Several of us Fulham fans followed the game till the end. Eight years ago come May, we got to a European final and lost it in extra time. The pain never really goes. You didn't have a great last season but your team did the business this season. You can console yourselves with that, while you make your travel plans for next year's SB

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Immediately after the game depression set in. After seeing how the refs blew the Myles Jack call and only called 1 penalty on the Patriots it turned to anger.

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Tbh I can't accept it. I could've easily accepted a loss that was deserved but we all saw who the better team was (by a huge margin) before the refs stepped in. I feel sick to my stomach anytime I even think about that game. I will not watch one second of the superbowl and may just find something better to do on Sundays from now. Jags were STRAIGHT UP ROBBED and the NFL is a joke now days.

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I live in Boston, but I will survive

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Tbh I can't accept it. I could've easily accepted a loss that was deserved but we all saw who the better team was (by a huge margin) before the refs stepped in. I feel sick to my stomach anytime I even think about that game. I will not watch one second of the superbowl and may just find something better to do on Sundays from now. Jags were STRAIGHT UP ROBBED and the NFL is a joke now days.

I feel the same way. Something should have been done, how are we winning the whole 1st half and just can't do anything in the 2nd half. I kind of feel like it was rigged and our coaches were in on it to. The league wanted to make the game close but made sure the Patriots win. Our coaching staff cannot be that stupid to not be able to make simple adjustments like going back to man to man since Brady was killing us in the zone or stop running the same [BLEEP] run play when are getting nothing positive out of it. I ride with the Jags all the way but I'm starting to realize  and question if the NFL is truly entertainment and the outcome is already determined.

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None.

I don't grieve because of a game.

Disappointed?  Certainly.

Sad?  Not really, there's always next season and I had a good season of entertaining football.

Angry?  Not really though the case can be made that the officiating crew was horrible.

Acceptance?  It happened immediately when the play clock went to 00:00:00.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Nothing is guaranteed. I hope we are back next year but you never know. Schedule is brutal.

It is tough, but now we become brutal on opponent's scedules.

Accepted, but still sucks!

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I've accepted it, but only grudgingly. Had we lost fair and square acceptance would have been easy.

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None.

I don't grieve because of a game.

Disappointed?  Certainly.

Sad?  Not really, there's always next season and I had a good season of entertaining football.

Angry?  Not really though the case can be made that the officiating crew was horrible.

Acceptance?  It happened immediately when the play clock went to 00:00:00.

Never has a post fitted your avatar so well

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Several of us Fulham fans followed the game till the end. Eight years ago come May, we got to a European final and lost it in extra time. The pain never really goes. You didn't have a great last season but your team did the business this season. You can console yourselves with that, while you make your travel plans for next year's SB

Cottagers!

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Fix the O-Line!

As I think more on it, I ain’t gonna be able to accept it, probably never. This was my “99”.

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Still kinda angry, but I have accepted it, you had to when the clock hit 0. The world has our backs though, lol. I saw this and the responses are golden.

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/955613588428873728

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I have bigger issues that came up today which is probably keeping me in the shock phase but also in the acceptance phase. Too much to deal with IRL this moment to process it all. Just stopped in for a quick check up.

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I hover between Depression and Acceptance depending on the mood.

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No pain, no gain.

None.

I don't grieve because of a game.

Disappointed?  Certainly.

Sad?  Not really, there's always next season and I had a good season of entertaining football.

Angry?  Not really though the case can be made that the officiating crew was horrible.

Acceptance?  It happened immediately when the play clock went to 00:00:00.

It's best to have this outlook, but I didn't get there until 3-4 hours after the game. I sat in the dark for those 3-4 hours with my blood boiling, I couldn't even think straight. I didn't watch the NFC Championship and told myself I wouldn't watch the Super Bowl, but now I'm thinking I probably will. It sucks to be so close like that, but it is what it is. It's just a game and there's always next season.

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Such a good season. I feel lucky to see my team may a deep playoff run. The game itself just stung. To lose that game in that fashion just stinks. Best thing I can do is just not think about it by ignoring anything to do with NFL news and the team site. I suppose that is the best thing to do and then get active again around the draft.

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No pain, no gain.

Maybe I have a larger perspective because I'm older than most of you, but I really think it's time to give up the sadness and anger and rejoice in the incredibly successful season we just had.

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Maybe I have a larger perspective because I'm older than most of you, but I really think it's time to give up the sadness and anger and rejoice in the incredibly successful season we just had.

I agree. I'm not sad, it just pisses me off how it all went down with the refs and everyone else in the NFL fan world is seeing it except the Pats fans and NFL hind lickers.

As someone else said in another thread, we should have been able to win regardless of the refs but we stopped attacking on offense and went softer on defense, but the key ref decisions did make a huge difference, I don't care what anyone says. 

My husband was watching something earlier that showed how the refs put seconds back on the play clock in several Pats games in their favor when Brady gave them a particular hand signal so they wouldn't get penalized for delay of game or some such thing. I haven't had a chance to look at it, but if that's true and it can be proven I would hope those games would be forfeited at some point. Even if it doesn't change anything for that season and if it's yet another cheat on the organization maybe something could be finally done. Could you imagine if Brady went down as bad as Lance Armstrong? Not that it would ever happen.

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In the immediate aftermath I was angry about the awful officiating but soon after I was almost apathetic. Just very numb. Didn't watch the Eagles blow out and was in bed at like 830 pm after a pint of Ben and Jerrys lol
Yesterday was definitely the depression stage... I wasn't walking around crying... but I avoided as much football related stuff as possible for most of the day. Kept replaying certain situations in my head...
I've moved on to acceptance by today as any sane football fan should.

It is just a game after all. One we all didn't compete in personally.
Imagine the gut wrenching feeling our boys feel.

Every year 31 teams and their fans are disappointed.
We were lucky to be some of the few that were disappointed much later than others. And after a decade of being god awful we should all take some enjoyment from getting as far as we did and our team giving us a reason to cheer thru December and into January.

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None.

I don't grieve because of a game.

Disappointed?  Certainly.

Sad?  Not really, there's always next season and I had a good season of entertaining football.

Angry?  Not really though the case can be made that the officiating crew was horrible.

Acceptance?  It happened immediately when the play clock went to 00:00:00.

It's best to have this outlook, but I didn't get there until 3-4 hours after the game.  I sat in the dark for those 3-4 hours with my blood boiling, I couldn't even think straight. I didn't watch the NFC Championship and told myself I wouldn't watch the Super Bowl, but now I'm thinking I probably will. It sucks to be so close like that, but it is what it is. It's just a game and there's always next season.

I'm not watching the SB.
Which actually has less to do with the refs/Pats and just a general "football'd out" feeling.
I don't care to watch another Patriots SB victory. And couldn't care less if the Eagles win. I haven't missed a SB since my childhood. But this season was so draining emotionally with the ups and downs and the "almost had it" feeling at the end.
Just not feeling the Senior Bowl, Pro Bowl, or SB....

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None of these fully explain my current state. I basically feel like I just had my car stolen and the police laughed at me when I walked into the station to tell them about it. What stage is that lol?

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