
Getting to the Super Bowl is a tremendous feat, but losing in it is the most painful team experience in pro football.
For 59 teams, they know all too well the journey of climbing a mountain all season long to reach the summit, only to be knocked down to the base. In some cases, the squads that got there were fortunate to arrive in the first place, ones that truly had little business getting so far. But others appeared to be juggernauts, dynasties in progress, only to be dealt a cruel defeat at a most inopportune moment.