So Which Super Bowl Loss Hurt More? Super Bowl 36 or 53? (Poll)

[Karate61]

Super Bowl 36 by far. Just the way things went down. I'm still not over it and the Patriots are the only NFL team I hate because of it. Blowing our chance for redemption last season was a let down.

I believe my only cure is to have the Rams beat the Patriots in a Super Bowl. Maybe only 1 or 2 years left for that possibility, as it has to be Brady at QB.

 

[OregonRamsFan]

For me it was 36 because my wife was learning to like football via my love of the Rams. We were a lock to win and I really built it up for the wife. We bought a big tv just for the game, wore the jerseys and we lost. And that was it for her. Painful really.

I was 11 years old when we played in 79. I actually was pretty messed up over that game. But I was also hooked. So bittersweet.

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

That SB 14 was a team that I look back on as my "Original Rams team"

Those guys were together for years since there was no FA. So that was a team that still had most of the guys that lost tough and heartbreaking NFCCG games to the Cowboys and Vikings.

So if I had my wish for one of those teams to win it all, that would be the team I would want to get their rings.

Yeah I remember feeling like several seasons in the 1970s the Rams were the NFC's best but kept having freakish bad luck in the post (Mudbowl anybody?); then in '79 I really didn't think they were the best but they made it to the Bowl. THEN they played well and could've won it with a few different bounces....

 

[lordbannon]

36 for sure.

14 I was still a few months away from being out of the womb.
53 I was just ecstatic the Rams had made it that far.
36 I was still young enough to be dumb enough to bet on a "sure thing" in sports. I was confident the Rams would roll over any opposition. I still thought of Brady as "that kid who couldn't even hold down the starting job in college". And (though I didn't know it) it would serve to kickstart the New England fanbase who had been dormant with all of their decades of ineptitude (except basketball, where it was only decade) and put them miles above and beyond every sports town in terms of being insufferable f**ks.

 

[TexasRam]

Bill is still laughing about how Roger destroyed the wherehouse of video tapes to "save the NFL Brand" which assured Billecheck could continue his cheating ways in the NFL.

Both Rams Super Bowl losses were at the hands of these cheaters and are painful.


Facts.

 

[Alaskan Ram]

Part of me died this day:



View: https://giphy.com/gifs/patriots-new-england-tom-brady-xUPOqpsHXez8ieOFjO

 

[Dodgersrf]

Easily 36.

 

[Tano]

Part of me died this day:



View: https://giphy.com/gifs/patriots-new-england-tom-brady-xUPOqpsHXez8ieOFjO

You know - I really want to post inappropriate for posting this GIF on a Ram board

 

[Mojo Ram]

We were outclassed in SB 14 but showed out very well. Chin up in defeat.

SB 36 was politicized and straight up rigged. Brutal.

We just got beat in SB 53. Frustrating and disappointing.

 

[JackKirbyFan]

Super Bowl 14 and 53. I want the Los Angeles Rams to win a Super Bowl before the Lord calls me. Thus both were heartbreaking losses. Still waiting coach McVay. (PS I live a stone's throw from your practice field in Thousand Oaks.) Let's Go Rams.

 

[MauiRam]

Easy for me -- 36 going away .. Watching Faulk get tackled in the backfield (without the football - no hand off, no screen/shovel pass) was infuriating! The Patsies held/mugged our receivers at will, and no flags ... The announcers said "Billy Bellyache must have told his team to play rough - this is the Super Bowl - let's see if the refs give some leeway." Billy B. nailed it - there was an ocean of leeway! Pisses me off every time I think about it.

One more thing - I am not a N.Y. Giants fan, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for them for beating the g.d. patsies in the Super Bowl - thereby preventing them from going undefeated for an entire season. Can you imagine all the putrid stuff we'd have been subjected to hearing ad nauseum had the Patsies won? I shudder to even think about it ...........

 

[XXXIVwin]

36 and it’s not close.

Hard to understand how anyone could think otherwise, honestly.

 

[LesBaker]

I don't know what pisses me off more. The fact that the Patriots cheated by taping Rams practice or the NFL front office's "no Balls" sweeping it under the rug and destroying the tapes, letting the phuc-ing cheaters get away with it.

When news broke that the tapes were destroyed there was no longer room to deny the cheating. As desperate as the NFL was to have the whole thing go away destroying evidence was the last resort.

It was Goodell's "Black Sox" moment and it will be a spot of grease on his shirt forever.

 

[snackdaddy]

36 was the worst for me. We were easily the better team. We fought back against difficult odds to tie the game late. Only to see it end. The Panthers double OT loss stung pretty bad too.

 

[Rams8821]

This Rams team is on a course like the Clemson Tigers.

Clemson lost to Alabama in the NCG and the next year won it all and now are the class of college football.

Rams lost the SB to NE last year and I think we beat them this year (if NE gets back, I fully expect us to)

LOT of similarities between Dabo and McVay.

CU in Charlotte.

 

[Memento]

I cried after 36. That was probably the toughest sports moment I've had (even worse than the 2004 World Series when the Cardinals were swept by the Red Sox).

 

[whitedk57]

Superbowl 36 had to be worse for me. The Patriots were at their peak of cheating with recording practices, mugging receivers, and the like. And the fact that my own brother (Vikings fan) said that "they needed to win because of 911" just made my blood boil. I wasn't really mad at my brother, but I just knew there were others out there thinking the same thing.

 

[Picked4td]

I’m honestly a little shocked by the numbers here. It’s easily 53 for me cause we practically completely shut down Tom Brady and the patriots offense, something few teams have done in the last 20 years, and were let down by our historically great offense

Plus there’s always the cheating excuse to fall back on for 36. But 53 there’s nothing to say except out coached/played

 

[yrba1]

XXXVI obviously. We were heavy favorites to win and Martz blew it due to a poor game plan that could've neutralized Belichick's defense even with their cheating

 

[Mackeyser]

It isn't close. 36 was by far the most disappointing loss because you knew the officials threw the game to the Cheatriots. That was during the game since the non calls were so blatant. What I didn't know until the game ended and I mean right after the game ended was that the Rams players were saying the Cheatriots were calling out the red zone plays of the Rams at the LOS. Even plays that had not been run all season. Years later Tape Gate became known and then the coverup and it made the THEFT of 36 hurt even worse.

Pretty sure I said in October of '01 that even as the "Patriots" were struggling that there was no way in hell any team NOT named the Patriots was gonna win the Super Bowl.

It was marketed like the Patriots were 'Murica and any team that beat them hated 'Murica.

It was a cynical cash grab that made it super easy to cheat because 1) who's gonna be against being for the Patriots after 9/11 and 2) the Rams were an upstart, serendipitous team with the most hated owner (between the owners) and so elevating Kraft over Frontiere was too easy a decision.

Was it fixed? Nah, didn't need to be. Martz played to exploit mismatches within the rules. Ernie Adams and Belichick figured out that they reffed the Super Bowl like the Pro Bowl and exploited the rules. And they cheated with taping signals, so it was possible to win by cheating without it being fixed, per se.

And that loss was devastating because a 2nd win in 3 years would have set up a dynasty, would likely have squashed the Warner/Martz feud about any injuries and maybe stopped out decline into one of the worst teams of all time over a decade in the modern era.