Posted on 02/03/2002 2:25:46 PM PST by Dales
Your an idiot. A complete and Total idiot.
It's the NEW ENGLAND Patriots - that includes where I live, New Hampshire ( Bush Country ).
Not to mention the scores of great Americans like my dad who bleeds fighting patriot red and lives in Taxachusetts.
The Patriots ARE the best team in the NFL.
Just because we don't have flashy break dancing ad campaign types doesn't change that fact.
No doubt about it, this game will go down in S.B. history as one of the very best ever played.
It had everything...
Against a backdrop of dramatic world events that lent a slight tension to being in a stadium, a crowd gathered to see what many (including myself) expected to be just another mugging by the favorite.
Instead, we got some great play, with white knuckle miscalculations and missed opportunities leading to a come-from-behind tie that threatened OT and concluding with an upset victory in the final seconds of the game.
Next year's S.B. will be (unfavorably) compared to this game no matter what happens.
Unfortunately, I can only speak for myself.
While going into the playoffs, I'd have argued against that assertion in favor of AT LEAST 4-5 other teams, there ain't no arguin' who're the National Champs until next January, when my Washington Redskins will be holding that Lombardi Trophy aloft in Triumph!!
Congrats on a great win, my FRiend...MUD
... and the air is filled with the joyful sounds of gnashing teeth, and whine made from sour grapes... gotta love it... ;0)
Interesting question. I think the biggest problem was the 2-week gap between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. With two weeks off, the teams get caught up in the circus atmosphere and lose focus of the game ahead. This time there was no two-week break and thus there was no time for fooling around on Bourbon Street. Both teams had to focus on the day ahead. I don't know about the Rams but Belichick kept the Patriots on a tight lease during the past week with curfews and strict orders on how to behave during the very little freetime they did get.
The Patriots were blown out of the Super Bowl in both 1986 and 1997. I know with the Bears game in 1986, many of the Patriots were partying during Super Bowl week. In fact one of them got so drunk that he had to be pulled to his feet by a sportswriter and placed in a cab. After that Super Bowl, there was a big drug scandal. You know what they say about how idleness is the devil's workshop. If the NFL wants to keep having great Super Bowls, than eliminate permanently the two-week break.
They should!
The only reason I can think of AT&T doing this is that they may have ticked off too many people over the years who now won't use any product by them.
Many Pats fans thought this could happen. Here in Iowa you hardly ever see the Pats play, and I have to admit that the home-town hype of one Mr. Warner here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa had me convinced the Pats were overmatched. That was a great game, and a great outcome.
Go Pats!
To all those that bet against...
To all those that said the Rams couldn't be stopped...
Kiss my freezing cold Bostonian...
I didn't realize that the Pats and Raiders had a history. First I have /heardseen of that terrible call in the 70's. And then the Jack Tatum/Daryl Stingly trajedy. Jack is probably my favorite Raider of all time, but that is a pretty short list...
Unfortunately, I'm still a Red SOx fan, too ;0)
Ask me how Miss Georgia wound up owning the Rams...
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