"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.