Did we sell our soul for SB XLIV?

I come at it from the stand point that any team can win any year so it’s never disappointing that we don’t win it all. That we’ve even had a playoff spot more years than not since then should never be taken for granted. That was a decade and a half of belief that it could be our year. I don’t have that belief right now.
Not to get too far off topic, but the lasting effect of that 06-21 run is that this franchise is capable of building another championship run in the future.
That’s something that wasn’t even there during the Mora years.