Agony of defeat: For Seahawks, will it last forever?

There is more. As of Wednesday afternoon, both the New England Patriots and the Seahawks were generating nearly 1,000 tweets per hour, and remember: This is happening in the Twitter world, where stuff that occurred five minutes ago already is ancient news.

Then there was Patriots coach Bill Belichick taking time away Wednesday from his team’s victory parade in Boston to give his thoughts on the subject.

Why not? The rest of the universe is doing the same.

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