"To this day it still causes problems in the family because during Super Bowl week if they talk about that Super Bowl, I have to get up and leave the room or turn the channel because I can't bear to hear about it."

"It was a heartbreak season. You're trying to go for 19-0 and to lose a game like that? Just tremendous disappointment."

"It was the Raiders' time in history. You go back to the Jets, the Baltimore Colts, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins, then the Pittsburgh Steelers -- all of these teams had to go through Oakland."

"I've never gotten over it. None of them [four Super Bowl losses]. Those were four opportunities we had to prove that we had the best in the world, and we didn't do it."

"I don't think it's anywhere close to not being the best [team]. We used to joke about having a 'pair and a spare,' on the team. We had depth, I'd say, at all positions. We got beat by a team that should've never beaten us."

"Chuck came in with an attitude that we were going to discipline ourselves, we were going to win football games the right way. ... Three or four games into the season, we realized, 'Damn, this is working. And we like it.' "

"I think we were a little bit offensively burnt out because we had a lot of younger players on offense. Defensively, we had a lot of veterans and they were at their peak. We all thought we would go back in '71 and we didn't."

"We were just destroying people. And then we destroy Detroit in the first playoff game. And then we go to San Fran and we turn it over [five] times and still really should win that game."

"I always wonder if they would have just left Steve Young in -- I mean, the last three games we just rolled people with Young."

"I lost two Super Bowls and I'd rather not have gone to either one of them. Because the pain of losing that game, it just never leaves you."

"It probably was our best team, considering the year we had before [in 1989], being the 'Bickering Bills,' and then straightening everything out and going to the Super Bowl. It just ended on a bad note."

"Against the Chiefs in that third preseason game when Pete [Carroll] said he was going to name Russell Wilson the starter. Watching him play that particular night, I knew we had a chance at doing something great with that team."

"Losing that Super Bowl versus Denver is something that will always eat at me. Knowing how hard it is to accomplish what we did by going 17-2 and one of those losses being the Super Bowl is heartbreaking."

"On the morning of the championship game, I remember waking up and looking out the window. It was a monsoon and I knew we were in trouble. It was a nightmare."

"Until we won the Super Bowl [to finish out the 2015 season] that was one of those times when you think 'I hope we didn't lose our chance at a championship.' But we also had Peyton and we knew we would be back."

"You knew that his ability to break off a long run and finish off a game at a moment's notice was right there in the power that LaDainian Tomlinson held in his feet."

"We always got knocked out by the ultimate Super Bowl winner. ... It was always a dogfight [against the Steelers]. ... I hate losing anything, but especially to Pittsburgh in football. It still burns from when we played."

"We're all sick as you can imagine. Our hearts are very heavy right now."

"We were confident that if we remained healthy, we could be productive. If you go back and look at the numbers that year, the running game worked out quite well."

"For me, it's twofold. We had a good team and never had a chance to win it all. Me, I got hurt. I tore my ACL and missed the playoff run. ... There is probably always going to be a bitter taste in my mouth that we didn't go all the way."

"There are no real moral victories in this deal. It's everybody trying to get that trophy, that ring. Everybody else is wishing they had done something different."

"I remember we ran the ball more than any team. I remember our defense playing lights out for most of the year. And I remember that it was the Steelers' year that season and not ours."

"You can look at it optimistically or pessimistically. When you lose a playoff game that's how you feel. You feel like you've lost an opportunity, but I'll say this, it's a step forward."

"I think for me, it's been about never letting go of that feeling and using that motivation moving forward. Channeling that, I think, has been really important, but compartmentalizing it. Use it the right way."

"That was one of Brett's best years, [but] we had basically three rookie offensive linemen playing. It was a good team, but my best teams were 2009 [which lost in the wild-card round], 2010 [which won the Super Bowl] and 2014 [which lost in the NFC title game]."

"I feel like the team that we had and the kind of players that we had and the camaraderie that we had, we definitely should have been holding up that Super Bowl trophy and we definitely should have that ring."

"We were probably one of the best defenses not to win a Super Bowl, and we were better statistically than the 2000 Ravens. They got the credit, but we would have got it had we won that game."

"We were running the ball, throwing it, defense was outstanding -- they were knocking quarterbacks out. We were rolling there good. You lose your No. 1 receiver it can make it difficult."

"Some guys can get gold jackets but never go to a Super Bowl or win one. There's only been 51 winners of it. That lets you know, no one ever remembers the people that lost besides Buffalo."

"We had plenty of talent on defense, and we played lights out. It was just one of those feelings, where you run out on the field [and you] want to dominate each and every time. ... And that's what we did."

"It wasn't like, 'Oh well, we have next year.' It wasn't like that. We were upset. We were pissed off and we needed to fix it."