Published 8/27/2008
by Anthony Wilson
at Bleacher Report - NFL
When the New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII this past February, I thought it was one of the most crushing defeats in the history of sports. One of those losses so devastating that the suffering team never completely recovers from it. They're never quite the same. Some defeats are just too damaging. When you win the first 18 games of the NFL season, you deserve to win the 19th. You just do. The '08 Patriots were the best team any of us had seen—their level of dominance was unprecedented and felt unreal.
Watching them completely toy with and obliterate the Bills in Week 11, I implored my grandmother to watch the history that seemed to be taking place right in front of our very eyes.
The 2008 New England Patriots were the greatest team in the history of professional sports; that night, as they were in the process of crushing Buffalo 56-10 in New York, I was beginning to become convinced of this. But because they lost "the Big One," they will not be ...
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