To each is/her own: For me I needed another Banner unfurled in Foxborough like I need oxygen. I always felt in my heart (and said repeatedly to my long suffering non sport family), that my Bucket List included one more Ring for TB/BB and Patriot Nation. It was a kind of validation, re-reinforcement or whatever description you choose to make that I needed to witness for myself to put some issues to rest.
To lose yesterday would have been such a blow for us, the Fans and the Patriots Organisation as a whole, I cannot begin to imagine how coping with another L would have felt like, nor do I want to.
The W means so much more the a W normally does, for the Legacy of TB + BB, and for me (and hopefully others) putting painful memories firmly where they belong, in the past.
The manner we lost the last two Big Dances we were at, yeah sure it stung, and like others, to this day I still have not re-watched those losses.
Today those defeats are without doubt, not as painful. To be realistic, we cannot win them all, but the Patriots sure do give it a helluva try.