No one knows how horrible a Super Bowl loss can feel — especially when you think you are the better team — than Tom Brady.
Even though Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl winner, those three losses, twice to the New York Giants and once to the Philadelphia Eagles, still stick with him.
Tom Brady Calls Losing Super Bowl a ‘Nightmare’
Brady understands the heartbreak of losing a Super Bowl or two, so he can give Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes some advice on handling things after one of the biggest losses in his life.
Fans and the media have dragged Mahomes through the mud after his team’s loss to the Eagles, in which he had three turnovers.
The Chiefs were looking to be the first NFL team to win three Super Bowls in a row. Even though this was not the Chiefs’ first time losing the Super Bowl, this one hurt the most because of the history on the line.
Brady knows how that feels because his New England Patriots were on the verge of being only the second team in NFL history to go undefeated but were stopped short in the Super Bowl by the New York Giants.
Brady talked about how tough his Super Bowl losses were. Brady said on his YouTube channel: “You don’t sleep for a couple of days. You think it’s a nightmare, you really do,” Brady said, who fell short in three of his 10 Super Bowl appearances.
“You’re like, ‘It didn’t happen. I woke up, it was a bad dream,’ and then you’re like, it sinks in. And ultimately, you get over it. I mean, acute pain, but then there’s that chronic scar tissue of making it that far and then coming up short. Giants, Eagles, especially when you’re the better team. In all three Super Bowls we [the Patriots] lost, we were the better team, not that day, but …”
I’m sure the Giants and Eagles fans will love reading those comments from Brady, but not all losses can be bad. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts turned his first Super Bowl defeat into motivation to return to the big game. He said it lit a fire under him.
“It’s had a great driving force,” Hurts said as he reflected on the loss two years ago via People magazine. “It lit a flame, lit a fire in me, and to have this opportunity again is exactly what you work for.
It worked, as now Hurts and the Eagles are Super Bowl champions after taking down Mahomes and the Chiefs in Super Bowl 59, just a few years after Hurts’ previous loss.