It's never easy to be on the losing end of a close Super Bowl like Sunday night's championship game between the Eagles and Patriots, even if you've won the Super Bowl as many times as Tom Brady and company have before.

You want to win every time you're in the big game, but when you've been there as many times as Brady has, you're bound to lose a few times and every time Tom has lost, it's been in heartbreaking fashion.

 

 

The Patriots couldn't catch a break in #SBLII...

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That said, you have to give credit where credit is due and show sportsmanship and respect in defeat.  The players know this and so do the wives of the players.

After the game as Gisele Bündchen was leaving the stadium, she made it a priority to personal congratulate every Eagles player she saw in an incredible act of sportsmanship.

Gisele could have just walked out of the stadium without saying a word and it would have been fine, but the fact that she felt the need to personally congratulate the Philadelphia players she saw shows how respectful she is in defeat.

(H/T: Dan Wetzel