Australia's media, having despaired at their self-styled "unbeatable" team's demise a week earlier, wallowed in the afterglow of a more typically tenacious Australian performance in Melbourne.
In advance of last Saturday's game at Colonial Stadium, the New South Wales Waratah's coach, Bob Dwyer, summed up the rugby fraternity's woe as it battled to explain the rare occurrence of an Aussie trouncing.
"I went back a long, long way to find a worse performance, and settled on the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Christchurch in 1990 in which the All Blacks won 21-6," he said in an interview with cable-TV channel Fox Sports.
"That day, I watched a young Australian team frozen by a fear of the unknown - last week I saw an experienced team apparently frozen by an expectation of success."
Bloodied, but unbowed, the Australians' innate confidence in their rugby prowess bounced back during the run-up to Saturday's game to the extent that they installed themselves again as favourites.
Following Australia's record win over the Lions in Melbourne, Australia were now "magnificent" and "breath-taking" in their "mauling of the Lions". Glowing tributes were paid to captain John Eales on the pages of most Sunday newspapers, such as the Herald Sun and Sunday Telegraph, which had bayed for his blood only days before.
Order has been restored, said a commentator on the national broadcaster, the ABC, while there were cries of "touchΘ" from Channel 7 analyst (though really no more than a dressed up supporter) and former rugby international, Phil Kearns.
"The Wallabies stood up and showed their world champion class tonight to overwhelm the British and Irish Lions 35-14 in the second Test and set up an epic series decider in Sydney next week," said Fox Sports News, billing it as one of their greatest ever comebacks.
The achievements by the Lions in Brisbane have now been forgotten, and by the weekend, so too will Australia's counter-punch in Melbourne. The slate is wiped clean.
