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I know my readers expect me to jump for joy right now. Sportaphile.com IS your one stop shop for anti-New England sentiment on the internet. But I’d be lying to you if I said I was happy Brady tore his ACL 15 minutes into the season. I might talk a lot of shit from time to time, but it’s not good to see a top player in a league blow out his knee like that.

I’d much rather see Tom Brady play all 16 games and struggle mightily, racking up sack after sack… but still rising to his feet after it’s done. Am I happy that New England won’t be returning to the Super Bowl?? Of course, I just wish it happened a little differently.

I wrote a post in February about ‘The Curse Of The Super Bowl Losers’, which illustrated how the last seven teams who lost in the super bowl failed to make the playoffs the following year (with the exception of Seattle).

Unless there’s an unbelievable act of heroism by Matt Cassel this year, it’s safe to assume New England will NOT duplicate the success of 2007…. thus extending the legacy of the Super Bowl Curse.