Biggest postseason loss by your team that you still remember that season and team fondly for making it as far as they did?
Without a doubt the 2003 Carolina Panthers. They were already getting ripped by haters on the Sports board and a few butthurt Bucs fans where I live during the regular season. Then the playoffs came around and the Panthers shredded Dallas in round 1 and stunned the Rams in the divisional round, followed by shutting down Filthadelphia's offense in the NFC championship. (even then, the Sports board was still complaining, but w/e at this point)
And then the Superbowl happened. Carolina played their hearts out (and imo, played better against the Pats than the Eagles and Rams did) and truly had that never-give-up mentality from kickoff to the game's end. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if John Kasay's final kickoff didn't go out of bounds, or if Carolina had gone for extra point kicks instead of 2 point conversions, but what's done is done.
(Hopefully with Cam Newton and the sweet lineup Carolina got from the draft this year, maybe we can go back and finish the job! Here's to hoping)
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