accepted it. It didn't feel as bad as the two Giants losses. Then the tide started turning, and I thought, OK the final score will be a little respectable. The last drive to tie and I am thinking and texting me son, Holy **** could this be happening. From that point on I was just numb, not excited, just watching to see it play out. With the coin flip, I thought, OK, lets do this, end it right now and the Pats were perfect on that drive. After 36, it's my favorite SB win, until the next one.

TPL said:

Go back and read the SB51 game day thread on opposing team forums when it was 28-3 and the comeback began.
Jets, Steelers, Bills etc .
Delicious.
Although there was some pretty disturbing posts on the Jets forum if I recall. Lol.

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I have to admit I've done this for the last few super bowls and even some big playoff games recently. It is really fun to watch the opposing jealous haters and their denial/delusion regarding the Kings of the NFL.......It is also enjoyable to watch some of them be won over/forced out of their denial and admit that TB12 and BB are the GOATs and we're the best dynasty the league has ever witnessed.

I've been enjoying going through this: ******SUPER BOWL Game Thread******

Mostly because I saw a twitter that said the Braves are losing 2 years 8 months and 3 days after the Super Bowl loss.



So it's either coincidence that the thread was created then, or... is it?

I had the weirdest experience during that game. I was cautious going in. Then the bottom fell out from under them almost immediately. Eventually I just wanted the Falcons to put the game totally beyond reach so I could stop caring. It didn't happen and I felt stuck watching a losing effort. Then it got respectable and I thought "okay now they are going to make me think they can do the impossible". Then the Edelman catch happened and I was literally pacing around the party I was at like a psychopath like "we can't lose this game anymore"

Also I have 0 problem admitting Atlanta played a large part in the comeback as well. They had to make a long series of terrible decisions and really bad plays for that to unfold. If you go back and watch they were doing the following:

• snapping the ball with 7, 8, 9 10 seconds on the play clock
• snapping the ball into the shotgun formation, bizarrely when they were in FG range at the end after the insane Julio Jones sideline catch, had they run it 3x up the middle they'd have had a chip shot to ice it.
• throwing in general - instead of running and chewing up clock
• other mistakes I'm forgetting at the moment

Some haters want to discredit the Patriots because of how dumb Atlanta was, but that is always a part of the equation in any win or loss and takes nothing away for me. In fact it adds to the story.

BostonWolverine said:

What a glorious day. I live in Atlanta and was at a party full of Falcons fans

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this is one of my favorite videos from Atlanta:



This is also a classic rant from this gambler:

TB12GOATQB said:

this is one of my favorite videos from Atlanta:



This is also a classic rant from this gambler:

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Funny....I watched the first video yesterday

What a surreal experience it was. Even after the incredible comeback to that point, it should’ve been DONE after the jones catch. It took some really improbable events even after that...

Pretty dark, but I remember someone at halftime saying in the thread that they were gonna end their life because of the game. People helped him and gave him some perspective.

Redman443 said:

This was before I was on the forum, I wanted to see what you all were saying during 28-3 and jeez Most of you obviously thought it was over but some of you thought we were going to get blown out like the broncos in SB48. I remember I stopped watching it at halftime but turned it back on when we got a touchdown.

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I will never forget that game as long as I live. I was watching with the wife.. she went to bed around half-time and I still remember screaming for the last quarter.. "Oh my god... oh my god.." then when they won, the whole house was awake by my screaming and jumping up and down... it was glorious...

My Story - not sure if I responded in the GDT as I don't usually participate (But hope I am mostly optimistic and shouldn't be overly negative - i mean why be negative when they win so frequently)

Anyhow, watching at home with the wife and kids. Kids leave by the end of Q1 to go to sleep or whatever it is they do on their phones (Oh I mostly know what they do when they are connected to my home wifi).

at 28-3 the wife decides to go to bed. My viewpoint, and probably stated this to her, "My team, I'll be there until the end of the game win or lose". They got that first touch down and you feel like, let's see what the D can do and how the offense responds. When Edleman made that catch, you just knew it was all going to go our way.

After they won, i went upstairs, wife had the game still on but was asleep. I sat there a few seconds deciding if she would want to be woken up. She peeled one eye open and was like, "what?" Not what as in what?, But what like in the way she states "fine" when you know everything is anything but fine.

I then tell her, "They pulled it out an won". She was obviously surprised and we stayed up for the next hour plus watching recaps and listening to the post game press conferences. She missed a damn great game - and so did everyone who tuned out. Fair weather fans, embrace the pain if need be as you never know when something absolutely fantastic happens.

Digit said:

I've been enjoying going through this: ******SUPER BOWL Game Thread******

Mostly because I saw a twitter that said the Braves are losing 2 years 8 months and 3 days after the Super Bowl loss.



So it's either coincidence that the thread was created then, or... is it?

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I think the Dodgers just had a bigger choke than the Braves last night. Kershaw looked like he might die in the dugout. Joe Kelly giving up grand slam in the 10th had to be a 1,000:1 prop bet.

I went out to my garage to smoke a cigar at half-time and we just stayed out there until we finished, getting drunk(er). Someone came out and said it was 28-9. Got back just in time to see the comeback (FG, strip sack, TD, 2PC, Sack, Holding, Edelman catch, TD, 2PC, OT).

Funny part is I didn't think about giving up until late in the 3rd, when the Pats had to settle for a FG after being 1st and goal from the 7. Falcons D was still getting to Brady pretty handily at that point and felt like there was not enough time left to do what needed to be done.

Redman443 said:

This was before I was on the forum, I wanted to see what you all were saying during 28-3 and jeez Most of you obviously thought it was over but some of you thought we were going to get blown out like the broncos in SB48. I remember I stopped watching it at halftime but turned it back on when we got a touchdown.

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I was so roasted that I did not really get how many crazy things happened that in hind site seem impossible, including Shannahan and Quinn being so stupid.

I just kind of though we were making lots of great plays to get back into it. (We were, but there was so much more to why we had any chance.

On the play High forced the fumble for instance, if they had ran the ball into the line, burned 40 seconds, and punted no way win. Or honestly any time they threw even one incomplete pass that stopped the clock or something like that, if the run the ball and burn 40 seconds, different ending. i read one analysis that stated, if once the score was 28-9, if the Falcons ran the ball every play, and punted, there would have been no way for the Pats to win)

Another run thing I do is read OTHER teams SB 51 threads. Like the Steelers thread on SB 51 was particularly fun.

EDIT: They even scored waaaaay to fast on that pick six. Once he was by Brady he could have ran around down there a bit to take more time off the clock before getting in there.

TB12GOATQB said:

this is one of my favorite videos from Atlanta:



This is also a classic rant from this gambler:

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You know, there are times when I feel bad for Falcons fans.

Then I watch that top video, and see everyone in their brand-spanking new Matt Ryan jerseys, and I realize that they don't have any fans.

carmelo15 said:

One of my favorites really. All my friends talking **** texting me and bam the tables turned, it was amazing. One of my friend asked for his $200 in pennies I would’ve owed him only for me to get it

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During the 2008 NBA Finals game 4....a Laker friend texted me sometime in the first half, "It's 2-2 *****!!! We going up 3-2 before returning to Boston!!!"

2 hours later I texted back, "You were saying?"

Oh man, the morning after was one of the most glorious mornings I ever had....reading the paper at a Starbucks in L.A.......

gitgronked82 said:

What a surreal experience it was. Even after the incredible comeback to that point, it should’ve been DONE after the jones catch. It took some really improbable events even after that...

Pretty dark, but I remember someone at halftime saying in the thread that they were gonna end their life because of the game. People helped him and gave him some perspective.

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I think you’re talking about me. I was going through a really rough time around then and had been for a few months. It’s gotten a little better