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I know this doesn't exactly have anything to do with the Dolphin's but I think it is a total joke for them to think they had a perfect season, or compare it to our 1972 Season. I know Mercury Morris would get a nice chuckle out ot this. :sidelol:

http://www.east-coast-bias.com/2008/08/patriots-commemorate-failure.html

The pats are going to hang up a 16-0 banner next to their Superbowl banners
here is the full story from the Globe including talking about making the regluar season longer

An imperfect solution
There was the journey toward a 16-0 regular season and the AFC championship, then the bitter ending of a crushing defeat in Super Bowl XLII. When top Patriots officials gathered this off season, they pondered the best way to celebrate a season that had such exhilarating highs and one crushing low.

In the end, after declaring the season the fourth-greatest achievement in team history, they elected to have a private ceremony to commemorate it last Monday at Gillette Stadium.

Owner Robert Kraft and team president Jonathan Kraft presented the players with rings. On one side of the ring, it reads "16-0 -- perfect season." On the other, it reads "18-1, AFC Championship."

In addition, a banner was made to commemorate the season, and it was unveiled at the ceremony, with Kraft pulling a rope as it came down from the ceiling. It will be displayed at Gillette Stadium, next to the team's Super Bowl banners.

"I think there were two things going on from last year - and one was that it was an extraordinary year that I don't think we got to savor and enjoy," Kraft said.............
 
I think it's a good idea. It's still quite an accomplishment to go undefeated during the regular season - in case they didn't cheat along the way.
 
Spiff said:
I think it's a good idea. It's still quite an accomplishment to go undefeated during the regular season - in case they didn't cheat along the way.
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Means nothing if you cant finish it off. Im sorry but I would rather go 10-6 and be a wild card and lose in the first round then go 18-0 and lose that last game that means the most.
 
Phinsfan210 said:
Means nothing if you cant finish it off. Im sorry but I would rather go 10-6 and be a wild card and lose in the first round then go 18-0 and lose that last game that means the most.
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You would rather lose in the wild card games than in the big game? What?

While I agree that it's devastating to lose in the SuperBowl, especially after an 18-0 run, I would take the 16-0 season over a wild card loss any given day.

Wild card losers are nothing special, 16-0 teams are. They are only the second team in history to go undefeated during the regular season. Now, that's saying something.
 
Spiff said:
You would rather lose in the wild card games than in the big game? What?

While I agree that it's devastating to lose in the SuperBowl, especially after an 18-0 run, I would take the 16-0 season over a wild card loss any given day.

Wild card losers are nothing special, 16-0 teams are. They are only the second team in history to go undefeated during the regular season. Now, that's saying something.
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wrong they are the fourth two other teams lost in the end just like they did. one was the bears waaaaay back in the day and I can't remember who the second one was.
 
how much you wanna bet every ring has a camera in it.
 
Spiff said:
You would rather lose in the wild card games than in the big game? What?

While I agree that it's devastating to lose in the SuperBowl, especially after an 18-0 run, I would take the 16-0 season over a wild card loss any given day.

Wild card losers are nothing special, 16-0 teams are. They are only the second team in history to go undefeated during the regular season. Now, that's saying something.
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I guess that makes them special losers. :lol:
 
16-0 is indeed a considerable feat that imo should of been properly observed when it was accomplished.
Sadly, in New England's (and the League's for that matter) grand aspiration to "one up" our perfect season, the appropriate moment of opportunity, passed with little if any acknowledgment.

I believe their decision to recognize it privately was wisely made.
 
Wow, imagine having a ring that brings back the memories of how you lose the biggest game of the season and how close you were to becoming THE greatest team in history. But now that team will always go down in history as..................

The Perfect Losers
 
It is still a great accomplishment to go 18-1. Even if the only loss was in the super bowl. It isnt a bad idea for the team to acknowledge it. Its an important part in team history.
 
Layfield said:
It is still a great accomplishment to go 18-1. Even if the only loss was in the super bowl. It isnt a bad idea for the team to acknowledge it. Its an important part in team history.
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I dont know how any professional sportsman would actually be proud of that ring. Do you think Brady will wear that one ahead of the Superbowl ones he has?

That ring is a symbol of all there hard work ending in defeat. Was 18-1 a great acheivement, of course it was. But to those players that ring will mean noting because the only thing they will think of when they look at the ring is "How did we lose that game?"
 
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