Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3
Originally posted by: tse200
Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3
First of all, congrats to the Pats and their fans on a terrific season!
Secondly, I would like to personally thank the Patriots for beating the Panthers and sparing me the months of torment a Panthers SB win would have caused. The NFL just avoided a catastrophe on that one
How can an expansion team with no home and no players win the SB? Just where the hell is this mythical "Carolina" anyway? Is that near "Dakota" somewhere?
Yeah like "New England" is really specific too...jeez...
Skeet
At least New England exists. There is no such place as "Carolina". There's a North Carolina and a South Carolina but I have yet to see just plain old Carolina on a map.
I'm not a fan of either team, I'm just glad that sorry excuse for an NFC Champion didn't win it all.
Just pulled out a map of the US and have yet to see New England on it, which state is it beside?
The Patriots arrived in 1959, Got massacred in the title game in 1963 by 41 points.
Moved to Foxboro in 1970.
In 1985 they won the AFC Championship! Then got destroyed by the Bears 46-10.
They won the AFC Championship again in 1996, but were soundly defeated 35-21 in the Super Bowl
They squeaked by the Rams and Panthers to win the SuperBowl in 2002 and 2004
The Panthers were founded in 1993, played their first game in 1995(they won, only team in NFL history to win their inaugural game)
Won a division title their second year and beat the defending Superbowl champions in their first playoff game.
NFC Conference Champs in 2004, barely lost to a team riding a 14 game winning streak.
Summary:
It took New England 26 years to win a Conference Championship in a much smaller league.
It took them 43 years to be able to put up a decent team and actually compete and win in the SuperBowl
The Panthers came within a play or two of winning the SuperBowl in less than 10 years of them playing football.
They will beat you next year....twice, that is if you can make it back to the Super Bowl.