Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. The Sox losing in 86 obviously would have been significantly more traumatic and disappointing than the cinderella Pats losing in 2001. What I meant was purely the sinking feeling of “we’re not winning this”. Not the emotional impact of losing.People were way more emotionally invested in the Sox winning the Series in 1986 than they were the Pats winning the SB in 2001. (And everyone was very invested in seeing the Pats win the SB.)