Has the loser of the Super Bowl ever won it the next year?
by TheAlphaColt on Mar 5, 2010 12:04 AM EST
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People, I need your help. I have been a fan of the Colts since I was four. They came to Indy when I was one and their the only football team I have ever and will ever root for. But I can't seem to get my mind off that game. It just keeps coming back and coming back and it just leaves me depressed, so I need help. I need something to raise my spirits. So here it is, "Has any Super Bowl loser ever won the Super Bowl the next year?"
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Not since the 1972 Dolphins.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
"[T]he Steelers have been evil pieces of crap for a long time who play dirty and seek to injure their opponents, and one day there will be a reckoning."
FriarBob
Can't you just feel the love?
by LV Steelers Fan on Mar 5, 2010 12:08 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Sigh
All I ever wanted was for them to win at least two. It’s all I ever wanted for them. I don’t understand how the Colts are becoming the Atlanta Braves of the NFL. This team doesn’t deserve this.
For ever Indianapolis has been an afterthought Mid West sports city, having to watch while Chicago got title after title. This city needs this team to be a dynasty just like Pittsburgh needed the Steelers to be. The Colts need this. We need this.
by TheAlphaColt on Mar 5, 2010 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
Good thing for that correlation/causation saying.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: In an exothermic reaction, heat is a product.
Thank you, Chem 116, for teaching me stuff I already learned in high school chemistry. I always enjoy having my time wasted.
Apparently not...
but how many other milestones have the Colts achieved that no other team has?
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Many.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: In an exothermic reaction, heat is a product.
Thank you, Chem 116, for teaching me stuff I already learned in high school chemistry. I always enjoy having my time wasted.
Don't be down
Remember, there is a first time for anything. The team will be basically unchanged next year, likely even better. That is a good sign
by 2ndBlueGeneration on Mar 5, 2010 12:32 AM EST reply actions
This is a great team!
With Peyton as our QB-anything is possible. They’ve defied the odds so many times, ANYTHING can happen. And even though we didn’t win this year, it was a hell of a ride.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
You're right
I’m just a worrier when it comes to these things. I have been a fan of this team since I went to a Colts game when I was five at the Hoosier Dome. All I want is to see my home team become what it was meant to be; a dynasty.
by TheAlphaColt on Mar 6, 2010 11:08 PM EST up reply actions
Don't know
but don’t worry, we will win it next year.
(formerly known as piojocuau)
"We’re only going to score 17 points? haha...OK" - Tom Brady
Stewie: "Lois, Lois, Mom, mom, mommy, mommy, momma, momma, ma, ma, mom, mom, mom."
Louis Griffin- "What!!!!!!!!!"
Stewie:- "Hi" (runs off, LOL)
THE ANSWER IS YES
Dallas Cowboys lost it in 1970 and won it in 1971
Miami Dolphins lost it in 1971 and won it in 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions
/sorry for the shouting, but nobody came out and actually gave the simplest answer to the question, which was “Yes”
How can you not love a team that does this?
Who needs wikipedia when we have you!
The queen of research. LOL.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
My answer was yes, but it was implicit.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stampede Blue's Resident Steelers Fan
"[T]he Steelers have been evil pieces of crap for a long time who play dirty and seek to injure their opponents, and one day there will be a reckoning."
FriarBob
Can't you just feel the love?
by LV Steelers Fan on Mar 5, 2010 3:29 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
As a NY Mets fan
I hate you for being a St. Louis Cardinals fan =)
That was such a good series but I swear when Endy Chavez made that catch I figured “The Mets are going to the World Series.” Then I saw Beltran strike out looking with the bases loaded and the game on his bat =(
"Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans." - Dick Young
Movie Quote of the Week: "I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this."
Hopefully in 2010
we can use our Super Loss as the spring board for an undefeated season like the Dolphins did in 1972. I’d also like to see Peyton reclaim his single-season TD record.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Mar 6, 2010 8:33 PM EST via mobile reply actions
God I would love for both of those things to happen
make it so
How can you not love a team that does this?
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Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
If that would happen....
If both of those things were to happen I would run the streets of Indianapolis naked. Women will cheer and men will look on in envy. LOL
by TheAlphaColt on Mar 6, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
Ha
If that happens…damn, I don’t know what I would do. How about a pilgrimage? How about a naked pilgrimage? lol
(formerly known as piojocuau)
"We’re only going to score 17 points? haha...OK" - Tom Brady
Stewie: "Lois, Lois, Mom, mom, mommy, mommy, momma, momma, ma, ma, mom, mom, mom."
Louis Griffin- "What!!!!!!!!!"
Stewie:- "Hi" (runs off, LOL)
Why does everyone want to get naked?
We can have just as much fun clothed.
"Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans." - Dick Young
Movie Quote of the Week: "I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this."
Colts were better than most Super Bowl losers
It has been a long time since a team lost a Super Bowl and won the next, but that’s partly because a lot of the losers have been much weaker than the teams that beat them. Usually there’s been a dominant conference that wins year after year. The NFC won 13 in a row during the 1980’s & 90’s, the AFC has won 9 of 13 since then – at one point winning 6 of 7, and the AFC also won 11 of 13 between 1969 and 1981. So most years the loser gets to the Super Bowl by winning a weaker conference than the winner did. If they made it back to the Super Bowl the following year, they were likely to again face a superior team who had won a superior conference.
It’s not a matter of teams automatically collapsing from the trauma of losing a Super Bowl – seven teams have gone back to the Super Bowl the year after losing it: Bills (92, 93 & 94), Broncos (88), Vikings (75), plus the Dallas and Miami teams that won. Several others returned two or three years later.
another in a long line of quality fans who've been Favre'd and never recover.
poor little bugger…
Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
why I'm an ex-Viking fan
I grew up in Minnesota and stayed with the Vikings as I moved around the country. Finally dropped them before the 2005 season when I moved to Indianapolis and decided to make it my permanent home. Figured why keep rooting for a team whose players routinely act like rogues off the field when my new hometown had one the best and classiest teams in the league? Felt kinda weird watching them in the NFC championship game without rooting for them. (thought the Saints would be easier for the Colts to beat). Felt very natural rooting against Favre though!
cool
at least you chose the Colts, too!
I guess my ID could also be ex-Raider fan, but I do still root for them against most other teams.
How can you not love a team that does this?
ex-Raider fan
poor little bugger…
;)
Welcome, ex-Viking fan. Glad to have you here.
Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
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