February 3, 2008
"It's Enough to Make You Sick": Patriots Lose the Super Bowl
After one of the most painful, stunning, heart-breaking upsets in sports history, local football fans were left to pick their jaws up off the floor. Right up to the end, it seemed like the Patriots would win. In post-game interviews, coach Bill Belichick looked shell-shocked than usual. A few local newscasters wore expressions suggesting that close relatives had died. It was an ugly mood.
On the way home, Bostonist walked past a few bars, which were all disturbingly empty. The last holdouts clung to the bars, their joyful BRUSCHI and BRADY jerseys mocking their morose expressions. Bostonist's Sports Redux, which live-blogged the game, found exactly what went wrong and when, by the minute:
9:51. How did you not bring Eli down on that play? What happened?9:55. The Pats have had about 10 "almost"s on this drive. Almost intercepted, almost sacks, almost this, almost that.
9:58. And that was one too many, as Eli finds Burress WIDE open for the go-ahead score. Uh. Oh.
Uh-oh, indeed. Who were the Patriots? Was the team we know and love replaced by cyborgs?
Several talking heads summed up the whole mess. Bianca De La Garza of WCVB said, "We did get reports of grown men crying." One newscaster looked at the New York victory headlines and said, "It's enough to make you sick."
Worst of all, we are doomed to seeing more crappy Manning Family commercials on television.
Jennifer DiFlaminies, of Nashua, N.H., mourns. Photo by Michael Dwyer/AP.
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Lady, think about how sick NYers are when they see Red Sox victory headlines! (We haven't won a championship since 2000!) But I feel bad - it's no fun for your hometown team to lose.
I've not reached the sick phase I'm in denial I think. Atleast we didn't lose to those punks from SD.
I saw Bianca De La Garza's report. The car riding behind her looked like it was gonna hit her.
If Eli gets his own commercials, I can handle it. I can't handle that Oreo-licking ad. It looks like they're about to commit an unnatural act.
I know. Disturbing.
Eli to SNL, too. I bet.
This happens due to the torrent of media attack about spy gate just before the Super Bowl. I don't think this is a coincidence, in fact it is deliberate. Shame on the New York media to make the NFL as tarnished as the US election system.
Pats is the Champion.
Great game! One of the best Superbowls I’ve ever seen. Now we can stop hearing the comparisons of Brady to Montana for a while. No comparison in my mind. Joe didn’t lose his cool when he got hit a few times…Joe DESTROYED two teams (Dolphins and Broncos) with 2 Hall of Fame QB’s (Marino and Elway)...and Joe didn’t lose a Superbowl…END OF DEBATE!! …Brady got pushed around and rendered ineffective for most of the game. The Pats’ are a nice little team, but justice was served. No way this team should be mentioned with the greats of all time (’84 Niners, ’89 Niners, ’94 Niners, ’85 Bears, etc.). Nope, they will forever be remembered as the team that got punched in the mouth by a better team….and remembered as failures that couldn’t seal the deal.
Now we can prepare for an off-season of non-stop Manning commercials!
Call me a sore loser, but this is bad for the NFL. NYC sports fans are almost universally a bunch of losers. Think about it: if you're an intelligent person living in New York, you either have so many fascinating things to do that you don't care about sports, or you are from out of town. Otherwise you're just a meathead. NYC fans are a bit like L.A. sports fans except with inferior hygiene.
Cue the masses turning on Tom Brady. Don't forget what an amazing season he had. Also don't forget that nothing is guaranteed.
As for inferior hygiene, this is one New Yorker who live din Boston for six years and all I have to say is try hanging out in any bar in Fanueil Hall on a Saturday night and you'll find some majorly hygenienically challenged Bahstonians.
I actually still had some respect for you guys until that crack, Mac. Good luck swallowing this bitter pill idiot. We'll be sure to give you a repeat in October.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, BOSTON FUCKING SUCKS YOU LOSERS!!!!!!!!
Grace in victory.
The notion that Brady is somehow diminshed by losing is retarded. Brady, once again, delivered a lead in the 4th quarter and the defense, once again, couldn't stop a Manning. It doesn't matter, though, because they lose as a team.
The Pats ALREADY have an all-time great team. Montana never won 3 titles in 4 years. He also never won 21 straight games. In 2003-04, NE was 34-4 (including playoffs). Good luck finding a team who did that.
The Pats to a man said the NYG outplayed them. That should be enough.
"Call me a sore loser, but this is bad for the NFL. NYC sports fans are almost universally a bunch of losers. Think about it: if you're an intelligent person living in New York, you either have so many fascinating things to do that you don't care about sports, or you are from out of town. Otherwise you're just a meathead. NYC fans are a bit like L.A. sports fans except with inferior hygiene."
I will definitely call you a sore loser.
It says a lot that you can do nothing but invoke sad stereotypes at a time like this. Hygiene? Come on, try harder.
And just because an amazing team that won all season was actually taken down in one game where the Giants played better ball, you're gonna whine about it?
You've shown your true colors here. Boston sports fans take a note from this guy and try to act a bit more mature.
What made last night sting wasn't that the Giant played a great game (they played a good game and came up with the big plays Pats fans are used to seeing from our side, so I give them lots of credit. Even - shudder - Eli). It's that I think the headline puts it perfectly: the Patriots LOST the Super Bowl more than the Giants won it. Call it what you will - the culmination of players battling injury or fatigue, poor calls from the sidelines, poor placement of passes, an ineffective offensive line, a misplayed attempt at defense. Much as I wanted the Patriots to win and finish off the season with that 0 intact, last night's game wouldn't have been the strong cap to a strong season we'd all hoped it would be.
And that pretty much blew.
What made last night sting wasn't that the Giant played a great game (they played a good game and came up with the big plays Pats fans are used to seeing from our side, so I give them lots of credit. Even - shudder - Eli). It's that I think the headline puts it perfectly: the Patriots LOST the Super Bowl more than the Giants won it. Call it what you will - the culmination of players battling injury or fatigue, poor calls from the sidelines, poor placement of passes, an ineffective offensive line, a misplayed attempt at defense. Much as I wanted the Patriots to win and finish off the season with that 0 intact, last night's game wouldn't have been the strong cap to a strong season we'd all hoped it would be.
And that pretty much blew.
"NYC fans are a bit like L.A. sports fans except with inferior hygiene."
Feel free to donate hygiene products. Frankly, these exchange of insults are unattractive.
Really, that dig at the Manning family commercials is retarded. You prefer your athletes to hock diamond watches and cologne a la tom brady? fine. but he is an egotistical playboy wanna-be who bought into his own hype, and the manning brothers are just good american guys who can laugh at themselves and win superbowls while theyre at it.
Evidently the patriots never had a chance since god was rooting for the giants...check this vid out God Chooses the Giants
I have no problem with Mannings making commercials. God knows Eli is gonna give Peyton a run for his endorsement $$. I think the Oreo ad was poor.
But, Brady chooses to do fewer commercials and doesn't want to be everywhere. I think the three of them are pretty positive guys and all qualify as American guys. I'm sick of hearing about who qualifies as American.
FYI, colin t, Brady 3, Mannings 2. :-)
This isnt a dead horse yet, but I hope sports fans everywhere continue to beat it till it finally croaks.
The Patriots signed their own fate. They talked so much sh*t all yr long. They were cheats. They got caught. They were cocky and ran up the score against mediocre teams. The coach was the biggest a-hole the game has ever seen and tried to ruin the integrity of the game. He walked off the feild before the super bowl was over, as of that wasnt a testament to his demeaner.
The greatest QB ever (ha) couldnt even win the biggest game in his career. So that 100% negates him as even a possibility as the greatest. Without his O-Line he looks actually far worse than sub-par.
From the team, to the fans, to the media, all of them. They all talked SO much crap all yr. Tried to rub it in, tried to makes excuses for cheating, tried to proclaim greatness prematuraly. And they lost!
And the Patriots will face major adversity for these mistakes, maybe forever. America, as well as the world learned to HATE this team. People couldnt (and wouldnt) even try to be excited to see history made because of the distaste they put in the game. There was no class and they were so callous in their methods that they destroyed any hope of outside support of their hoped acheivments.
And now they want the backlash to stop??? HA! Forever more, whenever any team plays them, they will bring a level of intensity never thought of. Every team in the NFL hates them, almost every person outside of Mass. hates them, and they'll never play an easy game again. They will always have a target on their backs because of this season. And let me tell you, hate will drive motivation alot farther then just wanting to win. No matter if they have a 4-12 season every yr from here on out, people will despise them and want them the get a dose of humility, spoon fed to them on a regular basis.
Its sad we couldnt even rout for history. How cool would it have been to see a team go 19-0 with a championship? But with the the scandals, the cheats, the cockiness, and the unsportmanlike methods, I dont think anyone could ever be happier to see a particaular team lose. And i hope it burns for a looong time to come. Cause this pill is gonna be hard to swallow. I dont believe in karma, but fate. And fate couldnt even write a story this awesome. The almost greatest team ever is now a forgotten hopeless cause. The house that fell apart from the inside.
Tom Brady record most TD passes in a single regular season, Randy Moss is GREATER than Jerry Rice. As a team 18-0 before superbowl is unprecedented. But Pats wanna win Superbowl, the 18-0 is just how graceful they have been to get there.
Watching the Giants getting Superbowl is like a kid at highschool who smoke marijuana, and skip classes the entire year and then got a break to go to Yale. Just like George Bush, who do shit at Andover then go to Yale.
Pats LOST the superbowl because the wholesale accusation comes just before the Superbowl. That's like before going to fight the Klingon and rumors going on that Captain Kirk is a Borg drone.
Pats is the champion. In fact the Jaguars deserves the Superbowl more than the Giants.