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I know the feeling, although I do feel like I have gotten over the hump. I have come to terms with the play call. I really feel like the play was there and Butler just made a tremendous play and I can accept that. I will not rematch the game, which is a shame because we really played well overall, but I won't remember any of that stuff. One thing that helps me in games like this is when the players start to move on and get back to their everyday lives. My wife follows RW on instagram or whatever its called and she showed me pics of him at Children's Hospital today, smiling with sick kids. He understands whats important in life and it helps me to as well. I am blessed to have 3 happy, healthy little kids and they deserve to have a dad who isn't sulking around the house because of a football game. I love the Hawks and it hurt like hell to watch them lose like that, but in a way it is good that this loss hurts so bad because the stakes were so high. The pain we feel in this loss is matched by the joy we felt last year. As I was trying to sleep on Sunday I thought, I can't do this anymore. I can't be so invested in a team that I put myself in a position to feel like this. Then I realized this is what it is all about. The pain I feel now is the reason it felt so amazing last year or after the NFCCG. I'm all in even if it means I probably will feel like this again because I know there is a chance that I get to experience another year like last year, where they finish like Champions.

Let me help you little buddy.
Scott Norwood ITS WIDE. The Bills never win another one.
We got ours 43-8, no one can take it from us!! There'll be another day Chewy, another time.

obiken wrote:Let me help you little buddy.
Scott Norwood ITS WIDE. The Bills never win another one.
We got ours 43-8, no one can take it from us!! There'll be another day Chewy, another time.

Obi brings up a great point. The Bills went to a record 4 straight SB's and came away empty handed every time. Since then, there's been a whole lot of Bills fans that have gone to their grave without their team giving them a Lombardi... although they did win a championship back in the old AFL.

obiken wrote:Let me help you little buddy.
Scott Norwood ITS WIDE. The Bills never win another one.
We got ours 43-8, no one can take it from us!! There'll be another day Chewy, another time.

You got that right!
Regardless of what happens from here on out, we will always have that Lombardi.
Getting back to the Super Bowl a year after winning it, is no small feat! Fans of other teams can say what they want, but in the end they all WISH they were us!
They WISH they had our roster, our young studly defense, which has most of the key players locked up long term. Our young studly, franchise QB, who will only continue to get better as he goes, and as we give him some weapons to throw to.
Mostly they wish it was their team playing in back to back Super Bowls!

obiken wrote:Let me help you little buddy.
Scott Norwood ITS WIDE. The Bills never win another one.
We got ours 43-8, no one can take it from us!! There'll be another day Chewy, another time.

And other than wide right the Bills never even competed in any of the other 3.They were laughingstocks and still are for some.
Elway got run off the field 3 times before winning 2. Marino 0-1 HOF. Fouts 0-0 HOF. Tarkenton?Yeah.....Kap...LOL. Still several teams who have never gone.

Since the start of 2012 Seattle is 50 seconds from possibly being the first team ever to win 3 in a row. Seattle went up against a team it was a slight underdog to in 49 and we all saw what happened. Wild swings in momentum,gutsy coaching decisions,3 lead changes, heroic plays,guys limping around, arms dangling, people getting ko'd. Then the gut wrencher when the 2nd game in a row was about to have the best ending ever. When an unsung nobody made a great play to trump the dozens of great plays the Hawks had made all year to be in that position........This game will be shown on greatest Superbowl's of all time till after we all die. Its already in the promos on NFL network.It will be hard to watch. I watch those old games and I hear guys like Staubach talk about how bad it still hurts to have lost to Pittsburgh. But hes an all time great, a HOF and got another ring afterwards.
To have a great Superbowl takes 2 great teams. I'm proud of these guys, and I'm optimistic as I can be.Russell is starting his 4th season. The defensive core is intact. There are needs to fill but the most capable FO in the league will be doing that.
Seattle isn't done by a long shot.

Last year is exactly what allowed me to move on from this game.

I told my wife, before the clock had run out and as I was explaining to her that it was over; "Brady takes a knee and the party starts for the Pats", that I was OK with it because I will always have XLVIII, and that season, that Super Bowl was the sweetest thing I could ever experience as a fan. Sure I was incensed about the call as it happened, and nobody will ever convince me that it was "not such a bad call", but I was over it by the final gun.

All I want from here on out, is to be in it. To battle every year for the chance to get another one. Win or lose I'm OK with it, as long as we are always battling for it.

Now it's time to renew my Huddle Report subscription and dive into draftnickness ...

If the play would have been successful and Lockette makes the grab all the talk would have been what a gutsy call that was or; if it was just batted down it would have been wow RW got away with one there. I think the Hawks D was beaten down from injuries and a month ago would not allowed Brady to go down for two TDs in Q-4. The last play actually was not all that bad but more of something a team would run early in the game.

c_hawkbob wrote:Last year is exactly what allowed me to move on from this game.

I told my wife, before the clock had run out and as I was explaining to her that it was over; "Brady takes a knee and the party starts for the Pats", that I was OK with it because I will always have XLVIII, and that season, that Super Bowl was the sweetest thing I could ever experience as a fan. Sure I was incensed about the call as it happened, and nobody will ever convince me that it was "not such a bad call", but I was over it by the final gun.

All I want from here on out, is to be in it. To battle every year for the chance to get another one. Win or lose I'm OK with it, as long as we are always battling for it.

Now it's time to renew my Huddle Report subscription and dive into draftnickness ...

BINGO!