You think you have a tough time digesting this?

Think of the players, especially the guys who are nice backups but likely won't have lengthy careers. This might have been it for them. All the hours they've put in since April. The coaches and support staff who spend 16+ hours at the facility for a majority of the year. To know you've done enough to make it to the Super Bowl and have it taken from you, not by a missed tackle by your teammate, but by an incompetent or biased referee.

I'll be over this by tomorrow, but, some of those guys will ruminate on this for a lifetime. I feel awful for them the more I think about it.