Swedishhawkfan
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I can only speak for myself, but I think I am mainly upset about the fact that not winning this game takes away from what would have been such a cinderella ending to a season, rather than having "just one" Lombardi instead of 2. Last year was soo so special and such a relief of joy to know that i finally got to experience my team winning a championship.
What saddens me the most about the way we lost this game is that it tainted what would have been such a great couple of games to go back and revisit in the future. The comeback in the NFC CG and then the super bowl with the heroic drive to end the half, and then the amazing catch by kearse which would have stood as one of the greatest super bowl moments of all time. But now they will all have a touch of bitter after taste and enormous "what if" to them. After all, winning a lombardi is more about having a season to remember as truly great and for once not ended in disappointment rather than "my team has this many of these and your team has this many (from before i was born..)"
So I think a way to look at it to ease the sickening ending to XLIX ,atleast for me, is to man up and rewatch it and embrace the great plays we made in face of adversity.Remembering Jeremy Lane stepping up huge with that pick to get our D started. Remembering that amazing touchdown drive to end the half. And wow that catch by kearse deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest (and lucky) of all time. Even though this was such a sickening way to lose, we showed everyone in the world that this team just never quits, and gave the audience one of the greatest super bowls of all time. I would still much rather have people talk about "What were the seahawks thinking, they would have won if they ran the ball" meaning people will forever acknowledge this game with how great of a back lynch is and how we really should have won that game in the end. Compare that to the Broncos being the laughing stock of the internet after we destroyed them and the average viewer getting an impression of the Broncos as a weak team unworthy of playing in the game, and it should make you feel a little better.
You can never get true greatness if you don't expose yourself to heartbreak/ loss. I remember the complete apathy of watching the hawks get blown out week in week out during the mora days, and I' would take 10 more of the losses we had to atlanta and the patriots ahead of getting what happened to the Broncos in XLVIII. Heartbreaking losses means that your team was fighting hard and competitive to the very end, and came so close to glorious victory in a game that gave you every penny worth of your fandom.
There are many things in life that give more true and lasting happyness than sport success. But to me, the unique part of "sport joy", and the best part of being so invested in the hawks is that EXPLOSIVE joy. If you get your dream job, experience your childs birth or find out that the one you are in love with loves you back, it will be a life changing type of joy and happyness that affects your life way more than football, but it wont make you jump out of the couch and scream like a madman like some dude you have never met catching a game winning touchdown pass in overtime in the NFCCG will. Even though we lost, I still got to experience that explosive emotional euphoria several times during this game, which would not have been possible if we were never in the game. And the years of watching things go wrong make that feeling so much greater when things go your way.
And lastly, in this now very long and incoherent rambling, I think I will try to remember this season as a continuation of last season and validation how great this team is, and that we were not just a won year wonder. Bunching them together as years of massive success and great thrill in which we finally achieved our Super Bowl dream, and letting that butler pick slowly become a mere footnote in this great chapter of hawk fandom.
What saddens me the most about the way we lost this game is that it tainted what would have been such a great couple of games to go back and revisit in the future. The comeback in the NFC CG and then the super bowl with the heroic drive to end the half, and then the amazing catch by kearse which would have stood as one of the greatest super bowl moments of all time. But now they will all have a touch of bitter after taste and enormous "what if" to them. After all, winning a lombardi is more about having a season to remember as truly great and for once not ended in disappointment rather than "my team has this many of these and your team has this many (from before i was born..)"
So I think a way to look at it to ease the sickening ending to XLIX ,atleast for me, is to man up and rewatch it and embrace the great plays we made in face of adversity.Remembering Jeremy Lane stepping up huge with that pick to get our D started. Remembering that amazing touchdown drive to end the half. And wow that catch by kearse deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest (and lucky) of all time. Even though this was such a sickening way to lose, we showed everyone in the world that this team just never quits, and gave the audience one of the greatest super bowls of all time. I would still much rather have people talk about "What were the seahawks thinking, they would have won if they ran the ball" meaning people will forever acknowledge this game with how great of a back lynch is and how we really should have won that game in the end. Compare that to the Broncos being the laughing stock of the internet after we destroyed them and the average viewer getting an impression of the Broncos as a weak team unworthy of playing in the game, and it should make you feel a little better.
You can never get true greatness if you don't expose yourself to heartbreak/ loss. I remember the complete apathy of watching the hawks get blown out week in week out during the mora days, and I' would take 10 more of the losses we had to atlanta and the patriots ahead of getting what happened to the Broncos in XLVIII. Heartbreaking losses means that your team was fighting hard and competitive to the very end, and came so close to glorious victory in a game that gave you every penny worth of your fandom.
There are many things in life that give more true and lasting happyness than sport success. But to me, the unique part of "sport joy", and the best part of being so invested in the hawks is that EXPLOSIVE joy. If you get your dream job, experience your childs birth or find out that the one you are in love with loves you back, it will be a life changing type of joy and happyness that affects your life way more than football, but it wont make you jump out of the couch and scream like a madman like some dude you have never met catching a game winning touchdown pass in overtime in the NFCCG will. Even though we lost, I still got to experience that explosive emotional euphoria several times during this game, which would not have been possible if we were never in the game. And the years of watching things go wrong make that feeling so much greater when things go your way.
And lastly, in this now very long and incoherent rambling, I think I will try to remember this season as a continuation of last season and validation how great this team is, and that we were not just a won year wonder. Bunching them together as years of massive success and great thrill in which we finally achieved our Super Bowl dream, and letting that butler pick slowly become a mere footnote in this great chapter of hawk fandom.
