Off Sunday question, what’s the game that made you the most anxious / nervous as a pats fan?
November 17, 2025
Off Sunday question, what’s the game that made you the most anxious / nervous as a pats fan?
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Going into the game it was 100% against the Seahawks in the super bowl
The first SB against the Rams. The first SB we lost to the Giants, because we were trying to go undefeated. And the Falcons SB.
The Falcons SB, I was more in a rage than nervous, because Atlanta was a total trash team that we should have destroyed, but instead we somehow managed to fall behind 28-3 to them, and really should have lost the game. The comeback was insane and nerve-wracking.
AFC Championship at arrowhead
I’d say at halftime had to be Atlanta Superbowl going into a game first Rams Superbowl
2010/2011 playoff game against the Jets. The Patriots had one of the best teams I’ve ever watched and lost to the jets in the divisional round.
Brady won the ONLY unanimous MPV in the history of the NFL. Though 07 he threw 50 TDs and went 16-0, that 2010 team was actually better, they were ridiculous, granted in 2011 they went to the SB to lose again but yeah, they had a heck of a team in 2010.
Snow game without question. Best three hours of my life spent on the verge of throwing up.
14 SB Seattle
The AFC championship against the Bortles led Jaguars.
It was close, but I was sweating losing to AND being the team that let the Jags into the superbowl
Along with that Seahawks game, the Chiefs AFC Championship.
That felt like a game everyone knew was going to be a battle. It felt, even in the moment to me, like the last best shot for Brady-Belichick since it the team didn’t feel quite as strong as it had the half-decade before.
It was also clear that the Chiefs were going to be the “hunted” in the near-future. The Steelers, Colts, Ravens, Broncos all had their moments, but the Chiefs were a much stronger team when hitting their highs and reminded me of the Patriots (and still do) in that you never, ever counted them out.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a Patriots game with more “sliding doors” plays than that one. So many times the game was right there on the edge and they made the play again and again and again.
Patriots vs. Ravens in Week 13, 2007.
Honestly thought the undefeated season was over until Brady threw that game winning touchdown to Gaffney.
Having lived through “Berry the Bears” and got out asses whooped, then Desmond Howard’s return for a TD va Greenbay…I’ll go with going against “the greatest show on turf” Rams 2002…I was not prepared for the beginning of the defensive genius Belichick put on that game. I didn’t think we had a chance going into that game.
I recently gifted my daughter an Edelman jersey. When she asked which Patriot was Edelman I found that catch on YouTube. It’s still the craziest catch I have ever seen.
2001 Super Bowl vs rams. No sporting event will ever be as agonizing and vomit inducing.
Super Bowl XLII
Low scoring affair. Perfect season on the line. Beat them at the end of the season but it was a fight. You know the rest; goddamn Giants.
AFC championship at the chiefs last time we went. It was the first game I was able to go to in person and it was close. I was able to sneak to the end zone for the final play which was really cool.
Super Bowls are always pretty anxious because of the magnitude but the Championship game against the Jaguars comes to mind as being highly stressful.
Super Bowl XLIX against the Seahawks. Going down multiple scores, clawing back, then watching *another* helmet catch situation almost killed me.
Being down 28-3 was rough, but by that point admittedly I was already doom and gloom thinking it was over lol
Perfect season SB. I wanted them to go 19-0 so bad.
[I had been so confident all season, reveling in their march to greatness. Then the Giants game to end the reg season (with all the fanfare and simulcast on two different networks) was unexpectedly close. They didn’t look as dominant in the playoffs. When NY won the NFC, it felt like a bad matchup, since they played us close already and it’s hard to win rematches. So I wasn’t confident going into the SB, plus was nervous cause I wanted it so bad.]
1985 AFC Championship game @ Dolphins
Super Bowl XLIX vs Seattle. Just that last drive by the Seahawks, where they get another miracle catch, then get right to the doorstep with an unstoppable RB. I have been nervous during games, but that was one of the very few I was actively pacing during.
The Atlanta game was easy. When we were down 28-3, I figured the game was over and gave up. As the comeback started, I was in more of a joking mood. I literally said, when we were down 28-12 ‘well, all we need is 2 TD’s and 2 2 point conversions’, not expecting that to happen because that never happens. I only got nervous once we scored the second TD. Once we got the 2 point conversation, I knew we won.
The game against the bills
David “fucking” Tyree
2019 afc championship game at KC
Super Bowl 42 😭
Pats/Chiefs in 2018 in the AFC Championship game, amazing game and ending
Seattle superbowl
2018 AFC Championship game. I had a feeling our season would end in Arrowhead. So happy we went in there and shut them up.
Every Super Bowl game and more AFC Championship games than I can remember. SB 36 was #1, especially as the game progressed and we had a legit chance to win it. #2 SB 42, there was so much on the line and the perfect season could likely never be repeated again by anyone else.
SB XLII. I wanted that perfect season so badly.
SB 49 and SB 42
49: Going into the game 49 was the most anxious specially with deflategate and they had a great team. The whole game was amazing and hearstopper until the Butler INT and Brady making the Seahawks come offsides.
42: I was more confident we would win but slowly I became anxious to the point of having almost a heart attack when Giants took the lead. I still have ptsd when i watch the game but before I was unable to even watch it.
It will always be the 07 SB and nothing comes close.
They had a chance at perfection. A chance we will probably never see again. Those two weeks I felt so uneasy and to top off all the negative stories coming from the team didn’t help either.
The whole game was felt with unease. You had a Giants team that was hungry. They knew they had a chance to win during the season and played a brutal playoff schedule. They were battle tested.
The Patriots really should have lost a game during the season. Whether it was Ryan’s timeout that screwed the Ravens or the Giants blowing coverage on the same exact pass to Moss.
To this day I would have taken a loss during the season and missed chance to go undefeated if that meant keeping them in check during the SB and finish the job.
Unclear how the obvious answer isn’t Eli 2.0?
The Super Bowl That Shall Remain Unspoken
I felt good that first off week, but by the second week leading up to the game it all changed. Patriots fans and NFL fans on message boards and the media were giving the Giants no chance. Then that sound bite of Brady laughing when someone on media row told him Plaxico Burress predicted a
Giants 23-17 win. It reminded me of the talk leading up to the Rams Super Bowl and it all just left a bad feeling in my stomach all week.
Nothing was more nerve-racking than being 18-0 and knowing there was one game left to win to be perfect. If we were that nervous as fans, I can’t imagine what it was like for the players.
Has to be the Snow Bowl against Oakland in ’01. The weather, the Tuck Rule, the final drives, Vinatieri x2. But most of all because when you haven’t yet won a Super Bowl it just mattered so damn much. Just as there was infinitely more anxiety with the Sox in ’03 and ’04 than anything since.
The Rams SB had marginally less anxiety because it was just really hard to imagine we would win. Pittsburgh sort of just loses out because I think no one had yet recovered from what they saw vs Oakland.
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Going into the game it was 100% against the Seahawks in the super bowl
The first SB against the Rams. The first SB we lost to the Giants, because we were trying to go undefeated. And the Falcons SB.
The Falcons SB, I was more in a rage than nervous, because Atlanta was a total trash team that we should have destroyed, but instead we somehow managed to fall behind 28-3 to them, and really should have lost the game. The comeback was insane and nerve-wracking.
AFC Championship at arrowhead
I’d say at halftime had to be Atlanta Superbowl going into a game first Rams Superbowl
2010/2011 playoff game against the Jets. The Patriots had one of the best teams I’ve ever watched and lost to the jets in the divisional round.
Brady won the ONLY unanimous MPV in the history of the NFL. Though 07 he threw 50 TDs and went 16-0, that 2010 team was actually better, they were ridiculous, granted in 2011 they went to the SB to lose again but yeah, they had a heck of a team in 2010.
Snow game without question. Best three hours of my life spent on the verge of throwing up.
14 SB Seattle
The AFC championship against the Bortles led Jaguars.
It was close, but I was sweating losing to AND being the team that let the Jags into the superbowl
Along with that Seahawks game, the Chiefs AFC Championship.
That felt like a game everyone knew was going to be a battle. It felt, even in the moment to me, like the last best shot for Brady-Belichick since it the team didn’t feel quite as strong as it had the half-decade before.
It was also clear that the Chiefs were going to be the “hunted” in the near-future. The Steelers, Colts, Ravens, Broncos all had their moments, but the Chiefs were a much stronger team when hitting their highs and reminded me of the Patriots (and still do) in that you never, ever counted them out.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a Patriots game with more “sliding doors” plays than that one. So many times the game was right there on the edge and they made the play again and again and again.
Patriots vs. Ravens in Week 13, 2007.
Honestly thought the undefeated season was over until Brady threw that game winning touchdown to Gaffney.
Having lived through “Berry the Bears” and got out asses whooped, then Desmond Howard’s return for a TD va Greenbay…I’ll go with going against “the greatest show on turf” Rams 2002…I was not prepared for the beginning of the defensive genius Belichick put on that game. I didn’t think we had a chance going into that game.
I recently gifted my daughter an Edelman jersey. When she asked which Patriot was Edelman I found that catch on YouTube. It’s still the craziest catch I have ever seen.
2001 Super Bowl vs rams. No sporting event will ever be as agonizing and vomit inducing.
Super Bowl XLII
Low scoring affair. Perfect season on the line. Beat them at the end of the season but it was a fight. You know the rest; goddamn Giants.
AFC championship at the chiefs last time we went. It was the first game I was able to go to in person and it was close. I was able to sneak to the end zone for the final play which was really cool.
Super Bowls are always pretty anxious because of the magnitude but the Championship game against the Jaguars comes to mind as being highly stressful.
Super Bowl XLIX against the Seahawks. Going down multiple scores, clawing back, then watching *another* helmet catch situation almost killed me.
Being down 28-3 was rough, but by that point admittedly I was already doom and gloom thinking it was over lol
Perfect season SB. I wanted them to go 19-0 so bad.
[I had been so confident all season, reveling in their march to greatness. Then the Giants game to end the reg season (with all the fanfare and simulcast on two different networks) was unexpectedly close. They didn’t look as dominant in the playoffs. When NY won the NFC, it felt like a bad matchup, since they played us close already and it’s hard to win rematches. So I wasn’t confident going into the SB, plus was nervous cause I wanted it so bad.]
1985 AFC Championship game @ Dolphins
Super Bowl XLIX vs Seattle. Just that last drive by the Seahawks, where they get another miracle catch, then get right to the doorstep with an unstoppable RB. I have been nervous during games, but that was one of the very few I was actively pacing during.
The Atlanta game was easy. When we were down 28-3, I figured the game was over and gave up. As the comeback started, I was in more of a joking mood. I literally said, when we were down 28-12 ‘well, all we need is 2 TD’s and 2 2 point conversions’, not expecting that to happen because that never happens. I only got nervous once we scored the second TD. Once we got the 2 point conversation, I knew we won.
The game against the bills
David “fucking” Tyree
2019 afc championship game at KC
Super Bowl 42 😭
Pats/Chiefs in 2018 in the AFC Championship game, amazing game and ending
Seattle superbowl
2018 AFC Championship game. I had a feeling our season would end in Arrowhead. So happy we went in there and shut them up.
Every Super Bowl game and more AFC Championship games than I can remember. SB 36 was #1, especially as the game progressed and we had a legit chance to win it. #2 SB 42, there was so much on the line and the perfect season could likely never be repeated again by anyone else.
SB XLII. I wanted that perfect season so badly.
SB 49 and SB 42
49: Going into the game 49 was the most anxious specially with deflategate and they had a great team. The whole game was amazing and hearstopper until the Butler INT and Brady making the Seahawks come offsides.
42: I was more confident we would win but slowly I became anxious to the point of having almost a heart attack when Giants took the lead. I still have ptsd when i watch the game but before I was unable to even watch it.
It will always be the 07 SB and nothing comes close.
They had a chance at perfection. A chance we will probably never see again. Those two weeks I felt so uneasy and to top off all the negative stories coming from the team didn’t help either.
The whole game was felt with unease. You had a Giants team that was hungry. They knew they had a chance to win during the season and played a brutal playoff schedule. They were battle tested.
The Patriots really should have lost a game during the season. Whether it was Ryan’s timeout that screwed the Ravens or the Giants blowing coverage on the same exact pass to Moss.
To this day I would have taken a loss during the season and missed chance to go undefeated if that meant keeping them in check during the SB and finish the job.
Unclear how the obvious answer isn’t Eli 2.0?
The Super Bowl That Shall Remain Unspoken
I felt good that first off week, but by the second week leading up to the game it all changed. Patriots fans and NFL fans on message boards and the media were giving the Giants no chance. Then that sound bite of Brady laughing when someone on media row told him Plaxico Burress predicted a
Giants 23-17 win. It reminded me of the talk leading up to the Rams Super Bowl and it all just left a bad feeling in my stomach all week.
Nothing was more nerve-racking than being 18-0 and knowing there was one game left to win to be perfect. If we were that nervous as fans, I can’t imagine what it was like for the players.
Has to be the Snow Bowl against Oakland in ’01. The weather, the Tuck Rule, the final drives, Vinatieri x2. But most of all because when you haven’t yet won a Super Bowl it just mattered so damn much. Just as there was infinitely more anxiety with the Sox in ’03 and ’04 than anything since.
The Rams SB had marginally less anxiety because it was just really hard to imagine we would win. Pittsburgh sort of just loses out because I think no one had yet recovered from what they saw vs Oakland.