lancerman
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It depends on how old you were. I was 9 or 10 for Super Bowl 36. I hadn't lived through years of the Patriots sucking. I lived through them being on and off in the Bledsoe era and vaguely remember periods of them being pretty darn good.
I was too young to have the feeling of wow the 01 Rams are so good how could we ever hope to beat this impending dynastic team. Even the final drive for me was like "oh they just need a field goal, and who cares if they don't make it, there's still overtime". I truly believed and wanted to believe they could win that game.
I was much more knowledgeable about the NFL and football in the impending years. So 2007 was the gut punch of "yeah they are your team, they aren't going to win everytime they get here, it's hard".
Fastforward to 2014, it had been almost a decade since the last win. They got close and blew the 06 AFCCG, they had the most heartbreaking loss of my lifetime against the Giants in storybook fashion, they had a meaningless year without Brady, the Ravens just bullied them off the field in 09, the Jets got our number in 10, we dragged a crap secondary to try to get revenge against the Giants and came up short again, we were a causality to Ray Lewis and Manning's last real great years in the league (Ray retired, Peyton went on 2 more years and declined).
So 2014 rolls around. If they lose this year, it's 10 years since they won a Super Bowl. You can't talk about them being a dynasty anymore. They are a really good consistent team like he Cowboys of 78-87. Really good, consistently good records for the most part, got there, got close, but the magic was over. They also would have been labeled cursed for losing off 3 circus throws.
I actually thought we lost another late Super Bowl because we couldn't hold someone off at the end of the game. It was surreal watching the interception happen. Probably my favorite sports moment ever.
I was too young to have the feeling of wow the 01 Rams are so good how could we ever hope to beat this impending dynastic team. Even the final drive for me was like "oh they just need a field goal, and who cares if they don't make it, there's still overtime". I truly believed and wanted to believe they could win that game.
I was much more knowledgeable about the NFL and football in the impending years. So 2007 was the gut punch of "yeah they are your team, they aren't going to win everytime they get here, it's hard".
Fastforward to 2014, it had been almost a decade since the last win. They got close and blew the 06 AFCCG, they had the most heartbreaking loss of my lifetime against the Giants in storybook fashion, they had a meaningless year without Brady, the Ravens just bullied them off the field in 09, the Jets got our number in 10, we dragged a crap secondary to try to get revenge against the Giants and came up short again, we were a causality to Ray Lewis and Manning's last real great years in the league (Ray retired, Peyton went on 2 more years and declined).
So 2014 rolls around. If they lose this year, it's 10 years since they won a Super Bowl. You can't talk about them being a dynasty anymore. They are a really good consistent team like he Cowboys of 78-87. Really good, consistently good records for the most part, got there, got close, but the magic was over. They also would have been labeled cursed for losing off 3 circus throws.
I actually thought we lost another late Super Bowl because we couldn't hold someone off at the end of the game. It was surreal watching the interception happen. Probably my favorite sports moment ever.