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Every NFL team’s most fun playoff run that didn’t end with a Super Bowl win

Take a look at each NFL team’s most fun playoff run, even though it didn’t conclude with a Super Bowl victory.

Rank an NFL team’s best postseason in franchise history.

For the New Orleans Saints, that’s easy: 2009, the one that ended in a Super Bowl victory.

For the New England Patriots, was 2018 better than 2001? Why talk about either when there was 2016 and the 28-3 comeback against the Atlanta Falcons?

Winning the Super Bowl is the best playoff run.

What about postseason runs that were just fun, even if the team didn’t win it all?

For this list, Super Bowl-winning playoff runs are excluded. Just because it ended in heartbreak doesn’t mean you have to be stay sad. Be thankful that it happened. In keeping with that theme, the specifics of how the playoff runs ended will be minimized to help remember the good times.

Here is a list at each team’s playoff run in the Super Bowl era that was the most fun, even if it didn’t conclude with hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.

New England Patriots to honor Tom Brady at season opener

Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced Thursday that Tom Brady will be honored at the team’s 2023 opener.

Tom Brady ended his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season (we think), but he’ll always be best-known for his time with the New England Patriots from 2000 through 2019. In that 20-year stretch, Brady helped the Patriots finish with a 219-64 regular season record, and completed 6,377 of 9,888 passes for 541 touchdowns, and 179 interceptions. There’s also the matter of the six Super Bowl wins.

On Thursday morning, Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced that Brady will be honored at the team’s home opener.

Certainly an appropriate gesture for the GOAT.