Would you rather...

Skull fricked


Sucks to shoulda coulda woulda wonder forever what could have been if inches played out differently.

I’m still aggravated by loss to San Fran 2011 wondering if we woulda won super bowl.

Had 49ers skull fricked us in 2011 I wouldn’t even think about it or wonder.

Option C, lose by 2 scores. I don’t want to get blown out.

At the same time - Seattle, San Fran and Minnesota playoff losses hurt pretty bad...

The way we did. I’d always rather be competitive

Option B. Option A leaves a lot of variables and what ifs. If we stopped that play, how would we have matched up against Philly. Brees would have had a better game than Keenum, What would AK & MI do.... Under Option B, there is no questions who the better team was, at least on that day.

In other words, lose all hope after an early score or be competitive late in the game.


I'll take be competitive.

skull f&%ked is easier to get over. There's no lingering thoughts of "if we had just done ____..."

It sucks when it happens, but you get over it.

Losing like the Saints did is the kinda thing that sticks with you for decades. I still remember how I felt when the Saints had that miracle kick return TD only to miss the extra point.

I'd rather lose a close one than get curb stomped. Even though it hurts, at least you know you were competitive. You get skull dragged and you think jeez we're not even in the same league.

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Lose the way the Saints lost (come from behind, take the lead and lose by a fluke last second play)


Because the latter validates that if it weren't for a fluke play we are at least a Championship caliber team with 21 players on IR.

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This. We beat the Vikings but for some f'd up reason we didn't move on to the NFCCG.

The Vikings never were in it against the Eagles.

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The way we did. I’d always rather be competitive

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I agree. Sure, losing like that is more painful, but we came back from 17-0 at halftime and almost (should have) won. That's grit. I'm proud of this damn fine football team.

The way we did. Other than the constant replays, I at least like knowing we could compete and in fact did and we’re the better team other than, as you say, a truly last-second fluke play.