As a Patriots fan, when Kearse made that catch it was like a goddamn Vietnam flashback (kidding, but you get the point). Same stadium, same kind of absurd miracle catch, and there's no way they don't score with Lynch, Matthews, and Kearse doing business all day.

As a Patriots fan, I can tell you that it doesn't matter whether it's a close game or blowout, but any Super Bowl win will ease bad feelings from a previous heartbreaking loss. The Patriots were blown away in two previous Super Bowls, but we fans didn't feel any less excited because their win was a close game. The…

This win definitely took a lot of the sting away from the Helmet Catch (and to a lesser extent, Brady's terrible overthrow that everyone blames Welker for not catching). Pats fans will always be at least a little pissed about that one, just because it ruined 19-0, but I suddenly cared a whole lot less about it after…

Not nearly as close as Simmons and others imply.

You a Red Sox fan? Did 04 help you with 03?

It helps a lot, but we'll always know that we were THIS close to having 6.

EXCUSE ME???!!!!

David who? Like it never happened, man. You are right about Welker though

agreed. but it still won't stop giants fans from bring up the 'brady chokes against the giants!' argument.

I dunno - I'm definitely still not over "too many men on the ice" in 79... but I'm a Bruins fan first over everything.

Dear Seahawks fan:

As a Royals fan who was at Game 7, I haven't been able to make myself watch Gordon's 9th-inning single and the ensuing Giants circus in left-center that sparked the "should he have rounded third" debate.

Probably not. The two Giants losses still kill, and if anything, this win just made those losses even harder to accept.

It is. The last two Superbowl losses are only mitigated by a crazy finish like that.

I want to say no, but... the moment that ball was picked 7 years of pent up frustration of being right on the cusp but never quite getting there that was already processing another perceived SB loss, was released in one glorious moment. If it was an easy win I'd be content finally getting back, even though the last 2…

I think the answer is, you need to win the super bowl again (in any fashion) to get over it. I've carried 2007 with me all these years and for the first time, I finally feel like I'm over that sting. That loss (given stakes) was definitely as bad as a fan, or maybe worse than this. Tough loss man, but your team will…

As a Spurs fan I can tell you coming back and winning next year helps A LOT. Particularly if it is against the same team and you blow them out.

Winning like this erases the pain of losing like this basically twice now, yes.

In a sense, yes. David Tyree was different — David Tyree ruined the perfect season. The only way to undo that is to have the perfect season.

I think that's the effect of time rather than the win.