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Article: Last year's lost chance now Patriots' perfect motivation.(Sports)(Since losing the AFC title game to the Colts,? New England has been nothing short of perfect)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2008
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Byline: Howard Ulman The Associated Press
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The Patriots needed just four yards for a first down late in last year's AFC championship game. Succeed and they'd almost certainly reach the Super Bowl.
They failed.
"All the hard work in the offseason, preseason, the regular season,"
New England owner Robert Kraft said in an interview with The Associated Press in his Gillette Stadium office. "And then, boom! It's cruel the way it ends. It's really cruel."
He watched Tom Brady's short pass to Troy Brown fall incomplete on third down at the New England 46-yard line with 2:27 left in Indianapolis. The Patriots had to ...