Sure, but I'm not sure I actually feel the same way about it anymore. The Atlanta SB just seemed to affirm their utter dominance and mastery of the sport. Is it the same as 19-0? Of course not. But winning that one--and another two years later--accomplished a lot of what being able to say "we went undefeated" would have. I mean, does anyone seriously think at this point that, like, the 90's Cowboys were as good as the Pats were?
On a more personal note, and to @Reverend's point, LI kind of made 2008 dissipate for me. It was the first Super Bowl my crazy Boston sports fan daughter was old enough to watch with me until the end. We went through the pain of going down--and down big--and while she was just about completely losing it (I think she almost keeled over when Gostkowski missed the XP), I was just very zen about the whole thing because 1) we'd won a lot by then, 2) we won on the single greatest play in football history two years earlier and 3) we had Tom Brady. Which I told her (she was 9), "We are probably going to lose -- but if anyone can come back from this? It's Tom Brady." Jumping up and down on the sofa with her after we won will forever be my favorite sports moment, I don't care what else happens.
It's not the same kind of immortality of undefeated. But it's immortality nonetheless.
