Which was your favorite NON-championship Pats season?

[Ring 6]

2008. I thought that was fun.

1994 was cool too because we started being relevant again.

1985 was awesome until we got kicked in the ditka.

I think getting to the SB in 1985 was so improbable it has to rank up there among the nonSB years.

 

[dalero]

85 by far. Those three improbable road playoff wins were magical.

 

[captain stone]

1976

1985

1994

1996 was great too. I would love to have played the Packers with Troy Brown & Sam Gash.

 

[Patjew]

1976

1985

1994

1996 was great too. I would love to have played the Packers with Troy Brown & Sam Gash.

Not having Gash for that game was huuuuuuuge. He was a beast that year.

 

[DocHoliday]

2010. Brady was just filthy that year.

 

[TruthSeeker]

1976

1985

1994

1996 was great too. I would love to have played the Packers with Troy Brown & Sam Gash.

1996, good point, that was a great year too. Bledsoe to Coates was deadly that year, as was Curtis Martin's running. And also the start of a lot of Dynasty players careers. Young McGinest, Law, Bruschi, Vinatari, Troy Brown, and Milloy were on those teams.

 

[captain stone]

That they lost in the POs at home to the J-E-S-T of all teams in 2010
still pisses me off real badly.

 

[Bonzo]

As it was unfolding, 2007.

But in retrospect, 2008 holds the most charm for me.

 

[LuRkeR1978]

1994 - My first full season as a fan. Dolphins/Bills Shoot-outs to begin the season. Vikings OT comeback. 7 game win streak to make the playoff for the first time in the 90s.

1996 - Terry Glenn, Shawn Jefferson, and Ben Coates. Fog Bowl. SB Appearence (Should have left Coates on Reggie White)

1998 - Robert Edwards. Back-to-back last second victories over the Phins and Bills with Drew's broken finger. Zolak win over San Fran.

2010 - Brady's regular season, Steelers game, 45-3

2012 - Butt Fumble

 

[A man named Brady]

2010. Brady was just filthy that year.

To only throw 4 picks in a season is ridiculous

 

[crypto]

It's a coin flip between the Year of Cassel and the Year of Butt Fumble

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-cant-...-t-Miss-Play-How-to-lose-a-game-in-60-seconds This still warms my heart

 

[Froob]

Probably 07 or 06. 06 team should have won the title if they didn't get screwed in indy multiple times. People say they should have never let it come to that, but just how many bad calls do they have to overcome?

 

[PatsFan24]

2007. Yes, it ended in a crash but it was still a hell of a fun ride.

 

[Yehoodi]

its a tough call as post 2001 one mindset changes with respect to what is fun and fulfilling . . . 1985 was awesome at it was a great ride and having one great run in a 10 year span was enough, now of coarse that would seem like a depressing drought . . .

even though 1976 and 1985 were great runs . . . I have to go with 2007 . . . simply because post Spygate, everybody on the planet knew what the pats wanted to do and that was to run the table and go 19 and done . . . it was a weekly strap up your boots and chin straps because the opponent is coming for us . . . we play just about every great team . . . and the games were so draining the opponents lost every game but one phila in the regular season, so they were 1-14 after playing us . . .

it was a statement year and will never forget it . . . great ride . . .

 

[SoCal Pmen]

'07 & '85 for me. '85 was an improbable run and I wasn't expecting them to beat one of the best defensive teams of all time. '07 was incredible even though they came up short. 'Us vs the World' mentality after Spy Gate. I was in a fog of depression for a good two weeks following that game.

 

[Ozymandias]

The 2006 season.

No one really gave them a shot to even get as far as they did with that cast of nobodies at WR. They really overachieved that season and almost made it to the big dance. There's no doubt in mind that had they got past Indy, they would've beaten Chicago for #4 who they had already beaten that season. That season was really memorable in a lot of ways, but heartbreaking nonetheless.

 

[sb1]

Agree with 96. Not the greatest team in Pats history but a lot of fun to watch and a lot of the names on that team would come up really big for the Pats in the coming years...they got a huge assist from the Jags who knocked off the Broncos in Denver... and if we don't kick to Desmond Howard in the SB who knows...

If only Parcells wasn't distracted with other things leading up to the game. I'll never forgive him for that.

 

[doesntmatter1]

I loved 07, 08, 10.

Think I have to go with 08. It was twilight zone feely to have success without Brady.

 

[jah]

2007 or 2010. Easily the best team in the league both years, but couldn't do enough in the end.

 

[terabthia2]

Probably '85, as it was the first big memorable Pats trip into the Postseason in my lifetime, but the following year, '86, was fun too...coming within the backdrop of the Red Sox. I went to my only old Sullivan Stadium visit that year, and to this day I still can't hear "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money without flashing back to that visit to Foxboro and that season. Denver took us out in the first playoff game after we clinched the division, but you got the feeling that the postseason was a bit more open than '85, when nothing was going to stop the Bears' juggernaut, so anything was possible.