[Bill Buckner]

Lay off the Team - stuff happens ...

[Peter from Rutland]

I’ve had enough. I’m done with the Patriots and I live in MA and work only about 5 miles from the stadium.

DONE.

[DarthVader]

5 or 6 titles maybe. The Patriots were no match for the 1985 Chicago Bears and were not near as good as the 1997 Packers.

[Red Badger]

I think that Buffalo and Minnesota could both claim that ‘near miss’ Title................

[JRios1968]

Still the standard for excellence:

[JimRed]

Giants- the first seven loss team to win a Super bowl. They stepped up when they had to. The Pats usually sure handed receivers dropped a couple of catchable balls; that, plus a couple of key defensive plays by the Giants, was the difference.

Good game, well worth watching.

[JimRed]

The Patriots have now lost more potential Super Bowl opportunities than they have won actual Super Bowls...

Can't match the old Buffalo Bills; four Super Bowls, no wins.

[palmer]

People need to remember the other choice for the Pats is “completely suck”

[who knows what evil?]

Strut your stuff, Redskins fans...you beat the 2012 Super Bowl champs TWICE in one season!

[G Larry]

This was a “MISS”!!!

Not a “near miss”!!!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

—While Brady and Belichick still have their three titles, ... they should have six or even seven instead - and that has now started to overshadow the rings they do have. —

This is a really stupid standard. They’ve appeared in 5 of the last 11 (?), impressive enough, and won 3.

Yeah, 85 overmatched, and 97 overmatched, but not as much. And no Brady.

[Gilbo_3]

stuff happens alright...

three rings by less than a combined 10 points, and two losses as well...doesnt smell like an overbearing dynasty...runnin up scores vs mediocre teams in the regular season doesnt count...

good run fer sure, but Im tired of everybody tryin to make bardy and the homeless guy look like gods...

[dfwgator]

Sorry, but making 4 straight Super Bowls, a feat that has never been done by any other team, would qualify the Buffalo Bills as the greatest Near-Miss Dynasty.

[Wright Wing]

And the Yankees should have won in ‘04. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

[BluH2o]

Quit the bitchin ... it was a great game. I'm a long time Denver Bronco season ticket holder, back in SB XXI the Giants beat the Broncos 39-20. The score doesn't come close to telling how bad the Broncos were in that game ... the game was over in the first quarter. Patriots lost last night (someone wins, someone loses) but made it a great game to watch.

[LS]

Puh lease. Dallas was one pass interference call on Deion away from going to a Super Bowl they would have won handily and had four straight; and one Jackie Smith wide open TD drop from a possible victory vs. the Steelers.

Or you can go to the Duane Thomas "fumble" in the endzone where Cowboy center Dave Manders was on top of it, but somehow it got ruled in favor of Baltimore.

[mosaicwolf]

Let it go. The good news is Aberdeen scored 4 touchdowns on the Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl” last night. Go Aberdeen!

[Fiji Hill]

I used to be a Los Angeles Rams fan, which was kind of like being a Boston Red Sox fan before 2004. For several years, visions of Super Bowls danced in the heads of Rams fans as the team dominated its division, only to blow it in the playoffs.

Today, the only football teams that I follow are the Occidental College Tigers and the USC Trojans.

[crazydad]

Where’s Nelson Munts when we need Him! HA HA!

[Don W]

Nobody but NO BO DY comes close to my Buffalo Bills!

Four CONSECUTIVE Super Bowl appearances, four consecutive LOSSES.

No comparison.

[hinckley buzzard]

Steelers have the dynasty, while apparently no one is looking, and Belichick will never have one. Fortune does not favor degenerates and freaks. Brady is going over the hill next season, and will never win another title. Belichick will be revealed as the run o' the mill bigshot loser of the big ones he has always been.