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Originally Posted by ronaldo
I only read some of the text where he said, "So Plax is playing defense?"
By the theory you're posting, if Tiger doesn't win the US open this year, because he's won the last four tournaments on that course and well, because he's Tiger, it's a choke. Again, it's not. People forget that he's playing against the BEST golfers in the world. ..just like the Giants are obviously one of the best teams in the NFL. They DO have a little bit of a say in the outcome do they not? If Tiger pulled a Greg Norman (my favorite all-time golfer btw) and blew an 8 shot lead in the final round of a major...THAT is a choke.
That's the problem when a word becomes too exposed nowadays. It loses ALL meaning because people use it too liberally. Like "Owned" and guaranteeing a win. Neither of those mean anything nowadays.
P.S. Both teams yesterday started on even footing. 0-0. A CHOKE in MY eyes is, had the Pats been up 14 points with 5 minutes to play, and they just FELL APART. Like Norman. An 8 stroke lead and he FELL APART. The Pats didn't fall apart yesterday, they were beaten, on this day, by a better team.
edit-Norman only had a 6 stroke lead. My bad.
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Spin it any way you like man, but the fact is we disagree. Maybe you didn't interact as much with some of the more rabid Pats fans on this and other boards like I did, who knows. Several, and I mean several of them have been bragging and acting superior all year, always in anyone's face who had the audacity to say even the slightest negative thing about their dream team.
I'm sorry if you can't see it but in certain ways this was a huge choke. And yes, if Tiger Woods expects his next win to be a slam-dunk and everyone else does including all his fans, and he ends up choking in the end and losing then yes... that too is a choke.
Is it really worth arguing about?
Okay fine, you win. The Patriots did not choke. It was, however, an upset. In fact I'll predict it will go down in history as one of the top 10, maybe even the top 5 upsets in sports history. If people want to describe it as a "choke" it really isn't going to bother me that much though. I'm not sure why it bothers you so much.