The New York Giants are your Super Bowl champions after they beat the New England Patriots (again) on Sunday night. The game was as exciting as the one they played four years ago and even though it's not your team you gotta feel for some of those Patriots players as they lose another Super Bowl.
It's never easy to lose. I'm an awful loser. But to lose a Super Bowl has to be a different kind of pain.
I rounded up a few of the initial reactions in the Patriots locker room via Twitter (@RapSheet, @GregABedard, @MikeReiss).
Again, it's not your team so maybe you don't really care but I can't imagine what that feeling's like.
That said, I'd love to be in a position to even have that feeling.
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At least they made it that far
They cant complain,at least they made it to the superbowl again and again,something we all dream about.just keep hoping the chiefs can get their sooner than later.
chiefsfool - February 6, 2012
Like Brady said...
…during his postgame.
“I’d rather come to this game and lose than not get here”
Sums it up nicely.
chai1836 - February 6, 2012
He must've spend some time hangin out with a guy who knows a lot about this feeling
Jim Kelly
58 was my friend - February 6, 2012
Sucks to lose the Super Bowl. Sucks even more to lose the Super Bowl because your coach decides to concede the winning touchdown.
For all the talk of Belichick being the best coach ever he sure didn’t live up to that billing yesterday. Between not having his team ready to play, to mismanaging his timeouts before the two minute warning to conceding the game winning points, he had one horrible night in the most important game.
Have to feel for Gronk though. The replay of that hail mary at the end of the game is going to haunt him for awhile. If he keeps running instead of letting up at the goal line the ball falls right in his lap.
GenericBrand - February 6, 2012
Absolutely disagree
The Giants were running the ball at will. They could have milked that clock and won the game had he not let them have that touchdown.
Mully - February 6, 2012
If Palko throws that hail mary its a TD
that’s why the Pats will sign him this offseason and have him come in on hail mary situations
KingChief - February 6, 2012
Get the ball back down 4 with 50 seconds left
Or down 1 with about 15 seconds left and no time outs. He did what any coach should do in that spot. My only gripe is they should have done it on first down.
Steve_in_RI - February 6, 2012
he should have ... hmmmmmm, maybe the Great Bill Belichick isn't so great after all
maybe Brady isn’t so great either, that INT was huge … and the safety way back in the first quarter … wow, maybe the Patriots were lucky to be there to begin with …
maybe the Patriots Way is DYING!
someone call Scott and tell him forget it … hurry!
upamtn - February 6, 2012
My bucket list
Includes going out for a drink with you man. You are right though. While their way is tried and true, it’s time for the Chiefs Way.
Steve_in_RI - February 6, 2012
Since the original crew broke up
they can still get to the big game, but can’t win it
KingChief - February 6, 2012
They were a flawed team this year, like MU's basketball team.
They really shouldn’t have been there with that defense. Only got in because the AFC is down and they got incredibly lucky against the Ravens. I’ll start composing their obit IF their defense doesn’t look any better next year.
Brsrkr - February 6, 2012
Because there was no chance of a fumble on the the two plays before the FG?
Or it wasn’t possible that the FG was blocked or missed? I mean they did get into this game on a missed FG right? I disagree. You do not concede points in the NFL and definitely not in the championship game. It’s not like Brady was marching the ball up and down the field all night that it made sense to take the ball and the time.
GenericBrand - February 6, 2012
The Giants odds of winning actually decreased with the TD
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7545771/the-patriots-giants-super-bowl-rematch-disappoint
scroll down a ways (or read it, decent article) to find the info
MarineChiefsFan - February 6, 2012
Letting them score
was the smartest move BB made all night. It’s the only way they had any chance at all to win at that point.
mind the gap - February 6, 2012
Up here
I have to deal with Patriot fan arrogance 24/7/365 but I honestly felt bad last night for some of the players. This was actually one of the more likeable Pats teams.
I’m surprised though that the media is giving Brady a free pass on a lot. The safety turned out to be huge. (no safety, Bradshaw’s TD only puts them up 3). And he blew about 3 or 4 easy throws that receivers had to come back to the ball on (including the INT and the Welker drop). Brady is great but I’ll say it again, he has benefited his entire career from being in a system that fits him like a Mike Leach system fits a college QB. I just think this entire season, Brady showed he could be on the back end of his career and last night was no different.
Steve_in_RI - February 6, 2012
No one doubts
that Brady had a mediocre game, but the Pats won Super Bowls with their defense. This Pats defense sucks outloud.
mind the gap - February 6, 2012
True
But I thought they played very well last night against a Giants squad who had been on fire of late. I gotta believe that if you told BB that the Giants would score only 21 he would have felt pretty good about their chances.
Another thing I thought of was that I don’t think the Pats punted all night, yet came out with 17 points. If they did punt, I missed it.
Steve_in_RI - February 6, 2012
I think they punted 2 or 3 times
they were all fair catches
KingChief - February 6, 2012
Thanks
it was loud at the party I was at, and I usually make a token Zoltan Mesko comment when he comes out on the field but I probably missed it. Alcohol didn’t help either. Thanks King.
Steve_in_RI - February 6, 2012
Only reason it stood out was
my daughter kept asking me why his parents named him that.
KingChief - February 6, 2012
I think if Hernandez cathes that pass over the middle
they have a real shot at winning the game
KingChief - February 6, 2012
You say Brady benefits from being in a system that fits him
Isn’t that the point? When you have a good QB you design a system around him.
When you have a year when you throw 50 TDs and only 8 INTs it’s all downhill from there. If you look has Brady’s numbers he’s been better in the past 3 years than he was in the years preceding the insanity that was his 2007 season statistically, so back end of his career not so much.
In the past 3 years he’s had QB ratings of 96.2, 111, and 105.6, every one of those beat every year of his career except for the 2007 season.
OmahaNick - February 6, 2012
cathes=catches
KingChief - February 6, 2012
I liked Brady's wife's reaction to the Pat's losing...
“My (perfect) husband can’t throw the fucking ball AND catch the fucking ball.”
Classic. That’ll endear her to the team.
Scott B. - February 6, 2012
Nice...
LOL at Tom losing again to Eli…I cannot stand Tom Brady…I hope he never makes it back to the big one…
AnkenyChiefsFan - February 6, 2012
Joe Montana >>>>> Tom Brady
I don’t care about the completions in a row record, or the yardage record, or the # of Superbowls, etc. Joe Cool > Tom Crybrady… Also, in 4 Superbowls, Joe threw NO interceptions. Joe>Tom hands down.
AnkenyChiefsFan - February 6, 2012
This
PVChiefsfan - February 6, 2012
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