2007 Patriots = 2006 Mavericks

[Football_Bat]

= FRAUDS! :D

 

[hockeybeat]

Um, no. Not even in the same zip code. The 2006 Mavs weren't the best regular season team in the history of the NBA.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

= 2001 Mariners (record 116 regular-season wins)

 

[suburbia]

= 2001 Mariners (record 116 regular-season wins)

I don't even think they were favored to beat the Yankees in the ALCS. The Yankees had by far the more proven talent. Ichiro was the only great player on that Mariners team; the others (like Brett Boone) just happened to have career years all at once. Their pitching wasn't nearly as battle-tested as the Yankees' was with Pettitte, Mussina, Clemens, El Duque and Rivera. And their offense was not nearly as versatile as that of the Yankees'.

Better comparison in baseball is the 1906 Cubs or the 1954 Indians.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Plus the Patriots got out of the first round.

 

[Small Town Guy]

The basketball comparison I think of is the 1991 UNLV team. They destroyed everyone - I think their average margin of victory was over 30 - and were sort of the villains of the college hoops world. Then lost in stunning fashion to Duke in the semis.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Plus the Patriots got out of the first round.

As did the Mariners.

 

[John]

The basketball comparison I think of is the 1991 UNLV team. They destroyed everyone - I think their average margin of victory was over 30 - and were sort of the villains of the college hoops world. Then lost in stunning fashion to Duke in the semis.

I think there are some real parallels there, including the cheating aspect.

 

[forever_town]

Plus the Patriots got out of the first round.

As did the Mariners.

The Mariners didn't even make it to the World Series. At least the Patsies "played" in the Super Bowl.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

1988 Oakland A's

 

[forever_town]

1988 Oakland A's

The Pats were at least in this Super Bowl. Oakland never really had a chance after Gibson's dinger.

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

= 1980 Soviet hockey team

 

[Stoney]

In college football 1983 Nebraska, 1986 Miami, 2002 Miami, and 2005 USC work pretty well for this analogy. All had once looked nearly unbeatable and were being hyped as maybe the best ever until upset in their bowl game.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Plus the Patriots got out of the first round.

As did the Mariners.

The Mariners didn't even make it to the World Series. At least the Patsies "played" in the Super Bowl.

Was just correcting the assertion that the Mariners didn't make it out of the first round.

 

[Sportsbruh]

there is no comparison and NO precedent.


The Patriots are in a league of their own in the canons of a BEAT DOWN!!!!!!!

The giants were only suppose to be another roadkill.


LOL!!!!!!!!! Look whose crying now.

 

[Trey Beamon]

George Mason vs. UConn?

 

[wickedwritah]

In college football 1983 Nebraska, 1986 Miami, 2002 Miami, and 2005 USC work pretty well for this analogy. All had once looked nearly unbeatable and were being hyped as maybe the best ever until upset in their bowl game.

Miami lost that Fiesta Bowl thanks in large part to a bull**** pass interference call that 99.999999 percent of officials never, ever, ever would call.

A better comparison would be to the 1996-97 Bulls, had they not won the title.

(But, to Bat's point: Yes, this was a major-league choke job.)

 

[Chi City 81]

In college football 1983 Nebraska, 1986 Miami, 2002 Miami, and 2005 USC work pretty well for this analogy. All had once looked nearly unbeatable and were being hyped as maybe the best ever until upset in their bowl game.

Miami lost that Fiesta Bowl thanks in large part to a bull**** pass interference call that 99.999999 percent of officials never, ever, ever would call.

A better comparison would be to the 1996-97 Bulls, had they not won the title.

(But, to Bat's point: Yes, this was a major-league choke job.)

95-96 Bulls, wick. They won 69 games in 96-97.

 

[wickedwritah]

Thanks, Doc, for the correction.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Don't know why I'm stuck thinking about old college basketball comparisons, but the 85 Georgetown team comes to mind too. Dominant, bullies, defending champs. I think they lost 2 games during the season, then were upset, by a team they'd beaten during the year; similar to the Pats.

Or Walton's UCLA team that lost to N.C. State. I've seen interviews with him where he says he's never gotten over that loss, remembers it much more vividly than his two titles.