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The happiest fans outside of the French Quarter should be all the Patriots fans around Boston.When Tracy Porter picked off Peyton Manning and returned it for a 74-yard touchdown, he cleared up any question of who is the team of the decade. Take a bow New England, the '00s were the decade of the Patriots.
Surely no Patriots fan would have bought the Colts argument anyway, but a Colts' win would have given Indianapolis' fans a reason to contest the Patriots claim to Team of the Decade.
The Colts could have made an argument with a Super Bowl win (more overall wins, more playoff appearances, more consistency from season to season to counteract the Patriots' one more Super Bowl win), but one Super Bowl win and one Super Bowl loss can't compare to New England's three wins and one Super Bowl loss no matter how often the Colts put up 12-win seasons.
If there's any bad news for the Patriots, it's that Teams of the Decade usually struggle in the next decade. The Packers (Team of the 1960s) won five titles in the 1960s but followed it up by going 0-1 in the playoffs in the 1970s. The Steelers (Team of the 1970s) didn't make it back to the Super Bowl until 1995, having won only two playoff games in the 1980s.
San Francisco has had the most success following up their TOTD title. They lost in the NFC Championship Game in 1990, 1992 and 1993, then won the Super Bowl in 1994. Of course, things haven't been as good in San Francisco since then. Dallas (the Team of the 1990s) didn't win a playoff game in the 2000s until 2009.
I'm sure some Patriots haters will point out that all three of the New England Super Bowl wins came before they were caught using some illegal cameras, and they are 0-for-the-Lombardi since then, but even with that, there's no team that can really make a claim to the title.
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