A similarly painful Super Bowl loss (Seahawks 2015) lead to me bonding with a large number of sports fans, within and without the Seahawks fan base. I was in N

A similarly painful Super Bowl loss (Seahawks 2015) lead to me bonding with a large number of sports fans, within and without the Seahawks fan base. I was in New Orleans for a professional conference and watched the game in the hotel bar. After that heart rending loss, I just wandered around Bourbon Street (still wearing my jersey) until the wee hours of the morning. I was greeted, chatted up, hugged, by fans of any number of teams, not even my own. The "Fuck Tom Brady" factor may have played into this, which ties into the 'kinds' or 'degrees' of loss that you're leading in to. And yes, I certainly think there are degrees of losing.