Originally Posted by CDSmith

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.