Heartbroken... by a football team? It's true.

I wasn't myself today. Not at all. It was SB-Day +1 and it was a bad day.

The Patriots, after going 16-0 and reaching the Super Bowl, fell short of the perfect season and finished 18-1 and Super Bowl runners up. A sports loss has never hurt so much. Any other loss is just a tough loss, but this is different. Once they finished the season 16-0, everything became intensified. The risk/reward factor went up 5000%. Why? Cause there were only 2 possibilities. Either finish 19-0 and become the first team to ever win 19 games in an NFL season and be labeled as the best NFL team ever, or finish as the laughing stock of football.

Now when people talk about the only 16-0 team in history, they won't talk about how great the offense was or how dominant they were or how they were the best team ever. No - now they'll talk about how they are the biggest dissappointments in sports history (which I don't agree with, but I think it's a label they will receive).

If the team had finished 15-1, 14-2 or any other record and then reached the Super Bowl only to lose, it wouldn't be nearly this bad. But the best regular season ever is diminished - no, destroyed - by what happened in Super Bowl XLII.

I'm sure a lot of people want to put blame on the Patriots, but I think the Giants did a great job and played a great game. Their defense played outstanding. It was clearly the most pressure Tom Brady has seen all season. And that last Giants drive was something special and will be talked about in football mythology forever. It was something you'd expect from the Patriots... not the Giants. The biggest play of the game and one of the best plays in NFL history is when the Giants had a 3rd and 5 at the end of the game on their own 44, Manning avoided a heavy rush, miraculously getting away from a sack, scrambling to the right, and lobbing a ball up for grabs into the middle of the field. David Tyree, with Rodney Harrison in great coverage and all over him (legally) gets his hands somewhat on the ball and presses it against his helmet on the way down and maintains control..... somehow. Instead of it being 4th and 15 on their own 35... the Giants now had 1st and 10 on the Patriots 35.

I know it's only a game, I know it shouldn't affect my life, but I can't help it. We all were stolen a chance to view history. Well, that's not entirely true. We did see history - the biggest upset in NFL history. It's just not quite the history we wanted to see.